I've taken up photography over the last few months. Direct blame for this can be laid at the feet of Laura's father (who is a wildlife photographer of some note in the relevant circles), who gave us his spare, spare camera - but I'd also say a lot of inspiration came from the work of Oliver Facey, who seems to greatly enjoy making larp look good, ( Read more... )

Oops. Looks like it's my 10-year old hacked journal style that's been giving me errors for the past month (during which I'd assumed frequent DoS attacks, and not actually read LJ much). Abort, reset, fail.

Today I have mostly been: Protesting against the EDL protest against a 'new' mosque in Cambridge. (Joined the march, glad I did).

So, someone observed that I haven't updated this thing recently, and wondered what was up with my life. Might as well tell the world all at once, on the off chance that anyone cares.

I'm living with, and very much in love with, the delectable Kiyah - we've been living together for about 4.5 years now, and bought a house together last month. We have ( Read more... )

On Sunday, at Perdition (our new house), me and Laura will be holding a housewarming party. This happens to coincide with my birthday ( Read more... )

Local time: 16:00. 08:00 GMT ( Read more... )

I got up at 08:00 GBT, after 5 hours sleep. It's now 08:50, Beijing time (00:50, GMT), and I've not slept. I may get a couple of hours after lunch, or something.

Anyway, I'm here, and the hotel has internets.

Incidents to date:

Areoplanes are safe - they don't let you take sharp things into the cabin. So I sliced my hand open on the plastic ( Read more... )

At approximately 08:45 tomorrow, I depart for China. I may be back on April 6th, but wouldn't like to speculate.

I may be contactable.

Cope without me?

Someone completed Darpa. How cool is that?

With apologies to R. Sean Borgstrom, somewhere to collate a certain kind of thought: skyship

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