I started reading On Fairy Stories again, and I don't know why it never occurred to me before that the concept of "alien" and "elf" overlap.  The way Tolkien talks about Faerie and its inhabitants is not unlike some portrayals of aliens; the species removed from our own, with its own morality and interests, possessing powers we don't have and don't ( Read more... )

When someone texts my phone, it coos like a Tribble.

Thought you ought to know.

Hey tree_and_leaf, izhilzha, rj_anderson, and other Christian Whovians, did you see this article by Terry Pratchett about Doctor Who?  Specifically the whole part where he says the Doctor has been treated like a Messiah lately?  I giggled the whole way through it: nobody can say it's just us Christians seeing things!  (Though so far, Moffat seems to be better about it.  And about ( Read more... )

Amy got me a geranium for my birthday.  It's bright red.  Yay, geranium!  Yay, red!

Saw "The Beast Below."  I need to see it again.  This is a theme with Moffat-written episodes, I have to see them twice.  No bad thing.  But I love it already.

Amy's been watching Star Trek Voyager lately.  Oh, man... I watched it pretty religiously for about the ( Read more... )

Wesley Crusher is a Time Lord.  Trufax. Wil Wheaton finds this hilarious.

I love geeks.

(This has already made it to TVTropes.org's Wild Mass Guessing page.)

Today I went over to my parents' to use my mom's mixer for peppernut dough.  And round about the time I got to putting in the flour (which is the last step), I'm thinking, boy does this go faster than doing it by hand!  (Though I always end up doing the last two cups of flour by hand because even the sturdiest mixer burns out when the dough gets ( Read more... )

Curtains are up.  Will have pictures.  It makes such a difference!

Two bright, sunny days in a row.  I was beginning to forget what that was like.

The principle on one of my student loans (the smaller one) is now about equal to a month's pay.  This elicits the happy dance of joy.  I will have it gone in a year and a half.  (Perhaps sooner ( Read more... )

Can anyone tell me why a woman's Star Trek costume would be both harder to find and more expensive than a comparable men's costume?  I mean, besides the obvious "girls aren't geeks" thing...

I eventually found a TNG costume for $40.  I would've preferred one in "command" red, but they were out, and so I went with blue.  Yellow would have been cool ( Read more... )

I saw something odd in the sky today.  I was walking through my apartment complex (in a vain attempt to buy a sandwich), and I caught something dark out of the corner of my eye.  At first I thought something might be reflecting off my glasses, but then I realized that the bright blue evening sky really did have a long, shadowy streak bisecting it ( Read more... )

Y'know, I forgot to mention that last Sunday, I went over to Amy's parents' house for dinner (all of Amy's friends are permanently invited), and we decided to watch "The Trouble with Tribbles" afterwards.  And Amy's nieces and nephews, all under the age of ten, loved it.  The oldest, Alyssa, was giggling nonstop.  She told us later that she wanted ( Read more... )