Next: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Feels like it could do with helicopters to help it along a bit.
. Thankfully it's short. The book about the King Leopold of Belgium gives...
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Double Godlike!
Last Activity: Yesterday, 20:37
Joined: 12 April 2018
Location: A mineshaft trying to avoid the fallout.
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DNF: Done: off to Oxfam with it. Got bored with that lot: didn't read the Asimov or the PKD.
Next: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Feels like it could do with helicopters to help it along a bit.. Thankfully it's short. The book about the King Leopold of Belgium gives...
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Morning.
Tuesday.
Dry.
Sunny.
Blue sky.
18.2 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.
1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.6343 psi, (unchanged), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 29th of March...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 20:32.Leave a comment:
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Gosh. A Mullard EN91/2D21 thyratron. I left one of those behind in Ye Newe Sloughe of Desponde since I couldn't figure out a reasonable use for it.
And there's enough junk in here as it is.
"Being a fugitive was much easier": "Whadda we do now, Butch?" "Who...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 8 June 2026, 14:08.Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Monday.
I wonder what the diffs are from the 1996 First Edition. I'm not altogether sure I'm innerested enough to buy it to find out.. Oh. Added interviews with Sean Young, Harrison Ford, and Rutger Hauer, plus bits about the Director's Director's Cut Cut. Or...
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Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next:"The Father Brown Omnibus".Read 3 pages: back on the shelf.
"Masque of the Red Shift" by Fred Saberhagen: A Terminator type story written 20 years before Terminator.
Next: "The Poisoned Chalice" by...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 18:52.Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Sunday.
Damp.
Grey.
Dreary.
Windy.
Sunless.
18.3 deg in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.
1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.678 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 69% RH (Lidl...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 8 June 2026, 08:09.Leave a comment:
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Ye canna change the laws of Physics, Captain..
Morning.
Saturday.
Damp.
Blue sky in parts.
Sunny.
Breezy.
18.6 in here, 19 in the kitchen, 16.5 in the leanto.
994.5 mBar, 29.37 in Hg, 745.9...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 7 June 2026, 07:15.Leave a comment:
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He was in "VR5" too. Another one season wonder just before BTVS....Leave a comment:
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Noooooo! Ripper can't die FFS.
They've lost a few BTVS actors recently..
Not only that 72 is no age at all....Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Friday apparently.
Dry (currently).
Blue sky in parts.
Wanly sunny.
18.7 deg in here, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 14 in the saltinghouse.
1004.7 mBar, 29.67 in Hg, 753.6 Torr, 14.57 psi, (up from 1000 last...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 5 June 2026, 22:50.Leave a comment:
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It's like deja vu all over again again.Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Thursday apparently though I wasn't awakened by the recycling engineers.
Wet. Very Wet. Not rivers of water in the gutters wet, but wet enough.
Grey.
Sunless.
18.9 deg in here, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.
...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 5 June 2026, 06:12.Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Damp.
Grey.
Dreary.
Sunless.
Cool in here at 19.6 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.
998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi (down from 1002 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric)....Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 3 June 2026, 22:10.Leave a comment:
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xogg xenchury. Om....Leave a comment:
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Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Rather good in its way: since Chandler reused the short stories in assorted books parts were really familiar.
Next: Raymond Chandler Collection Vol. 3: "Pearls are a nuisance", "Smart Aleck Kill", "Killer in the rain"....Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 3 June 2026, 12:46.Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Tuesday?
Damp.
Grey.
Sunless.
20.1 deg in here, 20 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.
998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4748 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 3 June 2026, 06:12.Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Monday.
Wet. Remarkably wet.
Grey. As grey as a
's arse.
Sunless.
Misty. Can just about see the other side of the valley over by there boyo.
Drizzly.
20.5 deg in here, 21.5 in the kitchen, 19 in...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 1 June 2026, 22:10.Leave a comment:
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It's probably due to the hair gel dripping into their eyes....Leave a comment:
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Done: off to Oxfam with it.
Next: "Spectrum 2" ed. Kingsley Amis & Robert Conquest (1962).
More golden age SF including Van Vogt's "Resurrection (1948)" (the
resurrect a superman on a dead Earth who then duly disposes of the s)....
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Morning.
Sunday.
Damp. Seems to have rained.
Grey.
Wanly sunny.
Bit of a breeze.
21.3 deg in here, 22 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 18 in the saltinghouse.
1011 mBar, 29.85 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.66 psi, (down...Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 31 May 2026, 21:24.Leave a comment:
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