What is it?
This is Jonathan Palfrey's personal Web site. If you want to know who I am or how to contact me, click here. If you want to know what Thurb means, or why this is thurb.com, click here.
What's new here
| Aug: | add The difference engine to my book reviews |
| Jul: | add Look to windward to my book reviews |
| May: | update my Terry Pratchett page with a brief review of The fifth elephant |
| Apr: | add a site map to my various Stouts Hill School pages |
Miscellaneous writings
I've written a bunch of book and film reviews, and accounts of my holiday in the Seychelles and our honeymoon cruise in the Caribbean. If you want any more, here are my thoughts on politics, religion, programming, the Swatch beat, a sensible calendar, and space travel times.
Games
I've always liked playing games of skill, but I rarely seem to get the opportunity these days. You can find here complete rules for the Advanced Battleships pencil-and-paper game, notes on American Civil War games, a list of computer games I've bought (should anyone want to know), and my thoughts on unreal-time games and Chess.
My photos on Flickr
Having lived in 12 countries and visited 16 others, I have a large collection of travel and personal photos, and I'm gradually uploading a small selection of them to Flickr. Here are links to an overview of the photos, the latest photos I've uploaded, some family photos, and my travel photos in chronological order.
Other Web activities
I'm a member of Facebook and LinkedIn, and I have an occasional blog of random observations.
Favourites
Here are my favourite Web sites, quotations, music, books, and short stories.
Family corner
This currently contains a record of my sister's acting career and my mother's biography of the ballet dancer John Gilpin.
School corner
A long time ago, I attended two boarding schools in England while my parents were in Africa: Stouts Hill in Gloucestershire, then Blundell's in Devon. Blundell's has its own Web site, but Stouts Hill closed down as a school in 1979, so I've dedicated some pages to its memory here. These are intended for other veterans of the school and aren't really of general interest.
Assorted funnies (not written by me)
IKEA divorce video (3.8 MB), job application, not fishing, ruin sorbees, school history, signs of life, fur comment, rejection rejected, parenthood, tax, the reluctant cannibal