I've been thinking for a while of moving to a new blog that combines the thought I put into my posts on Astrarium with the ease and bite-size chunks of Vox posting (but without the Vox advertising). In the middle of one of my fever dreams last week the name came to me:
...which has been a fave nickname for myself for a while. I'm still tinkering with it, but so far I'm pretty darn pleased. There's an RSS feed if you'd like to add me to your reader (and my Facebook profile automatically updates every time I post), because most of my meanderings are going to be over there now. I'm officially done with Astrarium, and I think I'll just be a reader (and commenter) here on Vox. Unless I have sordid dating tales to relate to my neighborhood!
Edited to add:
Thanks to Carolee for creating a syndicated account for Engineer's Daughter on LJ, for those who prefer reading their feeds there! I also recommend Google Reader.
Ten museums - from Orkney to Exeter - have been longlisted for this year's £100,000 Art Fund prize for museums and galleries. See the contenders here.
-Maev Kennedy visits three of the contenders
For the first time ever, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council has voted to cancel the salmon fishing season off the coast of California and much of Oregon due to exceedingly low populations of chinook salmon in the Sacramento River area. The restrictions apply to commercial as well as recreational fishers; only a catch of 9,000 hatchery-raised coho salmon will be allowed this season by sport fishers off central Oregon. However, since the imperiled salmon that make up the Sacramento River run rarely venture as far north as Washington, restrictions there were not as harsh. The council voted to allow a combined commercial, sport, and tribal catch of 45,000 coho salmon and 77,500 chinook salmon this year off the Washington coast. But overall, the outlook is still quite bleak. "Collectively, from Canada to Mexico, this will be the worst ever season off the West Coast," said Don McIssac of the PFMC. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency and requested federal financial assistance for the state's fishing industry.
sources:
The Seattle Times
San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles Times
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
shy
half-assed
fuel
angry anymore
swim
red letter year
akimbo
manhole
modulation
parameters
grey
here for now
back back back
two little girls
the atom
alla this
joyful girl
gravel
little plastic castle
32 flavors
Ani does a bruised heart good.
An exhibition of photographs has opened at the Rivington Place gallery documenting the Bangladesh war of independence
The telephone rang. The waiter wiped a glass dry and held it up to the light. Not until I felt I could stand the ringing no longer did he pick up the receiver. Then, jamming it between his shoulder and his chin, he paced to and fro behind the bar as far as the cable would let him. Only when he was speaking himself did he stop, and at these times he would lift his eyes to the ceiling. No, he said, Vittorio wasn't there. He was hunting. Yes, that was right, it was him, Carlo. Who else would it be? Who else would be in the restaurant? No, nobody. Not a soul all day. And now there was only one diner. Un inglese, he said, and looked across at me with what I took to be a touch of contempt. No wonder, he said, the days were getting shorter. The lean times were on the way.
Royal Mint reveals the first new coin designs for 40 years, dreamt up by a 26-year-old trainee graphic designer. See the designs here.
-Mint unveils new coin designs
He has his knighthood and his Nobel and only in flashes does he write as he used to. The next few days may be his last big week. The biography is published on Monday and on Thursday he has a 90-minute documentary on BBC4. They are well worth reading and watching, but having done both I feel no need to know any more. "Never meet a famous author if you like their work" is not a bad maxim. I am glad to have met him, but reading him is the worthwhile thing to do. Be grateful, if you must, remember his shuddersome life, that so much selfishness has given us such great books.
