(I wrote this letter and sent it off to friends and family, and posted it all over the place. People passed it around. It went everywhere. The response was amazing. Ten years on, here it is again ( Read more... )

Why is it always so ridiculously over-complicated to visit family? And so impossible to please people? Not that it's ever possible to please my sister, who I just had to hang up on because I just did not have the patience to deal with her today.

And yup, Mercury just went retrograde. I forgot to check when the retrograde started and didn't do a backup. So it's been a couple months and there are some files I would be unhappy about losing. Hopefully, they can repair the comp. Hopefully, repaired enough to get another year of usage out of it, but at least enough so that I can be sure to get ( Read more... )

So this summer, we got Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men First Class and Captain America. Having now seen them all, I rank them as: Cap, Thor, X-Men, GL. I have reasons for this and some other comments about them and other related movies.

Ranking: the films as a wholeCaptain America edges over Thor because it's a tighter, more self-contained movie. Thor ( Read more... )

If you believe that death is necessary to support your cause, please consider the following options.

If it is your own death, you will likely be remembered either as a Martyr or an Idiot. Looking at the history of people remembered as Martyrs, generally for a religion or an ideal like freedom, there is a certain amount of success for the cause ( Read more... )

This year, we went to Sirius Rising at Brushwoodinstead of Starwood, which was held earlier this year, and at Wisteria in Ohio again, or Summerfest, which is this week. Sirius has been around for a while, but this is the first time we went to that particular festival. Although we have been to the Sirius Saturday bonfire a time or two before ( Read more... )

Poll

I'm not surprised, given the people I know, that the biggest daily "style" choice is whatever's on top of the pile or clean. I was a bit surprised that I didn't get more votes for nudity! Steampunk and period has costuming/special occasion choices doesn't surprise me, either ( Read more... )