Karma is like eBay. I lost, you won... Now you have to pay! Ha!

Some HeroClix Star Trek ships arrived yesterday. :3 Nice, but I miss the ol' Micro Machines...

Also just bought a used library book from eBay, I wiped it down with antiseptic wet wipes. Heaven knows where it's been... I see visions of a randy professor and his secretary, using it for a makeshift pillow. Ugh.

Saw Prometheus. I don't get the prologue with the Engineer who apparently killed himself. o_O Otherwise, good.

Hope you're enjoying yourselves despite the wintry weather! =^_^=

Can anyone give examples of science fiction where the characters’ inner demons come to life and attack them? I can think of a few off-hand:

Event Horizon
Flatliners
Solaris (haven’t watched this, but read the synopsis)
Sphere
Many episodes of Star Trek, all series.

In all cases the characters live in a mostly rational, scientific universe, and the inner demons defy everything they’ve encountered before. The cause can be hallucination or something genuinely spooky in the manner of H.P. Lovecraft.

I’m wondering if this motif of inner demons is a big cliché by now, or if it’s still worth using as a premise for SF. When the ship’s captain starts to see his abusive (dead) father, do you yawn at the predictability?

That little problem I had with weird thumbnails? It happened because I had Compatibility View switched on in my browser. :X

<goes to sit in corner with Dunce cap>

Fortunately the new FA format prompted me to experiment with that silly option!

...there are as many topless men and women on the grass as there are clothed. >.>

...to wear a waistcoat at work in this day and age? I'd like to.

(Reposted from here)

You know how playing a certain persona eventually makes you adopt some of his attributes for real?

My original fursona was based on the RL "me", and after a while it felt like he was stunting my RL development. Anything I wouldn't do in RL, he wouldn't do - and by playing him often I only reinforced who I already was to the point that change was difficult. Which also made any kind of personal improvement hard to achieve.

So I created a new fursona who was somewhat better than the RL "me", hoping that by playing him I'd gradually adopt his qualities too, and improve. Somewhat along the lines of Krashen's "i + 1" hypothesis, but with positive character attributes instead of language. Not sure how that's working out... heh.

Do you find yourself turning more like your fursona? Or is the influence one-way?

Which I forgot about, and wasted a trip to the British Museum where all the upper galleries were shut. -_-

Bah!

And I wanted to photograph some Gandharan carvings I'd seen earlier...

...For anyone who observes this. :)

Hi, I'm trying to find a way to link my journal/notes directly to a certain comment in a stack of comments. For example:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/...../#cid:17822003

This link goes directly to my comment "Ooh, seventh place!" etc. in response to Jazzwolf's journal entry "Free Traditional Art - GO!".

There appears to be a number at the end of the URL, "17822003". How do I find the number of the comment I want to link to?

I hope someone can help!

How do you include another user's icon in your journal without including his name? If I write colon+icon+username+colon, I get this:

 bailiff

How do I produce only the icon image without the user's name?

Just back from a 5-week teaching job in Manchester! And I had limited 'Net access in the last week, because the hotel I stayed in charged £5 an hour for it... Naturally I checked e-mail and stuff at work, and there was little time for that!

Looking forward to reviewing my New Submissions box! [view view!]

Hmmm... I've never used this journal before, but I've been tagged by Dermot, so here goes:

-The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things/hates about yourself" and people who get tagged MUST write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things/hates as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" on their User Page comments and tell them to read yours.-

1) I have a mysterious inability to remember faces. I might study you closely, and promptly forget how you look ten minutes later. Combined with my inability to remember names, this makes me really popular.
2) I have recurring bouts of eczema - ugh! Fortunately this is kept under tolerably good control with Diprosone.
3) I leave the yummiest thing on my plate uneaten until the end (doesn't everyone do this?).
4) I have a bad habit of napping in the afternoon. This seems completely unrelated to the hours of sleep I get at night: I'm usually cranky by late afternoon whether I slept 3 or 8 hours previously. (On the plus side, this habit allows me to get by with very little sleep at night, so long as I can recharge the next day.)
5) I hit the gym as often as work allows (which isn't always frequent), but I'm motivated 100% by vanity and not health-consciousness or sportsmanship. In this case, I'm prepared to accept the egotism because of the health benefits. I loathe sports of all kinds, and wouldn't exercise at all if it wasn't for ego! (If you're curious, I'm not very buff... yet.)
6) I seem to have a malleable penis.

Don't think I'll tag anyone...