Why, despite the fact it looks like it might well have been genetically engineered for the job of eating cashew (or, indeed, any other nut) butter from the jar, does celery fail at getting that last little bit at the bottom?

*licks fingers*

Due to the latest DDoS attack I'm still having trouble getting into LJ, so this question is being crossposted from Dreamwidth, and I'm also asking the same question in consci_fan_moPlease can you answer in only ONE place ( Read more... )

Someone's just asked me if Man from UNCLE and (The) Wild, Wild West would qualify in their own right for consci_fan_mo. My immediate reaction is Man from UNCLE doesn't, because its very much set in its own time, but I'm not sure about Wild, Wild West as the only knowledge of it I have is the film, which was distinctly steampunk as far as the gadgets were ( Read more... )

My pre-con Discworld t-shirt arrived about a fortnight ago now (hubby very kindly ordered it for me a while back).

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Quick - not that I'll be here for more than 5 minutes - but did anyone see the lunar eclipse this morning? I was up, out and about early this morning, but it was misty and rainy and revolting and saw absolutely NOTHING and feel kind of deprived as a result.

Writing, you have to love it *g*

Psychology peeps? I know NOTHING of psychology so pretty please:

Is it okay to say "the rational part of his psyche" ? Or do I need to say the rational part of his *something else*?

OMG I have a writing mojo again! *HUGS IT*

You guys know this means I'm going to be asking for a North-American-Continent beta ( Read more... )

So, I, er drew this *thing*
I've scanned it (because I drew it in pencil in an old exercise book and there were lines!) and now I need to trace it so I can have a clean copy to rescan and hopefully - finally - get it into Paintshop Pro so I can use it in computerland...

Question:

What's the best sort of pen/ink to use?
We have some Staedtler ( Read more... )

Anyone else having problems or is it just me?? I can sign in okay but my uploads keep failing...

I know a few of my f-list are taking part and no this isn't me trying to winkle information out of you but I just spotted a call out for artists and um, actually I'm wondering whether to volunteer my services ( Read more... )