seperis talks about the sketchy stuff Apple's up to. I don't like thinking that the natural evolution of advertising is for it to get MORE annoying :(


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Dear Psych: why haven't you had an episode where Gus tap dances? Whyyyyyy?

( THIS IS A CRIMINAL OVERSIGHT. )

I am offended by how cold it is outside. OFFENDED.

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In my Spanish class we've read a couple of micro-cuentos by a few different authors. We just read one called Génesis that I really enjoyed. From what my teacher tells us, the micro-cuento (micro-story, like a short story but shorter) is a big genre in Spanish literature, one that she seems to ( Read more... )

¿Hay alguien que pueda ayudarme con este fic? (No sé donde puedo postear para una beta en español -- particularmente para una persona que no hable español como lengua materna -- aunque es probable que una comunidad exista.) Está basada en un fic que escribí en inglés originalmente (pero no lo traduje totalmente literal). Sé que es mejor escribir en ( Read more... )

Ugh, every time I organize my writing I have the "don't be so stupidly prolific, self!" conversation with myself, or, rather, the "or at least don't post so damn much of it!" one. BEING A DRABBLE WRITER IS HARD, GUYS ( Read more... )

Haha, continuing to go through files and found this. Am muchly amused. I think people should sit around and make up words all the time. Didn't I write this with one of you? deardotti, I'm looking at you.

( smrtrdictfurme: a dictionary for naturally smarter people! )

Something I've been thinking about lately.

re·lease (rĭ-lēs')
tr.v. re·leased, re·leas·ing, re·leas·es
1. To set free from confinement, restraint, or bondage ( Read more... )

So I'm backing up my LJ in a mis-guided attempt to see if I can misuse the archiving features to smoosh to LJ accounts together, and I couldn't resist using the "word count analyzer" function that tells you what words you've used most often in your journal ( Read more... )

(book one, metamorphoses, ovid. liberties taken.)

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas
corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas)
adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi
ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen.Spirit impels me to speak of forms ( Read more... )

Can an eye be described as “slitted” (e.g. a snake’s eye)? Context: “when he looks into the slitted eye.” Or is it slatted? That’s what Word is suggesting to me, but, um… slat is a totally different word. (Though, oddly, kind of works ( Read more... )