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This is just to announce that as I got lucky (read: my openID account got an invite in the draw) I am now also calime on Dreamwidth. I do plan to purchase a paid account there come April 30th and open beta launch, and then I'll likely let my LJ paid status lapse for good. I'll see whwther I'll keep crossposting my few posts to IJ, LJ and Dw, or maybe just post links to DW posts, but DW interface makes crossposting even easier than Semagic, so..
I don't expect there will be a tremendous exodus from LJ to DW, though maybe more people will move than did to IJ, but I don't really see the problem of having three (or four, counting JF) reading lists to check daily - I'll probably divide stuff into 'read on IJ' and 'read on DW' etc. I read several different sites daily anyway, and I'm very glad of the Firefox Morning Coffee addon *grin*.
In general, so far I do like the DW interface best, though.

Not much to say besides that yay! There was a nifty little invite in my email, and now I can haz a Dreamwidth corner of my very own. I've imported the entries from LJ (my IJ and LJ are pretty same, postings-wise, and while I'd love to import IJ comments, I'm not sure it'd look very tidy with most entries in double. Need to think about that more.)
Also need to delve into the customization info, and re-friend? re-readlist? resub? circumscribe?!? everyone who's already here and who I had friended under open-ID (I wonder if there wasn't supposed to be or maybe come in the future something enabling you to tie open-ID accts to the main one? Need to look around MOAR! ETA: Found! Possible feature to tie openID account to the main one upcoming in the future. Nce.)
*waves* Anyways, here I am, having fun, and I kind of hope that you are here too *g*, and of course the same for the fun part! And, um, if you notice me refriending, it's just me consolidating my readinglist under the main account now.

Current Mood: cheerful

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calime33 is blacked out: Stand up against "Guilt Upon Accusation" for New Zealand

Current Mood: sick

I dragged my sorry arse back from an exhausting (but fun) weekend and found out that I had been ~~commanded to reveal my secrets share irrelevant tidbits of boring TMI~~ tagged by evildrem, so, in the spirit of good taggedness, I shall meme like a memeing thing.
A: People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.
B: ~~Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.~~Don't you people know you're not supposed to say that... that number? two times four? REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO RINCEWIND! IT WILL NOT END WELL, I SAY!

Tagging: *glares* Because a) everyone and their choice of non-human minion have already done it and b)You said "Eight" (Yes, you did, I heard you! And now BAD THINGS will happen! With tentacles!) I shall tag all of you that have not yet succumbed to the ~~power of eight~~ memeage!! Tag, YOU'RE it! Or possibly, It. BWAHAHAHAHA!

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P.S: Did you know that Semagic spell-check suggests I replace NCIS with ASCII and fannish with mannish?

I would love to see this as a SGA McKay/Sheppard ... thingy.Snippet? Whatev. *laughs*

Gacked from

cthonus
1) Look at the list, copy and paste it into your own journal;
2) Mark those you have read however you want. - I bolded the ones I've read, and underlined the ones I liked and added * to mark those I've only read in Estonian translation, # to mark ones I've read both in original and in Estonian, unmarked - read in the original language. The ones left unbolded-and-un-underlined are obviously ones I haven't read *g*.
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.( List under here )
Meme the 2nd, gacked from

alejandradd
Apparently “The Big Read” assumes that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.(I've added * and # to mark the ones read in translation or both in translation and in original, like with the previous meme).
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people
who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)( I think I got 45? )

ETA: I hereby solemnly swear I shall try to cultivate good habits of reading the draft for damn typos first. Bad Cali, no biscuit!

...good idea and code gacked from

helens78. And because I finally wanted to try to get the polls feature working. Sue me, I was bored *grin*. Also, dumb as in 'no reading the fucking manual before'. Because I kept trying to edit the previous post and got miffed on the poll not making it through.
( Radio buttons under here! )

Current Mood: accomplished

Also, sleepy.
Work these last days has been all 'hurry up and wait', well, or the other way round. Yesterday and this morning was sloooooow, which coupled with the grey wet slushy weather made me zombie-like and vague, and then, afternoon suddenly erupted into what is in Estonian lovingly known as 'hullumaja puhvet' (word-to-word translation - mental hospital's cafe), or in English, simply 'a madhouse'. The cherry on top, so to speak, was an emergency of two dogs who very likely have ingested a poison of some kind, probably organophosphate based. Or pyrethrins/pyrethroids. Managed first aid and packed them off to the UNI clinic ... tomorrow will tell if they've made it or no. Am home at last, watching SGA 1st season finale and drinking alcohol-free glögg (because I am sleepy enough without adding alcohol to the mix, yet I need something warm and weirdly enough, caffeine-less).
I did put a new challenge up at highlander100, so if anyone's drabble-wisely inclined, please amble over and ... drabble. Or something.
*yawns*
So, I see this meme going around again, and as I'm incapable of doing anything that requires more than two neurons firing, please to be amusing me and telling me whether you think I'm fish or fowl. Or, um. Something or other.
Pick one word from each pair that you think describes me the best and comment with your choices. ~~Then copy this and post it in your own journal to see how your friends view you.~~ *waves hand* Only if you want to. Now in a handy poll format, courtesy of

helens78, here!

During aimless linksurfing I stumbled upon the Wikipedia article Homosexuality in speculative fiction, and was intrigued by a paragraph in it.Of course, I had to share it with

dresta11. Um,and now with my unsuspecting f-list (note: I did translate part of the convo from Estonian to English).
Calime a.k.a. Piuksuv Urson - elu on trifiid: Proto-SF
True History by the Greek writer Lucian (A.D. 120–185) has been called the earliest surviving example of science fiction[20][21] and the first ever "gay science fiction story".[22] The narrator is suddenly enveloped by a typhoon and swept up to the moon, which is inhabited by a society of men that are at war with the sun. After the hero distinguishes himself in combat, the king gives him his son the prince in marriage. The all male society reproduces (male children only) by giving birth from the thigh or by growing a child from a plant produced by planting the left testicle in the moon's soil.[23]
Calime a.k.a. Piuksuv Urson - elu on trifiid: wonder if they had to cut off that left nut, or did they just spend the period of pregnancy stuck in ground, testicle-wise?
Jessikas- umop ap!sdn: dunno,maybe it dropped off by itself
Calime: hmmm
Jessikas: like seed
Calime: after especially passionate sex?
Calime : maybe
Calime : even logical
Calime : how did they choose which partners' testicle dropped?
Calime : good idea though, zero population growth
Calime: no overpopulating the moon
Calime: one left nut per person
Jessikas: yup
Jessikas: but maybe they grew a replacement?
Calime: dammit, yes, who knows
Calime : now I'd like to read the source
Jessikas: new testicle just pushed the old one out while growing
Calime: after the source, one could fanfic all different scenarios
Calime: and in case the old testicle happened to be pushed INwards, then it came to that giving birth from the thigh, yes?
Jessikas: yup
Jessikas: like a huge, painful abscess
Jessikas: yuck
Calime: I feel the sudden need to write mpreg in all my fandoms using this freshly gained knowledge
Jessikas: *snicker*

Well, yes, it is possible that in addition of having a weird brain (which is not unusual here, is it, my fellow fen?) I also tend to get fascinated by potential wacky biological details. Might go with the RL job mindset *grin*.

Those last days I've been ... grumpy.( Read more... )

Current Mood: cranky

In 2009,

calime33 resolves to...

Give some books to charity.
Put fifty dogs a month into my savings account.
Take evening classes in house.
Connect with my inner eroica.
Backup my ouatim regularly.
Apply for a new fanfic.

...a.k.a. the current popular calendar fashion says that we can haz a new year soon an kthxbai to the old one.
2008 was mostly decent, well, the ending was kind of off, but I try to look forward to the 2009 with reasonable optimism. At least as long as the work continues to come to the clinic the way it did for the last days I'm gonna be glad - that'd mean we're going to make do.
I have gotten only halfway through SGA secret santa stories, and there is still Highlander Holiday Shortcuts and Yuletide ... Mmmmm. That makes me happy. Also, I'm off tomorrow to drive over to

dresta11's island farm with another friend. We aim to fit seven dogs into one house, cook lamb, eat, drink and be merry. And lazy. And as I'll probably have 'net access there, but maybe not so often or well as at home, I'll leave my turning-of-the-year well-wishes for you all now.

May the next year be better and happier and luckier than the last one was!
And if anyone is looking for little entertainment, I suggest you check the nature cams at Looduskalender here - they still have the wild pigs' feeding place cam that is good to check at night, and in addition there is a new cam for checking on eagles and ravens and crows feeding during the daytime. And if there is no-one around on the direct stream, there are clips on the site from interesting moments.
Lastly, there is this cute PENGWIN vid over at failblog that has a definite yay! factor. For some reason *cough* I cannot but associate penguins with a certain ... team (SGA fandom, i am looking at you!!). Well, this one is definitely Ronon!penguin.
So, um, happy new year and all.

Which Horrible Affliction are you?
A Rum and Monkey disease.

( 12 days and resolutions )

...too many disappointments. Still...

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last month I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). Last week I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). In July I gave

kittyfisher a Dutch Oven (-10 points). In March I gave

cara_et_pax a wet willie, then I took it back (-5 points). Last Friday I committed genocide... Sorry about that,

slcross (-5000 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-4688 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!

Sincerely,
calime33

... a.k.a. Memesheep, baa baa

( I iz a trifle!!! )
( The song title interview )

Current Mood: amused

( As seen all over my f-list. )

There is snow. A lot of snow. There is more snow coming. Is rather nice, takes mind off some pesky RL stuff. Though I wonder how I'm gonna get to work tomorrow morning - it's been snowing since last night and will continue to do so through tonight at least, and there have been storm warnings, houses losing electricity, traffic jams and stuff. Thank the universe that I live in a town and can walk to work.
*contemplates blizzard through the window while cuddled in bed with two dogs and three cats and watches Stargate*

Congratulations to US people on their new president!! And good luck and lots of strength to Mr. Barack Obama.

The outcome makes me feel kind of more optimistic about the world in general this morning.

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A Can of Worms

Never Laugh at Live Dragons

Dreamwidth

OH hai!!

Remembered there's OTW membership drive...

Blackout

Memememememeemmeeeeeeee ... baa?

XKCD+SGA=OTP snicker

Two book memes

Redoing the meme in poll format

Random Cali is random

Crack in my brain, it warms me during the cold days

(no subject)

I iz resolved nods

One goes, the other comes...

Baaaaa....

...because mindless memeage beats moping...

Alas, I don't really believe in Santa any more...

Merepojad

Mosaic meme

Let it snow...

Hey, they did it!

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