There is other telly on that is not Doctor Who. I am even paying attention to some of it.

• Legend of the Seeker has been cancelled, woes. UNFAIR DUDES UNFAIR. I liked it, dammit. There was swordfighting and hot guys and girls talking to each other about stuff that wasn't romance. Also even after they killed off pretty people they still got to guest ( Read more... )

Due to my complete and pathetic inability to deal with jetlag, I slept fourteen hours last night. FOURTEEN HOURS. I feel like my brain is being held up, Mafia-like, by my body until it gets all the sleep debt it's owed. Boo ( Read more... )

I have not been doing much captaining in STO because omg, the servers are robust. I almost don't mind, because every time they go down, I head over to the forums and, oh, the crazy is strong. Even the people I agree with are mad. Half the dudes are furious and want lawsuits and say it is terrible and awful and EVIL that Cryptic cannot guarantee a ( Read more... )

The good thing about the Wii is that even if you do accidently spend half the day sitting in front of the telly, you are at least waving your arms about wildly, which is a fair bit more active than most computer gaming. Which is how I'm totally justifiying spending the weekend playing Lego Star Wars. It is a bit brilliant. Not only is it perfectly ( Read more... )

Oh, yay, yet another sci-fi/fantasy author for the list of No Longer Buying. At least in this instance I've never heard of Paul Di Filippo, who's cunningly demonstrated a stunning ability for being a right arse as he takes issue with those horrid jealous harpies pointing out that, heh, this latest Mammoth sci-fi anthology has no women or people of ( Read more... )

Am reading a fantasy novel at the mo that is not all that bad (I can't remember the last time I read beyond the first book in a fantasy trilogy - I like all the world-building stuff but the characters never seem to interest me enough to want to find out what happens to them, anyway -) and such but the island it's set on is called Acacia. And for me ( Read more... )

I like this meme, for there are books:

Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

1. Dune, Frank Herbert
2. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
4. Vanity Fair, WM Thackeray
5. Confessions, St Augustine
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald ( Read more... )

Am reading book supposedly about lives of ancient Egyptian women. It goes a bit like this: "Here is some archeological evidence we found inna tomb, of course we cannot say anything with any degree of certainty because of all these valid reasons I shall now talk about at great length on bias of source ( Read more... )

Here is an Exciting Meme about books what I got from teh flist:

( An Exciting Book Meme )