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Flying cockroach =0/ Me=1.
It was a battle, and really there should be no such things as flying cockroaches anyhow, let alone big ones. But I outsmarted it. When it disappeared on me (hate it when bugs do that), I set my vaccume cleaner up and lay in wait, so sure enough when it crawled out of hiding again - up I scooped it.
Hee.
( Bits on The Wire Episode 11 and the flaws of S2 )
Work was fun. When I was spell-checking a document in word - it was acting weird. Kept telling me words that I know for a fact are spelled correctly were wrong or did not exist and providing the oddest substitutes. Finally realized that I had accidentally set the language default to French.
French being the only second language I can halfway understand - I didn't notice it. Also, the English language has incorporated quite a few French words over time. "Completion" being amongst them.
Glanced at the Time article on fanfic - two things struck me while scanning it. One - the only fanfic they mentioned was mainstream stuff like Harry Potter and Twilight, not the true cult, under the radar stuff such as Buffy, X-men, Farscape, Doctor Who, etc. But the kids stuff. Two- their description of fanfic made me laugh out loud - Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker.
They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
( personal thoughts on fanfic )
It was a battle, and really there should be no such things as flying cockroaches anyhow, let alone big ones. But I outsmarted it. When it disappeared on me (hate it when bugs do that), I set my vaccume cleaner up and lay in wait, so sure enough when it crawled out of hiding again - up I scooped it.
Hee.
( Bits on The Wire Episode 11 and the flaws of S2 )
Work was fun. When I was spell-checking a document in word - it was acting weird. Kept telling me words that I know for a fact are spelled correctly were wrong or did not exist and providing the oddest substitutes. Finally realized that I had accidentally set the language default to French.
French being the only second language I can halfway understand - I didn't notice it. Also, the English language has incorporated quite a few French words over time. "Completion" being amongst them.
Glanced at the Time article on fanfic - two things struck me while scanning it. One - the only fanfic they mentioned was mainstream stuff like Harry Potter and Twilight, not the true cult, under the radar stuff such as Buffy, X-men, Farscape, Doctor Who, etc. But the kids stuff. Two- their description of fanfic made me laugh out loud - Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker.
They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
( personal thoughts on fanfic )