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I am on an airplane.

Something is up with my Mac. The little charging light isn't coming on on my plug all the time. So I'm running on battery power at the moment. But this comes and goes -- sometimes it works, but once it felt like the whole surface of the computer was slightly electrified. FUN. Oi.

That was horrifying. There was an ant on redstapler just now. ANT IN THE AIR.

No, you were not illiterate.

German homeschoolers granted asylum.

Thought on Ianto-related matters from Gally I forgot to mention: I am uncomfortable when people apply queer litmus tests to people, whether they be real or fictional. The only person Ianto Jones's sexuality represented was Ianto Jones's. I know some people really hate the "It's not men, it's Jack" line, and that's fine. But to me it was in keeping with the character and represents a valid individual sexuality, whether it was one he was moving through towards a stronger queer identity or because Ianto's just wired that way (i.e., mostly straight and always obsessive).

50% of Americans believe that the law should require a woman to change her name when she marries.

BNP candidate asserts that since women like sex, they aren't particularly troubled by rape.

Comments

[pocketmouse]

I always thought that line of Ianto's was just another lie, since that was part of the sequence of scenes about how Ianto's lied about his past and is terrible at communicating with his family and etc etc. I figured he was just twisting the truth again.

Your Mac isn't charging or just the light isn't coming on? Are you using the grounded plug or the ungrounded? I always use the grounded, and if it's not actually charging, I break the connection at the brick, and that usually fixes it. If it's just been doing it on the plane I'd assume that it's a voltage issue with the way the plane's battery distributes power, and it might need to be grounded to work properly. I'm not sure; I've never managed to fly on a plane that had outlets (near me, at least).

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I didn't read as necessarily a conscious lie but certainly I took it as, well, this is the thing he said right then in that situation, cornered and uncertain, not as a definite objective truth. Plus he's Ianto, so of course it's just Jack, and before it was just Lisa, that's just who he is.