About to hit the hay and I'm feeling grateful, so I thought I'd post ( Read more... )

And this is why I'm happy about the OED's inclusion of OMG, LOL, and muffin top.

I got a letter today from the National Marrow Donor Program telling me I'm ineligible to join the registry because "sex change transformation".

Okay then.

So, there’s a bunch of stuff in the Detroit Institute of Art’s modern and contemporary wing that was never meant to be in a museum. It was art that was intended for people to interact with: to touch and play with and rearrange. On the museum plaque it even says, “this is not how this art was intended to be experienced, but preservation is the job ( Read more... )

So, those of you who've participated in Script Frenzy: thoughts? I've never done it, but I've done NaNoWriMo every year for the last seven. Since I'm not feeling overwhelmed with classes right now and apparently I like biting off more than I can chew (see: the last seven years of NaNoWriMo), I've been considering it ( Read more... )

PACZKI ( Read more... )

Re-watching the extended editions of Lord of the Rings with Beth. No matter how much I liked seeing certain aspects of the books that had been left out, I do have to concede that some of the scenes added back in do tend to drag or tangle the narrative in this format, and I could do without. Not that I'd complain about more of the pretty. Physical ( Read more... )

Whether or not you're a Battlestar Galactica or Bear McCreary fan, you need to listen to this:

http://www.mediafire.com/?vo6stzlxg578s34

Seriously.

I will have to pay almost three times what a Canadian-educated teacher has to pay to get the Ontario College of Teachers to even look at my application for an Ontario teaching license. Why you do this to me, Canada? (Although your yearly license fee is seriously not bad. Four for you, in that respect.)

All of these youtube kids who are making viable careers selling their talent for free on the internet (Bo Burnham and Charlie McDonnell in particular) are making me ache a little ( Read more... )