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[rm]

- Last night Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Bush and no one noticed. Despair.

- Can the New York Times please stop writing articles that marvel that women like technology, sex or sports? I'm getting really sick of it. Today's latest? Oh my god, we like smart phones!!!! Civilization is about to fall, I'm telling you.

- Testing at work today. Can I just say, not my idea of a good time?

- I know we all slag, and rightfully so, on Wikipedia, but it's a real godsend when you need a cursory bit of information for a bit of fiction. Unfortunately, because of sam_storyteller my brain keeps calling it the "Whenkipedia."

- The heat is supposed to start breaking today. Which is good, as I actually hit a dizzy spell from it late last night. I am surprised it took that long.

- Still no letters from Patty. Sigh. This is definitely harder and more complicated communication-wise than Cyprus. On the other hand, we know where we stand, so it's not anxiety producing. That said, I really hope I get something from her soon (I know she's mailed at least three). Also, I have to send her Nutella this week. It makes everything better. Even sand storms.

- Parents tonight.

Comments

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I just got the disturbing image of sand in Nutella. Yuck. I'd probably still eat it though.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

"Whenkipedia."

It is making me think it needs to be in a Torchwood fanfic for some reason.

N.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's from a DW/TW fic, in fact! sam_storyteller is amazing if you're not familiar with his work.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

I'm becoming familiar with his work because of you, actually :)

I have tended to stay away from most fan fiction because I have found that it's usually awful, and not in keeping with the characters. However... yours is quite good for TW, and I'm really likeing sam_storyteller's too.

I am shocked! And pleased :)

N.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. There's a lot of bad out there (and DW/TW in particular tends to be a magnet for the bad for reasons I am still trying to discern), but there are people out there who are doing amazing stuff either because they really know how to tell stories or because they are actors who type and understand characters in really fundamental ways.

Particularly hilarious/odd is the thing Sam did that's "if Torchwood were an American network show" that sort of turns it into a cross between what it is, Law & Order and the West Wing.

[ebourland.livejournal.com]

Wait, you like smart phones? *boggles*

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

When my ex-husband came back from a dig in Egypt, he affirmed that the sand is in everything. You just sorta get used to it, apparently.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Random:
Did Patty bring goggles for the dig?
Sand storms without eye protection = not a fabulous experience. :/

[rm.livejournal.com]

Not to my knowledge and not based on the stories she's told me.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

When she goes again, y'all might want to check out army surplus supply stores, if the sand does end up having been a problem for her.

Ski goggles don't help much at all, apparently, and most of the big military goggles are too big for a woman's face - they allow for too many gaps for the sand to discover. I don't know that swim goggles would work...

..And I'm butting back out now. :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, it has to fit over her glasses....

I can already see patty eye-rolling at me when I insist on taking her to a military surplus store for goggles.

"You're just looking for a coat!" I can hear her hiss.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[6-bleen-7.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia comes in very handy when I need to look up some obscure formula and don't want to sift through the megabytes of minutiae that MathWorld feels compelled to provide. And I've found it very reliable for that. Bog help me, though, if mathematical statistics ever becomes a hot political issue.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Totally random, but I thought you might enjoy the creepy, creepy art of Ray Caesar.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The historical/high society stuff is GENIUS.

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

Re: the New York Times:

Oh, Em, Gee, I saw the first paragraph of that article. Started reading, immediately thought, "God, what stupid rag is this that feels that this is news?" Looked up at the masthead, expecting the Washington Times or some such second-rate thing (I'd have thought USA Today, except that their overall layout is so instantly recognizable)... and got a bit of a shock.

Not much of one, mind you. The Times has sunk a pretty long way since the days of my youth. (And the news dailies wonder why so many folks are ditching them and getting our news from the Internet...)

[volund.livejournal.com]

Some of us noticed. Kucinich's introduction of impeachment articles was reported on MSNBC, and was the lead story on Countdown; Keith Olbermann and his colleagues devoted a fair amount of time to it, and to why (like Kucinich's intro of impeachment articles against Cheney last year) it was likely to end up in the purgatory of the House Judiciary Committee and be ignored.

The reasons discussed: the spinelessness of Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid and the rest of the Democratic congressional leadership (although Keith and Co. graciously did not use such harsh words) and how the Republican witchhunt against President Clinton for his sexual peccadilloes queered impeachment as a viable option, at least for a generation (almost as if the Republicans had planned it that way ... )