Monthly Archives: January 2013

City of Bones Chapters 3+4

Posted on 23 January 2013 by Dove

Yes! You read that right! Today you get not one, but TWO chapters of City of Bones ranting, or critiquing, or whatever this is. These are short chapters, and the last ones before everything starts going insane, so I thought … Continue reading →

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Roman sci-fi

Posted on 19 January 2013 by Spuggy

Marcus stepped in off the street into his heated villa. He watched the snow collect on the window sills and smiled. Once, he knew, houses had open windows with nothing more than skins and cloth to keep out the elements, … Continue reading →

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Google Search Q&A 3

Posted on 18 January 2013 by Spuggy

Time to stick my hand into the lucky dip of our incoming Google Searches once more and see what comes to the top… difference between dove and sparrow what is the difference between a dove and a sparrow whats the … Continue reading →

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City of Bones Chapter 2

Posted on 16 January 2013 by Dove

OK, so let’s get back to my obsessive need to pick apart anything that kind of annoys me. City of Bones, wheeee! I repeat, if you haven’t read City of Bones and plan to, don’t read on. I’m not kidding … Continue reading →

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Maps! Wait, they don’t love you like I love you! Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps!

Posted on 12 January 2013 by Spuggy

Sadly, my original plan to show the flow of transport around Frankfurt over the course of a day failed due to the extreme lack of availability of timetable data in a halfway reasonable format. So instead, here’s some maps of … Continue reading →

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Adventures in YA Urban Fantasy – City of Bones

Posted on 9 January 2013 by Dove

Hello, friends! So, I like to read. And I like to read… opinionatedly. In fact, here is the beginning of an opinionated reading of the (appalling) Harry Potter fanfic, Dumbledore’s Army and the Year of Darkness. I’d give you a … Continue reading →

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Fractal cross-stitch / counted-thread embroidery patterns

Posted on 5 January 2013 by Spuggy

Also, staying on the topic of maths, a little while ago, I put some stitching patterns for a couple of fractals, the Sierpinski triangle and the Pythagoras tree, up on Etsy. They didn’t really sell very well, and rather than … Continue reading →

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Frankfurt Maths 2: A cunning marketing scheme (and/or a way to massively inconvenience the disabled)

Posted on 5 January 2013 by Spuggy

If you’ve spent more than about seventeen seconds in Frankfurt, you’ll have met the Escalator Fairy: the strange malevolent force that ensures that there will always, always, always be at least one broken escalator between you and your destination – … Continue reading →

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