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Does this thing still work?
I'm aching in bits I didn't realise I had ( Read more... ) -
Reorbiting Venus into a near Earth-like orbit
I'm not at all sure what happened to 2010. Or, indeed January 2011.
So, very belatedly, here's what I read last year( 35 books ) -
Ch ch ch changes (baaa return)
OK, it's a memepost, but natalief inspired me to see if my responses have changed over time; I've run this test a couple of times before.
2004-09-042008-06-072010-11-15 quality time101111 physical touch1099 words of affirmation345 acts of service643 receiving of gifts122
Leaving aside that the actual questions may well have been changed over the last ( Read more... ) -
Trans-temporal feedback
25 years on, I've finally read Walking on Glass and found it actually very good indeed; people may complain about its lack of a linear narrative, but here we get three; Interleaved, intersecting and ultimately connected in as pleasingly ambiguous and open-ended a way as anyone could wish. A narrative structure that Trish Sullivan has used in ( Read more... ) -
wordless
We're making much use of the library these days: lack of space for more bookshelves; lack of money; increasing unlikelihood of re-reading before croaking. Mind, having just returned from the local branch and added Anathem to the current contents of my immediate to-read shelf (Ilario and Matter), there's a fair chance I'll be gone before finishing ( Read more... ) -
Lea Anna Liisa Jordan, née Kettunen
Born 14th September 1921 ( Read more... ) -
That debate thang
Anybody else on itv.com as the thing ran last night notice how, maybe 10 minutes after the "best on the economy" poll appeared, Labour's %age started increasing, and at such a rate that the bar moved visibly on the screen, shifting from majority LD to majority Labour? Presuming the total number of votes was non-trivial, this would mean that an ( Read more... )
