Two things I wish I'd tried earlier...

...than this week.

1) UniQlo. Dead cheap clothes including some lovely linen trousers, and a range of T-shirts with designs based on photographs from the Getty image library.

2) Georgette Heyer. Devil's Cub was a wonderful romp. More, more. Reminiscent of Lois McMaster Bujold at her best...

Teh cuteness redux

Vanimal Zoo's rather delightful range of Hell Catz. Currently N.A.I and Angelly (who is an Angel Catz, and has a halo, and was marypcb's kawaii birthday present) are living on our bookcases, along with their mousy partners...

( The cute little Hell Catz )

No snogging behind the bikesheds...

...it's against the law.

WTF? It's Blunkett again, isn't it?

More books, less time

Here's just the rest of the list of the recent reads with a quick star rating instead of a full review. Hopefully normal reviewing service will be resumed shortly...

( Another book list behind the cut tag... )

So that's the hardcovers, the proofs and the trades....

Now back to the normal review cycle. Hopefully I won't let it get so out of control again. And the book piles are a little more tidy now...

You've got to laugh at those wacky Google guys...

...as according to the BBC, they're a bunch of natural mathematical jokers...

"The exact value of the planned share offering is US$2,718,281,828, which coincidentally also corresponds to the mathematical constant e."

Log on!

23/5 Sheep

1.Go into your LJ's archives.
2.Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3.Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions

"With a worse photo than the one I use for my LJ witterings..."

Not quite a GIP, I guess, and now I have a lot more images I can choose from...

Interestingly it's dated the 23rd of April.