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the world is like an apple spinning silently in space.
This is probably going to be my last journal post this year, because, well, yuletide status update: WINDMILLS. WINDMILLS IN MY MIND.
(That music video has the distinction of being one where I knew the video by heart from having read it in a book before I'd ever heard the song. Like You Are My Sunshine, but unlike Mahna Mahna, which was actually on the LP as well as being in the book. ...the Muppet Show Book was really awfully amazing in a lot of ways; I've never seen anything do a better job of translating music videos into printed pages, and I suppose with the age of videotape the art has been lost. I should totally go see the new movie. And the new Holmes movie. After yuletide is over.)
Things I should have added to my Christmas list:
11. A way to use my NaNo discount to buy a paid copy of Scrivener without having to figure out a way to use GODDAMNED PAYPAL. AAARGH.
12. Dark blue denim scraps. Yes, before I designed a patchwork that requires light, medium, and dark blue denim I should have thought about the fact that no denim in this house goes in the scrap basket unless it's medium-pale at the darkest, but maybe somebody has cut-off hems from where they shortened a new pair of jeans or something?
13. The new Jonathan Coulton album. Okay admittedly mostly because it has a love song for kismesissitude on it - no, that's not the title, but it might as well be. So the thing about putting this album on my list: usually if there's some music out that I sort of want to try listening to, I will just torrent it. But this is JoCo, so I went to the website to see if he had any of it for free download? And he doesn't - the new songs are $1 each or $10 the whole album. And they're creative-commons licensed, which means that if I torrented it, it would be legal. And somehow that killed all my desire to torrent, and I'm like, 'hey, it's only 10 bucks, I should just give the man some money.'
...that didn't work with the Baen Free Library admittedly, but it probably would've if they'd had the whole Vorkosigan series for $10 before I'd bought all the paperbacks used.
(That music video has the distinction of being one where I knew the video by heart from having read it in a book before I'd ever heard the song. Like You Are My Sunshine, but unlike Mahna Mahna, which was actually on the LP as well as being in the book. ...the Muppet Show Book was really awfully amazing in a lot of ways; I've never seen anything do a better job of translating music videos into printed pages, and I suppose with the age of videotape the art has been lost. I should totally go see the new movie. And the new Holmes movie. After yuletide is over.)
Things I should have added to my Christmas list:
11. A way to use my NaNo discount to buy a paid copy of Scrivener without having to figure out a way to use GODDAMNED PAYPAL. AAARGH.
12. Dark blue denim scraps. Yes, before I designed a patchwork that requires light, medium, and dark blue denim I should have thought about the fact that no denim in this house goes in the scrap basket unless it's medium-pale at the darkest, but maybe somebody has cut-off hems from where they shortened a new pair of jeans or something?
13. The new Jonathan Coulton album. Okay admittedly mostly because it has a love song for kismesissitude on it - no, that's not the title, but it might as well be. So the thing about putting this album on my list: usually if there's some music out that I sort of want to try listening to, I will just torrent it. But this is JoCo, so I went to the website to see if he had any of it for free download? And he doesn't - the new songs are $1 each or $10 the whole album. And they're creative-commons licensed, which means that if I torrented it, it would be legal. And somehow that killed all my desire to torrent, and I'm like, 'hey, it's only 10 bucks, I should just give the man some money.'
...that didn't work with the Baen Free Library admittedly, but it probably would've if they'd had the whole Vorkosigan series for $10 before I'd bought all the paperbacks used.
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Duuuuuude. So true. Right up there with "Bad Romance".
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Go see The Muppets. You will not be sorry. (Also, I have that book! It's AWESOME.)
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(And yes! The book is AWESOME. I have heard that Fox News thinks the movie is socialist propaganda, which is a good reason to go see it all by itself.)
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Good luck with Yuletide! Have you tried checking Goodwill-type thrift stores for denim scraps? Maybe you could ask them for jeans that aren't saleable?
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And all the ones that fit my criteria seem to have very similar firmware, and it's the firmware that craps out, so, *shrugs*. this one looks *exactly* like the first one I got (despite being a different brand and having a much larger memory), and it is still working fine despite a missing button, cracked screen, and tendency to fall to pieces in my pocket, while two others + an iPod have crapped out on me, so maybe one more or less like that (I didn't poke around different sellers much though, that may not be the best one.)
ETA: What do you want for Christmas other than books off your wishlist and stuff Mom already bought you? You never gave me a Christmas list.
ETA2: Who is buying Mom's chocolate covered cherries this year? :P
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Also it was Windows 7, so while you are welcome to blame Vista all you want, you would be wrong!
Ummmmm, I don't really need anything! Let's see ...
another set of fingerless mittens so one of them can be my dedicated archaeology pair?
a converter plug so I can charge my Icelandic cell phone in America? (I have a plug that goes the *other* way, though I guess I wouldn't mind another of those too.) It's the two-pronged European standard, not the British one. Though, oh dear, I may end up needing a Euro-to-British converter next summer ... XD
crap for webcomics/shows/books I like? The xkcd and dinosaur comics stores are especially tempting. Unfortunately Homestuck vol. 1 is sold out. ):
ficrecs? I read most of your Merlin ones from last year! Dresden Files next? I finished all the books!! (On glimpsing into the fandom I have come to the conclusion that if there is a more self-loathing fandom on the entire internet than DF, I have yet to encounter it ....)
my mp3s and pdfs to all be magically organized????
HP71&2 on DVD?
new glasses? Or someone to carefully refinish the frames on my current ones.
a cold-weather work coat that actually fits?
the latest Buffy TPB?
a curry cookbook?
more x-stitch fabric?
a smartphone? that is cheap AND has a good battery life? (which does not exist.) An ebook reader?
a magnetic caddy thing that sticks to the fridge and holds a pencil and notepaper?
a knife block?
a beginning piccolo book?
That should be a good start!!
I suppose you should get cherries, since I'm not going to take them on the plane and I suspect we might do presents late Thursday after I get there, if we're really going to Ohio on Friday.
I don't have much for Mom aside from what I sent home with you before, any new ideas?
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a book saleyesterday and so I am putting a giant box in the mail tomorrow. Hopefully it will get there before Thursday, don't open it!!I don't have anything for anyone but you and Mom. Should we get some stuff for cousins? Maybe we can make cookies in ohio.
Anything I should bring home with me?
Oh I thought of something else for my list! The only girly thing I actually use is body spray, and I am running out, so maybe some of that? Or you can tell people who buy that sort of thing that I could use some.
And I dunno what happened to the mom-style hanging dishtowels I used to have .. wouldn't mind one of those I guess?
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2. Fine, it was the fault of Windows 7 then. :P
3. I have no stuff for cousins? Mom has stuff for Ohio people and I was just planning to coast on that, and maybe bake in Ohio on Christmas Eve? She seems to have decided to just get all of the little dad's family cousins gift cards to Dollar Tree, so they can buy large amounts of candy and cheap toys to the lamentations of their parents. :P
4. Have you any preferences on colors for mittens/towels? ...Or on scent/type of body spray? (Otherwise I can totally buy you a giant pack of the cheap shit made for pre-teens, which is what I use the once-in-a-long-while that I do.) Also if you want mittens that match your current ones bring your current ones for me to copy, because I have no pattern.
5. Mmm, curry. Now I kind of want a good curry recipe.
6. We can maybe negotiate about some work being done on mp3s/pdfs if you bring them with you when you come. I'm not doing it remotely. :P
7. Dresden files fandom is not self-loathing! ...okay we kind of loathe ourselves for enjoying the books, but we all love each other!
8. Bring your cats. I need a cat to hug. ):
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3a. Baking sounds good.
3b. Haha, um, perhaps we could pool and get something more exciting? Hey, are they old enough for that microscope I rescued from oblivion a while back?
4a. No color or pattern preference, and I was planning on bringing them anyway!
4b. Um, does it SMELL like pre-teens?? *side-eye*
5. YES THIS.
6. Meh, I wasn't gonna bring my big laptop this time, since I don't actually HAVE to do any work. Organizing that shit will take longer than a couple weeks anyway. d-:
7. Hahahahahaha, yes. I refuse to loathe myself for enjoying the books and reserve the right to mock you for it, so I suspect I might not fit in ....
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3b. The older are probably old enough? If it's a simple microscope. But you can get cheap kid's microscopes in the stores now that are so much more usable (by which I mean: NO MIRROR) than the ones we had...
4b. I wasn't talking, like, Axe Body Spray, I was talking like fruit-and-flower-and-possibly-baked-goods smelling no-brand-name stuff in multipacks from the $5 store. :p Do you have a scent preference? (I have decided I really like lemongrass. But I think my old lemongrass body wash makes my nose itch. Dilemma!)
7. Most of the people I know who take that stance are people who enjoyed the TV show first. :P
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3b. Hmm maybe we could look into something like that then? I am feeling the urge to give the GIFT OF SCIENCE TO OUR YOUTH.
4b. Ok no preference then. Though perhaps not the baked goods.
7. I guess I fit the profile! That seems .. opposite from rationality, but oh well. Wait, don't tell me - everyone who got into the fandom through the books is inexplicably obsessed with John/Harry, while those of us whose entrée was neither Storm Front nor randomly-encountered slash understand that there is more to life? SIGH ;P
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The vast majority of the TV-verse stuff is actually Harry/Bob porn and I don't know TV!Bob so I can't really judge quality there...