The new Doctor Who is fun, you can probably jump straight into it at any point without too much confusion. I follow the series when it's on because it's one of the few things I can watch with both my parents without us all going mad.

The repeats of the classic series used to be on when I was little so I can remember K-9 and Daleks being twarted by stairs. XD

I'll have to look into it. ^.^

@kat - children of earth. SQUEEEEE.
aww ianto is all bloody. D:
you know, i would have hugged him, but i was cosplaying tsunade from naruto and that would have been all kinds of freaky crossovers. XD
... that. that is sad. IANTO NEEDS TO BE CENTRAL CHARACTER.
also, that is a good disclaimer. we love gaiman. :3

ahaha stairs.
oh, the good old days. xp

@feyona - torchwood is... uhhhmmm.
a combination of x-files and contemporary drama?
but for the UK.

@dani - lamp chop hasn't been on the air for YEARS. what happened? XD

ps.
ahaha when i use the british keyboard setting for my computer and shift the 3 key, it puts £ instead of #.
BUT I JUST REALISED THEY'RE BOTH POUNDS. 8DDDD

Tireth: I have no idea who Tsunade is, but I agree with your sentiment. Don't encourage them!

When the rest of the team are out of the hub, Ianto flies off on Myfanwy and they have fantastic adventures. Fact.

+ Yip, £ is on 3 on my British keyboard. # gets to share a key with ~ (tilde makes me think of Tom Hilde, which makes me happy).

@leenie: I said forever and POOF the song appeared in my mind. Which makes no sense. At all.

@kat - tsunade, although i'm guessing it's probably because you don't watch too much naruto that you don't know her. XD;
... IS THAT WHAT THE PTERODACTYL'S NAME IS? giggle. fantastic adventures. :3
funnily enough, the ~ is the shift for the ` key. when i put the british keyboard setting on, there is no way to type in #.

@dani - when do we make sense? ever? XD

*Runs around* I get to order new books today!

I like this idea. I've kept solid track of what books I've read since late 2007, so this sounds like a great extension. I did 30 books in 08 with my biggest push being July and August (I think I read 12 books in that time period. So good!) and my biggest lull being January and December. Part of my mission101 was to read over 100 books in the 2.5 years and I'm well on my way to it. Clearly, 50 books is helpful. Here we go!

Allometric's Book List 09

1. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
371/371
2. Consider Ethics, Bruce N. Waller
34/314
3. Coraline, Neil Gaiman
162/162
4. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
588/588
5. Mister Sandman, Barbara Gowdy
266/266
6. Roasting in Hell's Kitchen, Gordan Ramsay
288/288
7. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
304/304
8. Playing With Fire, Gordon Ramsay
285/285
9. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
537/537
10. Storm Glass, Jane Urquhart
167/167
11. Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
436/436
12. The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore
305/305
13. Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
289/289
14. 1984, George Orwell
325/325
15. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
67/67
16. Hey Nostradamus!, Douglas Coupland
244/244
17. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
277/277
18. Coyote Blue, Christopher Moore
294/294
19. The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
517/517
20. Neuromancer, William Gibson
271/271
21. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
370/370
22. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman
382/382
23. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
118/118
24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy of four), Douglas Adams
786/786
25. Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
586/586
26. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
152/152
27. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
167/167
28. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
205/205
29. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
287/287
30. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
509/509
31. Heartsick, Chelsea Cain
324/324
32. Sweetheart, Chelsea Cain
325/325
33. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
321/321
34. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
1152/1152
35. How to be a Canadian, Will and Ian Ferguson
274/274
36. Hide and Seek, Ian Rankin
261/261
37. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
661/661
38. Play Dirty, Sandra Brown
404/404
39. Evil at Heart, Chelsea Cain
306/306
40. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
229/229
41. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
335/335

Tally
40/50
14148/15 000

I had a few months where I wasn't reading as regularly (July, November) and thus didn't meet my goal. Had I started Infinite Jest at the end of January like I had originally planned, I would have made 15 000. But being only 850 pages short is still good, eh? I think so.

And now to outdo myself! Many large books are waiting for me this year as well as many canon staples and post-modern icons. Clearly this list needs more Vonnegut.

Book List 2010

To be filled in! Current waiting titles:
1. Proust was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer
2. Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
3. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
4. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
5. The Prince, Machiavelli
6. Tooth and Nail, Ian Rankin
7. The White Queen, Philippa Gregory
8. Number9Dream, David Mitchell
9. Little Big, John Crowley
10. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

Tally
0/50
0/15 000

You know this is going to be yet another reason for me to throw random titles at you, right Allometric? It'll be like how we are with music but to a slightly lesser degree.

@Kamikaze Kendra: LOL Get in line! I have three other people constantly throwing books at me! Thankfully, a lot of what you want me to read (Palahniuk, for sure) has been suggested and/or will be suggested at some point in the future by someone. I'll be drowning in pages before you know it!

Yeah, but Palahniuk's a given. I'm talking about completely random titles. Like Ransom by Julie Garwood. Or The Crimson Petal And The White which you have to read eventually. Despite it's lulls. haha.

welcome, allo~~

ps.
i did not even see these guys, but the book which must not be named was a cosplay subject at the con! DDDDD8!
and it pains me so.
but sadako with a pink penguin on her head makes up for it.

@leenie: :Sigh at cosplayers: Yay for the pink penguin though.

I went to the library to start a new series and the first book is only in large type. @_@
Not only that but it has pure white pages. Contrast, ouch.

I just started reading "The Stepford Wives" by Ira Levin in hopes that I'll like it enough to actually watch the movie. I don't know if anyone has seen the movie/read the book, but the commericals seemed interesting enough and I don't want to ask my boyfriend to watch it with me unless I like the book enough to actually want to watch it.

@dani - well, you know, there were at least two DOCTORS i saw. 8D
(i took a picture of one on friday and sunday.)
and, just for you, i took pictures of grell, kyo, eliazbeth & ciel, sailor scouts, and, uhm, the most amazing jack costume in the universe.
ewwwww large type and contrast. D:!

@feyona - the stepford wives movie was good, as far as suspense mystery movies go, but i heard that it was nothing like the book.
but i liked it and saw in theatres twice, so. XD