FF. net Reviewer who can't use proper grammar thinks that my ficlet "would of been better" if I hadn't "used so much repetition", surely, you know what an anaphora is, right? Now, you're perfectly entitled to dislike a rhetorical device, but complaining about repetition in an anaphora is like... complaining about action in an action movie, or ( Read more... )

I think that I need to learn to tell people when they're being assholes that they're being assholes. Even Especially when "people" are my father. And yes, I do realize that I sound like I'm about a third of my age, but do I remotely look like I care?
Yep, didn't think so.

You know those days when things go wrong and go wrong and keep going wrong, and when you think it can't go wronger, it does? I had a week made of such days at work last week, including co-worker in tears because her supervisor - supervisor I'm considering to nickname Terminator - badly snapped at her. I more or less can handle co-worker in tears. ( Read more... )

I hate the new format of the LJ-cut. Now, I'm not inciting anyone to anything, obviously, but if you don't like it either, the announcement for the latest release is HERE. I'm just sayin' ;)

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Gakked from torigatesPick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. ( Read more... )

Science: It's a girl thing. Check the website. And the videoThis is supposed to be a campaign by the European Commission to promote scientific studies to young women and women in science ( Read more... )

Postée à l'origine par cantarina1 sur entrée
Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues


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Copy-pasting from nrrrdy_grrrl's entry.
How You Can Stop SOPAAlthough the House is supposed to be the mid-winter recess, representatives like House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) continue acting as lobbyists on behalf of SOPA's financers rather than acting on our behalf as elected representatives. Please help thwart the undue influence of media ( Read more... )

It seems LJ is going crazy with the customized comment pages... Apparently, if you go to http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml and switch "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" back to "No" in the drop down menu, you get back the customized pages ( Read more... )

Deux articles qui mettent en joie (nan, évidemment que c'est ironique) en cette fin d'année :

→ L'Hadopi souhaite « un système de contrôle chez l'usager »
→ Filtrage Internet : liaisons dangereuses ?

Il va falloir que je trouve quelque chose d'un peu moins flippant/déprimant à poster d'ici vendredi soir pour ne pas finir l'année sur une note

♦ Dear LJ, what’s the trend with people friending without even saying "hi" first? Or "I ♥ you so much I can't live without your entries on my flist"? Or even "I can’t stand you, but thought it would be easier to mock you if your posts popped on my flist ( Read more... )