I have the window open as night falls and a treefrog is chirruping as birds sing their evening song. It is stupendously relaxing, and full of hope somehow.

First, a PSA. If you haven't given yet to Japan disaster relief, maybe you shouldn't, according to Givewell.org whose job it is to analyze and recommend about such things. Please still give, but give to something else. Thanks to zarah5 for the interesting discussion on this!Supposedly cod liver oil is really good for skin. My skin is becoming very ( Read more... )

I keep hearing about the Black Keys, so I'm listening to some clips on eMusic and trying to decide what I think. They're good, visceral, and I like that, but it feels so...familiar and my automatic reaction is to be kind of dismissive about it. I think I grew up with, and continue to be surrounded by, this sound, so it feels like home but also ( Read more... )

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I'm watching a recent ep of Covert Affairs, and they have someone playing a senator who is clearly supposed to be Southern, but is clearly being played by a non-Southerner. Why? Are there really no Southern actors in Hollywood? Somehow I doubt it. Or, y'know, play the senator as non-Southern if you can only do a hokey drawl, as his state doesn't ( Read more... )

This is both funny and made me go "awww, I remember those times" just from seeing the footage. Whoreligans should especially watch.

Yes, I haven't updated in ages. I'll do that soon. I comment often, so I feel like I'm updating!

You really have to listen to this, but VERY NSFW (spoken words, not images). Farah, you especially.

translate.google.com is your friend. So far, I've used it to translate both French and Portuguese documents into English, and while there's the occasional nonsensical sentence that I had to use my Romance language knowledge to re-parse, most of the translation is damn good. You can upload a whole document to it! Very sweet stuff.

I just got this message on okcupid:

Would you interested in chatting? Ich sprechen Deuctschen.Poor grammar in two languages turns me on! Yeah baybee! But no, you don't speak German, dude (the correct sentence would be "Ich spreche Deutsch" for you non German speakers). Why lie about something like that? To someone who really does speak that ( Read more... )

I've been to yoga 3 times in the last couple of weeks, and twice I've felt AMAZING afterwards, tonight included. These are yoga classes in which I sweat quite a bit, which is not typically what I associate with yoga, but it seems to be working for me. The endorphins are lively after such a session, and I? Have been needing some endorphins. Must ( Read more... )