Lately, it seems like every time I post, hours later I remember something else I'd meant to include. This time it was an anecdote about how I work with smart, witty, poetry- and literature-loving people, and yet the other day I had to explain to three managers who were about to unintentionally insult someone that "bemused" does not mean "amused" ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder why I read the Globe's weather column when it is half dedicated to gardening and contains so many grammatical and typographical errors, like yesterday's "we are defiantly in an active wintry pattern" and "Some of you live in areas you can do burns this time of year, tomorrow would be a great day to set some of the brush ablaze ( Read more... )

Work work work, there is a lot of work to do. But (1) I asked for it, and (2) after switching meds, my brain is almost all the way back, yay, so there will not be complaining. Instead, let us share a sentence that gives you an idea of what I had to make sense of when putting together some talking points today ( Read more... )

1. My Jurassic Park vid showed at VidUKon this weekend, and at least three people liked it. :) Neat-o.

2. Speaking of Sheppard, which we were yesterday:

2a) Excellent SGA kink meme fill that transforms the "magical healing cock" cliché into a thinky and sexy story in which Sheppard has to deal with consent and privacy issues when his semen acquires ( Read more... )

Festivid #2 successfully uploaded. Well, semi-successfully. Enough that I will call it done. *brushes off hands* Now to wait two weeks for go-live and a month for reveals.... Thankfully, in the intervening time there will be the Porn BattleTrue story ( Read more... )

People are battening down the hatches here, waiting for the storm they're saying will dump a foot and a half of snow by tomorrow evening. It'll be our third storm in a week. I am loving this winter, and not just because I get to telework so much. Wednesday morning dawned with an otherworldly landscape: branches coated with wet snow, lit yellow- ( Read more... )

Greek avgolemono soup is one of the greatest foods humankind has ever invented ( Read more... )

(These are a few of the funnier ones today. The rest just make me put my head in my hands and despair for humanity. You know, the usual.)

Conversation with co-worker C. after he got back from the gas station mini-mart:C.: Look, I got a bag of peanuts.
Me: *squints* Those are sunflower seeds.
C.: *looks at them* Yeah, well, they've got nuts inside ( Read more... )

Haha, from the first user comment on IMDB:

"House is a cranky, cynical highly intelligent doctor with a limp that specializes in weird medical cases."

The response from the hotel contact regarding Internet access:there is no charge for the internet at either hotel we do have hard ( Read more... )