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April 20th, 2012
03:45 pm - hit me (with fiction)
2 wisdom teeth removed today. Life is gauze and icepacks. Not in too much pain yet, but still wearing off. Something went wrong with the tapioca, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like funny. Can you help me?
-Sherlock (BBC)
-FFVII
-Inception
-From Eroica with Love
-Descendants of Darkness
What the hell
-Gundam Wing
-Due South
Oh, dude, there's my jaw, was wondering where I left that.
Ow.
Bonus points for snarky Mycroft.
Thank you.
Current Mood:  sore
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February 6th, 2012
08:24 pm - holy mackerel, read this
This is rageprufrock's extraordinary vision of the Inception characters in a newsroom...it's hard to explain...it's pretty much perfect.
Go, go read.
Early Returns
Current Mood: astonished
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January 8th, 2012
09:41 am - birthday, breakfast, bird
For my 42nd birthday, I finished a book. I mean, I went from a Word manuscript to a full, seven-section layout (in 14-point Bembo) in 2 and a half days. Finished last night at 10 and staggered out of the office to a bowl of mocha almond fudge ice cream and a proper night of sleep.
Bembo might just be the font of fonts. It's stately, it's playful, it's argumentative, it's understated, even gentle. On title pages in small caps with antique ornaments, or set in 12-point italic beneath photographs...is there anything this font cannot do?
In other news, my bird is very smart. His ordinary breakfast behavior entails dropping crumbs of toast into his water dish and fishing them out immediately after, so they are tender but not mushy. This morning, however, the toast was made from a very dense and lovely whole wheat bread. He dropped in his crumb and it promptly sank to the bottom of the dish. Perhaps he thought this was a fluke; he tried a few more crumbs before he started shouting for more toast.
This time, when I gave him fresh crumbs, he didn't drop them in the water dish. He held the crumbs in his beak and dipped them in the water, and then ate them.
( Edited to add conure. )
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December 10th, 2011
09:17 pm - sai sent me
It was love at first sight.
Many thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) rsasai, who made him with her actual hands, and shipped him with speed. Seriously. Look at this guy.
Two more pics beneath the cut.
( Mister Reno )
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October 26th, 2011
07:19 am - zuku, you just made my day
Quoted from zuku at the Fountain Pen Network, explaining what he loves about his fountain pen:
I am beyond elegance. Status has long gone by. I am installed in the elemental mechanics of sheer capillarity: A basic natural law that takes charge of dragging the ink to deploy it over the paper has for me the beauty of a waterfall, a lake, the rain or a beaver setting-up his dam.
I don't know what zuku's first language is, but anyone who is installed in the elemental mechanics of sheer capillarity can write whatever the hell he wants with my blessing.
Current Mood:  thankful
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October 14th, 2011
11:52 pm - hard parley
Hard Parley
Elena, for reasons known only to herself, decides to go out on a limb.
( This is kind of rough, in more ways than one. )
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October 9th, 2011
01:44 pm - Answer Man, chapter 7
It's posted, here.
I am really tempted to finish this before I post any more. Writing something as tightly plotted as this is working out to be is kind of weird to update on the fly; I feel like I can't go back and re-work. Maybe that's okay, or maybe a few edits won't be a big deal. Anyway, here it is.
Current Mood: pleased
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September 22nd, 2011
03:30 pm - ow
Wearing my wide-brimmed gardening hat, which leaves me more or less blind, I walked into a tree branch yesterday. No concussion, but apparently my right eye is a little bummed out and doesn't feel like talking to my left eye about what color things are. This is, I am told, normal weirdness, and a sign of swelling in the macula.
I am resting today. Hurts to focus. The George of the Jungle moment was awesome, though.
Current Location: my futon
Current Mood: ow
Current Music: ow
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September 17th, 2011
09:17 pm - Iron Turk back of the fridge fic challenge compilation post
The arena is Turks fanfiction.
The basic idea is Iron Chef, but this time the Battle Ingredients are things we found in the back of the fridge.
No sweat. You're master chefs.
( You can make tasty food out of a half-empty jar of capers and some pita bread. )
Current Music: Judas Priest, "Breaking the Law"
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September 6th, 2011
11:19 pm - picture post: poniehs
I owe people responses and also a post on the terrible things we do to Turks.
But we're taking a station break to introduce a few characters.
( I can has hobbit horses )
Current Music: "Anxiety," Nobuo Uematsu
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