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26th May 2012
feorag @ 12:00pm: My tweets
 - Fri, 13:53: Gorgeous, hoppy session ale. Cracking. — Drinking a Zymic by @StewartBrewing at @kil_der_kin — http://t.co/Je4SXe85
- Fri, 16:00: Not a Strong Mild, but a stronger than usual mild. Phew! Lovely complex malty flavour. (Gunpowder Strong Mild) http://t.co/L1S9iDZJ
- Fri, 18:54: Pale ale with Cascade hops providing more citrus than the lemon it allegedly contains. Be excellent... (Lemon Dream) http://t.co/5PR9lEPk
- Fri, 19:52: @on_lothianbuses, your new leaflets and website say the N25 goes from Waverley Steps when they actually go from George Street?
- Fri, 19:53: @on_lothianbuses - I've just had to field a phone call from a confused tourist friend because of this!
- Sat, 04:00: @UltravoxUK @midgeure1 @CCrossky It arrived :-) This is what the excessively flashy amp+speakers connected to the Mac has been waiting for!
- Sat, 05:06: "I'm here to grow your little monument"?! #Ultravox
- Sat, 05:44: It is a cat sized sunbeam and it is mine, all mine! http://t.co/yrzwFw2a
- Sat, 05:48: RT @leannich: RT @chiller: Can we stop calling feminists who are transphobic "radical feminists" and use the correct term "transphobic f ...
joe_haldeman @ 8:01am: 43
 David Nicholas forwarded this fascinating article – http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27827/?ref=rss -- that makes a broad definition of "autocatalytic set" which elaborates into an explanation for life, the universe, and everything. It turns out that the chicken crossed the road in order to lay an egg so that another chicken could cross another road. And so on, to the Apollo Program and beyond.
Joe
25th May 2012
joe_haldeman @ 4:29pm: fangs for the mammaries . . .
We went to see Dark Shadows last night, and came away unsmitten. I like Johnny Depp in any role, but this one is so thin and trite he couldn't rescue it. It's a bunch of vampire clichés rattling around in a shapeless container. A few good sight gags and groaner lines . . . the teenaged girl asks Barnabas Collins, "Are you stoned, or what?" He replies, "They tried stoning me once. It did not work." and this exchange . . . . Angelique Bouchard: What if I made you love me? Barnabas Collins: With what, a spell? Angelique Bouchard: [strips to her brassiere] With this! Barnabas Collins: I must admit, they have not aged a day... That's a high point. They should put this monster back in the box and bury it. Joe
feorag @ 12:00pm: My tweets
- Thu, 14:00: Okay, #eurovision semi 2 time!
- Thu, 14:06: Serbia: nice intro. Hopes dashed as soon as the vocal started. #eurovision
- Thu, 14:08: Serbia: has it finished yet? #eurovision
- Thu, 14:10: FYR Macedonia: the winner of the Macedonian Popstar to Opera Star? #eurovision
- Thu, 14:11: Bored now. #eurovision
- Thu, 14:14: Netherlands: No, this sort of music demands a *cowboy* hat! #eurovision
- Thu, 14:18: Malta: You know what they say about male trolley dollies? Yes, that. High chance of being heard in the clubs post-Pride #eurovision
- Thu, 14:22: Belarus: ooh, nice chain mail and a cracking gay anthem. #eurovision
- Thu, 14:27: Portugal: so when does 007 show up? #eurovision
- Thu, 14:31: Ukraine: this song will be illegal in the Ukraine soon. #eurovision
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ratmist, posting in
edinburgers @ 3:15pm:
 I'm looking for Baby Bio (or any other kind of easily transported liquid plant food). My lovely husband tried at the B&Q on Easter Road, but it didn't have any. I work in Newington and am hoping to stop somewhere on my way home to pick some up. Anywhere around here have some? Does the Homebase on St Leonard's Street carry gardening and plant stuff still? I tried ringing them but no one picked up - guess they're busy!
Current Mood:  hopeful
24th May 2012
paws_here, posting in
edinburgers @ 9:55pm: Jubilee Bunny Picnic in the Park
 Hello Edinburgh folks! I'm Rachel from Paws Here small animal rescue (we care for and rehome rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and other small pets - there are a LOT of rabbits especially in rescue, more than you'd probably think!). Just to let you know that after the success of our last event, we're holding a bunny themed Jubilee picnic in Braidburn Valley Park (just south of Morningside) on Saturday the 2nd of June from 12-3pm. It's going to be a lot of fun, with stalls and games, facepainting and fun, plus lots of cute rescue bunnies and guinea pigs to play with. You can even help us to feed them their special picnic lunch! Our animals are very good with children, and this will be a very family friendly event - people of all ages are welcome! Bring a picnic and come meet the rescue pets. Entry is free, and any money raised on the day will go directly to the shelter to help the homeless animals. Thank you!
matociquala @ 12:21pm: there will always be a faster gun. but there'll never be another one like you.
  Cover art for my novelette "Faster Gun," (Working title: "John Henry Holliday is Sick of the These Time-Traveling Assholes") forthcoming on Tor.com this summer. The artist is Richard Anderson.
Current Mood:  pleased
feorag @ 12:00pm: My tweets
- Wed, 15:26: Cask version - blasphemy! — Drinking a White Shield by William Worthington @ The Ferry Tap — http://t.co/2MozW2tu
- Wed, 15:56: Has the Belhaven seaweed nose, but lacks flavour. — Drinking an IPA by Belhaven Brewery @ The Ferry Tap — http://t.co/V0zVTJOz
- Wed, 15:58: @caskmarque - in the Ferry Tap, N. Queensferry. Bar staff say no new certificate has arrived, so I can't scan it :-(
- Wed, 16:49: Best 80/- ever! — Drinking a Stewart 80/- by @StewartBrewing @ The Ferry Tap — http://t.co/f9BQ8Mhd
- Wed, 18:11: Most pleasant. — Drinking a Hop Pocket by Vale Brewery Co. at @jdwtweet — http://t.co/OBzY5LTB
- Wed, 18:29: Not as I remember it, the hop note being much more fruity. — Drinking a Stag by Exmoor at @jdwtweet — http://t.co/N3CPSHsa
tygermine, posting in
edinburgers @ 8:30am: Newb
 Hi All, I'm coming up to Edinburgh in September for 2 days and need some assistance. First: Can anyone reccommend a cheap, nice hostel to crash for two nights? Second: What is the best way to get around the city and how much does it cost? Third: What are the best things to experience in the city aside from the big tourist traps? I'm a huge fan of hole-in-the-wall type places. If you have a couch i can crash on, i can exchange it for something really cool from Africa (art/music etc)
23rd May 2012
matociquala @ 9:01pm: i just know that i'm harder to console
 I'm working on "The Deeps of the Sky" tonight, and generating a regular festival of Words Word Don't Know: luminesced, tropopause, sheeny, thicks, unnavigable, dartlike, Meanwhile, I had a little argument with myself on twitter as to whether I should use some modestly bogus science to create a cool special effect. I went with it. ;-) Now I'm stopping because I have to figure out how the protagonist intervenes to stop the Bad Thing from happening, or how he mops up afterward... Oh, I might have just done so. Woot!
Current Mood:  mellow
feorag @ 12:00pm: My tweets
- Tue, 14:07: Montenegro. Good start, but now Gerard Depardieu is rapping #esc2012
- Tue, 14:12: Iceland: another intro appropriate for World Goth Day. Has degenerated into Evanescence though. #esc2012
- Tue, 14:15: Greece: legs not as good as Dana International. Standard Eurovision fare with added balalaika. #esc2012
- Tue, 14:16: Where's @Spirit_of_1976 ? #esc2012
- Tue, 14:20: Latvia: I've managed to hear this before somewhere. Self-referential, not that interesting. #esc2012
- Tue, 14:21: Latvia: But kudos for tall, not convent illy feminine, female singer towering over her backing singers. #esc2012
- Tue, 14:23: Okay, autocorrect, how did you get convent lily out of conventially?
- Tue, 14:24: Albania: when unravelled, that dread stretches to the moon, and took her 3000 years to grow. Song is loud ballad of screech. #esc2012
- Tue, 14:25: And the autocorrect still doesn't get "conventionally"!
- Tue, 14:29: Romania: moonwalking bagpiping Elvis! #esc2012 #eurovision
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nojay @ 2:49pm: The Street of Merchants of Death
 I`m in a hotel on Asakusa-dori, just west of Ueno station in Tokyo. Unnervingly a lot of the local shops are emporia of death, or at least the aftermath of the natural death process. The Japanese tradition of memorial shrine cabinets at home to commemorate passed family members requires that someone makes and sells such cabinets and the fixtures and fittings (incense burners, picture frames etc) that go with them. It`s not a common purchase for most folks and the ticket prices are high, especially for the larger walk-in-sized cabinets with gilding and lacquer. For some reason Asakusa-dori seems to have a lot of these shops, staffed by respectfully-dressed unsmiling salespeople who do not, as in Akihabara and elsewhere, blare "Sumimasen!" and "Itterasemesai!" with bullhorns at passers-by. There are other stores with similar items such as granite grave markers in the windows, again not something you might consider purchasing on a whim as you pass by on your way to work.
21st May 2012
xach @ 2:25pm: Two views of the same thing
 Below is a photo taken of the Portland skyline from the Bug Light Park in South Portland. See the blocky beige building on the right side?  Below is a photo of the same building, taken from the same park, same angle. Taken farther back from the water and with a longer lens... ( Read more... )
19th May 2012
joe_haldeman @ 8:23am: famous folks
Oops . . . Gay reminded me that I forgot to note that astronaut Fincke was a student of mine at MIT, back in 1987. Perhaps the only one who's actually been in space -- though I also had Peter Diamandis, a few years earlier, also in 21W.759, Writing Science Fiction. He's the founder and Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation. Joe
joe_haldeman @ 7:53am: Hanging around D.C,
Having fun hanging around with old friends at the Nebula Awards weekend here in Washington. Lots of sitting around in the bar and talking about people who aren't here. Strictly social so far, but today I'll be getting together with editor and agent, separately. So we'll move from milling and swilling to wheeling and dealing. Yesterday we played tourist with a trip to The Library of Congress (or Congreff, as they ufed to spell it). The tour was both interesting and a little sad, nostalgic. As I think I've mentioned here, I used to live in Bethesda, before I left for college, and have wonderful memories of the LoC. I was a chemistry nut back then, and I would sit for hours immersed in a 12-volume encyclopedia of chemical reactions, copying down equations that I could translate into experiments in my home laboratory. Sometimes with loud or noxious results. No kid can do what I used to do; take the trolley downtown and use the Library as a library. Want a book, no problem; just look up the catalog number and write it on a slip of paper, and the minions would send your request to the basement via pneumatic tube, and the book would be delivered to your desk in a few minutes by courier. The mechanism still exists, but only for members of Congress and their staffs, and other high government officials. There are probably twice as many books now, in three buildings, and delivery takes thirty or forty minutes, with computers as well as pneumatic tubes. And to be realistic, any kid with Google can access much more data much faster than I could, sitting at an oaken desk that might be two hundred years old. Why do I feel sorry for him? The most interesting exhibit, by far, was a reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's library, which formed the nucleus of the new LoC after the British burned Washington in 1814. He had his own system of classification (based on one devised by Francis Bacon) to arrange 6,487 volumes, which he sold to the government for $23,950. There was another fire in 1851, which destroyed about two thirds of the volumes. The collection now has about two thousand of the original volumes and three thousand replacements, which carefully match the lost editions. John F. Kennedy famously told a party of Nobel Prize winners and other intellectuals, invited for lunch at the White House, "There has never been such a collection of talent and intellect gathered in this room since Thomas Jefferson dined here alone." Speaking of famous people, I've enjoyed talking with astronaut Mike Fincke, who will be the keynote speaker at the banquet. He's spent 48 hours in space-walk mode, more than any other human being. A very smart guy, who incidentally has read a lot of science fiction. Signed books for a couple of hours yesterday. One fan gave me a copy of The Bridge of San Luis Rey to read – I'd mentioned Thornton Wilder in my sffnet column – but then ran off without explaining why. It's been forty years since I read it, so I'll enjoy rereading it on the way home. There was a panel on writing humor which, as expected, didn't give me any killer tips. I guess the subject has a butterfly-like quality: if you can pin it down, it's dead. I remember reading an article in the Washington Post when I was in high school here, about literary cocktail parties – specifically about meeting Art Buchwald. The writer described Buchwald's scowling cigar-chomping public persona, and said it was generally true that humor writers are in person very grim, where serious writers tend to reach for the lampshade at parties. I'm in between, I think, though some people would roll their eyes at that assessment. "What, he thinks he's serious?" or "What, he thinks he's frivolous?" I am all things to all fen. Joe
18th May 2012
matociquala @ 12:11pm: This is just to say....
 ....that there's going to be an Annual Booksale when I get back from WisCon, as there are giant boxes of books all over my house again. You have been forewarned! Also, I will be doing an r/Fantasy (that's Reddit) Ask Me Anything on June 5th. Questions may be posted all day in the appropriate thread, and I will answer them in the evening. Because y'all don't get enough of a chance to listen to me babble...
Current Mood: overwhelmed
dee_, posting in
edinburgers @ 2:32pm: Last Will and Testament
 Hello I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for an Edinburgh solicitor to draw up a Will? There seem to be loads of them out there to chose from, so it would be ever so useful to get have someone recommended. Thanks very much!
original_aj, posting in
edinburgers @ 11:27am: Football Bladder?
 Anyone know of anywhere I can get the rubber bladder that goes inside a traditional football? Do they still sell them? Thanks.
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