This is what I've spent my evening doing: making the PINKEST, UGLIEST Pokemon team EVER.  I've taken all the pink Pokemon I don't care for - plus a lot more that are perfectly fine-looking in their normal form but go hideous when shinyIf you can't be bothered to go to the forum and read my post, or it's taking forever to load because either 'Charms ( Read more... )

Weird sex: Giant squid do it deeper. Very awesome! If you like squids. Link possibly from mactavish.

Cute & funny Pokemon animation. Probably makes more sense if you are at least in passing familiar with the Pokemon games, but it's still good. Link from Alex at Pokecharms.

The Idle RPG. Amuses and disturbs me immensely. Link from hoopycat.

Alarming surreal art! ( Read more... )

Videos
Remember the YouTube video of a hungry cat resorting to increasingly desperate measures to wake its sleeping owner? It has a sequel: Let Me In!. A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to get indoors. Linked by micheinnz.

Ridiculously cute video of a rat riding on a cat riding on a dog, linked by rbowspryte. Unfortunately this video's ( Read more... )

I was hoping that I'd have acquired some more spoons by now. Hrm ( Read more... )

I have been annoyed with Pokemon for a couple of weeks now. (I didn't write about it at the time because it happened at the same time as the Burma stuff, and I... felt like I'd be the biggest hypocrite on Earth if I'd spent time getting sympathy about ooh, a problem in my video game when there was such awful stuff happening in the world.) This is ( Read more... )

Work for money is starting again - I have 4, or possibly 5, students continuing from last year, and 1 new one (so far). This is quite a nice number to ease back into. I enjoy my job and - as long as I'm careful about numbers of students & where I work - it gives me energy rather than sapping it. I seem to "need" a certain amount of chemistry in my ( Read more... )

AARRGHH!! I'm such an idiot!

There's this 'event' going on in the UK at the moment where you can finally download the rare Pokemon Mew onto a Game Boy Advance cartridge. You have to visit a random Toys'R'Us somewhere in the country with... a Game Boy Advance (not DS) and the cartridge/s. (Personally, I have Sapphire, Ruby, Fire Red, Leaf Green and ( Read more... )

We had a massive electrical storm and now my net connection is deader than the dodo. As I'd been planning to play my Japanese Pokemon Diamond today and use the net connection to look up words I didn't know, this has thrown a spanner into the works. So, as I'm sitting here with a text file open that contains the Japanese and English Pokemon names, I ( Read more... )

I am currently oscillating between fannish squeeing glee at the toys of the new Pokemon, and omg wtf bbq they didn't? at the new English names.

ヒコザル Hikozaru has become Chimchar - which to me sounds nothing like a monkey with its arse on fire and a lot like a chimp in the PG Tips advert holding a cup of tea, while my beloved ナエトル Naetoru (Naetle ( Read more... )

I have Teh Snot. For days I thought it was "just" allergies, but last night it abruptly turned into a fully-fledged cold-like thing, with violent coughing and sneezing. I've cancelled my students today in the hope that staying in bed will sort me out, because tomorrow we're supposed to be starting Phase 2 of The Floor Project. Bah ( Read more... )