Month: February 2004

I received a letter from my grandmother yesterday. Brilliant. Letters are great, and letters from beloved grandmothers are one of the best kinds.
I know you read this blog sometimes Felice – you’ll be getting a reply in kind.
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We had a big fryup for dinner. Mushrooms and scrambled eggs and tofu sausages. Man, that tofu was the blandest I have ever et. I think I have been spoiled forever by the wondrous Engine Shed smoked tofu (thanks Brad).
Still: yum.
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I finally finished the writeup of the roleplaying game I ran late last year, Providence Summer, on RPG.net. It’s about kids and teens in Providence, RI in the summer of ’61. They hang out, fight, make out, and get into trouble. It was really something quite special. One part Rebel Without A Cause, one part Stand By Me, one part Twin Peaks without the creepy supernatural stuff. One hell of a tale with an ending that’ll stay with me for the rest of my life. Groove.
And the whole point of this bit was that I was gonna link to the writeup now, but rpg.net is down. Ah well.
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WMD intelligence inquiries. I have a whole rant but I’ll spare you this time – it’s past midnight and I need some sleep.
Good night.

The infamous aura of burning surrounding Edinburgh resident Morgan Davie struck again on Friday. At approximately 4.45pm, Mr Davie’s work PC began to “sound like it was clicking its tongue”. Shortly after, the computer desktop stopped working.
Mr Davie was then shown the error-page known among computer experts as “the blue screen of death”.
Upon investigation, it transpired that Mr Davie’s hard drive had burned out. Scorch marks were visible on the hard drive unit. Crucially, all data stored on the hard drive was lost.
This is an unusual fault in year-old components from reputable manufacturer Dell Computers. However, Mr Davie believes the Dell components were not faulty. “I’ve got this aura of burning. Hard drives always burn out on me. They just do. It’s really annoying, actually.”
Mr Davie has had three hard drives burn out on him in the past, a rate of burnout that is “significantly above the average”.
A Dell Computers spokesman had this to say: “That guy’s just got a freaky aura of burning. What ya gonna do?”
– Reuters