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Oh, go on then: 44 Qs
Aug. 4th, 2016 11:46 pm1. Do you like blue cheese?
YESyesyesyes. ALL the blue cheese I can't decide if I regret introducing Pp to the wonders of blue cheese. On the one hand, if he buys blue cheese I can eat it :-) However, if I buy blue cheese, he might eat it. >:-(
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YESyesyesyes. ALL the blue cheese I can't decide if I regret introducing Pp to the wonders of blue cheese. On the one hand, if he buys blue cheese I can eat it :-) However, if I buy blue cheese, he might eat it. >:-(
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I can only assume that all the people voting for Brienne and Jaime to win in a battle against Sabriel and Mogget, have only read A Song of Ice and Fire, but not the Abhorsen series, and don't really understand what they are up against.
http://grrm.livejournal.com/476984.html
Sabriel is way more resourceful than either Jaime or Brienne, and has powers they don't. But Mogget is essentially a Vala. Actually, it occurs to me that Mogget is more or less Morgoth. Morgoth, if someone had turned him into an adorable cat at an early stage in his career.
And Jaime Lannister? You are not Fingolfin. You aren't even Boromir. If someone dumped you into either the Old Kingdom or Middle Earth, I'm pretty sure you'd be crying to go home within a week.
Brienne could probably make a go of it in Middle Earth, or indeed the Old Kingdom, but she's no match for Mogget!Morgoth.
http://grrm.livejournal.com/476984.html
Sabriel is way more resourceful than either Jaime or Brienne, and has powers they don't. But Mogget is essentially a Vala. Actually, it occurs to me that Mogget is more or less Morgoth. Morgoth, if someone had turned him into an adorable cat at an early stage in his career.
And Jaime Lannister? You are not Fingolfin. You aren't even Boromir. If someone dumped you into either the Old Kingdom or Middle Earth, I'm pretty sure you'd be crying to go home within a week.
Brienne could probably make a go of it in Middle Earth, or indeed the Old Kingdom, but she's no match for Mogget!Morgoth.
I STILL don't care much for Facebook.
Jan. 12th, 2014 05:16 pmI suppose I really have to have a facebook account - people expect it in my line of business, and it's kind of useful for volunteering, and yes, OK it's nice to see the occasional update or share a little with those random souls that I don't have any other contact details for, but none the less have a vague feeing of warmth towards. And it's sometimes interesting to see updates from organisations and businesses whose work interests me.
But a social medium which has such enormous breadth of membership, where the lines are so blurred between the professional, the commercial, and the personal is ... awkward. Uncomfortable. Having had a good think about it, I've concluded that it's just not a space where I feel very safe expressing myself. Every time I post something that isn't a generic message 'happy new year!' or a dog photo, I end up regretting it.
NY Resolution : Less Facebook.
But a social medium which has such enormous breadth of membership, where the lines are so blurred between the professional, the commercial, and the personal is ... awkward. Uncomfortable. Having had a good think about it, I've concluded that it's just not a space where I feel very safe expressing myself. Every time I post something that isn't a generic message 'happy new year!' or a dog photo, I end up regretting it.
NY Resolution : Less Facebook.
Today I have seen so many shares of photographs of Nelson Mandela with inspirational captions.
I'm trying to resist the temptation to do a survey of the captions and find out how many of them should really be attributed to other people (my guess? definitely some, probably many, and just possibly, lots).
I think all the *photos* are really Mandela - although now I say that, the temptation to see if I can slip a photo of some other bloke in, with a quote stolen from Pam Ayres is growing almost unbearable...
I guess this is what it really means to become a legend.
I'm trying to resist the temptation to do a survey of the captions and find out how many of them should really be attributed to other people (my guess? definitely some, probably many, and just possibly, lots).
I think all the *photos* are really Mandela - although now I say that, the temptation to see if I can slip a photo of some other bloke in, with a quote stolen from Pam Ayres is growing almost unbearable...
I guess this is what it really means to become a legend.
I'm so sorry 2013. I'm afraid I still hate informational web video.
Video on the web is great for entertainment, to show off things that are visually spectacular or comic in a physical way. But PLEASE! How much of my life must I spend sitting through:
"Click. click. Great! Sooooo, ahhhhhhh, welcome, everyone.
Um, um, this is a showcase of [thing that I have already read on the screen six times while you have been umming]
I'm going to be shooooooooooooowing you [description of thing I am now already bored of] aaaaaaaaand ...[click] let me just start with some introductions. I am [name I ALREADY READ ON THE SODDING SCREEN, OK???] and I hold [job I already know about BECAUSE IT'S ON THE SCREEN] and also joining us are [people whose names I've read and I don't CARE about because how long do I have to wait for some actual informational content around here???]"
Grrrrrrrrr. Just put your notes on the web in text form! Honestly, my eyes are so much quicker than your voice!
ETA : it has just occurred to me that the word 'Showcase' in internet terms means 'Superficial and uninformative'.
Video on the web is great for entertainment, to show off things that are visually spectacular or comic in a physical way. But PLEASE! How much of my life must I spend sitting through:
"Click. click. Great! Sooooo, ahhhhhhh, welcome, everyone.
Um, um, this is a showcase of [thing that I have already read on the screen six times while you have been umming]
I'm going to be shooooooooooooowing you [description of thing I am now already bored of] aaaaaaaaand ...[click] let me just start with some introductions. I am [name I ALREADY READ ON THE SODDING SCREEN, OK???] and I hold [job I already know about BECAUSE IT'S ON THE SCREEN] and also joining us are [people whose names I've read and I don't CARE about because how long do I have to wait for some actual informational content around here???]"
Grrrrrrrrr. Just put your notes on the web in text form! Honestly, my eyes are so much quicker than your voice!
ETA : it has just occurred to me that the word 'Showcase' in internet terms means 'Superficial and uninformative'.
Hobbit movie 1
Jan. 11th, 2012 09:26 amI would thank ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
huinare for the link to this, but I'm not sure if 'thank' is the right word. :-D
It's a bizarrely contorted 1966 'movie' of The Hobbit.
Probably many of you have seen it, but I hadn't! I kind of like it. Kind of. The graphics are quite nice, if not particularly Hobbity. But the plot is kind of appalling! :-D
huinare for the link to this, but I'm not sure if 'thank' is the right word. :-DIt's a bizarrely contorted 1966 'movie' of The Hobbit.
Probably many of you have seen it, but I hadn't! I kind of like it. Kind of. The graphics are quite nice, if not particularly Hobbity. But the plot is kind of appalling! :-D
Things Rosemary Sutcliff Did Not Make Up
Dec. 14th, 2011 12:50 amIn googling for something quite other, I found an old discussion of Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset (a book of which I am unreasonably fond), in which the commenters lay into the author for having written on a topic they found distasteful. Incest. Yes, they felt that including incest in an Arthurian story was something that rendered the whole book unreadable.
I assume they haven't read Malory. Good grief. I then became annoyed, and wished to share my annoyance with The Internet. Then I had a long agonised internal debate with myself whether to use my 'history' tag for this post. This was quite ludicrous. I am therefore tagging it 'loons' and including myself in the tag...
I assume they haven't read Malory. Good grief. I then became annoyed, and wished to share my annoyance with The Internet. Then I had a long agonised internal debate with myself whether to use my 'history' tag for this post. This was quite ludicrous. I am therefore tagging it 'loons' and including myself in the tag...
