[21 Nov 2009|11:25am] bubosquared [ mood | awake ] Assorted thoughts and ramblings, in list form: So apparently, in an attempt to outlaw same-sex marriage, Texas appears to have accidentally outlawed marriage altogether. WHOOPS! Bwahahahahah! So hey, did you hear a Belgiasn is now President of the EU? \o/ I cannot quite articulate exactly how weird it's been to hear him described as this "great unknown", because ... it's Herman Van Rompuy. The man's an institution. o_o (Also amusing: hearing the various mispronunciations of his name on assorted newsprogrammes. English speakers and diphtongs do not mix, people. Hee!) This morning on the news: the LHC is back online, huzzah! \o/ I probably shouldn't have watched that before coffee, though, because my first thought was, "Huh, I wonder if anyone's yet done a (probably gay) porn called The Large Hardon Collider." *faceplant* (Someone really needs to get on that, though. It could be a whole line of porn aimed at geeks and nerds! With lots of sexy glasses!) post comment

The Key To an Enduring Marriage Is Communication [20 Nov 2009|09:20am] robin_d_laws 4 comments|post comment

[20 Nov 2009|11:32am] bubosquared [ mood | hungry ] Finally heard back about my flat -- there was some certificate the landlord was waiting on from the Council, I think, which is why I've been in limbo for like three weeks, not knowing when I was going to be able to move in and thus unable to organise anything, augh -- and I'll be getting the keys on Monday, and moving in on Tuesday/Wednesdayish. \o/ (Is anyone with a car likely to be in the neighbourhood of the Royal Mile at any point between Monday and Wednesday, by any chance? I can shlep most of my stuff from the hostel to the flat (Milton Street), but I made the mistake of carrying my telly over from the Bridges, and that left me aching for days. I can get a cab for not much money, but if anyone's around anyway, I'd be most grateful for a lift for at least the telly. Thanks!) *goes to flail at BT to get a damn phone line already without £100+ installation charge, because WTF?* So what does it say about me that my initial reaction, after "ZOMG I HAVE ALL THIS STUFF TO DO!!1!" was "Oh, good, that means my chances of finishing NaNo will go up!" Because past experiences suggest I work better under pressure, you see. *facepalm* And speaking of NaNo ... NaNo Wordcount: 16,724/50,000 New Daily Wordcount Goal: 3,025 words I'm somewhat displeased that what should have been an excercise in fluffy self-indulgence suddenly for all Political! Intrigue! on me, but whatever. As long as the story tells me, in the end, what's going on, it's all good. [ETA] Fixed invalid markup and daily wordcount. My competence, let me show you it! Also fixed some stuff in the chapters I just posted, sigh.[/ETA] 2 comments|post comment

strip for November / 20 / 2009: the status quo (part 2) [20 Nov 2009|12:00am] goats_comic http://www.goats.com/archive/091120.html the status quo (part 2) (# 21) post comment

Dicing with easy-listening weather [20 Nov 2009|01:52am] alaimacerc [ mood | amused ] [ music | some much-needed Marmaduke Duke ] I'm not much of a Lisa Hannigan fan -- sorta in that same "mind-numblingly dull" category as Snora Jones and Boring Bailey Rae, I'm afraid -- bit I was rather struck by the cover of her current album: Strongly reminds me of the contents of my Thursday-night dice bag. (Not in use earlier this evening due to soft ambient conditions.) 3 comments|post comment

More of the same [20 Nov 2009|12:02am] yodathedark [ music | phone keypad beeps ] ( Warning: Included messages may contain emo. ) post comment

From a friend [19 Nov 2009|11:02pm] out0fcontrol One Flaw In Women Women have strengths that amaze men.... They bear hardships and they carry burdens, but they hold happiness, love and joy. They smile when they want to scream. They sing when they want to cry. They cry when they are happy and laugh when they are nervous. They fight for what they believe in.. They stand up to injustice. They don't take "no" for an answer when they believe there is a better solution. They go without so their family can have. They go to the doctor with a frightened friend. They love unconditionally. They cry when their children excel and cheer when their friends get awards. They are happy when they hear about a birth or a wedding. Their hearts break when a friend dies. They grieve at the loss of a family member, yet they are strong when they think there is no strength left. They know that a hug and a kiss can heal a broken heart. Women come in all shapes, sizes and colors. They'll drive, fly, walk, run or e-mail you to show how much they care about you. The heart of a woman is what makes the world keep turning. They bring joy, hope and love. They have compassion and ideas. They give moral support to their family and friends. Women have vital things to say and everything to give. HOWEVER, IF THERE IS ONE FLAW IN WOMEN, IT IS THAT THEY FORGET THEIR WORTH. This goes out to all my female friends :) post comment

Stolen from Drabbit [19 Nov 2009|10:57pm] out0fcontrol [ mood | content ] 1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life. 2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item. 3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it (I'm also adding the ID of the correct guesser like drabbit). 1- The Nightworld 2- Quantumn Leap 3- Lion Man 4- Babylon 5 5- Secret Circle Trilogy 6- ST: Voyager 7- M.C.O.G 8- Dork Towers 9- Stephen King's The Dark Tower 10- Electric Dreams 11- Exit To Eden 12- CSI (LV, Miami or NY) 13- Buffy 14- Angel 15- Stargate Yes I am a female geek, and proud! :) K post comment

Genre mark of shame [19 Nov 2009|10:49pm] alaimacerc [ mood | mordidly fascinated ] Those Whedonites appalled that Morena Baccarin was slumming it in Stargate, may need to sit down when I relate that she seems to be appearing in the V remake. (I only just found out there was a V remake.) Also featuring Herself from Lost, and That Bloke That Was in The 4400. The Mark of Sci-Fi is upon them! As for the show itself, one can only hope they're going to go in more of a shades-of-grey Earth: Final Conflict type of direction (before it totally lost such that it had, that is) than the lizardy, Marc-Singer-infested, rodent-swallowing '80s nonsense. 5 comments|post comment

I fought the road and the road won [19 Nov 2009|09:24pm] 21reasons [ mood | sore ] So yesterday I did something stupid on my ride to work and I made a bit of a mess of myself. I broke a bone in each hand, got road rash down the left side of my face and neck and needed a few stitches put in where my glasses ploughed into my face: Lovely, I'm sure you'll agree. In addition I managed to knock myself out so I got to spend the whole day in hospital, as they kept an eye on me to make sure I hadn't done anything worse to my head. Hey ho. I am pretty thankful that there wasn't any cars right behind me when I came off. The hand bones should heal in 2 to 3 weeks apparently but for now no cycling and everything else is a little bit more awkward than normal... 1 comment|post comment

Doctor Who Geeks might have seen this already... [19 Nov 2009|09:09pm] mr_malk [ mood | amused ] But I had to post it. Thanks to failing_angel for bringing it to my attention! post comment

New Book, Shirts, Prints + Intervolume Nerdzors Vacation [19 Nov 2009|01:48pm] goats_comic http://www.goats.com/forums/news/7089/ Howdy! I posted a graphic with images of most of the new Holiday 2009 product line but figured I'd follow it up with a few textual-type words to convey just how awesome these products are and how strongly I feel that you should purchase them. First up is the new book! The Corndog Imperative is book two of The Infinite Pendergast Cycle, serving up full-color Goats chaos and mayhem from 2006 and 2007. Published by Del Rey, this is my second mass-market release. It'll be available at your local comic shops and bookstores and online in various places but if you'd be kind enough to preorder it directly from us you'll be helping to support the strip. You'll also have the opportunity to order the book signed and sketched by Yours Truly for a few extra shekels and we'll also toss in an Overclocked Lemon or Psychic Potato stressball (also available separately) if you so desire. And every preorder ships with a free full-color plastic bookmark, for place-savin' while you're reading. If you never picked up the first book, or you're buying Christmas presents for someone new to the strip, we've knocked the price of book one, Infinite Typewriters, down to only twelve dollars. That's a two dollar savings off the cover price! And you can get both books together for only $25, for a combined savings of like, seventy dollars probably. I'd like to stress that it's extremely important for me to sell as many of these books as possible if I would like to please my corporate masters and have them continue to print more Goats books in the future. Please help if you can and consider giving them to your friends and family this holiday. Next, we've got two new t-shirts available for wearing! Check out the new Turtles All The Way Down and I'm Feeling Randy. Both instant classics. Both available in your size. Both guaranteed to make you more attractive and/or fiscally savvy. We're also offering prints in a variety of flavors, including Showcase Showdown, featuring art from the cover of the upcoming Book 3, Team Force Alpha prints Danger Jungle: Swamp Action and Graveyard of Death, and the full Jonathan Livingston Seagull comic. There might be some others. I can't be bothered to check. That's about it for store hoohah. Friday's strip finishes up the Status Quo storyline (and the content for the mostly-theoretical Book Four), and I'm going on mandatory vacation (i.e., working on copyedits to book 3 while everyone else travels repeatedly to one of several nearby identical Target stores to buy diaper paste) to Florida, Land of Jewish Grandparents next week, so this seems as good a time for a break from the strip as any. Brock will be contributing Teh Nerdzors strips for the next two weeks. Please be gentle with him. I'll be back on December 7th with a new storyline to kick off Book 5. post comment

weird! [19 Nov 2009|05:54pm] out0fcontrol [ mood | happy ] Ok, touchscreen is really really weird!!!!!!!!!! :S Not sure on the Windows 7 aspect, but will see. I now get to add my official MS Office 2007 to a decent computer. Not used to a screen bigger than 15" - this one has 20.5" Think I'm going to have fun with this :D post comment

The Birds [19 Nov 2009|09:20am] robin_d_laws View series to date here. Updated archive soon. post comment

My HeroQuest game I am running at Dragonmeet 2009 [19 Nov 2009|01:56pm] darransims 0 Dragonmeet 2009. Kensington Town Hall, London, UK. Saturday 28th November 2009. http://www.dragonmeet.co.uk/ This is the HeroQuest game I am running at Dragonmeet 2009. 'Cropcircles and Lights Out' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims. Supernatural: HeroQuest 2.0 adventure for 5 players. Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred. Based on the TV series. "Police reports are coming in from Fulton County, Georgia of cars driving at night without their headlights on. When helpful members of the public flash their lights in courtesy to warn the drivers they become victims to the drivers. All that seems to be left are the abandoned cars with their headlights smashed out. No trace of the occupants have been found. Forensic reports do confirm that the blood found in the broken headlights is canine, not human. Are these incidents related to the gang tags found in the recent spate of crop circles that also plague the area?" 2 comments|post comment

Computer [19 Nov 2009|01:15pm] out0fcontrol [ mood | bouncy ] Well my old desktop died a while back (due to Ki hi-jacking the power supply for his old computer Bessie) and my laptop is giving me anxiety just by turning it on. I was trying to sort nationals stuff and it turned off midway randomly. The same happened when I was sorting out pictures for my mums Christmas pressie. So I go on it when I need to but for only 10 mins at a time. Now I have insurance to cover it getting fixed, but it can take up to 6 weeks for this to happen. And I CANNOT be entirely without a computer during this time (I have the nationals e-mails stored on my laptop) So yesterday, when I decided to randomly go to the Gyle at lunch I picked up a Metro. And had time to read it. And spot the uber deal happening at ALDI today. Well uber for me..... Single core Pentium 2.2Ghz. With a huuuuge 1TB harddrive and a massive 4GB ram. And lots of other stuff like freeview built in :D Best bit is its all built into the screen, which itself is touchscreen. Hardly any space taken up :D Well Ki got it for me this morning (only 5 in the shop) and I'll be starting to play with it tonight after work but before Gamers...... Here's hoping it works :) K 3 comments|post comment

Recovery and more Finn [19 Nov 2009|10:07am] richaje I had hoped right now to be on my way to Oldenburg to celebrate a friend's birthday and see the sites, but instead I came down with an acute case of bacterial bronchitis and a 103 degree fever. So sadly no Oldenburg. But here are few pictures of our wonderful son Finn: 1 comment|post comment

Monkfish sporran parabola [19 Nov 2009|12:59am] brain_hurts [ mood | inquisitive ] ? 1 comment|post comment

[18 Nov 2009|06:24pm] krystal_planet I have gastero enteritis... The doctors have diagnosed me with a possible Salmonella Poisoning I have a sick note for work which the doctor told me would last untill my tests were confirmed but reads... Krysh thinks it says one week, so who knows Work have told me I cant even pop in to hand it in as I am to be quarantined. Woohoo 1 comment|post comment

DORK TOWER, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - In the Year 2012, 2012… [18 Nov 2009|09:00am] dorktowerfeed http://www.dorktower.com/2009/11/18/dork-tower-wednesday-november-18-2009-in-the-year-2012-2012/ http://www.dorktower.com/?p=4125 4 comments|post comment

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