miscellany

[kate_nepveu]

• I have a Starveling Cat in Echo Bazaar now! Thank you again, yhlee. I can't express how much this amuses me. Anyone who's playing that I don't already know, leave your username in comments and I'll follow you under my game account.
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (recorded off cable, half-watched while stitching) is not a very good movie. Granted, it wasn't a very good book. But I wouldn't have thought it possible to make the action sequences of the ending so boring on-screen.
• Reinventing the stitching wheel, part 25 in a series: linen turns out to not be a good fabric for blackwork.
• My car needs major repairs for the second time this year. I will not have put enough money into it to equal the payments I would have made on a new car this year, but I'm worried that I'm on the downward slide (it's a 2003 Prius with almost 94K miles). And I'm sad that I no longer love it. Any suggestions for feeling happy with one's older car again?
• The problem with Horton Hatches the Egg is that Horton is a Mary Sue, specifically the kind where the virtue of the protagonist is demonstrated by piling absurd pain and indignity on top of absurd pain and indignity. (Like an early Mercedes Lackey novel, or an SGA post-"Trinity" fic, except that Horton hasn't blown up a solar system.)
• I haven't done a SteelyKid post in ages, so those of you who don't follow Chad's blog won't have seen this recent picture. I have to point it out because it is so characteristic: open book, bare feet (she will not wear socks if she has a choice about it), random item of clothing she saw and insisted on wearing, stuffed animals, and big grin. That's our toddler.

Comments

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Probably a stupid question, but something like this (http://www.coastaletech.com/radio.htm) wouldn't work for the iPod? Or is that what you're already using?

I don't know what the Prius' maintenance record is like, but in general Toyotas will last a good long time if you keep up with repairs. My parents have owned several Camrys which they have driven into the ground.

[kate_nepveu]

. . . huh.

I have an installed FM modulator, which is even worse sound quality than I'd feared. It doesn't seem to be any improvement over an FM transmitter plugged into the 12-volt outlet, I mean.

I'm going to have to send them e-mail; it is completely not clear to me whether this is meant for the 2003 Prius or if it's still available. it doesn't show up on their page for the 2000-2003 Prius, which also says they aren't making products for those years any more (and though it has an add-to-cart button, so do the things listed on the 2000-2003 page).

Update: out of stock with no stocking date.

Thanks, regardless.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Oh, well. Sorry for giving you false hope.

[kate_nepveu]

But at least now I'm super-extra-certain, so it was useful.