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Tuesday, 03 May 2005

Apologies for the slowdown in posting. Life jumps up. Will resume shortly.

Did you know that Russian visa applications ask you to describe any experiences you have handling nuclear or biological weapons? I didn't. Right there on the form.

Apparently this comes up a lot, or at least enough that it's worth having its own space.

This is like being asked whether you packed your own bags. Obviously not going to do a damned thing for security, but deeply satisfying to the Vogon sense of order.

Meanwhile, for your reading pleasure, two blogs I've stumbled into which you might like: Empire Burlesque and GreatScat. This latter seems to be spelled with an exclamation point, but that looked weird to type just now, like I was urgently demanding you click over immediately! Although you could do worse.

Still, there's only one site that automatically gets an exclamation point around these parts. Not that I'm over the whole brillig thing, which I anticipate will haunt me like Nixon and the "whole Bay of Pigs thing." Oh hell no.

PS -- Colin did a cool trick to make the URLs on this site a lot shorter and easier to email, link to, or recite under torture in Uzbekistan. Enjoy.