I'm having the shittiest week at work and I have to turn nine pages of non-sequential ramblings on a subject I don't understand into four pages of copy by tomorrow morning, but I own a lamp that looks like a house when you put a book on it (see point three here), so it is ALL FINE.

Things which I like on the internet:

1) This awesome letter Gene Roddenberry wrote to his agent after The Cage was rejected, in which he talks a lot about how he really, truly wants to make everyone realise that science fiction is a thing of wonder and beauty, but will settle for making them think it's kind of okay if it means he gets to have ( Read more... )

...just in case you were wondering.

[insert standard I-hate-my-job rant here]

[insert standard I'm-dropping-out-of-inception_bang self-flagellation here]

[insert I-saw-Mark-Watson-he-isso-lovely flailing here]

AND NOW SLEEP. OH GOD I AM SO OLD AND TIRED AND OLD.

Because peer pressure always wins out eventually.

Flist! I have been away from you for so long! I have manflu (in that its chief symptom is the constant emission of a whining, griping sound and assorted oozings and not, alas, in that it causes spontaneous gender transformation every time I sneeze). In lieu of a post of any real value, let me ramble to you about various sub-standard morsels of pop ( Read more... )

For the other mumblemutter, Being Human trio-fic.

( Mentions a character from 2x03, but is wildly AU )

Laptop: dead.

Rewritten exchange fic: finally in beta.

Merlin 2x10: "Do I get to keep my fingers?" NOT IN MY FIC.

Snowflakes: from hils, zillahseye and girlneedsagun. You ladies are the sweetest, thank you so much! ♥

To conclude.

This probably belongs over at the other elj, but I no-one actually reads that, soI (might be) about to embark on a research project which looks at the different ways in which museums use new technology to attract new audiences. Does social tagging make an archive seem more accessible? Are virtual tours impressive or pointless? Does advertising on ( Read more... )

Today, in a seminar that was supposed to prepare me for my upcoming research project, the tutor handed out some of the previous year's dissertations. Cue this completely petrifying exchange:

A: What's fanification?
B:...
A: This essay. It's "Fanification and intellectual property law."
Me: Um, it says fanfictionA ( Read more... )

So a Russian professor has predicted how the United States will be divided up in the future. Why hello there, real life. Please, continue to mirror Stereo Field.