This (via Language Log), FTW.

[ETA: The study center courtyard is full of ladybirds: look down & don't step on.]

Icon meme from mumblemutter:

1) Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2) Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4) This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

( under cut, icon meme icons and talk )

w00t! Monday! Choose your own Canadian actor day!

(ETA: urp, I keep forgetting to put polls under cut. Sorry.)

( poll, now under cut )

The tram drivers were all cranky today.

There should be a snowstorm of sorts tonight. But we're good. All stocked up on apples and toilet paper, and fresh light bulbs in the chandelier. Shag/marry/cliff: Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, and you.

iTrouble! You guys, I have a question to anyone who's any good with Pages (or just better than me! it's not hard to do!), and it is ( under the cut. )

Meme, via stubbleglitter:

1. Pick 15 20 15 of your favourite movies movies you like a lot. or have liked a lot. or something.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.Though, to be honest, I won't know if you Google and I ( Read more... )

runeberg's day coincided with shrove tuesday but things didn't fall from skies?

ETA: it is too late to get the baked goods now.

A meme for a Sunday. From adventurat.

1. Open your Winamp/iTunes.
2. Put the shuffle mode on. Hit play.
3. Find a picture of the first 30 artists. If the same artist comes again, skip.
4. Have your f-list guess who the artists are.Tip: none of these 30 artists are Nick Drake. Also, none of them are The Prom - not because The Prom didn't come up on my ( Read more... )

i'm going abroad to play a very touristy tourist for a week, starting tomorrow. happy turn of the year -time to all.

plus one more yuletide rec for the road: Snow White and Rose Red (what katy did -series), which is rose red and clover, in love. warm and bittersweet and lovely, and muchly true to the original.