Vatican admits To liking Harry Potter. Who would have thought it?
Anyways, today I bring you the full answers to my First Liners quiz from last week. This should give you a feel for my eclectic reading tastes - Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical, Thrillers and a large dose of Junior Fiction,
Owing to spending an entire evening responding to certain suggestions over on t00bage, I haven't had time to write up my weekend report or finish the answers to the First Liners book quiz. I'll try to get those done for tomorrow later today. Right now, I need some sleep...
It's a fair cop, guv - check the .sig I've been using for the last year:
mrj
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Mark Rigby-Jones - hacker @ ts.com / community internet
mark@rigby-jones.net <*> http://rigby-jones.net/mark/
...I've been making shows of writing code, just hoping no-one knows
that I've been going through the motions, walking through the part...
I am sorry to report that this LiveJournal posting has been delayed for One Hour and Nine and Three Quarters minutes due to a signalling failure at Bletchley. I am very sorry for the severe delay to this service.
No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes...and all of this...all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.
Commander Jeffery Sinclair, Babylon 5 - penned by J. Michael Straczynski
Now wh00b left their laptop logged in to LJ when they handed it over, eh? Heh heh heh.
I snore when I'm drunk and sound like the Dark Lord of the Sith, crossed with the LSO Choral Chainsaw Orchestra. Just so you know. And tonight I intend to get even more drunk.
On to the second day of MacT00bage. Much more strangeness last night - an awful lot of singing going on, including a second viewing of "Once More, With Feeling!" complete with sing-a-long for the entire episode (and pretty much all the dialog as well). queerasjohn and I also did a duet of the Elephant Love Medley from Moulin Rouge (I am so Nicole). Oh, and leiabelle has webcam video of me singing and dancing to the Time Warp. Somewhere along the line, the entire bottle of Charette (49° Rum from Reunion) I brought managed to disappeared (the fact that we were drinking it mixed 50/50 with fruit juice/Irn-Bru/Whatever...) Apparently I snored to the annoyance of some (and there's the webcam footage to prove it).
Unlike everyone else, I managed to get to St. Andrews with very little by the way of travel difficulties. The train was on time plus or minus a few minutes for the whole journey, and I had a power socket by my seat, so was able to read fanfic for pretty much the whole journey. Unfortunately didn't have a table seat so conditions were somewhat cramped, but never mind.
Have met various new t00bs and done much gratuitous use of the net already. We watched "Once More, With Feeling!" (I will post a review soon, honest) and barely resisted singing along (no such restraint on the later run through of the soundtrack). More people should be arriving shortly, so it looks to be another fun weekend.
Borrowing a meme from other journals, here's my shot at the "first lines of your favourite books" games. I've picked two dozen titles from my shelves, not entirely at random, and supplied you with the first line (sometimes more). Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify as many of the books as possible.
To help you: They're all works of fiction, and if part of a series, I've chosen the first (by some reasonable definition) book in the series. They're all by different authors and are in alphabetical order by author (hey, the came off the shelves like that!) Prologues etc may or may not have been skipped, depending on which line I think is easier to identify.
