Built like an angel, six feet tall.

• WANT!

• Driving with Salvia.

• Educational experience of the year.

• Literary criticism is snake oil because it's alchemy chasing its tail. It needs to develop into chemistry.

Thursday we had a visit from a_carnal_mink and kits_the_dm, on their world tour. Dom and arkady had an animated discussion of the skills learnt as trained killers and killer trainers. (Is it wrong to sort of hope for a breakin so you can set your girlfriend on them?)

For Father's Day, I got cake! A ginger cake and a very sugary vanilla "coffee" cake. secretlondon came over to test data transfer efficiency between 500GB USB hard disks.

I have found my MP3 player after Freda lost it, being the miniature evil genius she is. I am most pleased to discover that it plays Oggs (despite this not being mentioned in the manual or on the box — if I want to hack firmware I could get it playing AAC as well) and I also successfully repaired said unrepairable throwaway device when the headphone socket broke away from the circuit board. Fixing the disposable is just the thing for that warm hacky glow.

I am very pleased with the new Rocknerd. I'm managing a story a day so far, though CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MOST WELCOME. The category icons and submitting stories now work as well. All I need now is how to make the header display the logo instead of the WordPress Kubrick theme default. (And damn getting stuff out of Slash is gonna be evil.)