Why yes, I am incredibly stubborn...

Still trying to get my hands on this week's episode of This is Wonderland. I found it on a binaries newsgroup, but one part of the rar files were corrupt, and by the time I found it somewhere else, it promptly expired off the server. ARGH!

So, um, if anybody out there would mind checking alt.binaries.tv and alt.binaries.multimedia and seeing if their news server would let them grab the file for them, I would be very, very, very grateful.

Of tech support, fandom pimping, and yumminess

Lo, I have fixed our intermittent--and as of this morning, causing no internet at all--connection problems. We need a new cable--the one that goes from the wall into the modem. The tech support guy said it was probably a hardware problem, Shaw replaced the modem when they were out two weeks ago for the same problem, and the cable TV was working fine. I have hijacked the cable for the VCR, and all is good in its online connectedness until we want to watch cable TV.

I thiiiink I have figured out how to make avi's from DVDs. So, all going well, who wants to see season one of This is Wonderland?

(And in much the same spirit, if anyone knows a relatively straightforward way I can turn a VHS tape into an avi without spending large amounts of money on new hardware?)

I've been craving Mediterranean food, by which I mean pitas, dippy stuff (hummus, tzatziki, and baba ghanouj), feta cheese, olives... mmmm. We made home-made hummus. Take a can of chick peas. Open. Rinse contents well. Dump in food processor with some lemon juice, salt, a few liberal spoonfuls of tahini, and a slosh of olive oil. Adjust to taste. Add cracked black pepper and a few cloves of garlic (roasted is best). Make the food processor go. Taste. Add more of what is needed. I like the pre-made stuff, but this... oh, this is so much better.

Linkiness

More links coming in the not-so-distant future, now that I've fixed my internet.

Sign-up is open for the Get Cordy Laid ficathon. On the anime side of things, yuri_challenge is now open to claim a request. (Yuri=femmeslash, for the non-anime folk on my flist.)

Some icons, including HP fanart, and Libby Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty books.

Meg Cabot posts a vid-lit of a day in her life as a writer.

Buffy and Angel, Five Lovers Cordelia Chase Could Have Totally Had, If She'd Wanted Them "Touch her again and I’ll kill you." Oddly enough (for one of my recs), all het.

Firefly, Serenity as Told By the Muppets More fan art than fanfic. Must be seen to be believed.

Grey's Anatomy, Addison kisslets "Kissing Meredith *was* to get back at Derek. If it were for her, it would have been Izzie, all blonde and pretty and competent."

QAF US, Why Alcohol and Justin Don't Really Mix “Hey,” he says... or rather, slurs, but since everybody else at the table is also slurring he figures this is no big deal. He holds his drink aloft, some pink concoction that Emmett bought on Round Whatever-The-Fuck, and continues, “Have I mentioned that these are really, really good drinks?”

SGA, Coup! Badfic challenge. "Rodney and Atlantis trade bodies and a fight for John's luv ensues. Rodney tries to figure out a way to get his body out while Atlantis finally figures out what a man can do." [...] "When John is summoned to an early-morning meeting, he's more than happy to leave his 2IC with his hangdog expression and another two hours worth of inventory, even though Elizabeth's got that weird tone in her voice that means 'problematic' but also 'kind of cool'."

SGA, More Than "The wall clock said it was 1:45 in the afternoon; he'd left for lunch at 1:00 and a quick bank run--which gave him half an hour before Carter started calling at mind-bogglingly annoying three and a quarter minute intervals. Then, he'd call Rodney who'd send in the Air Force, so John figured that in the interest of saving NORAD, the United States Air Force, the local FBI bureau, the Colorado Springs police force, and himself a terrifyingly humiliating public relations incident he should probably get out of this hostage situation on his own."

SGA, Mission Reports "As of right this moment, mission reports will include only details pertaining to the status of negotiated treaties, trade agreements, or possible ZPMs. All medical details will be filtered through Dr. Beckett. As far as the Atlantis mission is concerned, don't ask, don't tell has been replaced by I don't want to know!" Flashfic documentation challenge.

SGA, Plants Flashfic documentation challenge. Short and sweet Katie fic.

SGA, Program Results "Subroutine: Daedalus\engineering\alphashift\boardroom.exe" Hermiod is perplexed.Flashfic documentation challenge.

SGA, Executive summary of the 2,037th ICCAAS human population assessment. Carried out by the Standing Committee on Statistics and Research of the Interstellar Commission for the Conservation of Ancients and Ancient-like Species (ICCAAS) during the 29,856th Wake Cycle. [Translated from the Wraith.] Flashfic documentation challenge.

SGA, Twenty Four Hours With a Rodneysaur "Rarr!" Rodney said, which didn't reassure John, but spending the evening trapped in a room with a small bored dinosaur was probably not going to be much fun.

SN, kissing snippet "Happy birthday," Casey said, and stuck an envelope under Danny's nose.

Check out the Wilby Wonderful Fanfiction index, maintained by pearl_o!

Here's a Buffy-centric but widely applicable essay on writing fight scenes.

An interesting post on language and gender.