Good news: the new ISP activated the new account ( Read more... )

Just a vaguely depressing thought on the super-expanding semitrailer ideat that keeps jogging around inside my skull ( Read more... )

Had a coffee-chat with KD from the little inner-city business clubbie thing that met on the tenth. Didn't really get much out of it. May have overdominated the conversation through nervousness; certainly seemed to spend more time talking about what I did than what she did. Nice enough lady, but I constantly got the feeling we really had nothing in ( Read more... )

Aw nuts, I'm going to have to remodel half the jet cockpit and the lower robot legs to be able to get the dragon heads to flip out where I want them. And I'm fiddling about seeing if I can get the cockpits to explode into a sort of draconic neck frill, or head spikes ( Read more... )

I've discovered that the rather elegant train mode I had visualised for the toy is not actually workable, which hacks me off. Partially this is because it was the sole reason for the huge-ass Autobot sigils on the enormous cargo platform (which in itself causes piles of problems in many modes, although it does cover up a multitude of design sins ( Read more... )

One of the unfortunate effects of getting older, at least for me, seems to have been a psychological turnaround from seeking mental activity to indulging in mental (and physical) sloth. I just don't get a buzz out of doing most things, whereas in previous decades a carelessly abandoned math puzzle or crossword would be pounced on and dissected with ( Read more... )

Today, I have ( Read more... )