Ooooh, this is an odd one.
A solitary worker operates a moon base which is the hub for a Helium-3 farming operation at a time when Helium-3, provided by the Lunar Corporation, has solved Earth’s fuel problems. His only company is a computer/robot with the voice of Kevin Spacey and a display that conveys its ‘emotions’ [...]
It’s an odd time, considering it’s immediately post-Pride and the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which kick-started the gay rights movement (as it was then called). This weekend, the same weekend that San Francisco was demonstrating that it’s a hugely inclusive city, police officers raided a new gay bar in Fort Worth, Texas, arresting [...]
Well! It’s frankly astonishing that I’ve spent so much time in San Francisco over the years and never been here for Pride before, but it’s true.
That sad ommission has now been rectified with a fabulous day of Parade-watching and event-going in brilliant sunshine and wonderfully high spirits.
The Parade, I have to say, is long. It [...]
Obviously a tragic loss after the early fightback against her cancer, and only the day after it was reported that she and Ryan O were going to be married.
But also poor Farrah because now that freak Michael Jackson has also died today, no one’s going to give a damn about her.
The great state of Oklahoma (where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain) has somewhat unfortunately elected a raving bigot called Sally Kern as a Congressperson more than once. She’s well known notorious for describing homosexuality as a greater threat to America than terrorism or Islam (which by the way she does nevertheless think are [...]
Had a couple of days much-needed break at the weekend, driving with The Mrs and a friend of his who’s visiting down the coast to Big Sur. We took Highway One south from the city via Half Moon Bay, round Monterey and stopping for lunch in Carmel before heading on to our stopping place for the [...]
I love my bank in the UK. I love that they’re an online bank, but part of The Co-Operative Bank, and so governed by the Co-Op’s Ethical Policy. I love that I can be happy that my money’s not being used to support industries or regimes engaged in practices I don’t approve of. I love [...]
It’s odd how one person’s eye and mind can pick up on particular things which pass another’s by.
It was The Mrs who drew my attention to the current craze for labelling novels as novels. You know the kind of thing; The Nervousness of Clarissa Poole - A Novel (I just made that up, but now [...]
I do quite a lot of travelling, much (pretty well all of it really) by air. In recent years a couple of things have struck me.
One is that the standards of security applied to passengers varies wildly from airport to airport, country to county. Shoes on/shoes off. Laptops out of bags/laptops left in bags. Belts [...]
In around 15 minutes President Obama will be announcing a new extension to employment benefits for domestic partners of Federal employees. Woo. And indeed, Hoo.
Given that the extent of the change has already been announced, a great many commentators are already noting that this is pretty much the scraps from the table. In brief:
It’s a [...]
