From the depths of the Necronomicon...

In Praise of the Foolish Master (Eros Ezine article)
A rather charming article found via dot_bdsm_snark that’s probably applicable to a great many sorts of relational interactions really.

They're Just Not That Into (Playing with) You (bad_rpers_suck post)
A post that I’m presuming parodies the supposed dating manual of a similar name but is hilarious enough on its own while also being rather good advice beyond RP even.

And Les Liaisons Dangereuses in real-time and French starting in August: lesliaisons1782 which seems like it’ll be lots of fun and from the same marvellous folks who are currently running dracula1897.


And on that note I will continue to withhold comment on Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whateley in a film for which the IMDB outline begins "Wilbur Whateley pops over to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon and Sandra Dee" for a little while longer and take myself off to read some Lovecraft in the sun, with what’s probably a semi-cold pot of rose petal tea by now.


18:32: There’s always something about long afternoons that makes me crave scones with clotted cream and nice jam. I don’t have any nice jam at the moment though there’s a jar of awful gelatinous stuff about that I really ought to throw out. Maybe I should get some of this next time really.
Yes, I am twenty-six going on forty.

Well, that was painless

After a week or so delay the bits and pieces from the new ISP arrived and I now have a tiny router living on top of my machine. I’m also using a USB port to connect instead of my network card for a change which reminded me that for the most part when I have to plug and unplug things all I tend to do is grope around blindly under the desk till I find a suitable port. I’m sure in some reality that’d be a useful skill to have; identifying ports by touch and a rough idea of which cards I put where.
I’m rapidly getting worse at following ‘broadband for dummies’ instructions though since I’ve gotten past the point of even unplugging my other connection and turning off eMule these days. The day I start plugging in RAM on machines that are still on, I suppose I might start worrying.

It’s also looking likely that a new wireless router might be needed because the chances of successfully piggybacking things across two routers is probably rather slim but worth a try simply for the sheer absurdity involved and the joy of playing with cabling excessively. There’s far too much cat5 cable around though and I’m beginning to suspect that it’s cannibalised the S-video cable that I’m sure was around somewhere.

Either way, a generous glass of some reasonably aged Calvados Pays D'Auge has also rather helped things along this evening and is definitely the sort of networking aid that I’m going to be tempted to employ in the future.