- You guys know me well. On the guess-the-pairing meme from last night, only two remain unguessed. So I'ma rewrite them for you. 4. He pretends it's for the money; he's just a big pussy. Together they do crime. 14. A long-distance relationship in space. She dumped him for the boss's son. THEN, I have another one, from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) requiem2adream: Comment and I'll give you three fandoms, for which you must answer these:
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom? Lauren landed me with DC, Buffy and Red Dwarf. ( D.C. Comics )( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) | |
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Uh, I have knitting post, but I like guessing memes on occasion, and this looks fun - although it was more fun for me to think them up, I confess. Pick up to 15 OTPs
Describe them in less than 15 words.
Have your flist guess the OTP! I'm not a big shipper, so it's not exactly like they're my True paring, but WTFever. 1. She was part of his plan. He planned it. 2. It was already an established relationship before one learned the other's name. 3. He favours his son for promotion; she's never been elected. They need to have babies. 4. It's all about eggs. At midnight. And the senseless violence, but mostly the eggs. 5. She's her girl; she's her good girl. 6. She digs his dress sense (it's the yellow). Shame about living in different universes. 7. She saw a wedding; he won't let it be his funeral. 8. Trying to impress a girl, he found a man - and some terrible lizards. 9. Her wedding ring was a gift from a long dead friend - who didn't stay so. 10. Only for her would he ever stand the duchal regalia. (10a BONUS: well, for her too) 11. That's one highly photogenic illegal sublet. 12. It was all about the monkey pants, whichever way she swung afterwards. 13. No one said dating someone who dresses as your ex professionally was at all healthy. 14. She was half dressed when they met; he gave his life for her. 15. She belongs to him so completely his name might as well be on her collar. BONUS #16: One lost her career, the other her family. Individually, they fight crime. | |
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Last night, accompanied by davegodfrey and Andrew, I went to the Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Bloomsbury. I missed this celebration last year due to the arrival of Abby, but it was definitely worth going this time. I could have done without the one or two barbed comments directed towards religion and religious people, but they weren't the point. The point was a celebration of life the the world from an atheist, humanist point of view. Brian Cox showed breathtaking pictures of Earth from varying distances (including the Pale Blue D). Ben Goldacre told us about the nocebo effect - in which placebos also cause the unwanted, yet expected, side effects of the drug they are emulating. And Alan Moore (Yes, that Alan Moore) explained why he worships a second century snake god. It was also the first time I genuinely wanted to heckle a comedy performance, when Chris Addison claimed a dinosaur had bee carbon dated. On checking this morning, I see that Paolo was as well last night, and tweeted his mistake (Paolo later corrected his own mistake) . Oh, and Alan Moore later rolled out the old "centaurs are insects" chestnut, as if hexpody was a more important character than a bony endoskeleton. But that's another post. The star of the show for me, though, was Baba Brinkman; a hip hop artist whose back catalogue (Spotify Link) is loaded with literary references. He performed a couple of songs from his Rap Guide to Evolution, which I then had to pick up in the foyer, and which delightfully sports a label saying For Educational Use Only . The project was commissioned by Mark Pallen at Birmingham University, who also reviewed the lyrics, making this, in Baba's words: The only Hip Hop album to be peer reviewed . Anyway, it reminded me how much I can like Hip Hop when it's saying what I want to hear. Baba may have read what he needed to know just for the project, but he really gets evolution - from group selection and altruism to artificial selection, sexual selection and the important and useful application of evolutionary psychology ( Survival of the Fittest). Yeah, he seems to operate under the ev.psych assumption that human differences are innate an dismisses memes with one line - but the he continues to illustrate and prove memetics with a couple of his songs, but specifically Performance, Feedback, Revision: | |
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Today at work I was punched in the face by an irate customer.
But he was two years old so I didn't really mind. | |
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It's five minutes past ten (or it is as I start writing this) and I've just poured myself a large glass of my first drink of the night. And I have to work tomorrow. If you're thinking that's a little late, then screw you. I've just spent the last two plus hours making this damned drink, I'm going to drink it. I'm of the school of thought that Christmas food isn't Christmas food unless you shed tears and maybe even blood in its preperation, and I'm now apparently ready for Christmas. I don't know what kind of eight people the author of this eggnog recipe was thinking of when they said "serves eight", but I should have taken a proper look at the quantities before making it - I thought it's just be a few drinks for the flat tonight then another couple of nights finishing of. I did not expect to be in tears over the search for a bowl big enough to fit it all in. But then, I was also under the impression that I owned a working mixer and wouldn't be hand beating eggs and cream - three sets of beating in general. I hate hand-beating; I'm crap at it and always have been. Really. Phone my ex-boyfriends and ask. My arm hurts, my kitchen is an utter state, and I have a very strong rich drink to get through. AND I'm frazzled and stressed. Yep, feels like Christmas. | |
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I know, I know I said I'd be back to blogging, but I still haven't recovered the necessary spoons, and I'm learning to not spew every little thought into the ether to have unwanted consequences and I have a high standard all of a sudden that means I start a lot of posts that never get finished. But I'm back in the UK after spending some weeks around Thanksgiving with Bing and her family, and oh boy was that ever a needed break; not least because that was the longest time we've been apart since we started dating, and I missed my lady. What did I do over my vacay? The simple answer is nothing. Nothing at all, and I needed that. The more truthful answer is I played Arkham Asylum and Rock Band and read Alias and watched Middleman and Ninja Assassin and the first season of Battlestar Galactica. And I knitted up a storm. I promised myself I'd make an effort to try and keep my Ravelry page up to date every Sunday, so that's what I'm doing - updating all my projects. I try, at the moment, to have two proje3cts on the go at any one time; one for me (most commonly socks) and one for a gift. I have turned out three hats in as many weeks recently, proving that sometimes presents are easy to come by - this one pictured is for jawalter's niece; I had bearly even unpacked in Boston before Bing told me he'd been asking about it, so what could I do but knock one up - the hardest part is felting, but felting is really cool. Anyway, that's done, and I hope someone will supply me a picture of the intended recipient wearing the hat, otherwise I might have to post the one of her uncle modelling it. Sadly I can't really talk about my current WIPs, partly because neither is officially cast on. One is a gift for someone who probably reads this blog and lets be fair knows she's due a knitted thing and knows what she's getting, but still. The other... The other is for me, but it's not only my first ever sweater (for an adult) but my first ever attempt at designing my own pattern. I know what I want, but just couldn't find a pattern to suit; nearly all sweater patterns are knitted front and back with side seams, or in the round. I want contrast colour side panels with no midline seam. So that's what I'm working on. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck? | |
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I'm also in Boston, and just surprised Bing by shouting out lous when I saw that Eddeee was telling the correct time (11.05 instead of 16.05). Soon there shall be breakfast, I've been told and later Boston. But first I have to check my friends page and tend to the internet.
YAY BOSTON. | |
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I have another PSA coming up when the Holiday season actually starts, but i think I need to say this as I've seen a lot of "Can I have your address?" posts going up.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME A HOLIDAY CARD.
Holiday emails are fine. Holiday gifts both in physical and electronic forms are unnecessary but will be received with gratitude and love. But please do not write my name on a piece of paper and put it an folded piece of paper and have it put on a fuel-burning vehicle. The carbon footprint generated by snail mail in the UK - not even mentioning airmail - is bad enough, but Enfield Council do not provide local paper recycling for our neighbourhood, and I can't access collection centres very easily.
Please consider spending what small money a card would have cost, on something more meaningful for yourself, someone else, or the planet.
Thank you.
(P.S. That's not to say I don't still appreciate letters, but they contain more.) | |
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I'm not being stubbornly stupid here, am I? Ethernet is not a wireless connection and wireless isn't ethernet? So when setting the laptops up on to the flats brand new router, and finding two ethernet connections on I's Ubuntu computer but no 'wireless', I was at least semi justified in being confused and whiney? Right? Eh, who cares, it's working now. And I'm in the flat getting the final things redy so I can work on my thesis in Boston - which today means scanning diagrams of my bones or figures. Then I'm going to spend a final evening with the sister and niece shaped people. Then a weekend of work. Then I'm actually going to pack, or something. ANYWAY. Today is Friday, which means yesterday was Thursday, which means it's time for me to go on about comics. ( Batgirl #4, Batman and Robin #6, Green Arrow Black Canary #26 ) | |
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This post marks my first made with posterous - made because my last attempt at using a YouTube video to illustrate a point resulted in YouTube deciding that it didn't care about Fair Use - I'm not allowed to show even a little bit of magic lesbians. Also, for some reason I'm not all that happy with putting up on YouTube personal videos that I'm happy to plaster all over Facebook and even on my public blog. Personal videos like these. This happened yesterday when Helen and I figured that Abby's strong curiosity and love of mobility could be combined with her fondness of standing with things, so we brought down this classic letter block trolley my parents've had in their house since Abby's arrival. And she took to it instantly. What you're seeing here (or I hope you are; if Posterous works as well as I hope it does) are very nearly the very first steps shes made under her own power - within five minutes of them at most. Excuse me while I beam an auntly smile.
Posted via email from innerbrat's posterous, because clearly just posting directly would be too simple. Please point all links and referrals to the Livejournal page. | |
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The reason I opened the floor to questions is because there's something I've been wanted to try for a while - reactionary blogging. Occasionally people ask me something, and I think the best way to answer would be in one separate blog post, but then I forget, or it falls to the wayside or I just convince myself no one cares. And then I want to blog and can't think of anything to write about. So I thought I'd try a series of 'Ask Debi' posts, that I've been meaning to do for a while, starting with this most recent question from the_croupier: What would be awesome: an LJ post with a list of your fave science blogs best for non-scientists. I read a lot of blogs by scientists. They're not always about science - Pharyungula, f'rinstance, is more a humanist blog than a scientific one, and while I do find it a useful blog to read, I wouldn't recommend it as a science blog. So these are blogs I nominate for their science content. Incidentally, I misread 'fave' as 'five'. Which is why they're numbered as followed: - Bad Science by Ben Goldacre should probably be on the reading list of anyone with a passing interest in science. Ben's a great writer who focuses a lot on the misrepresentation of science and the predominance of pseudoscience in the mainstream media, so you can see why I like him. He's occasionally too keen to criticise and is at risk of catching that disease that so many scientists in the public eye come down with - smugness. However, he does make the attempt to be transparent with his assertions and I've always found his writing easy to draw facts from underneath the layer of narrative every writer is bound to use. I've been reading his book during my breaks at work, and that's also great at what it claims to do - explaining science and dissecting ways in which it's misused and misrepresented.
- Science Women by Science Woman and Alice Pawley balances research based blogging - geoscience and engineering - with political issues surrounding being women in science and educating children and women in science.
- Tetrapod Zoology by Darren Naish is a natural history based blog - my blogroll generally is that or medicine - which has the rather narrow focus on tetrapod vertebrates. Still, that's enough to provide regular detailed posts about animals that may be topical, or just may be plain cool. Darren talks to scientists, but he talks about macrozoology and I generally assume most people have enough grounding in that.
- davegodfrey has a life at the moment, and that's why his front page is mostly twitter. BUT. When he is on form he's top notch at explaining science - palaeontology mostly, and that's no bad thing. In fact, if anyone ever wonders why I haven't talked about something, it's usually because Dave's done it much better over in his space. Also, he's a great guy.
- The Lay Scientist by Martin Robbins and guests focuses on the conflict with the skeptic movement and pseudoscience in the mainstream media, although it also coveres other topical science issues.
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Does anyone have a question you want me to try and answer? | |
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Most recently from villainny, but really I just wanted to do it. 1. write your username. 2. write your 2 favourite bands/groups of the moment. 3. write something you ♥, aka lemme see your heart. 4. write the name of your favourite person of all time. 5. write the name of your recent favoured person. 6. tag 6 people to do this meme ( I make no apologies for my handwriting ) | |
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As I once said on Twitter: going to the Comic Exchange is a lot like dumping all your ex's stuff at her house, only to leave the same house with your new flame. Except you don’t have to make yourself look gorgeous to make your ex jealous. (Not that I’ve ever done that. And if I HAD, you can rest assured that he also made the same effort to look good for me.)
This was true even yesterday, when the no-good ex was House of M, I tried, I really did, but even with a couple years Marvel knowledge-by-osmosis I now understand no more of these titles than I when I first bought them. The current flame - two of them, in fact - being Darwyn Cooke’s excellent DC: New Frontier, which I could browse happily just for the scrumptious art. I was also lucky enough to be able to pick up the first Buffy: Season Eight trade.
( This is ABRIDGED from a post I ave still unfinished. Spoilers for the most recent Retreat storyline. )
Of course, yesterday was also Thursday, which in places that aren’t America, is New Comics Day, and my stash was excellent this week.
Secret Six has come to the end of its Depths storyline, which involved pushing all of the amazing characters to the very edge of their character - with the possible exception of Catman and Ragdoll, who just weren’t the focus of the story which tried to rip apart the relationships between Floyd and Jeannette, and Scandal and Bane, sending the Six to an island which almost destroyed most of them. It was a wrap-up issue for the story, and it didn’t disappoint. Lots of violence, lots of blood, lots of great character moments. Gail Simone is an outstanding writer, but I’m also looking forward to Ostrander’s return to Deadshot next month. House of Mystery Annual #1 is exactly why I buy this title: a framing story set in the House within which sit a handful of short stories set within the whole Vertigo universe. Fun in a macabre way, and really enjoyable. But Batgirl, oh, Batgirl. ( Spoilers! (I'm never going to get tired of that) )
This title had better stay this good. Holy crap. | |
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Which one of your LJ posts has embedded dangerous malware so my Anitvirus software won't let me view my friendspage? | |
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As I took a seat on the tube on my way home last night, I had to move a copy of the London Lite on to the next empty seat, and my companion asked me if anything interesting was happening in the world. I flicked through the free paper and said that the most pressing things going on in the world was that a celebrity is dead, other celebrities aren't yet, and someone still thinks we care about MP's expenses. One headline caught my eye on this brief flick through: being about a rape, ( so I'll cut for the triggerable )I'm aware of the practice of churnalism: in which pressed-for-time journalists rehash press releases, single sources, and such like with minimal research of their own: I don't endorse it, but I'm not a journalist. This goes further though: this is the same article published twice with two different names on it. This is someone claiming credit for something they didn't do, or - at the most generous - two people claiming sole credit for a joint endeavour. It's plagiarism. I just hope the Standard only paid once for an article they printed twice. | |
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Hey, you! Name a female comics-based superhero! ..actually, you're reading this blog, so you're probably not representative of normal people. Turn to the person at the desk next to you and ask them to name a female superhero. Who is not just a female tie-in of a male lead. Who is well known in her won right and not just 'the love interest of...' or 'a member of...' Whose name will not, in most to any areas in Western consciousness, be greeted with a blank look and the phrase 'who'? Do we know who I'm getting at? Good. ( No really, you do know who I mean, right? ) | |
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