Yeah. It's from the last episode - 13 - of the current season, which was aired this past weekend. The character you see the face of above shows up fairly late in the season.
hee hee hee. What do you think all the little Dr Who junkies in my daughter's third grade class thought of THAT? This show airs on Saturday night at 7:00 p.m., you know!
Fortunately, they are a cosmopolitan little crowd.
*snicker* Well, it's not like Captain Jack doesn't flirt with anything that moves, so we can't say it wasn't foreshadowed. XD
*My* thoughts involved all the people who spent the last few years complaining about how the Americans OMG RUINED Doctor Who with the movie, especially because the the kiss in it. I'm really going to have to go poke around the Net and see what wank discussion I find on it.
I'm working from home today, ah-hah-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!
Can't do it much, since I have to rotate through the reference desk on most days, but the right combination of not being scheduled on the desk and having some sort of stomach bug hit today, so I'm going to stay at home and design a usability study, woo. But I think I've got my virtual private network connection set up right so I can log in to the network at work and get stuff from there, whee!
Yeah, well, I'm going to take a nap later today (due to being awake in the wee hours of the morning with said bug), so that's a plus!
I haven't been able to get this VPN connection working properly, so I can't access my drives at work yet, but at least I can read and answer email and work on the usability project I need to get done.
My only grouse is that I found out I've got a package being delivered at home today. Normally this would be good, but today it means I actually have to get dressed while I'm at home, instead of lounging around in sleepwear all day. :P
Glad you liked the stories! I think that's all the lion stories I have. I've got a cheetah one, but it's not as hair-raising. More like an anecdote than a story.
We knew this couple, George and Lory Frame, who took photos and wrote stories for magazines, and often featured in Highlights. (Mom and I entertained ourselves for years in dentist and doctor offices by looking trhough back issues of Highlights to see if the Frames had a story in there.) I don't know the exact circumstances - presumably I'll come across it in the letters somewhere - but they'd raised a cheetah cub and released her into the wild. While you don't want to make a wild animal like that a pet, she didn't have a fear of humans and they could approach her. And they often bought chickens and drove out into the bush to visit.
We went with them one day, and Dad has a great photo of Mom getting close to her to take a photo. I don't remember much more about it - presumably this will also be in the letters - but I do remember having to sit on top of their Land Rover with cages of squawking chickens because while they trusted her to be relatively friendly with adult humans who moved slowly and carefully, they thought that I was small enough and probably would move unpredictably enough that I might trigger her prey reflexes, and decided that discretion was the better part of valor.
does it drive you nuts not to be able to remember these things more clearly? Both my parents are dead--I am utterly on my own as far as reconstructing my distant past is concerned.
Yup. And Mom's alive, but Dad's dead so I've lost about half the memory-reconstructing engine there. The letters are a great help, at least, and I'm happy that I found the one that details our burglary because it was bothering me that all I remembered of the things that were stolen were the sheets and towels.
*racks brain for more Big Cat stories*
I remember my dad telling me once that he was driving along in the Land Rover, arm out the window, and he came upon a spot where some trees overhung the road. He saw a leopard sprawled out on a branch in one of them, and as he drove very slowly under the tree, he rolled the window up. He tells me that the leopard looked him in the eye as he did so, and very clearly said "If I'd have wanted you, I'd have had you." And Dad wasn't one for anthropomorphizing animals, so that's pretty impressive, and a testament to the sheer presence of leopards.
"anthropomorphism" was Sara's party trick word when she was three--in just about exactly that context. "What do you call it when people pretend lions can talk like humans?"
go ahead and delete all these utterly irrelevant comments without offending me, if you so choose...
I'm impressed - I didn't learn "anthropomorphism" until I was in second or third grade, when I was in a gifted & talented class and we were challeneged to bring in hard words. I don't remember anything I brought in, but someone else brought that one in and we learned it. XD
I don't mind irrelevant comments - conversation digress. I don't mind having people carry on an unrelated covnersation with each other in my journal, either - it's like I'm throwing a party and I'm listening in on their conversation.
I have no idea who that is. I missed virtually every episode anyway. *Grin* I should find them online, but I'm not sure if it's approved of that you download stuff you can already watch in your own country. I may be lynched by some kind of online mob.
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When you have it on loop like that, it really looks like a make-out session.
::continues watching::
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Popcorn?
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I take it that was from something brand new, so I won't be seeing who that is for some time?
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Fortunately, they are a cosmopolitan little crowd.
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*My* thoughts involved all the people who spent the last few years complaining about how the Americans OMG RUINED Doctor Who with the movie, especially because the the kiss in it. I'm really going to have to go poke around the Net and see what
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Can't do it much, since I have to rotate through the reference desk on most days, but the right combination of not being scheduled on the desk and having some sort of stomach bug hit today, so I'm going to stay at home and design a usability study, woo. But I think I've got my virtual private network connection set up right so I can log in to the network at work and get stuff from there, whee!
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I haven't been able to get this VPN connection working properly, so I can't access my drives at work yet, but at least I can read and answer email and work on the usability project I need to get done.
My only grouse is that I found out I've got a package being delivered at home today. Normally this would be good, but today it means I actually have to get dressed while I'm at home, instead of lounging around in sleepwear all day. :P
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incidentally, we all really loved the lion stories. Sara was suitably impressed. ("WOW! That must have been SCARY!")
You must put the letters all together along with your own impressions...in all that free time we all have so much of
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We knew this couple, George and Lory Frame, who took photos and wrote stories for magazines, and often featured in Highlights. (Mom and I entertained ourselves for years in dentist and doctor offices by looking trhough back issues of Highlights to see if the Frames had a story in there.) I don't know the exact circumstances - presumably I'll come across it in the letters somewhere - but they'd raised a cheetah cub and released her into the wild. While you don't want to make a wild animal like that a pet, she didn't have a fear of humans and they could approach her. And they often bought chickens and drove out into the bush to visit.
We went with them one day, and Dad has a great photo of Mom getting close to her to take a photo. I don't remember much more about it - presumably this will also be in the letters - but I do remember having to sit on top of their Land Rover with cages of squawking chickens because while they trusted her to be relatively friendly with adult humans who moved slowly and carefully, they thought that I was small enough and probably would move unpredictably enough that I might trigger her prey reflexes, and decided that discretion was the better part of valor.
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I will pass that story on, too. We love Big Cats.
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*racks brain for more Big Cat stories*
I remember my dad telling me once that he was driving along in the Land Rover, arm out the window, and he came upon a spot where some trees overhung the road. He saw a leopard sprawled out on a branch in one of them, and as he drove very slowly under the tree, he rolled the window up. He tells me that the leopard looked him in the eye as he did so, and very clearly said "If I'd have wanted you, I'd have had you." And Dad wasn't one for anthropomorphizing animals, so that's pretty impressive, and a testament to the sheer presence of leopards.
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(have I said that before?)
"anthropomorphism" was Sara's party trick word when she was three--in just about exactly that context. "What do you call it when people pretend lions can talk like humans?"
go ahead and delete all these utterly irrelevant comments without offending me, if you so choose...
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I don't mind irrelevant comments - conversation digress. I don't mind having people carry on an unrelated covnersation with each other in my journal, either - it's like I'm throwing a party and I'm listening in on their conversation.
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the new party trick word is "spontaneous," as in, "Mark, that burp was only funny the first time, when it was SPONTANEOUS"
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When that character whows up, you'll know it instantly. And start anticipating the scene in the icon. :D