Patrick: oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Into which category would you put Avram Davidson’s Adventures in Unhistory?
Into the "I MUST OWN THIS" category. Alas, the cost...
rhandir: so far as I know, God Stalk is in print as half of Dark Of The Gods (from Meisha Merlin, as you say). One of my most-cherished memories from Interaction was P.C. Hodgell reading a chapter from the upcoming "Jame goes to the citadel" book, and one of the most bitter ones is that I missed the impromptu kaffee klatsch thrown together with her and some of my friends who'd also attended the reading.
Seen in Gothenburg: "Satellite Dishes and Present Store" and "Pipes (the kind you smoke in --cd) and fishing equipment".
Drawn & Quarterly to publish Moomin comics in English. Publisher's Weekly article.Beginning in September, Drawn & Quarterly will publish the initial book of a five-volume series of Moomin: the Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, the first North American English translation of the late Finnish cartoonist's internationally acclaimed comics strip.
bryan: of course you know Bob! He's your uncle, after all. Indeed, in a way, Bob is all our uncle.
Out of pure randomness: Gothic Charm School. Formerly known as "Gothic Miss Manners", but there was apparently correspondence of the legal kind from representatives of the original Miss Manners, and thus a name change.
Sandy: some of us still do. And use the Internet to communicate with roleplayers all over the world. (E g the RPG.net web forums.)
Graydon: And emacs has M-x rot13-other-window.
A belated Happy New Year and ditto Birthday to all!
I spent mine quite nicely, beginning with taking in an opera performance in (almost) full formal evening dress (I don't have the correct shirt with the starched front, alas) with a set of similarly-attired friends, where we got the comment "it's nice to see that SOME people know how to dress up when they come here" from the ticket man; thence on home, for a lovely four-course dinner and stepping out on the balcony to watch the fireworks (which had begun in earnest at 22 and peaked between 23:30 and 0:30, when they fired constantly, only petering out at around 2:00). The fireworks were quite impressive, too. The people in this neighborhood sure know how to shoot 'em.
P J, the Poor Clares bit comes from sometime Making Light writer and commenter James D. Macdonald, more specifically his The Apocalypse Door and surrounding short stories co-written with Debra Doyle ("Stealing God" is the only one I've read of those - there're at least two more: "Selling The Devil" and "Sleeping Kings"). The precise groups is "the Special Action Executive of the Poor Clares".
Julia: indeed, even today it's still around in places (eg from only a few years ago: the Taliban's Afghanistan).
A photo from London which looks like it's taken from a skiffy movie (one aquaintance said he was expecting to see a Nazgûl come in from the edge of the picture at any moment).
Serge: Birds Of Prey sounds familiar, yes.
Laina: yes. Some of us had ancestors who moved in as the ice thawed away. It's possible that someone was displaced by the ice, I'll admit, but by then we're back to 100+ kYA, and I'll say that's long enough that no one cares.
Skwid: I had that problem in Junior High/High School - but in my case it was 28" or 30" waist, 34" or 36" inseam. The pair I'm currently wearing's 33" waist, 42" inseam, fit really well, and I'm completely unable to remember where I bought them. This is freakishly annoying.
Serge: I have long legs and arms (I would estimate my arms to be 28" or so from shoulder to fingertip, and my legs are almost 4 feet from hip to floor), and an average-sized torso (when we sit, I'm about as tall as my father - when we stand I'm almost a foot taller!). Plus, I'm skinny. But yes, it helps immensely when I need to get stuff from high shelves.
I wonder if there're any photos of me when I have my oilskin coat on and a girl friend under it, with both our heads sticking out of the neck? It looks mighty peculiar...
Serge: I have a similar problem, in that I either (and this is mostly a problem with coats) have to get a coat that has sleeves that end halfway down from my elbows, or one where I can fit another person inside it, and doing up the zipper (experimentally verified, with four different girls). I've gone for the latter, every time.
I'd love it if designers of utilitarian clothing would accept that an XXL is not the same as a 2XL.
So, what is the difference?
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