Malarkey
On and off, I write SF stories. Sadly more off than on, because Computer eats my brain on a regular basis.
read moreLooking at the wrong things
I have weird friends. Or rather, they have me and I… No.
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It is twenty-six years to the day since I found this image.
read moreConstruction time again
WAT A 60p-from-ebay cuckoo clock hacked about enough such that it calls you a twat.
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WAT A PMS7003 particle dust sensor hooked to some hacky code to make Geiger noises, and stuffed into a scavenged meter to make it look like proper test-gear.
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One of the things that seems to define life events for me is the smell of fresh coffee.
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Oh look another ramble, and I will spend the section of text that people get to see as they scroll down going ‘oh god what is she on about now?
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During a quite remarkable session on Messenger this afternoon (I’d write ‘chat’, but while I wish it was actual physical talking, it isn’t), my splendid correspondent reminded me of a regular day/dream I used to have in the early 80s.
read moreWind up robot
Elsenet (as said once in 1995 on The Well, by someone who probably quite liked Bruce Sterling books and had a pile of Mondo 2000 mags) someone was pondering-out-loud (Twitter.
read moreFashion police five
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read moreHello, I’m Julia Unix hacker (FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, Linux) SF writer (List of things with my stories in elsewhere) Trans woman (Apparently I piss some people off merely by existing.
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Oh, computer. The ancient m/b, which I had managed to keep mostly working by throwing a SSD and lots of memory at, finally couldn’t keep up with the weight of the JS required to make FB work.
read moreFilthy racket
I’ve been in absolute pieces wrt SOPHIE and I have been struggling for an even slightly rational explanation, but I think it’s about multiple wolves.
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The last few weeks I have been regularly moved to tears by the toast-rack in one of the kitchen drawers.
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(This is a C&P from an aged LJ post, inspired by some tangenteering on someone else’s FB.
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I’m not sure I should bother others with weird dreams because they’re usually meaningless, but this one was, well…
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One of the things that I’m doing at work is hacking on our VM-build rig so that is it less terrible to use.
read moreAngry brigade
Many years ago, when plotting my escape from VBCnet (ISP. Run by a Vietnam vet, which was, um, interesting) I went for an interview at something called X-Stream.
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The other thing that happened in the recent past was that we beetled off to the US.
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