*deep breath*

Wesley and I are going to Consonance this March!

Tags: consonance, filk, geek love, music, travel
Current Mood: excited

By way of Instapundit -- and special attention to min0taur! -- I bring you this report on an upcoming space mission for lightsails.

Tags: musings, space, tech

The root canal (phase one) is complete. I'll still need a temporary filling and, later, a crown.

Apparently, the morphology of my tooth is unusual. Oh, look. There are five canals, not four. Although two of them did meet up further down. I'm told I got my money's worth on this one. :)

Tags: home, musings

( Now! Behind a cut 'cause it got too long.... )

Tags: computers, tech

Today I am thankful for my sweet little boy, and especially thankful that he only has a cold, and not the flu! Our pediatrician's office has been out of flu vaccine since early October, and today when I tried to get him a flu shot at the county board of health, I was told they were all out until Thursday!

Tags: health, zxl

I find it difficult to write any filk material about computers. There are so many possibilities that I always worry about the problem of going off into extreme esoterica vs. restating the obvious. This time I went for obvious.

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After my last post, telynor posted a link to the lj post on the Facebook wall. Yay! Proactive interaction! This seems to be the best way for me to talk directly to these fen without actually getting a Facebook account. Which I'd rather not do.

So, if those of you with Facebook accounts and the time would post links to this, I'd really appreciate it.

TIA

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Dear Spanish Fans:

First, I appreciate fansites. Thank you for your interest. But, could you please set it up so that it's clearly a fansite. As it is now, people think it's actually me and that makes me look bad when they expect interaction and I don't respond.

Second, if you are linking to free online downloads of my books, please stop. This isn't like lending your copy of a book to a friend, it's a copyright violation.

Thank you.
Tanya Huff

(translation provided by jonquil)

A Mis Fans Hispánicos Queridos:

Primero, me gustan fansites. Gracias para sus interéses. Podrían ustédes márquenlos "fansite", por favor? Otra vez, la gente piensa que yo esté ignorándoles cuando no respondo.

Además, favor de no ligar a los transferencias en linea de mis libros; esta no es prestar un libro a un amigo, es violación de los derechos de autor.


Gracias.
Tanya Huff

Tags: buh

The lyrics for all eight new songs that I mentioned springing at OVFF are now online.  Enjoy.

Today is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Here is how cool they are: They make me like Elmo and Adam Sandler... together, even. If you want to link up to any particular favorite video clips, go for it; I'll start with "Rubber Duckie, "Bein' Green", and "Batty Bat".

The big video release today is Pixar's Up (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition + Digital Copy and 4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD [Blu-ray] Anti-Planned-Obsolescence Edition). There's also Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days and, if you haven't got a version already, Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut (integrating Tales from the Black Freighter, Under the Hood, and possibly some other live-action footage). Anything else just released we need to know about?

Happy Birthday, Neil Gaiman!

My Friday concert at WindyCon was going to be TomBoat, i.e., me and Toyboat. Reasons of time and practicality deep-sixed that for this weekend, although we really, really want to do it soon (I hope CapriCon, possibly not till DucKon). So, I was gonna drag out a bunch of stuff I don't usually do. Any requests? ("Heat of the Blood" is excluded from this offer.)

Dragon Age: Origins rocks really hard. It's funny: the forums are filled with people who can't get it to load, patch, work, nothin' (I've had no problems, apart from a single crash to Desktop); they complain because it's too hard, too easy, too old-school, too innovative, they hate that it's party-based, they want multiplayer and MMO; they say that the graphics are dated, and point to the game being in development for years. But BioWare did what they wanted to -- they created a new game world, which I think looks very good, with a superb, detailed story filled with rich characters and cool plot twists and astonishing detail. It's not a loot-fest, a click-fest, a FPS with orcs, or anything besides what it is. It's tough, at least to a duffer gamer like me; I set it to Easy, and I'm still getting slaughtered in some fights, the first or second time through. But dang is it rewarding, shocking, and fun. If you're interested, I think you will like it a lot. If not, no big.

What's goin' on in your quadrant?

Tags: conventions, dvd, friends, games, muppets, music, pixar, software

Monday
I finished the Raising Kayn episode 11 and sent it down the line just in time before heading out to a jazz duo gig at Dos Hermanos. Gigs have been getting thin of late and this was the 1st in 5 days so felt good. There were chums in the audiece too with the Oadby crew & Dinah & her bro. Nice mellow vibe in the room.

Today I have bits and pieces - more fixes for France the Harpers recording plus I pick up my live solo songs set recording to go thru to see if it can be used in a prospective live album.

Tags: 1st
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Palle Mikkelborg - The Garden is a Woman