Until the Dragon Comes

Stolen from metaquotes


denise says


11. What features do you think Dreamwidth should have that it doesn't currently?
Teleport button.

[...]

21. What's your favorite thing about Dreamwidth?
It's not a bad alternative to a teleport button.

This marvellous cartoon - so very true. :-)




I should say that the original is here.

I had a nice parcel in the post this morning - didiusjulianus had offered me some of the old fountain pens she found when she was sorting things out at Rome.

So it was a great time to also come some excellent fountain pen icons on the community I belong to - it's not exactly high traffic, so the coincidence is cool. I'd never been able to find pen icons that I liked before, so it was great to find so many good ones.

My brother sent me the link to this You Tube vid earlier in the week. A group of silent monks (or high school students dressed as same) give their rendition of the Halleluia Chorus - clever and funny.

Finally, I was overjoyed to hear that astolat had written another Merlin story. As might be expected, her stories are some of the best in the fandom, but she moved on months ago and I think most of us despaired of her ever finishing the Beltane Cycle, even though the three stories already written work very well in their own right.

But a couple of days ago she posted An Exile in Albion, the next part, and says that there should be two more stories, the second of which she has already written. :-) \0/ \0/ I just hope she gets the inspiration to write the intervening piece.

Stolen from alicambs

This is an easy quiz, allegedly, and passing it requires 4 correct answers...

1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?

2) Which country makes Panama hats?

3) From which animal do we get cat gut?

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?

6) The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean are named after what animal?

7) What was King George VI's first name?

8) What colour is a purple finch?

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

10) What is the colour of the black box in a commercial aeroplane?



( Check your answers below. )

I'm still reading and enjoying Kate Nepveu's Lord of the Rings re-read (we're up to the first half of the Two Towers) and I couldn't resist linking to this which was mentioned in a recent discussion.

Characters in The Lord of the Rings and Miles Vorkosigan, by Height

Thank you very much to tree_and_leaf for linking to the bus slogan generator



Virtual cookies to the first person to identify the quote. :-)

dduane's journal is a source of lots of good stuff. Do you remember the classic Star Trek episode Trouble with Tribbles? Have a look at this lolcats version - and spot the interloper at the end. :-)

anna_luna has done some wonderful cartoon versions of the SGA characters but she also has a talent for photo manipulation. For anyone who likes Battlestar Galactica as well as SGA - Battlestar Atlantis.

Another wonderful piece - Captain Jack or should I say Captain Jacks - here.

And finally icons - from a wide range of fandoms, Supernatural, the Stargates, Heroes, Firefly and Buffy. See the icon on this entry for an example. :-)

First read this article about research into robots that can move in time to a rhythm.

Then go here and watch the robot dance. And grin. A lot. :-D

I'm going to Portsmouth tomorrow to visit friends for the weekend but in the meantime, I found this link on the sga_noticeboard.

When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No one has ever collided with the sky

. - Military jokes - I particularly liked the Rules of the Air.

For anyone who didn't see the link to it on megamole's journal yesterday, the CTS have released an audio version of their highly amusing "Lord of the Goons", as presented by them at Tolkien 2005. If anyone wants a copy I can YSI it to them - it's 18mb.

I also found a link to this Episode Guide to the Lord of the Rings TV show, that was created as a spin-off from the fairly successful films of a couple of years ago. The horror, the horror. ;-)