Ramblings from the 'goblinn

Just clicked on this and tried again, and apparently I have matured over the last week a bit:

Movie Reviews

Just think this is hilarious. That is all.

ETA: Wonder if it's the Chaucer references that pushed it up?

Ganked from keladry_lupin:

Movie Reviews

Ouch. I thought I would score higher than that. But I'm not sure how far back they check content. And I did use words like "dude" and "freaking" in the most recent entry. But the weather kind of robbed me of coherent speech for a bit there. I'm sure you understand.

Then too, if we aspire to have people actually read our work, maybe this is the kind of score we should be aiming for. I'm not suggesting we should dumb down content, but just make sure that the ideas presented are clear and easy to follow. I have it on good authority that Jr High kids are not dumb. Mine is certainly too smart for his own good.

Interestingly, some of the people on my flist who are fantastic writers I much admire got the same score. One even got an elementary level instead. I feel better now.

And this is not getting my summer_of_giles segment for Friday rewritten. I asked sahiya for a sanity check on some backstory/ mythology and got way more than I bargained for. (Also, in case you were wondering, no evidence of sanity was discovered.) I really appreciate her taking the time as busy as she is these days, and wish her luck on her own summer_of_giles story.

tagged by qui_quae_quod

I think I may have done something like this before, but I'll play.

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

( Seven Facts )

If you want to do this, consider yourself tagged.

I think this is a slightly different list than the one currently making the rounds, but I cannot make myself do the formatting required manually just now. But if anyone wants to see it, there it is. Maybe next year.

( Wasn't a terrible day at work.... )
( tnl_awards pimpage )
( 'This could be mathier.' Wee Hob and the Mathematics Experiments. )

First: ( cool map. )

( And the mathadventures of wee hob )

That's really all for now. I have ch9 of In Loco nearly ready for beta and a start on 10. But I really need to get cracking on Summer of Giles here. Soon.

Music Meme - tagged by beatrice_otter:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66 (Yeah, the whole thing. Particularly the Dies Irae)
Aaron Copland "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Claire Pelletier - "Kabir Kouba"
Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror (Album) - particularly "Bonny Swans"
Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Semisonic - "Closing Time" (I almost never listen to the radio, but recently I did and heard this and really liked it, so I bought it from iTunes)
Harry Gregson-Williams - Chronicles of Narnia Sountrack (Particularly"Only the Beginning of the Adventure")

All of these are on my "In Loco Parentis" Playlist. I also have an albums playlist, where the tracks play in album order, not the order I set for the other playlist. Good writing/ programming/ not killing annoying co-workers music, all.

I've never been tagged specifically for a meme, and it was kinda cool. So, I'll tag back, but I won't be offended if you decide to blow me off. I tag clavally, liz_marcs, sniggs, esmestrella, sahiya, gillo, whitestar_alpha

(Woulda tagged antennapedia, but beatrice_otter got her first.)

And now, I better get to work on "In Loco," since I will be attending the Spring Camporee with my Wee Hob this weekend. There was a waitlist for it, and we hadn't signed up during the Grounding, but I just found out we got bumped up. They'll be earning the Railroading Merit Badge. I, however, will not be able to take my laptop. Guess I'll have to rough it and use a fountain pen. Shame I can't read my handwriting anymore....

Okay, I should be finishing my judging for SOTHA since my scores are due Tomorrow, but I took a break to catch up on my flist, and I saw that the great Lady gileswench has quite an impressive rating for her journal: NC17 to be exact. On a lark, I clicked on the link and got this:

And what content prompted this rating, you ask?

shoot - 2x
kill - 1x

Here's what got me-- I am almost sure all three words are from posts relating to Wee Hob and his goofy antics at school recently.

My journal is PG because of my son. Who needs (and is still getting) way more parental guidance just now than he wants....

We now return you to your regularly scheduled lj surfing. First day of new classes seems to have gone well, though.

ETA: I see that she Started with a G rating and deliberately moved it up with gratuitous language in later posts. Which makes my PG rating on the first go even more hilarious. I assume the program takes a sampling of the most recent posts in a journal, not the entire content of same....

A dispatch from the land of hobgoblinn:

I've now got a few choristers willing to share some stories of K for her son-- this might work out well. I realized I didn't have enough substantive to say on my own, but I rightly figured they would, having been in her life a good deal longer than I. So things are slowly getting better on that front. My own bit does not have to be great; my main contribution will be compiler/ editor, bugging people for stuff to put in the book.

I have been getting some cool images of a late scene in the sequel to Lost Boys-- I'm still working out what it's about, but I think I have an almost plot to go with the scenes that got cranked out for Nano. Sadly, I tend to get these flashes when I am in the middle of important things like, oh, Driving, or attending mandatory meetings with dull but important personages who will not be amused by my literary aspirations. Particularly if I take plot notes or record snippets of dialogue on their meeting agendas....

It will be a very long weekend, and not in the good way. Lots of services to sing. The school decided wee Hob and I are "needy" because he is growing so fast I can't keep him in pants that are long enough for him, and he tends to bring odd things to school for lunch, when he doesn't forget entirely. I am kind of overwhelmed by the generosity, really. And lord knows, it will help. But we're going out tomorrow night to take care of the real meaning of Christmas, which is to give stuff to other people, preferably in sneaky, fun ways. It's good we're waiting so late, as wee hob has absolutely No ability to keep a secret. None. He's just bursting to tell. It's really kind of funny.

But just now, here's a meme I saw on father_turtle's journal tonight. I thought I'd give it a shot:

( Cut Because I Love my f-list )

( Trick or Treat Meme )

Well, since Wee Hob is a much better beta than a room cleaner (and he's had a good 3 days of fair warning and has made some very bad time management choices) he is not trick or treating tonight. So the above is the extent of my observance of the season. Happy All Hallows Eve to all.

Anybody else excited about Nano? You still have until midnight to get in on the mini_nanowrimo action-- go over and join/commit at least 100 words a day for this month. Don't let me suffer alone. Go on-- you know you want to. You choose your word count. It'll be fun.

I apologize in advance if I neglect anyone over the next month (who am I kidding? I'll be obsessively checking LJ to avoid writing.....)

And hey-- does anybody know where this icon came from? I contacted one possible maker, but I haven't heard back. I'd like to update it for 07, but I have no idea how. But I do like it.
ETA: ishtaritu has come forward-- go check out her journal, or the comments below and snap up this year's version! Thanks, lady.

And headrush100 and nwhepcat, I will get you back! I think it's beyond funny that I get an eraser from you, though, 'cat.

Night all.

Yeah, Okay. I'll bite. Here's my list. Stuff I've read is bolded. Stuff I want to read is underlined. Stuff I read but couldn't finish is italicized and stuff I didn't like is strike through. ETA - I'm told * are for read more than once. I'll count those Started more than once, as well.

I can see a lot of stuff I never would have read but for class, mostly in high school. Also, it's got to really leave an impression for me to hate a book. I might give up on it, but that's a very different thing.

I've been trying lately to get myself to a place where I can read and get through James Joyce. As a concept his writing sounds fascinating-- using images and ideas almost like musical themes that recombine later in unexpected ways. But even though I can sometimes (with help) glimpse the structure, I can't muster the effort necessary to persevere. Maybe I need to find a lj community devoted to reading Joyce or something. Given the insanity in the world at large, there's doubtless such a group out here.

Scary how many of these I have never even heard of, too....

( book meme )