NaNoWriMo

I was reminded on another group that NaNoWriMo approaches. I mean to give it a shot every year, and every year I miss goal. This year, I will likely be tied up with J5 rewrites, which I hope don't amount to 1667 words/day.

If anyone else planning on giving it a shot?

NaNoWriMo

I was reminded on another group that NaNoWriMo approaches. I mean to give it a shot every year, and every year I miss goal. This year, I will likely be tied up with J5 rewrites, which I hope don't amount to 1667 words/day.

If anyone else planning on giving it a shot?

LJ question

Currently, those who wish can read my blog on my website--the blog is embedded, and folks can comment if they wish. I would like to have a portion of the most current post show up on my homepage, with a (more...) link which would take folks to the main blog page on the website. That can apparently be done with Wordpress with something called a Loop--does LJ have something similar? A preliminary check didn't show anything.

LJ question

Currently, those who wish can read my blog on my website--the blog is embedded, and folks can comment if they wish. I would like to have a portion of the most current post show up on my homepage, with a (more...) link which would take folks to the main blog page on the website. That can apparently be done with Wordpress with something called a Loop--does LJ have something similar? A preliminary check didn't show anything.

Wednesday on the green

So I've been reading a little about the maybe-it-isn't-a-ban-after-all Vegemite kerfuffle, and realized that I wasn't sure what exactly Vegemite was. Stopped by Wikipedia, because it's become one of the places to go for things like this, and read the article. Decided that it would likely be a very long time before I ever sampled Vegemite. Read further, and tripped over this:

Vegemite came to the attention of many people outside the region in the lyrics of the 1982 worldwide hit song Down Under by Men At Work:

I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich

which took me aback a bit, because I remember those days when Men at Work seemed to turn up on the radio every 6.3 minutes, and I remembered that song, and always thought the line went:

He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich

which given that the guy was "six foot four and full of muscle", well, I thought he had stolen the singer's lunch, then deigned to give him back a little of it. A mondegreen, ok?

As a bonus, finally learned was Bovril was.

Wednesday on the green

So I've been reading a little about the maybe-it-isn't-a-ban-after-all Vegemite kerfuffle, and realized that I wasn't sure what exactly Vegemite was. Stopped by Wikipedia, because it's become one of the places to go for things like this, and read the article. Decided that it would likely be a very long time before I ever sampled Vegemite. Read further, and tripped over this:

Vegemite came to the attention of many people outside the region in the lyrics of the 1982 worldwide hit song Down Under by Men At Work:

I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich

which took me aback a bit, because I remember those days when Men at Work seemed to turn up on the radio every 6.3 minutes, and I remembered that song, and always thought the line went:

He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich

which given that the guy was "six foot four and full of muscle", well, I thought he had stolen the singer's lunch, then deigned to give him back a little of it. A mondegreen, ok?

As a bonus, finally learned was Bovril was.