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Oct. 12th, 2006 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
✒I got good news about my bad ankle from the foot doctor yesterday: the exercise program is working. I won't have to have surgery or take gut-shredding medication. Huzzah.
✒My favoritest show in the whole wide world started its new season last night: Ghost Hunters. Dig those wacky plumbers! Which means I still didn't watch my tape of Wire in the Blood.
✒I've spent the day designing the most ridiculous airship ever. It's been loads of fun, but I'm not sure it would ever get off the ground--or stay in the air. Cartoony, but fun. Frank Reade meets Loony Tunes. If form follows function, this probably doesn't function at all. Must make prettier, sleeker.
✒I spent another $50 at Amazon, justifying it with the "I need it to write my novel" excuse. Okay, maybe I needed one of those books. The others were just because. I will never be out of debt.
✒Being a writer is one of the wackiest things on earth. It means you have to get intimately acquainted with all sorts of strange subject matter: airships/hot air balloons, flintlocks, air currents, string theory, boundary branes, men's underwear...
✒Here's a funny link: Indiana Jones loses tenure.
ETA: Oops. Did that last one already. That's how random my brain is these days.
Random quote of the day:
"All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every rascal thinks he knows, but he is mistaken."
—Albert Einstein, letter to Michel Besso, 1951
✒My favoritest show in the whole wide world started its new season last night: Ghost Hunters. Dig those wacky plumbers! Which means I still didn't watch my tape of Wire in the Blood.
✒I've spent the day designing the most ridiculous airship ever. It's been loads of fun, but I'm not sure it would ever get off the ground--or stay in the air. Cartoony, but fun. Frank Reade meets Loony Tunes. If form follows function, this probably doesn't function at all. Must make prettier, sleeker.
✒I spent another $50 at Amazon, justifying it with the "I need it to write my novel" excuse. Okay, maybe I needed one of those books. The others were just because. I will never be out of debt.
✒Being a writer is one of the wackiest things on earth. It means you have to get intimately acquainted with all sorts of strange subject matter: airships/hot air balloons, flintlocks, air currents, string theory, boundary branes, men's underwear...
✒Here's a funny link: Indiana Jones loses tenure.
ETA: Oops. Did that last one already. That's how random my brain is these days.
Random quote of the day:
"All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every rascal thinks he knows, but he is mistaken."
—Albert Einstein, letter to Michel Besso, 1951
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Date: 2006-10-13 04:30 pm (UTC)http://homepage.ntlworld.com/isil.telemnar/Doublexposure/Kreed_Kafer.htm
The Craigievar Castle episode was just recently broadcast and I laughed my socks off watching Derek fall for it.
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Date: 2006-10-13 12:08 am (UTC)I know! I was definitely laughing at myself over that one.
I love Jay and Grant, and Steve is wonderfully straight-freaky, and Brian is such a mess. The soap opera sometimes is too much, but overall, I just love that show.
way better than Most Haunted
Way better. I watch it, but mostly (like Kim) to laugh at the ridiculousness of those involved. And Derek is such a phony. Did you read about the sting Ciaran ran on him this season? Totally hilarious?
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Date: 2006-10-13 12:19 am (UTC)And, yeah, Brian remains a complete and utter mess.
And no, I didn't hear about the sting! I miss everything!
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Date: 2006-10-13 12:26 am (UTC)And yes, Steve and his phobias are a hoot.
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Date: 2006-10-13 04:31 pm (UTC)http://homepage.ntlworld.com/isil.telemnar/Doublexposure/Kreed_Kafer.htm
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Date: 2006-10-13 12:38 am (UTC)$50 at Amazon is a small price to pay for sanity.
And thanks for the Inidana Jones link. Pretty funny.
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Date: 2006-10-13 04:32 pm (UTC)I'm certainly happy!
$50 at Amazon is a small price to pay for sanity.
Yeah, well... :-)
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