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Minion Paul, queueing up It Came From Beneath the Sea: I was telling Anna, this is the movie where the monster’s an octopus, but they could only show four tentacles, since that’s all they could afford on their budget.
Minion Anna: So it’s more like a quadro-pus?
Solarbird: I thought a quadropus was just called a cat.
In 2016, I pledge to rule the Fire Nation with an IRON FIST. It’s what Azula would’ve wanted.
I’ve seen a lot of people talk about 2015 as a terrible, just-survive-it kind of year, and hoping next year will be better.
For us, 2015 has been a pretty good year, and not just because nobody had to overnight at the hospital. No, it wasn’t all great; some things were pretty terrible, and I could dwell on them, and would, given half a chance. It’s in a supervillain’s nature, I think. But I’d rather start 2016 concentrating on what’s gone right.
So, in that spirit – what’s gone well for you in 2015? What’s gone right?
Here’s my list. Taking it month by month:
So for us, on balance? A good year.
Your turn. What’s gone well for you in 2015? Go!
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Just got climate control back up and running at the Lair – we’ve been on auxiliary for the last few days, which isn’t such a big deal – but it is extra work.
The problem turned out to be a failed starter capacitor for the blower system. Best case, really; trivial fix. But it means the problem, quite literally, was that this unit had a bad motivator, which – as we all know – is pretty much the only thing that ever fails ever in the entire Star Wars tech universe.
So… does this mean I’m going to have stormtroopers breathing down my neck now?
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Actual winter solstice is in a few hours. It’s longestnight.
I made the candle myself, out of cheese rind and cotton thread. See you in the morning.
Waiting on hold to arrange some engineering issues, and George beside me started snoring. So enjoy some video. (Hosted on Tumblr.)
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Philips just instituted DRM restrictions on light bulbs and fixtures.
I am impressed. Not as impressed as I was by Keurig doing it on coffee, but impressed. That’s evil!
eta: Oh, hey, they totally reversed themselves! Hilarious.
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I mean, of course it goes without saying I’m not the only supervillain with computers. One was DDOSing our mail server for about 36 hours Sunday and Monday, which is kind of hilarious since we were down a big chunk of that time already for necessary upgrades/replacements. It was a decent-sized fleet – I blocked 26,000-ish bots before deciding eh, good enough for now.
It all abruptly stopped yesterday at 6:04pm. I apologise if you were downwind. Aheh.
Meanwhile, Kaye on Facebook requested more pictures of George. Here’s one! It’s from a few days ago, he was helping with my nap. He’s such a good kitty.
eta: Oh, they’re back. Around 100,000 machines this time. I wonder why? Ah, well, it’s not like I don’t have firing solutions ready.
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I pulled out my ancient copy of Fallout 2 a while ago and found no sign of the manual, but decided, eh, I’ll figure it out. Which is how I got reminded of things like “90s games don’t autosave across levels” and “90s games don’t autosave when you level up.” SO LONG, PROGRESS!
The PDF of the manual was on the Fallout wiki, and that was fine for reading on a tablet. But no, I decided NO I WILL HAVE THE BOOK GODDAMMIT, even if the pages in the PDF are arranged impossibly for proper double-sided-pages book printing.
So I printed out everything, physically cut and reassembled it back into correct signatures, scanned and duplex-printed all those new signatures, recut all of them, and bound it using perfect-binding techniques with carpenter’s glue and fabric. Because I’m just that kind of obsessive.
I thought about trimming the excess glue but realised quickly that no, that’s really kind of thematically appropriate. As would be adding some radioactive material, but I’m only so much into thematic accuracy.
And then I mentioned this online and lj:flashfire demanded gifs or it didn’t happen. So see above, and below.
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We have another High Wind Warning today, so will very likely lose power again, taking most of the site offline. It’s already atypically breezy right now – annoying, but what can you do?
Bandcamp will of course stay up, which means you can still play and/or download music, and the cyber2015 discount code will obviously still work.
On the plus side, at least, we’re making our way through the current series of Doctor Who, and at this point, I’m really glad I gave this series another chance. I’m liking the longer story format, and while the first half of this latest two-parter (The Zygon Invasion) was pretty much rubbish, the second half (The Zygon Inversion) more than made up for it – it made sitting through the terrible first hour worthwhile.
In particular, Jenna Coleman is just knocking it out of the park every episode now. Her performance in Inversion just – wow. I’m actually going to miss her, after this year.
Plus, we haven’t heard a good Doctor Rant like the one we got this episode in quite a while. Sometimes those get pretty tiresome, but this one was built right and in the right kind of context and was all character-revelation-y for a guest character without just being an exposition, and that’s how you should do these. Or, at least, it’s one of the right ways. I’ll take that with some ice cream, Doctor.
Plus I will admit hearing the Brig say “five rounds rapid” made my little fangirl heart squee a bit. XD
So, yeah. If we go out, the Bandcamp site will still be up, as will the LJ/Dreamwidth echoes and all that. And we’ll probably? be back by sometime tomorrow.
Assuming the volcano doesn’t blow. There’s kind of a thing, we kind of have to deal with it today, we kind of need power for that, we do have backup, but only so much, and and and. Such a bother.
Ah, well, best get to it. Geoengineering waits for no one.
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