Even better than earlier examples is the ticket for the tailors who are altering my trousers for the wedding. It says PUTH despite the fact that I spelt my name for them, twice.

Via lonemagpie

Instructions: Write down the names of 12 characters. After you’ve written them all down, then read and answer the questions hidden behind the cut.

No fair peeking at the questions behind the cut until you’ve jotted down all 12 characters.

1. Ellen Ripley
2. Frodo Baggins
3. Bernice Summerfield
4. Chiana
5. Avon
6. Richard Sharpe
7. Willow Rosenberg
8. Susan Ivanova
9. The Doctor
10. Number 6
11. Jack Aubrey
12. Ezri Dax

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Forgive me readers, it has been a month since my last confession and I have sinned. I have been to those temples to mammon that are called eBay and Orcs Nest, and I have purchased small pieces of plastic fashioned into the likeness of Han Solo and other characters from Star Wars.

I picked up several Rebel Storm rares from eBay and then bought a Revenge of the Sith booster and a Universe booster from Orcs Nest. All for £72.71.

Running total is now £644.14

The universe booster (the first I’d bought) contained the very rare Admiral Ackbar (so my luck of picking up Very Rares rather than Rares continues) and the huge X-1 Viper Droid. It’s a shame that the random nature of these sets means that only Star Wars fans will really buy into them as the X-1 is a decent sized chunk of plastic and has a nice retro feel to it (plus a brown and black paint scheme) that means it would lend itself well to steampunk, pulp, alt-WW2 or VSF games.

Lettice liked it as well. “Barbie’s new pet”. Oddly enough googling for “mad scientist barbie” brings up only three hits and no pictures. Come on doll surgeons and/or photoshop gurus…

Via rozk.

Not very surprised by this one.

You scored as Beast.
Beast is an intelligent, politcal spokesman for the X-Men.
He has a Ph.D in Genetics and is well versed in literature. He may look like a blue fuzzy monster, but deep down he’s very benevolent and logical.
Powers: Enhanced strength and agility

Beast		85%
Wolverine		70%
Storm		60%
Colossus		60%
Jean Grey		60%
Rogue		55%
Iceman		55%
Gambit		55%
Cyclops		45%
Emma Frost		45%
Nightcrawler		35%

Most Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

Via unknownlegend.

Modern, Cool Nerd
56% Nerd, 60% Geek, 26% Dork

For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Congratulations!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 42% on nerdiness
	You scored higher than 76% on geekosity
	You scored higher than 32% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid

I was going to post something about this, but Steve Flanagan said it better on the SFSFW mailing list.

Harbinger is now billing itself as “The Only Independent Miniatures Gaming Magazine” (their emphasis). How true.

Except for Ragnarok, Slingshot, Lone Warrior and all the other society magazines.

And Wargames Journal, Total Model and all the other on-line magazines.

And Ravage and Vae Victis.

And Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, the newly-Englished Dadi & Piombo, and Historical Miniature Gamer.

And Miniature Wargames and Wargames Illustrated.

And is a magazine whose avowed editorial policy is to provide a mouhpiece for medium-sized wargames companies actually “independent”, or is it just multiply-dependent?

The water board don’t have any record for our flat that’s distinct from the shop below and as they, very nicely, don’t want to charge us commercial rates want us to go and check with the landlords.

The gas company also don’t have any records for our flat, which only came to light after I asked them to double check - they were quite happy to sign us up to pay for the whole property.

I haven’t heard back from the electricty company after I asked them to make the same double check.

But we do have water, gas and electricity. Here’s hoping we get it for free…

BT have heard of our flat. They have it listed as “flat above Unwins”. Unwins shut at least two years ago. They also say that the earliest they can get an engineer out is September 21st which is rubbish.

And why does he keep on leaving his keys in boxes of furniture^[1]?

Yesterday we visited the People’s Democratic Republic of Ikea. They told us lies (along the lines of “the delivery men will phone half an hour before the arrive”).

Today we’re in flat pack furniture land. And trying to clean the oven at the old flat at the same time. Take out shelves, place in garden, spray with oven cleaner, wait for rain. Bingo.

Tomorrow the bed gets delivered. Will it fit up the stairs? I have my doubts. If it doesn’t then it’s back to the PDRI for a self assembly bed.

Moving house is a great way to lose weight before a wedding. Very Sweaty Thing. But you didn’t want to know that.

Three weeks from today we’ll be checking in for our honeymoon flights to Canada.

^[1]In case you were actually wondering

Who Spy. Second picture down (or the one with the caption “The crew work hard to get the most out of the fading light.” if they add more).

That’s the rather distinctive tower of Guy’s Hopital in the far background. Which means that the cranes are those building the other half of More London Riverside. Which means that the building with the rounded corner in the near background is MY OFFICE!

They must have been filming on a rooftop somewhere near the Tower of London. Anyone see them?

People in call centres can’t handle ‘Pugh’ and can’t handle ‘Lettice’, so between us we get all sorts of sillyness. Mr Pahh. Mr or Mrs Kemp. steve@surname.net.

Still doesn’t beat the Mr Puff I got before one university interview.