I don't usually like pranks/practical jokes because most of them are designed to humiliate someone (who doesn't always deserve such treatment), but this is an exception ( Read more... )

It's not too late to observe Worlds AIDS Day. Please join me in lighting a virtual candle for AIDS research. For each candle lit at this site, Brystol-Myers Squibb will donate $1 to AIDS research.

On a lighter note, H and I have been surfing Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. It's a fun site, with links to things like ( Read more... )

I'd like to extend my heartfelt best wishes to luvsbitch and James, who got married yesterday! Marriage is really really really hard, but it's so worth it. May Luvs and James find the lasting happiness that we all seek.

In preparation for Writercon (now less than two months away!), I've started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again, from the beginning ( Read more... )

The Smart Bitches take on romance novel covers

Warning: do not eat or drink while reading this.

Happy New Year, everyone! Thank gods the holidays are over, eh? Time for some last-minute year-end catch-up items before I address my goals for the coming year...

- Belated happy birthdays to nihilistbear and elcazavampiros! I'm sorry I missed your birthday; I hope you had a fabulous celebration!

- Thank you, aimeelicious and entrenous88, for the holiday cards! Although H and I took down our ( Read more... )

The holiday season has officially begun: I got my first card today, from lunabee34. Thanks, sweetie! I'm taking some time off in two weeks and I'll send out my cards then.

My Stargate Atlantis DVDs arrived today -- whee! ::happydance::

How many of you read Making Light? They've spotlighted some goodies this week:
- Panexa, a parody of all those ( Read more... )

Do you guys know about this? A composer has set Strunk and White's The Elements of Style to music -- a song cycle, no less! The mind boggles.

henryr points me to the coolest web sites:

Minutes of hypnotic fun in this animation. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions! Try to follow just one of the balls through its amazing journey ( Read more... )

This is a fairly depressing week in the news, isn't it? But I'm an optimist at heart, and I'll try to focus on the good instead of the bad, since it's all too easy to get sucked into a maelstrom of negativity. I find myself getting defensive (I didn't vote for President Bush! I'm appalled at what the current administration is doing!) -- but it's ( Read more... )

Busybusybusy! It's been almost two weeks since my last post -- wow, where has the time gone? Well, I've been lurking behind the scenes: working, planning vacation (Cape Cod, Sept. 10-17), speed-reading my flist, commenting occasionally (not often enough), and reading selected fic -- but mostly making icons.

I've completed all of the fund_fic icon requests ( Read more... )

Check it out: earlier today, I was involved in a discussion on zyrya's journal about handbags and the organization thereof, when skatiemom posted a link to a Very Cool Thing -- that is, it's cool if you're sick and tired of having to dig down to the bottom of your handbag to find whatever you're looking for.

Ladies, I give you PurseketsI am definitely going to ( Read more... )