(OOMery:

deals in commodities of the abstract sort
buys them in bulk but then he sells it short

if you could just do him this favor
though it might involve child labor
join his entourage

Spoilers for the Warehouse 13 S1 finale.)

One a_mere_child napping on the couch,
one g00d_d0ggie romping through the snow,
one no_vampires_plz practicing fire spells,
one doyousmellfudge with a giant mug of tea,
and a withhistailhigh in a pear tree.*

Take your pick.

* No, really. There's a pear tree out by the lakeshore and he's stretched out on one of the lower limbs.

Out of Milliways:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door...

Spoilers for Warehouse 13 episode 1x12, "Nevermore."

Organic technology that lets you IM people across dimensions, you say?
Claudia is on that like white on rice. The instructions look simple enough, and besides, shiny new tech! Free open beta! How's a girl to resist?
As such, repositoryBadger is in the house. And by 'in the house,' we mean at a table, poking at the shiny new tech and reading the ( Read more... )

A pregnant woman,
poring over a large map
of Australia.

A Warehouse agent,
seated at the piano,
playing Tom Lehrer.

A long, lean, black cat,
stalking small scurrying things
through the new spring grass.

One mun, many pups,
one outside and two inside.
Which one will you tag?

[Open 'til it scrolls. Haiku optional.]

Claudia woke up to the dulcet tones of Skype ringing at 5 AM (she hadn't even realised she'd left it open the night before); it turned out to be Joshua wishing her a happy birthday ( Read more... )

The trouble with changing the world is....

Pre-Milliways
[WARNING: spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, issue #23]

The front door opens, and a nervous-looking young man with short blond hair stumbles in.

He looks a lot like another young man who stumbled in here for the first time about six years ago. There is a remarkably good ( Read more... )

When Arcade slipped into the Bar today he did so with every intention of stealing the extra time to collate his papers and work through a particularly annoying set of titration results on his latest experiment. Bar, however, had other ideas ( Read more... )

Ellen spent a fair amount of today trying to work through as many basic flexibility and basic strength-regaining exercises as she could. It was a frustrating process, and she did not like it at all, so when she was finished she got a coat and a hat and a scarf and went out to the target range to practice with her plasma rifle again. This was ( Read more... )

They're getting ever closer to finding MacPherson. Artie thought they'd had him, back in Istanbul, but it turned out to be a booby trap from which Pete and Myka only narrowly escaped. But now? They've almost got him. Artie can feel it ( Read more... )