Dec 13 2005

Seven Sevens

Doing my bit to keep the meme alive – the Seven Sevens Meme of Life from Resurrection Song (that kinda has a nice ring to it, no? and no it’s not resplendant with linkage because I’m lazy):

Seven Things To Do Before I Die

1. climb Kilimanjaro
2. go whitewater rafting
3. sell/publish a novel
4. wake up in Rome
5. take my mother to Ireland
6. visit my father’s grave
7. travel around Europe with Stephen

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. fly a helicopter
2. everything I want at once (dammit!)
3. walk on water
4. levitate
5. lift more than twice my body weight
6. get my dog to obey any command besides “sit”
7. admit that I need a hug

Seven Things That Attract Me To… (foreign and domestic bodies)

1. intelligence
2. humor
3. honesty
4. integrity
5. endurance
6. open-mindedness
7. courage

Seven Things I Say Most Often

1. Doode!
2. I love you lots and lots.
3. Poopers!
4. Whatever.
5. Babydogs! Who’s got the best fuzzy tummies?
6. Oy. Eesh. Mumph.
7. Tits on a rock.

Seven Books (or series) That I Love

1. Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
2. A Hymn Before Battle, John Ringo
3. Don’t Look Down, Bob Mayer & Jennifer Crusie
4. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
5. War For The Oaks, Emma Bull
6. Dogtown, Will Shetterly
7. Ancient Shores (and everything else), Jack McDevitt

Seven Movies (cheating and going with Shows) I Watch Over And Over Again

1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2. Battlestar Galactica (any of the series)
3. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
4. Star Trek: TOS (any of the series)
5. Star Trek: DS9 (any of the series)
6. Buffy (any of the series)
7. Angel (any of the series)

Seven People I Want To Give This To

Stephen (TGP)
Da Goddess
Skits
Kat
Armed Liberal
Jenny
Will


Dec 13 2005

I *Heart* Phoenician

Took my A&P final last night. Didn’t die. Fibro is thinking about flaring, I’m not interested. Found a neato linguistics thingy on BoingBoing – an animated gif that shows the evolution of the English alphabet from the Phoenician c. 900 BC. (It’s too wide to copy and paste here, thus the linkage.) I hit refresh frequently and it makes me happy, sort of like a meditation.


Dec 12 2005

Happy Shiny

News you can use. Uh huh. HappyNews.com is… interesting. I like the premise, I could do without the lemon-custard color scheme. Ah well. Nice to know that somebody besides Winds of Change is attempting to get the good stuff out there.