http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality

Very long--I'm only up to chapter 7 and so far it's the best HP fanfic I've ever read. Check it out if you want an amusing and very well written read.

Via claidheamhmor:


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Nice quiet New Year's Eve, as usual. We just don't do the party thing, never have. Got our annual pair of movies (this year it was "The Shawshank Redemption" (very good--I'd wanted to see it for a long time) and "National Treasure" (big, stupid, fun if you check your brain at the door). Rang in the new year surrounded by cats, and not watching them ( Read more... )

( Putting this behind a cut because it's kind of big. Funny, though. :) )

I'm mostly putting this in here because I don't want to lose track of it. Terminal cuteness alert:

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This will probably only be of interest to WoW players and chances are they've all heard of it already, but for any who haven't, you're in for a treat:

You Awaken in Razor Hill

I laughed so hard I hurt myself. This guy is the writer I want to be when I grow up.

from emt_hawk:

Your result for The Brutally Honest Personality Test...
Crackpot - INTJ

13% Extraversion, 60% Intuition, 73% Thinking, 73% Judging


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Back from Blizzcon, and glad to be home. It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of people and a lot of lines. And a little bit of stupid on the part of the organizers (what else would you call shuttling a group of at least a couple of thousand people back and forth between two halls, one of which didn't have enough chairs for everyone, rather than ( Read more... )

Awhile back I posted that this old cat had wandered into our backyard and taken up residence. We were feeding him, but bringing him inside was just out of the question--too many cats ( Read more... )