Maybe it's because I've had a couple of conversations with people over the last couple of weeks about Ryanair and their general vileness and moneygrubbing ways, but somehow I am profoundly unsurprised that their policy with disabled customers is to leave them behind rather than lift a finger to help if pre-booked accessibility equipment fails to show up, and to then blame their third party provider instead of owning up to a lack of back up plans, a failure to ensure that their supplier was adequate, and a piece of discriminatory, disgusting decision making that prioritises the able bodied over those not so mobile.

I am not an early adopter. I just collect logins for new shiny tech-related things like a magpie with OCD *g*

Still, it's interesting to have everything all higgledypiggledy together on Friendsfeed. Talk about convergent media :-) I set it up a couple of weeks ago -- it feels like a long time, but I think that's just because it's been a long month. I got some fb on that Primeval story at the weekend, and was all O.o -- not that I mind, it just seemed like months ago *g*. er. Where was I? Yeah, set it up a little while back and forgot about it, but there it all is, picking up my every post. Kind of cool, if odd to see how random my life is *g*

With Friendsfeed, I think, though I'm not wholly sure, that if you're logged into the services, you get to see the things that your level of access permits. I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that's right. If I'm not, it's a private feed -- you have to ask to subscribe, so I'm not hugely bothered between now and this evening when I work out if that's right or just wishful thinking :-)

Randomly: I do hate workplaces where we're all friends together when it's you in need, and barely even acquaintances when it's me. Not news, or unexpected, but forcibly reminded of this today. Oh well.

( Doctor Who. Do I have to say spoilers? Spoilers! Really, really. )

Tags: doctor who

And I forgot to mention the polar bear that showed up last night! Thank you for the polar bear anonymous bear-fairy :-)

I'm going to focus on the positive :-)

Wrote primeval fic (despite everything) and recipient liked :-)

*Got* the most brilliant & bestest Primeval fic ever in the ficathon from alyse, and there's more to come. *salivates*

Going to Cornwall in six weeks with Claire and Seph and Al and appendages *g*

Claire got us tickets for David Tennant and Patrick Stewart at the RSC production of Hamlet in January :-) *dances a little chair dance*

Foyles!

I made level ten as a Bedouin on PMOG this morning :-).

Practically all my books are up on my Librarything account (where I am ascexis, to confuse you *g*). Works out to around 1800, which is about what I'd expected by multiplying out books on shelves, which is happymaking also -- estimation skills FTW :-)

Might look at a sofa on Saturday. Or curtains. Or books. I could stretch to a sofa. Maybe. Anyways, I anticipate a blissful Saturday ambling around John Lewis, Borders, FP, Foyles, the Apple Store, the Kipling shop and points between :-)

Extra long episode of DW on Saturday :-)

Nearly Saturday. Nearly-nearly.

Written for the Primeval Ficathon, run by the ever stylish alyse and aithine

Written for deinonychus_1, who asked for Connor/Abby and dangerous creatures. I added in caves and a little romance. Enjoy :-)

Rating: PG (for violence against dinosaurs)

Thanks to aithine for the lightning beta :-)


( Can't Help Acting On... )

Tags: connor/abby, fic, primeval, stuff i wrote

( spoilers, nitpicks & wild speculation for Torchwood and Doctor Who )

Tags: doctor who, torchwood

( Doctor Who spoilers )

Tags: doctor who

So, this morning Amazon emailed to say a book was delayed to mid-July (oh noes!), and then this afternoon emailed to say it had just shipped.

Oh well. As long as I *get* the new Lynn Flewelling I don't much care :-)

Had the day off yesterday and went to Foyles. I do love Foyles, but we had a deadline, so I whizzed around and was completely booked out in 30 minutes, which made me ten minutes early, so I loitered and nearly bought another book.

One of the ones I *did* pick up Six Degrees, which won the Royal Society poopular science book of the year thingy on Wednesday -- you know, solid science, but actually readable! Let me tell you, I'm only up to four degrees, and I'm *freaked*. ( Climate change )



Also, we went to see Prince Caspian, and it was very, very good. ( spoilers, and lots of them )

Tags: narnia

Saw the news this morning, and found myself oddly saddened. The dinosaurs and androids won't be the same :-(

Wow. TWO someones wrote DW/CS crossovers. I knew there was a reason I stayed subscribed to soniclipstick :-)

Chalet School and Doctor Who companions. *boggles* *settles in to read*

Tags: chalet school, doctor who

New rule 34 for meatspace:

Given sufficient lack of other things to do, the chances of morris dancing spontaneously arising approaches one.

This is ... bizarre, horrible and strangely hypnotic. Save the kitties. (slightly gruesome).

Via a PMOG Cat Zen mission, based on the cat zen thing. Apparently.

ETA: Life imitates art? The Wolverine frog...

Did I read this right? LJ just dumped the policies and decisions made in the breastfeeding icons fiasco and the explicit HP artworks fiasco?

*blinks*

Tags: lj

Oh for fuck's sake. Apparently doing a postgraduate degree on terrorism is not a reasonable excuse for downloading Islamic terrorism stuff from a US government website.

And once you and your mate who you emailed it to to get it printed have been arrested, detained without charge, and released without charge, *that's* a reason to now invalidate one of the student's visas. So he's promptly re-arrested for deportation.

The police and university happily acknowledge there was never an actual terrorism problem -- presumably they just get their jollies from harrassing non-white students. And Nottingham University appears to fallen over backwards trying to lick the police's arses and find its students guilty.

Staff and students are extremely unhappy and demonstrating. I hope this gets *utterly* out of the police and university's ability to spin. I hope whatever vile little jobsworths who reported the matter to the police instead of checking what it was being used for; the officers who didn't actually do their job and *investigate* whether a student doing a higher degree on the subject of terrorism might have a legit reason to download certain materials and let it get all the way to *court*; and the university officials who blithely asserted that there was no good reason to study the actual documents used by terror groups while studying terrorism get sacked, villified and publicly ridiculed.

I can't even express how disgusted I am.