Exit, pursued by a water bear

I came to Tumblr to follow and discuss with friends who have emigrated here from LJ and other sites, but it seems I am here to stay.

[winchesteurs]

I guess you could say they died in the *puts on sunglasses* Heat of the moment

[perivaleyard]

Ow. Fuck. Hot tea up my nose. OW.

[aceinnatailsuit]

Please help me prove a point. Reblog this if you love Sylvester McCoy's Doctor.

[felicityredbarrow-blog]

He’s just so wonderful!

[partywithponies]

Sylv is great!

[catwithninelives]

Always

[scienceismygirlfriend]

this is really important

[thefoxxybenedict-deactivated201]

Reblog if you've ACTUALLY read The Hobbit

[because-thats-what-people-do]

I find the lack of notes disturbing 

[johnlokian-blog]

Indeed.

[dduane]

The only question remaining would be “How many times now?”

[perivaleyard]

At least half a dozen times in both English and Swedish. It's been a few years now...

[guardian-of-our-galaxy]

if i had to use one gif to describe the 50th

[perivaleyard]

That's brilliant. Fantastic, even.

[textsfromthetardis]

[perivaleyard]

Dunno, seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[clarasdoctahs]

Definitely the actual words he used.

[perivaleyard]

Knowing about Tom Baker, he just might have.

[leda74]

Nicholas Courtney, aged about seven.

[im-captain-basch]

*SQUEEING*

[transtemporaladventuress-deacti]

Hmm. That’s not right. Hang on

Much better.

[perivaleyard]

X-D

[gluecookie]

Listen to Rihanna’s “Diamonds”. It sounds like she’s singing about nimons.

[perivaleyard]

Too bad we never got any Nimons in the Eighth Doctor Big Finish audios. I mean, imagine Lucie [Miller] in the sky with Nimons...

[textsfromthetardis]

[analoguecassettes]

Rational Youth Live Ottawa 1983 on cassette

[perivaleyard]

I got my copy, along with the companion cassette from Winnipeg, in the mail yesterday. (Of course I also ordered the limited 3CD version, the one with the t-shirt, but that's not coming until some time in November...)

I might get a copy of the remastered LP of To The Goddess Electricity as well. Haven't decided.

[perivaleyard]

20 years ago, on October 25, 1993, I bought my first Mac. Even by the standards of the day, the Performa 400 (the consumer model of the LC II; the model name was the only difference) was overpriced and underpowered, but it was mine. It worked well for typing reports and essays and doing concordance searches in text corpuses, it could run simple games, and I loved it dearly. It was my main computer for over six years, and I still have it in my storage unit; it boots, but as I no longer have a working monitor for it (a standard VGA monitor doesn't work) I can't use it, which is rather a pity.

After some time, after reading an article in the Swedish edition of MacWorld and finding a copy of ResEdit, I started poking around inside the resource forks and slowly found out how things worked — knowledge that, together with my language skills, helped land me a job as an Apple localizer and translator years later. (I'm still in that business.) So, yeah, if I'd bought a PC instead I might not have been where I am now...

Apple Performa 400/LC II technical specifications:

CPU: Motorola 68030, 16 MHz

Hard disk: 80MB SCSI-II

Floppy: 1.44MB SuperDrive

RAM: 4MB

Gods, do I feel old now...

[perivaleyard]

The source text is a brilliant, witty and catchy marketing slogan that took a team of highly paid copywriters several days to come up with.

The translation needs to be the same length, be equally catchy, preferrably keep the cultural allusions, and absolutely needs to be delivered in 30 minutes, and we only get paid the minimum fee—because the word count is only five words.

Oh, and please give us two or three alternative translations so our marketing director for the Nordic countries can pick the one he likes best.

[lostiel]

[505bagels-deactivated20140112]

I NEVER NOTICED THE CORNER OF HIS MOUTH TWITCHING UP

#tony’s all ‘i like your sass’ #’i mean you’re crazy as shit but no one can say you’re not hilarious’ 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I think if it weren’t for the fact that he keeps trying to kill everyone, Tony and Loki would actually be BFF

Thor would be getting calls at five in the morning from Tony, saying things like ‘Somehow Loki and I are in Vegas in a car neither of us remembers buying, dressed up in buffalo costumes and we might have gotten married. We have no money and there’s a passed out lounge singer in the trunk of our car. Call Pepper, tell her to send cash’

And Thor would have to get them out of whatever trouble they’d gotten into in their wacky adventures

[have-a-hiddles]

I would watch the shit out of that weekly sitcom.

[lokimylord]

Head canon accepted

[spikewriter]

Someone write me this, please.

[perivaleyard]

I'd so watch or read that. <3

[zanderpants-deactivated20121228]

[naturalshocks]

Supernatural recast as Doctor Who

The last one though.

[perivaleyard]

I approve.

[ajlindsay]

The Supernatural fan within me couldn’t resist….

[deactivatedkinggreeley]

EVEN THE SIZES ARE RIGHT OMG.

[mooseleys]

I love how Michael is lurking in the back, like “Someday, Dean, you’ll say yes.”

[perivaleyard]

*giggle*

[ponycz]

[perivaleyard]

FREE SATAN! (With purchase of another Satan of equal or greater value.)