Hey, Hec--does Matilda still have that prismatic refract/reflect/refract thing missing from her life? This one doesn't involve water or Mother Nature, but it's portable and cool:

Oooh! Bookmarked.

It strikes me that one of the things clearly missing from my NYE celebrations is pretending to be in a relationship that I'm not in, for good or ill. That used to be a required feature of most of my larks.

My best NYEs involved kissing strangers on that night.

this. possibly I should list a few items on ebay today.

Or for us, craigslist. We have my wonderful pink glider which doesn't quite fit in the house anymore. Bah. I'd rather have shelves.

Hello, Buffistas! I have been reading you on my phone.

I've never kissed a stranger on NYE, and I'm pretty sure I've never been in a position where it was an expected segue, no matter who desirable I might later find out it was.

In fact, I didn't kiss my first stranger until my late 20s, if memory serves. I could not understand my sister and her macking...until I could.

Every time I post a flickr link here, I go back and look at the stats, because I'm curious (politest term at hand) like that and there's an appropriate spike in traffic--but not on recent pictures or from here.

I have no idea what is the what.

I deliberately took more pictures of food since I downloaded Food, which provides a custom UI and template for storing meal notes in my notekeeping app of choice. The app makes them look better than my pictures would alone, by virtue of framing, etc, but I like having the notes, despite having thought it silly at the frist.

I have no NYE plans. But maybe on NY day I will take twins to look at rose bowl floats. You all are invited too. unfortunately it's lots of people. And cold.

I've kissed a stranger on NYE. At a concert. And then in the parking lot afterwards I ran into the guy I really wanted to be dating at the moment and we rekindled our friendship. It was the best non-dating I ever did. We sure acted a lot like people who were dating for people who weren't.

Dude. This guy: [link] tried to draw one comic book character per day for a year. He's way behind--285 and moving into year 4, but still--cool. And, let's take a minute to estimate by how much he increased the numbers of female or non-white human characters? Yeah, seems that if he did, Wired didn't think they were that interesting.

Then there are those that come completely out of left field like Lance-a-Lot — a half man, half unicorn "mythic crusader from another world, who wields a sword made of righteous light and shoots a rainbow of wrath from his horn!"

365! What are you gonna do?

Android geek nurse just came in and oohed over my phone. Last time it was my tablet. We seem to shop on the same websites.

Okay, this is against the very spirit it claims to represent: [link] . *He* would never sink this low, so why should we?

(The Tony Stark lamp is less at war with itself)

mac took out the recycling.
sheets are in the wash and previous load is drying
receipts done

I herded the Christmas cards, but have not gone through to weed, salvage, and document.

I also polished a pair of shoes that badly needed it - I finally got red shoe polish and my scuffed up mary janes look so much nicer.

next? suggestions?

Ksenia Solo. Not saying you have to do her, msbelle. Just saying--Ksenia Solo. She's the (wee little) bomb: [link]

Anyway--she's on a show that features succubi. I feel her character is prettier and more sexy and charismatic than the lead succubus. I've been told "Duh. Succubus powers aren't real/don't work over cable." which I think is a sloppy cop out angle. A good actor can go around being fairly attractive, and then Turn It On. The example that comes to mind for me is always Denzel Washington--watching him switch from "one of the boys" to "Ladies Love Cool D" just as an interview started many years back creeped me the fuck out for a second. But lots, if not all, actors can do it.

I was trying to think of specific examples, and it saddened me to think that male examples might be easier to find, because they have less to lose to slip OOC every now and again. ANYWAY. Onscreen succubi should be able to have that sort of transformation without going all "How you doin?" Her lead? Does not.