Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Damn evil technology
So – years ago I bought a TV capture box. A relatively nice one. A Miglia Evolution TV. All brushed aluminium and shiny. They went bust, and so software support was discontinued with OS X 10.4. …which means that for all its shiny shiny, it doesn’t work. At all. Current versions of OS X don’t…
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The experience is quite odd
There’s this alternation between excitement, terror and boredom. Things like handing in my notice, that’s terrifying. In many respects I love my job, my department’s a great place to work with a fantastic team. For its sins, if I was sick, I’d go to my own ED rather than any of the others around me,…
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Kludge of the Year
I’m not sure if I’m proud of, or fear my ingenuity. Still, it enabled some progress on the deck. I was nearly very sad, because it quite upset the LiIon battery from my Makita drill, but after it’d chilled out (literally, I put it on the big block of concrete that is our fireplace) it…
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If anyone doubted my intent
Tonight, someone’s coming to look at buying my valve amp and my Goldring Lenco GL-68 Transcription turntable. This is getting serious now.
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Well, that was an inaccurate button push.
Notification of applicant readyness? I’m not ready. I’m blinkin’ terrified. Excited, yes. Thrilled at the future opening up. But also scared witless. I can’t imagine how my mum felt travelling 1000s of miles to go from her small tropical island to come to the UK back in the 1960s. And here I am getting collywobbles…
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Absence of skill never prevented me before
I am not a brickie. Not by any means. My first attempts at laying bricks – namely the pillars on which the sink rests are fine. By which I mean, they’re two pillars. Not that they’re fine. They’re more or less upright (but not exactly totally vertical, if I’m honest). I’ve done better since –…
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Monday’s not the day
But in my head it feels like the day. There’s no particular reason that I shouldn’t get a visa for the US. I’m not a terribly naughty person, beyond my ownership of a rather high number of MZs and my two soviet era watches, I don’t think I harbour enormous communist sympathies, and I’ve (so…
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Shame
When I was at school I had a somewhat interesting history teacher. Most people I’ve met through my life seem to look at Britain’s entry into the Second World War as something almost altruistic. ‘Oh, we did it to protect all those other countries’ they proclaim. That’s not the way I was taught. I was…
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Norway!
We no longer pack light, Kathryn and I. I’d like to pretend we do. We used to, back when we’d squeeze our belongings into the back of one of our aged fleet of classics. Even the 340 was somewhat restrictive, although it had a cavernous boot, the number of places you could sneak stuff in…
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I have done stuff
So we’ve been away. I’ll tell you about that later (summary: Norway is awesomepretty). Next week is my USA medical. 6 Weeks after that I might have my visa. Which is terrifying and exciting and scary. Work know, now. Because they asked me to apply for a more senior position, and I had to explain…