FYI: D-Notices, still popular in the media as a trope, were renamed DA-Notices in 1993, and are now named DSMA-Notices (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notices).

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Current Mood: Redacted
Current Music: Redacted

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LiveJournal updating its terms and conditions a few days ago — including a not-very-subtle clause pointing out that being owned by a Russian company now they have to follow Russian law (including anti-QUILTBAG legislation and whatever Putin decides is the law on any given day) — has prompted another wave of Anglophone LJ emigration, including some of my favouritest bloggers.

I think I shall probably keep the LJ running for a while, but I may block all comments sooner or later, followed by a cessation of LJ posting, in which case my few followers will have to follow the breadcrumbs to my Dreamwidth blog.

If you're a follower and I haven't already commented on your DW, please leave a comment on the DW edition of this post just to let me know that winding up the LJ is not going to lose you. (Yes, this means you, shd01x). Commenting on the LiveJournal edition will result in me sending Terminators back in time to eliminate your ancestors, which will create Chrono-Synclastic Infundibuli, and nobody wants that.

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Current Location: In LJ, for now
Current Mood: lost
Tags: dreamwidth, lj

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Spent most of the afternoon trying to clean the malware Safe Search off my system, after it started to open a page to Safe Search (very much not safe) and wanting to install the Safe Search extension for me every five minutes.

For the record, a combination of MalWareBytes Anti-Malware and App Cleaner looks like they've done the job; a variety of other free apps didn't, but especially Mac Keeper, which is such an annoying app that Anti-Malware offered to clean that out of my system; avoid.

Must make a note to wear rubber gloves when using the Mac from now on.

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Current Location: In the shower
Current Mood: dirty
Current Music: Dirty—The Ettes

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Donald Trump. The Laundry. That is all.

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Current Mood: silly
Current Music: Ode to Joy (from A Clockwork Orange)—Beethoven and Mark Ayres
Tags: case nightmare orange

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BBC Radio have done an adaptation of five of Isaac Asimov's robot short stories. Listen to them on iPlayer.

Only listened to the first one, "Robbie", so far. I'm not sure it was a wise marketing decision to model Robbie's voice on that of GlaDos....

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Current Location: UK Robotics factory
Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Still Alive—Jonathan Coulton
Tags: isaac asimov, radio, robot

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Current Location: Dunno but I wish you were here
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Shine on You Crazy Diamond—Pink Floyd
Tags: music, nostalgia, pink floyd, shine on you crazy diamond

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Social ethnographers are now beginning to study the super-rich with the same alacrity that they study the dregs of society. Listen to BBC Radio's Thinking Aloud (stream and podcast) as the super rich and their effects on society — society that they try to avoid as much as possible — are discussed.

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Current Location: The street, which finds its own uses for things
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Inner Universe—Yoko Kanno
Tags: sociology, super-rich, uber-rich

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Three ideas for the RPG.net thread, Reasons why aliens avoid earth in a contemporary setting:

Look, it's not about you, Humanity. It's those dolphins. They're just... barbarians. So crude and vulgar, you can't invite them anywhere. It's just better for the galaxy if they're shunned.

Well, they've already got Elvis and Bowie, so why come back?

This area of the Western Spiral Arm was supposed to have been cleared for redevelopment several deka-millennia ago. Somehow, Earth and its inhabitants were missed. Dreadful [procreative organ]-up, somebody's [sensory and cephalic cluster] will roll for it, I'm sure. That is, if anyone finds out about it. If there were an accident, say, and a gamma-ray clearance burster was set off without anyone making a final safety check, nobody would have to pay for evacuating the system. Just saying.

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Current Location: Western Spiral Arm
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Spaceman—Babylon Zoo
Tags: aliens, ideas

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Snatches of overheard dialogue for the RPG.net thread, [101] Guard banter topics:

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Current Location: Behind the tapestry
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Red Guard—The Red Guard Accordion Band
Tags: dialogue, guards, ideas

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A few ideas for the RPG.net thread 101 Crazy Things You'd See In Gonzo Vietnam:

A lost patrol. A squad that has gotten separated from its upper echelons during what should have been a routine sweep. They have the wrong map for this province, which is probably why they are lost. Give them directions and they'll be on their way.

A Viet Cong field hospital. In a swamp:

A young fighter from the Danh Son Huol Cambodian ethnic group was taken to a field hospital in the forest of U Minh after being wounded in a United States air raid. The hospital stood hidden in a swamp on the Viet Cong-controlled peninsula of Ca Mau. Sept. 15, 1970.

An ACOUSID electronic acoustic and seismic sensor, half buried in the earth. If the party walks past it without speaking, then they may be targeted by artillery or air-strikes. If they speak Vietnamese, they definitely will. If they speak American, then they're (probably) safe.

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Current Location: Not the Nung River
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Purple Haze—Jimi Hendrix
Tags: ideas, vietnam

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My contributions to the RPG.net thread [101] things found in a vial of liquid:

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Current Location: In a vial of liquid
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Songs of Liquid Days—Philip Glass
Tags: ideas, liquid

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Suggestions for the RPG.net thread I need names. Good names. For spaceships.

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Current Location: Interstellar Space
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Drive My Rocket—Alien Sex Fiend
Tags: ideas, spaceships

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Current Mood: Merry
Tags: merry sithmas

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Which this year falls on December 16th – 26th. So prepare your gingerbread Mothras and nuclear eggnog, and join together in song around the Godzilla tree:

O come, all ye Kaaiii-ju,
Wrathful and gigantic!
O come, ye, o co-me ye to To-o-kyo!
Run and behold them!
Wreck that train with giant tails
O no there goes Tokyo
O no there goes Tokyo
O no there goes Tokyo
Saint Godzilla!

Scream, population,
Sing in fear and terror
Scream, all ye citizens
of To-o-kyo!

Go go Godzilla!
He is just the biggest!
O no there goes Tokyo
O no there goes Tokyo
O no there goes Tokyo
Saint Godzilla!

Godzilla we greet thee,
Coming from the harbor
Jesus, you really really
wrecked all our stuff!
Dad of baby Godzilla,
and those raptors from the crap US mo-o-vie,
O no there goes Tokyo
O no there goes Tokyo
O no there goes Tokyo
Saint Godzilla!

Also on the calendar during this period are Gamerakkah, Ultranalia, and Rodanfast.

Context, such as it is.

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Current Location: Not Tokyo
Current Mood: silly
Current Music: Come All Ye Kaiju—Sabermane
Tags: godzillamas, kaiju days

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Edit: Sing along!

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Current Location: Not at the Mountains of Madness
Current Mood: Merry
Current Music: All I Want for Solstice is My Sanity—HP Lovecraft Historical Society
Tags: cthulhumas

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A simple pic, after a Robert McGinnis illo, that was waiting for me to finish it. So now I have.

Model is Victoria 4; I made the set (what there is of it) and some of the textures; and I don't recall where the base clothes are from. (The dress in the original McGinnis pic was too complicated for me to model, so I went for simple pants and bandeau.) Poser 2014 and Photoshop CS5.

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Current Location: Not New York
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Long Hot Summer Night—Jimi Hendrix
Tags: 3d

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Mum's obituary in the local paper.

A few things I didn't know about, such as Mum's political work (I always thought that the invitation to the Queen's Garden Party was the result of my dad's work). And especially the news that Dad had (possibly) another child in Tahiti. That makes five half-siblings. That I know about.

Insert profound thought about the world you think you know here.

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Current Location: Not in Brixham
Current Mood: thoughtful

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You had one job!

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Current Location: In the wrong timeline, again.
Current Mood: annoyed

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Apparently my broken tooth is recoverable. The dentist has put a temporary filling in, in preparation for a crown in a couple of weeks.

The only worry is paying for it; I haven't any paperwork for claiming free treatment, so I will have to re-register with the living hell that is the Job Centre Plus. I haven't got any energy for it today. Maybe tomorrow.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tenderly—Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem

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Bohemian Rhapsody, translated by Google.



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Current Location: Same place, most of the time
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Bohemian Rhapsody—Malinda Kathleen Reese
Tags: music, video

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