Chris E

Sure sure, this was weeks ago (small disagreement with a bollard). Still sorting out the insurance settlement

Nah, the other thing (car got totalled)

Made a phone call lads #prayforchris

Incidentally every time I pick up a heavy box I think ‘if only Bruce Boxleitner was here’. Just a little bit of fun you can have in your day if you want

Congratulations!

Easily in the top two Christophers

Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.

PS Waverly, steam down the Thames

PS Waverly engine room. LOUD

*butts in* seven years ago she looked a little like this

I'm trying my best but technotelepathy isn't my best skill

Can recommend his song of the Volga boatmen

random allusions to whales

You *are* dreadfully out of practice fetching your own

The best meme ever

Happy Tom Bombadil day to all who celebrate

Sam and Frodo threaten the willow with fire, but Merry and Pippin scream; it has started to crush them. Then—a song? Downstream, behind them, they hear:

‘Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!’

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

You can make elf/dwarf spreadsheets, I believe in you

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do...

That is between me and my shadow.

A small and adorable cat

Ask that geography question anywhere near me only if you want to hear a rant about fractals

I've liked Knizia's new two-player game of the Iliad. In classic Knizia fashion, it's mostly tiles and numbers but with just enough theme not to feel soulless

Happy International Talk Like A Boxing Pirate Day to all who celebrate

In Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse (Beowulf and such) it's only the stressed syllables that need to start the same. The syllables in between can do what they like

Sorry, too busy thinking about how every text is so deeply rooted in its own time, place and conditions, leading to an intense particularity even in what is described as most universal and timeless

I know it's a bit later, but there's a reason it's called NEThack

Dracula (1897)

Yeah we just did that one