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Jan. 29th, 2010 05:48 pmToday's XKCD has that lovely melancholy that his best strips have.
I have been meeting the occasional new person of late. Not so much as romantic prospects but as "I rather need to find new (local) friends". And have noticed myself making a conscious choice to not "friend" them on Facebook, because that makes it too easy to background the getting-to-know-you, makes it a little too trivial, too easy for it to turn virtual.
BooksOnBoard, despite the absolutely woeful website, is giving away some parts of Gaiman's Fragile Things. You can find them here. I discovered this due to a reference elsewhere to his short story The Problem of Susan, which is included in Part Four of the excerpt series. I found the story unsettling, which was one suspects his goal.
The boss has provisionally agreed to have the company pay to send me to this year's SAGE-AU conference in Hobart. They'll pay for the lot, in theory. It'll not just be my first SAGE-AU conference, it'll be my first conference ever. The closest thing I've ever been to prior to this was the NSW State Diplomacy Championship in Sydney back in, hrm, 1992?
(Drew the short straw -- Austria -- in the first round and was eliminated.)
The current guilty pleasure is Frasier reruns. Something I am noticing for the first time is that while the main character is a pompous jerk and not really very likable, the supporting character of his brother Niles played by David Hyde Pierce gets a lot of rather good lines and is a whole lot more entertaining than I'd remembered. Paying more attention to him makes the show more entertaining.
I have been meeting the occasional new person of late. Not so much as romantic prospects but as "I rather need to find new (local) friends". And have noticed myself making a conscious choice to not "friend" them on Facebook, because that makes it too easy to background the getting-to-know-you, makes it a little too trivial, too easy for it to turn virtual.
BooksOnBoard, despite the absolutely woeful website, is giving away some parts of Gaiman's Fragile Things. You can find them here. I discovered this due to a reference elsewhere to his short story The Problem of Susan, which is included in Part Four of the excerpt series. I found the story unsettling, which was one suspects his goal.
The boss has provisionally agreed to have the company pay to send me to this year's SAGE-AU conference in Hobart. They'll pay for the lot, in theory. It'll not just be my first SAGE-AU conference, it'll be my first conference ever. The closest thing I've ever been to prior to this was the NSW State Diplomacy Championship in Sydney back in, hrm, 1992?
(Drew the short straw -- Austria -- in the first round and was eliminated.)
The current guilty pleasure is Frasier reruns. Something I am noticing for the first time is that while the main character is a pompous jerk and not really very likable, the supporting character of his brother Niles played by David Hyde Pierce gets a lot of rather good lines and is a whole lot more entertaining than I'd remembered. Paying more attention to him makes the show more entertaining.
