Six hours and counting!

[cleolinda]

Hmm. When you first put Blood Moon on, it kind of smells like... elbow macaroni. Huh. I wore it a little this morning, though, so I know it turns into a very light cinnamon cola as it dries down. But still, it's doing it again: elbow macaroni.

WHEE SIX HOURS UNTIL MIDNIGHT HARRY POTTER.

I'm starting to doubt that I'll run into anyone anyway (but I did at the Half-Blood Prince midnight thing, after all), but if you are at the Vestavia Rave, I'll be wearing a black sweater coat (with Death Eater hood), a blue/grey Ravenclaw scarf, my awesome b/w Skechers, a blue leaf pendant, and Hermione hair. Sadly, the Hermione hair comes standard, and is not a special-occasion thing.

From particle_person: This guy will fix your computer for sex. I'm a little grossed out that people are actually taking him up on this, for some reason.

Martha has been fired.

Metaquotation plagiarism! OF THE CHUCK NORRIS GENERATOR. Have you people no shame!

Historian Charged With Denying Holocaust.

tygerlander: "I know you don't frequent the gopets boards. [Eh, I would if I had more time. Did get some extremely helpful hints from them, though.] Thought you might want to read this thread and pass it on to the other suckers... uh I mean, people you referred to gopets. Speaking as one of said suck... referred peoples, lol." Who also gave Biscuit a most excellent sweater (thank you so much!). The gist of the post is, it's about a raffle where, if you win, you get $2500 and the person who referred you gets $2500. You can see why this would be of interest to us.

Police Search for Gary Glitter in Vietnam.

Kimberly Stewart to marry "Laguna Beach" "star."

A list of slang on the internets!

zhai: "Anthology you might be interested in, if you haven't heard about it yet." It's a call for submissions for She's Such a Geek: An Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books, Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution. I don't know if I count, because I don't math or science, but I'm hoping I might. But I know a lot of y'all are, so please think about trying to write something up to submit.

Important notes: I am not actually affiliated with this book. I cannot speak for the editors or answer questions. The guy who originally posted this isn't either. Only women may submit.

Slated for Fall 2006

Geeks are taking over the world. They make the most popular movies and games, pioneer new ways to communicate using technology, and create new ideas that will change the future. But the stereotype is that only men can be geeks. So when are we going to hear from the triumphant female nerds whose stories of outer space battles will inspire generations, and whose inventions will change the future? Right now.

Female geeks are busting out of the labs and into the spotlight. They have the skills and knowledge that can inspire social progress, scientific breakthroughs, and change the world for the better, and they’re making their voices heard, some for the first time, in Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders’ book She’s Such a Geek. This anthology will celebrate women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. We’re looking for a wide range of personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and aren’t afraid to match wits with men or computers. The essays in She’s Such a Geek will explain what it means to be passionately engaged with technical or obscure topics—and how to deal with it when people tell you that your interests are weird, especially for a girl. This book aims to bust stereotypes of what it means to be a geek, as well as what it means to be female.

More than anything, She’s Such a Geek is a celebration and call to arms: it’s a hopeful book which looks forward to a day when women will pilot spaceships, invent molecular motors, design the next ultra-tiny supercomputer, write epics, and run the government.

We want introspective essays that explain what being a geek has meant to you. Describe how you’ve fought stereotypes to be accepted among nerds. Explore why you are obsessed with topics and ideas that are supposed to be “for boys only.” Tell us how you felt the day you realized that you would be devoting the rest of your life to discovering algorithms or collecting comic books. We want strong, personal writing that is also smart and critical. We don’t mind if you use the word “fuck,” and we don’t mind if you use the word “telomerase.” Be celebratory, polemical, wistful, angry, and just plain dorky.

See the link for possible topics to write about.

Comments

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

It's his T-shirt that sells the gigolo service.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yes, but wouldn't you rather his server be up?

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Elbow macarooooonnii. Now I am hungry.
Grr, I have to wait...28 hours for GoF, yo. And I am wearing a Gryffindor scarf, so awesome.
AND OMG Oh No They Didn't was hacked! Splandoozled! It is chaos over there.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw something about that--it was deleted, then it came back, and now there's something else going on with it. I'm keeping an eye on it via JournalFen, at the moment.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the Hermione hair comes standard, and is not a special-occasion thing. I hear ya on that one. :D

<3 Have fun at the movie!

[stargal62889.livejournal.com]

Yeah hermione hair!

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I have been forbidden to go to the movie until I finish knitting my Gryffindor scarf. So I will probably be up to my elbows in maroon and gold yarn for the next 48 hours. :(

Lost linkspam, for anyone who doesn't frequent lost-media.com: Michael Ausiello talks with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (http://www.lost-media.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1385). Interesting tidbits. The spoilage is not extreme, but those who want to remain wholly unspoiled should not click.

[http://users.livejournal.com/lorien__/]

is there a small chance to hope for a m15m version of GOF??? *grin*

Hugs
L

[ponygirl118.livejournal.com]

On the whole Historian denying the Holocaust:
It kind of pisses me off that he was arrested for denying it. I mean, in a way, isn't one emulating the Nazis' by arresting people for stating an opinion? & then I feel guilty, as a Jew, for feeling that way. I mean...I don't know. Love your journal, by the way.
-me

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes me uncomfortable too- it smacks of thought-policing. I mean, his opinion is sucky and wrong, but so is arresting him for it.

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Quick BPAL question for you- when did make your order? I ordered my first set of samples on Oct. 1 and I'm just trying to get some idea of when to expect it. I'm new to this whole BPAL thing, after all.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

Sadly for instant-gratification people like myself, BPAL orders take nearly eight weeks from order to in-the-mailbox. My last order took eight weeks and three days. The results are worth it, so think of it like counting down the days to your birthday. ^.^

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Thanks kindly for the help. I had been hearing that the ordes took a while, so I wasn't too worried.

*pulls out a calendar to start counting down the days*

[ex-krazycat651.livejournal.com]

According to that slang on the internets list, CUNT means "See you Next Time".

.... okay!

[starlights-1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! And enjoy HP!

I just wanted to share this link with you and your readers:

I don't feel bad for Chris Klien anymore.... (http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip3)

[dewyeyed.livejournal.com]

GoF! I watched it yesterday! Oh, please do a GoF in fifteen minutes, that'd be so awesome.

[mokeyhokey.livejournal.com]

Heeee, the internet slang wiki says DH means both "dear husband" and "dickhead".

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

The snippet on Mr. Glitter makes that whole bit in Sliding Doors--where John Hannah's character describes losing his first girlfriend at age 8 to Gary Glitter--all new kinds of crazy.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

At my local cineplex, the HP line went literally around the block. They filled four theaters and sold out, and I have no clue why they didn't open all six. On the way over, I was offered the "opportunity" to buy a ticket for $15 (theater price was $10.50), but I declined and bought tickets for tomorrow night instead.

[starlights-1.livejournal.com]

A line going around the block? That's nuts! We bought our tickets last week, and the girl told us to get there at least an hour beforehand.

*is more shocked at the idea of scaplers for Harry Potter*

[thorondae.livejournal.com]

Cleo! Hey, this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but.. I went and checked out GoPets basically because you play it, and I've ended up joining. (Biscuit comes and visits me a lot, yay!) Anyway. I have a couple questions and I don't know anyone else who plays, so.. 1) Why do the little IKU symbol things not load? I want to send you mail, but I want to be able to see the symbols I'm sending you and they never load. The just show the loading icon for ages and ages and ages. 2) I own shampoo and my pet needs to be washed, but.. how do I actually wash her?

Sorry for being so off-topic, but who else can I ask?
*embarassed*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No problem. : ) I have no idea what's going on with the IKU thing; sometimes they load for me and sometimes they don't. As for the washing, the pet has to get in the bathtub herself. If they get dirty enough, they'll do it, but to "suggest" it to them, pick her up and set her down in front of the tub (the lower end, nearest you). To add shampoo, drag the shampoo and drop it on the tub, and you'll see it sitting in front of the tub. It'll then get used when the pet bathes. If you want to make sure no one else bathes but your pet (and uses up the shampoo), put the tub back in your inventory, then take it out and drop it "on" your pet, and a bubble with your pet's face on it will appear--that means it's only for your pet. Then you can drop the shampoo on it. You can clear that by putting the tub back in inventory, and it works on food the same way--drop a fortune cookie "on" your pet, and no one else will be able to eat it.

[thorondae.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You = awesome. <3

[tygerlander.livejournal.com]

IKU is a bit graphics intensive. It usually crashes the client a lot on me. The Gopets team tweak the program weekly. Feel free to request me as a friend. My id is pretty much global on the net ^_^ (tygerlander)

Also do not pass up the community board. You can lurk there for awhile before deciding to join that or not.

I pretty much live on the board now. Unfortunately that kills time for KoL, but I'm getting beaten left, right and sideways by the Naughty Sorceress 6_9

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

The defintion of "asshat" was pretty vague--of course we know it's the combination of "ass" and "hat".

Holocaust denials are always slimy because very few deny it actually happened, rather they underestimate the total, because hey, life is totally quantfiable. "I wouldn't call it a holocaust, more like a massacre."

[saadiira.livejournal.com]

That was a nicely thorough list for relatively common (And sometimes, not so common) slang. Thank you very much.

-Dira-