Blog Demons
Well, last night I wrote a nice long post about various things, including my new computer and how I was storing my new mobile phone in a sock, but apparently mocking the Demonbuster site was a silly thing to do, because my post was attacked by blog demons and vanished irretrievably. They also stole the editing sidebar so that I am having to type html code to put links and stuff in. Demonbuster warned me that things like this would happen, but did I listen? No. All the same, you’ve got to admit that people claiming that the Paisley Print Pattern may harbour demons and that the Narnia books are evil are kind of hard to believe, right? Yeah.
Although I must admit that if they could tell me a bit about my poltergeist, I might actually listen.
I’ve been trying to find a better format for my site and I have found this one. It’s much neater and cleaner than the grassy one. I only wish I could make the tagline appear in italics. For those who are interested, it’s my personal motto, furtif si possible, fort si nécessaire, or basically sneaky when possible, strong when necessary. I used babelfish to translate it though, so the syntax and that might be slightly off. I could have asked my Mum or sister to translate it for me, but I was afraid that they would want an explanation of the reason for having this cryptic phrase translated.
A Book Meme
Number of books I own:
Oh boy. Tricksy. Well over a hundred, I would say.
Last books I bought:
“Undead and Unemployed,” by Mary Janice Davidson, and “Who Built the Moon?” by some guy. It was on special.
Last books I ‘acquired’:
“The Book of Lies,” by James Moloney. (Did I spell that right?) It’s my sister’s, and I borrowed it without asking.
Last book I read:
“Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel,” by Scott Adams. What I privately think of as “The Muggle Slytherin Guide.”
Five books that mean a lot:
“Sophie’s World,” by Jostein Gaarder, because it really got me interested in philosophy and another sort of thinking when I was about fourteen;
My original copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” because even though it is falling apart because I once read it in the shower, it was a wonderful new reading experience for me at the time;
“I, Robot,” by Isaac Asimov;
“The Secret Life of Plants,” because it is simply amazing;
and I’ll add more when I think of them.
One book that I would like to burn:
A Reader’s Digest compendium-thing from 1977 that I picked up second-hand. Their concept of the dinosaurs appearance back then was truly awful amf the illustrations in this book only heighten that. Being something of a dinosaur nut it pains me immensely just to know these inaccurate things exist. I mentioned setting it on fire under the full moon and dancing around it to my Dad, but he said I should keep it because it offers a valuable look in how our concepts of how dinosaurs looked has evolved over time. Whatever. I’d still like to set this thing on fire.
People I think deserve this kind of trouble:
Anne Arkham, because her blog rocks, Sithsnoopy, and anyone who actually decides to read my blog.
