It is late at night and I am reading fic. For most people this isn't a particularly earth-shattering revelation, but it is for me, okay? Also, I'm sufficiently tired that the mental filters I have that establish important things like, "you shouldn't post this because this is dumb" are currently offline for routine maintenance ( Read more... )

Way back when the DCnU relaunch was first announced, I remember feeling a flush of giddy enthusiasm. Sure, the DC fans in my life were understandably hesitant, but for a fleeting moment I was pumped; the relaunch was a chance for me, at last, to wade into DC Comics without the suffocating crush of decades worth of back canon weighing on my ( Read more... )

So, Delicious.com has rolled out its new interface. I never had that many bookmarks, I think around 200 total, so I managed to sidestep the worst of the carnage. Sure, I can't see 90% of my tags because they were in bundles (that no longer exist) and, uh, apparently they think that if we browse by tag we no longer want to know what the resultant ( Read more... )

I've heard it said that TVTropes.com is the website that consumes lives. To be entirely honest with you, I've never had that problem. It's an interesting site, sure, but it's not that interesting. Even with Wikipedia, it's a rare subject that will cause me to lose myself in its web for any extended length of time ( Read more... )

Dungeons & Dragons was one of those staples of nerd culture that I never really experienced firsthand. To a certain extent the game is ubiquitous; spend any amount of time on the internet and sooner or later you'll hear the one about the gazebo.

And besides, I'd played World of Warcraft and, well, let's not kid ourselves, here.

So when usagivindaloo asked if ( Read more... )

What the ever loving fuck is this ( Read more... )

If you've known me for a while, you're likely aware that one of my first loves was the musical Les Miserables. I was your average ~14-year-old fan; I had the show more or less memorized, saw every adaptation I could find, read (but mercifully did not write) blatant Mary Sue fic... hell, I even had a stereotypically 90's website, though mercifully ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I bought a jewellery making kit because, well, I didn't have enough impractically expensive hobbies or something. I made a few cheap, largely awful earrings and set the kit aside, figuring I'd wait until my skills had improved before sinking any extra money on beads ( Read more... )

Oh! So, uh, I went to PAX last weekend.

( My weekend... er, the last one, after the cut )

I've had an insulated last couple of days. I spent the weekend in Victoria and am spending the first few days of this week working from home. I didn't spent much time on Livejournal or Twitter while I was away, so I've been pretty well cut off from the world.

In other words, I just heard about Jack Layton. I think the word I'm looking for is ; ( Read more... )