Mythology as we read in books and as we create it

[rainofthenight]

However modern our means of transportation are, my imagination needs very little help to feel as if I've entered the 19th century when travelling by train. It's a very design train, a double decker, with power plugs for laptopped people (sounds funny, doesn't it), but I don't think the essential feeling of travelling ever changes if only you let it

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[polypragmosyne]

I prefer to use TextEdit or Bean for academical questions, and VoodooPad for fanfiction. I used to have iWork until the previous version, but I decided I end up using rtf for exchange more regularly than .pages, or even opendocument formats, so for the moment I'm using NeoOffice for the few spreadsheets I'm having around :)

Plus I use BibDesk for bibliographic references. Very handy!

What "additional" (as in "not in the OS standard installation") did you add to your MacBook? For example, do you have QuickSilver?

[zigsternenstaub]

Generally speaking, the language issue is one of the things that bother me most abut American historical films. They seem tothink that putting a bit of a 'refined' accent onthe words means that that the characters are speaking German, Russian, Latin, Greek, etc. A most annoying trait. British films and even Canadian are generally much less guilty of this, but I've even seen European films doing it sometimes. Such as when De Ontdeking van de Hemel (Gaaa, I love this book!!!! One of my all time favourites) was adapted into a film starring Stephen Fry (who is amazing, but definitely not Dutch) and other than the fact that they *say* it's Holland, you'd never know that the characters were supposed to be Dutch. And wierdly, the city doesn't even look like Amsterdam.