For no particular reason, ( here are some pictures of nice animals (via flickr search (mostly)). )

Alright electric friends, I have no idea what book I want to read next. Here is a list of some likely books I have and haven't read:

- Richard Adams - Watership Down
- Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow
- Job (The Bible)
- Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Quin
- E.E. Cummings - "New Poems" ( ( Read more... )

I was thinking the other day, with the releases of Harry Potter and Star Trek pushed back to next year, there really isn't much in the way of big movies being released this Christmas. There's Bond, and the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (on my god that looks like it will suck), and a CGI Disney movie, and that's about it for big ( Read more... )

I've noticed that my tastes have changed quite a bit in the last year or so, so I thought it would be interesting to figure out what my favorite albums are. Turns out it's not all that different a list from the last time I did this. I guess all the new music I like doesn't tend to come in proper albums. I decided to not admit any Best Of's; it ( Read more... )

In the interest of recording a snapshot of life's everyday minutiae, here is my morning internets routine (typically repeated in the afternoon and late evening):

-check gmail
-check Google calendar [I usually skip that step as I know there's nothing on it]

-read livejournal friends page

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As you may have noticed, froggy_dear and I are a bit obsessed with Doctor Who. There was a long time before we'd ever watched classic Who, when we avoided it because the volume and apparent disorder of DVD releases is intimidating. So I thought I'd do a rare humanitarian service and make a short list of where to start watching. Because I don't think anyone ( Read more... )

Christmas! There is much Christmas joy which will be shared eventually, but for now, something that has nothing to do with Christmas.

Library Thing now has widgets which work in Live Journal. Dig:


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For some inexplicable reason, I compiled the following list. I wear many Geek Pants, and compulsive list-making is one of them ( Read more... )

KEXP, the local hip commercial-free radio station (probably one of the better stations anywhere -- listen to it online), is having a Top Albums of 2005 countdown (as voted on by listeners) starting Friday morning. I'm quite looking forward to listening to as much of that as I can. And it was fun to vote (although I had to write in The Life ( Read more... )

Library Thing has a nice little toy that generates a random list of your books. Library Thing rocks my socks. Can you guess which books are froggy_dear's and which are mine?

- The illustrated man by Ray Bradbury
- Women's lives in medieval Europe: a sourcebook by Emilie Amt
- The zoo story and The sandbox by Edward Albee
- Treasure island by Robert Louis ( Read more... )