Apparently, Brick is not only pestered by offers of champagne from aeroplane captains, and waived bar tabs from bartenders, but also suffers the agony of being disliked by other girls for being too pretty.
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Mar 162012
Someone who I used to like, then didn’t like at all, then didn’t really think about either way, used to have a T-shirt with this quote on it and a picture of some despondent bakery items. Despondency has hit the bakery. I didn’t like the T-shirt that much, but I always liked the words. Think on.
Keep readingMar 012012
Well, that was painless. I got an email when Hew started moving stuff over, another when he was done, and Lo! it’s all here. My theme is still here, in its free-for-WP.org version, my sidebar and footer widgets are still basically the same, and they’ve added some plugins to replicate some of the features of WordPress.com that I was used to. Visitors probably don’t notice the minor differences on the site from yesterday to today. Slick! I’m sure I could have done it myself, but by the time I’d looked up how to do everything found and installed the right
Keep readingJan 262012
January 26, 2012
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One of my pet hates is redundant language; I reserve the right to “really truly” for emphasis if I want to, but all that “05-hundred AM in the morning” stuff is for cock jockeys. Here’s a little visual celebration of redundancy in action:
Keep readingAug 022011
Do allow yourself a little bit of mythos. It’s “the Cloud”, for fuck’s sake. Gods might be in there somewhere, playing What the Neighbours Did and sneering at our metaphysical shagpile carpeting.
Keep readingJul 262011
This is a guest post by Caitlin Kelly of Broadside blog. If you told me to jump out of an airplane or try rock-climbing or bungee-jumping or riding a motorbike, I’d say no thanks. I hate heights. Most physical risks leave me cold. But when I was 25, I left behind my apartment, dog, freelance writing clients and live-in boyfriend eager to marry me – and moved alone to France for eight months for a journalism fellowship. I was desperate for a break and a change, but I knew getting on that plane would – as it did – forever
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Jun 262011
Pop quiz, hotshot. How many of the following are you? interesting creative funny excitable imaginative geeky sexy open-minded opinionated oddball honest eloquent obsessive insightful snarky freaky or Z, all of the above? If you said yep to more than half of those, we want you. If you said yep to the last one, we really really want you. I’m looking for new guest bloggers that will blow our heads off with their awesomeness. Or just spout some mad gubbins that entertains us. That’ll do. Interested? Here’s how: Email mi@machiavelliid.com and tell me Who or what you are Where you blog
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June 14, 2011
Machiavelli Id goes digital, Stuff I was too lazy to categorise, The science of Machiavelli Id Comments Off
I’m massively happy to announce that I’m now the go-to girl for brains, robots, archaeology and freaks/feats of nature on FrontSideBus.net — if you haven’t checked it out yet, go there now. You’re missing all sorts of tasty science, gadget & geek news. ***Update: FrontSideBus.net was closed down by the owner in late 2011, so I’ve removed the links.*** My first 2 stories for them: Making Brains out of Skin: A New Genetic Technique Forgotten Something? Your Brain’s on the Wrong Frequency
Keep readingNov 302010
I was recently informed that this is an example of a terrible headline/subject line that would put people off reading further. Got to say, I totally disagree. For one thing, you just did it.
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