I suck at updating LJ these days, but still...



Because the Eureka Christmas special was the best.thing.ever.

Stolen from lots of people.

You're now a timelord. The 41st gif in your folder is your companion. The 17th gif is your arch enemy.

( Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine... )

So there was an election on Thursday, and this happened...

0543: DECLARATION: Edinburgh Central - SNP gain. Marco Biagi takes the seat, just 237 votes ahead of Labour's Sarah Boyack. Further success in the cities for the Nationalists.

Congratulations Marco! You're like a proper grown-up now.... I wonder what that's like? Also, I liked your victory speech.


I missed the declaration, despite being awake, but the BBC now have clips online: Scottish election: SNP five celebrate Edinburgh gains. [Marco doesn't appear until the 3.44 mark].

This is a .gif heavy reaction post as I don't have words. Not safe for slow or fast connections.

( Germany vs. England )

World Cup talk, cut for those who don't care. ( and for a picspam of an insanely beautiful man... )


That's the longest LJ post I've made in years. *g*

It's the most exciting time of the year! And so a picspam of the cutest moment of the tournament so far.

( South Africa vs. Mexico )

Sometimes the world gives you a little something extra special to look forward to:

World Cup winner Jurgen Klinsmann and four-times Champions League winner Clarence Seedorf have joined the BBC's team to cover the 2010 World Cup.

The pair will be joined in South Africa by Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor and Middlesbrough boss Gordon Strachan.

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker will lead the television coverage.

Source: BBC Sport.

KLINSI! KLINSI! KLINSI! The Klinsmann/Lineker lovefest will make watching Germany crumble into a tiny ball of hate and get knocked out, of the group stages, during the round of 16, after a hard fought semi-final, totally worth it.


Hey Germany, remember when you were any good? Yeah... you're not now are you?



Reading that made me this happy... ( ... really, really BIG picspammy image behind cut )


No word on Leonardo though which makes me rather sad. Seriously BBC... he might be out of work by June. He's going to need that commenting gig. And BBC guys look at the man, he's oh so pretty. He will quadruple the hotness factor of your team, all on his own. No more worrying about the hotness-drag-factor of Shearer & Lawrenson.

I'm coming out of lurkerdom just for this, but it's really good.

Today I saw the Scottish Luke Danes. He was (almost) identical. The same facial features, backwards baseball cap, dark hair and stubble. He even had the same style jacket and jeans. No sighting of plaid though (or Bert). There were some slight physical differences, Scottish Luke is shorter and thinner, and looked like he was in his mid-twenties or early thirties.

I'm not sure which option I like more: that the similarities were a complete accident or that Luke Danes is someone's style icon... okay, that's a lie, the second option is amazing.

( Luke Danes: Style Icon (a tiny picspam) )

I did this last year and it was fun, so...

( 50 Books in 2010 )

Because I suck at regular posting, I'll just drop-by with this.


and ( a small picspam... )

( 50 Books in 2009 )

( 500 TV Episodes in 2009 )

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

I have made a sort of vague list of resolution-type-things...

( 1. 2. 3. 4... )

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Thoughts on Merlin. ( More... )

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From the BBC - The Eleventh Doctor.

HAPPY somewhat belated HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

I had a nice, if pretty quiet Christmas. Mum gifted me with Merlin on DVD, so that could be my new fandom.

You know what the best thing about working for yourself is? Being able to choose your own holidays. I've been on holiday since the 19th and we don't go back to work until next week. *happy sigh*


Random Telly Thoughts:

On the latest season of Numb3rs. ( Up to '5.10 - Frenemies' )

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I started watching Leverage. ( No spoilers, but a couple of pictures... )

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I started watching Generation Kill ( Flailing... )

Am still alive. That is all.


But, seriously things have been pretty good. Work is still fun, but quiet at the moment.

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I discovered the most useful piece of software a few weeks ago. Sizer, it allows you to resize any window to any size. It comes with three pre-set sizes [640x480, 800x600 & 1024x768] but you can add your own, and best of all you can set where on the desktop it resizes to. It's perfect for people like me who love to use every possible part of the desktop. I have two computers one's set to a 1440x900 resolution and the laptop is set to 1280x800, one's XP the other's Vista and it works perfectly on both. I'm in love. My desktop these days tend to look like this. Blank desktop, just 'cos.

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On SGA and the cancellation thereof: At first I was very meh? now I'm starting to get upset. Partly I think because of all the great friends I made in this fandom. I had this idea to try and watch every episode before Enemy at the Gate airs, [2nd Jan 2009 according to the CAT]. I figure it's possible, and I may attempt to post my way through the series.

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A brief Supernatural thought. ( 4.03 - In the Beginning )

This is the best time of year to be a dog walker. Nice sunny days and it's not too hot. Spending the morning / early afternoon outside in the sunshine... *sigh*... I love my job.

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A vid rec: Channel Hopping by ash48. [Supernatural, Gen] Sam and Dean watch TV. Very, very funny and brilliant.

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I started watching How I Met Your Mother. ( Possibly spoilery to someone... but I doubt it. )

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I'm slightly worried that I'm going to break my CD drive. I've burned a lot of stuff over the past few days. My pile of blank CDs is looking a lot smaller now. *g*

I promise I am alive [and well], really, really well actually.

( Life + Work Stuff )



( Telly, not spoilery in the slightest )



I'm still totally behind on my flist, I think I might try to set up my friends list as an RSS feed. [How did I survive before Thunderbird?] I found some instructions a while ago that I'm hoping might help [unless anyone knows of another easier/quicker way?]. If I get the time I'm going to play around with my insane journal, I've barely looked at it since signing up. But first I need to a new LJ layout. Way past time for a change.

You know when you get so far behind in something that it seems like you'll never catch up? That's where I am right now with LJ. It really is pathetic how far out of the loop I am.


I need to catch up with all of you. So PLEASE spam me with stuff. Fandom stuff, sports stuff, stuff that has happened to you, LJ craziness. Pictures, movies, anything...



Seriously, I've missed out on everything since, like... July.



Also, I've finally gotten a couple of pictures of Holly; I ended up borrowing one of Phil's cameras but I finally have a picture I can post. ( More... )

I am a crap friend. My 'teeny-tiny' hiatus was due to nothing more than laziness, tiredness, working lots and 'oh poo... I can't be arsed to post.'

I have absolutely nothing to say... I am still alive and I desperately need to catch-up with my friends list.



I miss you all a lot.

OK, I've got a mountain of comments to reply to and I probably should sleep at some point, but I found this and I had to post it.

From Broadway Bares XII [2002], Christopher Sieber and his partner Kevin Burrows perform Batman/Robin. Not safe for work [unless you work somewhere really cool and they don't mind you looking at naked men] lots of boys undressing each other, nakedness, and superhero masks.


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Months ago when I started watching Entourage I said I wanted to picspam the show to death [that's a slight exaggeration on what I said at the time but I've gotten more obsessed as the months have passed]. Lo! I present the first in a series* of episodic picspams.





( Entourage - 1x01 - Entourage [Pilot] )





*A series that will continue for as long as I have the willpower/energy/time. I WANT/AIM to do every episode but that may not be possible. Let's just see if I can finish season one first, M'kay?

( Doctor Who - 3.10 - Blink )

According to TVShowsOnDVD, season three of Stargate Atlantis [R1] will be released on the 18th September.

MGM has announced the third season set of Stargate: Atlantis for release on September 18. The 5-disc set includes all 20 episodes from the third season, for a total of 1048 mins. Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1), the episodes will feature an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track, along with French Dolby Surround. Look for subtitles in English, French and Spanish. Suggested retail price is $49.98. [Article]

They've got a lovely long list of extras to go with the episodes. YAY!

Pretty pictures, completely shallow and unrelated to what happened on the pitch.

( England vs. Brazil )

Just one more thing about Strikethrough 2007. This was linked to by emony, An Open Letter To Fandom by ivyblossom. It's well worth reading.

I suspect they didn't mean to rollover academic communities talking about Nabokov. I suspect they didn't mean to blast incest-survivor groups. But I'm pretty sure they had every intention of packing in communities like pornish_pixies if it would help their image.

So when they talk about the "kind of community" that they want to build, just remember: if you're in fandom writing stuff that might qualify for the communities that got axed, you're probably not their kind of community. Think about that before you give Livejournal any more of your money.

I agree, and I can easily see future pressure from the advertisers forcing more changes while Livejournal acts under the guise of "protecting the children".


Anyway, for the next time this happens *g*, I'm ispahan over at GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal.

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This will reassure niennah! BBC denies Doctor Who axing.

The BBC is playing down speculation that hit series Doctor Who is set to be axed.

A spokeswoman has branded as "idle speculation" rumours that writer Russell T Davies plans to call time on the show after series four.

A newspaper reported that the workload - 16 hours a day for nine months of the year - is taking its toll and that Davies wanted to free up time for other projects.

The spokeswoman added: "The BBC has a longterm commitment to Doctor Who.

I think the article was originally in The Sun, but Sky reposted it.

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Finally, and this is spoilery... ( Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End... )

Livejournal / Six Apart officially apologise for their fuck-up.

For reasons we are still trying to figure out what was supposed to be a well planned attempt to clean up a few journals that were violating LiveJournal's policies that protect minors turned into a total mess. I can only say I’m sorry, explain what we did wrong and what we are doing to correct these problems and explain what we were trying to do but messed up so completely.

That only took what... 48 hours?

Re: The whole LJ suspension, I have no words beyond what others have already said far more coherently. It's sad that a bunch of uninformed idiots have branded innocent people as criminals and targeted the survivors of molestation in their "crusade" [and freaked the shit / pissed the hell out of the rest of us].

Useful links: "Permanent Suspensions", or Strikethrough 2007 and fandom_counts.



One final thought.

I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back The Porn."

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On a more cheery note, this is the 'explain your icons and interests' meme that went round a while ago. I've not really been in much of a posting mood so I've only now gotten around to finishing this.

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( Chelsea vs. Manchester United )

( Champions League - AC Milan vs. Man U )

I need something to cheer me up.

( Chelsea vs. Liverpool )

Ten Favourite Things Meme. outoftime gave me the letter C, so here's my favourite things beginning with that letter. Want a letter? Comment!


( My Favourite Things... )



That was fun. I want to do more of these.

( Chelsea vs. Valencia )

First off, thank you to the anonymous person who gifted me with the "Rosie the Riveter" picture for my userinfo. *sends you hugs and nice thoughts*. She matches my icon!

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I have a really weird fic-reading process. I started off wanting to read Entourage fic, which then made me want to read Scrubs fic [by the way, why is there not more of that?], which made me want to read Sports Night fic [*sigh* I miss Sports Night]. In the end I alternated between Scrubs and Sports Night fic.

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One Sports Night thought while I'm on the subject. ( Cut for a poll & screencaps )

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I've got the following songs stuck in my head. All RARs, you'll need WinRar or the like to unzip. Right click, save as.

KC and the Sunshine Band - Boogie Shoes [I blame my SN rewatch for this].
Neil Finn - She Will Have Her Way
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Rilo Kiley - A Better Son/Daughter
The Whitlams - Royal In The Afternoon

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I have a mountain of comments to reply to so I'm going to do that now. Unless I get distracted by something shiny.

My DVD of the Carling Cup final arrived on Wednesday [bless you Sky]. Aside from the actual match there were post-match interviews and dressing room celebrations. It ended up jumping to the top of my "to cap" list. Thus present a Post-Match & Dressing Room Picspam.

100 pictures, not dial-up friendly, probably NSFW because of nekkidness. I'll be uploading the actually video later, once I've edited the crap parts out. [Does anyone really want to watch an interview with Peter Kenyon?]



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More Entourage talk.

( I'm up to 3x08 - The Release )

I've got a handful of pictures from the Series Three premiere of Doctor Who. Some Freema Agyeman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Noel Clarke and David Tennant. If Wireimage release anymore I'll edit them into this post.


[Freema pretty]

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While we're on the subject. Doctor Who set for fourth series.

Doctor Who will return for a fourth series in 2008, executive producer and writer Russell T Davies has confirmed.

Speaking at the premiere of the third series in London, Davies said: "Series four is officially existing. I'm very excited, but we have known for ages."

But he refused to say whether the star of the hit sci-fi show, David Tennant, would return in the lead role.

The third series, which co-stars Freema Agyeman as new assistant Martha Jones, starts on BBC One on 31 March.

I didn't realise the new series was starting so soon. I fail at paying attention.

Over the last ten days I've become horribly addicted to Entourage. I'm now up to 3x03 [Dominated].

( I got into this business so I wouldn't have to work... )

In conclusion. I want fic! I want picspams! I want to make picspams! I want to make icons and screencaps. I want to own the DVDs NOW! I want to re-watch the series right from the very beginning to see what I've missed. I need to go hunt for screencaps.

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I should go sleep. I've not had very much over the last few nights and I think I'm starting to go loopy from all the caffeine. My body is now 70% Coke.

depudor has a very interesting post about Veronica Mars and the proposed changes for 'season four'. Read it here. I think it sums up my feelings exactly. Also grave_watchers, for when your TV show just isn't cancelled fast enough. It might make me an evil person but I say, somebody please pull the plug.

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I feel quite pleased at the moment, I ordered a bunch of stuff from Staples on Friday, it turned up this morning and they'd gotten the order wrong [very unimpressive and this was was the first time I'd bought anything from them so doubly so]. I phoned their customer services and got them to fix the error, and I got through on the first try. Right through to an actual human being... without having to go through a complicated, automated phone system. I didn't know that was possible. Every time I've had to contact a big company, it's involved at least ten minutes of menu time before reaching anyone. This, and the fact that the guy I spoke to was really helpful and apologetic, makes up for the mistake.

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Holly seems to be settling in well. I found film for my camera so I might take loads of pictures over the next week and do a massive picspam once I get the film developed.

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This is kinda cool.

248-dimension maths puzzle solved
An international team of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical "structure" which was invented more than a century ago.

Mapping the 248-dimensional structure, called E8, took four years of work and produced more data than the Human Genome Project, researchers said.

E8 is a member of the "Lie group" that describe symmetrical objects.

The team said their findings may assist fields of physics which use more than four dimensions, such as string theory.

Somewhere out there Rodney McKay has a hard-on.

We have a puppy! Her name's Holly, she's a black lab crossed with something and she's adorable. We're not sure quite how old she is [she's a rescue dog and technically she's supposed to be here for a week's trial], the woman at the shelter thought she was about 18 months, but I think that's miles off. Based on her size and behaviour I would have said about 10-12 at the most. I wish I had a digital camera or some film for my regular camera because at the moment she's sitting curled up on one of the kitchen chairs next to me, my computer lives on the kitchen table because I don't yet have a desk for it, [it's very reminiscent of Charlie from the P.J. Tracy books].

I'm going to have to read up on puppy training, it's been a long time since we owned a puppy. Giles was also a rescue dog, but he was fully grown and incredibly well trained, he had a few behavioural issues [the legacy of past abuse] but they gradually disappeared. Holly's got a bit of training, she understands "sit" and "drop" and she was very good in the car on the way back from the shelter. But she's not fully house trained and she's not great on the lead [she's still learning her name so she's not getting off until she learns how to come back]. She's also a chewer, so I'm going to have to invest in some Kongs and hope they last more than the five minutes one of the "hard" toys lasted. Hopefully they might stop her attacking, my boots, a pumice stone, a duvet cover, a pair of slippers and the sofa.


Hopefully there will be pictures to follow. I so need a digital camera.

Joachim Löw has announced his 20 man squad for Germany's upcoming Euro 2008 qualifier.

( Germany weakened for Prague test )


Seems an appropriate time to dig out this song, Jim Noir - Eanie Meany [3mb, right click - save as], it's a RAR file so you'll need WinRAR or the like to unzip it.