January 2011
Ebook Readers and PDF Files
Okay, I have been considering getting a Nook, for a couple of reasons. One - I am a bookworm and portabooks are good. Secondly, I’ve heard they’re PDF friendly (assuming there’s no shitty zoom issues) meaning my massive stash of PDF D&D books could, in theory, be carried about on one small little device (currently it’s a laptop or nothing). Has anyone tried to put PDF...
Geek Boy Joins Tumblr
After months of lurking, and reading my dash, and seeing the goings on here, Geek Boy now has his own Tumblr. He hasn’t done anything yet, but he’s logic-at-all-costs.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Firstly, thanks to being a huge Buffy fan, I will watch anything with Anthony Stewart Head in it without thinking. Two, it was on Netflix instant.
The casting is as weird as the movie, Anthony Head, Sarah Brightman (yes, Phantom of the Opera Sarah Brightman), Alexa Vega (of Spy Kids fame) and Paris Hilton. Oh and it’s from the director of Saw. So, the initial reaction is,...
Jumbled Nonsense: Out of curiosity, Olds, how old... →
catsandscience:
nerdling:
tehblackbirdisflying:
peashelle:
tehblackbirdisflying:
theangryangel:
schemestress:
glossylalia:
pileofmonkeys:
I’m 32. Going on 70.
Graduated from high school in 1995.
Got my first email address sophomore year in college; my first cell phone when I was 21.
Are we playing this game? I feel asleep.
I’m 23. Going on AWESOME.
I graduated High…
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V-day Panic
I always make a big to do about good old Valentine’s Day, unfortunately, I believe that last year, I kind of set the bar too high. This is what I did:
Went out and bought a stack of little dollar store trinkets, and candy, a card, and a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii (so Geek Boy and I could play together).
Found a series of riddles, each leading to a different place or thing around the...
Neil Gaiman + Doctor Who= Too much for my little...
bookling:
beezusishere:
bowiecadmium:
btw, I noticed that this upcoming season of Dr. Who will feature the Neil Gaiman-penned episode. I remember him tweeting about writing it ages ago.
SO.
FUCKING.
EXCITED.
Me tooooo!!! Two of my favorite things coming together :D
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SO EXCITED.
I am so excited for that episode (and why yes, it’s a picture of Neil Gaiman on the...
“To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll…. More of A question...”
– Neil Gaiman on Dr. Who as Hamlet
Please take a moment of your time to help these... →
stfusexists:
This is the blog of Tashi, a young woman battling the state of Arizona for benefits and battling for treatment for her husband Wash, who is dying of brain cancer. They are coming up against a huge medical debt and at least $1000 gap every month in normal living expenses.
They are an incredible couple, I watched a few of their videos and they are still so funny and upbeat after all...
Paper Life in a Paper Town: Today we did a project... →
rodmanstreet:
greengrey:
cantankasaurus-rex:
greengrey:
My group kicked the priest out of our bomb shelter and kept the prostitute. We has priorities.
Our group was the only one to kill the 12 year old boy and keep the African American poet. I also had to fight tooth and nail…
But there’s so many questions, like does the 16 year old girl count as one or two people, if we...
Boredom Induced Four Truths and a Lie
Please share your own, I want to play too!
Here’s Mine:
1. I have held a human brain.
2. I can’t swim.
3. I haven’t had cable in four years.
4. I share my name with an indigenous tribe.
5. I name all of my pets after characters in books/movies.
Geek Girl Smash!: Sonic Screwdriver Pt. 2 →
tilicst:
dialing-footnoterphone:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
mrsellipsis:
geekgirlsmash:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
bookling:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
Step One: Figuring out the measurements.
We shall have slightly less than 2 liters (need some room in the bottle for the process). Using a check of caffeine in various energy drinks, and coffee, and assuming we use caffeine pills due...
Geek Girl Smash!: Sonic Screwdriver Pt. 2 →
mrsellipsis:
geekgirlsmash:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
bookling:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
Step One: Figuring out the measurements.
We shall have slightly less than 2 liters (need some room in the bottle for the process). Using a check of caffeine in various energy drinks, and coffee, and assuming we use caffeine pills due to being easier to obtain, we shall need 8 pills for a bottle…
...
Geek Girl Smash!: Sonic Screwdriver Pt. 2 →
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
bookling:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
Step One: Figuring out the measurements.
We shall have slightly less than 2 liters (need some room in the bottle for the process). Using a check of caffeine in various energy drinks, and coffee, and assuming we use caffeine pills due to being easier to obtain, we shall need 8 pills for a bottle…
I kind of want to open a...
Geek Girl Smash!: Sonic Screwdriver Pt. 2 →
bookling:
tilicst:
geekgirlsmash:
Step One: Figuring out the measurements.
We shall have slightly less than 2 liters (need some room in the bottle for the process). Using a check of caffeine in various energy drinks, and coffee, and assuming we use caffeine pills due to being easier to obtain, we shall need 8 pills for a bottle…
I kind of want to open a Who-themed bar, now. We’ve already...
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Sonic Screwdriver Pt. 2
Step One: Figuring out the measurements.
We shall have slightly less than 2 liters (need some room in the bottle for the process). Using a check of caffeine in various energy drinks, and coffee, and assuming we use caffeine pills due to being easier to obtain, we shall need 8 pills for a bottle of drinkage. (this will put 8oz as slightly stronger than your standard cup of coffee).
These are...
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And this is when you know you need a life...
Geek Boy got me a DIY carbonation kit for Christmas, basically, in one bottle you put part of it with vinegar and baking soda, and the other part you put in another bottle with your liquid to be carbonated, there’s a tube connecting the two, and supposedly this with carbonate your juice. It also makes some hackneyed claim that it makes “healthy drinks,” and, “your kids...
WatchNeil deGrasse Tyson, on the Daily Show, talking about traveling to Mars, and a few other things.
These Fortune Cookies Suck
The nearby Chinese/Japanese restaurant used to have the best fortune cookies ever. Each contained a sort of modern koan. They rarely made sense, but they were enjoyable, and they left me both amused, and flummoxed. They said things like, “The rubber bands are going in the right direction.”
We ordered from them last night, and they switched brands of fortune cookies, now my fortune...
Alas, it appears that Ghost Story is going to be...
bookling:
starlick:
But my Dresden Files fiiiiiiiiix!
WHAAAAAT. BUT WHY.
WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO US.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Paper Life in a Paper Town: Reblog if your icon is... →
blodwynn:
I’ve just been hiding it from y’all for so long, and I can’t take it.
I am really the TARDIS. It gets lonely in space. I watch people come and go and age, and see my Doctor suffer, and it breaks my heart. But does he ever notice me? No. He appreciates all the things I do for him, all the…
I really am an adorable blob of fat, who may or may not been ripped from the bodies of...
“[Female Sgt.] saw me reading that book, and she had read it and asked me,...”
– Geek Boy, this morning, on the subject of feminist books.
Frivolous Girliness: Urban Decay Apocalyptic Nail...
There it is in all of it’s glory, I got it as a Christmas gift from Geek Boy, 7 mini nail polishes for $20. First up, the mini bit, actually I like the size of these, they aren’t teeny tiny, but are about half the size of a standard polish from say Revlon. I have nail polish from 2002 in my house, I never finish a bottle of polish, so mini instead of full size isn’t really a...
Alot Of Nerdy Things: All this retail talk reminds... →
bookling:
I do a weekly storytime at my store. Last week, we started on time, I read the story, and we had just moved the kids over to the table for their craft when this woman and her young daughter came in. “Are you done already?” She asked. I told her yes, we’d already read the story, but they were…
Here’s one for you, I used to work in a pizza shop, not a decent pizza shop, but...
Life...ellipsis: Ham and Cheese Pretzel Bites →
downlo:
Don’t these look wonderful? I’d probably eat a whole plate of these.
Yield: 48 bites
1 package (1/4 oz) active dry yeast (or instant yeast)
2 Tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon packed brown sugar, divided
1/4 cup warm water (110-115°F)
1 cup warm milk (110-115°F)
2 1/2 to 3…
Oh dear god, yes! I am so making these for my next D&D game (it’s turned into a kinda...
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Lord of the Rings Online
I used to play WoW, I played from a few months before BC came out, until last summer. My life is devoid of sob stories of how a video game ruined my life, the short of it is, I got bored. I couldn’t bring myself to pay a monthly fee for a game that I wasn’t having fun playing. Which has lead to a serious geeky social rift, because apparently WoW players get a little tweaked out when...
taterviking asked: Favorite D&D campaign you've ever run--as a player or a DM. What was it and what made it so freaking awesome?
taterviking asked: Favorite D&D campaign you've ever run--as a player or a DM. What was it and what made it so freaking awesome?
mrsellipsis asked: favorite board game?
mrsellipsis asked: favorite board game?
Joining TMI Tuesday
Ask me a question? Plaese?
Here’s a cat…the internet loves cats!
I need a recipe for a delicious meal.
catsandscience:
I really want something good. Something you go-to when you want something comforting and delicious. I’m tired of everything that we cook.
Can you help me out? I’ll share any of mine that sound interesting. I can make several delicious Japanese dishes thanks to a good Japanese friend, I’m good at lasagna, and we’re big on potatoes and cheese in this house (Michigan...
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Books
This morning I was caught on the phone by an elderly woman, who wanted me to convert to her flavor of Christianity. Being the far to polite atheist that I am, we were on the phone for half an hour, most of which was me trying to get a word in edgewise. (Seriously the woman would interrupt me when I tried to speak, horrible conversational partner).
That said she said a line to me that I found more...
And the back stories come pouring in...
My group as a whole apparently decided to mess with the DM, and deliver me back stories as loaded with pop culture references as possible. One opened with the lines, “She was just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.” Three of the party members names are Arnold, Edward, and Sarah all names tied to The Terminator franchise, Edward is a druid, with a bear named River (it was...