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Small happy things

2009-03-07T08:23:20Z

Saw this for the first time: Barawk. Have big grin on face.

The Internets mean it's never too late to discover something cool and get a huge smile on your face.

Do you have something that you discovered and delighted in seemingly ages after everybody else?

Moved! (So what makes it home?)

2009-01-17T07:49:18Z

I have moved. Finally.

I imagine everyone has their own peculiar way to make a new place home...

I've just had tea and chocolate at a local cafe -- local, that is, to the new house. This, I realized tonight, to me makes the new place properly home. Because home is the epicenter of my doses of caffeine and sweets.

Pretty silly: much more important to me, after all, are the doses of les sucres de mon coeur, but that's a different thing, and a different kind of being home -- one fortunately not at the mercy of landlords and mortgages. (Aside: I am become so very, very lucky in my people. I must endeavor to deserve it.)

And home is where the books are, and they are here, but they're all packed. Gah! Nothing like moving 3000-4000 books to make you appreciate why you might, after all, buy one of them Kindle things.

Aside: you may have New Years' Resolutions; I have Moving Resolutions. One of them is to be more organized. Actually, *all* of my current Resolutions are to be more organized. Just different kinds of organization. (Sample: I Will Defeat The Attempts of Paper To Form Geologic Layers On My Desk.) We all have character flaws, and disorganization's mine -- well, the one I'm actually interested in fixing. (Hm, that's a revealing question: "What alleged character flaws do you have that you're really not the least desirous to have fixed?")

There are not books on the shelves yet. But there has been chocolate, and caffeine, and cuddles, and there is an office in which writing is beginning to take place again. So I think it is home.

How do you make your places home?

Lucky in love

2007-12-04T11:24:13Z

For our anniversary, wshaffer got me a present... She got me cufflinks!

These cufflinks are made of a pair of real mechanical watch movements.

Transcendently geeky, and beautiful; which is to say, irresistible to this logovore. She knows me much too well. She is the Most Awesome Ever.

We've been going out for 17 years. I knew she was different from anyone I'd dated before the first time we went out. We talked all through dinner, we turned down seeing a movie in favor of talking for several hours more, and... yeah. Since then, she's only gotten even more wonderful.

I just want everyone I care for to be as lucky in love as I've been. As I am.

Out of context theater, #208

2007-11-18T22:25:09Z

"Apparently she traded her leg warmers for combat armor and a blaster."

Out of context theater, #207

2007-11-18T08:07:37Z

"I'm considering the applications of tongues."

Out of context theater, #206

2007-11-17T05:00:40Z

"Who needs an action scene when you have I-880?"

Out of context theater, #205

2007-11-12T12:54:28Z

"'Heedless of the wind and weather,' my easily-frostbitten ass."

Also:

"So does this mean my alignment is Erotic Evil?"

Out of context theater, #204

2007-11-10T12:08:44Z

"Mechatronics?

"That isn't where they teach you to build giant war-machine human-form robots, is it?"

(Manaical laughter on the other end)

See, this is why I like engineers. They help me fulfill my destiny: to
destroy my enemies, dominate humankind, and defend the Earth from alien
invaders with bad hair.

Oh, and on off days, a giant robot is real useful to help little girls
reunite with their cats who've gotten stuck up trees. Why let someone
else bring the cat *down* when you can instead get the nice robot to
lift you *up*?

See also:

(From Girl Genius, of course, which you should all be reading. At http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php Go, embrace your giant steampunk robot destiny!)

Pachelbel's Canon Eats Everything

2007-11-08T12:46:11Z

Pachelbel's Canon in D is, of course, lovely, and you can enjoy an amazing electric-guitar arrangement of it here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Zn5OplT4Po

But today I learned the awful truth! Everything is Pachelbel's Canon! Listen and weep in awe and terror:

OMGIizdedoflaughter. Is too bloody true! Pachelbel is the Cthulhu of baroque music...

Out of context theater, #203

2007-11-08T06:20:36Z

"I understand backrubs sometimes escalate."

Out of context theater, #202

2007-11-08T03:09:44Z

"Also we can save the world with it, but the geek-magnet function is more important."