I want to thank brokenhut for helpful suggestions on my network card problems. They are all fixed now. Somehow I have mixed up the two Ethernet cards ever since the machine was bought over three years ago (thankfully they're not two children ;). I took the external card (which turned out to be the VIA Rhine) out of the PCI slot and plugged it in ( Read more... )

That's what I feel when reading all such cold-blooded talk on the LMM fanfic site ;)

(But at least we still have the right to protest...)

The result of the last phone call to the visa office was positive--so maybe I am going to make the trip, after all ( Read more... )

I wonder if the 15-year-old Cecily King would have liked the 42-year-old version of her. Of course they would have gotten along splendidly when they really get to know each other, but the old Cecily might be a bit too reserved and melancholy to appear inviting to the timid young Cecily ( Read more... )

Another full day dedicated to deriving equations, or to put it in another way, converting pretty blank sheets of A4 papers into a ton of misleading nonsense. Thankfully today's equations are at least superficially sensible, unlike most of yesterday's results that would have got Kolmogorov rolling in his grave (fortunately most of the other ( Read more... )

Who could be the lovely Maggie there? Yes, I got it--the little JoJo in GL! "Your smile feels so warm, just like sunlight." Doesn't it!

The actors for Shirley and Cecily follows naturally, but little Elvis is too young for Peter :( Maybe he could be Matty and I can have some other Peter, such as Lewis in SoC...but I'm still not entirely

Moving from one room of my lab to another isn't really a big undertaking. Still, I want to say goodbye to Room XXX, where I have spent a year of more-or-less happy and accomplished days.

BTW, why does everyone have such interesting birthdays? Though to be sure, my own birthday is interesting in many ways as well--just not totally in the way I

I think this song would fit perfectly for Bets, now the mistress of the Long House and David Kirk's wife and the mother of two girls Patsy and Cissy, had to say goodbye to Pat, who would be leaving for Happiness with Hilary Gordon after Silver Bush burnt down.

As the summer holidays are about to end, I spent the last two days finishing the second half of the Anne anime series ( Read more... )

The "Anne of Green Gables" anime arrived five days ago, and from the first 25 episodes that I have watched since, I think it is truly, perfectly wonderful ( Read more... )