A few months ago I started kickboxing in London (terrible website, great people). I go to a great school that meets in various church halls and gyms around central London. It's not boxxercising or tai-bo or whatever, but actual kicking-people-in-the-head kickboxing.
Of course, I don't actually kick people in the …
more ...Some recent reading I'd like to share with you:
more ...Next morning, after I had sucked down a thoughtful cup of tea, I went into Motty's room to investigate. I expected to find the fellow a wreck, but there he was, sitting up in bed, quite chirpy, reading Gingery stories.
"What …
I just wrote a couple of cutting, incisive, witty paragraphs about the use of the word“enormity” that would have struck down all those who dare object to my opinion, which, by-the-by, is so obviously and manifestly correct that those who disagree must exist merely as a dark background on …
more ...My mate Zac is in a band called H.M.A.S. Vendetta, and their single Boganheart is available to download from their website. Check it out.
I'm off to Montreal for two weeks. The first week is work, the second is play. I don't really know what I'm going …
more ...I love checklists, but I always have trouble sharing that love with other people. Luckily, there's now a great article on checklists on lifehacker. Now I'm going to refer people to that instead of David Allen's book or my own vague fumblings about life being too short to think about …
more ...I like Havi Brooks. A lot of her craziness rubs me the wrong way, and I'm pretty sure there's no way I'll ever be into Shiva Nata, but she's very much worth listening to.
I've read so many good books over the last few years. Some of them seem to cry out to be read again. I know that if I read them again I'll enjoy them more, I'll know their excellences in a richer, deeper way than I do now.
And King jml opened his mouth and spoke to the peoples of the land, and he said, "Lo! There are vendors of chips that are neither salted nor hot, nay, the chips are not even warm. The cooks and merchants who profit from such chips are evil, and ruin marks …
more ...Bice just summarized a conversation that he and I had about the shape of our distractions. Between that conversation and now, I talked about completely different mental state malfunctions with Karl.
Matt Zimmerman describes the thing I love most about being organized: time travel through your mind.
more ...The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes is excellent. Everyone should read it, especially if they are Australian.
I've been in London almost six months now, although ten weeks of those six months have been spent overseas.
Recently, I've been disappointed to notice myself becoming more patriotic. I don't know if this is a result of aging, or a consequence of frequent international travel. I don't know whether I should do anything about it, nor even what I would do if I wanted to change.
The patriotic …
more ...Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard are both excellent. Likewise his Book of the New Sun cycle.
more ...Life's going OK right now, but there's a lot of travel.
The flat hunt continues.