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Doctor Who, 2.10-- (yes, I AM watching this season as it airs on American TV, actually)-- possibly the most fannish episode of any TV show that I have ever seen. Not the kind of fan service with cleavage and panty shots, but the kind of fan service that shows the ways in which it's good to be passionate about things, even about things that might never return your affections--the ways in which that can make you creative, and create friendships, and in short make you less like the stereotypical antisocial fanboy. Or fangirl.

And Ursula!!! Ah, adorable nerdy girls.

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I brought home my new Mac last night, reasoning that (a) we had to go to the mall anyway, and (b) the ten days after Christmas left too little time for buying furnishings and housewares, and (c) I really really really wanted one. The nice thing is that, because it has built-in wifi, I now have an extra internet-connected computer--since the other one's being used by Littlest Sister for her homework and college applications.

It has not changed my opinion about Macs, which is that:
-In terms of form and function, yes, the Mac OS is better than Windows. (I also note that their Japanese fonts are prettier.)
-In terms of security, yes, the Mac is better if you're dumb enough not to protect yourself against viruses and spyware, which I am not, so it doesn't really make a difference to me.
-This superiority nonwithstanding, I still think that XP was a perfectly decent operating system for my purposes, and the partisanship is kind of silly.

And now:
( 50 fantasy + 50 SF books, duplicates cut out )