Category Archives: Ephemera

58 meters! i think i like the open road…

Tuesday, March 9:

almost to bonneville. i’ve now driven 314 meters, and i’m finally getting into some interesting terrain. lots of rocks. it’s getting kind of steep, too. if i fall over i know i’m never going to hear the end of it.

who can recommend some good ‘cresting the rim of a crater’ music? nasa’s selections are getting kind of weird…

Yes, it’s the Spirit Rover LJ. Riotous.

Relief

Finally, a review from someone who has actually seen Mad Mad House.

Yes, I’m relieved. If the word “hokey” is used and the show compared to Abbot & Costello, then I can relax and laugh. My fears have apparently not been realised. Sure, they’re making fun of alternate lifestyles, but the show has evidently been produced with an Addams Family sort of humour.

I’ll see for myself when I settle down to watch the tape.

ph33r

How amusing. Neil Gaiman got a l33t message and a fan translated it for him.

Thought the translation (liberal in places) would be interesting to those of you who were teasing me about knowing how to read it. Okay, I actually thought you’d laugh too.

And damn, I completely and totally forgot that Gaiman had written a short story called The Daughter of Owls, found in the Smoke and Mirrors collection. This makes me feel incredibly guilty and a right twit.