> > Work is still sponging up my time, but I have had a few slots free this week and have been doing a little writing. Just not linked to this stuff.
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> I'm suffering from a dearth of free moments myself at the minute, having been too willing to commit myself to "just a short bit of work" for quite a few people.
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Just be thankful that none of it involves Staffware. I've spent the better part of two weeks trying to get thins installation to work.
> > > Know, o Prince, that between the years...
> > Oh. One of those stories.
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> It's after Robert E. Howard.
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I know the source very well.
> > And - since her stint as Beth's costume proves that she can do clothes - I would be interested in what happens if Sally made herself into a hat and then Jay put her on.
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> Interesting thought. Jaaaay?
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Since it's clothing-related, perhaps Dancer?
> > It's scary what odd items I have lurking in my memory...
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> True generally as well as specifically.
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Noted.
> > > He looked admiringly at the tall thin manor built out over the jagged peak. It was of black stone, with steeply climbing slate roofs and a large tower with a copper ball atop it to catch the lightning. It was visible all the way along the valley, but the mud men and the swamp trolls and the prehistoric monsters all knew to stay well away. Flapjack hadn’t been able to resist.
> > Needs a spike rather than a ball. Point charges and all that...
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> Maybe it's one half of a wacky van der Graff generator?
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The lab-sized one or the one they have in Daresbury?
> > > “The place has some strange properties alright,†Al B. agreed. “A weak and rotating magnetic field, some huge geological discrepancies like the whole place is a patchwork quilt carved from other places, and an absence of any useable connection to the dimensional substrata or hyperspace.â€Â
> > Actually, I started thinking along the lines of a Diskworld (The Strata variant rather than the later one).
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> Remind me.
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Strata is the science-fiction story Pratchett wrote before "The Colour of Magic". It contains a diskworld, but one supported by technology of a sort. It's not brilliant - more on the order of the first three diskworld stories - but passable.
