| Bedroom habits of Julia and Douglas. |
[Feb. 8th, 2010|03:15 pm] |
Yesterday evening we watched some recent episodes of The Big Bang Theory.
( what we got up to in the bedroom afterwards )
We may re-enact the scene more accurately for her birthday later. |
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| Kumquat's thought for the day |
[Feb. 7th, 2010|10:54 am] |
Quoting ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thekumquat:When I was young, stuff was expensive and we didn't have much of it so saved as much as possible. Even so, there was plenty of space.
Now, stuff is cheap and we have too much of it, plus all the stuff saved from when we were young, so we don't have any space left. So now space seems expensive. Sounds like a good analysis. |
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| I'm so organised! |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|09:15 pm] |
I'm so organised.
In the last few days I have:
- Renewed a domain name (not the one in the icon) which was due to expire on Monday, and changed the registrar at the same time.
- Solicited some articles for a prospective fanzine.
- Gone to the pub for SF-nal drinkies.
- Sorted out somewhere for dinner for Julia and I for the 14th.
- Sorted out flights and hotel for Phoneix Con 7.
- Emailed my apologies for the other meeting on March 5th.
- Sorted out hotel for Corflu Cobalt.
- Been quizzed about possibly-fraudulent activity by the Halifax, and assured them that this bout of uncharacteristic transactions was genuine.
In the next few days, I must:
- Type my recent invoices (see that? invoices plural, for more than one day's work!)
- Go to the pub for birthday drinkies.
- Rehearse some ritual for a meeting on the 17th.
- Visit mother.
- Renew the SSL certificate for the domain for which I've just renewed the DNS.
- Get the car serviced, and renew its MOT.
- Attend Picocon.
- Do some work on those parts of Eastercon programme on which I appear.
Golly. |
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| Not a GIP... |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|12:28 pm] |
... but if you're thinking of making yourself a new LJ userpic, you might want to go and look at The Register today, and their NSFW LogoWatch.
Particularly if you're a Londoner. |
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| AKICOLJ: Sumo tournament |
[Feb. 4th, 2010|09:29 am] |
The sumo tournament...
Was that at Incon 1, Incon 2, Incon V, or somewhere else? |
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| Go back, try another route |
[Jan. 30th, 2010|04:39 pm] |
Julia and I are bounding around on the hills and in the valleys near the border between England and Wales.
We found ( this... )
We had to take a different route. Ah well, that was entertaining. |
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| Paging the Plokta cabal |
[Jan. 29th, 2010|12:13 am] |
A piece commissioned by Flick:
Dr Plokta
Went to Gloucester
In a shower of sleet;
He was up to his neck
In superfluous tech
So his fanzine's now complete. |
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| Pauline Spencer, 1953-2010 |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|08:51 pm] |
So I got a phone call from my mother, telling me that my cousin Pauline had died, chiefly from spending most of the last forty years smoking too much. We think it happend about a week ago.
I didn't see her very often, and the last time was probably about fifteen years ago -- not least because she lived in Africa and most of the rest of us live in Europe.
Still, one less Spencer in the world. |
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| 66 percent Burns |
[Jan. 24th, 2010|10:49 pm] |
So having been to a housewarming party featuring haggis on Friday, tonight Julia and I cooked haggis for ourselves and for Frankie and Alison Nolj, followed by fruit salad and cheeses. By contrast with Friday, none of us consumed absurd quantities of whisky.
Mmmm, Haggis.
So that's haggis on Friday and haggis on Sunday, two nights out of three. Tomorrow is the 25th, I'm heading back home, and the evening is unlikely to feature haggis, boo.
Very Important Edit [23:02] Apparently I'm taking the leftovers with me, so there will be haggis tomorrow. Raar! |
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| Tonight and tomorrow |
[Jan. 22nd, 2010|05:54 pm] |
Tonight julia_winolj and I are going to get involved in haggis-and-whisky related activities, courtesy of emmzzi. See some of you there.
Tomorrow I'm going to get involved in slouch-related activities, courtesy of ZZ9. See some of you there.
Later tomorrow julia_winolj and I are going to be watching Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, courtesy of Oscar Wilde. |
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| Habitat Renewal, part n in a continuing series |
[Jan. 22nd, 2010|11:10 am] |
John William Gardner [W] writes:An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Some of you have been to my house, and have seen my kitchen sink and tap; some of you have used my kitchen sink and tap.
Well, now there's a new kitchen sink and tap, in gleaming stainless steel, and with a tap that you can actually turn on and off easily. This is very pleasing.
The plan was that the boss-guy (a general builder who also does plumbing) was going to come out and fit the sink and tap, and then advise me on all the other things that needed doing (like re-wiring, and replacing the roof on the conservatory). However, what actually happened is that he sent a plumber-who-only-does-plumbing-and-gas-fitting, and so we didn't get to have that latter conversation. After the weekend I'm going to give the boss-man a call and invite him over so I can point at things and he can suck his teeth and write large numbers on bits of paper for me.
Still. New sink! New tap! Woo-hoo!
Comment spam:
2010-01-22 13:58 (from 110.132.115.164)
2010-01-22 13:59 (from 110.132.115.164)
That's a Japanese address...
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| When you think you recognise Liam... |
[Jan. 15th, 2010|09:31 am] |
I read just the first paragraph of this piece (which is all that appears in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) registeruk) and thought "This must have been written by lproven". But no, it's by someone else.PsiXpda Pocket Computer
 About 10 years ago, Psion's handheld computers were the ones to beat and the Psion Series 5 was at the top of the heap. The keyboard was tiny but so well designed that it was really possible to touchtype on it. Indeed, the Series 5 set the standard for others to emulate, and, quite simply, as far as usability is concerned no other small format device since has come close. |
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| An Aspie Quiz |
[Jan. 14th, 2010|03:54 pm] |
crag_du linked to this test:
Disclaimer: This questionnaire should not be taken as a substitute for a professional evaluation.
A few of the questions may be pure research questions that may or may not be connected to the autism-spectrum. There are also a number of control-questions to evaluate sincerity of answers.
Some of the questions in this quiz are phrased so that an Aspie answer is 'yes,' and some so that an Aspie answer is 'no'.
Your Aspie score: 160 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 43 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
( Graph under the cut )
No surprises there, apart from a few questions about "doing evil"/"doing good", which might be the research or control questions they mentioned. |
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| Books! |
[Jan. 14th, 2010|02:00 pm] |
Yes, yes, I know I already own far too many and shouldn't get any more.
But my new books have just arrived from Doctor Pisica and have made me very happy.
Hurrah! |
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| Culinary worries, and a satisfying resolution. |
[Jan. 13th, 2010|07:19 pm] |
I was looking at my dinner tonight, big soup with five different vegetables and a half-dozen scallops (which I wouldn't have been able to serve while Julia was here), and I realised to my horror that there were no carbohydrates in it -- no noodles or anything like that. Oh no! What about the fuel my body needs to keep itself warm?
And then I remembered that I had a dozen hot-cross buns (half-dozens on BOGOF at Sainsbury's), so the imminent disaster has been rewarded.
Mmmmm, hot cross buns. And lots of butter. |
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| Catholic Shoppers... |
[Jan. 13th, 2010|04:50 pm] |
With thanks to elfs for the pointer...
Customers who bought "Communion Wafers, Box of 1000" also bought:
As Elf says, really, you have to go and see. |
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| #bardfood |
[Jan. 11th, 2010|11:26 am] |
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PSA: Lots of Shakespeare/Food puns over on . If you tweet, feel free to join in. |
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| Hot Cross Bunny |
[Jan. 10th, 2010|06:48 pm] |
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Mmmm, we have rabbit casserole. |
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| Panel games |
[Jan. 8th, 2010|09:39 pm] |
Here in the UK, particularly on BBC2 Television or on BBC Radio 4, we have cosy little panel games where no-one particularly cares who wins, and the object of the exercise is just for the panel (and audience) to have a good time. I'm thinking particularly of games like "Have I Got News For You", "Argumental", or "QI".
Here at Spencer Towers we're wondering if there's anything similar coming out of the USA. The nearest equivalent we can think of is "Whose Line Is It Anyway" which made it to both sides of the Atlantic. Are there others? |
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