Sunday morning miscellany

Should have hangover. Don't. Yay for long train journeys home, thus giving time to sober up before sleep!

Having spent a few hours blonde a fortnight ago (my brain is growing back slowly) I smirk ruefully at the best blonde joke ever.

I've sent out parcels of books / CDs to quite a few people. If you're one of them, and wondering how to reimburse me for contents & postage, LJ time / space would be great -- not for this account though, as it's a permanent account. Go here and select the 'email redemption code to' option: tamaranth at livejournal.com.

Does anyone know why it's almost impossible to buy small bottles (0.5l) of sparkling water in London shops?

drpete, mmcpoland: lovely to see you yesterday! I fear I have cluttered up your flat with Carvills Umbrella of Pointy Doom. Shall retrieve at some stage ...

sneerpout: might I trouble you for Contact Details as discussed?

Worldcon photos!

20 photos from Glasgow over here. Writeup imminent. Really.

o blissful lazy sunday

it's amazing how much more relaxed I feel after doing unimportant-but-nagging things.

Example: for about four months my default friends-list view has been limited to about 20 people, due to lack of time and energy. Now you are all back in sight. Though I do not propose to catch up, and will probably not keep up.

Example: one of the first things I did when finally setting up my PC in New Home was to blow the entire downstairs socket circuit by plugging in my music drives. Haven't plugged 'em in since, which means no iTunes, which means no new music on iPod. But today I sent 'em home with the wonderful ladymoonray, who will test them on a slightly less antique set of wiring, and who (along with swisstone) will win access to 150 gigabytes of MP3s if both drives work ok.

Example: I've got the new camera talking to the PC, and uploaded Worldcon photos.

Example: it's not yet 2pm, and I have crossed 8 things off my to-do list.

Now, about this daily writing target ...

Interaction the tamaranth way

Interaction write-up complete! (7.5K. Should not have gone to this many programme items, clearly. No wonder brane has indigestion.)

These are notes, not neatly-summarised snapshots. Read at your peril. All omissions my own. Marginalia (primarily stylised lizards) mostly excluded. Programme descriptions pasted from the pre-con programme spreadsheet; I've tried to indicate changes.

I have omitted fascinating conversations in the bar / over dinner / on the banks of the Clyde; faithful descriptions of the pool in the Quality, nee Central (empty both times we went, much-valued peace); a lengthy diatribe on the difficulty of buying blank cassette tapes; apologies to anyone I offended, inadvertently or otherwise. Please take as read.

In general, verbatim comments are enclosed in double quotation marks, my own additions in italics. Apologies for any errors in transcription: all notes scribbled by hand, often rather hurriedly, often rather early ...

Photographic evidence may be found here.

Thursday 4th August: The Matter of Britain in British Music / Hans Christian Andersen & the Dark Side of Fairy Tale / I'm Sorry I Haven't an SFing Clue

Friday 5th August: Moving in Time as Well as in Space / Greer Gilman: Reading / Book Group Discussion: Not Before Sundown, by Johanna Sinisalo / Can fan fiction writers go on to write real books?

Saturday 6th August: British Landscape and the Fantastic / Complex Families, Queer Neighbours / How do we reinvent Time Travel? / Geek Eye for the Technophobe Guy / Not really a programme item: Voyager Party on the Tall Ship

Sunday 7th August: The Aesthetics of Fantasy / Lost and Found: Children's Books We Miss / Waiting for the Fantastic / Great Europeans as Fictional Characters

Monday 8th August: Finding the Fantastic in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

Twofold Entry

Now I know how to upload pics to the LJ scrapbook

And ...( evil glaring spiky thing (what's not to like?) )