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| | All week, some nagging stomach thing, so haven't been able to work on anything, son seems to have cold this morning. And I have projects to do! Hopefully next week get going on them. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| I was looking through some of my dad's old books and I found these gems! I almost died!!
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| I idly thought about doing this last night, but thought, eh, it's not necessary. Then our lovely mods added a Next Generation tag, and I took that as a sign that this Must Be.
So, TNG GQMF PICSPAM POST!
I'll start with the catalyst for this post:
I'll admit it, I saw that and was looking for an excuse to share it with everyone. Bad thoughts, I has them. (coughanyonethathasabettercopyplztobeshowingmecough)
( Why hellooooooooo..... )
Slightly off topic but still relevant to our interests, I seem to recall Brent Spiner having one of those extreeeeeeeeme macros shown to him on twitter - or was it someone else, or am I making that up entirely? If I'm not, anyone happen to have it handy? | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm wondering when and where someone can buy real Christmas trees in Montreal and how much they usually go for.
Thanks | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Bu chòir an t-iasad a chur dhachaidh a' gàireachdaich. = The loan should be sent home laughing. (lit. It would be an obligation the loan to send home laughing.)
This proverb seems contrary to the notion of Scottish tight-fistedness/parsimony. The note accompanying it in the book suggests that the saying applies both to the giving and the repaying of the loan - that the person requesting the loan should be sent home happy to have been it given and that the self-same person should return the loan (to it's proper home, as it were) readily and liberally.
The second proverb, however, seems more in keeping with the cliche.
Bu mhath an t-iasad mur h-iarrteadh rithist e. = The loan were good if it were not wanted again.
{the vocabulary and grammar notes for these proverbs can be found at http://puxill.livejournal.com/247517.html}
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And one last proverb, added late --
Bha iasad a ghabhail 's a thoirt, riamh air feadh an t-saoghail. = Borrowing and lending were always in fashion. (lit. A loan was to give and to take, ever through the world.) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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25 Buffy/Dollhouse
46 Crossover: Buffy/Dr. Who, Buffy/Supernatural,Buffy/True Blood, multiple
62 Doctor Who/Torchwood
10 Stargate Atlantis
manipulations::
1 Crossover: Faith Lehane/Dean Winchester
3 Crossover: Faith Lehane/Jack Harkness
4 Dr Who/Torchwood: Gwen Cooper/doctor
5 Torchwood: Gwen/Ianto, Gwen/Jack
banner/header:
2 Crossover: Buffy, Supernatural, Doctor Who, Torchwood, True Blood
1 Dr. Who: Jack & Martha
teaser:
  
icons: (here) and (here)
manipulations/banner: (here) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Today I got a friend request on Facebook that was a porn spammer. That was a first, and another instance of Facebook becoming more and more like Twitter.
My son is all about colors. When he tells me about things, he always identfies things by color, and sometimes that's all he says. So, you have to know which book is the purple book (Marveltown, because the endpapers are purple. No other reason), which pajamas are the red ones (Mickey Mouse), etc. Yesterday he decided he wanted to make an orange and white cake. We were going to the grocery anyway, so this was pretty easy - we got a mix and some food color gel. It was fun to turn half the cake orange and then swirl them together. We did the same with the frosting. The cake itself wasn't very yummy - a little dry and I cooked it a few minute too long, but the three-year-old wasn't too concerned. We had an orange and yellow cake, and that's what mattered.
Today I hope will be a busy day at work. We need it. We have two parties and that generally means we'll be busy. I don't know why that is, but it's as if when there aren't parties scheduled, there is something going on that just keeps people from coming in. This upcoming week should be nuts - Veterans Day on Wednesday, then a party on Friday, three on Saturday and two on Sunday. Plus walk-in business. Christmas is coming, we can feel it in the air.
I painted two really cute samples this week. Now to just get the time to glaze and fire them. If Hannah and I can get the stuff we want to get done today (and I think we can) then I can do some of the other stuff I need to do. This is the time of the year when I would really like to just move into the shop. I never have enough time to do all that I want to do. Michael and Henry might not appreciate that, though. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals
by Karen Pryor
Interesting view of the scope of clicker training and TAGteaching as a technology, including a history of how Karen Pryor developed it, and the wide range of uses it can be put to, along with information on the neurological basis for how and why it works. Plus brilliant use of supplemental web information.
ETA: Puccini and I have done some basic clicker training, so when he heard the clicks from supplemental videos, he started offering "tap-tap". Armed with a better understanding of how to use cues, I was able to get him to stop pre-preemptively tapping and only tap on cue: He learned almost immediately that in order to get me to cue him to tap (so that he could then tap and get a treat), he had to stop tapping first. It was really very cool.
Originally posted to http://batwrangler.dreamwidth.org/ -- comments welcome wherever you are reading this. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
by Michael Scott
Book Two. Even though I've long outgrown any attraction "chosen ones with pure silver and gold auras" might have had (and moved on to finding the conceit annoying) there's enough interesting stuff going on here (and the bonus implication that the driving prophecy originally put forward might not actually be reliable information) to counterbalance the stuff I don't like.
Originally posted to http://batwrangler.dreamwidth.org/ -- comments welcome wherever you are reading this. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I have an appointment this morning at the Apple Genius Bar. Maybe they can wave their hands over my dead MacBookPro and bring it back to life. Failing that, I'll leave it for a repair estimate.
I've installed Scrivener on the desktop machine in Valerie's office. It's not an ideal solution, but we'll see how well it works this weekend at least.
More news after I see the Apple priests. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Vidder: Loki
Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Protège-moi
Song: Protège-moi
Artist: Placebo
Warnings: spoilers for season 5
Category: general
Characters/Pairings: Dean, Sam
Summary: There is something that you can't stop yourself. Something you desire, like a drug, that was in your blood since childhood. Sam had demon blood, and Dean had Sam.
Links: here at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) graphicinmotion | | comments: Leave a comment |
| http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020867.html Cute Asian girl: I feel like I'm in high school again, except the person I'm dating is female and a really good kisser, and the guy I'm plotting to seduce is my professor. What's wrong with my life?
Friend: I think you need to either learn to live without penis, or realize that kissing men isn't scary.
Cute Asian girl: Kissing women is scary too! But I happen to really enjoy kissing Christina.
Friend: Okay, so if you want to do your professor so badly, don't you think he might be a good kisser too?
Cute Asian girl: There are so many things you can do with a guy that don't involve kissing...
Friend: Again... Get over penis or start kissing men!
Cute Asian girl: It isn't that simple!
--Uptown 2 Train
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| This is more so I can perhaps give the bookstores some sense of what to expect/order/etc than for my own self-aggrandizement. Regardless, I didn't put a "no" option on the 'are you attending' because I didn't figure that'd be very helpful, since most of my 600+ friends list do not live in Seattle and Fairbanks. :)
Poll #1482005
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12I will be attending the Fairbanks booksigning on November 27th: I will be attending the Seattle booksigning on December 2nd: I'm likely to: If I'm buying books, I hope: I am glad there's a ticky box option even if I'm not going to either of the signings: | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | What a horrible, upsetting, nihilistic piece of 'work' Girl Number 9 was. Derivative and with the same shock-for-the-sake-of-it values as Children of Earth. Also with the same crappy and depressing aftertaste. No love. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| Dear Television Advertising,
Why was John Lydon trying to sell me butter last night? I mean, I'm not one to get all "OMG SELLOUT!", because whatever, but ... butter? What? My flabber is officially gasted, here, people. o_O
Also, what the shit is this? Are you serious?
Now I'm boggled and despairing for humanity. Thanks a lot, douchebags.
Going back to her NaNovel,
Melle | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Title: Wish You Were Here 8/?
Author: Ennee Gray (graylair )
Rating: PG13 for now
Word count: 1 600 ish
Ships: Jack/Ianto (eventually, working on it, close.)
Summary: Ianto hates Captain Harkness, but that's not enough to stop Jack. Ianto doesn't want a second chance, but that is not his to give.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or Doom or Doctor Who - the characters, idea, situations, etc. - nothing really. Rednex song isn't mine either.
A/N - I would have posted sooner, but last night kinda marked 36 hours since I last slept and I'm not Ianto - you deserve better than I can do in that condition. This should explain quite a bit about the last part's ending ;) Enjoy. There are just two to three more parts to go as this ends with Ianto walking back into Hub and getting back to work in a more or less canonic way. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Title: Wish You Were Here 8/?
Author: Ennee Gray (graylair )
Rating: PG13 for now
Word count: 1 600 ish
Ships: Jack/Ianto (eventually, working on it, close.)
Summary: Ianto hates Captain Harkness, but that's not enough to stop Jack. Ianto doesn't want a second chance, but that is not his to give.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or Doom or Doctor Who - the characters, idea, situations, etc. - nothing really. Rednex song isn't mine either.
A/N - I would have posted sooner, but last night kinda marked 36 hours since I last slept and I'm not Ianto - you deserve better than I can do in that condition. This should explain quite a bit about the last part's ending ;) Enjoy. There are just two to three more parts to go as this ends with Ianto walking back into Hub and getting back to work in a more or less canonic way. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| There will be a book signing event in Fairbanks, Alaska!
Where: The Fairbanks Barnes & Noble
When: 1-4pm on Friday, November 27th, 2009
What: I will definitely be signing, and my books will be for sale. I may do a reading or two, since I’ll be there a while.
Further details: The Fairbanks B&N is leaning toward mostly bringing in copies of WALKING DEAD to sell. I’m also encouraging them to stock up on first books in all of my series, but if you’re in the Fairbanks/North Pole/Nenana/etc region and would like books other than URBAN SHAMAN, WALKING DEAD, HEART OF STONE and THE QUEEN’S BASTARD, let me strongly encourage you to call then (907-452-6400) sooner rather than later to put an order in for the books you want. It’ll encourage them to have copies on hand, and they’ll be ordering books for the signing next week, so you’ll want to move briskly!
(x-posted from the essential kit) | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| White Collar. I love it. It's fun and really, really pretty.
But I'm starting to have a problem. See, the pilot was amaaaaazing but since then it's felt a bit "lacking". And while trying to figure out why, I realized something: two of the awesome secondary charactrs from the Pilot have gone missing in the subsequent episodes:
( Diana and June ) | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| It's the weekend. And the last weekend in a while that's mostly a smurf weekend. Tomorrow I plan on going bowling with friends. Apart from that I think I'm on houseman duty. Read you in a bit...
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Icebear Lars diving for some fish
at my local zoo. |
No reposting whatsoever without my permission. Copyright by KerrSmith2306 | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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