This used to be the future.

[reddragdiva]

• Rocknerd: The discreet charm of the Grateful Dead..

• NotN: English acquires its millionth word: "bollocks".

The toddler demands I dance. OH DEAR GOD I MUST DANCE AGAIN. I sit down. "um, um" and she pulls on my hand. DEAR LORD LET ME STOP DANCING ONE DAY. Pushes me to stand over there and dance. Now I have to pick up her rag doll and make it dance on the purple plastic stool. DANCE DANCE DANCE UNTIL YOU DROP THEN KEEP DANCING. FOREVER.

My theory is that two-year-old girls are young gay men in discos. My evidence is that Freda loves Bear Force 1 and Abba and started dancing to the new Pet Shop Boys album (Yes — I highly recommend it) literally seconds after it started playing. DANCE DANCE DANCE MONKEYDAD DANCE. DANCE.

Out for a walk again with nyecamden to the pond near Whipps Cross and back. Lovely day out.

Today's technical questions: 1. Does Ubuntu Netbook Remix come with any good 3G usage counters? If not, what's a good simple one to add? 2. arkady is trying to use her Wacom tablet with Gimp 2.6.6 on Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC. Drawing is unusably laggy. Are there ways to fix this other than "use Photoshop"?

Comments

[almadsfeika]

Use Corel software rather than Adobe software.

[lizzie_swarf]

This made me laugh.
You have to do "Dad dancing!" :oD

[hawkeviper.livejournal.com]

Use pixelmator. It's in a similar vein to photoshop [read 100000* more useable than gimp], and verily torrentable.

[vayshti.livejournal.com]

Ah, if only I could get away with saying 'Festering Fucknugget' in a story aimed at the Lavender and slight scent of wee Brigade. Still, two of five stupid buzz words ain't bad...

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

I love that post about the Dead and the weirdnesses of admitting you're a fan when you don't identify as a deadhead and don't want to be a hippy, but still love their music.

[random-redhead.livejournal.com]

Also explains why young gay men can't keep their clothes on and run around kissing random people ;-)