Mike Smith

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• LAvery commented on Ask me anything!
  It occurred to me in reading the latest installments of /The Laundry Files/ and /The Merchant Princes/ that those two multiverses were beginning to resemble each other. Can we look forward to future fusion of the two series? Or even minor crossovers where characters from one appear in the other. Apologies if this has come up previously on the blog -- although I'm a long time Stross fan, I'm a newbie to the blog....
• JohnS commented on Ask me anything!
  paws4thot @ 939: #936 to #938 - Whether you could achieve the required level of detail in a 4cm knotwork is probably more dependent on the skill of the tattooist than anything else. Supplementary to this - If an Inner Clan member was the tattooist, would they be able to perform the work if the required design were active in the present timestream? Do half the tattoo & cover it over somehow while doing the other half?...
• JohnS commented on Ask me anything!
  Madeleine @ 942: i wonder if all children should be taught basic domestic skills as part of their general education. Not all parent have the skills or inclination to pass this knowledge on. I was lucky; I didn't do any domestic skills classes at school apart from sewing class, but my mother taught both my sister and myself to cook and to do DiY (my father being totally disinclined to do any). I think so, at least basics. But it does have to be ALL children. It was because they only taught domestic skills to girls that the programs were...
• JohnS commented on Ask me anything!
  Elderly Cynic @ 950: For all his faults, Heinlein agreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man I can't do all of those, but can do most, and can add a lot more. I don't believe in the identicality of the sexes' abilities, but do believe that most people can do most things. Both basic domestic and basic DIY skills should be taught to (almost) all children - I will except the seriously handicapped, if their restrictions prohibit it. If you grant me the boon of a calculator & math text books, I think I can do them all ... except for the "dying gallantly" ......
• Robert van der Heide commented on Ask me anything!
  “Family” members are strongly discouraged from visiting the Irish National Museum of Archeology’s “Treasury” exhibit. God knows where you’d wind up. https://www.museum.ie/Archaeology/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/The-Treasury...