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antennapedia

Dispatches from the front.

Jan 14, 2012 09:44

This week my beloved spousal unit bought me a bunch of computer components, which I assembled inside a rackmount case we had lying around. We are definitely the sort of people who have > 10 working and non-working computers sitting around in corners at any given time. This is an occupational hazard. So is being entranced by the sexiest power supply ( Read more... )

fandom:sherlock holmes, geek

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antennapedia January 14 2012, 21:00:00 UTC

I was pissed off with the shipwar idjits posing as feminists in the anon thread about "Scandal" & Moffat's writing last week, so pissed off that I decided to take a nice long break from the meme. This might or might not be my hot-button issue.

clavally January 14 2012, 21:05:48 UTC

I liked "Scandal" WAY more than "Hounds". Mostly, because I haven't finished "Hounds" yet. I keep getting bored halfway through. Not really sure if it's me or if it's the episode, though.

antennapedia January 14 2012, 21:51:09 UTC

We found it a bit easy to predict the plot, though some of that was familiarity with the source story. Have you read the original recently? The ep really went for the atmospheric horror ACD was going for with his descriptions of the moor. (I did indeed spend some time in the bath today reading it :D.)

clavally January 14 2012, 21:53:52 UTC

I'm almost afraid to admit this, but I've never read any of the original ACD stories. >.< Part of it was a desire to not be into the things my mom was, if that makes sense. I'll look some of them up when this semester is over. Any suggestions on what to start with?

antennapedia January 14 2012, 21:59:57 UTC

Heh. They're a bit hacky, because ACD was a hack, but the good ones are a lot of fun. Start with A Study in Scarlet, which is the story of how Watson meets Holmes, and then continue with the first collection of short stories, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Most of the famous ones are in that first burst of work. After that, if you're still into it, you can continue with the further collections. All are well out of copyright so they're easily read online.

Hound is pretty famous and should probably be read as well, just for familiarity with the famous stuff. It's novel-length. Well, short for a novel these days, but definitely much longer than the short stories.

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wickedfox January 14 2012, 22:34:00 UTC

My, what a sexy power supply you have.

antennapedia January 15 2012, 04:18:07 UTC

It came in a faux velvet bag, it was so sexeh.