Attention conservation notice: total wittering follows.

I am such a muppet. I bought a shiny new keyboard for my iPad, and then bought not one, but two back-cover cases for it. The first wouldn’t allow me to unclip the keyboard. The second wouldn’t allow me to clip it in. And then I realised that I’ve actually owned the perfect slipcover case for my iPad+keyboard all along, something I bought for my original iPad with room enough for the new device plus keyboard inside. I am, in the parlance, a numpty.

In other personal technology news, after having had it installed but unused on my iPad since the day it launched, I finally got around to configuring Flipboard for the iPad. It is an extraordinarily gratifying way to catch up on the world, and I am only ashamed that it’s taken me literally years to get around to it. If you own an iPad, and aren’t using it, you’re missing out.

Busy (and nerdy) weekend coming up. Dinner+drinks with friends tonight, Gamecamp tomorrow. Another one where I haven’t got a talk ready. I vaguely wonder about busking it, but honestly, my ideas are sort of half baked – they’d suit a conversation, but I’m not sure about a talk. Particularly since the sort of LARP I run is different in scope and scale to many others, and it’s really theories of LARP that I want to talk about.

Sunday I’ve to a LARP to run. It should be awesome. I am actually really excited about the next few sessions of this particular game – I feel like it’s really hitting it’s stride, and is providing exactly the sort of game I hoped it would (this is not blowing my own trumpet, BTW – that it is successful is largely down to the players, who have stepped up to what was have been quite a challenge with absolutely superb style). I actually expect the challenge with this game to be knowing when to stop – previous LARPs I’ve run have been concieved with pre-determined lengths, and this one is no exception, but honestly, the way I feel about it right now, I could keep running to forever.

As you’ve probably guessed, the major reason for this post is just to test this new keyboard out, and I’ve got to say that while it’s not as good as a full-size one, it is in fact, pretty bastard good. Most of the reviews I’ve see moaned about the size of the backspace key, but that’s not what’s bugging me. It’s the tiny tiny size of the apostrophe key (and the other punctuation marks). But it’ll do for out and about quite nicely.

Or: The Great Comics Clearout, volume 1

So I’m on a quest to get rid of comics. And I’m starting with a bunch of comics that I haven’t read in a couple of years. Some of them, I own other versions of, and I just getting rid of the spare are it were. Some of them I’ve read, enjoyed, and then felt no burning urge to re-read, so it’s time they moved on to somewhere they’;ll be properly appreciated. Some of them just weren’t my cup of tea. And some of them, I have no idea where they even came from, which is a little worrying. But I can vouch for 90% of them (the ones I know where they came from and what they are, that is) being remarkably good. They would be a boon to any library that does not already contain them, I promise you.

Anyway: if you would like to own any of these comics, can now do so, free of charge, gratis, and for nothing. All you have to do is let me know you want them, and then come and collect them from Tooting, South London. What you do with them after that is entirely up to you. I regret that I will not be posting them anyway, as that take us into the realms of tedious faffing about with getting money to me, and then me remembering to go down the post office, which is all far too much like work.

The Extraordinary works of Alan Moore

The Waiting Place volume 1

The Waiting Place volume 2 parts 1+2

Quicken Forbidden vol 1

Charm School

The Bogie Man

Sanctuary vols 1-3

Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships

Gunwitch

Bone vols 2+3 (B&W)

Kane – Greetings from New York

Batman No Man’s Land vol 2

Batman: Gotham Adventures

The Making of Astronauts in Trouble

A1 Book 2

Hellboy: Odder Jobs

Two Fisted Science

Finder: Talisman

Finder: Dream Sequence

Scarlett Traces

Artesia

The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings

Uzumaki vols 1-3

Tommysaurus Rex

Creatures of the Night

Overtime

Rosemary’s Backpack

Please feel free to a) ask questions, and b) circulate this link to anyone who might be interested. Any books not claimed by the end of May will go to the charity shop. Judges decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into. Void where prohibited.