I don't normally do the Friday 5, but I'm wanting to be more active with something that isn't involved with frightening legalities or paranoia about corporate schemes.

( Trek, House, Vorkosigan, Dr. Who, Sime/Gen. Includes spoilers. )

The 10 fannish references I'd love people to recognize, even though I know my nearest & dearest (that'd be my husband) probably won't get many of them ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

We don't own any guns. We live too much in fringe groups that get unwanted legal attention to have guns, so we have no shoguns, no .357s, no (of course) bazookas or flamethrowers. More's the pity ( Read more... )

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I always think about doing thefridayfive, but they're rarely on topics that interest me. This set's interesting.

1. Who was your first crush?Had to think about this a bit. 7th grade; one of the cute guys on the junior high football team. (The smallest guy on the team; he was maybe shorter than I was.) Dale something-or-other. I'm sure he never knew I existed, ( Read more... )

Lexicon: a linguistic game without rules. (Ganked from ozarque.)

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2006/games-puzzles/lexicon/rules.cfm.

If you get past level 3, gimme a hint, so I can keep playing?

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