Gah! In my mundane name, I've found the word games at FaceBook and am now playing obsessively. I'm ignoring my email, LJ, and everything else. But this will pass. I hope it will. clever_punition has hardly been on LJ at all for months, because FaceBook is sucking up all her time. I think I need my community here enough that I'll be back on LJ as much as ( Read more... )

First, Ace update. He has developed a bit of an intermittent tremor in his hind legs. Is he cold? Is it palsy? It comes and goes, and who knows why. He also now has a little bit of a jerk when he starts nodding off. Reminds me of Sandra Day O'Connor. (Not her politics, which were/are foul; her palsy ( Read more... )

I know everybody's busy, but I also know that geeks are some of the most generous people in the world.

This person, who is a writer whom I adore, needs help with her X-Box.

I can't help her.

What a day! Okay, everyone, go play Fortune Cookie with cleverpunition, a game of her own devising. Go! It's gooood!

Second, anyone who has had a wedding, planned a wedding, been in a wedding, or seen a wedding, you must see these URLs given me by elegaer, OMFG, from a British facsimile of the U.S. "Bridezilla" show. Yes, they're safe for work, but first, some ( Read more... )

Oooh, ahh! This site, http://www.nextbrick.net/index.xml, tells you what Lego bricks are coming out next.

Ooooh, ahhh! But alas, the product I wanted is a prototype, and not available in the real world:


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The Warriors came out today for Xbox and the PS2.

Gah. I remember when the movie came out . . . back in 1979. Great soundtrack, which we probably have on vinyl out in the garage, and I think the game uses the same music. The TV ads do, anyway. If anyone has an mp3 of "In Havana," would you please . . . ?

. . . All the gangs in the Five ( Read more... )