It's hard to be a functioning primate when you haven't got a thumb ( Read more... )

A friend lent me the first season of MI:5, aka "Spooks" in the original BBC productions. Dunno why the name change, although in the US, the words is slang for ghosts, spies and a derogatory racial epithet - probably more people know the first and third definitions and hence the name change ( Read more... )

The boy got me the DVD set of the first season of BSG, and the spouse and I sat down to watch the opener miniseries ( Read more... )

To the young man at the dog park today with the cute puppy: yes, since you are clearly trolling for girls, having a very cute puppy earns you a couple of points in the "desirable" category. The "HUSTLER MAGAZINE" t-shirt, on the other hand, earns you about 1,000 negative points. You might want to think it ALL through next time.

The Cranky Engineer came back from his business trip last night, safe and sound (though I had to go get stitches in my nose while he was gone, a chain of events which is still too irritating to post about). His flight came in about 2:00am, having been delayed over 4 hours. The airline decided to ply them with drink in the meantime, both in the ( Read more... )

Because:

a) the Cranky Engineer is going out of town of a business trip;
and
b) the business trip stands to suck big-time, even if it is to San Diego;
and
c) he hasn't travelled for business for a long time and I'm used to have him around the house;
and
d) I'm rather fond of him and will PROBABLY miss him while he's gone;
and, most importantly,
e) ( Read more... )

Since we had Part 1,487,369 of the English vs American spelling and grammar wars on an unnamed LJ, I though it might be amusing to link to a pluralization guide. This is written by the highly amusing Benito Cereno1, who is exactly one half on the creative team behind HECTOR PLASM: De Mortuis (click to see preview) coming in March on Image Comics ( Read more... )

As seen all over LJ - I'm not much of a "me-too!"-er, but this is just SO true:

If there is someone on your Friends List who makes your world a better place just because that person exists and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Unfortunately, all my enthusiasm is in the title - that's the only exclamation point you are going to see.

Corpse Bride: mediocre at best, and, in a lot of ways, more annoying than the standard old Disney "girl seeks Prince of her dreams" cartoon. Mediocre animation, which looks very stiff - though I believe that was by design. Nice, very typical ( Read more... )

Today is January 17th, officially not even half-way through January. We've had 7.3" (about 19cm) of rain in January SO FAR. Our average rainfall is high enough (34"), but we've had almost 1/4 of the year's rain in 17 days ( Read more... )