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I am the proud holder of a shiny new D06 rating in foil, thanks to finishing third in a 31-fencer mixed D-and-under tournament. Woohoo! 
Also, my right thigh is a mass of bruises, my right calf has a hard contusion (what's that called when a bruise goes rigid?), my back is sore, and my right quad is protesting every bend.Between the adrenaline and ( Read more... )

Andreas Katsulas, better known to me as Ambassador G'Kar of Narn, has just died.

A colleague and I were talking about dominance fights and survival fights the other day. Politics was mentioned. (Heh) Then I saw this piece about "police" among macaque monkeys and how they actually get their position in the hierarchy by voting. Intriguing. Leave a comment  2 

Gacked from ajhalluk .

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-lists' (or random LJ surfer's) mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list in your comments or referenced there. Then they post their own list in their ( Read more... )

Interested in English (and how it got that way)? Check out mundungus42's recent post on a new Old English holiday poem.

Thanks to LJ-user thomasyan, who posted this link to a Firefly-Vorkosigan crossover fanfic, the second that I've encountered.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/marag/352866.html

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Spoilers behind the cut-tag after some non-spoiler remarks.

10 PM, local indie bookstore. Cloak - check. Red hair - check.
Weasley-ish spouse - check. Prepaid book card - check. I entered the shop to find my
half-baked costume out-shone by several fully-baked ones. There were two
spot-on Trelawneys, one a ( Read more... )

Google Earth is now running on my PC. It is so much Wheee! fun and faster than just using Google Maps. I adored flying between the buildings in New York and Chicago, clicking on them, and getting phone numbers. The address-locator is isn't terribly accurate in smaller cities, tending to be off off by a couple hundred yards, but I could still see my ( Read more... )