A Good Birthday

Thanks to everyone who came to my birthday last Saturday.

We played Mao in the afternoon, which went pretty well. There were interesting rules that failed to have confusing bad edge cases, or be completely unguessable. Tim and Anna hadn't played "Cambridge Standard" before, but got on fine. And it was funny.

And when we started curling in a corner yammering about tea-kettles we stopped. Several people came for Articulate and Killer Bunnies. There was nice Chinese Takeaway.

And there was about twenty people for the party in the evening. Lots of nice people, some of whom I hadn't seen for a while. Nice food, nice alcohol, successful punch (though I'm not 100% convinced).

Fowlmere

Last Sunday Becky and Uisgabeatha took me walking at Fowlmere nature reserve. It was pretty, and there were read-beds, and a stream of the clearest water I've seen, and a little wood, and several minute silhouettes that went "ktweet"

Buying wroblication

Is it just me?

Obviously, if you're interested in getting a wroblication service, it's good to have a link explaining (1) that wroblicating will cause dolphins to fly out of your computer and make you the envy of all your friends, and have a patronising introductory video explain very very slowly with clunky graphics and a patronising patriarchal American male accent that wroblicate is a word and words are made up out of letters, and that here we have a w, also for witch, but that that isn't pronounced, and an r, which is, perhaps with some aspiration, and then...

And you definitely need (3), a link allowing you to sign up for an N year wroblicating contract.

But does no-one else at all want (2) a short list of which wroblications are included in the service? And maybe how fast they are?

The complete absence of any indication that the information I wanted might even exist, let alone be useful, always makes me feel like a freak. *stabbitykillstabbityuserinterfaces*