I won't be posting anything on Livejournal any more. I don't do much non-gaming-related blogging these days, but what I do do I'll be do-doing at http://fitz-publicdisplays.blogspot.com/

The reason for the change is because I find blogger's posting system to be more congenial, and it doesn't require me to pay them money to be able to do things like ( Read more... )

This is an excellent, concise analysis of the events at the Daiichi 1 reactor at Fukushima following the recent earthquake and tsunami, and why we need not be afraid of nuclear power generation.

This is a similarly excellent overview of the situation in Japan right now from an english-speaking foreigner living and working there ( Read more... )

I decided today to have reheated pasta for lunch. Nothing very novel there; I often lunch on reheated pasta. I put the pasta into a bowl, covered the bowl, put the bowl in the microwave, and hit the "GO" button.

Then I practically shat myself with fright.

At the precise instant I hit the button, somebody right next door started hammer-drilling into a ( Read more... )

Just in case you didn't know: Comics Compulsion are back in business, operating out of Tim's back room. They do have EftPos capability.

You can find them at 12 Penelope Place, Casebrook - phone 379-7866.

Warning: this is really just a whiny, grizzly rant about how I fear change and want everything to stay the same.

I'm not a highly skilled 3d modeller. I've used PovRay quite a lot, and back in the day I got pretty adept at hand-coding POV files. Then I found the MoRay front-end modeller for PovRay, and haven't hand-written a POV in many years. I ( Read more... )

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I had to set the alarm for 0600 this morning so Annette could get to the airport, but as it turned out I needn't have bothered. A handy convenient magnitude 5.1 earthquake woke us up right on time. Thanks, geology!

Lessons learned from the evening:

• Party-popper excreta are hard to sweep, especially the little paper discs that lie flat and immovable.
• Bonfires are good (already knew that one really) but bonfires plus party-popper plastic is stinky.
• Not all red wine is delicious. Some red wine is very, very bad; bad enough to be still undrunk even when there's ( Read more... )

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