| iLoveit. |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|09:39 am] |
Yeah, still totally adoring my new shiny, with it's pretty red-and-black Frogz cover and everything. Been checking out a bunch of different apps, mostly free, except for Distant Shore, which is a notes-in-a-bottle thing that reminds me of tying postcards to the strings of helium balloons and letting them float away.
The other app I plunked down cash for is a little game called Myst. I played this game when it first came out, obsessively, to completion. Me and my brother. Every day. For three months straight. It was one of the few times that we ever collaborated on anything to a great extent, and I think, looking back, we both grew closer and got a lot smarter (or at least better at complicated problem-solving) in the process.
Playing it now, on the iPhone... well, it's a good what, 15 years later? It's still beautiful, even on the small screen, and the movement is brilliant. It's like somehow back then they could have predicted the rise of the iPhone, and planned out the click-movement accordingly. Walking the island is like coming home - but it's like coming home someplace where you don't remember any of the locks or keycodes, and you have to fiddle with everything.
Just like the first time... I'm doing this puppy without cheats or a walkthrough. Pure gaming. |
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| iGot. |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|11:45 am] |
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a bandwagon and now I'm on it, tooting away. I got myself an iPhone, because last week ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pgnblade looked at the costs and fees and realized that if I got an iPhone with a 2 year contract and added myself as a line to his account with a family plan, the phone would be paid for by the difference from my old plan to this new one in a span of 8 months, and thereafter we'd be saving about $15 a month.
It came yesterday, and we got it charged, activated, and switched me over. Last night and this morning I've been poking at apps. I know a bunch of you are iPhone users - what apps do you recommend? What free ones are actually good, and what non-free ones are worth paying for?
I'm getting this case for it, in the red/black combo. I bought it on Amazon.com though, for less than half the list. Yay, Amazon! |
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| I'm published! (Again!) |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|01:32 pm] |
Go to Circlet 2.0 to read my new microfiction, "The Spy Who..."
Permalink is here.
Go, read, enjoy - and leave me a comment there!
(I need a Writing icon) |
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| I feel so nifty! |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|09:18 am] |
Yesterday was a day of awesome. I won tickets to see RENT at Proctors!
Then I spent a good chunk of the day lurking on Beth Wylde's yahoo group, interjecting here and there as some really neat authors introduced themselves and shared excepts of their work (Some of it was truly astounding - if you're looking for some good M/M work, take a gander at Samhain!). One of the authors there was mychael_black2 - he did a little contest to give away two signed copies of one of his books. I won one of them!
Better yet, I got to spend a good chunk of the day chitchatting with him, and pointed him toward Spaced. Not only did he make me blush with his enjoyment of it, but he has gone so far as to rec me in his livejournal!
The clouds, kids. I'm walking on them.
And in related news, Circlet accepted another of my microfictions, and it will be going up on Friday June 26 - that's right, tomorrow! I'll link all y'all when it's up there, and look forward as always to hearing what you think!
Now, to figure out what to do with this odd little concept I've come up with regarding grue... and also a m/m SF piece for LPBurka.... and there's a half-finished story that I meant to be a microfic that's probably going to be a short story....
*hums happily as Muse gets free rein to putter about in her mind* |
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| Linkdump |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|09:57 am] |
Torture Memos and the Bush Administration: Time to move on - gues blog on NJvoices
Auto-meme - CLICK FACE, RECEIVE MEME
NH Sheep and Wool Festival - clearly it's been too long since my last linkdump, this took place in early May
Geeksugar - Who's geekier?
Shoooooooes! - ohmygodshoes.
Come again? - If your sperm were used for data storage... (Screenshot of a 4chan/b/ thread)
LJ Connect - how many steps does it take to get from your journal to another user?
Sneaky Ninja Entrepreneurs - a BUNNY comic
Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Roger Ebert on death and dying.
Twitter Signal-to-Noise ratio - for @Blissmorgan
Spaced - by Andrea Howe at Circlet.com
Scientists Trying to Outflank HIV/AIDS Virus - Time Magazine online
Tinsmith - a band
Yfrog - for sharing vids and pics on Twitter
15 Vintage Sexist Ads
Camouflage Art
Random optical Illusions
Image: A cupless, crotchless lingerie garment NSFW - ....where is that third hand COMING from?!
Corset Connection
Corset that makes me go ooh. - Corset Connection
Fairy Gothmother - UK Corsetierre
Big Gals Lingerie - found while looking for lingerie for larger women like myself... and wtf. Does extra poundage somehow drag good taste right out of our brains, in their estimation?
The Littlest Admiral has only the finest of box-hats.
Menstrual Painting
Lelo Nea - it's a vibrator that looks rather like a mouse. NSFW dependant on how well you can get away with looking at sex toys.
Lelo Inez gold vibrator - Potentially NSFW. This vibrator sold for over $10K!
NASA Picture of the Day - from 6/4/9, Sunspots
Ea's Artlog - the blog of an artist who sketches in moleskines
NSFW Steampunk sex machine
166 songs Banned by Clear Channel after 9/11/2001 - includes:
Louis Armstrong - “What a Wonderful World.”
The Beatles - “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
Buddy Holly and the Crickets - “That’ll Be the Day.”
The Drifters - “On Broadway.”
Elton John - “Bennie and the Jets.”
Frank Sinatra - “New York New York.”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Tuesday’s Gone.”
Tom Petty - “Free Fallin’”
Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Under the Bridge.”
TinyURL.com
SPIN presents Liner Notes with Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman
Labbit!
Nedroid.com - A comic strip
Orbit Books is looking for a summer intern in NYC
That's how I roll.
CrossedGenres.com Flash Fiction Contest - is currently in the voting phase, ends 6/30
Creative Advertisements that make you Look Twice
Censorship = Boring - Florida high school valedictorian forced to rewrite speech
....and here's The original speech that was rejected
Warning Labels
All Things Renaissance.com - nice leather boots.
How to get a Book Deal
100 Awesome Open Source Tools for Writers, Journalists, and Bloggers
8 Fictional Suburbs With Hideous, Dark Secrets
Trent Reznor deals with trolls by walking away from social Media - on SethSimonds.com
Twisted Princesses
Virtual Firefly - Here's How It Might Have Been....
Catherynn M. Valente, author of Palimpsest, needs you to read:
catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland
I will start posting chapters of a full-length novel version of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. I will be writing it in real time, posting every Monday. It will be free to read--but please know that the sheer calories to make my brain create it require funding, and I would very much appreciate your support. Pay whatever you like for it, whatever you think it's worth. It's kind of like an old-fashioned rent party. There's a button at the bottom of the post to start things out.
This is a book about a little girl named September who gets herself a ticket to Fairyland on the back of The Green Wind and a somewhat cranky Leopard. There she discovers the realm of the capricious Marquess and the dangers of the Perverse and Perilous Sea. It is going to be something else.
And yes, you can read it to your kids. This is my first available YA novel, and everyone can read it for free.
catherynnemvalente.com/fairyland |
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| Come chat! |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|05:39 am] |
Circlet Press authors are ahving a chat day on Beth Wylde's Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bethwylde/
Please come join other readers interested in gay, lesbian, bi, trans literature of various forms. (including non-erotic forms like mystery etc) - and say hi to me while you're there, pretty please! |
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| If you please, |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|09:56 am] |
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...a prompt? Word or picture. |
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| I win at Garage Sales. |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|05:03 pm] |
This weekend was the village-wide garage sale, and I spent some time driving around with The Tiny Emperor. I scored a Lawn Buddy for me for $5 (normally $68), and an old but functional Black and Decker Circ Saw for Blade for another $5.
The woman at that yard sale adored TTE, and even though I bought him a VTech V-smile DeskPro for $1 (Normally $125), she also up and GAVE him about 7 other toys, including a Fisher Price Bus (normally $70) and a Little People Discovery City (normally $55), missing the buildings, but he loves it already for racing his little cars on.
We also hit the perennial sale at one of the churches, and there I picked up a Little Tikes Double Easel (normally $80) and a Little People Animal Sounds Farm (normally $65) for $5 each.
For those of you not bothering to do the math, I spent $21 and got $463+ worth of awesome.
I rock me. |
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| I'm trying to find an article... |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|12:02 pm] |
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It was at least a year ago, possibly as much as two, about a man how has journalled obsessively for the last 50-60 years. Ring a bell with anybody? |
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[Jun. 8th, 2009|12:11 pm] |
From @eroticawriter on Twitter, the following:
Slain woman met suspect on Craigslist in search of baby clothes. http://bit.ly/17M8YO We must ban clothing ads to avert future tragedies.
Her comment on the article is wry, but the article itself is rather heartrending. A 21 year old woman, 8 months pregnant, just moved across country from MD to OR to be with her fiance, and met up with another woman contacted via Craiglist to receive baby clothes. The young woman was killed, and her baby taken from her womb.
It's a terrible tragedy, and my heart goes out to her fiance and her family.
after reading the article, my gaze dropped to the first comment beneath:
Posted by somtaaw on 06/07/09 at 10:57AM
This kind of thing makes me sick. I've watched the crime rates move higher for the last 3 years.
We have gone from bicycle teft to murder, in a very short time. Is this the Portland metro area? Feels more like Newark N.J.
Hanging is too good for her.
Burning is too good for her.
She should be torn into itsy pieces and buried alive.
The horrible irony in this makes me literally nauseous, and the worst part is that I'm certain that this "somtaaw" doesn't even realize it. |
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| I am PUBLISHED! |
[May. 22nd, 2009|02:02 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | writing | ] |
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Circlet Press (which has an lj community, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) circletpress) selected an erotic microfiction I wrote to be featured on its front page as part of their new weekly feature, Fiction Fridays. You can see the piece right now at Circlet 2.0, and it will remain permalinked even after the week is up, here.
Go, read, and please leave me a comment there! (Comments here are nice too.)
Many thanks to octoberland, without whose notice of open call for submission via Facebook I might never have thought to submit there, and to pgnblade for putting up with supporting my crazy writer habit all these years! |
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| Twitterverse |
[May. 19th, 2009|11:26 am] |
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Do you tweet?
What's your handle? |
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| Who's got two thumbs and a piece pending publication at the end of this week? |
[May. 12th, 2009|11:24 am] |
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THIS girl!
That's right, I submitted a piece of microfiction to a press for open call, and it got selected to go up on the front page of their site this Friday! I am absolutely BESIDE myself with the happy, right now.
Watch this space - I'll be linking the site on Friday, and I expect all y'all to be commenting on it - there, not here, of course, as there's a comment structure in place.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Linkdump (Did you miss me?) |
[May. 6th, 2009|09:32 am] |
Woman in Latex - NSFW image (linked rather then posted straight. See how I look out for you?)
Another Lates-coated woman - NSFW image
The Egg!
Exciting and old,
The Egg!
You'll do as you're told,
The Egg!
The Egg, no corners for you!
Mindf*** - NSFW language. Woe is me, I fall prey to 4chan memes, and recently the Mindf*** posters have been nudging out creepypasta. The idea is that it's a seemingly normal picture, but there's something somewhere in the background that, when you notice it, freaks you out somehow.
Atheism - a demotivational poster. SFW, but a lot of this site isn't, including sidebar ads. Unless your work doesn't mined 100px square flashes of T&A, in which case enjoy.
This feels like it wants to be some sort of creepypasta type drabble, but it hasn't mentally coagulated yet.
This linkdump is REALLY imageheavy, so because I lurve you all and your bandwidth, the rest is behind a cut - ( don't miss out on all the fun! )
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| I remember this thing. *pokepoke* |
[May. 5th, 2009|09:34 am] |
Your result for The 3 Variable Funny Test...
the Cutting Edge
your humor style:
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARKYour humor's mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there's something slightly menacing about you. Part of your humor is making people a little uncomfortable, even if the things you say aren't themselves confrontational. You probably have a very dry delivery, or are seriously over-the-top. Your type is the most likely to appreciate a good insult and/or broken bone and/or very very fat person dancing. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: David Letterman - John Belushi
The 3-Variable Funny Test!
- it rules -
Take The 3 Variable Funny Test at HelloQuizzy
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| We aren't good enough for a dog. |
[Apr. 11th, 2009|03:31 pm] |
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Lemme 'splain. (Don't worry, it no take too long. Got time.)
We've been thinking quite a while about getting a dog; but several things have had us wait. Wanted to be solidly in our house, wanted to make sure the kids weren't too tiny, that sort of thing.
Recently, we've decided we hit the point of being ready to look at dogs. Today, we drove down to the Benson's on Wolf Road, for Homeward Bound's weekly adoption clinic. We got there, went up to the table, and were handed two pages of small print paperwork to fill out before we could even look at the dogs.
We've both previously had dogs. We (or at least he) knows about crate training, and we do intend to do it. We have a house with a yard, and time to take care of a dog.
The woman at the table looked over our paperwork - among other things, we had to put down what other animals we have (one 7-year old cat, and some fish), and what vet we take them to. We had to do a little searching to pull out our vet info, because it's been a few years since we've taken Serendipity to one.
Well.
Apparently? This makes us the devil of pet owners.
No, really. Our cat is healthy, well-fed, an indoor cat who has not been declawed, who has been spayed and has all her shots. Barring a bout of ear mites within the first few months of her life, she has quite possibly been the healthiest member of this family for the past decade.
But since we haven't bothered paying $35 a year to take her for wellness visits, this is going to bar us from getting any animal at all from Homeward Bound - which the woman behind the table told me with false apology in her cold smile, and then handed a sheet of paper to Blade and said disdainfully that it was a list of local shelters, and maybe we'd have better luck there.
Because she wasn't going to trust us with one of her dogs. Which are somehow 'better' than shelter dogs.
I am not impressed.
I am not amused.
I am going to get a great dog - from someplace that does NOT have an attitude problem. |
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