Mental Gymnastics

I'm doing the 100+ Book Challenge (Shelfari), so this post will be updated throughout the year.

( 2009 Book List )

Feel free to comment, if you want..

I now post something for my Scadian / Gamer Friends.

Courtesy of muse_neko , Roll for Initiative...

For those who are interested... here's one response to the whole Fail thing, including Amazon's official comments, and some additional questions.

Apparently, it was all the fault of the French.  Those of us in Canada are completely familiar with this concept. *g*

Nice to find out that it was apparently an error due to the actions of a single employee (and who's taking bets on his/her job security??!?), but...

Amazon is still (as I understand it) engaging in a form of censorship - even if this was not some misguided attack on the gay and lesbian community and the affected titles were never intended to be classified as 'adult' - obviously some titles are.  While I completely agree that little Suzy shouldn't be getting porn with her winnie-the-pooh, surely there is a way to filter for age without messing with a particular title's sales figures in order to strip them from search results?

Format snagged from winterlive ...


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Update:  It's worth Reading entrenous88 's post here.

In Summary, WTF?


Update 2:  It appears that Amazon has responded, saying it was a 'glitch'.  Not sure If I buy into this, but I  imagine the internets folk will keep 'em honest about fixing.. (thanks to gossymer for posting the cap of the website, since it appears that traffic has overloaded the site)

Because halcyon_shift told me to...

When you see this, post a quote from Red Dwarf in your journal

"Oh Smeg! What the smeg's he smegging done? He's smegging killed me! "
- Lister, Bodyswap

Terry Pratchett got a shout on on Criminal Minds?

How awesome is that?

Snagged from the lovely and wonderful keepaofthecheez , because this just needs to be shared around*.

Clicky!

seal_clubber , I imagine you'll find innumerable amusing uses for this around the office.

*no doubt I'm waaay behind the times, and most of my flist will be all "been there, done that". Meh.

I got my hair cut today. I'm not sure I like it.  What I'm really wondering is why they *always* insist on drying my hair straight. I paid like $80 bucks for this perm - wouldn't that indicate to the average person that I like my hair curly?  Apparently not, at least not to the strange breed that is the hairdresser.   Also.  When I say I need you to leave enough length for me to tie it back into a ponytail, I do *not* mean a pony tail that more resembles the bobbed tail of your average Rottweiler than an actual, you know - tail.  This is going to take MONTHS to grow out. *sigh*

It's way windy out today. I don't like it.  I'm sure that it stems from years of being in the insurance business (not to mention having my roof damaged a couple of years ago), but I get all tense and crap when the wind is whipping around.  Couldn't sleep last night because of it - meaning not only am I grumpy, but I'm tired, too.  Yay me.

The furkids don't like the wind either.  We have four, and I have Cara curled up on my legs, Mikko curled up at the end of the couch on the floor and Loch and Dora are curled up sleeping together on the couch beside me. Cutest thing - maybe not ever, but pretty darned cute.  Kitty cuddles? Those I like.

I'm putting off doing laundry (as usual), watching the Buffalo / Washington Game.  It's nice to hear Harry Neale calling a game again.  Current score is 4-3 Washington. Go Buffalo!

Hope you all are enjoying your Saturday.

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