On saturday we had a poohsoc meeting reminiscent of the classic Three Doctors thing; we had four ex-presidents (Rosy, Owen, Ben and Jenny). Someone quoted back to me something I quoted to them, which before correcting for good memories for people and bad memories for quotes means I've in my life said at least two things at least one person has found interesting.
I bought some (bujold) books for real cash non-discounted n%-to-the-author money, and read them that weekend. I live my life the way I play roleplaying games: I'm don't like thinking about spending money, so I tend to spend fairly freely on things I need (food, second hand books) and grudgingly on things I don't even if they'd be useful (healing potions, DVDs, new books, holidays); but with a regular decent income I do have *some* surplus (not counting student loan debt) there's no reason I shouldn't enjoy instead of hoarding.
I met mdavison and Thea for Pizza Hut before starwars. It was nice to talk to them both, for it's been ages since I've seen them not-in-a-society. Thea always somehow manages to broadcast subtle 'normal person' pheromones, despite being a geek really, and also remind me of the Cryptonomicon quote about the Dentist, "Arent' some of his partners lawyers? His partners, his friends... hell, his dentist is probably a lawyer. The point is, he's famously litigious," due to having too many relatives persuading her to, or mainly not to, become a lawyer.
mdavison made me realise something about ID cards I should have thought of before: the privacy concerns are whelming, but if you want something cryptographic to prevent fraud that's, um, a bugger. After that we saw starwars, see yesterday's post.
[1] Who personifies my observations of many writers including Stephenson and in Firefly that there's villains and villains: some people are on the other side, but it's all a bit of fun, and others who are genuinely unredeemable, and the difference is that the former have a sense of irony or even humour :)
I bought some (bujold) books for real cash non-discounted n%-to-the-author money, and read them that weekend. I live my life the way I play roleplaying games: I'm don't like thinking about spending money, so I tend to spend fairly freely on things I need (food, second hand books) and grudgingly on things I don't even if they'd be useful (healing potions, DVDs, new books, holidays); but with a regular decent income I do have *some* surplus (not counting student loan debt) there's no reason I shouldn't enjoy instead of hoarding.
I met mdavison and Thea for Pizza Hut before starwars. It was nice to talk to them both, for it's been ages since I've seen them not-in-a-society. Thea always somehow manages to broadcast subtle 'normal person' pheromones, despite being a geek really, and also remind me of the Cryptonomicon quote about the Dentist, "Arent' some of his partners lawyers? His partners, his friends... hell, his dentist is probably a lawyer. The point is, he's famously litigious," due to having too many relatives persuading her to, or mainly not to, become a lawyer.
mdavison made me realise something about ID cards I should have thought of before: the privacy concerns are whelming, but if you want something cryptographic to prevent fraud that's, um, a bugger. After that we saw starwars, see yesterday's post.
[1] Who personifies my observations of many writers including Stephenson and in Firefly that there's villains and villains: some people are on the other side, but it's all a bit of fun, and others who are genuinely unredeemable, and the difference is that the former have a sense of irony or even humour :)