So in the past 24 hours, I have managed to break my laptop, figure out how to disassemble my laptop, un-break my laptop, re-assemble my laptop, apply judicious coating of duct tape, and have fully functioning laptop again!

\o/ Go me, my laptop-fu is powerful!

Toshiba laptops continue to be stupidly complicated and un-intuitive to disassemble. But, hey, if this one had been put together the same way as the last Toshiba laptop I broke, repairing it would have required soldering on the motherboard rather than duct tape, so apparently they have at least learned *something* about design.

(And, thanks to the fact that I panicked and backed up *everything* before cracking the case, I even had a saved Opera session to restore to when my computer just now crashed and wiped out my tabs and browser history!)

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So I have discovered what is essentially the mp3 hoard of my heart, WFMU's On the Download, "MP3s from the fringes once a month: new sounds, obscure audio, found sound, and other sonic stimulants." In other words, bizarre, freaky music that nobody has ever heard of and nobody with any sense or taste would *want* to.

In other words, exactly my kind of music!

How did I find On the Download? Well, I was googling for an mp3 of Rotten Cocksucker's Ball (Were You Aware Of It? In the '40s and '50, in some parts of the US, cocksucking actually referred to cunnilingus rather that fellatio. Now You Know!)

I was looking up cocksucker's ball because I was trying to get together a good collection of Dirty Blues. Because - well, you trying putting together a Jack-Harkness-and-sex playlist consisting only of songs recorded before 1940 that doesn't include dirty blues! (Also, while going through my jazz collection per that playlist, I found an mp3 of the dirty* version of "Shave 'em dry" - an mp3 also available at wfmu, btw - and fell in love with it. It's just so *catchy*!)

I am putting together a Jack-Harkness-and-sex playlist consisting only of songs recorded before 1940 because apparently, you lot are dirty pervs who want me to write the Who/Wimsey crossover where the Dowager Duchess caves to the Captain's charm and turns out to be quite entirely her brother's sister. Though the poll's still open for a couple more days! You could still make me write about O'Neill and Thor doing gay sex magick or Time Lord incest or dragons who marry humans! Among other things!

Hi again all!

I have signed up for the finishathon!

What is the finishathon? "The finish-a-thon is a ficathon, with all the ficathon-like things like deadlines and fellow volunteers to encourage you, but with this ficathon, you write your own ideas. But since part of the encouragement of a ficathon is writing things for other people, what we do is vote for which story ideas people should write."

So there is now a poll up where people can vote on which story I have to spend the next month writing! Anyone with an lj account can vote in my poll here, at multific (You can vote in the other participants' polls, too - you know want to make sure Thette writes the Doctor meets the Teletubbies.)

Currently, in my poll the Torchwood/Sayers crossover is ahead by a length, but voting goes until Saturday, and none of my nine prompts are out of the running! I know there are people here who want more Harry/Hermione/Ron Casablanca AU or more Highlander Wizard of Oz AU or more Jack/Thor Norse mythology AU! Or perhaps Young Wizards, or Barrayar, or Good Omens, or Tale of the Five?

I love all of these prompts so equally that it pains me to see the vote not tied. So go, lj flist, and give the poll some suspense!