My usage split of communication methods, until recently:
Phone Call: Message demanding an immediate response or an extended discussion
SMS: Short messages demanding attention ASAP but no significant discussion
Hangouts/IM: Short, time-relevant but not urgent messages
Email: Long, important, but not immediately urgent messages
LJ: Long/rambling and ( Read more... )

Randomly saw the touring company's performance Kinky Boots due to inheriting a ticket from someone who was unable to go. Apparently it won a Tony in 2014 or something. Regardless, I was unimpressed. And not just because in my particular performance they had the sound set up in some way that I was unable to figure out significant portions of the ( Read more... )

The internet is really large nowadays.

This posting of the obvious brought to you by my not having paid any attention to it for like seven years and just now wondering whither went what was.

I have a GSM smartphone that I used in Japan. It's old as far as smartphones go (Two years! Practically ancient!) but it does pretty much everything I want it to with acceptable efficiency, doesn't usually run out of battery, doesn't limit tethering, and, aside from some cracks in the case, is in good condition. I have zero desire to buy another ( Read more... )

Some Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door yesterday, which is a hazard (?) of being a foreigner in Tokyo ( Read more... )

So I am finally playing Skyrim, because I wanted to lose any and all time that I could be doing something more useful or fun. Also been dabbling in the Creation Kit because I wanted to fix that there wasn't a follower with the particular skillset I wanted. But that aside ( Read more... )

I need to remember to make a better effort to write Amazon book reviews for books that I actually like.
So far I've mostly only been writing reviews for 2- and 3- star books, which I suspect is because I'm annoyed at having spent money on them, usually through being mislead by the 5-star reviews.

Part of this thought is derived from reading this ( Read more... )

[Book] The School for Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani ( Read more... )

Random pet peeve: were-whatever characters where the animal form has both medium+ length fur and tattoos or any other kind of detailed applied body art ( Read more... )

Stayed up way too late reading The Demon's Apprentice by Ben Reeder ( Read more... )