Alex Chan

@alexwlchan.net

392 Followers 49 Following

“You’ve forgotten to leave a space for the door,” said Big-Ears. “How are you going to get in? And, oh dear, I’m just as bad—I’ve forgotten the window on my side!”
A photo of Jonn’s excellent book “A History of the World in 47 Borders” on a bookshop shelf, with a “staff pick” insert that reads “A lateral history with an abundance of fact (always a winner) and an equal abundance of anecdote. Elledge's easy-going style is informative without being dense, and refreshingly jovial for a genre that is too often parochial. In short, one of those rare, quite marvellous history books, from which you will take away as much as you could possibly hope to learn, and a great deal more you did not expect to.”
A crude hand-drawn sketch of an e-reader device with two characters on screen. The characters both have Chinese names above their heads.
A sky blue number plate with gold lettering “13-A-059”
In this Part, references to a “motor vehicle” are to a motor vehicle with or without a semi-trailer which— (a)has at least four wheels; (b)has an unladen mass exceeding 400kg or an engine with net power exceeding 15kW; (c)is used for the carriage of passengers; and (d)is not a motor caravan within Class L(a) or Class L(b) specified in Part III above. Sub-category M1 Class M1(a) A motor vehicle which comprises no more than eight seats in addition to the driver’s seat. Class M1(b) A motor vehicle as defined in Class M1(a) which is drawing a trailer.
A stack of Jonn’s book on a table
The cover of “Six Dinner Sid”, by Inga More. The cover is an illustration of a black cat with yellow/brown eyes, smiling towards the viewer, and next to him is six small bowls in a variety of bright colours and patterns.
A crude sketch of a bathroom featuring two sinks with separate taps, connected to different looking controls labelled “S” and “T”
A crude sketch of a gnome with a distressed looking t-rex in its mouth.
Screenshot of a web page in which some orange and purple brush strokes gradually appear, as if being painted, and then an orange stylised bird appears as if it's just swooped in
A crude, out-of-focus, hand drawn sketch of a potato
A digital file picker showing “Cold Shoulder”, where the word “Shoulder” has clearly been photoshopped into the file to replace a different word.
A handwritten note: “Wow, sounds like a 阴谋 (conspiracy)! More literally, a sinister (阴) plot (谋). There are clues in the characters – 月 is the Moon radical and is associated with shade and dark, while 讠is the speech radical and often associated with information.”
Screenshot of the macOS Calendar app showing a year titled “45”, which is really 45 BCE. All the twelve months look like they have the normal number of days.
Looking up towards the ceiling of a large oval room. There's a large oval window at the very top of the ceiling, then smaller circular windows around it. Above each window is the name of a city; below it is an archway with bookshelves filling the archway. Each archway is wide, enough to hold six bookshelves.