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Excuse the TMI:
Warning Will Robinson: Girly Business ( Read more... ) -
Clearing Out the Drinks Cabinet
Mum put her foot down a few weekends back. The undrunk clutter on the drinks cabinet needs to go. Sarah and I can keep some of it, but it needs to be downsized.
She didn't say anything about the wine racks, but they're at least out of sight, and I've got pretty good tabs on what's there.
I dumped the remainder of the butterscotch schnapps in my Milo ( Read more... ) -
Heartless, by Gail Carriger
Just finished HeartlessNow, this will be slightly spoilery ( Read more... ) -
No, SMH, That Doesn't Count As An Article
Silly SMH 'Journalist'. Yes, when you write an article, I expect to see some actual work involved.
This is not real work. Writing an article about how Coles and Woolies are the same in consumers minds due to their advertising campaigns... and then interviewing George Patterson Y&R and Leo Burnett Sydney? Fail ( Read more... ) -
A Rising Thunder:
Thoughts on what's going to happen over in Maya Sector during A Rising Thunder:
Admiral Roszak: Dammit! Stupid Battle Fleet! Whoever back on Old Earth thought initiating the Second Battle of Manticore was a good idea?
Governor Barregos: Plus, you know, now Haven and the Manties are allies. While Shannon Foraker and Sonja Hemphill have been ( Read more... ) -
John Wyndham
I've just been reading a bunch of John Wyndham books ( Read more... ) -
Okay, that's just WEIRD.
Now, everyone my age or older's come across Surprise Soviets in their SF reading. People just weren't expecting the Berlin Wall coming down, for some reason (and yes, that link goes to the Bad Place). Considering two of my longterm favourite SF series feature them - Ender's Game and The Galactic Milieu, if you're curious - I'm pretty good at ( Read more... ) -
Bizarrely, Is Not Feeling Guilty
I've been going through and weeding my bookshelves over the past 2-3 days. And I'm not currently huddled in a little ball on the floor, sobbing about destruction and desecration, which is pretty much an absolute first for me. (I've weeded before, but mostly only in a half hearted manner where books got banished off to a little pile in my cupboard, ( Read more... ) -
Last Remnants of Imperial Measurement
Australia. Home of utterly confusing social rules ( Read more... ) -
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I've joined the exciting ranks of car ownership (see my carbon footprint explode ( Read more... )