Computery things that are making me happy

[eruthros]

1. Mozilla Thunderbird. Really, really simple and not a memory hog and works with Kerberos. Also, David Hewlett now says "wicked! this is all porn!" when I get new messages. Sweeeet.

2. Message tracking or notifications on lj. I was refreshing the post again, to read new comments (as one frequently does with lj-news posts, even when they are on paidmembers instead of news qua news) and then I realized -- hey! I can now just get message notifications instead! Sweeeet.

3. mp3s of music in foreign languages

4. This adventure game-style walkthrough of an Ikea store. (No, it's more hilarious than it sounds...)

5. This recipe for fruit crisp, which is more or less how we made two peach crisps in the last week. (Except we used amaretto on the sliced peaches, and some nutmeg in the crisp part, and more cinnamon than called for, and also some almonds. And we think bananas have no place in a crisp. But it's basically the recipe we used.) This will shortly make me happy, as I can have more peach crisp after dinner. Mmmmm.

Comments

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

I also sing along to Mozart's Mass, only even though I later learned the proper Latin, I find myself invariably singing the words I made up when I was little that sounded vaguely phonetically correct. I don't think that his mass is actually about "corn Frito teas."

[eruthros]

When I was eight or ten or so, I wrote a huge and melodramatic Science! Fiction! Novel! to Mozart's Requiem. And I made up all sorts of drugs and aliens and battleships, and later discovered that (to my chagrin) they were almost all vaguely phonetic transliterations from the Requiem. I recall especially a drug named "selvimead." And I hadn't noticed at all. Ooops?

Sadly, I was never inventive enough to sing about corn Frito teas.

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

*giggle* That sounds like a most excellent book. I wonder, were you to publish such a thing unattributed, would any of our MozartGeek brethren out there pick up on it? I like to think so.