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| Friday, September 24th, 2010 | | 1:27 am |
Friending Policy
By all means, go right ahead. But would you mind to drop me a note about it, if we've not "met" before? I'm a bit uncomfortable with friending back folk with whom I've not had any personal contact. | | Friday, January 29th, 2010 | | 1:01 am |
| | Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | | 6:22 pm |
Meme from Sonya
I got this meme from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sovay: Reply to this post and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then, if you feel like it, go forth and do the same. | | Friday, January 15th, 2010 | | 9:34 pm |
Two interesting links
Well, these are two links I've seen regarding the tragedy in Haiti and the awful things which certain Americans have said. One's funny, the other is serious. "Pat: My LORD, I am HERE to reCEIVE my just REWARD!
God: WHO ARE YOU AGAIN?
Pat: Why, my Lord, I am Pat Robertson! I tirelessly did your work and preached your word all my life! I'm your Number One Fan!
God: NO, SORRY, NOT RINGING ANY BELLS. MAYBE WE MET DOING TSUNAMI RELIEF IN 2004?
Pat: No, my Lord, I know that's a trick question. You sent that wave to punish the heathens and their immorality!
God: I DID? HUH. DID WE MEET DOING AID WORK AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA?
..."(Thanks to SSB for linking this on her FB.) Let's Talk About Haiti's Real Deal With the Devil: Exploitation by the Western WorldAmongst other things, this article gives a bit of background into where Robertson got the hateful lie about Haitian independence resulting from a deal with Satan. (Thanks to Dan N. for linking this on his FB.) | | Saturday, January 9th, 2010 | | 2:32 pm |
| | Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | | 1:29 am |
Happy Birthday, Suika!
Happy Birthday to wsr! Sorry it's not under better circumstances, but I hope it's as good a day for you as it can be. | | 1:26 am |
Epiphany
Well, Christmastide is over. I hope it's been a happy season for everyone, or at least for everyone who'd care to have had it. | | Friday, January 1st, 2010 | | 7:48 pm |
RIP Tim Hart (9 January 1948-24 December 2009)
I'd heard nothing of this until last night at a New Year's party when my mother asked me out of the blue if I'd seen the obituary for "somebody from Steeleye Span" in the New York Times. I'd not. I was surprised that the NYT would carry an obituary for somebody from Steeleye Span, as it's generally one of the most trad-phobic publications around and equally despises folk-rock. I was equally suprised that somebody'd not have said something on Irtrad-L, considering as Steeleye Span has a number of links with Irish traditional music; not least, a founding member of Steeleye was Terry Woods (a sometime member of Sweeney's Men, the ballad group who are ultimately responsible for Planxty, the Bothy Band, et. al., as well as the introduction of the bouzouki into Irish music). For that matter, my mother thought his name was something like Evan or Colin, and I couldn't remember anyone by that name as a Steeleye member. Any road, I just Googled, and found the sad news. GrauniadGuardian obituary here.God rest him. | | 5:01 pm |
| | Monday, December 28th, 2009 | | 1:21 am |
Ugly cliché in Harry Potter fanfic
I've noticed a couple of stories recently--I'm not naming names, but needless to say none of them are written by anybody on my f-list--which contained the idea that Padma and Parvati Patil are something less than two complete individuals. One fic said that they were a single consciousness in two bodies. Another, I think, was somehow suggesting that they had only one soul between them. In both cases, how and why this would be the case was less than clear. In any event, I find this extremely creepy, and I don't even know any identical twins. I can only begin to imagine how disgusting this concept would be for someone who was an identical twin, or whose partner had an identical twin. What's the deal? Did the authors want Harry to have a hot threesome with a pair of twins, but get squicked at the incestuous implications, and decide that reducing the personhood of the twins would turn Padma/Parvati into a weird kind of masturbation and therefore make it okay? And why did they think this would decrease the squickiness? Is there a a similar trend of authors making the Weasley twins into a single consciousness, thus somehow excusing twincest and twin sandwiches? Or is this strange phenomenon uniquely aimed at the Patil twins? | | Friday, December 25th, 2009 | | 11:00 pm |
Nollaig Shona Daoibh!
Joyeux Noël! Feliz Natal! Feliz Navidad! God Jul! Happy and blessed Christmas to everyone who celebrates the day. And I hope everyone else has a lovely winter holiday of their choice. | | Monday, December 21st, 2009 | | 3:35 pm |
| | Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | | 7:12 pm |
| | Sunday, December 13th, 2009 | | 1:38 pm |
Dreams
I know I've been having them the last couple of nights, but I keep not retaining any memory of them, at least by the time I'm able to think of writing them down. Last night, I was dreaming of something to do with staying in an old grand hotel. There was a snaphance pistol, but it wasn't quite the normal sort. ETA: It was extremely strange, really. A snaphance is the type of flintlock that has a separate frizzen (striking steel) and pan-cover, but where the uncovering of the pan is done by the mechanism, rather than one's having to open the pan-cover manually as in a snap-lock (probably the oldest variety of flintlock, and used in some Baltic regions, such as rural Sweden, into the 19th century). This one... well, it apparently would make sparks, and I was thinking that one could use it as a fire-lighter with a bit of tinder in the pan, assuming, of course, that one was dead certain it wasn't loaded or that the touchhole was plugged and it were pointed in a safe direction, but the parts didn't look quite right. The thought occurred to me, probably as I was waking, rather than in the dream itself, that it really looked more like some sort of an airgun mechanism, with the cock striking a lever that would somehow knock open a valve. Still, my thoughts in the dream were that it was some sort of odd variety of snaphance, even though it didn't look like any snaphance I've ever seen--in particular, it hadn't the usual very distinctive frizzen mounted on an arm attached to the lockplate forward of the pan. I don't know. Well, as you've likely noticed by now, my dreams are very strange, and often contain mechanisms that don't make sense, but seem to work within the context of the dream, at least until I notice that they couldn't possibly work. | | Monday, December 7th, 2009 | | 12:09 am |
This amused me.
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  ap_aelfwine sent to me... Twelve dialects drumming Eleven concertinas piping Ten backswords a-leaping Nine bouzoukis dancing Eight souterrains a-polyshipping Seven braids a-writing Six mathoms a-snogging Five cle-e-e-eveland bays Four william morris Three foreign languages Two round-hole mandolins ...and a sufism in a thee. | | 12:09 am |
Thanks!
Thanks so much to ptyx for the lovely virtual snowflake cookie! | | Friday, December 4th, 2009 | | 6:03 pm |
| | Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 | | 3:57 pm |
Writer's Block: Reminiscing about the Internet
Bhuel, I'm using the 'net since before there was a Web--I first logged onto a VAX in the late August just before AOL hooked up to Usenet, and so had a very brief newbie's glimpse of what the online world was like before it became an eternal September. By the standards of a fair portion of my friends (including some whom I believe finished high school roundabouts when I graduated college ;-), this makes me a relative newbie. I remember first using the Web to read fic for the Jihad Against Barney the Dinosaur, to check out SCA fencing sites, to research a paper on uses of Arthurian imagery in contemporary art and fiction... I think the first thing I ever bought online was a rapier from Scottie Armory--I didn't "really" buy it online, in the modern sense of using a credit card or PayPal over the web, but the catalogue I had was online and I used that to guide my telephone order. | | Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | | 2:33 pm |
| | Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | | 11:25 pm |
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Turkey Day to all the omnivorous Americans. Happy UnTurkey Day to all the vegetarian Americans. And I hope everyone else also has a very good day. And a special wishing of happiest possible (under the circumstances) T-Day to wsr. Sorry you're having to spend it deployed over there, and without your new-wedded bride. May next year's be much better. |
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