Writing

If William of Malmesbury is to be believed, the king, when John was dining with him, asked: "What separates a Scot from a sot?" and John replied, "Only the dinner table."

Asked what he would do if he had six months to live, Isaac Asimov answered: "Type faster."

Sasha’s cultist gets no welcome at the lodge or library. Misha’s nun develops two phobias, then knocks off almost half an ancient god’s health in one hit.

What kind of physicist picks locks for fun, and traces his Nobel-winning work back to a wobbling cafeteria plate?

In 2009, I gave my Asus EeePC 1000 a voice through PowerShell. Alyona read stories, exposed typos and did rather less well with poetry.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live — John F. Woods.

Вороны в тот день летели по небу не простые, а красные. Примета была самая дурная, да что с того: давненько уж не бывало в Многоборье добрых знамений.

A tiny Harold Lloyd hangs from a clock in Doc Brown’s workshop before Doc does the same in the finale. The opening has already shown us the image; we just do not know what it means yet.

Snow outside? Try another door. Pete the cat holds his human responsible for the weather and insists on checking all eleven doors for a way into summer.

You can float a scrap of paper down a stream and follow it all the way home. Grown-ups just walk past, breaking its banks.