skywaterblue

1. I finally saw "Frozen" which I had been putting off because it looked crappy. As a movie, it's just okay. You can see the seams where they ripped the backbone out of the plot a couple dozen times before splicing it together to make SOMETHING, notably in that it's a Disney Musical where there's exactly one song in the second act and neither the secondary love interest NOR the villains get a number. The inevitably Broadway musical will probably be a lot better, assuming they restore some deleted songs and provide a closing number. That said: QUEEN ELSA. ALL ABOUT QUEEN ELSA. Depressed, angry, dutybound women with magical ice powers and a kingdom to run. Damn right, it's about time one of those Disney Princesses took her throne.

2. Yay, the fandom is full of femmeslash... with her sister. Boo. I don't dig incest fic in the slightest.

3. If I ever see the end of my BFA show piece, I may write some gen and Elsa/OC fic.

4. I only just saw this XKCD but it's already my favorite Hackers fanfic.

My mother is making cranky noises about getting a laptop because ye olde desktop is full of viruses and spyware. This is because she is not capable of maintaining a computer, my brother is thirteen and my father has apparently been looking at porn.

(True facts: you can download any old shit off the internet and not catch a virus for years. But look at porn online for five seconds and your box is now part of the Russian botnet.)

I'd rather she get a netbook because it would be cheap, but both of the models at Best Buy were 'chintzy' looking. I sighed and tried to do a trade, the new Sony Vaio CR in red for the computer I use now, but eight hundred dollars is too much. (I died inside, especially since Sony just helped me fix a problem last night and buying shit is the other reason she needs to buy a new one every three years.)

Which is also why I can't convince her to buy an Apple, even though dumb computer users should use Mac and it would keep me from pulling my hair out because I could just foist her off on the pimply kids who work at the 'Genius Bar'.

Suggestions? Maybe I should get a Linux netbook and then install OSX on top?

I bought one of those sonic screwdrivers. As far as toys go, my brother was handily impressed, but I'm a tougher nugget to crack and found that reality is wanting, because my new sonic screwdriver doesn't ACTUALLY do anything.

This guy put a USB port on the end, but I'm kind of surprised at the lack of weird hacks for the toy.