Unusually, a Public Service Announcement ( Read more... )

I think I'm at a place where I can safely make some confessions. Well, safely....maybe not hte right word, but I figure I'm going for stream of consciousness here, so what the hey.

I've realised, partly through a re-reading of my comments to bateleur, and partially from my post yesterday, that I'm practically paralysed by fear. Some of you that know me ( Read more... )

Normally I avoid political topics on my journal, but today I feel it should be different. Thoughts and opinions that are just a drop in the ocean:

1) It isn't really going to matter in the long run whether Bush or Kerry get into office as President of the US. Why? Because neither of them are going to tackle the economic and philosophical issues ( Read more... )

You might already have seen this one, but I thought it was quite entertaining in a sad, geeky way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1326278,00.html

Got that? Good. Hope you survive Gehenna....

Or rather, here were dragons, allegedly...

How big would those drumsticks be?It's a bit of a mental gear change to imagine those stop-motion dinosaurs from the old films, and even Godzilla, as...well...Big Bird. I know it's not the only instance of carnivorous avians (most birds eat flies and spiders, and then it goes all the way up to avian ( Read more... )

RAH ( Read more... )

http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/miscellanea/best_stuff.html

The Bridge is cool, but the insanity test is best for Friday, I think. And maybe Monday morning.

Well, last Friday the mole was removed, and now it's healing up nicely.

Had a local anaesthetic, and it's just *ODD* when you can't feel your left eyelid, I'm telling you.

( It's a job, Jim, but not as we know it )

In this cse, visits back to Oxford. Specifically, having been told last Friday at my interview that they'd have a decision by mid this week, and then being asked today to go back for a 2nd interview. One really does start wondering why I have to go back for a 2nd interview, really, given they never said anything about 2 (or, god forbid, more!) ( Read more... )