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Back from Yorkshire. My apologies for the radio silence on all but email and Twitter, but there were issues with the wifi setup and Matt appropriated my work-issue mobile broadband dongle* for most of the time there.

Oh hell, I say that, but it was admittedly a bit of a breather from fandom and RP and SJ and whatever, but it also means I got fuck-all done on my Festivid. shiiiiiiiiit. And I have to work tomorrow. I'm hoping like hell that things will be quiet. shiiiiiiiiit.

I need to update my paid account here at Dreamwidth. Hmm.

Doctor Who was more than a bit heavy on the treacle. I realise that if you're an ostensibly family programme on BBC One at 7 pm on Christmas Day, you can't exactly be heavy or have people staying dead, but even last year's sappiness was a bit easier on the palate.

Also, please do not get me started on anything to do with gender in it or we'll be here for a while.

That said, there were some good moments--I liked the forestry team led by Bill Bailey--and it was beautifully shot. And the last two to three minutes of the whole thing were what the whole damned episode should have been.

I need to watch the rest of Sherlock by the end of the week so I'm ready for the new year. Now that DW Christmas is done, it's all.over.the.place. promo-wise.

Anyway, should anyone still be interested, I still have the Classic Rock Christmas mix for you.

And should anyone still be interested, I have TR reqs to make this month.

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* For those who don't know, this is actually the name of the device--dongle. I am not making this up.

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I know, the name "dongle" cracks my shit up! & people here are just as bemused as US-ians -- I can't even count how many dongle jokes there were at my last workplace...

That's what SHE said.

Yeah, i don't even know....

We're supposed to have an open suggestion policy at work, and I'd submit 'Dongles: Not just for dicks' to marketing as an ad campaign, but I'm sure it's been done.

We've managed to get past giggles at work but I think that's only due to constant use in a professional context. If we commented every time it came up, we would waste hours a day.

I seriously want to find whomever came up with the term and ask simply WHY.

Oh, i dunno, that question seems to answer itself. ;)

Yeah, I looked clearly dubious when I first heard that "dongle" was the technical term for the doohickey. Good ghu it's ridiculous.

The Doctor needs to meet Sheldon.

Yeah, I wasn't too impressed with the Xmas episode; frankly, I was more entertained by the Graham Norton show with Matt Smith and Gillian Anderson on it. (Not just gender but pro-female in a retro way? Not Moffett's best moment at all.)