The syndicated-feed Pepys Diary finally ended! Ten years of glancing at it on the friendslist of my (long-defunct) livejournal and never really reading it but intending to start! Now it's too late! THE END OF AN ERA.

(cross-posted from facebook, of course.)

Also if you are playing along at home I noticed that in an entry from the middle of 2010 I said I wouldn't want to date anyone who spoke Elvish (either Sindarin or Quenya) or Klingon. I now retract this statement. My present considered opinion is that in appropriate circumstances the use of any of these languages would be hott.

I have probably eaten over 1,000--maybe over 1,500--burritos since the start of this LJ, but this is the first time I can remember that I have gone more than two weeks without craving one. Has the magic finally faded?

Back in the day I'd TOTALLY do memes like this. Here I think it's especially justified because I've barely talked to anyone on my friends-list for so long.

This is the Things You Should Probably Know About Me But Forgot amnesty meme. Or alternatively, Things You Should Probably Know About Me But Never Knew. If there are things you'd feel ( Read more... )

I wonder how many people would understand the question, "If Gromnir and ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER had a fight, who would win?" I'd really like to meet anyone who would.

(These are posters on internet message boards, each of whom was so gloriously over-the-top as to earn significant recognition from the proprietors of the boards.)

I am in the middle of it, taking a five-minute internet break ( Read more... )

Is there a better montage* in film than "Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan? If so, please provide an example ( Read more... )

Shit--I don't really identify with any of these "top 10 habits of a geeky spouse." (via daharynI mean I don't think I would date anyone who thought learning Elvish* or Klingon was worth their while (much less that speaking it could be romantic in almost any context). It's clear that the person who chooses between cans and bottles of cola by price per unit ( Read more... )

This is pretty much a perfect distillation of what, in my view, the internet is FOR.* I don't even think I'm kidding.

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* Except livejournal. And maybe Azumanga Daioh excerpts on youtube.

The New Yorker's fantasy recommendations: My faith in that magazine about anything of importance just went down about 40%. Sorry, Seymour Hersh! 'Till next time, David Remnick! Rest in peace, William Shawn ( Read more... )