There will still be the occasional public entry on this journal, but if you want to read the majority of what's posted, comment here or on a public entry to be added.

"You know... you act like such a lonely man. But look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!" - Sarah Jane Smith to The Doctor, "Journey's End", Doctor Who

You guys, you have to see this...this thing. This character description from an actual published book. It's...

You guys.

I can't even describe this, I'm just going to link to the scan on vandonovan's LJ since he generously said we could spread the "love" of this around.

http://vandonovan.livejournal.com/1088311.html

The most horrifyingly hysterical purple prose ever.

I know there are at least a few Torchwood fans on my flist; I would appreciate any links to good gossip/spoilers/info about next season/miniseries thing this summer. I'm trying to get some info to get my brain caught up in the event that I do end up writing a research paper on the show.

I'm really torn about buying a permanent LJ account.

I'm very tempted because I've now been using ElJay for 5+ years, even as the Internets change and social networking becomes a very different animal. (If it is an animal, it's a chimera or something.) If I'd bought one years ago, it would have paid for itself already, of course, and somehow I don't see myself ever giving up on ElJay entirely.

But I just don't know. I mostly use LJ for three reasons:

1. My friends are all on it.
2. My fandoms are all on it.
3. It requires almost zero technical know-how on my part to make it go.

But will ElJay still be here in a few years in the same form? In many ways little has changed since I started using it, but I can't really count on that remaining true indefinitely.

HBO has ordered a pilot episode of "Game of Thrones," a series based off of George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series.

GLEE, I has it.

The new LJ profile page is ugly.

Just sayin'.

Do you like cooking shows, but abhor Rachel Ray's cuteness and ridiculous usage of "EVOO" for everything and her reliance on pre-chopped vegetables? Do you like nerdy things? Dangerous science?

Are you bored?

If you can answer "yes" to any of those questions, I invite you to check out Kamikaze Cookery. Geeks making food. WITH SCIENCE.

The first episode is highly amusing, and the blog's recent entries are equally so, while ALSO including good advice, especially the basic advice along the lines of, "How not to kill yourself and others cooking as a student".

Go. Watch. Be amused. Get hungry.

I've had my LiveJournal for just a shade longer than 6 years, now. For most of these years, my entries were public, interspersed with a few friends-only and friends-group-specific entries here and there. Over the past year, as the PhD program "thing" was in full swing, the number of friends-locked entries has steadily grown, based primarily around the fact that the people I didn't want reading certain entries were my prospective and now actual colleagues, and they are quite Internet-savvy.

As my professional life begins intersecting more and more with my personal life - the Internet, games, media and fandom are now my LIFE, through and through - I find myself locking more and more entries. My real name is now somewhat firmly associated with my LJ to a lot of people, along with most of my online identities. (Before anyone says anything on that score, no, I'm not surprised or horrified, just making the observation.)

For a long time, though, ElJay has not been a place where I was particularly...thoughtful about that reality. I am sorely tempted to go back and friends-lock everything, and then just occasionally throw out something that's not friends-locked in the future. I have ideas for a blog that can be a bit more professional - though they're on hold as I work on something somewhat frantically to see if I can get it ready to submit for publication consideration in 6 weeks - and that's the place I want associated with my professional identity, not this site.

So, your thoughts, dear readers:

Poll #1268834 A question of ElJay privacy
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Should this journal become friends only?

Should I mass friends-lock all past entries?

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.



I'm tired. I just got out of the shower, hence the hair.

It has been a while since I have memed, and this seemed interesting. Stoled from atalantapendrag

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme:
Bold those you have tried.
Strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.

( foods! )

There's a lot on this list that I just have no interest in trying, woe.

For some ungodly reason, this photo just makes me laugh. I think it's the expression on Bush's face, and that he appears to be so frightfully impressed with the mighty heft of Michael Phelps' gold medal.

A list of all owned BPAL. Willing to trade most imps, or enable you with them if you're curious. :D

( A list of all my BPAL bottles and imps )

...disappointing on several levels.

( My rambling thoughts on *Doomsday*, the mess that is Rose, and some general wankery about this whole season of Doctor Who, including explicit spoilers, duh... )