[1-3] Nastia Lukin&Shawn Johnson
[4-15] Gossip Girl (+cast)
Gilmore Girls (+cast)
[27-54] Veronica Mars
[55-63] Sophia Bush
[64-72] Minka Kelly
[73-82] Kelly Clarkson
(83-88] Emma Watson


rest here!

I've been trying to convert some of my work friends.
Yesterday, my coworker burst into my cube saying "OMG, I'm so scared. We're watching Doomsday tonight. XYZ better not happen."


today's resulting reaction.

 Where would you buy a decent bike?

the printer won't print.
I've looked in and completed the steps of removing and re-adding the printer, unplugging and replugging the USB cord, restarting the computer, and tried to get the Printer Utility to figure things out. It seems that my computer can't establish a connection to the printer. It's an HP 2200 AIO series. Before I updated the driver, I could print.
Any ideas?

For the lovely nschick . Thank you for the inspiration! *G*


Title: Find the Cherry!

Author: Cat

Rating: PG-16 for friskiness, naughty insinuations, and one naughty word.

Pairing: Doctor/Donna

Notes: If you guys like, I've put up a challenge over here at doctor_donna , where we could all think up our own fun rounds of "Find the Cherry!"

This all started from a few comments with nschick  ... there was a mention of "David Tennant with a cherry on top." and then things slid downhill to a rather silly new game for the Doctor to play with Donna. It's called, "Find the Cherry!"

Sneak Peek:

"Somewhere on my body, I've hidden a cherry. Find it and you can have anything you want. *Do* anything you want."

Warning: Obviously, this is a bit on the fun crack!fic side. Tee hee.

Disclaimer: Really? I wish that they were mine, but they are so very not. Don't sue. *s*


 

Fanart, under the cut. Mostly safe for work save for the usual SHbrand violence.

( doodles. )

I certainly have not put enough Canadian emphasis in this year's reading. Quite a bit of my reading has been dedicated to trying out new [to me] Nobel prize laureates in literature, and so far, Canada has not scooped a Nobel in that field, although we're whizzes in science and medicine Nobels. I've also been reading a lot of Pulitzer winners, and you need to be American to win one of those. I've read a few Booker winners as well, but none Canadian - next year I'm going to have to add a Canadian component to my reading plan. However, this book, which was a birthday present from my husband [selected by me], is unreservedly Canadian, by a writer living and writing in Newfoundland:

The Wreckage by Michael Crummey, 2005, 356 pages.

Genre: Canadian lit, war, romance [but not in a lovey-dovey way]
Basic Overview: Wish Furey and his partner Hiram travel up and down the coast of Newfoundland in 1940, showing Hollywood movies to the residents of remote fishing villages. On the island of Little Fogo, Wish meets Sadie, a wild sort of beauty at sixteen years of age, with whom he falls immediately in love. His feelings are returned, and when Wish leaves the island and heads off to war in the Pacific, Sadie settles down to wait for his return. The book shuttles easily between her wait for him in St. John's and his internment in a Japanese POW camp.
Personal Opinion: This book was thoroughly enjoyable. Well, maybe not thoroughly. I had real trouble with some of the abuse that the men suffered in the POW camps, and I skimmed through those parts as much as I could to avoid the nightmares that would come if I didn't. Otherwise, it was great. Crummey's writing is instantly engaging. He's a wise writer, with an excellent turn of metaphor, and a storyline that kept me interested from the first page to the last. Long fascinated with Newfoundland, the scenery of the book compelled me, and Crummey's descriptions showed a love for his home province and its rugged beauty. I will definitely be reading more of Crummey's books, and recommend this one with the caveat that the very few sex scenes in this book are quite graphic, if very short.

I'm running 10.5.4 on my Macbook, and I'm having an issue with audio either in the laptop itself or Itunes. The audio plays very low, to where I can barely hear it until I have the volume all the way up. I seem to remember making an adjustment for "small speakers," but I can't for the life of me remember where this option was.

Any ideas on how to fix this or what I need to be looking for? I've checked my audio settings and they're set to Internal Speakers for output, so... I'm not quite sure what I need to do.

Thanks for any help!

Okay, I know I posted one image already, today, but since I completed three more I decided to post again...

Warnings: Swearing, yaoi, inappropriate monster/human interactions, and kuriboh

( Fear the Power of the Cut )

I am the Ian (DOGS) of livejournal.

A few days ago, in a comment, someone mentioned that David Tennant was on their list. You know the one - five celebrities you get to sleep with (guilt free and blameless, partner or not) if ever you get the chance.

So, how many of you have Doctors or companions on the list? Since it’s fantasy, you can pluck from any era (so you can specify 1970’s Sarah Jane , if that’s your fancy, and Tom Baker can stay in the flush of youth).

Yes, this is a completely frivolous post and quite possibly one that has been posted and will be posted again (the bottle always goes round, after all).

33. The Amnesiac, Sam Taylor (started for work, finished because I HAD to know what happened)

It's a hot summer when James Purdew breaks his ankle. A broken ankle may not be the impetus to strange events, but there's always something, no matter how small, that begins the ball rolling. After breaking up with his girlfriend, James decided to write his memoirs and realizes that he's forgotten a good three years of his life--the time he was in college. He can't remember a single thing. So, the lease on his apartment up, nothing better to do, he returns to England, to the town of H--, to try to regain his memory. He's sure that he wants to remember the secret he's forgotten. And he's sure the mysterious house at 21 Lough Street is the key.

This was a strange book. Some parts were reminiscent of gothic fiction, others of science fiction, others detective story. It's still a bit difficult to put my feelings about it into words. Not in a bad or disturbing way, but an odd and different way. It wasn't like much else I've read.

34. Darkly Dreaming Dexter

I wanted to read this long before the series aired on Showtime (in fact, the series was the whole reason I got Showtime), but never did. And now I can't hear anyone as Dexter but Michael C. Hall. But that's not a bad thing--I think he does a great job.

But this is about the book. Which I loved. I've heard a lot of complaints about how the characters are underdeveloped in the book. To which I say, you're missing the point people! The entire book is told from Dexter's point of view (which makes it wonderful creepy and wonderfully funny). Dexter is a sociopath. A monster--he even says so himself. Sociopaths don't see people as the same species as themselves--they're a lesser species, something to be imitated in order to not be caught, but not something to admire. Therefore Dexter is not going to understand, or even care about, the emotions or motives of humans. This is demonstrated quite obviously when we read Dexter's thoughts during his phone conversation with Rita a few days after he kissed her. He felt he was going to be yelled at for some unknown reason he couldn't even begin to fathom and she wanted to see him. He couldn't imagine there would be another reason she wanted to see him--a simple human would react the same way in every situation.

I liked the way things went with Deb much much better in the book as well. The part of the series that dealt with her and the Ice Truck Killer never made much sense to me. And I must say I was rather surprised by the ending--don't know if I would have been if I hadn't seen the show.

I now want to read the next two books before Season 3 starts! But I have a LibraryThing Early Reviewer win to read first!

the Jordan Berenson (Animorphs series) of livejournal.

I'm trying to set up my laptop for college by transferring my files from my PowerMac G5 to my Macbook, via Migration Assistant and a firewire cable.

I go through all the motions of connecting the firewire, restarting my G5, etc. The symbol shows up on the G5 screen and the Macbook says it is waiting for the discs (or whatever it says). My G5 makes lots and lots of noise for about ten minutes and still does nothing, the screens on both computers stay the same and it seems like no connection is being made. Finally I give up and unplug the whole thing to try again. (I've tried about three times now.)

Sorry if I'm not making much sense, I hope I'm getting the message across? What am I doing wrong?

This month, almost 2 million first-year students will head off to college campuses around the country. Most of them will be about 18 years old, born in 1990 when headlines sounded oddly familiar to those of today: Rising fuel costs were causing airlines to cut staff and flight schedules; Big Three car companies were facing declining sales and profits; and a president named Bush was increasing the number of troops in the Middle East in the hopes of securing peace. However, the mindset of this new generation of college students is quite different from that of the faculty about to prepare them to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Each August for the past 11 years, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college. It is the creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief. The List is shared with faculty and with thousands who request it each year as the school year begins, as a reminder of the rapidly changing frame of reference for this new generation.

The class of 2012 has grown up in an era where computers and rapid communication are the norm, and colleges no longer trumpet the fact that residence halls are “wired” and equipped with the latest hardware. These students will hardly recognize the availability of telephones in their rooms since they have seldom utilized landlines during their adolescence. They will continue to live on their cell phones and communicate via texting. Roommates, few of whom have ever shared a bedroom, have already checked out each other on Facebook where they have shared their most personal thoughts with the whole world.

See the Mindset list for the Class of 2012

I posted up a while back begging for help on a paper that took months just to spit out. After the words I received here, I edited edited edited. Now, after spending a few nights with friendly professors, one night with an ex girlfriend's english-major buddy, and countless nights romancing my doubts the thing is done.

I've turned it in, and my anthro professor asked me to wait two weeks for a grade. For now, I'd like to offer you guys the final piece. This community was amazingly helpful. I was impressed that anyone was willing to read the draft and offer genuine criticism.

I created a geocities account so nobody has to worry about dangerous ads. I'll be hosting all of my papers here from this point forward.

http://www.geocities.com/johnjohnpfeil/index.html

If you've still got it in ya, look it over. Share with me what you think. Criticism now may be too late to effect the grade, but I could still learn from it.

Thanks, everyone
John

Series Title: Unfinished Symphony  3/?
Episode Name:I Don't Like Monday's
Author: usmc75
Pairings: Everyone...mostly
Ratings: PG
Spoilers: “Doomsday,” “The Stolen Earth,” “Journey’s End”
Disclaimers: This is my take of Season 4.5 This is the fifth episode of that season
Summary:A view to a kill

One of my co-workers lives down a dirt road so her car is always covered with the unmistakable evidence of it. So I wrote this on it today in the parking lot:




And you can see it pretty well, I could still see it from several car lengths away. She's gonna leave it there, I just hope it doesn't rain anytime soon :P



August 19th, 2008

I don't know if anyone remembers these, but I found this in my room today cleaning. My room is a bit like horrendous fangirl void.

( just ignore my ugly mug )