Maru's Mun Journal

Look at the lovely pictures wiebke took of my cats when she was here!

Hey, Nazgul, cracicotus took pirate pictures for me at the Dragon*Con parade -- I'm sure you'll like them as well!

Isn't technology amazing?

essayel is in Cardiff for the day, and she sent me a picture of a big old sailing ship (= replica of such?) she saw there, mentioning there was pirates and filming. She sent it from her cameraphone to mine as an MMS, and I saved it separately on my fancy phone and then got if off with the USB cable, turned the contrast waaaaaaay up (grey and cloudy day there, and I wanted to see the ship regardless), and here it is:


Picture wot Sal took in Cardiff just a little while ago, already on the intarwebz thanks to l33t mobile tech!

And here, you can have a song about tall ships (and other naval things) which is long and nice to listen to.

I'm still not sure the internet, all these modern inventions, and civilisation as a whole aren't going away again in some Interesting Times soon to come, but while we have them, why not enjoy them?

P.S.: misslucyjane, how do I embed the box.net player? I have been poking around box.net and its help functions, but found nothing.-

Alice, my DSL carrier has some serious problems for some of her nodes in Munich. It's a known problem, so very known that the hotline turns me away saying internet problems for some customers in my area code are known and being worked on. Her friendly recorded voice says something about 'one or two hours', but I fear the dear lady is lying through her teeth. The problem started at one AM last night on the dot; so I suspect some scheduled maintenance of whatever gone horribly wrong -- as that is the traditional time for admins to schedule automatic maintenance.

So, I am at the Metropolitans' -- Alice is giving them no probs, as apparently they are not just 'some customers' -- catching up on stuff and writing an article until about six today (Friday), then I'll do stuff in RL and be about, and unless Alice has whipped her nodes into shape until then, I'll be offline tonight, watching crime series and/or reading 'The Harlequin'*.

( Now you see me, now you don't )

For reference -- the pictures from 2006 and 2007. The pictures have been taken by both the Nazgul and me; I mixed them randomly. One of the pictures is Not Safe For Work!!

( 1 -- Our costumes, and the market )

( 2 -- The parade )

( 3 -- The rainstorm, and the show )

( 4 -- The forge )

( 5 -- Random things from the other days the ladies were here )

The Little Lady is something less of a trouper today; she chafes, screamed blue murder all afternoon, and terrorized everybody. The plaster cast is getting on her nerves. The result: endless kiddie TV, on the tube or on video. Tomorrow, my mother is going to drag her to doctors and rent a wheelchair to push her around. At least, that is activity, and Phia will be too afraid to be much of a pest.

In other news: essayel , that little violet-blue stone with the smile has been identified. There was a little mineral shop at the place where we stopped for a break yesterday, on our way back from the Baltic, and they sold things made of that material. It is  blue goldstone, the one traditional artificial material that does equal a natural gemstone in hardness and workability. That reminds me of silima, the stuff Feanor made his gems from, in the Silmarillion. Hey, you gave me - not only a pretty stone that reminds one of asar_suti  (the colour) and gil_whimple  (the little smile), but that might be made of the same stuff as a palantír.



Also, esoteric lore ascribes various healing properties. Strong ones. That stone is magic.

And the Little Lady always wants to see the smile when I wear it...

The Nazgul and I were drinking strawberry punch with Falk the Metropolitan in my room, when Falk suddenly asked, "Is that a Greek or a Russian priest on that picture?"

We didn't know which picture he meant right away, and then found he meant the one directly above my computer.



And then we died laughing, because the person in the picture with me is neither.



It is Rasputin - or rather, a waxwork depicting him, from Belosedski-Belosersky palace in St. Petersburg!

We took about five minutes, the Nazgul and I, and then we were ded from howling laughter.

If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal.

- a meme gacked from polaris_starz

The person I mean is, in fact, nazgul_nr_5 whom I met by the fountain in WorldAway sometime in 1999...

Woohooo!!

japanologist has decided to post some of the music he's recently been making, and it streams from his server and everything.

So go, listen to it, it's here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/japanologist/5821.html