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Blather Comics Science Fiction and Fantasy

What I listened to today

What I listened to today:
Nebulous is a BBC 4 radio Sci-Fi Comedy show starring Mark Gatiss as the brilliant but troubled Professor Nebulous, eco trouble shooter. The episode I heard featured rivalry and sentient dust. Good and funny stuff.
Jonathan Ross is a weekly radio show with celebrity interviews, idle banter and good music. My brother pointed me to it, saying that Ross shares our musical taste (as proof, he has to play a Bowie song on every show). Unlike the hideous Reshet Gimel broadcasters of my youth, who frustrated my home taping efforts (my generation’s puny piracy technology) by overlapping the songs with their chatter, Ross never talks while the music is playing, and the site has playlists for the current and previous shows, if you fancy any of the songs.

Genkin points out that this Thursday (January 27th) there’s a BBC show called Chain Reaction where you can hear Alan Moore being interviewed. If I recall correctly, the week after that, they have Alan Moore interviewing Brian Eno.

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Blather

Cat Photos

The inevitable has finally happened: I’m posting cat photos to my blog. I have now fulfilled my purpose on “the internet”.
The reason I took the photos in the first place is that I am looking for someone to adopt them (by “looking” I mean “wishing”).
Oh, and just to get the third person straight, Sumsum and Misty are male, Cecilia is female. All of them are neutered.

Sumsum:

Sumsum in Kitchen
Sumsum

Misty:

Misty, Evil Cyborg Cat
Misty

Cecilia:

Cecilia
Cecilia

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Comics

The Spider CD

אלי אשד מפרסם תקליטור שהכין אלון איצ’קוביץ’ שבו הוא אוסף את כל(?) הקומיקס של העכביש, אחת מסדרות הקומיקס הביזאריות והמגניבות ביותר שיצא לי להכיר.

Eli Eshed advertises Alon Itzkovitch’s project which collects all the Spider strips (in Hebrew, I think, but with added material from English sources – or maybe all the English stuff as well). The Spider was one of the weirdest and coolest comic strips I’ve ever seen.

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Blather Oddities

Linkorama!

A pointless medley of assorted links, mostly to clean out my bookmarks / bloglines account:

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Blather Software and Programming

I want out

This is a stupid personal post, and as such, I’m writing it mostly to mirror it to LiveJournal (), which is the proper place for it.

Yesterday, got pissed at my boss (for a trivial reason, but this has a long build up) and decided I really want to find another job. Ideally one where I feel secure (i.e, not a start-up desperately scrambling to raise more money; have a nice person as a direct manager), where I make a decent salary and where I do things that are not pointless (i.e, what I do should be of real benefit to the company, not dead-end maintenance of about-to-be-abandoned crap. Also, it’s neat if it is demonstrably cool).

What do I want to work at? Most probably programming, because it’s rather fun and pays better than the other stuff I can do. I can also write (creative or technical, English or Hebrew), and probably teach (web stuff, programming, maybe biology, probably not school classes).

So, if you read this, and you know someone who might need someone, let me know.

Or, for extra bonus points, go look at my C.V. and then mock it in the comments, preferably in detail, so I can fix it.

Oh, also, I want to move apartment. And ditch one or all three of my cats. Like I said, out.