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So our Internet was down basically all yesterday, but that is completely secondary to the fact that when my brother came home from work he brought a copy of Windows 7 with him and installed it on Sally, my beloved laptop. !!!! I forgive him every bad thing he's ever done to me.

Windows 7 is basically amazing and I am already in love.

I'm still replacing a bunch of programs, mourning the loss of a couple others, and copying files from my EHD backup back onto my internal drive. But this is a necessary part of moving on to a new step in my operating-system life. And it is an awesome new step.

Hey, look, another random updates post.

☆ I posted that DW fic yesterday and am now too scared to look at the reviews. ...this is why I shouldn't let a year plus pass between posting fics, just sayin'.

☆ Matt and Karen are too adorable for words, omg.

☆ More news about the In The Heights film! Apparently they're going to start filming in August. Also we still have no casting news beyond Lin being in it.

☆ You know what show returns tonight? Glee. NEGL, I will not be watching it live. "Everybody Loves Hugo" will be airing at the same time! And very little trumps LOST in my live-TV-watching schedule. It is entirely possible that nothing at all trumps LOST in my live-TV-watching schedule.

☆ Certain Casting Spoilers for Glee are exciting, however.

☆ ...I swear when I started writing this post there were other things I wanted to put in this list. But as I can no longer remember what they were, this is now the last item. Ta.

Bored and reading back through old posts on The Medusa Fora.

Philip Chevron wrote, in response to an article a fan linked to:

Jem is not quite accurate when he says opera was one of our "secret" desires. It was an oft-discussed notion at one point between ourselves and Kirsty MacColl, and it mutated into a Pogues/Kirsty version of the musical West Side Story before both our record companies told us not to take so many drugs.

(Why did this never happen?)

Later in the same thread:

"Contact Yourself" no longer exists and did so only briefly. It was never a serious option to offer a 20-minute acid house track to a petrified record company who already hated the album we did deliver. But try telling that to your lead singer when he's in the middle of an acid trip. Just saying.

Paul is dead, by the way, though his delicious pasta sauce lives on.

<3

LJ's server going down makes me NOT HAPPY. DISTINCTLY NOT HAPPY.

Blah.

Anyway...on a brighter note...the ARD:U boys got the rest of The Reaction uploaded to their site! Very excited. I love them so much, I miss them during the hiatus. They win at everything. SO MUCH LOVE YOU GUYS. SO MUCH. (The link for part 3 is wrong, but manually changing it will get you the right track.) It's SO WEIRD hearing a girl contribute. Weird, but awesome.

Um. I don't think I've given my opinions on Glee here yet? But to sum up, I enjoyed the preview/pilot. It has problems, which I hope will get fixed in the series proper. I watched the leaked version, not the aired version, and I've heard mixed reviews from people who've watched both -- some say the leaked version flows better and provides more important information, some say the aired version cuts out the denser or less important parts. Not having seen both, I don't know, but yeah, enjoyed it. I am preemptively loving Tina and Kurt best. We'll see how that works out.

There is the slight problem that I already had a 'glee' tag for things that have nothing to do with the show of that name. ;D

Unrelated: I think my research addiction is getting a bit out of hand. I spent a good chunk of today researching video game consoles and console wars for the BTIS verse. The only problem with that? Nothing that requires that research will come up until way later in the timeline than I am. (If you would like to contribute opinions, have at. I know next to nothing about video game consoles, even after researching, which is a problem when two key characters are diehard gamers. I win at attempting to write stuff I have no background for.)