chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (m: sw: han/leia ♥)
I'm still trying to get used to having a full keyboard. Shanne was (is) a tenkeyless, so now whenever I start typing I'm slightly too far to the right and I have to reorient myself and start over. But I'm sure I'll adjust soon.

Other than that I am deeply pleased with Jocasta. Part of this is the low expectations that comes with having struggled along with a slowly dying laptop for the past several months (I can leave her unattended for a few minutes while I go do something else and she doesn't crash! Files copy quickly! She works reliably and I'm not afraid of losing data!) but also, I'm in love with the 2TB hard drive and multitasking and how quickly everything works. I even like Windows 10 despite being so used to Windows 7 I keep trying to do tasks wrong. I'll get used to that soon, too, probably. I don't use the touchscreen very much so far but it's nice knowing it's there.

Oh, and a presumably working DVD drive, though I haven't actually used it yet.

The Star Wars features are super nifty, too. Admittedly I opened the desktop R2D2 widget once to play with it and probably won't again (it's cute! it's also kinda useless), but the photo galleries are great, I immediately watched all the trailers despite having seen them all before, it keeps making BB-8 sounds and filling me with glee, and while I have never been much of a screensaver person before, now every time I don't touch a button for a few minutes I end up getting distracted by lightsaber duels. LIGHTSABER DUELS.

Engadget's review of this laptop literally calls it "dorky" in the title.

I embrace my dorkiness wholeheartedly.

Lightsaber duel screensaver and BB-8 system notification sounds, mm.
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (m: t: like flying)
My new computer has arrived!

She's a Sony Vaio, and she's incredibly sexy and shiny and portable and fast, and she's been officially named Shanne. Shanne Bradley, to be formal.

Yes, I am the dork who names her computers after Pogues songs and the rest of her gadgets after Doctor Who companions.

I'm already in love with her. I just need to get used the keyboard, which is sized differently from Sally's, so I'm going to be trying to do as much typing as possible before Tuesday, when Shanne will become my main hardware for NaNo.

New love is always so shiny, isn't it? :D
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (t: hamlet: dear lj)
Today I watched the 1988 Tony Awards. Why? I don't know. Don't ask me things like that. Maybe because this year's Tony noms are coming up tomorrow? (Speaking of: the fact that there's only two shows eligible for Best Revival Of A Musical makes me really sad. Am I alone in that?)

Anyway, the main thing I took away from the '88 Tonys is that I'm really glad I was four when the 80s ended because people in that decade had terrible, terrible fashion. WTF are those clothes. o.0


14. From the musical you haven't listened to (or seen) in a while.

"The Bride's Lament", The Drowsy Chaperone. I really should get on that, because I love this show and all its ridiculousness.

the full list )
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (tv: mlp: rainbow dash)
I have 404 userpics. This amuses me. Error messages incoming?

In other news, I blame the internet for the fact that I spent a good chunk of today mainlining My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. IT'S YOUR FAULT, INTERNET.
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (tv: dw: amy)
So we finally got a good quality online copy of the BBCA Doctor Who trailer. Yay! It's got a fair bit of footage we've already seen in other trailers but it also has quite a bit of new stuff.

some quick thoughts on some of the new stuff; SPOILERS )

IS IT APRIL 23rd YET?
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (b: ani: omg yeerks!!! D:)

Look what came in the mail today!!! SO EXCITED. Also, the covers look way better in person then they do in pictures. Creepy and unsettling the way morphing should be.

I'm actually really impressed by how they handled re-editing the text. I've only finished reading The Invasion, but so far the only changes I've noticed have been continuity-based, not time-period-based -- the KASU about how thought-speak works has been fixed, and Elfangor and Visser Three's first conversation has been edited to be canon-compliant with The Andalite Chronicles, and it's all very low-key and close to the original. Admittedly there aren't a lot of pop culture references or contemporary tech in that one to be updated, but what's there stayed the same.

I do wonder how they're going to manage book #16, though.

ETA: Okay, into book two and hit a tech update. 'listening to your CD player' has been replaced with 'listening to music', which, if they have to update, I approve of; it takes out the archaic 'CD player' reference, since I doubt there's a lot of preteen kids running around with portable CD players these days, but doesn't insert 'mp3 player' or 'iPod' so I can still pretend this is happening in the 90s. It's vague in a good way.
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (m: o: making music)
OMG YOU GUYS IT'S SNOWING!

Well, I mean, it's coastal-North-Carolina-in-early-December snowing, which is to say a vague approximation of snow that sticks to the tops of cars and also the dog's back but just make everything else kind of wet.

Nevertheless it is the first snowfall of the year here and so I'm counting it. ♥
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (Ghostwriter - thicker than blood)
30 Days Of TV Meme:

Day 13 ♥ Favorite childhood show

I admit it: I was a massive Ghostwriter geek. I had a pen on a necklace and a composition notebook devoted to following cases and everything. SUCH A DORK.

I had a huge crush on Alex at the time. And I'm pretty sure I didn't see the immense embarrassing dorkiness of Lenni's raps until I was older.

You'll be hearing more about my Ghostwriter addiction later this month, just so you're forewarned.

the rest )


30 Days Of Who Meme:

Day 06 ♥ Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

...I hate these, I can never think of anything. :|

OH HAI. Everyone's seen this shirt, right?

I want it so bad.

the rest )
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (M*A*S*H - anger turned sideways)
I'm up to 362 icon spaces filled. This is a bit ridiculous, but I love it.

*

I can't decide whether to start writing this cyberpunk original fic 'verse or just do worldbuilding stuff for now and save the actual writing for this year's NaNo. HI INDECISIVENESS.

...it doesn't have a plot yet. Just worldbuilding and character stuff. I'm pretty sure this is one story that is going to need a plot, unlike Most Everything Else I write.

*

I don't know if I've ever talked about my Discworld-collecting tendencies in detail here. So here's the thing: I am a very sporadic buyer of Discworld novels. I buy whichever one looks most interesting to me when I'm standing in the bookstore, is the basic gist. Which amounts to buying them in an order that makes no logical sense. The awesome thing about this is getting to know characters really well from their later appearances and then going back and reading their first appearance for the first time, when they were less developed and the concept wasn't quite the same. Really, it's awesome. ♥

*

Someone needs to make an Amy Pond fanvid to "Once In Love With Amy". Although probably not until we've got decent footage of her snogging someone. BUT STILL.

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End of post.
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (Doctor Who - Martha)
You know what fanvid should exist in the world?

A Martha-leaves-the-TARDIS vid set to "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone.

...It would be hilarious.

...don't judge me. :/
chicafrom3: photo of the TARDIS (Andromeda - Trance)
Scroll partway down this entry for an adorable story of when Randall Munroe met Neil Gaiman, but not the reverse. Awww.

Also linked to in that entry is this edit of the recent heartbreaking xkcd comic about the Mars rover Spirit. The edited version is a lot less depressing.


...In non-Randall-Munroe-related stuff, have links to some YouTube videos I am currently enjoying!

Oceanic 815 - Side By Side, a comparison of the original crash of Oceanic 815 and the S6 altverse.

"Falling Slowly" Jennifer Damiano & Adam Chanler-Berat, er, what it says on the tin.

Endway - It's My Life - Live at Tainted Blue Studios, in which a band I love records a song I love.

A Goofy Movie - Stand Out (Max Version), why yes I am a total loser dork :D

Muppet Babies: I'll Be Blue For You song, Gonzo sings about Camilla, awww.


ETA: Now with new Side By Side With Susan Blackwell! With bonus Lin-Manuel Miranda! The awesomeness. It is almost too much.

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