OK, have signed up for Twitter. *marks checklist*.

Now I just need to find interesting people to follow... *picks up lantern and prepares to make like Diogenes*

...Seriously, you know you're getting older when you realise all your favourite celebrities probably refer to Twitter as 'that silly thing the kids do'. Anybody have suggestions?

I honestly don't expect much from the free Metro subway paper. For one thing, it's a free paper, and for another it's designed to be read at an hour when I'm not physically capable of expecting much. That I am sometimes driven to mild irritation at the hack writing and/or shallow insight says reams about how dreadful it actually is.

Then I saw this ( Read more... )

So Facebook continues to expand my horizons in new and odd ways, and I'm looking at this application for Suite101.com.

It's evidently one of those online zines where they collect lots of random people to write articles on subjects they know stuff about, so the whole thing's got a kind of charming Family Circle-meets-Wikipedia vibe. You fill out ( Read more... )

OK, kids, today we address the heretofore criminally neglected branch of mental health risk that is trying to alleviate boredom by cliking through the potholed links on TVTropes.

Put simply, one should exercise great caution anytime one embarks on this seemingly harmless activity, maintaining full awareness to context at all times. Because there is ( Read more... )

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

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I am thinking this would be an excellent time to thank Bad Movie mecca the agony booth for being the amazingly rich source of entertainment it's been to me for so long. ( Read more... )

So yeah, updating. Sorry about that. Jasmine has since discovered the delights of sitting on human laps, albeit not the fine points. It's kind of hard to type and keep her from tumbling off at the same time ( Read more... )

Kitteh has finally collapsed on the bed behind me, having tried for a good  ten minutes to figure out how to work the keyboard. As near as I can make out, this is the message she wanted to send: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm [crash browser].

If I don't update for a while, send help.

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I love this Pearls comic first because, as is so often the case with comic strips one loves, I can relate. So much.


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I was going to throw out the results as a bad job, but then I started looking more closely, and... I do think an interest has developed. Or something.

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in:

1. humor score: 2
2. george smith patton jr. score: 1
3. dick ( Read more... )

The Grand Day Out, But Not watch with Shoemom & -sisses continues: we've gone from a day of pampering beginning with a champagne breakfast and ending with a fancy dinner to...getting their hair done, followed by a semi-fancy dinner. In less than 48 hours. I'm looking forward to their showing up this aft with a bag of ketchup chips and a home ( Read more... )