I may do this intermittently, until I get bored of it...

I like Bonsai (the Edinburgh Japanese restaurant) rather a lot. But it's not cheap.

So when today's Groupon deal turned out to be £20 of food at Bonsai for £8, I couldn't resist.

If anyone else wants it - click here.

(No, this journal is not going to turn into a bunch of advertising. I just really like the food at Bonsai.)

The future's bright

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Interesting Links for 28-3-2011

• Saudi Arabia - the biggest women's prison in the world
  (tags: saudiarabia feminism women rights)
• Nokia confirms that Symbian will be dead by the end of 2012.
  (tags: nokia symbian mobile_phones)
• Our trip up the side of Edinburgh Castle (with a massive banner) has hit the newspapers!
  (tags: av politics guardian newspaper)
• Psychobabble: Curing homosexuality?
  (tags: homosexuality psychology)
• How to have difficult conversations
  (tags: conversation life advice)
• 50 Strange and Bizarre Black & White Photos (a couple of which are NSFW)
  (tags: photography photos weird)
• Try Thinking (nice piece on the "Try Praying" ads currently making the rounds).
  (tags: religion advertising culture)
• Best. App Store. Review. Ever.
  (tags: apps color funny review)
• Government funding for academic study of Arts/Humanities made dependent on studying Big Society. WTF????
  (tags: government academia freedom DoNotWant)

Fun and games with the Census

(Passed to me at work, and I can't see a way of reverse engineering the blog url from the image url...)

These are my opinions. If you don't like them, I have others.

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Context.

A couple of polls

One on the future of the United Kingdom (and whether it has one), and one on the age I stopped having stupid opinions.

Sadly, no way of crossposting polls, so if you want them, you'll have to go over to The Other Site to read them :->

Sometimes I need a day like this

(via e_apraksina)

Rushed around a lot at work, preparing training materials for India.

Then to the Malt Whisky Society for marrog's birthday board gaming extravaganza, where we lost at Articulate, and played a game that was like connect four, only played with cards (and was good fun).

Then to The Regent, to briefly wish feorag well for her time in hospital, and bump into various other people I hadn't seen in aaaages.

And now home, where Julie is theoretically getting things together for her flatsitting for octopoid_horror (recently moved in over the road). She's there tomorrow morning so that he can have cable internet/phone installed.

Soon, hopefully, bed.