...all of whom, i'm fairly certain, are SF-geeks to at least some extent:

"extermiknit! extermiknit!"


(with thanks to gnomi, who is already knitting her own)

...I saw a tornado today. For real. Relax we're OK it missed us completely.

I've been out in the suburbs at my sweetie's place all weekend. Late this afternoon, my sweetie was upstairs in the computer room, and I was in the living room watching Daleks In Manhattan on DVR to catch up with him. Then (at almost exactly 6p) he came downstairs, looking ( Read more... )

you know those small posters that get plastered in multiples on boarded up buildings and such? well, as i was out acquiring lunch yesterday i spied some for the new transformers movie. they go in pairs, one character in each in profile so they're facing each other. they did a similar thing with AvP. so there's one bad guy and one good guy (yes yes ( Read more... )

and because i want a record of it somewhere i can nab easily, thank you:

THE GREAT CLOMPING FOOT OF NERDISM

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2007_04_01_archive.asp#5345355050073702108
M John Harrison, absolutely brilliantly, as quoted by Warren Ellis :

"Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over ( Read more... )

one of mthielbar's good friends is a va tech alum, and that friend's fiance is still a student there. the fiance is OK, but they lost two of their friends.
ladyeuthanasia's sweetie has a good friend who is a professor at va tech. the friend is OK, but two of his colleagues were lost.

those prayers i started yesterday? just got more personal.

eonia i mnimi

my prayers go out for the souls of the victims, and for the strength of the survivors and all the families

as seen today on chicago's lakefront ( Read more... )

because i commented in sekhmets_song's LJ when she did this, she gave me the letter P. so i shall now list ten things i love that begin with the letter P, because that's how this meme works.
mind you, they're not in any particular order.

1. pistachios
2. pens, either fountain or gel but i'll even use the free ballpoints they give me at hotels or conventions. ( Read more... )

in fahrenheit, the current temperature outside is double what they had forecast for today.

of course you realise i'm in chicago. which means it's 2F when they only thought it was going to get up to 1F. and yes, i said "up:" last night it was down at -6F for a while.

brrr.

everybody around me is sick. whether they're in real life or on the internet, they're all sick. tho of course it's real life that counts, as viruses (virii, actually) jumping from humans to computers and back again is the stuff of SciFi legend yet to be realised.

but observing this, do i keep up with my C regimen, which has never ever failed me ( Read more... )