My two favourite houses:
The Arch House
Finished house looking up at arch
The Lime Kiln House
midlothian-exterior
1. I think that maintaining the computers, game systems and home network is just as important, if not MORE important than doing dishes or cleaning the bathrooms.
2. She never knows when she’ll walk into the dining room to find the table covered with a computer broken down into all its component parts.
3. I’m a packrat, keeping every spare cable, screw and or slightly damaged electronic part for a future project.
4. I am thinking of removing the TV, cancelling Sky, and replacing everything with a large screen computer because all the good shows can be streamed on the Internet.
5. I spend a lot of time maintaining my personal blog(s).
6. I have considered installing stilts under the legs of our bed so my comic book boxes can fit underneath.
7. Our kid’s college fund consists of boxes of first issues of my favourite comic books.
8. I would like to sit down with the kid and read through the first issues (when he or she is old enough to treat them with respect), college fund be damned. (Well, maybe not Preacher #1.)
9. Every computer in the house has its chassis half open…and is still running.
10. I may pause any movie at any time to make sure that the colour temperature and brightness are set just right.
11. I think nothing of having the laptop on the dining room table to share funny stories and pictures I’ve found with the family.
12. Our house is colourful, and not because of paint, but because of toys, models, and my collection of videos and comics.
13. I have dissected a new appliance just to see how it works…
14. At times I have debated the relativity of fictional characters and or logical outcomes to movies and television shows.
15. A Periodic Table placemat for our child would be neat (and instructional!).
16. I am more than happy to attempt explanations of obscure scientific answers to “why?” questions.
17. It pains me to limit the kid’s computer time.
18. She’s not sure if the new Lego sets are really for the kids or for me.
19. I want to build my own robot.
20. I spend lots of time “helping” the kid play videogames.
I am very sad to report that one of our two brother cats, Cosmo, was hit by a car while crossing the road in front of our house at about 0630 this morning. The driver did not stop. Cosmo managed to crawl off the road, but died shortly afterwards.
A nice gentleman who witnessed the event later came back to contact us and tell us what he saw.
We brought Cosmo & Dilmah home to live with us in early May (see link here). We think they were born towards the end of February. Their birthday was recorded with our vet as Feb 18, the same day as mine. This means Cosmo was about 8 1/2 months old when he died.
I am suprised at how emotional I feel over the death of a pet cat. In some ways Cosmo was the physically more frail of the two brothers. He was always getting sunburnt ears, and we were worried that he would get skin cancer. However, I liked him because he was more adventurous and inquisitive than Dilmah. He figured out how to climb in our bedroom window first. He was also less prone to come seeking affection, unlike “love slut” Dilmah.
He is being cremated, and we will scatter his ashes in our garden, along with his favourite toy, Mousey (if we can find it wherever he left it last).
At least he had a better life with us and his brother than he would have found if he had been left with his mother (a stray).
Here is a link to an album of pictures. Cosmo has the white fur on his nose, and wears the red collar. His brother, Dilmah, has the black collar.
We will remember him…
Peter F. Hamilton‘s homepage.
Where Lois McMaster Bujold fans hang out.
Cory Doctorow‘s homepage. Most of his stuff can be downloaded in a variety of formats from here.
A perennial favourite – John Varley.
A webpage where Accelerando by Charles Stross is available for download.
Terry Pratchett‘s home site (not strictly SF, but still very good).
Three Brits, two Yanks, and a Canadian. Guess who is who…
P.S. Favourite children’s fantasy author – Diana Wynne Jones.
Like many other people I have an account with del.icio.us, a browseable web-based bookmarking system with tags and means of ranking items by popularity.
My del.icio.us bookmark page is:
This might give an idea of what I am interested in…
