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Life emulating Bujold
Apr. 30th, 2008 09:32 pmSo Prince William is emulating little brother and going into war zones. You know, it's starting to remind me a little of The Vor Game.
Ooops, I missed my LJ birthday
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selenak posted that she has just passed her 5-year LJ anniversary, which made me realise that mine was last month. (Ooops.) I started this journal on 03/04/03. In one way it seems like a long time ago, but in another, no.The weather here is beautiful, really summer-like. And Ben and Jerry's in Castlecourt was giving out free ice cream today, yay!
The stupidity, it burns (OSBP)
Apr. 24th, 2008 08:33 pmSo, apparently some idiots at a con decided that Open Source Public Groping would be a great idea. In theory I'm right behind the reciprocal Open Source Boot to the Crotch Project, although in practice it would probably come down to the Open Source Yelling "Keep Your Hands Off Me or I'm Calling the Police, You Pathetic Sleazebag" Project.
Honestly, is the difference between software and women's bodies that foreign a concept, really?
Still, at least we got this Harriet Vane fic fromnineveh_uk on the topic.
Honestly, is the difference between software and women's bodies that foreign a concept, really?
Still, at least we got this Harriet Vane fic from
nineveh_uk on the topic.
So I just watched the latest episode of Numb3rs, Checkmate. ( Spoilers )
It's all over the internet and even on Radio 1, JKR is up against Lexibook in court. I love the charts of JKR material versus tiny little bars of original material (here; scroll down to the end). I hope the smack-down that is applied to RDR causes a small earthquake
It's all over the internet and even on Radio 1, JKR is up against Lexibook in court. I love the charts of JKR material versus tiny little bars of original material (here; scroll down to the end). I hope the smack-down that is applied to RDR causes a small earthquake
The cats of wimpiness
Apr. 14th, 2008 07:59 pmOur neighbour across the road and down the lane has recently acquired two kittens for his little girls. Said kittens are about six months old. This weekend, he must have been away, because they decided to come up to our house and sit on our windowsills squeaking. They let you come to within a couple of feet of you and then run away. They occasionally invade the house and eat our cats' food. The funniest part? Seeing our two, adult cats, one an eleven-pound bruiser, cowering in terror in front of a couple of half-sized kittens. We own the wimpiest cats in County Down.
Dialect meme
Apr. 8th, 2008 10:26 pm1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream if it's natural, sheugh if not.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Trolley. And it's a supermarket.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box. But they're made of plastic.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch. Settle if it's made of wood.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
The horizontal bits are guttering, the verticals are downspouts.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Veranda. Not a thing that we have much need for in Ireland. Oh, I suppose some patios are sort of covered.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soft drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A sub.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
If they're canvas with rubber soles, gutties. Anything else is trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Redding up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Sellafield midges? No Irish insects naturally glow in the dark.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Slater.
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
See-saw.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
In my hands, bite the point off and keep going.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Jumble sale. Except that it's more a collective effort.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
A thing under a house is a basement, which most houses here don't have. Also rec room is games room and I assume that furnace is the central heating boiler.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain? The last place I saw one was in school. Offices have watercoolers.
Stream if it's natural, sheugh if not.
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Trolley. And it's a supermarket.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box. But they're made of plastic.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan.
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch. Settle if it's made of wood.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
The horizontal bits are guttering, the verticals are downspouts.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Veranda. Not a thing that we have much need for in Ireland. Oh, I suppose some patios are sort of covered.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Soft drinks.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes.
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
A sub.
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swimming trunks.
12. Shoes worn for sports.
If they're canvas with rubber soles, gutties. Anything else is trainers.
13. Putting a room in order.
Redding up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Sellafield midges? No Irish insects naturally glow in the dark.
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Slater.
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
See-saw.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
In my hands, bite the point off and keep going.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Jumble sale. Except that it's more a collective effort.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
A thing under a house is a basement, which most houses here don't have. Also rec room is games room and I assume that furnace is the central heating boiler.
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain? The last place I saw one was in school. Offices have watercoolers.
Why cannot I keep hold of my plastic?
Apr. 4th, 2008 05:21 pmI appear to have lost my Boots card. Again.
I was in the shop and I remember holding it in my hand as I walked to the door, but what did I do with it? It's not in my wallet and I've checked my pockets...
I was in the shop and I remember holding it in my hand as I walked to the door, but what did I do with it? It's not in my wallet and I've checked my pockets...
Inadvertant left-pondianism
Apr. 2nd, 2008 11:03 pmOther people do method acting. I seem to do method writing.
I've been writing fic from the pov of an American character this week. Today in work my team-mates were highly amused to discover that I had dated all the screen dumps I'd printed on Tuesday "4/1/08".
I've been writing fic from the pov of an American character this week. Today in work my team-mates were highly amused to discover that I had dated all the screen dumps I'd printed on Tuesday "4/1/08".
So alledgedly Virgin Media (my ISP) is making moves to implement the 'three strikes and NO INTARWEBZ' policy on illegal downloading..
Woez! How shall I get my Numb3rs fix? There is about an 18-month lag time from it being shown in America and it being shown here (and then it's on ITV3 late at night, sigh).theoriginalspy, I hope that you keep up with the recaps :-/ *clings to theoriginalspy like Charlie to his laptop*
Also BSG, although the lag time is not horrendous. I can wait. Yeah, really.
Incidentally, I first got fannish about both these programs while I was watching downloaded episodes. I'd seen them on television, but they were just something that I watched when they were on (like Diagnosis Murder in university, but much less embarrassing). Guess what I went out and did once I'd got hooked on the downloads? Yeah, I bought the DVDs. So everybody won! The companies got £££ and I got new sandpits! Gah!
(I never download music or films. I have my own source of free music; it's called 'baby brother who gets paid to go to school and hence has money to burn'. Don't know what we'll do when he goes to uni next year, though.)
Woez! How shall I get my Numb3rs fix? There is about an 18-month lag time from it being shown in America and it being shown here (and then it's on ITV3 late at night, sigh).
theoriginalspy, I hope that you keep up with the recaps :-/ *clings to theoriginalspy like Charlie to his laptop*Also BSG, although the lag time is not horrendous. I can wait. Yeah, really.
Incidentally, I first got fannish about both these programs while I was watching downloaded episodes. I'd seen them on television, but they were just something that I watched when they were on (like Diagnosis Murder in university, but much less embarrassing). Guess what I went out and did once I'd got hooked on the downloads? Yeah, I bought the DVDs. So everybody won! The companies got £££ and I got new sandpits! Gah!
(I never download music or films. I have my own source of free music; it's called 'baby brother who gets paid to go to school and hence has money to burn'. Don't know what we'll do when he goes to uni next year, though.)
No, I'm not doing a boycott of LJ all by myself. I'm just feeling a bit bleh about doing anything that requires effort. Also bleh about TV at the minute.
Doctor Who is back next week and I only have the tiniest bit of squee in a sea of apprehension. The promotional interviews do not tend to confidence.
I haven't seen the last couple of Torchwood. This is partly due to being away from the broadband and BBC iPlayer over Easter, but not wholly
Have more or less given up on Ashes to Ashes instead of hanging around waiting for it to become Life on Mars.
And Diane Farr is leaving Numb3rs after the current series finishes. Not that we're actually going to see that till about 2011 at the rate it gets over here legally, and the government will possibly have got around to the whole CONFISCATE UR INTARWEBZ 4 ILLEGAL DOWNLOADIN BY THEN. Sigh. I hate that thing where people leave TV programmes. Numb3rs was there before Megan and it will be after, but there are other people who can't be replaced, and it makes me a bit nervous.
Doctor Who is back next week and I only have the tiniest bit of squee in a sea of apprehension. The promotional interviews do not tend to confidence.
I haven't seen the last couple of Torchwood. This is partly due to being away from the broadband and BBC iPlayer over Easter, but not wholly
Have more or less given up on Ashes to Ashes instead of hanging around waiting for it to become Life on Mars.
And Diane Farr is leaving Numb3rs after the current series finishes. Not that we're actually going to see that till about 2011 at the rate it gets over here legally, and the government will possibly have got around to the whole CONFISCATE UR INTARWEBZ 4 ILLEGAL DOWNLOADIN BY THEN. Sigh. I hate that thing where people leave TV programmes. Numb3rs was there before Megan and it will be after, but there are other people who can't be replaced, and it makes me a bit nervous.
So, I had lost Going Postal. Well, elerrina_amanya found it again. In the bookcase in my bedroom.
*head-desk*
elerrina_amanya found it again. In the bookcase in my bedroom.*head-desk*
Torchwood: Adrift
Mar. 20th, 2008 09:43 pmSo, Torchwood. Depressing Y/N? I do so like Rhys/Gwen though now. And Tosh and Gwen working together, they should do that more often.
All the great authors are going...
Mar. 19th, 2008 12:04 amAll over LJ: Arthur C. Clarke has died
He was the first scence fiction author I ever read. I was aged nine.
And Match it for Pratchett now has its own website
He was the first scence fiction author I ever read. I was aged nine.
And Match it for Pratchett now has its own website
Oooh! LJArchive has started working for me again! For about three years it hasn't been. Well, that's one good thing that's come out of the latest LJ debacle.
Gakked fromliliburlero
I can just about hear the 17.7 Hz; above that I can hear the speakers click but nothing else. Still, not bad for someone who hasn't been a teenager since 2003.
Gakked from
liliburleroYou are the typical teenager |
You can hear the frequency of the mosquito teen repellent - but probably not for much longer! The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 17.7kHz |
| Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear! |
I can just about hear the 17.7 Hz; above that I can hear the speakers click but nothing else. Still, not bad for someone who hasn't been a teenager since 2003.