"A Celebration in Blue Silk" has been accepted by The Lorelei Signal for the July 09 issue, and I'll be a TOC buddy with silverwerecat . *happy dance* Other than that things have been fairly quiet. The landlord is arranging to fix our shower, and we have a whole day with nothing to do but enjoy ourselves.

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Originally published at Once upon a mellow noon . Please leave any comments there. heh, I’ve been looking for all kinds of reasons why my internet speed is currently at about 3.4 kb per second. And then it hit me– cap size! no, not that thing boats do, that thing (some South African) internet providers do to spoil my fun. We appear to have reached it and are. now.  being. throttled. yes. sssseeee...

 I’m back. That’s self apparent. The holiday? Perhaps it can best be summed up as Garden of Eden meets Fawlty Towers.   There’s so much to say of it, I don’t know where to begin. I would probably call it one of the best holidays I’ve ever had and also I think, something to be added to that list of things people need to do before they die;  take a holiday in a foreign country with a...

My last blog in a while. Heading off on hols tomorrow. Said to a friend on the phone this evening, “I’ll be glad when this damn holiday is over.” :D What I think I meant though is I’ll be glad when I’m actually on holidays and not getting ready to go on holidays.   The difference isn’t even subtle. Anyway, if the wind is with us, I should be getting a chance to meet up with   silverwerecat...

catrambo  tagged me: To participate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people. Here goes, from George Martin's Dreamsongs: "Phantoms of someone's imagination." okay, thanks George, very...interesting. Can't remember who I did and did not tag last time, so let me tag a couple of the old, a few of the new --  sartorias , ...

dsgood  (affirmed by silverwerecat ) has the right of it: The word robot was first popularized by Czech playwright Karl Capek, in his play RUR. I had the date as 1930, but Dan's source puts it at 1923 and it was Karl's brother, Josef, who coined the word.  Robot referred to slave, or worker. Asimov started his sequence of I, Robot shorts which led to the creation of the three laws...

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