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• Charlie Stross commented on Car Boot Sale #2
  That's very cool, but I imagine it must demand a systematic approach to filing and cleaning. A clutter-bunny like me would go mad within a week of moving into such a dwelling. (I note with interest that his entire apartment is almost exactly the same size and shape as my library room.) Picking nits, though, there's no way I could do that conversion. Never mind the planning laws hereabouts, there isn't a 90 degree angle in the room! The door is a trapezium, and if you drop a ball on the floor it'll roll towards a spot that isn't in...
• Greg. Tingey commented on Car Boot Sale #2
  @ 7, 8, 9, etc .... NUMBER OF BOOKS! Don't! We had a "clear-out" last year. I've still got a wall of SF, and we have effectively two more walls,at least, of other books, plus (and not counting as "books") the complete sets of both the current, 1:50 000, and the old 1:63 360-scale OS-maps, and lots of 1:25 000 ones. We THINK we're back over the 6000-book number again .... Erm - CATS & "Roombas" Try Here and Here as well ... As usual, the felines are ahead of the humans .......
• Chris McGeehan commented on Car Boot Sale #2
  Pretty sure I could convince my uni to buy that, for... something I'd think of later. And I've never really thought of this: Cats, basically new-model Velociraptors....
• bjacques commented on Car Boot Sale #2
  Re books and space: That problem's been around for awhile. At the last Queensday (Dutch national sidewalk sale), I found three portable victrolas, one of which actually worked. Now I'm checking out those 78s for 1 or 2 euros, and some of them are even playable. I even found a murder ballad, "Hannah Lee (High Are the Gallows)" by Guy Mitchell, arranged by Mitch Miller. To save your ears, here's a non-scratchy version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znbn3ZwoEhk @Archaeopteryx 37: Erk. Just as Edinburgh has a lot of houses attractive to the Many-Angles Ones, the flea markets of continental Europe (not to mention US...
• Charlie Stross commented on Car Boot Sale #2
  I know about the legendary lampshade. My take on it is that if you gave it to someone who didn't know what it was (and they didn't chuck it away) it would be harmless. Knowledge of its history is, however, guaranteed to disturb anyone who isn't a sociopath....