Who is Miley Cyrus and Why is She Sending Me Spam?

[rolanni]

It seems as if Scrabble's sick now, sigh, making for three outta three.

Today, the back-brain helpfully offered up a plot-twist. I was horrified, because it derails the chapter I had worked so hard on, recasting the dern thing twice already, and besides, my back-brain gets bored a lot and likes to lead me off down dead-ends, merrily assuring me that, no, really, this'll work right up to the second that it vanishes into the surrounding mist, leaving me with anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 words to pick out and re-stitch.

That being the case, I spent a lot of time scrutinizing this Cool New Idea(TM). Sat down and sketched out how it would work with pen and paper. Finally realized that, yeah, it's a Legitimately Good Idea and not a willie wisp.

Dammit.

Came home and rewrote the chapter for the third-and-by-ghu-I-mean-it-last time, and got a good jump on the next bit.

I do have to go back to Chapter Five and do some pre-figuring, based on the CNI, but that, she said optimistically, ought to be relatively easy. I'll take the pages with me to the day-job tomorrow and see what I can work in.

In day-job news, it was quiet up in the attic. The African violet, in its patented, high-test African Violets Rule! soil is back in its place of honor on the window sill. The office supply order wasn't heavy, after all, and the mystery of who drinks all the milk on the overnight has been solved.

Campus-wide, the War Against the Dandelions continues, along with the Turfing of the Bare Spots and some serious rebuilding of a green space that became a mud hole over the winter. Since that particular spot is right on the parade route from the Library to the Chapel, PPD is working like mad working things to get it prettied up.

The apple blossoms were blooming today and blowing like snow in the breeze. Too bad the parents of the lucky graduates will miss them.

Progress on Mouse and Dragon

79789 / 120000

"Pffft!" Guayar frowned sternly. "The last time we met, I did you a good turn, sir. Do you intend to repay me by coming lack-witted and tedious?"

"Of course not! I hope to repay you properly in kind. Is there a bit of news I might drop delicately into one certain ear alone for you?"

Comments

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Remember that awful 90's era country song, "Achey Brakey Heart"? That song was recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus. He was not quite a one-hit-wonder, but no one remembers anything but that awful song and his equally awful MULLET (business in the front; party in the back hair) cut. He is Miley Cyrus' Father.

(Destiny) Miley Cyrus is ALSO known as Hanna Montana, A now high school aged girl, living a double life as a famous pop singer and "normal teenager" Her real-life dad plays her father on the show. She is currently touring with The Jonas Brothers; three real life brothers of young adult pop music fame. She's getting a lot of press lately, both good and bad.

She IS drop dead gorgeous and is blossoming into a lovely young woman. She seems nice in person, because she really is.

Hope that helps you!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Is that gonna be on the final? Or at least in Wikipedia? Do I really need to know this?

What's bad is it reads like something I should know, but it is also totally outside my experiential world. How do you know this stuff? I'm in awe. Shock and wonda...

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

To expand just a bit on baggette's explaination. Miley Cyrus is the star of the Disney TV show Hannah Montanna. She's currently adulated by the preteen-tween set.

If you are getting spam from her I can only imagine that her computer has been attacked by a virus and you were in her address book? Far more likely a spammer is spoofing her e-mail in order to get said tweens to open the virus-ridden e-mails.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if it's on the final or in wikipedia....just tryin to be helpful (lol.)

If you wanna be known as 'hip and trendy' among the tween and teen set, you should know this stuff. I am in contact with many youth of this age. I don't HAVE a television, so....I don't watch. I don't know why or how I know; I just dispense what I do know to the masses that ask. (smirk)

Your adoration is much appreciated. (giggle)

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Well, that and I did get to meet her in NYC, around New Years....
she really is a lovely young lady.

Feathered friends

[(Anonymous)]

The transient spring flocks have mostly left now for further north and the permanent residents' yearly fledgling crop have now begun to appear at the back-yard bird feeders. So far we've the usual adolescent cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, bluebirds, chickadees and flycatchers along with a laggard red-wing blackbird adult or two, but this year we've new arrivals: Purple Finch young'uns. First noticed the Purple Finches last summer, but seeing their cute little wing-fluttering fledglings this spring may be another testament to our feathered friend's appreciation of our habitat. Or the food supply.

The nest box at the north-east corner of the property has bluebirds in it again this year, a box south-west of the workshop has crested flycatchers in it and I dunno where the chickadees are nesting, or who's in the box in the garden acre. But we're beginning to see more ring-neck doves around the place, too. Seems like some species are beginning to recover from the west-nile virus that devastated so many these past few years. Still no nighthawks. I miss them, startling bull-frog HONK! and all. I sometimes even miss the Mockingbirds keeping me awake so late at night or rousing me from my bed too early of a morn.

Eta

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Hum. I would ask my students, but I have the feeling that Japanese grad school software engineering nerds may not be exactly hip and trendy. Interesting.

Sometimes I think we have stratification by age and separation by television viewing habits. In this case, I miss the cultural connections completely.

Thanks for the info!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Which is yet another datapoint towards the six degrees of separation theory -- that everyone knows everyone through at most six links? I mean, who would have guessed that we are but a link or two away from Hannah Montana... who my wife pointed out does appear here in Japan in little segments between some Disney cartoons (it's Donald Duck, Scrooge, etc. but modernized?).

[timepiece]

Ah, the dandelion war. Did you know there was a poem about it? One of my favorites.