Infinite food! Thirteen pounds!

[fivemack]

Should you, for example, have a starving allosaur that you wish to feed, the Lucky Star Chinese restaurant, in the same large glass-fronted complex as the Cineworld cinema by the station, will serve you all the Chinese food you can eat for thirteen pounds. If you've brought a starving allosaur, you should probably also bring a small child of the kind that has just discovered it can walk with firm purpose in straight lines, to distract the wait-staff.

It is very tasty, though it is worth remembering that the signal from one's stomach "I'm full, for the love of all things stop eating now, yes, even free lychees and ice cream" takes about fifteen minutes to reach one's brain; bugshaw and aardvark179 were good company, as was the fabled despotliz.

Unfortunately the person in front of me in the queue got the last ticket to The Prestige, and after several minutes of thoroughly English politeness I wandered home, discovering that rain makes the rims of bicycle tires so slippery that the little wheel of the dynamo no longer grips on them.

Full now.

I may have slightly alarmed my housemate with the volume of my involuntary cheer at seeing 'Rumsfeld resigns' on news.bbc.co.uk

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Now we've even had the conversation before that we've had the conversation before, but how do you know liz? :)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I am the nexus of geek social groups, apparently.

(bugshaw invited me to the cinema and food trip, where we worked out I had met fivemack briefly at an Eastercon, probably due to our vague Oxford geek linkages.)

Also: I am fabled now?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Apparently so. Well, I guess people say that about me too, but people who only know *me* a little bit. But being a nexus of N groups doesn't make the next one *more* likley :)

Ah, thanks.

Also: I am fabled now?

That's what I was thinking :) I guess I know N(N-1)/2 stories with you as the main character, but they're all this one. You're lovely (no offense :)) but people don't tell each other in hushed tones about how weird you are, or at least not to me :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

(Was there tiddlywinks? I would have missed playing but nearly want to see if you were in the bar on my home :))

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I think you're fabled, possibly because I see coalescent referring to you from time to time but wasn't sure I'd ever met you in person. I don't think I've Oxford geek linkages with you, though I joined OUSFS in 1995 mostly for the library.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's good there isn't it? It's a bit surprising that the Chinese buffet that looks like it should be a bit tacky is actually very, very good whereas the one in the converted pub on the Granchester road which looks like it ought to be dead posh was, on our visit, pretty awful.

Sorry you didn't get to see the movie - better luck next time.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

If you were less good at politeness I could have gone home and done more work. Thus when I woke this morning realising I hadn't printed TAFF ballots for Novacon yet, there would actually have been time to do it :-(

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Also, fivemack is so polite that he doesn't mention that the person in front of him in the queue was me...

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

I may have slightly alarmed my housemate with the volume of my involuntary cheer at seeing 'Rumsfeld resigns' on news.bbc.co.uk

Hah! Likewise. Except that I don't have housemates. Maybe neighbours.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I was hoping to put the tracing I made of rjk on flickr with a creative commons licence. It was based on a photo which Richard thinks you may have taken, , would you mind if I did? (http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/gallery/photos/2006/06-07?display=IMG_9804.JPG)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

That's absolutely fine.