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Jun. 6th, 2005

01:05 am - This is me. In the Sunday Times.

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Scottish edition only. (The furry critter in the picture is Mafdet.)







Managed to swim a kilometre in today's session, up from 750m for the past two swims running, up from 500m, up from three missed sessions in a row due to the nose/throat bug from hell. Yay, me.

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From:[info]jackwilliambell
Date:June 5th, 2005 05:13 pm (UTC)
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That scan is readable, but only if I want a headache. Maybe later...
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From:[info]feorag
Date:June 5th, 2005 06:39 pm (UTC)
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I have a much higher resolution scan, but the size of it is definitely anti-social for LJ, even behind a cut.
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From:[info]jackwilliambell
Date:June 5th, 2005 07:29 pm (UTC)
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Well, if you don't mind you can email it to me: jackb (at symbol here) sff.net.

In any case the picture of the furry animal being held up by its pet is nice. :-)
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From:[info]andrewducker
Date:June 6th, 2005 12:21 am (UTC)
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Alternatively, read it on the website:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1506-1639410,00.html
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From:[info]jackwilliambell
Date:June 6th, 2005 05:49 am (UTC)
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Thanx. I already tried [info]akicif's suggestion and it worked well enough.
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From:[info]akicif
Date:June 5th, 2005 10:48 pm (UTC)
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It blows up quite nicely....
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From:[info]nihilistic_kid
Date:June 5th, 2005 05:21 pm (UTC)

I skimmed it till I found something that looked dirty

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Ha ha, you said "monolingual in human tongues"!
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From:[info]cat_herder
Date:June 5th, 2005 07:14 pm (UTC)
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Madfet is certainly a striking and relaxed looking animal, just like her human. I, too, will read (or attempt to read) the article later. (This laptop does not work well outdoors. Too much glare...
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From:[info]brooksmoses
Date:June 5th, 2005 07:45 pm (UTC)
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Congratulations on getting official permission from the Times to feel proud of yourself! :)
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From:[info]gtrout
Date:June 5th, 2005 07:49 pm (UTC)
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I haven't read the article yet, but congratulations on the swimming. The first workout after time out of the water always feels like going under the wheels of a whole fleet of busses. A week or two of dilligence later and you're down to a single bus and a smallish delivery van. Get it down to the usual two-surly-teens-on-a-stolen-Vespa and you feel like you're king of the world...
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From:[info]scapegoat_mo
Date:June 5th, 2005 08:09 pm (UTC)
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I could actually read that. I must not be as old as I thought I was.
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From:[info]ffutures
Date:June 5th, 2005 11:38 pm (UTC)
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Oddly it's easier to read if I don't attempt to magnify the screen. It's interesting to see them describe the Hugo nominations as "mainstream successs," thought for most papers that was the Booker.

Anyway, well done Charlie, well done Mafdet.
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From:[info]del_c
Date:June 5th, 2005 11:56 pm (UTC)
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Mafdet: "Make sure you get my good side!"
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From:[info]ciphergoth
Date:June 6th, 2005 01:49 am (UTC)
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I like the quote from Andrew Wilson. I'm reminded of the quote by Kevin Williamson on the cover of Trainspotting...
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From:[info]del_c
Date:June 6th, 2005 01:57 am (UTC)
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"We are the country that produced Dolly the sheep"

Okay, but you can't rest on your laurels, Scotland; South Korea is catching you up.
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From:[info]cobrabay
Date:June 6th, 2005 05:06 am (UTC)
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I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a glowing review of "The Hidden Family" in Salon.com at http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/06/06/stross/index.html. They chose it as one of their eight Summer Reading books.
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From:[info]autopope
Date:June 6th, 2005 06:33 am (UTC)
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Yup. See the ego-'sploding posting on my main weblog. :)
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From:[info]skrik
Date:June 6th, 2005 06:02 am (UTC)
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The picture is of a cat. Am I missing something?
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From:[info]autopope
Date:June 6th, 2005 06:32 am (UTC)
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The cat is Mafdet. She's a slut. She charmed the pants off the photographer the Times sent round. And as she (the photographer) took a number of shots of me without Mafdet in the frame, she obviously charmed the socks off the desk editor, too.
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From:[info]marypcb
Date:June 6th, 2005 07:31 am (UTC)
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that's a suitablly evil lookon Maftet's face; she looks as if she's about to remove your Turtledove beard.

congrats dear ;-)
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From:[info]elinor
Date:June 6th, 2005 12:26 pm (UTC)
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Purely by chance, we bought said paper yesterday, as we need lots for the new pup. You'll be glad to know we noticed the article (well, the photo really :-) ) this morning before it got used for its intended purpose. Good article; wonderful pic ;-)
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From:[info]feorag
Date:June 8th, 2005 08:55 am (UTC)
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We have a large stack of the Sunday Times (minus the Ecosse supplement) in need of a use...
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From:[info]elinor
Date:June 9th, 2005 01:27 pm (UTC)
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Excellent! I don't know when we're next planning on being in Edinburgh. How about buying a few rounds when we're next in the same vicinity in exchange for postage and packing?
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