The Lyorn's Den

11:14 pm - More computer stuff

Computer is still wonky. No WLAN. Gwydion and I were trying to fix it the night to Friday, not sure if it took. Downloads from Dell are not useful -- the driver that I think I need refuses to install. (That after raising an unholy fuss about needing .NET framework and god knows what else.) IE8 seems to have a memory leak.

I don't dare to get updates from the work machine to the backup machine at the moment, so I back up on an USB stick for now.

Friday evening I came home and fell into bed. Slept 14 hours straight. There were thunderstorms in the night, and while humidity is still beyond the pale, it's a tiny bit less unpleasant to deal with in at 23°C than at 30°C.

Current Mood: hot

12:37 am - Computer trouble

Computer is behaving strangely. Yesterday virus scan showed infections (this is rare), and had some trouble removing them. Today wireless is stubbornly claiming that it does not exist, and computer tried to go into shutdown mode without being told to do so. Some of the weirdness seems to center around Opera, but that might just be because I use it all the time.

Another virus found. Is something going on in LJ?

05:57 pm - Been to the movies: Terminator Salvation

Who the heck is writing the scripts these days? Are the writers still on strike and they got a beta version AI to do their job?

( I'm unimpressed )

It was still more fun than T3.

ETA: Kit Whitfield has something more in-depth to say about bad action movies.

Current Mood: okay

03:43 am - What I did on my holidays pt. 3: Home, books, and an invisible ferret

It's been more than one month since I came home, high time that I finish this.
Edited because everything I write in the small hours of morning needs editing.

Part 1
Part 2

( The invisible ferret )
( Not visiting flederkatz )

Current Mood: accomplished

12:49 am - Writer's Block: All-Nighter

Current Mood: amused

11:41 pm - Link

Buffy vs. Edward remix.

12:45 am - Weekend role playing

We were playing our WoD crossover campaign again this weekend -- only Saturday and Sunday, because too many players were busy on Friday, including me. (Work, btw, is still insane.) We drove over to F___, leaving at 8 in the morning, so we arrived just in time for breakfast. I was dead tired in the afternoon and had to catch a nap while the others were exploring the archives of a lost city. ( Cut for description of cracky superpowered dimension-hopping RPG adventure. ) The archive is now broken, but we have downloaded a lot of music, poetry, and enough books on philosophy, metaphysics and comparative theology to keep our werewolf happy for years, trying to find the key to universal peace and understanding.

The night to Saturday I dreamt of rotting corpses that I knew I had to clean up sooner or later. Night to Sunday, I dreamt I was doing my job. I could see the lines of code I was debugging in my dream, and every time I thought I fixed it I got new requirements. Consensus over breakfast was that dreaming of rotting corpses is OK, dreaming of having to tidy up is a warning, and dreaming of work is a sign of approaching insanity and means that one needs to change one's ways.

Current Mood: tired

08:52 pm - Picked up on LJ

(well, Dreamwidth, to be exact, but it overlaps)

Jonathan Tweet (Ars Magica, Sorcerer's Crusade) makes a total ass out of himself on his LJ by a) believing in evo psych gender essentialism, and b) using it to explain why so few women play role playing games.

jhkim

Current Mood: cranky

12:13 am - Quote of the day

... ok, two days ago, whatever:

Darn it, I've fallen into the Bizarro internet again, where a blogger makes an innocent post asking for opionions about abortion, and the comment thread immediately degenerates into an inflammatory argument about pie.
-- Spiders Everywhere on Slacktivist: No Pie Needed

Also, completely unrelated, I have fresh strawberries. And a brand-new pot with kitchen herbs on my balcony.

More unrelated, Christian has his dissertation finished: Rhythmen der Bilder. Congrats!

Current Mood: amused

09:51 pm - What I did on my holidays, pt. 2

This is about four times as long as I feel it should be.

Part 1

( Second week: Porthleven to St Ives )
( Third Week I: St Ives )
( Third Week II: Cardiff )
( Going home )

Part 3

Current Mood: melancholy

11:17 pm - Unexpected near-completion of fic

I have finished the dratted chapter eight. It still came out a travelogue, and I didn't include the man with the gun, but I managed to parallel space and time in a vaguely satisfactory manner. The not-moving is a place to which the protogonist returns, the movement is how her perspective has changed.

And with that, it's possible that the story is complete, even though it will still need some re-writing (of a fight scene in chapter seven, and of the epilogue which is a pasted-on older story). And then I'll need flederkatz's help again to untangle my sentences and dig out missing auxiliary verbs.

I wonder if it happens to anyone else that they get surprised by finding that they have written everything that belongs in the story?

In other, less satisfying news, the sports club in which I'm only a member because I forget to leave has sent me a nasty letter for not paying my dues and threatens me with lawyers. Only, I have a bank statement proving that I paid in March. This is stupid.

Current Mood: optimistic

12:59 am - What I did on my holidays, pt.1

I have considered transcribing my travel diary into entries for the right dates, but unfortunately I do not have another four weeks of vacation (if I had, I'd still be travelling) and it's not that interesting to anyone else anyway, I guess.

Short summary:
- What I did: Hiking on the South West Cost Path in Cornwall for two weeks, and then being fangirly for a few days in Cardiff.
- Fun? Yes
- Other: Need to do that more often.

Longer Version
( This is me being a wuss )
( Getting there )
( First week: Falmouth to Porthleven )

Part 2
Part 3

Current Mood: peaceful

12:04 am - Fandom meme

RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

I got Torchwood, Perry Rhodan and Highlander from trobadora,

In chronological order:
( Perry Rhodan )
( Highlander )
( Torchwood )

Current Mood: dorky

12:56 am - Dreamwidth

OK, so I'm on Dreamwidth, too. Same name, same cat.

I really need to come up with something like content to justify having another journal.

Current Mood: tired

09:47 pm - Home

Arrived home at 1 pm this night. I'm now moving a couple of holiday posts from "friends" to "public", and start writing a more detailed entry or ten.

10:05 am - More travel, even shorter

Am in Cardiff. Will be home around midnight tomorrow. Flight arrives IIRC at 23:15 from Stanstead.

11:14 am - Another short travel report

Sitting in the same internet cafe in Penzance, but this time I came here by bus over from Pendeen. I guess I'm done with walking for now, especially as it started to drizzle. But I had a few more fun days and one brilliant one since the last posting (and one moment of far too much adrenaline, climbing some rocks and then, like a cat on a tree, having a very hard time of getting down again).

Current Mood: content

11:35 am - Short travel report

Things are going kind of well. Weather is fine. I started out from Falmouth, made it around the Lizard peninsula and a little further and am now in Penzance. The old travel camera that I have discovered in one of my boxes is not working properly, so, no pictures for you. :-(

Mood would be better if Penzance station or tourist info had a left luggage office, or if I had a plan where I'd stay this night. Usually it's not a problem, but with today being Saturday and sunny, everything's a little busy.

Current Mood: okay

02:13 am - Packing is done!

7 kilograms for the rucksack, two for the handbag (which has the books). I rule!

...of course, as long as I have my tickets, my wallet and my contact lenses, everything else can be bought, improvised or done without. But I expect I won't have to.

Current Mood: accomplished

10:28 pm - Curses and double curses

I got me an mp3 player yesterday, assuming that the thing was basically an USB drive with headphones and the ability to turn mp3 files into music.

Only, my computer does not recognize the stupid thing. Which has never happened with an USB drive. There was a CD which came with the player, which installs a needlessly complicated software that does god knows what, has only icons and not a single line of text (which is good, because the text in the installation was obviously translated from Japanese using Babelfish), but doesn't make the system recognize the player.

Grr.

Current Mood: frustrated