Palfrey's life

As a few of you may be aware, I have a somewhat heavy webcomics diet, only nominally kept in check by the judicious use of certain items of homebrew software. That being said, it helps if I at least try and get a few other people addicted as well, and after Goats had the lines today "There's four panels on managing cross-species confusion in interdimensional massively mammalian furry/plushie online social networks. That's just this afternoon", I figured now was as good a time as any to dump a few of the new ones/ones not mentioned yet...

• Dresden Codak. Run, don't walk, go and read it now. Heck, they've only done 34 of them so far, so you've got no excuse (well, sheer confusion from one's like this one may be an option). I can thank heymicster for this particular +5 enhanced timesink...


• Ozy and Millie. At points, garfield-level funny pages stuff. And then we get logical fallacy tag (or similar) and you're wondering what happened. It's cute, and despite the family-friendliness, lots of fun.


• Umlaut House. It's going through one of its periodic semi-hiatuses currently, and at one point the whole thing pretty much just got shoved forwards by about 15-20 years because the guy doing it wanted to do some stuff later on with the same characters + their now teenage kids. Despite all of that, it's a damn good comic, and well worth reading the archives. Oh, and FYI, furries with a wide range of sexualities. Doesn't phase me, but figured worth noting.

As I've spoken to the lovely people at the Consulate-General and been informed that my replacement passport is "awaiting collection", now would be a good time to mention my plans for where I'll be in the near future. Specifically, I'm coming back to the UK for a bit for a whole bunch of reasons

• I want a break


• The SenSys deadline will soon be dealt with


• It's my brother's birthday


• I might (theoretically) get a bit of work done on the thesis away from the distractions of my day-to-day life.

Now, the parentals have moved, so I'm located a bit differently this time, on the edge of the "village" of Whitstable (just north of Canterbury).

Dates are the 18th-25th April. Game plans mostly consist of sitting on my arse (with day trip to Canterbury + sampling of Kentish cider), but given as it's been about a metric yonk since I've seen various groups of people, getting myself onto a coach or two and doing some visiting sounds fun if anyone doesn't mind me crashing on their couch