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Okay, so, guys, please tell me I'm not crazy: at some point this winter, I swear to God I read a lovely lengthy fic about Arya Stark from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series; without spoiling much for the story or the books, it was Arya, much later, at the Eyrie, a ways off in the future. Did anybody else read this story? Tell me I ( Read more... )

many unrelated paragraphs:

1. there's a sports night renaissance going around on livejournal, and it couldn't make me happier. two new communities that you might have missed are csc_memo, a noticeboard community for sports night fic, icons, meta and everything else under the sun, and sn_playbook, a flashfiction community modeled on ds_flashfiction and sga_flashfic. the first challenge was posted ( Read more... )

[ways you never want to start a monday: by losing a desktop computer. it's on, it pings, we have no fracking clue where it is, since it's not in the spot where our database says it's supposed to be. but i suppose that's better than last week, wherein someone (and by someone, i mean one of my coworkers) broke campus authentication on every machine ( Read more... )

( west wing 7x05: here today - SPOILERS )

so say you're at work, trying to teach yourself how to use this new software that no one in your department understands yet, and you click over to a new tab in the application and there's a button there that says, "generate OTP".

there is really nothing you can do in that situation but make yourself an icon.

i mean, your bosses wouldn't have ( Read more... )

ten things that are making me happy right now, monday morning at one thirty seven am

1. last night both parts of "in the shadow of two gunmen" were on, on the abc saturday night reruns, back to back. this is never a time when i don't want to watch those two episodes. so fucking brilliant.
   
   
2. this exchange on overheardnyc:Crazy lady: Canada doesn't do this. You see ( Read more... )

i am a misanthropic cynical optimist. which means that i want to believe that good things will happen, but everyone sucks and consequently nothing good actually will ever happen ( Read more... )

1. the people at u.s. news & world reports research departments are incredibly intelligent, friendly and patient. i called them yesterday and they answered a metric buttload of annoying, nitpicky questions about their college rankings. go team u.s. news & world reports.
   
   
2. MARK PRIORZ ELBOE IZ PASTEDE ON GOOD YAY! (which is to say: 6 scoreless one-hit ( Read more... )

1. has everyone seen this incredible parody of edward gorey's gashlycrumb tinies, as filtered through the harry potter universe? chronographia has done some truly incomparable art - my favorite is k is for krum, devoured by a dragon.
   
   
2. the boy and i think that someone should make a live-action chrestomanci movie. we suggest the nine lives of christopher chant, as ( Read more... )