I am on holiday in Ireland for a week and a bit with my mum.

And it is funded with nine days to go! Good work everyone.

On a related note I wish to vent on how expensive cinema tickets are in the United Kingdom. I paid £11.50 last Friday to see Captain America: Civil War. Back in Canada, it only would have set me back $11. The exchange rate is currently £1 = $1.86.

An update on the Kickstarter has been posted which includes a teaser trailer: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/811923656/desert-bus-for-hope-the-documentary/posts/1572214

Tonight I made what is becoming my typical Sunday dinner - roast vegetables and pan fried salmon. I just slice up some potatoes, a carrot and an onion and roast them in the oven for an hour with olive oil, sea salt and whole cloves of garlic. I don't fry the salmon with any seasoning or oil. Simple ...

It is probably a side effect of LRR focus shifting to streams - you have the chat right there to talk about things.

I just remembered that I have been on the forums for 11 years now.

I have been paying far too much tax. Hopefully the British tax system works as it is supposed to and I get a refund.

I should have mentioned this earlier but the West Road now extends to the Holy Mountain of the Order of the Rectangle.

Can I make a couple of suggestions for navigating the Nether tunnels? First, can we also have signs saying which cardinal directions correspond to which tunnel? Second, it is quite easy to make a wrong turn when leaving a Nether portal you are not used to and start walking away from Spawn when you m...

LoadingReadyRun and Bionic Trousers Media are teaming up with Russ Pitts and Flying Saucer Media to make a documentary about this year's Desert Bus for Hope: Bionic Trousers Media is putting up the first 30 000 CAD but the rest of the 125 000 CAD cost is being Kickstarted: https://www.kickstarter.co...

I would suggest Graham.

If Elomin Sha can do it, I need to get over my (mild) social anxieties and try this online dating thing.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Britain is the fourth country I have lived in so I have gone through the process of moving countries a few times now. I grew up in Victoria in Canada and the only move in Canada I did does not count as it was moving to Vancouver for four months when I was an undergrad. I spent ...

I am interested

It is not a win for Ukraine.

I am burning out.

Hopefully I can remain productive until Saturday evening. I can slack off completely next week.

I would like a road out to my keep.

Does anyone have a good map of the server?

EVERYTHING IS FINE.

I am a bit stressed out about work. Rather than having a nice relaxing Easter long weekend, I have to write and submit two telescope proposals by the 31st. One of the proposals is for a telescope and an instrument I have never used before or proposed for. April 1st and 2nd I have two nights On top ...

Gravity is a beautiful movie but I found it horribly contrived. I suppose that is the hazard of being an astrophysicist.

I am a bit stressed out about work.

Blocking the supreme court nominee is quite risky. If Clinton, much less Saunders, wins the election, you would expect a much more liberal nominee. If Trump wins, who knows what sort of justice he would nominate.

There is also the risk the obstruction affects marginal senate races.

I recently read Sex, Drugs and Cartoon Violence: My Decade as a Video Game Journalist by Russ Pitts. A former editor of the Escapist and Polygon recalls how off the wall the games journalism is.

I am still trying to read A Brief History of Seven Killings.

I did the Liverpool Half Marathon this morning in a time of 2:23. My legs ran out of gas at about the 14 km so it was quite an effort to finish. I have now done half marathons on three continents (Melbourne, Victoria and now Liverpool).

I would like to check out the new server. Could I have an invite? My username is korandder