Suppose someone was named Nathaniel. Where would you say they're most likely to be from?

This is probably of varying comprehensibility depending on how much your TV-watching (and, in a few cases, theater-going) overlaps with mine. I had fun putting it together, though...

Picard
Riker
Data
Worf
Crusher
Troi
Geordi
Guinan
Q
Ro
Wesley (a Stratford actor)
O'Brien

I still need a Tasha. The only idea I've had probably qualifies as far too ( Read more... )

The conclusion of the half-an-hour I just spent on the phone with tech support: the modem in our apartment is probably dead.

My cell will be on and near me until we get a new one (allegedly by Monday).

Out of idle curiosity about snowclone patterns, I just did a google search for '"my god it's full of" -stars'.

Most of the hits seemed to be more or less what you'd expect (blog posts with titles like "My god, it's full of unicorns!" and that sort of thing). One, however, was this picture ( Read more... )

Dear LJ ( Read more... )

This doesn't include rereads. In theory that should change next year, but in theory it was supposed to change this year, too...
( books! )

Poll yet another language poll

You will probably feel a need to attach a light-fixture-like object to the base of the lamp. Said attachment will certainly have electrical wires running through it; it may very well also require the fixture to screw onto the base. For the love of God, please allow for the wires to rotate independently from whatever bit the screw is attaching to. ( Read more... )

Poll Apparently this is "polls about language" week

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Poll A question I've been wondering about

As I understand it, the parsing Carroll had in mind was ( one of them. )