life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

I've just transferred all my posts over to insanejournal. Sorry for the mad spam, flist on ij.

Sadly the tags didn't transfer across. Grrrr.

Now I'm going to try to double-post to both journals using Semagic

Magnetic bacteria could be used to target tumours.

Via white_hart:

MATCH IT FOR PRATCHETT

Today, it was announced that Terry Pratchett has donated half a million pounds to Alzheimer's research. Hearing that, it occurred to me that if half a million of us all donated a pound to Alzheimer's research, we could match his donation and make it an even million.

So whaddaya say, guys? It's a pound. That's about 2 bucks US dollars, give or take a couple of (US) pennies. You can spare that much. Go here and make your donation. Tell them it's in honour of Terry Pratchett.

Let's do it!

http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/howtohelp/

So. Latest cracked-out speculation for DW S4.

DO NOT WANT. I mean, what's the point? Sadly, I suspect Team Cardiff may think this the best concept since sliced bread.

Eeek. Building falls down in Victoria Street. No, it didn't blow down; the storm hasn't really hit here yet; apparently it DED OF CONCREET.

I am completely TEH FAILZ at ordering birthday presents. elerrina_amanya likes to be surprised. I'm the opposite, and in fact spent some time last weekend going 'Tell me what you bought me!' Still. Ordering the present to the house with the letterbox would be a good idea, eejit.

OK, LJ: divvy up the comment notifications now, please.


Is it just me or are the rest of you not getting them either?

I have returned to the intarwebz, elerrina_amanya having finished the Project of Doooom this morning. She woke me up at ten to midnight last night to proofread it, so I was sitting in bed with the laptop on my duvet going "Binomials...zzzz....Pascal's Triangle...oh, yeah, remember that...."

She's just said, "Now I've finished with the numbers, let's have some Numb3rs." (which is on ITV3 on Mondays for us unfortunate right-pondians, about a million years after the Americans get it. Incidentally, if the government wants to stop illegal downloading, they should try working on the gap between American films/TV being shown in America and being shown here. Of course people are more likely to get something illegally if there's no way they can get it legally!)

BTW, it's a crime drama WITH MATHS if you've never run across it. We've been watching it a good bit lately. I'm kind of in love with the main character, Charlie Eppes. I don't know if they effect of 3 years of physics lectures going, 'Yeah, the concept's fine, can you just put all the intervening steps back into the maths so I can understand it?', but there's something exceedingly cool about being able to do maths really really well. Also there is a very nice family dynamic going on with Charlie, his brother the FBI agent and their dad. And it is rarely as traumatising as some other crime programmes I could mention. I am willing to overlook the implausibility that anyone, however intelligent, can be an expert in every form of mathematics known to humanity, and the fact that the mathematics department appears to only have three members of staff, none of whom actually seem to spend much time working for the university.

I write this sitting on the stairs, having just successfully set up a wireless network. I'm wandering around the place trying to find out which rooms are good with it and which aren't. Everywhere but the bathroom seems to be okay.

Now, watch me drop the laptop down half a flight...

So, Blu-ray is apparently the next format and HD DVD is set to go the way of Betamax.

I don't think it'll take off that well, though. For a start, DVD is good enough quality for most people, or at least the difference it's great enough that everyone is going to buy a new copy of films they already own.

Secondly, there are so many ways to play DVDs that don't play Blu-ray. Most computers will, set-top boxes and portable DVD players. It's not just a case of the VCR wearing out and replacing it with a DVD player.

And thirdly, aren't we all meant to be downloading all our visual media off iTunes, like, the week after next?

Is it just me, or has Livejournal been a bit quiet the last few weeks?


I tell you what. Rec me someone you think should be on my flist but isn't.

I've written a couple of Ivan POV short fics. Gregor and Ivan come in high on my PLZ RITE MOAR, LOIS list, so here you get two-for-one.

Notes:Set at the end of Warrior's Apprentice. Thank-you to legionseagle and coalboy for beta-ing.
Rating: PG


Paved With Good Intentions

"I don't imagine I'll get the opportunity to say this very often in my life." Ivan paused. "Gregor, you idiot."
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