You know, I really do enjoy Primeval, in part because of the cracktasticness, but it really doesn't help the suspension of disbelief when the characters are so ignorant of basic gun-safety protocols that they casually aim their weapons at their colleagues' heads as they're walking around a structure. ::facepalm::

Oy already.

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Because I just received a book about the only woman ever to be in the French Foreign Legion, and as interesting as I expect it will be, I'm pretty sure I never ordered it. Also, it was shipped to [my nickname my lastname] instead of [my fullname my lastname ( Read more... )

It's Veteran's Day in the US (Armistice or Remembrance Day elsewhere): thank a veteran today for their service, and remember their sacrifices.

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Dahlia Lithwick is one of the few reasons I still read Slate.

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Oh, sweet jebuslug have mercy. They've released the trailer for Eagle of the Ninth, which is the film adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff's ( Read more... )

This is a test. Can someone comment and tell me if it looks okay?
The icon should NOT be my default icon, but of a female climber in
black on a grey wall (that's me, some years ago). Also, the tags
should be "meta" and "wtf".

Should have done this last night when I had DW access, darn it.

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Oh, Marigold, don't you know you never ask for beta in meatspace? ::cringes with sympathy::

Machine of Death, that short story collection which briefly bumped Glenn Beck from the top spot on Amazon, is now available for free as PDF or podcast. Details here.

Privacy maintenance is a process of daily negotiation, particularly for the urban ( Read more... )

I had a lovely time.

But catching up on my reading, I came across this, and I just... maybe I should just close the laptop and go back to the mountains.

( Mountains are sometimes better than people )

Oh, for sweet jebuslug's sake.

Time to dust this off again.

1. The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States applies to governments. Not Livejournal (a for-profit private company), not the Boy Scouts (a non-profit corporation), not Wiscon (a non-profit corporation), and not National Public Radio (a non-profit corporation ( Read more... )

Nothing like getting rear-ended by a kid in an SUV on his very first day with his driver's license ( Read more... )

Eruthros has links for disabling the cross-post-to-FB-and-Twitter buttons on LJ entries and comment pages, if you need such a thing. Me, I'm working with a barely-functional version of IE6 at the office, and cannot implement any of these fixes. Shall just have to suffer (and spend even less time on LJ than I already do).

Okay, and here's an ( Read more... )

So, that Twitter & Facebook thing on LJ?

If that's pissing you off, I have a bunch of DW invite codes if anyone wants 'em. Comments are screened.

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