• 09:51 It amuses me how the spinning circle has become the gesture for "waiting for the machine to do something" ... to the point where it's GUI. #
• 11:57 Writing prompt for later: "There is gold leaf stuck to invisible parts of my anatomy." ursulav.livejournal.com/762135.html #
• 12:06 Ha, there is industry networking going on in my journal. The internet has many flavours of awesome. #
• 12:15 Writing prompt from waywind: "crimes against fiction" #
• 18:49 Darkside earned the name Shuttleslayer in his last campaign. Jumping from shuttlecraft to shuttlecraft. #
• 23:27 @llbbooks Congratulations! #
• 23:28 I am all over with the warm-squishies. This unfortunately can go nowhere, as the Shuttleslayer is Mr. Not Interested. #
• 23:30 @gameboyguy13 Now I have to listen to that. Thanks. #
• 23:51 The most misogynistic computer science types loathe non-geek females only slightly more than they loathe non-geek males, which is a lot. #

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On the topic of mistranslated filth, and why it's so often lost-in-translation filth rather than jelly doughnuts. In the threads, I wound up mentioning Jean Fritz's moment with orange juice and an egg.

Someone thought that the resulting nonsensical order should be a nanowrimo project of some sort. But I'm booked this year -- either Captain Davidson's going to take over my brain, or Constance McNeill will, or someone else -- or they'll club together. I really am not sure if I want to see the results if the good Captain and Constance get together, because they're such diametrically opposed forces. And in any case, the Captain wants a series of short stories, not a book. Or, at least, not a book first, because she comes from the episodic format. And Constance is like water, and doesn't hold still for long. And she's already got a piece started.

So. An open writing prompt or challenge: 1,000 Oranges and a Bomb.