tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91133148990770678972012-01-31T00:42:40.844+01:00Watching the world quick-step by...Aerlissnoreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-3152354264443976742012-01-30T22:56:00.001+01:002012-01-31T00:28:43.227+01:00

I don't know if this is a recent trend or if I have only just bothered to take note of it, but an awful lot of people seem to be annoyed by the use of "literally". Apparently, everyone is using it wrongly. Hmmmm. This kind of pedantry is nothing new (nor is it the sole purview of English speakers). Probably since its first publication, people have been turning to the Oxford English Dictionary to

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-48544553411572126732012-01-25T22:48:00.002+01:002012-01-25T22:51:19.956+01:00

I really need to hunt down the first person who used that and murder them... or desecrate their grave. Yeah, tell that to the victims of persecution throughout time. Early Christians, Protestants, Catholics, anyone that the Witchfinder General didn't like, Jews, Muslims, women, and that's just the tip of the religious stuff in Europe, never mind ethnic cleansing, homophobia and misogyny, class/

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-12069813701440092122011-12-28T17:03:00.001+01:002011-12-28T17:18:59.729+01:00

Wow, this is short... but I think it does everything I want it too. I could easily go into a lot more detail but it doesn't need it, I don't think. I actually wrote this a very long time ago... which is testament to the fact my writing hasn't improved much *sigh* Anyway, it was for a challenge in a writing circle, inspired by this image; No, I don't know if it has a CC licence or even

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-76091105432971026992011-12-17T17:47:00.001+01:002012-01-01T17:31:13.884+01:00

A new weight-loss wonder food turns out to be not all it seems... **************** Amelia Hound stopped at the glass doors to the Barbary Building and took a long, deep breath. She had been through a tedious day of board meetings, covering subjects as fascinating as quarterly sales growth (or lack there of), psycholinguistic analysis of advertising jargon and, most depressing of all, from

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-90176167221200789142011-09-10T01:08:00.001+02:002011-09-10T01:08:48.211+02:00

Sometimes I dream up a character that has no place in anything I'm writing (or, you know... currently not writing) but I still want to play with them. If I could draw then I would draw them. Just to get them out of my head and into the world. The only way I know how to get them onto paper though is to write. So this is what I've done and will continue to do (hopefully). Maybe I'll use these guys

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-16534934251774211142011-05-27T23:41:00.000+02:002011-05-27T23:41:20.783+02:00

(Any and all mistakes are down to me being a wreck throughout most of that night and me then not re-reading this. I've put it down 'on paper' and I am not going over it again, thank you very much. Though feel free to ask questions.) Let me just set up the backstory for this. Last year, while working home on my own one night I saw a girl sitting in one of the shop doors on George Street in

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-84741974394860666392011-05-07T16:27:00.000+02:002011-05-07T16:27:52.112+02:00

I've seen a lot of hatred spewed at 'the Left' and the 'liberals' in the last six months, but it's not being spewed at the people I consider to be 'the Left' and the 'liberals'. My idea of leftwing seems to be somewhat different to everyone else's. Admittedly, this will be because I'm an idiot and missing some important point. I've always thought that those on the left of society, the liberals,

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-72488995138950909942011-04-25T20:15:00.002+02:002011-07-01T10:07:29.100+02:00

Last week, as I was taking a tray of potatoes out of the oven I missed the tea towel I was using to protect my hand and instead grabbed the tray. This resulted in two things; baked potatoes strewn across the floor and a chunk of freshly seared crackling on my finger. This got me thinking, and I've been thinking out loud on Twitter about it; could I physically and legally eat my own cooked flesh.

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-67213422475685730422011-04-01T00:22:00.002+02:002011-04-01T00:53:51.726+02:00

Ah, Paxman, you god among political interrogators. Seriously, only a man with a deity's invulnerabilities would wear that tie... with that suit! Anyone with a better grasp of Japanese than my own able to work out what his tie says? I can make out only the odd hiragana. I don't know them well enough to work them out from that image, or while he's moving about on screen. Anyway; this Japanese

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-54459386680764083382011-03-04T00:29:00.001+01:002011-04-01T00:23:23.013+02:00

Back in 2007 I noticed a BBC News reader wearing a dark indigo tie that was splattered with white, sharp pointed stars or perhaps snowflakes. It was hideous. Absolutely hideous. The image of a BBC News reader wearing such a shockingly garish tie has stuck with me. Since then, whenever I have been watching a current affairs show on the Beeb, with a man behind a desk, I have taken note of his tie.

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-88160652564702581472011-02-08T19:56:00.000+01:002011-02-08T19:56:00.589+01:00

Why do some people get so annoyed when someone mentions that they'd like such-and-such piece of tech? I don't mean poking a bit of fun, say for example at the naming of the "Wii" by someone who prefers Microsoft's consoles. They get down right irate. Last night, down the pub, someone (a musician... we'll call her Joan, 'cause that's so rock and roll) mentioned they'd like to get an iPad, if they

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-27692234499148713092011-01-08T01:53:00.000+01:002011-01-08T01:53:09.478+01:00

One the arguments against any form of recreational drug use (is drug use to aid art considered recreational if you intend to make money from said art?) is that we shouldn't be putting chemicals into our system. Well, that pretty much gets smashed apart with a variety of single words; Starbucks, Marlboro, Budweisser, McDonalds, Nestle... The recourse of the clean living advocate is then this one;

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-52423370949618730762010-12-05T22:31:00.004+01:002010-12-05T23:02:56.540+01:00

Wow, the last few weeks have been mad in the UK. Protests, sit ins... and of course the police violence and unprecedented video and photographic evidence of the violence they've inflicted on, for the most part, peaceful (if a little raucous) protesters. YouTube is littered with videos, Facebook galleries abound and Twitter has been abuzz with the #PoliceAggression tag. Yet people are denying

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-82535752288985982392010-11-13T21:53:00.001+01:002010-11-13T21:58:05.802+01:00

For anyone not familiar with the huge farce that was the Twitter Joke Trial check out the variety Guardian articles, starting here. *sigh* To help avoid prosecution for our comedic blatherings on Twitter, @Oatz has come up with a little disclaimer that he's posted on TwitLonger. Genius. Genius I say! As I don't use the TwitLonger service I'm going to slap it here, with a couple of adjustments

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-48984348621537089512010-08-17T20:50:00.001+02:002010-08-18T17:18:35.206+02:00

You might have read this article from Matthew Moore at The Telegraph; Men more likely to cheat if they earn less than their wives. It's... erm... an odd read that not so much angered as brought on a bout of pity (which is rare). The study Moore mentions was conducted by Christin L. Munsch as part of her ph.D research at Cornell University. Yes; 'her'. A woman conducted this data collecting

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-42328679789521507752010-06-09T17:39:00.001+02:002010-06-09T17:44:33.501+02:00

Or the gods, fate, a butterfly's wings... The point is; it could happen to you. There are a lot of homeless people in Edinburgh. More so than in Glasgow, apparently (well, would you want to sleep on the streets of Glasgowif you could get yourself out?) Just thinking now, I can count ten different people that will be sitting on the street right now, asking for money. A girl and her dog (she can't

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-25647572885739835302010-02-22T23:19:00.022+01:002011-03-19T00:41:27.267+01:00

I'm so rubbish at remembering the things I want to buy when I get round to having money, so this is mostly just for me. But if anyone loves me... XD Cinderella Ate My Daughter Young Sherlock Holmes DVD & OST Disney's Aladdin DVD Quantum Leap DVD MiB DVD Then Buffy Staked Edward. The End T-shirt (or better yet; WILLOW staked Edward) A 'Spike Dies' T-shirt (Bebop, not Buffy... though a Buffy one

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-85015238530692600612009-10-26T00:50:00.000+01:002009-10-26T00:50:47.666+01:00

Pmog (Passively Multiplayer Online Game), or as it became known, The Nethernet, no longer exists. I don't know what happened as I had not been playing for a while (it was, after all, passive gaming). However, I did write a nice little short about an event in the beta release that left a few of us ever so slightly b0rked. At some point, TPTB decided they need to delete everyone's stats, set

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-41141230835463975342009-10-16T02:58:00.000+02:002009-10-16T02:58:06.969+02:00

I've been looking forward to this movie for at least a year. It was to be Heath Ledger's final film (unless some dick in the future does that horrible thing where they take film clips of dead actors and splice them into other things for not other reason than to cash in on said dead actor) *cough* and looked absolutely mad. Heath really went out on a high note (Dark Knight, I'm Not There,

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-44850247267655486622009-10-05T13:53:00.000+02:002009-10-05T13:53:48.920+02:00

It may have taken two years of owning one, but I think I've finally become a snail enthusiast. Giant African Land Snails (GALS), to be specific. At the moment I only have little Avery (named after Avery Brooks who played Cpt Sisko in DS9... because the two I had briefly as a child were Data and Riker); He's a bit camera shy... and asleep right now, so this old pic will have to do till he

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-19350729537125376732009-09-21T19:37:00.001+02:002009-09-21T19:44:47.775+02:00

Apparently, DeviantArt thinks I 'need' Prem Membership. No, DA. I don't need it. You need me to buy it. I just want it... and you know the best way to make me not get something, even if I want it? Tell me I need it. So... screw you DA. You just lost out on this month's internet wasted pennies allowance. I HATE it when someone absolutely insists I'll like something. A part of my brain just

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-57559492250117183872009-09-20T00:27:00.001+02:002009-09-22T21:16:24.274+02:00

Dark. Dark and cold. Aching limbs, stretched and torn, fixed in chains to a foetid stone wall. Misery, pain, fire and ice. I won't tell them though. Tell them nothing. Tell them nothing. Tell them nothing. Ignore the agony; fall somewhere else, focus on something else... anything but the burning, lashing, screaming pain! Its gone now. "Leave him. Let him recover." They can do more tomorrow,

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-4682626069670292852009-08-26T14:50:00.011+02:002009-08-26T16:02:18.207+02:00

I broke a rib! Or I may have broken a rib. They don't know... they won't X-ray it. *sigh* Either way; I have a BUCKET of painkillers with ingredients I can't even guess how to pronounce (they make me slightly loopy... so excuse any following spaz). I don't usually like to take painkillers if I'm not working... what if I do something stupid and cause more damage without realising it? Pain is there

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-54356448904662214512009-07-21T14:39:00.004+02:002009-07-21T16:39:11.557+02:00

I'm very new to blogging, having moved over to it from Twitter only recently (hit 2000 Tweets last night, woot!). I started at WP for one simple reason; somehow, long ago, I had signed up with them so I could comment on another blog. It just seemed to simplest way to get started; use my account there.WP is simple, elegant and intuitive. I barely had to look at the support or go to the forum. I

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-84114221919398882382009-07-16T18:05:00.005+02:002009-07-17T00:28:51.782+02:00

Ah, that age old question. A question that has plagued anime forums and chatrooms since the dawn of time... well, since the advent of good dubbing practices anyway. Time was you couldn't watch dubbed anime; the acting was bad, the lip syncing was awful and the animation wasn't all that so it didn't matter if you had your eyes plastered to the white lines at the bottom of the screen. Times are

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-39960474726040212772009-07-16T18:03:00.000+02:002009-07-16T18:04:35.321+02:00

Soooo, been having a bit of a boring debate with someone on Twitter. I say boring because I debate online not to convince who I'm talking to (that is a fruitless endeavour; anyone with a strong enough opinion to air it is usually unchangeable in that opinion), but to convince the audience. There's not much of an audience for private conversations on Twitter... and the character count is rather

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-81934431642594205452009-07-16T18:02:00.000+02:002009-07-16T18:04:58.032+02:00

I don't go out for meals very often. This is mostly due to me being far too poor and partially down to me being a funny vegan while my partner hates vegetables... we're a pain in the backside. When I do I always leave a tip, even if the service isn't great. I've done waitressing, I've worked cafes and restaurants and it's a damned difficult, thankless job. You're the main point of contact for

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-61181404861385999272009-07-16T17:58:00.001+02:002009-09-22T22:14:53.116+02:00

Yeah, I could have used re-vamped and made so much lolz. Not. *cough* So my beloved Twitter is going stir crazy over the news that a new Buffy movie is in the works. Normally this would bring tears of joy to many BtVS fans' eyes. However, one of the leading hashtags is #buffymoviefail. Go take a peek; they're HATING the idea. Apparently, Joss himself is not yet involved (#NoJossNoBuffy)... and is

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-58475521750149456752009-07-16T17:56:00.000+02:002009-07-16T18:00:16.577+02:00

If I hear this cry one more time on the radio... well I'll just complain at the radio... not a lot else I can do. News resources (I use the term loosely when referring to the likes of The Sun and Fox News) have been reporting a lot on 'children' having children recently. The most recent story is that Alfie, the 13 year old father, is not actually a father. I'd say lucky him... but then I don't

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-55911695073005845642009-07-16T17:53:00.000+02:002009-07-16T17:56:03.433+02:00

The general public, when they set foot inside a store or eatery, are stupid. It doesn't matter what degrees they have, what books they've published or how well they are paid. Almost everyone leaves their brain at the door. For us lowly service monkeys it's INFURIATING. It's as if they expect not to have to think, that the service peeps are being paid to think for them, to lead them by the hand

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-50097081613703141602009-07-15T20:11:00.000+02:002009-07-15T20:21:10.480+02:00

I run a group fan blog over at wordpress for the ever so girly PonyStars site. I was using WP at the time for my own random spouting... due to convoluted circumstances. It seemed only natural to just use my existing account there when I decided to start the PS fanblog. Alas, that seems to have been far too hasty a decision.While WP is a great basic blogging tool, its creators want a fair whack of

Aerlissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9113314899077067897.post-22979486119693335702008-04-26T14:15:00.000+02:002011-12-28T18:03:34.022+01:00

Hackery I'm gradually moving all my stuff from Deviant Art to here, but until it's all moved you can poke around there. It's mostly 18+ >_> If you just want to browse my fiction without all the other bumph in the way go to FictionPress.com And if you want to browse my fanfiction (as most of it isn't here yet) go to FanFiction.net Ramblings There's a teensy little group blog I sometimes write

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