- It's koala mating season. Nobody's getting any sleep right now, not just the koalas.
This is what I can hear wandering past the bedroom window at night. There's also screaming possums, but I can't find a recording of that. It's pretty wild out there. Whooping and grunting and screeching, and thundering across the roof. I feel like there should be some kind of punchline here, like "And that's just the humans" but honestly, I'm too underslept to formulate it.
BTW, people seem to think koalas are cute. LIES! LIES LIES LIES! They are cranky, mean, smelly little bastards. This is why you shouldn't get out of your car when you see a cute fuzzy koala by the side of the road. Those little fuckers have great big claws and they will fuck you up.
- I am in mourning for Stanza, the beautiful, free, intuitive iPhone app that let me read ebooks and fic DLed from the Archive. iOS5, the latest software update, killed the app dead. Amazon bought it and shunted it into limbo, presumably to stop it from competing with Kindle. Amazon: still harshing my squee, in new and exciting ways even when I don't shop with them.
I've tried two options: i2reader is a paid app - don't pay for it if you use Calibre, because it's currently not functional with that program. I'm using ShuBook which is free but has an in-app purchase to access higher functions. Shubook is clunky, but it works okay. You need to adjust the font and size individually, which is a big hassle. You can make it talk to Calibre by selecting '+' in the downloads menu, and select 'Add a catalog'. Then it goes looking for your Calibre server, and you can select from that menu as you would in Stanza.
Some links to reviews of ebook apps to replace Stanza:
Dear Author's review of eBooksearch, Megareader and Shubook
A bunch of reviews from the Mac forums, where the merits of various replacements are discussed.
- My brother got married on the weekend. I wore the enormous heels, and I did not fall. I ROCKED those shoes. Then I took them off for the reception. The whole thing was a strange and exhausting experience, during which I was wracked by emotions. When the bride got out of the car, she was crying. This set my mum off, which set every family member off in a strange and confusing emotional domino race. Then I talked with a whole lot of people I haven't seen since I was under ten, which, you know. Awkward. But I strode around blithely introducing![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilacsigil as my partner, and nobody batted an eyelid. So, either, people had been carefully prepared by my mother, or they were blissfully drunk, but either way, there were no problems of the homophobic kind.
And this was the cake!
- NaNo is coming. I had an idea, but I've completely failed to realise it into some kind of plot, so I'm doing fanworks this year. FaNo, if you will.lilacsigil did that last year, and it looked like a lot of fun. Next year, serious writing. This year, fun and fannish writing. As long as I hit 50K for the month, I'm calling it a win.
- I have an Anne of Green Gables icon! I'm using it just because.
This is what I can hear wandering past the bedroom window at night. There's also screaming possums, but I can't find a recording of that. It's pretty wild out there. Whooping and grunting and screeching, and thundering across the roof. I feel like there should be some kind of punchline here, like "And that's just the humans" but honestly, I'm too underslept to formulate it.
BTW, people seem to think koalas are cute. LIES! LIES LIES LIES! They are cranky, mean, smelly little bastards. This is why you shouldn't get out of your car when you see a cute fuzzy koala by the side of the road. Those little fuckers have great big claws and they will fuck you up.
- I am in mourning for Stanza, the beautiful, free, intuitive iPhone app that let me read ebooks and fic DLed from the Archive. iOS5, the latest software update, killed the app dead. Amazon bought it and shunted it into limbo, presumably to stop it from competing with Kindle. Amazon: still harshing my squee, in new and exciting ways even when I don't shop with them.
I've tried two options: i2reader is a paid app - don't pay for it if you use Calibre, because it's currently not functional with that program. I'm using ShuBook which is free but has an in-app purchase to access higher functions. Shubook is clunky, but it works okay. You need to adjust the font and size individually, which is a big hassle. You can make it talk to Calibre by selecting '+' in the downloads menu, and select 'Add a catalog'. Then it goes looking for your Calibre server, and you can select from that menu as you would in Stanza.
Some links to reviews of ebook apps to replace Stanza:
Dear Author's review of eBooksearch, Megareader and Shubook
A bunch of reviews from the Mac forums, where the merits of various replacements are discussed.
- My brother got married on the weekend. I wore the enormous heels, and I did not fall. I ROCKED those shoes. Then I took them off for the reception. The whole thing was a strange and exhausting experience, during which I was wracked by emotions. When the bride got out of the car, she was crying. This set my mum off, which set every family member off in a strange and confusing emotional domino race. Then I talked with a whole lot of people I haven't seen since I was under ten, which, you know. Awkward. But I strode around blithely introducing
lilacsigil as my partner, and nobody batted an eyelid. So, either, people had been carefully prepared by my mother, or they were blissfully drunk, but either way, there were no problems of the homophobic kind. And this was the cake!
- NaNo is coming. I had an idea, but I've completely failed to realise it into some kind of plot, so I'm doing fanworks this year. FaNo, if you will.
lilacsigil did that last year, and it looked like a lot of fun. Next year, serious writing. This year, fun and fannish writing. As long as I hit 50K for the month, I'm calling it a win. - I have an Anne of Green Gables icon! I'm using it just because.
