Keep taking the tablets.

[reddragdiva]

• "Furries can never truly win an argument, since at the end of the day when everyone goes home, they are still Furries and you are not. In this sense, a Furry can never put forward a winning argument. A simple rebuff of any argument with 'But you are a furry' is invincible." From a fair, unbiased, factual resource.

• When they came for the Trekkies, I just nodded and went "Uh huh."

• The Original Fiction Mary-Sue Litmus Test.

The Cipramil appears to be working: I am not only thin and beyootiful with a metabolism like a blast furnace (and I am continuing to eat like a horse), I actually want to do stuff and am getting out of putting it off. This is a lifetime first. I am also in a generally marvellous mood. (Except when I see my poor dead MP3 camera.) It's like a spoon factory in a pill. So far so good. Xenu prevails!

I am particularly pleased that I managed to stay unemployed through the summer and it's turned to autumn the second I get work. redcountess says I just need to get contracts fat enough to take six months off each year with twenty thousand quid squirreled away. (I wish.)

The job is Not Sucking. I might even take to showing up 8am-4pm, having worked this schedule before with the decent result of enough time to do things in the late afternoon and early evening. And we'll probably be getting two of vatine and urocyon_c's kittens, so they must of course learn that breakfast is at 6:30am. Today's early start did not quite go smoothly (we accidentally took the entire server room down ... oops), but at least I write a very slick mea culpa document.

We've sent off Liz's Permanent Leave to Remain application. Fingers crossed!

Current weekend schedule is drinkies with kineticfactory on Friday and sparklielizard and stevenothing's London wedding celebration on Saturday. Anything important on other days?

I need more icons. Being me, I need to create them myself. But your suggestions for pictures to iconise are most welcomed.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

This one might be more you than me....

[reddragdiva]

Hah! Where's it from?

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It's Sephiroth in the shower.


It's by ArtifexRequiem (http://arifexrequiem.deviantart.com), who seems to be rather fond of Sephiroth....

[zey.livejournal.com]

Dunno why, but, every time I see a deviantart.com URL, I initially parse it as "Devian Tart".

[arkady.livejournal.com]

That's OK; I'm on dA myself and I do the same!

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

Don't blame him. He's the sexiest video game villain I know. That picture made my day.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It made mine too when I found it.

You should see my folder of Sephiroth-porn....

Of course, I'm fortunate enough to have my own living, breathing Sephiroth-alike! ;-)

[reddragdiva]

I've lightened it and cropped it differently ;-)

I tried emailing the artist from the DeviantArt page, but, er, can't actually see how to contact them. Without signing up as a member of the exciting Devian Tart community. Which I really can't be fucked to do. If they're not going to put up a simple "contact the artist" link ...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd like it. :-)

Oh, I've put my folder of Sephiroth-porn online. Well. Not quite all of it; I've left off the reall hardcore yaoi stuff (Sephiroth really loves cock, it seems), but there's still a sizeable chunk of stuff there.

http://www.arkady.org.uk/sephiroth/

Enjoy!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

And of course now I'm considering making you recreate that pose in person whilst I have my camera around.... ;-)

[reddragdiva]

I don't know what would ever make you think I'd do such a thing ... oh yeah.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

*looks at a certain sequence of photos and whistles innocently*

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

Damn bastard perverts ruining my fandom!

And I'm not talking about the effing furries either. :P

[reddragdiva]

You Kerry Republicans, you're a bunch of goddamn FREAKS!

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

PEDOPHILES: LEAVE STAR TREK ALONE!

Go...enjoy Star Wars or something.
I never was fond of that.

Or join the rest of the Battlestar Galactica weenies.

...or hell, just stick to DS9, VOY and Enterprise.

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

"Permanent Leave to Remain"? Is it just me or does something sound wrong with that?

Excuse me while I go for a walk. I can't stand sitting.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

on the subject of the trekkies, it's worth noting that the police did not seriously say that all but one of them were trekkies. they *did* notice that a very large proportion of them had a lot of star trek paraphanalia, but not 99/100.
also, where the hell have you all been?? i read about this ages ago, when they released the photos of the Disney World Girl locations. the article in the Toronto Star said "most of them", IIRC.

[rosefox]

I've been meaning to send you this for weeks:



It's from the comic strip Brenda Starr. Enjoy.

P.S. www.huffingtonpost.com could not be found.

[reddragdiva]

Nice one! I have of course changed the logo appropriately.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

[kittens] must of course learn that breakfast is at 6:30am

Well, if the kittens have been weaned and are eating wet or dry food then its not a problem - put food down for kittens and let them eat it when they want to. Dry food is especially good for doing this.

However if they've not been weaned then they'll need feeding every 4-6 hours during the day. We're doing this with Spoon right now and he is getting a feed at 8am, around midday, around 8pm and then one last thing in the evening. Unfortunately young kittens (Spoon is ~5 weeks old) need feeding a reasonable amount on a regular basis.

Hopefully Spoon will start to take an interest in the wet kitten food we've been putting out for him soon. In the mean time its a fun job of bottle feeding a kitten to be done.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I like the "sitting at the controls of the space shuttle" picture for an icon myself.

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

Go to town.

I couldn't really find a square subset of it that reduced to 100x100 pixels usefully, but I don't really Do That anyway, so maybe you can.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Trek/paedophilia: first, of course, anecdotal evidence from one group of detectives doesn't really deserve to be taken seriously. If another similar unit from another part of the world said "actually, it's true", I might start to think there's substance to it. So what follows is noodling about what one might think if there were reason to believe it.

First, of course it doesn't mean anything bad about Star Trek fans. Correlation is not causation.

Second, it's noteworthy that it was those being busted for child porn, not for actually attacking children, and apparently there's little correlation between these offences. A post here (http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/05/30/hopefully_the_last_post_on_the_star_trekpedophilia_connection.php) points out a number of factors like computer literacy you would expect child porn buyers and Star Trek fans to have in common that might account for any correlation.

Thirdly, yeah, OS Star Trek at least is incredibly sexually immature, but I wish I could point at some sexually mature SF TV to contrast it to. Or any sexually mature TV...

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

I've never understood the random animosity against furries. Those that I know are the most intelligent and geeky people...

[reddragdiva]

Furries exist so goths can feel better about their place in the world.

[nictoupee.livejournal.com]

what is this cipramil? If it makes one thin and energetic I think I need it already!

*no seriously what is it?

[reddragdiva]

Citalopram, an SSRI. I'm doing great on it, others have horrible side effects. Like any SSRI, it's side-effects roulette and really needs a doctor's close supervision, particularly at the start. If you're after that particular magical effect, you'll be lucky indeed!