I was cleaning my hard drive -- or, well, "cleaning", rewatching old videos of myself from 2004, whatever -- and I found an episode of SGA. I literally haven't watched an episode of that show since the series finale, so years, and seeing the plastic set and the glowy blue lighting and the boys and girls got me all sentimental. I just saw David ( Read more... )

For some inexplicable reason I googled the name "Gerard" in Hebrew, and immediately flinched at how absolutely horrible the name looked spelled in Hebrew, and then I figured that since it was Halloween and all, why don't I just continue to horrify myself by spelling other Bandom people names in Hebrew ( Read more... )

Aw, MCR played their first new album concert in London tonight and videos are just starting to be uploaded and it looks like it was so much fun! The crappy quality Na Na Na sounds really good, which makes me happy, because their songs do not always sound good live, see: The Black Parade. Well, by "live" I actually mean "live on youtube". I'm sure ( Read more... )

Man, sometimes reading Hebrew words in English can get really awkward, because my first association of the words are of their Hebrew meaning, instead of whatever English meanings the word has evolved to have over the years. So like, when Bartlet talks about shibboleth in The West Wing my brain translates it into stalks of grain, and why is Bartlet ( Read more... )

(This is like, entirely new levels of procrastination. But at least I wasn't officially planning to work today.)

If you've ever looked at Hebrew script and seen stuff like this scattered around the alphabet --

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LOL, I love when professors try to discuss bodily functions/sex/various "vulgar" whatever in class politely. Quotes from today's Weimar class, taught by Daniel Jackson!prof, include ( Read more... )

I can haz Madonna tickets! 400 shekels each ($100), hope it's worth it. They're so nice and shiny! I... should probably find someplace safe to hide them until Sept 2nd ( Read more... )

Breaking news: sabra_n does not, in fact look like this:
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Okay, how did none of you tell me that the last show I had left to catch up on, NCIS, had for the past two months been building up a GIANT ZIVA ARC that ended with a season finale titled "Aliyah" and included HALF AN EPISODE TAKING PLACE IN TEL AVIV? HOW DID I ONLY JUST BECOME AWARE OF THIS ( Read more... )

( GK Hebrew glossary )