A while ago distantcam and I did a joint amazon order, consisting largely of graphic novels and programming texts. Amazon just sent me an email about books that "people with my tastes" might like, and as might be expected I have no idea what the titles actually mean but find them amusing regardless.

I wonder if buying this would put us on a CIA watch list?

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Explorers

Another one of those jokes whose intense appeal to my sense of humour may not be shared by others :)

(From little_details)

Question: My character has suffered repeated blood loss from vampire bites. What non-supernatural diagnosis will doctors give for his symptoms?
Answer: Occult bloodloss

Turning Left Again My new personal canon for the end of Season 4 Dr Who. Spoilers, obviously.

The 3

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So, the latest show I got out from Quickflix was "Bleak House", the BBC adaptation of the Dickens novel. It's pretty good so far, apart from the rather distracting "OMGTENSION" music stings at random, really not very tense momentsAnyway, going in I knew Gillian Anderson was in it, which I found mildly amusing but I know she's been going a lot of ( Read more... )

Oxymoron though it may seem to be, an amusing blond joke (via maharetr)

So I'm googling "entrance ancient city" to figure out how to draw the next page of ACOS (I think I'm going to have to figure out a map of the whole city soon. Guh. My poor hard sciences brain is hurting!) and come across this link.

Which..huh. There's a plot point I hadn't considered :D

Am currently preparing to take my learners again. Shut up ( Read more... )

I visited my family yesterday. The main reason was to give them a copy of my thesis (they were all suitably impresed by it's weighty unreadableness) but also to pick up an unlabelled and unexpected package addressed to me at their address (where I haven't lived for over 5 years ( Read more... )

Oh god so utterly buggered. Seven shifts more to go. Somebody kill me now. Wasn't actually unpleasant (children all happy, activities fairly seamless) but soooo tired ( Read more... )