Questions from Marna

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What book(s) are you reading, currently?

The Battle For The Falklands (Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins) and Solitary Sex (Thomas W. Laqueur)

What music is playing? What other sounds can you hear?

The Police/Don't Stand So Close To Me; (and later)Ed Alleyne-Johnson/Indigo (off Ultraviolet); (and later) Bruce Springsteen/Dancing In The Dark; (and later) Pet Shop Boys/One Of The Crowd, all chosen at random by the house jb. The fan.

Look at the screen in front of you. What apps have you got open? What's running in the background?

screenshot. sfere and chiark XEmacs, the former being used to write this, Mozilla (mostly livejournal pages but BBC and The Register too), irc client, some kind of Gnomish file manager that leaves droppings on the desktop. There's a lyonesse XEmacs buried underneath those.

Scattered across the rest of the virtual desktop are three more lyonesse XEmacsen, several Konqueror windows (house jb, BBC weather, my home page, POSIX printf), too many pterms to describe, acroreads open on C99, the C99 draft rationale and Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately by Robert G. Burger and R. Kent Dybvig.

Is that enough detail?

What was the last thing you ate? Drank?

A pack of sweets lnr bought me, and a glass of orange juice.

What are you wearing?

White T-shirt, black jeans, belt, dark blue socks, black pants, black shoes.

Where are you? At work, at home? What room are you in?

At home, in the computer room.

What are you meant to be doing?

Waiting for Tescos.

Sniff! Sniff! What can you smell?

Evidence that it is too hot.

Who was the last person you spoke to in person? On the phone? Online? How long ago was it?

lnr in person just now; on the phone I can't remember but my most regular telephone correspondent is mhk; online to whoever was listening on #chiark, but lark_ascending and senji replied, so I'll put them.

What's the last thing you bought in a shop? Over the interweb?

My lunch yesterday, specifically a hot sausage baguette and a flapjack; and a TV.

Are you feeling ill or achy or otherwise not well?

A little achy from Saturday still.

Are you wearing any jewellery? A watch? Hair things? Makeup? Something else that is not clothes?

No.

Are you sitting comfortably?

Pretty much.