Java makes me sad, every day.

Love how they miss off something crucial - data security.

Sounds like a good challenge though, have fun with that.

In my current role I get 5 weeks and all bank/public holidays on full pay. In my previous place you started on 4, the legal minimum and got an extra day per year up to 5 extra and then you could buy additional annual leave. By the time I left I had 6 weeks a year. You can't take it all consecutively...

I was going to suggest using your annual leave, then remembered you live in America where it's not very generous...

+1 for Europe... :p

It must be painful to have your dream dismissed like that :(. I'd suggest that you stick with your paid employment and continue writing on the side though. Few authors earn enough money from their first novel to give up permanent employment and as much as I hope your series beats Twilight, you've go...

Outlaw Star isn't very good. The main character is a jerk who just gets in the way of the rest of the cast, and the rest of the cast keep worshiping the ground he walks on. Bleh. Tenchi isn't a jerk in Muyo, Universe or Tokyo. Muyo is also arguably the beginning of the popular harem amines, so a lo...

I think the fear has shifted from the undead to the living. Other humans are the biggest risk and that's an awesome and sad dynamic.

Even in an epidemic and post apocalyptic environment, humans still suck.

School ended nearly 9 years ago now...

I think every season has had moments of brilliance and I loved a lot of the stuff in the prison, but this season has been the most consistently high quality for me so far.

I have pretty severe ornithophobia. It's improved in recent years, so I can now walk past birds in a cage but it used to be so bad I wouldn't even go in petshops. It stretches to all feathered birds, with or without flight. Stems back to when I was a very small kid (4 or 5 I guess) when I was at a n...

Are evil.

That is all.

Watched Perfect Blue and Paprika for the first time at the weekend. Perfect Blue was especially awesome.

So I'm watching a number of shows at the moment and they're all brilliant:

Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
Fortitude
Better Call Saul
Lillyhammer

I need to add House of Cards to the list, but I need to finish a series first.

Really enjoying all these shows