Alors!

Des Danois des piques, dans jours d’antan,

Nous avons entendu travaux très nobles,

Comment le courage de ces princes réussait.

Toujours, Shield Sheafson, le fléau des guerriers,

Privait les places d’hommes dans chalets de chouchen,              5

Et tout terrifiait après qu’on l’a trouvé,

Découvrit comme enfant dépourvu. À la ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's cross-posted with Facebook because that's where most of my entries "of substance" are these days. But I thought I'd post a poem here too, just to have something substantial on my LJ. It's been a long time since I''ve put anything here.

THE SONG
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The stars are in your eyes tonight.
Your heart is in your hands.
Your ( Read more... )

I'll make you somerthing shiney
This post is lifted fromsionnach_sidhe, as per THE CATCH of the meme ( Read more... )

 
( Poetry behind the cut. )

I thought I'd post the story of a fascinating (re)invention--one that reaffirms a claim I've read elsewhere that the largest advances in science/technology are still being made by lone geniuses, not skilled and well-funded research teams.

The gist of it: there's a device called the Antikythera mechanism, after the island where it was found. It's a ( Read more... )

You are currently reading a meme rather than a real update.
Go back over the year, month by month, and post the first sentence of your first post of the month. 2008 in miniature.

January: I can't explain it. But I am suddenly struck by a strong desire to read William Faulkner.
February:  Spoiler warning...self-absorbed artist ( Read more... )

I am pleased with the U.S. Election results. My emotions can only be adequately conveyed by an emphatic "yaaaaay" combined with the motions of Kermit the Frog's arms when he introduces a guest star.


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So I hear Norway is nice this time of year...

Seriously, though, I'm not utterly dissatisfied with the results this year. The consensus is that low voter turnout, and Yo Harper re-elected, means that we're an apathetic herd of cattle who have failed at our best chance to get an arts-hating right-wing tool out of office.

I prefer to think of things a ( Read more... )

Your result for The Supervillain Archetype Test...
The Megalomaniac

Ambitious, Intelligent, Calculating


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So, because I've been reduced by grad school busy-ness to making one-line Facebook status updates instead of journal entries, it's been far too long since I've posted an inane Livejournal quiz. So here's one, courtesy of the ever-resourceful raptor combatant user_lain :

I could survive for 1 minute, 28 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor