Okay, I got tagged by ~gorgonbreath (https://www.deviantart.com/gorgonbreath) So, eight things about myself: 1) I'm a strict vegetarian. 2) I once held the record at my Army Cadet detachment for target shooting. (Heck, I may still - I haven't exactly been kept up to date on the matter.) 3) I love the TV series Firefly. 4) I was once awake for 62 consecutive hours. My advice is "Don't". 5) I can (sort of) play the trumpet. 6) I have never been to a country outside Europe. 7) I can't think of anything to go here. 8) I once gave a talk on how not to lose Noughts and Crosses (or Tic-Tac-Toe, if you prefer that name). 9) My physics teacher declared me the most dangerous stu

Well, judging by the long delays in updates for my gallery, you can tell that art progressing isn't one of the things really happening in my life. This is mostly because I'm on holiday, and although I've got my drawing stuff with me, the fact that my living quarters aren't exactly stable makes it hard. I'm on a canal boat, as the photo I added earlier demonstrates. I do want to get my WIP drawings going again, but it's not going to happen fast. I've always got a lot of projects on (I've been penning a tabletop gaming supplement and coding a trajectory simulator, amongst other smaller things), so each individual one moves somewhat sporadical

Okay, if you've just opened this journal, you'll probably have no idea who James Harry Castell is. Well, I'll tell you as much as there's supposed to be a link to him on Wikipedia, but evidently, he's not notable enough and it's been removed. So, I'll have to tell you. James Harry Castell (1880-1953) founded Castell Safety International and invented trapped key interlocking, which can be found in many products, and in some ways is a precursor to the famous Murphy's Law (In it's original form: "If it can it can be mis-operated, someone will do it") - a machine that's designed in such a way that it's not possible for the operator to be able