I think maybe possibly someone was getting up to hijinks with my yahoo email address today. If you received something weird and spammy from blehmeh05 ( Read more... )

Because I try to be a good TV citizen and not pilfer too much content from the interwebs, I've only just gotten around to watching the second season of the BBC's Sherlock on PBS, but I think, for the first time in quite a while, I'm wanting to dive back in the slash fandom pool. Anybody else been watching this show? The canon relationship is ( Read more... )

So, I'm starting up a new research collaboration and we're designing an experiment where we need to have participants come in and play a game in separate rooms for a little while. We're looking for a relatively simple online game (no deep RPGs or RTS types) that has both co-op and vs. modes (the idea is for some participants to develop a sense of ( Read more... )

I've been trying to articulate my unhappiness with m/m "romance" (actually, any romance, for that matter) in various ways for almost as long as I've been reading the stuff. But I just read a very interesting article containing a sentence that really hit the nail on the head: In the M/M stories...there is a “male” man and a “female” man.

( Yep, that's totally what's been bugging me )

Everyone thinks they have good taste. I know this. And I know that it's the ultimate in hubris to believe that unlike so many of those other idiots out there, I'm actually one of the people who truly does have good taste. So yeah, I'm feeling like a jackass with every word I type, but at this point, the rant is imminent.

( Misanthropy, snobbery, and general ookiness under the cut )

Anybody else seen Inception yet? I pretty much always come away satisfied from Christopher Nolan movies, but this one was particularly enjoyable. Some really wonderful camera perspective tricks to please my inner perception geek, plus the whole nature-of-reality-dreams-within-dreams-mindfuck is just so up my alley. Good stuff ( Read more... )

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( Cut for True Blood Season 3 spoilers )

I just added all seven seasons of Buffy, all five seasons of Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and even Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog to the Netflix instant queue on my X-box. That should keep me occupied for a while ( Read more... )

Edward Morgan Blake. Born 1924. Forty-five years a comedian, died 1985, buried in the rain. Is that what happens to us? A life of conflict with no time for friends...so that when it's done, only our enemies leave roses.

If I could ask the universe to write me the perfect story, The Watchmen just might be it. Picked up a copy from the library ( Read more... )