Bellinghman

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• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  I swear I've read at least one story where there were demons who will do a task but will take your ability to feel certain sensations/emotions as payment, but I can't remember the title or any additional details. In one...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Likewise the Canada Line in Vancouver. The link to the airport is a terminus station, but the line it connects to services the suburbs We were in Vancouver when that line first opened, and it ran from close by our...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  We would have liked a Nozomi, but the JR Pass-compatible Hikaris were sufficiently fast for our purposes, so we didn't splash out on the Nozomi tickets Kyoto Shinkansen station was quite something though...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  As a data point, when we were in Japan in (checks polo shirt) in 2007, we covered 1500km of Shinkansen route in 10 hours, three trains in a row from Akita down to Hiroshima. Those were all standard gauge, but...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  For those unsure, a morningstar is a ball, spiked or not, on a chain. It looks like The Royal Armouries disagrees with you. But it's possible that it's a case of two nations divided by a common language....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I think it was designed to target the female mozzies for somereason? It's the females who bite us. It doesn't hurt that it's also the female who end up as the bottleneck for the next generation: it doesn't matter how...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I wear a suit for weddings and funerals. I usually do, but as it happens I went to a funeral yesterday, and although I do have proper tailored suits (why yes, I have been to Hong Kong), I didn't wear...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Oh right, Pyramiden is closed, and Baretsburg (currently) isn't...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Are you thinking of Pyramiden on Svalbard? Yeah, but the Svalbard treaty where Norway got sovereignty came with interesting additions allowing a whole bunch of other nations to go undertake economic activities there....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Yes. I remember one person of sub-Saharan ancestry who used the word 'black' in public to refer to himself, and was damned for being racist. There's a lot of illogic and inconsistency in this whole mess. Much is an attempt...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  And see also fermented meat, such as salami...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  My wife has just tested negative, which suggests to me that I will test negative by the end of the weekend We reckon that she was one of many who got infected at Eastercon, and then gave it to me,...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Quantum of Nightmares
  Charlie is a writer, not a bookseller. I'm pretty sure you'll never find him camped out in the dealers' room - it's too far from the bar...
• Commented on Place your bets
  My wife and I will be heading out at lunchtime, because we need to get the membership badges to the convention. You'll be pleased to know that your badge is among them...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  I have read, from a source I cannot recall but I thought at the time reputable, that Princess Kitty is not a cat, but a young woman (possibly furry-adjacent), and even has a pet cat of her own. Possibly here...
• Commented on Place your bets
  When we visited Iceland for the first time, back in 2004, our host only used cash for parking meters. Even buses took credit cards, so your credit card company ought to have been with it if they dealt with Icelandic...
• Commented on Place your bets
  I can't see us building the national grid with this stuff... If only because, at that price, the cables would be being stolen almost instantly...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Right now, Suella...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Nah, they're all working in the same shared universe...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Yeah. If your mode of transport takes so long that you have to carry along beds and showers and eateries, the per-person load will increase. This applies to long distance trains too - multi-day ones, that is where you have...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I've been reminded (via Twitter) of the disappearance of Helen Bailey of this parish. She and her dog also went missing, and evidence initially suggested she'd gone to the family holiday home in Broadstairs. But nobody could find her and...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  We've had lovely clear skies here in recent days, with the exception of Sunday night/Monday morning, when the asteroid impact happened. I was outside just before 03:00, but it was solid cloud Yeah, pretty much what usually happens...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  The only other poster I am likely to have co-located with is Bellinghman, and I don't know if that has happened. I think we may have met once at a BSI meeting down in Chiswick. My wife (who doesn't share...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  We had goats, and they all got names. One was named Johnsons' Breakfast, because he was destined to be sold as meat to the family of that name Amusingly, he ended up becoming our stud goat instead...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Cephalopods - are "monocarpic" to use a term from plants - they die when they breed. IF said animals did not die on breeding, their intelligence could easily be "a threat" to humanity. I think the term for animals is...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Oh sweet summer child! No. There are some cards which cover a number of suppliers - I have one - but it seems that every location has a different supplier. Eventually they'll settle down, but right now the highly expensive...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Green for the win This time I got to see parts of Leeds I'd not encountered before, including the chargers at Elland Road Park & Ride. Which confused me, as they have a nice large 'EVolt' logo and advise you...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Yeah - we've a small stash of oven bulbs, to ensure when one does die we can replace it and then later go buy a replacement. The relative inefficiency of incandescent bulbs in an oven isn't a problem - my...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  To be fair, I don't know how much gas was in the pipes when they broke. Presumably they weren't at working pressure (200 bar), and if they were at less than 8-10 bar it would less than the water around...
• Commented on London Bridge
  When I was young, we had a small herd of goats, which would go up the down-angled half-collapsed branches of our willow trees, because the leaves were tasty. We also had a calf, which was being fattened up from the...