Corbid Ravenous

Sometimes the answer to “how high can you climb?” Sometimes the answer to “why don’t you jump?”

Just discovered The Literary Devices/Linguistic Phenomena Page, and am writhing with nerdish glee. Shall balance that with literary pilgrimages to The Official Dylan Thomas Site and the William Butler Yeats Quote Page. I’m a little word pixie today. Making music mixes for a faery realm…

“I am sure that a number of mystics would have benefited from a regimen of antidepressants, however, we would all be the poorer.” – Louise Erdrich Has occurred to me (as if I were the only one ever to have thought this) that humans need a certain amount of discontent in order to accomplish anything … Read more

Once again I steal from Neil: This sort of thing just makes you proud to be Scottish, I guess. Testament to our mental superiority and scientific rigor as a people. Not.

Keep getting knocked offline. WTF? Doesn’t Cox know I’m trying to develop my pathetic little website? Don’t they want me to suceed? Alas, I am thwarted. Can’t play with FTP transfers today. In case you’re wondering, I wrote this in Notepad whilst offline and if you’re reading it I posted it later. Which means I’ve … Read more

(Courtesy Neil Gaiman’s blog) “Zeugma” Zeugma is a word for when you make a verb do several functions at the same time (eg. “I left in a foul mood and a black taxi”). Ooh, I like that. Both a word I didn’t know and a technique I’ve been failing to employ. As in “Neil Gaiman … Read more

Been playing with my new website and then was briefly knocked off line. Content shall be forthcoming in the wake of style. Crafted a page or two of raw html of which I’m quite proud, simplistic though it may be. Just wrote it up on Notepad and ftp’d it without using any editing programs or … Read more

Myth of the Day: IONA – Island of the Druids by Maia Christianne Iona is one of several small islands off the western coast of Scotland. Historically, it is known as a ?sacred isle’ because of its pagan and then Christian spiritual activity through the ages. With the arrival of St. Columba on its shores … Read more

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Things I couldn’t put on my Giftmas mixes (due to copyright restrictions and soforth): “Snow,Glass,Apples” by Neil Gaiman “Murder Mysteries” by Neil Gaiman Various Cthulu and SF parody songs by Terence Chua I suppose I have become an official girl geek. I now own a copy of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook and a … Read more