Notkieran
Entries 265
Page 9 of 11
Nanowrimo forums: Raising the Steaks in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
AHoW: I'm looking for interesting and unique magical powers. So far I have (list) and Jurassic Necromancy. L: This has been my dream since I was five. Me: LTW: THAT IS AWESOME. Harry Dre...
Don't have children for happiness. That's not what they're for. They're conversion engines: you put in your happiness and, if you did it right, you get the reward in eighteen years of knowing yo...
Spirit of yamato in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
There is a school of thought that suggests the warrior spirit lies at the intersection of talent, wisdom and will. And perhaps you can only have the talent you are born with, and perhaps there ...
Bogged down. in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Heard in the toilet while I was, um, occupied. Little boy's voice: Wow, daddy, your noing noing is really big! pause Father's voice: Why, yes it is. Thank you for noticing.
Warning, explicit in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
If you get butthurt by homosexual sex, you should have used more lube.
From work in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Me: drawing free body force diagram So I'll just let this body hit the floor... Student: Was that a music reference? Me: No, it was not a music reference and it was most specifically not a refe...
No, I don't miss it in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
But there are times when I fondly remember the moments when I was stifling my laughter at something Xueling had done (or was doing) and trying not to feel like a bad parent. Actually, come to th...
Borderline in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
The end of certainty is the beginning of freedom.
Orthonormal in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
What we need in a relationship is someone who loves us for who we truly are. What we crave is someone we think loves us for who we think we are. The two may not be exclusive, but they are mo...
Expectorate in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Memo to self: Do not attempt to pronounce sibilants when mouth is full of toothpaste foam.
The more things change... in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Sometimes you have to keep fighting the same battles over and over. That's life. Nobody says that you have to fight it the same way with the same tools. And because you've armed yourself from...
6am in the morning in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
lying in bed, talking about Xueling Caffeine: God. Me: What? Caffeine: Can you imagine us at forty? Me: I am imagining us at forty and it is epic awesome.
Hedge in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Caffeine: Before Xueling was born, he called her Bump. Me: And Chestburster. Don't forget that. My mum: Why? Me: Because I knew that if the universe had even the tiniest inkling of how much...
Red zone in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
After doing this twice in a row, I officially accept that, when striking, I deliver more power than my body can channel. Ow.
Daughtere in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I just realised that Xueling has an unfortunate resemblance to Doge
Irradiated in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Do you want to build a cyclotron? ~~Me, to a student. I'm serious. We could probably build one pretty much out of Radio Shack if we wanted.
Highlight of the day in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Being treated to random spontaneous musical outbursts in class because I foolishly asked What does the rock weigh?. Twice in a day.
Overclock in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Amusingly, although I only delivered two axe kicks (both without incident) as part of teaching physics today, my whole body is sore from muscular tension. It's pretty obvious now that the mere ac...
Tell it like it isn't in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Mistrust those who give you an answer; they do you no favours. It is not in the answers we receive that we become better; it is in the questions we ask in search of those answers. Those who giv...
State of 2014-- photo preview in The irresistible Urge To Play with Light
I'm still using the EP3, despite the fact that it's feeling a bit aged compared to the EPL-6 I bought Caffeine for her birthday, and I can see a couple of hot pixels popping up. But there've been...
From Facebook: sock in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Op: How would you define a soulmate? Me: Someone you will argue with all your life over the unimportant things because you don't realise that you already agree on all the things that matter.
Note to self in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
If I don't track Xueling's snack consumption in the presence of our relatives, she gets stuffed with them, especially around Chinese New Year And then she gets sick.
Flash fiction: transcontinental in The Irresistible Urge to Write
For CF, who asked, and unfortunately didn't give me a prompt and resulted in my rambling all across the page. It's amazing, someone once told me, how far you have to run just to find yourself....
Erna in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
When I was a child, I would often have dreams where magic wouldn't work for me. Everyone else would be able to make the doorway work, or the wand, or the raygun. But in my hands they'd be nothing...
Genetic in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Xueling: points at Merida I like this princess! Caffeine: She likes redheads too huh. I blame you.
