The folks over at NaBloPoMo have declared that June’s theme is Now and have also implemented a prompt of the day, similar to LiveJournal’s Writer’s Block feature. Seeing as I haven’t been posting much of late I thought I’d give it a try.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
An astronaut. In the late ’70s and early ’80s we were at the tail end of the space race era – the moon landings were still recent (and very few people imagined that, 30 years later, we wouldn’t have gone back), the shuttle was brand new and shiny, oh, and Star Wars was in the cinema.
As a follow-up to Desert Island Discs, the team at work have been doing our top ten films, and this week was my turn. The only condition was that one of the ten had to be set in London. Once again, I’ll be buggered if I’m writing all this lot up and not turning it into a blog post. ( My Top Ten Films... )
Yesterday, I tweeted "According to my LibraryThing records I’ve read 141 books this year: 26 novels, 7 non-fiction, 102 graphic novels and 6 ‘other’."
Then I went out and bought another two graphic novels… But it must be said that most of the comics I’ve read this year came from West Norwood library, and now that I’ve exhausted most of their good ones, and some of their bad ones, I think 2010 may be slightly less weighted towards graphic novels.
How many of my 2009 books have you read?
Available as a poll over on Live Journal (you don’t need an LJ account to vote, just an OpenID account which means an account from WordPress.com, Google, Yahoo, Blogger, etc.)
Well I found this year’s Salute a bit underwhelming. There seemed to be a lot of big empty spaces in the middle of the hall, which made the scrums around many of the stalls even more annoying than usual. Some cool games but little that really grabbed me. Hence I only spent a few hours there before heading into town, where I ended up doing a bit of shopping.
So, whilst the Salute purchases (a mammoth mammoth, some chaps and some geezers) go onto the annual fund the rest of the day’s shopping is:
Classic Traveller Alien Modules 5-8 from Orc’s Nest, @ £19.99
2 packs of Imperial Entanglements Star Wars CMG miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99 each
Total: £39.97
Total for the quarter: 0.00 + £91.85 + £39.97 = £131.82
Earlier today, for reasons best known to herself, pink_weasel linked to the Wikipedia page on Allen Keys. In the sidebar they have diagrams of various shapes of screw head. One of them is the Bristol head:
Remind you of anything? How about The Empire (from Star Wars for the culturally ignorant…):
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