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Naturally, I could not possibly hold marmaladecat to her foolish promise to come back to LARP for sock-based taunting, but all the same, here's SockMorrigan:



Why no, there's no connection between me never seeing anyone and making sock puppet versions of my friends. That's crazy talk.

To my utter sorrow, PeteO has not signed up for the 36H. But fear not! Sock Master Tarrack will provide for all your hammering things needs.



(The urge to make sock TL characters is directly proportional to how much fun annoying them is, so Tarrack wins at this as well as at everything else).

Trigger warning: Clangers
In another place aralli was discussing her issues with Clangers, and while I regret her suffering, it reminded me of a rather wonderful scientific talk I went to at EasterCon (Orbital 2008). I was delighted to discover that the slides were online.

http://www.wavwebs.com/Orbital2008/Clangers/Clangers.html

It's an analysis of the orbital mechanics displayed in one of the Clanger episodes, and some speculation about the nature of the Clanger homeplanet.

Postdoctoral Researcher - Dynamics and Energetics of Hunting in the Cheetah

"You will need to spend two periods of three months on field work in a remote area of Botswana..."

The French spell positron without the "r".
So confusing

I've resubmitted, and its time to start looking not just for postdoc positions but also for any position that will take me that isn't actually meat packing. I've decided that my new career aspiration is to never again apply for a job that wants my CV as a .doc or .txt file.

LaTeX/CV <3

EDIT: Apprently "Newcastle" means "either Norway or the middle of the north sea or possibly Australia"

I'm not sure if I want to play Biccy or oolong more. Any preferences from fellow players?
Dom- any part of Lucian's lines you object to ?

( 24H LARP prequel fanfiction )

"If there was one rule connected with the public service which more than any other ought to be scrupulously observed, it was this, that the salary of a public officer, more especially if he were of high rank, ought to cover all the services he might be called upon to render Any departure from this rule must be dangerous" Hansard vol 101, p138 14 August 1848 (quoted by Babbage in his autobiography).

Gladstone could totally have won the 2010 election :)

Also, it is no surprise that Babbage read Hansard, as the guy was nuts.

CloÞ-merys - mare-clothers (?contemptuous reference to blacksmiths as fashioning pieces of horse armour)

I <3 my middle English dictionary

ALSO

"craue batayl bare" is not "demand battle openly" but rather "demand naked battle". Sir Gwaine and the Grene knight is so slashable.

http://litbrick.com/2010/06/07/gawain1/

The Pearl poet is using Oxford commas and and putting "&"s between everything in his lists. He so hates me :)

Where werre, & wrake, & wonder,