Reading: "In Which Latin Is Abused" by amusewithaview. "In at least one universe, Rupert Giles became a fighter pilot. ...ahem. Sort of." Fusion with the Temeraire books, which is a horribly disappointing series about sentient dragons in the Napoleonic Wars. Read the first book (which is good), stop there, be happy, then enjoy this most intriguing ( Read more... )

Dinner last night included roasted sweet potatoes, which are my new shameful food obsession. Also I eat yams now too. Don't ask me why it took me so long to decide these things are delicious. But they are ( Read more... )

Thank you for your notes yesterday. I will say so more personally this evening, I hope. I am spending my day AFK running around madly. This is my moment of coffee-drinking pause before I launch myself into motion. Rocket-propelled motion.

Speaking of rockets: Apollo program source code! Linking to the Hacker News discussion not the source link, ( Read more... )

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd ( Read more... )

Hey hey, we got 16 stories for drunken!Giles 2011! That was awesome! (And secretly I will add any more I get to the list even though it's February now. Don't tell anyone.) I am nearly caught up with my reading. I just finished reading this one:

chevron17: Drink and the Demon - gen, FRT ( Read more... )

I did a lot of catching up on the flist this weekend as well as a lot of work on Giant Solo Project. There's one thing I want to point out to you specially, in case you missed it:

mythichistorian: I Ven Eden parts 1-9 - Giles & Buffy in Middle-Earth. It all starts with a sudden fog and a barrow wight.

Internet search: Annoyed with how the goog is warping search ( Read more... )

Today, for complicated reasons involving "future plans", I embarked on a node.js version of my LJ account backup tool. The current version is written in python, a language I am not using in my current project, and I need that functionality in either ruby or javascript. I also need more experience with node.js and js, so Javascript it is… and god, ( Read more... )

Elderly Pets: Dimmer Dog is very poorly these days. He is a couple of years younger than Smart Dog, but she's remaining alert and active (if arthritic) and he's declining. He's blind now, for one thing, and probably deaf as well. But most seriously, his kidneys are failing. Mr Pedia has learned how to administer fluids to him with a needle. Last ( Read more... )

It's hot around these parts this week, which is not all that hot in comparison with the rest of the country but hot for us & what we're used to. I dealt with the heat today by going ice skating with nemaihne, which is something that happens inside a large refrigerated warehouse with ice underneath. ICE. I had to put on a sweater. And then take it off again ( Read more... )

I wish to commend to your attention something I bookmarked just now for the newsletter: "Rise" by effulgentgirl. Giles and Buffy in season 6. A trifle, er, dark, but I don't want to spoil it.