Vale Astrid

So. I’ve had offi­cial word now: Astrid, my scooter, is a total loss.  Bye, Astrid. It was fun while it lasted.  I’ll be look­ing at get­ting a Gran Tur­ismo 200 now, but I might just get another ET4. We’ll see how much the insur­ance...

Ha! I was right

Well, sjkas­abi, Wiki­pe­dia agrees with me: Note that the solidus and vir­gule are dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent typo­graphic sym­bols with decidedly dif­fer­ent uses. The solidus is sig­ni­fic­antly more oblique than the vir­gule. The char­ac­ter found on stand­ard...

I can’t believe John Brodgen tried to kill him­self. Sure, you just trashed any hope you had of a polit­ical career, but you’re 36, you have a wife that loves you and you have a young baby at home. Get a grip, man.

Scrabble tonight!!

Sorry for the late­ness of this post, I wanted to see how I was doing first. I ven­tured out briefly last night to hermia8 and spunk­art’s fun­draiser for Art Murder: The Pic­ture of Dorian Gray, their Fringe play, and man­aged to sur­vive sit­ting on...