Philip Howie
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Philip Howie
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Materials scientist by day and musician by night in Cambridge, UK. Christian. Percussionist, pianist, flautist, conductor, and instrument maker
CD: Ravel's 'Bolero' 🥁 and Debussy's 'La Mer' 🌊
Cassette: the LSO playing classic rock music 🎻

I was an unusual child
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I got halfway through this before I realised it wasn't a deeply profound poem
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Who even knew there was such a thing as a 'Guildford Special' kebab... 😬
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On a business trip once, I called ahead to book a table at a Turkish restaurant with a fancy website. It turned out to be a kebab shop with a few stools at the counter. To be fair to them, they did save them for us
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When you're deep in a project, it's easy to see the setback and the issues and miss overall progress. It's always good to get some outside perspective. Onwards and upwards!
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I 100% agree that 'AI' as we know it will never write a novel. For me, the more question is whether the general audience will continue to seek out novels (and visual art, and symphonies, and...) or will be distracted by what 'AI' does churn out; that's a more terrifying form of replacement
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Mine have split up for a better chance of survival
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
What worries me is that this may still be 'early' - just wait until we find out what they have planned for 'late'...
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
For science!!!
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Ring doorbell
'Follow me' drone
'See-through' fridge
Manufacturing line inspection camera
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I know crown shyness is a thing. But every time I see it, it looks too weird to be true
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This! There's nothing as frustrating as building a character with specific cool abilities and then having the GM design all the encounters to sidestep those abilities
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The feudal system and its... well, feuds... ARE the story. Or so it appears at the moment. Time will tell whether machinations of the Eastern barons are driven purely by greed, or whether there's something more sinister going on
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago, expansion started? Wait...
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Cursed? I don't know.

Lacerated, mauled, shredded, bloodied, eaten, regurgitated, knocked unconscious, revived, eaten again, and finally victorious only through the use of some very powerful and rare items they had only just retrieved? Absolutely.

It was a very memorable session!
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM