Comments for AMNAR

Comment on 2011: Learnings and musings by joelyblack

joelyblack — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:13:05 +0000

And to you too!

Comment on 2011: Learnings and musings by Jenny Ryan

Jenny Ryan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:37:36 +0000

Well, you know I’m drooling over what’s coming up in Amnar next year

Best wishes to you for 2012!

Comment on Amnar Serial: 3.28. We Don’t Let Our Own Go by joelyblack

joelyblack — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:28:54 +0000

No, they don’t have plastic. Everything is made from “natural” substances that occur, so they have to be quite inventive. Some things for which we use plastic, they would use glass or leather, although they have developed other materials (not oil based) which allowed them to develop tubes for drips and fluid bags. Making pretty much anything in Amnar is based on a craft/artisan basis rather than industrialised manufacture.

Comment on Amnar Serial: 3.28. We Don’t Let Our Own Go by Jenny Clare

Jenny Clare — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:04:06 +0000

Do they have plastic in Amnar? How do they make medical implements?

Comment on Book Review: Our Man in Orlando by Hugh Hunter by joelyblack

joelyblack — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:35:28 +0000

Ooh, ta! That sounds interesting.

Comment on Book Review: Our Man in Orlando by Hugh Hunter by Campbell Woods

Campbell Woods — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:30:49 +0000

I thought that all sounded familiar so I had a dig around in my old grey cells and remembered that he was on Excess Baggage a while back. From what I recall it was (at least) mildly interesting and entertaining (or I almost certainly wouldn’t have remembered it). Anyway, here’s the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tjvhv

Comment on Book Review: Second Opinion by Theodore Dalrymple by Dan

Dan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:12:57 +0000

Thanks for another nice review, Joely. Your assessment of Dalrymple (‘a man devoted to developing a veneer of misanthropy to disguise the fact that he cares a great deal’) is pretty accurate, I think. A lot of the time he is joking, but it’s rather dry humour for some tastes.

By the way, he would carry a stethoscope as he was both a medical doctor and a consultant psychiatrist; in the prison he would frequently be the on-call doctor to deal with medical and mental health issues.

Comment on 20 Reasons I’m not following you (or have unfollowed you) on Twitter by joelyblack

joelyblack — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:31:39 +0000

Hahaha! I’m a big over-user of parentheses myself.

The 101010 thing was last year – my birthday is 10th of October. And I’m actually 32 – although not for much longer.

Comment on 20 Reasons I’m not following you (or have unfollowed you) on Twitter by Campbell Woods

Campbell Woods — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:07:42 +0000

I read the “101010″ birthday as binary and thought “you don’t look that age”. I need to get out more.

Now it has occurred to me that it actually might be binary, after all, and not a date, as I belatedly thought, and I have once again demonstrated a) my stunning capacity for over-analysis, b) my total inability to judge how old people are and, finally (you’ll be glad to hear), c) my semi-compulsive overuse of parentheses.

Comment on 20 Reasons I’m not following you (or have unfollowed you) on Twitter by Dan G Swindles (@SwindleApe)

Dan G Swindles (@SwindleApe) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:32:32 +0000

This suddenly makes my twitter escapades sound a little less eventful

I can’t believe people do some of these things

Actually I can, this is the internet after all

Maybe twitter needs a Code of Conduct, a la Kermode and Mayo’s Cinema Code of Conduct?

More gentle suggestion than authoritarian regime though