1. Cutest ESL mistake of the day:

Me: How old are your children?
Student: Ten o'clock and eight o'clock.

2. Mark your calendars, SFF fandom folks. Today is the day an NPR reporter mentioned Wincest by name on the air. In a positive story about fan fiction. I may not be a Supernatural fan specifically, but I feel like we've passed some sort of ( Read more... )

If you'd like to make a donation to Chile earthquake-related causes *and* get something fun out of it, help_chile is having a fanworks auction much like help_haiti's. The master lists of offerings aren't completed yet, but you can browse them here:

* Fanfic 0-9 / A-L & M-Z (many, many fandoms) or look through all English language offerings or Spanish language ( Read more... )

* This is very silly, but... I won the weekly screencap caption contest on a Primeval comm! And it made me a little gleeful, which surprised me, but was fun. I don't mean it's silly to be happy that I wrote a popular caption, I mean - well, you have to look at the cap and the caption themselves. One of my stated fannish goals for this year (hmm, I ( Read more... )

I'm halfway through a stack of exams, it's getting late, and I'm procrastinating. Shaun of the Dead is keeping me company on the DVD player.

I really want to buy some My Little Ponies and some paint right now.

Gerbil shirt. I don't mean a shirt with a picture of a gerbil on it, but don't worry, it's not a shirt made out of gerbils. (ETA - Sadly, ( Read more... )

* An international team of scientists has finished mapping the Gamburtsev Mountain Range in Antarctica. They're comparing the range to the Alps in Europe, but they had to use ice-penetrating radar to map it because it's buried in a glacier 2000 feet thick. I just love the idea of entire mountain ranges that are hidden from us.

* Egyptian stele ( Read more... )

I have the luxury of a bit of peace and quiet today. (I wish you could hear it! Just windchimes and a bird or two. Oh, and a hawk just landed in the oak tree outside my window.) I've gone from 27 LJ tabs open in Firefox down to 6, in only three hours. Woo. I won't be able to stay caught up, probably, but I'm trying. :) My mom is having a bad pain ( Read more... )

The real life stuff and the fandom stuff are all mixed up because that's my life, and I think I try to compartmentalize too much.

• The Humans Are Dead by the folk comedy duo The Conchords - a "slightly dated" song about the future (group recced by jadesfire2808)
• Doctor/Master vid to Jonathan Coulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain" (via Bubbles83)
• The migrating flock of ( Read more... )

I've been letting hormones get the better of me today, so instead of going right to work I wasted time on something happy-making first.

In preparation for the who_knits Good vs. Evil Knitalong and because it was ridiculously cheap, I ordered the Doctor Who Pattern Book from Who North America. I was hoping there would be a knit K-9 pattern, and there was ( ( Read more... )

I'm posting in quick succession. Apologies! But smidgy06 just linked to something WONDERFUL and I need to spread the love. There are at least two or three people on my flist right now who are actually doing a Buffy rewatch, and probably 70% of my flist who can appreciate this regardless.

Song by Megan Gogerty: "I Miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (scroll ( Read more... )

From the Fourth Doctor episode "The Ark in Space":

( Slashy Bonus Scene I made up )