What is this "too geeky" you speak of?

The Internet proudly presents: The Find Sherlock Holmes game!

1) Go to Wikipedia.
2) Click Random Article (on the left navigation bar)
3) From there, only using links in articles, navigate yourself to Holmes's page
4) Post your path!

My path:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracheal_branches_of_inferior_thyroid_artery
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature
6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature
7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

I've spent most of the past 24 hours Getting Stuff Done. By which I mean a bunch of tiny little nagging website updates that have been at the back of my mind for months, if not years. It's kind of disorienting.

Also disorienting is the fact that I don't feel like I've gotten much done at all. I'm thinking this may be because I haven't gotten any feedback on it. I knew the Internet was getting me used to instant gratification, but I didn't realize it was quite that bad.

I might be able to assuage it by posting some big impressive fic, but even if I had something finished, everyone's on vacation and unlikely to reply.

Ngh.


...Okay, enough of my floundering. Have a meme.


you know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think, "wait a minute? since when were they working there? since when were they dating him/her? since when!?" and then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? it happens to all of us sometimes.

please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. one-word-answers seldom help anyone out. (:

( Answers under the cut )

Okay, I give up. I'm doing the "sum up ten fandoms in one line and make your flist guess them" meme. Give it a go.

1) Nothing, not even sabotaging the space-time continuum, is too risky when there's curry at stake. - RED DWARF, guessed by madame_furious

2) Everybody's queer (in the sense that the word had at the time; ignore the transsexual princess). - THE WIZARD OF OZ bookverse, guessed by Anonymous

3) Character development is noble and cultured; plot is for the brash and uncouth. - MARIA-SAMA GA MITERU

4) They're hawking $20 plushies for this one now, and I'm drowning in the irony. - HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, and by extension the Seussverse in general

5) Sorry, can't summarize, too busy drooling. - HELLSING, guessed by zefranz

6) It's their world; we just sit in the back of it and throw spitballs. - THE DAILY SHOW et al, guessed by madame_furious

7) Otaku love conquers all - including terminal otakudom. - DENSHA OTOKO

8) It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine! - GOOD OMENS, guessed by flametwister

9) What better way to save the planet than actually, like, saving the planet? - CAPTAIN PLANET, guessed by zefranz

10) No, seriously, love DOES conquer all. - SAILOR MOON, guessed by zefranz

my anime stereotype

Click; react! (If you don't have LJ, don't forget to leave a signature.)

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to how ever many (I hate it when they list X number of people) you like (or think will actually do this) and include me. Try not to repeat a song title. It's harder than you think.

Your Artist: Billy Joel

( It's still rock & roll to me )

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their journal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on.

Thanks to No Fact Zone (nofactzone_feed) referencing it, got hooked on Smashing Magazine's (smashing_feed) monthly calendar wallpapers. Of the June options, this one was my favorite. (The calendar is a little hard to parse, though, and I'll probably try for a wallpaper with a normal squarish-formatted one next time.)

( Goddess + vulture + calendar )

More music - the_mogget gave me N.

( The multitudes are searching, and wandering in vain )

Meme time!

What do you think are the quote-unquote "trademarks" of the fiction that I write? What type of themes or characterization notes or quirks keep on manifesting in my writing? Essentially, what do you think is a stereotypically Ptah way of writing fic?

( Here, let me get you started. )

1) Made-up memory meme.

2) Eleven random facts meme.

3) Fanfiction plugging meme.

4) Flist meme: Leave a comment here, and I will:

a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
g) In return, you must post this on your own LJ. (Optional.)

Shipping meme!

Fandom: anything I've ever liked. Take your pick and run with it.