Nattering Nabobs of Negativity

If you like to save your fanfiction on an Ipod (or any other pda or ebook reader, really) you are going to just love these --

I've been hunting all over for apps to make downloading fanfiction to the cool new Ipod Touch my hubby gave me for Christmas and its amazing what is out there.  And all for free.

The two quickest and easiest apps are  Instapaper and Read It Later.  Both of these are free Ipod apps that work in concert with their own Firefox add-ons.  They work the same way, essentially.  You  (1) download the Ipod app to your Ipod from the App Store; (2) open up the app and create an account (just a login and password -- they don't want any personal information); (3) add the Firefox add-on to your computer's browser; (4) go to the corresponding webpage on your computer and log in with the same username/password you set up with your Ipod.  At this point, you have a bookmarking button on Firefox that you click when you find a story you want to read later.  Once you update the app on your Ipod, the story will be loaded there and saved for you to read later.  These apps have their limitations, but I think they are terrific for a 5,000 word or less story.

For a nicer, more book-ish read, there are a lot of different ebook readers out there.   The one I found the best reviews on, have tried and really like is Stanza.  With this one, you load the app to your Ipod, download a Stanza program to your computer and open a pdf or other e-book format file with the Stanza program on your computer.  Then you sync your Ipod to your computer and the ebook is 'shared' into the Stanza app on your Ipod.  Not as easy, but you get a much nicer looking and working book this way.

The biggest problem with Stanza -- or any other ebook reader -- with fanfiction is that you have to pick and choose from the few harry potter fanfiction stories that are online in ebook format  or  you have to make your own by collecting all the chapters into some sort of text document and then converting into ebook format.  Unfortunately, its hard to find stories you really want to read in an online ebook and making my own is way too tedious and time consuming for me to do often.

So HERE's the REALLY COOL part (can you tell how excited I am about this?)-- other, more computer literate, fanfic readers have written little programs that  automatically download all of the chapters from a fanfic story from:
- fanfiction.net
- fanfiktion.de
- checkmated.com
- portkey.org
- adultfanfiction.net
- Animexx.de (test)
- Fictionalley.org (schnoogle, astronomy....)
- Fictionpress.com
- FanFicAuthors.net

and convert it into:
Document, HTML, PDF or  Mopipocket Ebook

There are actually two similar programs, one for PC and one for Mac.  I found the Mac program first -- Downloadstory  -- and was disappointed it would not work for my PC.  After some more hunting, I was very happy to find a PC program:

http://www.home-eisele.de/downloader_e.php

I downloaded the program and tried it on a story on  fanfiction.net and it worked great.   There are a few xxxxxxxxxxx's at the beginning of each chapter.  I imagine this is what is left of all the graphics and links at the top of the fanfiction.net pages.  A negligible nuisance that is easily overcome by the ease and speed of the work the program does for you.

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Happy Birthday!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztoSUhbNntQ&feature=related

Ha!  ROFL!  Check out this site for a group called Improv Everywhere.  It's just what it says:  an improv group that takes their work out into the world.  Candid Camera, but entertaining instead of just pulling your leg.  My favorites are Food Court Musical and Grocery Store Musical.  The shots of crowd reactions are worth the whole thing.

improveverywhere.com/



This totally made this bleak rainy Saturday sunny for me.  I hope you enjoy, too!

sitting in the dentist's chair this morning for an hour and a half, lots of novacaine and two big fillings, I had time to think haiku.  Needing a virtual refrigerator upon which to proudly hang my poem, I give you --

Dental Haiku

Despite novacaine
I'm afraid of the dentist
drilling and filling.

<bows>

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Plugging myself, because hey, if I don't, who will?

I just posted another odd little Harry Potter fic for (my own) 3-G Ron-A-Thon challenge on Porkish Pixies.  You can read it there on livejournal.  community.livejournal.com/porkish_pixies/

or on my fanfiction.net account
www.fanfiction.net/s/4867227/1/The_Ups_and_Downs_of_Gluttony

sloth for me. very slothy.

O what a day!!

A new era, I hope, with Obama in the White House.

I loved his speech.  Proactive.  Progressive.  Optimistic.  Determined.

Loved the whole thing.  Watching on a little 8 inch TV in my boss' office with a dozen people squished in and hanging in the doorway.  One of my co-workers took photos of people all around our building watching.  The coverage kept cutting to Times Square and other places.  It felt like all of America had tuned in together.

My favorite mom-moment was seeing smiling Yoyo Ma (sp??) playing with all-star quartet and thinking that school children all over the country would be thinking "hey.  I know him.  He was on that episode of Arthur..."  And sure enough both of my boys mentioned it at dinner tonight!

cheers to U.S. for voting for Obama.  Cheers to Obama for being brilliant, inspiring and appealing.  Cheers to a brilliant success for the nation, because lord knows we need it.

  Yes we can.

Hi and Happy New Year!!

I recently posted the following challenge at the porkish_pixies community and thought you all might be interested, too.  The original post can be found at:  community.livejournal.com/porkish_pixies/13254.html



3G Ron-A-Thon

Ronald Weasley’s
Gourmet, Gourmand or Glutton Challenge
a/k/a the
3G Ron-A-Thon.

IMHO, cannon Ron is a natural foodie who draws extravagant enjoyment from eating lots of really good food. As a growing adolescent, he is a bottomless pit whose indiscriminate eating can hardly keep up with his metabolism. How does Hermione really feel about this?  What about when he is fully grown? What will happen after his metabolism drops down?  What form will his foodism take? Will his tastes mature into the refined sensibilities of a gourmet with discriminating taste in food and wine? Will he be more of a gourmand, devoted to the sensuous delights of fine food and drink? Or will he become a glutton, whose devotion to food and drink is indiscriminate and excessive?

So here's the challenge...

Once you have decided the big G/G/G question, use Ron (abuse him, even) for the perfect opportunity for porkish pleasure. Whether slash, het or gen, here is fodder for some hot food smut, gluttonous feeder/feedee smut or even a yummy little wubbly belly romance. The possibilities are endless.

Just to give you a target -- 'cause who gets things done without a due date? -- try to get your submissions in by February 15, 2009??

......

so that's the story, well story challenge, to be exact.  I hope you agree with me that there is AMPLE ROOM to work a BIG FAT WEIGHT GAIN STORY into these parameters.

Hope to have you participate!!

C4A

 

Title: Educating Fleur

Author: Chuffed4Angst
Pairing: none
Characters: Ginny, Fleur
Rating: G
Summary: Ginny has had enough of her bitch of a witch-in-law. A tale of fat revenge.
Word Count: 4865
Warning: Mature Immature themes. 
A/N: This fic is dedicated to my own personal witch-in-law, who inspired fantasies of revenge.

 

( Educating Fleur )