First post on the new MacBook. w00t.

I got this meme from sweetafton23.

1. Go to wikipedia, on "random":
   The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
   Wildflowers of Soldiers Delight
2. Go to Random Quotations:
   The last three or four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album."There is no nonsense so arrant that ( Read more... )

Hee hee. David Willis is a 'funny because its true' ninja.

I will probably remember 2007 as the year of the job. Aside from that it was a largely uneventful year, for me. I didn't do a lot of the things I wanted to do, but I also really feel like, for the first time in a while, I've got myself pointed in the right direction.

I'm stealing the last question from a meme a_leprechaun filled out: 40. Quote a song lyric ( Read more... )

Christmas is a week away! And I haven't mentioned the pledge yet? Unfathomable!

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE LOVE ACTUALLY

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Yes, folks, its that time again. Time for the 3rd annual "At Christmas You Tell The Truth" Pledge.

For 10 days, between 12:01 AM on Yule (December 21st) and 11:59 PM New Year's Eve (December 31st), I hereby ( Read more... )

Remember back when I used to blog every weekday? Yeah, me too. Heh. Good times. Maybe I will again after the new year ( Read more... )

Time for me to shill for someone else's community, because I think its brilliant.

I recently became a fan of the ukulele-playing genius sweetafton23, because her videos were mentioned on Jonathan Coulton's Blog. And she's trying to start up sing_along_club, a community for monthly LJ-wide geeky sing-a-longs ( Read more... )

I started to feel like I was coming down with something Tuesday evening. Woke up Wednesday morning with a full-blown cold and have been feeling crappy ever since. I mega-loathe being sick.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, and this hardly counts as a post. But loopygirl is entirely correct, Friday is for memes.

The 4 Things Meme

4 jobs I have had:

• file ( Read more... )

Just got around to watching this year's Children In Need special (I forgot how early they air) and it was brilliant. A love letter from David Tennant and Steven Moffat to [SPOILER REDACTED]. And now I'm all excited for the Christmas special again. And for series 4. Squee.

theferrett posted a poll thing recently asking about movies or miniseries that would get made, in your ideal world, and who would be cast in them. And as I sat there trying to puzzle out an answer it occurred to me that I don't read enough books lately. All the things that were coming to mind involved books I read over a year ago at this point, at least. The ( Read more... )

Ow my brain. Alright, so check out this optical illusion:

( Click to see, but only if you've got some time on your hands and some headache pills handy. )