Forgive Me, Technology Goddess, For I Have Sinned

[redbrunja]

I realized on Saturday that in the single month I've been in France, I have (unwillingly) given my computer, the poor ill-used Angelina, the same amount of scratches that I had in the two YEARS since I first got her, as well as dented her wi-fi terminal (luckily unused, since I have built in wi-fi) and dropped her on the hardwood floor. (Which was one of those horrible accidents that happen when you take care putting your computer in you backpack, but fail to put backpack in the exact center of the bed, and are forced to watch from across the room when it flipped off. Goddamn water bottle.)  

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. 

God, I wish I know of some kind of computer spa to reward her with when I get back, and/or a way to take scratches off of the casing.

Also, meme, gacked from

 

 

carrielh:

Comment with any ship from a fandom you know I like or am familiar with. I will then go on about said ship for at least one hundred words. Perhaps more! Feel free to comment with ships I like, ships I hate, or ships where my opinion is neutral or unknown. I'll be honest and relatively diplomatic about all of them, with a bit of added flail for the OTPs.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case...

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. . . I knew that one would work.

Hey, now I have extra motivation to work on something specific! *shoves writer's block off desk*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

What's a little mutual bribery between friends?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It's not bribery, it's mutual reward-based motivation!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Nice spin. ^_^

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

It works, though -- I'm two pages in to the mega Castle Heterodyne Matchmaker fic!

This is going to be a doozy.

So get cracking on yours!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Ummmm.. what did I say I was writing again?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

*points upthread* Glasses are hot.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, now I remember.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

There need to be more stories in general with the moral that glasses are hot. I was very tempted to set a book on fire recently when another character commented that the heroine's glasses were ugly and nothing was said to defend them.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And if the glasses actually WERE ugly, she should get new, hot ones.

God.

The last time I did the 12 people I'd date/have sex with, half of the list had glasses on.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I can get the "Those frames don't flatter you. Get new ones and you'll be hot enough I'll need kevlar pants." approaches. But this just seemed to be insulting glasses in general. I threw the book across the room and didn't finish, so I can't say for sure.

But The Fire Rose was awesome for that, and Narbonic has most of the characters in glasses.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I heard about one scene from a book where someone was going. "Those glasses hide your eyes. That's good. I don't want anyone else to see how gorgeous they are." Only cuter and less possessive about it.

The Fire Rose? Is that a novel?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Aww! That is pretty sweet.

Yep. Mercedes Lackey. It's sort of a fantasy/romance novel, partially following the story of Beauty and the Beast, where the heroine is studious in a time she's supposed to be quiet and find a good husband. She gets hired to help the hero with his studies, and is the exact opposite of the average 'too stupid to live' heroine. "A locked door? It's probably locked for a reason. I'll go check out the rest of the mansion."

The hero's rich, and while keeping the pretense of being proper and it being business expenses, he arranged for a visit to the city with an appointment with an optometrist (her prescription needed to be updated) and a visit to the bookstore where she could get anything she wanted.

Thinking about it, this is a very minor aspect of the novel, but it made me go 'awwww!'

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That is so going on the to-read list.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Let me know how you like it! It is of the awesome.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I will.