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New to me TV:

Bob's Burgers 15x09 & 15x10
High Potential 2x01
Only Murders in the Building 5x04

Re-watched TV:

Community (continuing with season 1)

Movies:

Thunderbolts* (again)

Current Mood: tired

[Happy Hobbit Day! This is a revision of a review I first posted to my LJ on October 10th, 2011. It has been edited for clarity and additional information.]

Though apparently a huge success in Europe, this game is more obscure in the US, where it was released as Hobbit Software Adventure. (In the 1980s the word "software" was exciting enough to put in a name. Some early games also advertised on the box that they were "100% machine language!")

screenshot showing image of a hobbit door and a text description of same

screenshot showing image of a hobbit door and a text description of same

The manual calls it "one of the most sophisticated adventures ever designed for microcomputers," so let's don our evening attire, pour a glass of wine, and boot it up.

( SOFTWARE! Excited yet? )

You can play the DOS port of The Hobbit/Hobbit Software Adventure in your browser, for an unforgettable evening of text-based sophistication. 🍷

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Current Mood: wowed

I'm a proud born-and-bred Illinoisan, a State where there is so much opposition to the Orange-Tinged Dictator. A number of you may know of the ways that my State's Governor -- JB Pritzker -- stands against the Dictator. A number of you may know that Illinois was the very first State to pass legislation opposing book bans in libraries. A number of you may be aware of the Dictator's recent direct threats of war against Chicago with his AI-generated image of Chicago in flames and his "Apocalypse Now" references. A number of you may already have seen Illinois Senator Karina Villa confronting ICE agents and telling them "This is my city. Get out of my city...." but I want to make sure that she gets seen and hopefully this video gets spread.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZQlqpogGWk

Current Mood: politically active
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

After some consideration of my options, I have made a Star Wars icon that pleases me. It's a screenshot of the music video for Jeremy Messersmith's "Tatooine" with animation by Eric Power.

Embedded video: Paper cutout animation retelling the plot of the Star Wars Original Trilogy.

Watch on YouTube

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September 21 is considered to be Ray Vecchio's birthday and is celebrated annually by due South fandom as "Ray Vecchio Day". This is a day to show RayV some love by posting a RayV-centric fanwork or meta or recs related to Ray Vecchio or David Marciano (tag it as being for Ray Vecchio Day 2025).

Posting to the collection is now open at Ray Vecchio Day 2025 Collection on AO3 and a master list will be assembled on September 28th.

Current Mood: enthused
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

THE LAPTOP IS HOME!

Turns out the problem was my VPN not playing nice with my wireless. The problem has been solved, all the drivers have been updated, and the laptop works again :D Now, maybe I can actually get a little writing done this weekend.

Current Mood: chipper

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2004, juggling three small human beings and a depressed baby!daddy. I actually think this year was okay, for me. I was still sublimating everything into trying to be a good parent.

How many movies will I recall?

( Only 9? Well, 9 I care to write up )

Laptop broken :( Which is not unexpected - I'm hard on laptops - but I'd like to keep this one running for a while longer, if I can. The repair shop said they'd have a diagnosis for me this afternoon or first thing tomorrow, and I'm really hoping for this afternoon.

(Not having a computer for a few days really isn't the end of the world. I have plenty of books, a functioning TV, video games...I can entertain myself. But I have Issues around letting other people handle my computer, so it's making me twitchy. Also, dropping it off for repair required me to explain that I fucked around with the regedit two years ago and broke something I didn't bother fixing because I didn't know what I was doing, which is just embarrassing.)

Current Mood: thoughtful

There were two large birds soaring while I was out on the porch so I grabbed the camera in hopes of getting a good enough photo to make an ID

a large raptor flies over a building and the sky is so blue

a large raptor flies over a building and the sky is so blue

Here one of the birds flies over a three story multi-family home.

More photos under the cut ( Read more... )

Current Mood: ecstatic

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The Hobbit, aka Hobbit Software Adventure (1982)

first lines/last lines fic meme

Bohemian Rhapsody flashmob

Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 29: Illinoiis Fandom (political)

twin suns of Tatooine taught me everything I know

Fic: The Coffee Riddle (marvel - Clintasha)

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