April 2011 – Page 6 – elaine nelson

4/2/2011

Dracula in Love

author: Karen Essex
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2010
rating: 2
read at: 2011/03/26
date added: 2011/04/02
shelves: fiction, history, horror
review:
An interesting concept for sure: the Dracula story as told by Mina, and of course everything is quite different from what one’s been led to expect. And some good sequences of writing. But holy cow melodrama & Mary Sue-ism! It was actually a pretty decent read for laying sick in bed, but I can think of better.

4/2/2011

Twitter Digest for 2011-04-02

@rogue_3 protip: create your effect on a bare sample page before attempting to incorporate into a finished design. (sez painful experience) in reply to rogue_3 #
dammit, my oatmeal in the office fridge was starting to turn. yes, it was there before I got sick. but I am hungry. (no, I did not eat it.) #
@rogue_3 http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/ in reply to rogue_3 #
@rogue_3 sorry, not much for modal windows. I <3 Cycle for slideshows in general, tho; I suppose u could modal-ize it. in reply to rogue_3 #
@godlessgirl like old ladies bitching about things? you should come to my friends of the library meetings. :\ #ilovethem #butsrsly in reply to godlessgirl #
@myerman my sisters and I had lots & lots of both. good times. sorta. #weWereFighty in reply to myerman #
@myerman now I wish I'd bought it when I saw it at the store. (selling for $155+!) #
@myerman oh, and here's that checkpoint: http://www.amazon.com/Playmobil-3172-Security-Check-Point/dp/B0002CYTL2 (damn funny reviews) in reply to myerman #
@myerman Playmobil is German; Lego is Danish. #knowYourEuroToys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playmobil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego in reply to myerman #
@myerman dunno if they still have it, but there was at one point an airport checkpoint playmobil set. for real. in reply to myerman #
@myerman @incslinger ahhhhh, it's not Lego. (not that I don't love me some Playmobil, but dude. Not. Lego.) in reply to myerman #
@hydeandgeek @instant_netflix argggggh. I was just working my way back through Firefly again. in reply to hydeandgeek #
@myerman nice solution, actually. (family are fun!) in reply to myerman #
@myerman bummer. some people are just extra work, I guess. :\ (flickr "email this" embeds img in msg, fwiw.) in reply to myerman #
@myerman on the plus side, presumably that makes him less prone to phishing. in reply to myerman #

4/1/2011

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4/1/2011

Twitter Digest for 2011-04-01

But I feel winded just thinking about it, even tho it's lovely out right now. ::sigh:: #
So, should I bike to #olywebbies (Still coughing some.) #
@fakebaldur both are very much personal-itch-scratching. #
@fakebaldur intriguing. I've looked at titanium, too. (I actually have 2 ideas, already have 1 up as a drupal site for personal use.) in reply to fakebaldur #
@fakebaldur altho IIRC I had terrible java issues when I tried to set it up before on this computer. grumble grumble grumble #
@fakebaldur actually, that reminds me, there's an idea I have for an app that I was thinking of trying to create in App Inventor. #
@lauras ::sigh:: that was my PBS station growing up. Sesame Street, Connections, Nova, America's Test Kitchen, etc., etc. So sad. in reply to lauras #
@MarkMessinger yep. here's my review from about this time last year: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/99315000 in reply to MarkMessinger #
@MarkMessinger have you read the book Bomb Power? Fascinating/depressing. (Truman doesn't come off well.) in reply to MarkMessinger #