SINergy

SINergy is approaching once more. This weekend in fact. On Sunday 3rd of October.

I'm eager and enthusiastic. I'm on the lookout for plot ideas. So if you've any suggestions, please let me know :)

We're also maybe going to have difficulties with transport, due to being down a driver. malal is having car troubles. (Although is it just troubles with your brakes? May be able to arrange a 'fix' crew for that one - just the pads are relatively cheap to replace)

As before, I'm probably going to shifting a carload of props, + zaitan.
Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure who's going, and who's able to transport.

So, who's goin'? And if you're goin' do you need transport (eg. haven't sorted it)?
Or can you provide some?

Crosslinking

Finally got around to posting this.
It's an idea to improve the 'signal to noise' ratio of LJ. Basically, each time you post, add a 'crosslink' to something that you think is worth reading. Ideally elsewhere on Livejournal, but not necessarily.

Something like this:

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Crosslink: Introduction to crosslinking

Ken Bigley

Ken Bigley is a doomed man.

He is being held hostage by fanatics, who are demanding the release of criminals.
They have already killed two others taken at the same time as him.

And the British government won't negotiate. Not even to save him.

It's an ugly choice to face. Being told by hostage takers that you can save this person's life, and all you have to do is one little thing. You're handed the responsibility for their life.

But we cannot yield. For to do so once, is to guarantee it will happen again. And the concessions demanded will be greater.

Ken Bigley is to be sacrified to the Greater Good. This will provide him and his family little enough consolation. The needs of the many, have outweighed the needs of the few.

How does this make us different from the Terrorists? Both are willing to give lives for their cause. Their own. Others. But neither will bend before the other.

In essence, it comes to this. They try and hide behind a false transferrence of responsibility for his life. They will kill him if we do not release the prisoners. But let's not forget that the hands doing the killing are theirs. We can never yield to terrorists. To do so, is to grant them victory.

And so we offer our best wishes. Our hopes. Our prayers. Not for a miracle. But simply that the hostage takers will relent. And let this one man. A son. Let him go home. We will not yield, since we cannot grant them that victory.

Let not this man die to prove a point.