I haven't actually seen Children of Earth, but I've read all about it.  I might watch it - might not.  And the reason I might not has made me realise something.

( Not really any spoilers, but cut anyway... )

Our old cat, Sooty, died today.  She'd been ill for some time, although the vet reassured us that she was not suffering or in distress, we were warned that she could go at any time, and when she did go, it would probably be sudden.  Which it seems to have been - she was fine in the morning, and we found her later in the day, dead in the garden, laid out in a very awkward pose, the way she used to lie when sleeping.  Here's a picture of her from last years.  She was around 18 years (rescue cat, so not quite sure), which is quite old in cat years.  Sad that she's gone - she was always my favourite and I hers - but glad that it was quick and without distress.

R.I.P. Sooty - a very fine cat.

I'm late, so the hippo is running

Hippo Birdie crystalshard 

Prompted by donutsweeper  mentioning, apropos #amazonfail #glitchmyass, that here had  been some funny goings on at amazon.co.uk in the small hours, which had rectified itself before many UK users were aware of it.

( Glitch my arse )

When you see this, post a quote from Red Dwarf

Rimmer: This is a nightmare! I'm on the run from the Fascist Police with a murderer, a mass murderer and a man in a Bri-Nylon shirt!

(from Back to Reality)

Happy birthday to stackcats  and avon_09 

Hope you both have a great day.



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OK, anyone been watching Whitechapel?  Look, I know Rupert Penry-Jones is like phwoarrr!, but you know things have got out of hand when even the Guardian tv reviewer has her slash goggles on.

From today's G2 (oddly not online anywhere) "As the big hand stretches toward Fate O'Clock, Di Chandler (Penry Jones) and DS Miles (Phil Davies) are gasping in a fog bank of procedural guilt.  "We;ve let everyone down," gulps Miles, trembling in his superior's long, sensitive arms......."

I'd like to be a high energy physicist and work at CERN.

I can haz fic.  And artwork.

Go see.

And if you feel so led, leave a few comments on the other fics.  I don't think as many people have been reading this set as have done for previous ones.

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Apparently “The Big Read” assumes that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
Wow, really?


1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people
who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)




( here's the list )

I want to be mummified.  Organs removed, dried and then wrapped. To be buried with a copy of the Theban rescension of the Book of the Dead.  And to have someone say the rites over me, including saying my name 70 times.

Say my name, that I might live.

Gakked from crystalshard

Hippo birdie nnwest

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Hippo birdie
Hippo birdie
Hippo birdie, two ewes.

Have a great day.

Thank you to whoever nominated me for a "Best Beta" award at Fandom of Stars.





This round of awards focuses on people, not fics, and includes categories like "stellar supporter", "spirit of inspiration", and "marvellous mod", so anyone looking for an opportunity to highlight a friend who does a great job in the background need look no further.

Either donutsweeper and myself really are totally unique (and different from each other), or this quiz has a screw loose.

Gakked from miss_zedem. Looking at my score, this appears to be the intelligence test for idiots, so cheer yourself up and go take it.

From silversolitaire 

Take The 3 Variable Funny Test at HelloQuizzy

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Taken from nnwest 

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."

I put a '**' by the ones of whose existence I was previously unaware.  I suspect some of these last category occupy the same niche that "Trout fishing in America" occupied in the 1970's, and a list compiled in another 20 years would not include a number of them.  (And has anyone but me ever heard of "Trout Fishing in America"?)

I feel there ought to be another category - books one can quote from while never having read oneself.  Those are in pink


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