Teenage Girl obviously Having Affair With Bat

Well, obviously.

Firefly vid to "The Downeaster Alexa": Crack, or bad crack?

OSTENSIBLY FAMOUS GUY: And the next day, I discovered that Paul Simon had plagiarized my cake.
PAUL SIMON: That's ridiculous.
OSTENSIBLY FAMOUS GUY: The cake which I had designed in honor of my late father!
PAUL SIMON: I have nothing to say for myself since everyone knows I'm kind of a dick, but Manon still has a bit of a crush on me, so I'll sit here in dignified silence. Also, dude, it's cake.
MANON: [Distracted by adorable small blond boy running around being an apprentice herald or something] Geats! I love geats!
MANON, WAKING UP: ...pattens. You mean pattens. WTF?

WTF, indeed.

(There were also giant seashells for SCIENCE whose discovery was complicated by racist rumors, and a perverted end table, but I forget those bits now.)

Okay so. Hitherto, when I started typing in Firefox's address bar, it would drop down a list of whatever sites I had recently visited that began with that string, beginning with the one I visited most often. So if I typed in "mh", I could then hit the down arrow once or twice and immediately get my friendslist. If I typed in "com", there would be all the LJ comms I was in the habit of checking individually (usually with DF at the top).

And then I went and downloaded the new version.

Now it still drops down a list, but they don't make any sense. "mh" gets me my friendslist, but also my del.icio.us, my Twitter which I haven't touched in months, and everything else with my username anywhere in it.

And you can guess what I get with "com", can't you? That's right. EVERY WEB SITE EVER, because lol they have com in them.

Here's a hint, Firefox: most people don't type in URLs BACKWARDS.

Nor can I find a setting to fix this.

Whatever shiny features this thing supposedly has, they're not going to make up for having to a) type out every URL in full, every time, or b) scroll through a randomly ordered list, thereby defeating the purpose of auto-complete.

mhari: Possibly she needs to make a d_m post now. XD
rainbowjehan: Well, yes. XD
mhari: Dear Multiverse: What do I do with a Papa who /forgets my birthday?/
rainbowjehan: Sagramore: I DID NOT.
rainbowjehan: Sagramore: I NEVER.
mhari: Panni: Did sooooooooo.
rainbowjehan: Sagramore: I didn't! I got you a present and everything! I was just busy arguing drunkenly with your uncle!
mhari: Panni: ...Dear Multiverse: What do I do with a Papa who forgets my birthday because he's busy arguing drunkenly with his boyfriend?
rainbowjehan: Sagramore: Oh God and Jesus.
mhari: Panni: Well! It's unprecedented. I need advice.
rainbowjehan: Sagramore: What if I give you your present now?
mhari: Panni: ...I let you live? :D
rainbowjehan: Sagramore: Done!
mhari: Panni, stop turning into your mother. Thank you.
rainbowjehan: Ohgod. XD
mhari: Panni: !!!
mhari: Panni: mean typists get no birthday cake. :(
mhari: No turning into GlaDOS, either.

"Loyalty and humbleness"? Seriously?

I am a total Katherine fan, and for why? because she was a stubborn-ass pain in Henry's behind, THAT'S why.

Humble. Pthhht.

I aten't dead.

rainbowjehan went home today, and I am consoling myself with catching up on various weblogs and reading The King's Sister by Kate Schafer, which is worth a good many lulz.

It is published by Xlibris, and it seriously reads like the Fictionpress debut of a mildly talented high school senior. It deals with Anna, who is Arthur's sister but is not Morgause, and who is a Super Talented Herbalist whom No One Understands, and who falls in love with Gaheris whom she calls "Ris", and who dances in a clearing for no apparent reason other than so that the guy she's talking to can admire her gracefulness, and who talks like Jocelyn, only not as convincing. And nobody can use the first person singular properly. And Arthur is done in by Lot, who then takes over the country to be, it is implied, succeeded by Mordred who isn't even his kid (I skipped to the end, yes. Sue me). Good times.

Now I am having dinner, which will hopefully cure my headache.

Strangely awesome.

ETA: mostly the casting. WHY they insist on making four million movies about freakin' Merlin is beyond me. *grumbles* Can't we get, like, a film version of Hawk of May, or something? Just for variety?

Omg omg omg.

This is it! The movie I've been looking for my entire LIFE!

...and sweet Jesus, it just figures it would turn up while I was googling John Stamos*. Ohmybrain.

I need this DVD. My childhood!


* Shut up, okay. I've already done everybody else for costume_trunk.

ATTENTION INTERNETS:

Troll =/= sockpuppet.

I keep SEEING THIS. Someone calls troll and someone else says "no, the journal has been around for eighteen months!"

A troll is a troll, guys. Many trolls use sockpuppet journals to do their trolling, but by no means all of them. Many trolls make a lifestyle of it, this is true; but you can have all kinds of an actual life, and still be a troll. A troll is someone who trolls, that's all.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

p.s. troll doesn't look like a word anymore.

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Well, isn't that interesting.

Given that I was skeptical to begin with; people swore it was legit, so I signed up, only to think better of it halfway through when it asked for my SSN; and my repeated emails asking for them to close my account received no reply.

Suspicious activity? Uh, yeah.

AHAHAHA! Just as I'm always saying!

Still working on fic I should be doing. Meanwhile, a meme ganked from scarfman:

( Most Unread Books )

In conclusion:

* Dumas does nothing for me.
* A surprising number of people have Niven&Pournelle's Inferno kicking around. I thought that was a total potboiler that only I remembered.
* I am reminded that I wasn't forced to read anything in school past the eighth grade, except possibly plays.

I am about two-thirds of the way through The Empty Kingdom, and may I just say ( spoilers of a semicoherent nature )

Back to readses!

Memes! Snaffled from kattahj via musesfool:

So I was adding some new interests to my LJ profile (because I, uh... have some new interests. Yes.) and found myself feeling defensive every time I typed a female name, thinking, basically, FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME, because I felt as if someone somewhere was going to be criticizing my love for them.

So, anyway, then I made a list of women who make me want to say FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME. They are far from the only women who are awesome, or the only women people need to be told to step off of, but they are the top ten I feel that way about, right now, off the top of my head.

If you want to argue with me about the awesomeness of any of these women, I am afraid I will simply be referring you to the subject line. THAT IS ALL.

( FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME. )

Aaaaand this one:

1) Make a list of 15 characters and assign each character a number.

2) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them, i.e. "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?"

3) WRITE CRACKFIC BASED ON THESE QUESTIONS. :D So, basically, you invent insane questions and I write you weird little fics based on them.

I know I still owe people stuff, and I am working on it! But, you know. >_>

OH NO SHE'S GONE META. It'll be over quickly! I promise!

It's just. Whenever the feedback/concrit thing comes up, there is always someone who says, "Well. When I post a story, I am Done With It, and I'm not going to change anything after that, so it is pointless for people to tell me where it could have been better."

To which my reaction is, "What are you, an infinite number of typewriting monkeys and I didn't notice?"

Because, I mean. Most of us do not write only the one story. Most of us do not write many completely unrelated stories. I'm pretty sure, at least on LJ, the person saying "I liked it but the pacing was not so hot" does not expect you to go back in and rewrite the frigging thing yet again. They are figuring that hey, maybe this indicates that you have trouble with pacing, and that if they point it out, maybe your next story will not be so damn rushed.

I mean sure, every story is different, but if they're all by the same person, they are likely to have certain things in common, and what could have improved one might still improve another.

So. That is my opinion, which is mine.

They had the DVD of The Mists of Avalon at the grocery store for $9.99. I almost bought it just for the lulz.