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Monday, October 12th, 2009
7:31 am	Working toward that robot girlfriend ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Mood: nerdy (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
5:35 am	Book meme Thanks to madrona8 and marinliliz: (The ones I'd read again I've put a bang after.) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)! 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)! 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte () 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x) 6 The Bible (partial)! 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( ) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)! 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x)! 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy () 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (partial) ! 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( ) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( ) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( ) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( ) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ( ) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( ) 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( ) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( ) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky () 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x)! 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)! 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)! 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( ) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( ) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (partial) 34 Emma - Jane Austen (x)! 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( ) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)...this was part of #33 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( ) 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( ) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( ) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ( ) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( ) 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( ) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x) 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( ) 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (x) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ( ) 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( ) 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( ) 52 Dune - Frank Herbert (x ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( ) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)! 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( ) 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( ) 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ( ) 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x) 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x) 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( ) 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x ) 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( ) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( ) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( ) 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( ) 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( ) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( ) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( ) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (x)! 75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( ) 76 The Inferno - Dante ( ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( ) 80 Possession - AS Byatt ( ) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( ) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( ) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( ) 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( ) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( ) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)! 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( ) 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( ) 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (x) 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( ) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (x) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x) ...this one was included in #14 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( ) My count comes to 38 and three partials, of which I find 13 worth rereading. Of course, since some of the entries are series, one could have read *one* entry and read more than the six books the Beeb is claiming most people read. (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
8:26 am	Watching Big O one more time We decided to go all the way through "Big O" once again. Having misplaced our season 1 set, we added the four disks to our Netflix queue (some 200+) and moved #1 & 2 to the top. Apparently Sunrise or Bandai had significant complaints about the Queen-pastiche opening, because Acts 3 and on had yet another new "song." Too bad they didn't think to use the Gerry Anderson-style one from season 2. It was always my favorite. Once again, I marveled at the work that went into animating the hourglass in the end credits. It's a subtle thing, since Roger and Dorothy are motionless. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
6:55 pm	Writer's Block: First Aid Have you ever performed CPR, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, or the Heimleich maneuver on someone in an emergency? View 464 Answers (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
2:50 am	I'm going to Denvention I'm so excited I couldn't sleep. Which is just as well, as I need to leave for town in a little bit to catch the airport shuttle for my flight to Denver. I've been wanting to go ever since I learned that Lois McMaster Bujold is GoH. It's my first Worldcon, and I'm really looking forward to the three ring circus. I feel a bit sorry for my husband, though; #2 son has been up all night. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
1:14 pm	Actually, I was reading through high school... You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap! Do you deserve your high school diploma? Create a Quiz (Comment on this)
Friday, April 18th, 2008
7:54 pm	Online tests are so much fun! Thanks to madrona8, who steered me to this: My Personality Neuroticism 22 Extraversion 75 Openness to Experience 33 Agreeableness 23 Conscientiousness 30 You are a calm person who is considered almost fearless by some, however you don't usually get angry too easily but some things can annoy you. You lead a leisurely and relaxed life. You would prefer to sit back and smell the roses than indulge in high energy activities. You tend not to express your emotions openly and are sometimes not even aware of your own feelings. You do not enjoy confrontation, but you will stand up for yourself or push your point if you feel it is important, however you are not affected strongly by human suffering, priding yourself on making objective judgments based on reason. You are more concerned with truth and impartial justice than with mercy. You are not an overly cautious person. You will think about alternatives and consequences but make up your mind fairly quickly. Take a Personality Test now or view the full Personality Report. The best Buying Pet Gifts. (Comment on this)
Friday, April 11th, 2008
12:43 pm	This is something I've been anticipating for a long time Sarah Jane Adventures on the Sci-Fi channel: http://www.scifi.com/sarahjaneadventures/. Starts tonight! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
10:25 am	Because filling out trivia is easier than doing actual work A bi-coastal meme, with a faint trace of the Big Sky Country: 1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: a creek ("crick") 2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called: a shopping cart 3. A metal container to carry a meal in: a lunch box 4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: a frypan 5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: a couch or a sofa (the latter particularly if it makes into a bed). 6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: a gutter 7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: a porch (an uncovered one at ground level is a patio; one at the height of the main floor is a deck) 8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: soda 9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: pancakes 10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: a sub 11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: swim trunks 12. Shoes worn for sports: sneakers 13. Putting a room in order: cleaning up 14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: a firefly 15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: a pillbug 16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: a seesaw 17. How do you eat your pizza?: One slice at a time from the point to the rim 18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?: yard or garage sale 19. What's the evening meal?: dinner 20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?: a basement 21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?: drinking fountain (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
1:42 pm	YA Nerd quiz How White and Nerdy Are You? (Comment on this)
Monday, December 24th, 2007
2:54 pm	You think you know your science fiction films? Try identifying them by sound clips: I received 77 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you? Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz canon s5 is (You can keep track of right and wrong answers as the quiz progresses. Just watch the ringed planet above the question.) Merry Christmas, everyone! (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
5:09 pm	Contains references familiar to editors of a certain age... http://eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com/176383.html (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
5:04 pm	What Do You Have To Say? - (like juggling chainsaws) What is one crazy thing you would like to learn to do? View 360 Answers Uh, er, how about teaching chickens to fight off predators? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
7:28 pm	Gee, immortality My sister and brother-in-law gave me S.M. Stirling's trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic Oregon. Imagine my surprise when I turned to page 160 in the third book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0451461665/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-6737297-4911349# (search for "Karen and Danny and Karl") Obviously someone's been doing his research at the Corvallis Farmers' Market! (However, I doubt that we'd be selling dressed chickens in a world without ice.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 12th, 2007
10:30 am	My postpartum announcement Karl and Sara are Proud to Announce the Birth of their Child, Karen, on August 8, 1960. Unfortunately, Karen vomits candy. Karl and Sara are thrilled with such a strange baby. What Did Your Birth Announcement Say? at QuizGalaxy.com Better this that what usually comes out.... (Comment on this)
9:57 am	Twenty-odd questions on a list, from madclarinet YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know things about you. I don't care if we never talk, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. You're on my list, so let me know who I am friends with. Just put it in a reply! 1. Can you cook? 2. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator? 3. What talent do you wish you had? 4. Favorite place? 5. Favorite vegetable? 6. What was the last book you read? 7. Are you Dirty or Clean? 8. Any tattoos and/or piercings? 9. Worst habit? HERE COMES THE FUN ... 1. How did we meet? 2. What's your philosophy on life? 3. Negative or Optimistic? 4. What was your dream growing up? 5. Worst thing to ever happen to you? 6. What was your first impression of me? 7. Tell me one weird fact about you: 8. What’s your favorite memory of us? 9 is missing. Make up something if you want. 10. Have you ever kept anything from me? 11. What do you think of me as a person? 12. Do you think I'm sane or insane? 13. Would you cry for me if I died? 14. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? 15. If you could change anything about me, would you? 16. How do you fall asleep? 17. Ever gotten angry with me? 18. Would you go on a blind date if I set you up? 19. If you had one day to live, what would you do? 20. A million bucks… what would you do with it? 21. What is your worst fear? 22. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? 23. Can you sing or dance? 24. In one word, how would you describe me? Be honest.... 25. Will you repost this so I can fill it out? (Comment on this)
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
7:18 am	Life's little ironies Last night, I changed one of studded tires for the non-studded spare. This morning, there's half an inch of snow on the ground. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
5:36 pm	Random bookness per BabyGhia 1. Grab the nearest book; 2. Open the book to page 123; 3. Find the fifth sentence; 4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions; 5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest. Here goes -- ...In engineering and law, the studies of this term which called for the most exacting thought, Prescott showed unusual signs of "maxing," or getting among the highest marks. Yet, after all this was done, so much leisure did the lonely Dick have that he found time to coach Greg and pull him along over the hard parts. "Look at that fellow recite! Look where he stands in the sections!" growled Durville in bewilderment to Jordan. "It looks as if the sneak meant to stick," uttered Jordan incredulously.... Two points to the first person to identify this! (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
11:24 am	Why not? Everybody's doing it Karen's Aspie Codebar. Get your aspie barcode here. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
7:35 pm	Twenty-five years ago today Robert and I were married by civil ceremony at his parent's house in Port Orford. Despite my flubbing my line, we seem to be doing pretty well. And now, the romantic story of how we met: The first time we met, a guy I know was trying to impress me with his mighty D&D skillz. He brought me along to this campaign he and three others, brothers, were playing. The DM's name was Robert Plumumble, I think. As a date, it was a failure. My wimpy 1st-level character was useless in the fights that the other 4th-level characters would relish, so I was relegated to holding the horses. I decided that if this was supposed to be fun, I'd skip it. The second time we met, my pal Mark was looking for a ride to Portland to attend a PDQ Bach concert. Robert had a car, so he said "buy the tickets and dinner, and get me a date." Mark had no qualms about the first two -- that only took money -- but who did he know who liked PDQ Bach and could tolerate Robert for a whole evening? How about his pal Karen? I was a bit surprised that I'd actually met my blind date before, but we had a good evening. The third time we met, I had a spare ticket for a guest to eat at my house. It was the end of the term, and I hated the idea of it going to waste. Who might like a free meal? How about that Robert Plamondon guy? Turned out that he was quite a charming and fun guy to be with, and we've been together ever since the spring of 1979. (4 Comments |Comment on this)