is a game.

World of Warcraft has eaten my BRAIN, y'all. I can't begin to describe how immersive, how fun, how addictive this game is. (I imagine C. has some choice words to contribute on that last, though.) This is my first foray into the world of "massively-multiplayer" online games, and holy crap is it a winner. Please, is anybody else out there ( Read more... )

Firstly: Happy happy birthday to sffan!!! Woo to you!

Second: I'd like to thank skripka and all the voterschatters for the following:

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I swear to God, one of these days I'm going to be walking through a store, and one of those goddamned motion-sensor animated singing holiday things is going to go off in my ear, and I am going to take its fucking head off.

...that I wrote my first fanfic and sent it out into the world. I had really just started watching Buffy regularly at that point, having gotten hooked by various online information and summer reruns. I don't remember the name of the episode that week, but it was the one where Buffy figures out that Dawn isn't really her sister, but still has all ( Read more... )

Okay, I'll just jump on the bandwagon and say that The Incredibles kicks ass like nobody's business. This isn't just the best animated movie of the year -- this may be the best superhero movie I've ever seen. Better than X-men. Way better than Spider-man. The only other examples in the same rarefied air are the first two Superman films ( Read more... )

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Oh my God, they did it!

SOX SOX SOX WHOOOO YEAH!!!!!

Okay, this? Is just cool beyond words.

In brief, remains of a previously unknown species of human have been found on the island of Flores, in Indonesia. The new species, dubbed Homo floresiensis and nicknamed "hobbits", stood an average of one meter tall and had a brain 1/3 the size of a modern human. They made stone tools, hunted dwarf elephants ( Read more... )

Happy birthday sparky77!!! May it be filled with pirates.

Firstly: *eh-hem* HAPPY BIRTHDAY puffgirl2!!!!! And, uh, sorry for the belatedness.

Secondly: The Red Sox are trying to kill me. That is all.

Thirdly: Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars did, in fact, kill me. Whoa.