Justina Robson: Living Next Door To The God Of Love Metropolis is a city of superheroes where you can become anyone you like – fight all day, party all night…Sankhara is a universe where everything is remade by night, according to the inhabitants’ deepest, darkest dreams…Koker Ai exists in another time and space, where Intana, less favoured courtesan in the… Read more →
Day: April 18, 2005
Quick and Amusing
Best headline ever. Somewhere there is Fletch wannabe laughing at the headline he slipped past his editor. (I wonder if gnomes run to the underwater sanctuary to avoid this kind of violence.) * You know how sometimes when you’re writing up your Articles of Piracy you wish you had access to some really snazzy buccaneering fonts–just to make it look… Read more →
Hanging Around The House: More Downstairs
So, last time it was the couple of things in my office. (Remember that the thumbnails in these posts are links to gigantic versions.) Now, we’ll move out of my my office into the hall outside: My office is off this hall on the right, the guest bedroom is off to the left. In the shot you can see my… Read more →
Can you say “Hack”?
So, they are making Talking Jesus, Mary and Moses dolls. I may have to buy a couple of these and join in the long and proud tradition of hacking talking toys. (I admit, it was the Lord of Evil who put this idea into my head.) Can you imagine how sweet it would be to have Jesus ask “Have you… Read more →
8 months already…
Wow. I can’t believe Sarah is already 8 months old. She’s definitely mobile now, and is on the verge of becoming an efficient crawler. She’s talking (in a special language that seems to be mostly made up of “ba”, “ga”, and “da”–which is fine with me because it includes “dada” a lot) and she totally sings. She is also the… Read more →
Yup, that matches my experience
Writers left to their own devices, as we have already seen, will drive around aimlessly until they are spontaneously afflicted with drunkenness. Read more →