I'm curious as to how the phrase "No shit, Sherlock" got started.

I know what it means and all, but it's just one of those random things that it's like, "*Wait*. How did *that* get into every day usage?"

1. I'm beginning to hate the media and its repetitive sound-bites and what-not on the same stories. I want to be aware of what's going on in the world, not what's going on with Tiger Woods or that someone thinks that the Disney Princesses (and especially the newest one) are too thin or that a couple trying to get onto a reality show crashed a ( Read more... )

I need to clean out my "fanfic to read" folder more often. (I save the fics to word documents and categorize them by length and fandom - you never know when a certain urge is gonna strike ( Read more... )

I don't understand why a car magazine feels the need to put a model in a sexy outfit and a sexy pose on the cover of their magazine along with a car ( Read more... )

I'm feeling especially grammar snarky today.

With all of the recent well-known deaths lately, I keep hearing people say "So-and-so dies at the age of (whatever)." And I can't help but think, "Um, so-and-so *has died*. He/she *is dead*. It's over and done with. They haven't suddenly started going downhill since they turned whatever age it is ( Read more... )

I'm feeling really girly at the moment. About a week and a half ago, I got a manicure. I got my hair trimmed yesterday. And today I got a pedicure. I'm not used to all of this ( Read more... )

I saw Pixar's new movie, Up, today. It was cute and made me tear up. Wall-E is still my favorite, though.

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After church this morning I was talking with Sue, who I used to be in a Bible study with and she mentioned she had thought of me the other day. Which made me curious, since I had missed a month's worth of church because of Hay Fever ( Read more... )

After work today, I headed up to the King of Prussia/Valley Forge area to meet up with jackette, gomeisaneelie, and penguingal so we could look at a possible new hotel for tribalforces 2010. I enjoyed getting the insight of what to look for in a hotel for a con. (Granted, most of it I could figure out from the amount of cons I've been to, but it's still neat to see it in a 'if I was going ( Read more... )

I hope you've all had a good Cinco de Mayo and celebrated responsibly, if you celebrated. (And an interesting tidbit - Cinco de Mayo celebrates the defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla by the Mexicans, it's not actually their independence day from Spain - which is on Sept. 16.)

e_dog - Liev Schreiber is going to be on David Letterman tonight ( Read more... )

I just heard that Alyson Hannigan had her baby on the 24th (on her birthday!). She and Alexis named the baby girl Satyana Denisof.

Martin Christopher (aka Major Marks on SGA and SG-1) answers fan questions on Mallozzi's blog.

Here's hoping April will be better than March writing-wise.