I don't remember bidding for this at a fan fund auction

[major_clanger]

Ahem. Guilty admission time - I have a standing Google search on my name. It's to look and see if there are any references to my academic work, but about half the time it triggers on one of the occasional other Simon Bradshaws out there. As indeed it did today, but in a way that made me do a double take:

BBC: Drink driver admits West Lothian cyclist death

"Insp Simon Bradshaw, of Lothian and Borders Police, said: "This case serves as a tragic reminder of the potential consequences of drink driving..."

Having read Halting State, and a draft of its sequel, Rule 34, my immediate impression was not only that autopope had put me into one of his Edinburgh novels but that he'd done it in real life and ten years too soon.

Comments

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

I suspect the influence of fluffcthulhu.

[fluffcthulhu.livejournal.com]

But I have been on airliners or in airports for the last 28 hours. How could I possibly have been up to anything? (Whistles innocently)

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

LOL! Hm, wonder what autopope would do if he had that kind of superpower. :-)

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I share a name with an officer in the West Midlands - now a Chief Superintendent.

Googling on him to see what he was up to these days produced this marvellous frgment "with department head Steven Glover is singled out for particular praise. ..... for corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death".

Happy Birthday

[nomadrush.livejournal.com]

:) Have a great day ahead.

Ross