I should not have read while walking. I stumbled over some uneven pavement and fell down. I didn't hurt myself too badly, mostly my hands, one wrist and both my knees are scaped up, but my ebook reader was destroyed. :((( Also my trousers, but I mostly feel the loss of my ereader ( Read more... )

August shouldn't be a month in which you have to huddle under a blanket for warmth, not in the Northern hemisphere and far out from the Arctic anyway. And yet here I am. Under a blanket ( Read more... )

I seem to be unable to actually stick with reading anything right now, whether fanfic or pro. This is really frustrating, for my reading to be so frazzled rather than feeling immersive and relaxing ( Read more... )

The Tumblr app has notifications, usually only "So-and-so liked your photo", but sometimes the notification starts differently but then I can't find out what it wanted me to inform about, because when I tap on the notification, it only opens my dash, and when I go on to check account activity nothing shows there either ( Read more... )

For the first time in some years I checked my rec pages to see how many links don't work any more (trying to gauge how horrible it would be if I decided to update again -- answer: very horrible), and so many stories have moved or worse vanished. A few of the vanished ones can still be found through archive.org, but many seem gone entirely. ( Read more... )

The recent trouble Pinboard is having (victim of DDOS attacks, I think based on its twitter?) is disrupting my fandom engagement, i.e. fic browsing and bookmarking, quite a bit. General web surfing too, because I use its private bookmark feature for most of my other bookmarking (recipes, art tutorials, whatever) too. People who target websites like ( Read more... )

I ought to be working on my
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So I bought Iron Man 3 on DVD today, and at first my computer didn't want to play it at all, then after some reading of online how-tos I found that sometimes disabling the menus makes the DVD work with linux players. And it did become playable but jumps in places so that a bit repeats and the stuff immediately after is missing. Now I don't know ( Read more... )

Why do I need a blanket to huddle under at the end of June? We had a couple of warm days a while ago, but then it got colder again. It's not that I want extreme heat, but lows of 9°C and highs of 14°C are not the temperature range you think of for "summer". Why can't we have a nice 22°-25°?

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My laptop won't boot anymore. It just makes some noises and then shuts down again ( Read more... )