Cav's Place

A couple of months ago, somebody who admitted to having “always taken a rather condescending attitude toward fantasy literature, with the exception of Tolkien” asked for recommendations on the MobyGames forums, wondering whether anything else “that would have at least some literary aspirations, even if it ultimately lapses into mere pretensions” may be worth trying […]

It’s the third Sunday update of 2014, but you can say there’s a reason for it, obviously on top of the fact that I can’t get myself to write anything else. As you can see from the title and despite what I was saying two days ago, the reason is that it snowed yesterday, which […]

Slightly late, but we can now say that autumn arrived here as of yesterday. It’s cloudy, rainy, somewhat windy and chilly, and tomorrow it’ll be downright cold, with the high being reported as 5°C and an estimated wind chill factor of five to seven degrees. Temperatures should get back to what would be normal for […]

Took the Political Compass test again a few days ago, and once again found that I slid even further left since the last time, so I’m just putting the result here now for future reference. I first learned of this test in 2006 or 2007 and probably took it about six or seven times since […]

If you don’t count a few e-mails from various sites and a text message from a shop offering me a 1% discount, which used to be higher in previous years, only two people mentioned it today, so that’s some improvement. Doesn’t make the day any better and my standard reply to the standard birthday wish […]