hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (Box Frenzy)
I have been meaning for bloody years (Well, obviously only four bloody years, given it came out in 2010, but still) to beetle off and buy a copy of the Laundry RPG. This would be 'Laundry' as in 'CStross/ H.P. Deighton' rather than anything to do with either Paragon or George Formby. That said, the notion of yer man Formby taking time off from setting a fine TT lap record in order to beat an eldritch horror to death with a banjolele is the sort of thing from which gleefully unhinged fanfic is made.

Anyway. It's all jolly confusing. Accidentally a D&D Fifth Edition learny-learny kit at the same time is probably not helping.

Another thing that happened is that I was support band for the splendid Stark Holborne the other week. She read (with audience participation) from Nunslinger (which was ace) and I read the first part of the second Miss Butler story, which you will be able to buy circa the end of next month.

It was also pointed out that I had written most of the worldbuilding for An Novel, which was... Well, given the story itself came out of the background work for a presentation about steam elephant hacking, it's only mildly recursive.
hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (Laser goggles and raybans)
I've been playing with this. It's harder than it looks.

Then there's this.
hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (Happy cycling)
http://www.normanfairbanks.com/blog/?cat=17
hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (Sweep alcohol)
01. White Horses - Jacky. (Some Irish bint, in point of fact. I'm still looking for an alleged indiepop-guitar version.)
02. Some Girls - Rachel Stevens. (Not the KLF.)
03. Apache - The Incredible Bongo Band. (A hip-hop staple.)
04. Got the time - Anthrax. (A cover more fun than the original.)
05. Jordan, Minnesota - Big Black. (I thought 'Kerosene' would be far too obvious. What a bastard I am.)
06. The back of love - Echo & the Bunnymen. (Easy.)
07. Hump - Elakelaiset. (Humppa!)
08. Train - Goldfrapp. (Which does indeed sound a lot like 'Ooh la la'. I blame the Glasto performance.)
09. Dickie Davies eyes - Half Man Half Biscuit. (I'm old.)
10. Bring the noise - Anthrax and Public Enemy. (Anthrax again.)
11. Male Stripper - Man2Man Meets Man Parrish. (A work of genius.)
12. Things that dreams are made of - Human League. (Well, the League Unlimited Orchestra. As used by the BBC an awful lot.)
13. Only losers take the bus - The Fatima Mansions. (What Cathal Coughlan did after Microdisney... Oh, never mind.)
14. Upside Down - The Jesus and Mary Chain. (Mind, the early ones did all sound the same.)
15. Up the hill and down the slope - The Loft. (The great lost Creation band. Which is probably why no-one got it. Oops.)
16. There is no love between us anymore - PWEI. (Burned into my subconscious because of //chelty.)
17. Numbers - Kraftwerk. (Also much (ab)used by the BBC.)
18. Charley Says - The Prodigy. (Dodgy rave seems popular. Good.)
19. Grinderswitch - Pickin' the blues. (AKA the John Peel Show theme.)
20. Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix. (Pretty much everyone spotted that.)
21. Destination Zululand - King Kurt. (It's just me, isn't it?)
22. Just can't get enough - Nouvelle Vague. (Or indeed not, thankfully.)
23. Soul Limbo - Booker T and the MGs. (Only missing Ritchie Benaud.)
24. Picture on my wall - The Naturalites. (Ok, that was probably a bastard trick.)
25. Ooh, ahh. Just a little bit - Gina G. (Another work of genius.)
26. Night boat to Cairo - Madness. (Half past monsoon, etc.)
27. Nobody's hero - Stiff Little Fingers. (Still an adrenaline rush even now.)
hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (Default)
(No, really)

Yesterday, I was handed a (working) full-height 5.25" Micropolis HD with a quite startling (for its age. 1992) 1.53Gb capacity. I can't remember what amount of storage I was using in 1992, but it wasn't that ludicrous sort of figure. There are probably some Apollo boxes here, too. Not that anyone would want one. The last one that fell into my hands was quickly rendered down into components, and all the parts were cast aside save the panel on the back of the power supply, which made a vaguely wieldy bottle-opener.

Y'all might like to read this. It's very good and I wish I'd written it. (although the HTML on the site appears b0rked. I'm quite glad I didn't write that.)

I need to do something spectacular and fitting with my old boots. (Yes, I guess I need to fuck them in some way...) Preferably dangerous.

Hm. Uninspired and short of words. Don't know why and don't much care for it.

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