tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-23:382150 ει τοδε δυνασαι αναγιγνοσκειν, εστιv σοι περισσα παιδευσις charamei 2011-09-02T18:56:31Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-23:382150:81034 2011-08-30T15:14:47Z 2011-09-02T18:56:31Z public 0 <img src="http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll165/Charamei/Mans_greatest_need.gif" width="400" height="150" /><br /><br />From a friend.<br /><br />/\/\/\<br /><br /><a href="http://stevegrand.wordpress.com/" title="Steve Grand&#39;s blog">Steve Grand has a blog</a>! And he's <a href="http://stevegrand.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/grandroids-faq/" title="Grandroids FAQ">working on a new game</a>:<blockquote>The creatures’  limbs have elastic muscles and the weights of different parts of their bodies have an effect on inertia and balance. It’s quite challenging getting one that has a fair chance of learning to walk and doesn’t fall over when it glances sideways!</blockquote>Welp. Better go RSS-up my childhood science hero. ILU STEVE.<br /><br />/\/\/\<br /><br />Holidays this year: Galloway Astronomy Centre, which is a B&B run by two lovely people with a telescope out the back. (In fairness, it's a <em>very large</em> telescope.) There were meteors, and the Milky Way, and a very fruitful trawl through some second-hand bookshops in Wigtown which turned up an Historical Grammar of Greek (circa 1890, best Greek grammar I've ever seen) and an 18th century book of scholiasts on Euripides. I may have spent the entire day geeking out and wondering how fast I can learn Latin so I can actually read the non-Greek portions of it.<br /><br />Also, Stonehenge and the Bristol Balloon Festival.<br /><br />/\/\/\<br /><br />Bank holidays this year: medieval festival at Herstmonceux Castle.<br /><br />/\/\/\<br /><br />House-buying update: solicitors are sloooow. And non-communicative. I nearly fell over in surprise when one of them actually called me voluntarily to give me an update.<br /><br />/\/\/\<br /><br />Nice thing about writing a species that periodically changes sex: when I changed their whole biological model so that the majority of the characters for this year's NaNo were suddenly female, not one of them complained.<br /><br />/\/\/\<br /><br />I have read books. I can't remember all of them any more, let alone review them all. Some were good, some were bad, some were meh. Aren't I helpful?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=charamei&ditemid=81034" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments