In the spirit of the holidays, I'm giving out four Kiva Gift Certificates to anyone who's interested (all gone!). They're worth $25, and should you not be interested in continuing to support the site when it's been paid back, you can just withdraw it. 25 smackaroos! Can't beat that! *g* So step right up and comment if you want one. If you don't have an email listed in your lj user info (or want it sent elsewhere), please include it in your comment.

And if you do decide to join Kiva, do join any teams you might be interested in before you start lending. You can't retroactively credit a loan to a team, it has to occur at check-out. May I suggest Fandom!, Women Empowering Women, your alma mater, any of your local area groups, or perhaps something else that you're interested in.






Oh, and thanks for the lovely comments on the Holiday Love Meme!

I was internet-less for almost a week and I've only now caught up (well, still one episode behind on Dexter, but other than that...), so I come bearing a meme:

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And a few TV thoughts, while I'm at it:

( Criminal Minds and CSI:NY - seasons 3 )

( Bones )

( Being Erica )

( Top Chef and The Amazing Race )

( Glee )


I feel like I may have missed an episode of Castle somewhere along the line, so I think I'm going to track that down next.

Only 1½ weeks left till my three week vacation! I need to distract myself with TV talk or it'll NEVER get here.

( Being Erica )


( Bones )


( Community )


( Dexter )

( Friday Night Lights )


( Glee )


( How I Met Your Mother )


( Lie to Me )


( The Mentalist )

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In other TV news, even though I enjoyed the Cougar Town pilot, I haven't watched a single episode since. Eastwick was starting to bore me by episode 3, and when the cancellation came, it just became one less thing to catch up with. Still watching and enjoying: The Good Wife, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, White Collar, Castle, Dollhouse, etc. My reality shows are all losing their shine this season. I mean, it's been a steady decline over the past few seasons, but this season there hasn't been a truly excellent reality season in the bunch.

( The Amazing Race )


( Project Runway )</>


( Top Chef )

( Sons of Anarchy )

The caps are here.

This VM fic makes me so happy. It feels like the author is making sense out of all the things I never thought made sense in season 3. Dealt with in this chapter: Duncan, Piz, the FBI. But if you're allergic to WIPs, I'd recommend staying far away from this one. I think it's been over a year since the last update and we're only on chapter four. So, yeah...

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Apparently, I have things to say about TV today.

( Dexter )

( Lie to Me )

( Glee )

( Castle )


I'm going to save Sons of Anarchy for a separate post so I have time to cap a few episodes and possibly include some visual aids.

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I bought myself a new laptop with a touchscreen, and because the software provided had Twitter compatability, I got myself an account. I've been reading it and trying to get the flow of the thing, but I gotta say, I'm still not sure. Even in my one lonely tweet, I still wanted to add about another post's worth. So what's the point if I know myself enough to know I'm too wordy? But add away if you're so inclined! I've added some accounts I recognized, but I'm sure I've missed a ton.

The touchscreen though? AWESOME!

Since I'm not making icon posts any more, I'm also not getting any feedback. And sometimes I miss it! So I participated in an icon meme:




Personally, my biggest problem with my icons is lack of originality. I keep iconing the same caps over and over (I just want an icon I love from a cap I love! But still - BORING). I feel like I'm never doing anything new, just the same old thing over and over (with varying results).

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I'm sick. And it's like the worst week ever for me to be sick (pre-EMA programs with short deadlines that have to be done immediately), but I'm still staying home tomorrow to work. May not be the best for getting work done, but I need to not be at work when I'm feeling like this.

I thought I'd find myself some downloads of the new Emma mini series and really just wallow in my misery.

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Two things I've loved lately:

1. LJ's Note feature. I used to have the Greasemonkey script that basically did the same thing, but with this feature it doesn't just work on one of my computers, but all of them, and any other I might use. Score!


2. VLC Player. Now, I know everyone's been raving about this player for years, but I've always preferred Zoom Player (for its playlist function, mostly). Well, I finally found something I love it for: IT REMOVES REGION ENCODING ON DVDs!!! I can switch between region 1 and 2 with impunity! This is so awesome, I can't even tell you. Now if the capping function was only a bit better (though the frame-by-frame stepping thing has already improved it by a factor of a about a million!) (Caveat: According to VLC developers, they can't guarantee that it removes region encoding, but it'll try!)

All the shows fit to picspam...

( The Office )

( Glee )

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And all the shows that aren't...

( FlashForward )

( Eastwick )

( Community )

( Modern Family )

( The Good Wife )

( Being Erica )

( Top Chef )

( The Big Bang Theory )

( Sons of Anarchy )

( Drop Dead Diva )


(Also watching but have nothing to say about at the moment: The Amazing Race, Dexter, HIMYM, Castle, Lie to Me, The Mentalist, Bones, Cougar Town, Project Runway (okay, one thing: THIS SEASON IS BOOORING), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Dollhouse.)

( 1x05 Picpsam )

You'll have to forgive me for being picspam crazy right now, but I just found a good copy of The Proposal, and I've wanted to picspam it since I saw it in theaters. And when the DVD comes out there may even be caps!

[Oh, and speaking of caps, I keep forgetting this, but the caps from the Fringe picspam I did the other week are uploaded here. Not even 300 caps for the entire season, but I figure I won't be needing much more than that. Also, remember saava's Farscape-Caps.com? Well, at one point I managed to download all the albums, and I asked Angie if she would mind if I shared them (because I've uploaded them to an online gallery anyway since I HATE going throuh caps on my harddrive) and she said I could go right ahead. So they're here. There are even a few extras that weren't on Angie's site, like bloopers and the makeup test (they're still Angie's caps, though).]

Hokay, loooong aside, there. Let's get to the picspam!


( The Proposal. )

Next project: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 2. I'm capping it as I rewatch, just like with Fringe, but it's taking me a while longer to get through them (I suddenly have STUFF to do. Not on!)