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May. 6th, 2014 08:33 pmI just put up a few things from tumblr and I think I'll keep doing that, because tumblr inspires me to thinky posts but I want them somewhere I can find them again.
Today is the 180th anniversary of the incorporation of my city <3<3.
March is Bisexual Health Awareness Month.
And from![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
james_davis_nicoll, the CRTC has notified two pornography channels that they don't have sufficient Canadian Content, and may have their licenses revoked.
And in other news, I know that it's perfectly normal Canadian weather for March and other people have it much worse, but THIS IS ENOUGH SNOW STOP IT.
March is Bisexual Health Awareness Month.
And from
james_davis_nicoll, the CRTC has notified two pornography channels that they don't have sufficient Canadian Content, and may have their licenses revoked.And in other news, I know that it's perfectly normal Canadian weather for March and other people have it much worse, but THIS IS ENOUGH SNOW STOP IT.
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Feb. 24th, 2014 05:52 amSo I saw a post somewhere recently about weird simultaneities in history. For example, there were still mammoths around when the Egyptians were building pyramids.
Other things that happened before mammoths went extinct: women wrote poetry.
Other things that happened before mammoths went extinct: women wrote poetry.
Dear Internet
Feb. 14th, 2014 03:03 pmYou swear too much and have questionable morals... You're everything I've ever wanted in a friend.
Today I will be doing laundry, washing the dishes, and probably writing. I hope you all enjoy it as well.
Today I will be doing laundry, washing the dishes, and probably writing. I hope you all enjoy it as well.
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Feb. 3rd, 2014 04:32 amFrom Tumblr, going here because I don't trust Tumblr not to lose stuff:
you know what we need? we need queer romcoms. we don’t need any more sad lifetime movies about queers who end up dead or heartbroken. we don’t need any more real life stories. we need queer romcoms.-- Queerhawkeye
ladies falling in love after they stumble against each other on the subway.
guys who work for opposite companies and bicker at the meetings until one of them kisses the other.
a trans lady bartender who always ends up having deep philosophical chats with a drunk girl who gets dumped every week by a different person.
an asexual journalist falling in love with the football player xie interviews every week after the matches, and having cute make outs and a lot of awkwardness around the ace thing with the fight and the ridiculous gesture of love and the make up.
happy fluffy endings after a lot of dumb cute shit happening.
queer rom coms !!!
Accountant
Jan. 22nd, 2014 11:47 pmReturned library books.
Went to Mom's for dinner.
Made a Tumblr. Don't ask me why. Icons will be showing up once a day for the next two weeks, and thereafter very rarely as I make them.
Went to Mom's for dinner.
Made a Tumblr. Don't ask me why. Icons will be showing up once a day for the next two weeks, and thereafter very rarely as I make them.
Accountable
Jan. 19th, 2014 11:26 pmDone:
Took out garbage and recycling
Talked to Mom
Researched psychotherapists
Had dinner with Dad
Wrote 300ish words and filled up one of the major gaps in the last chapter of Arte Regendus
Set up dropbox for writing stuff withknumpify
I've thought of something I could actually do with Tumblr. Still don't like Tumblr or its implied philosophy, but many things on it make me happy.
Also knumpify has writing projects.
Also I've had this list of magazines around for a while, probably time to start thinking about actually submitting things.
Took out garbage and recycling
Talked to Mom
Researched psychotherapists
Had dinner with Dad
Wrote 300ish words and filled up one of the major gaps in the last chapter of Arte Regendus
Set up dropbox for writing stuff with
knumpifyI've thought of something I could actually do with Tumblr. Still don't like Tumblr or its implied philosophy, but many things on it make me happy.
Also knumpify has writing projects.
Also I've had this list of magazines around for a while, probably time to start thinking about actually submitting things.
Griping about information density
Nov. 23rd, 2013 09:45 pmThe latest in irresponsible reporting: "Collisions, snow squalls shut down highways. See where." from a link on the Weather Network's site. This is not how we headline warnings. Warnings are important. People need to know where the hell they can't be driving.
Does anyone else find that the drive for multimedia on news websites makes them avoid news websites? I don't just mean that there are ads everywhere and the images and videos make everything ridiculously slow to load. I mean that images and videos are actually a pretty ineffective means of finding the kind of information one went to the page for. I don't want to watch a video, I want to skim an article and actually leave with the information I want.
For once I agree with BBC Sherlock: I prefer to do my own editing.
Not to mention slideshows. One page per soundbite is the least efficient information layout I can think of. Which means, of course, that there's more space for ads.
Fred Clark mentioned that the newspaper he used to work at had an online policy the staff unofficially called "Fuck the Capricorns": split up the horoscopes over two pages so the last few signs have to click twice, and look at more ads.
We need to figure out a new model here, and no one's even come close to one yet.
The hilarious part, of course, is that our eyes are trained to ignore image ads already. I suppose making content look like ads is more ethical than making ads look like content.
Does anyone else find that the drive for multimedia on news websites makes them avoid news websites? I don't just mean that there are ads everywhere and the images and videos make everything ridiculously slow to load. I mean that images and videos are actually a pretty ineffective means of finding the kind of information one went to the page for. I don't want to watch a video, I want to skim an article and actually leave with the information I want.
For once I agree with BBC Sherlock: I prefer to do my own editing.
Not to mention slideshows. One page per soundbite is the least efficient information layout I can think of. Which means, of course, that there's more space for ads.
Fred Clark mentioned that the newspaper he used to work at had an online policy the staff unofficially called "Fuck the Capricorns": split up the horoscopes over two pages so the last few signs have to click twice, and look at more ads.
We need to figure out a new model here, and no one's even come close to one yet.
The hilarious part, of course, is that our eyes are trained to ignore image ads already. I suppose making content look like ads is more ethical than making ads look like content.
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Oct. 28th, 2013 08:48 pmEnemy of Perfect says everything I think about Google.
I like using gmail. And Youtube. And Google. As separate things. I don't want one account connecting them, and I definitely don't want a completely useless (for me) social media site hammered onto it. I quit Facebook because of the privacy concerns, but at least Facebook wasn't trying to take over my whole internet.
But I don't want to stop using Google services.
And I do understand that that means I have to let Google services use me, at least as a pair of eyeballs. But I liked our previous arrangement, where they showed me ads and I ignored them.
I like using gmail. And Youtube. And Google. As separate things. I don't want one account connecting them, and I definitely don't want a completely useless (for me) social media site hammered onto it. I quit Facebook because of the privacy concerns, but at least Facebook wasn't trying to take over my whole internet.
But I don't want to stop using Google services.
And I do understand that that means I have to let Google services use me, at least as a pair of eyeballs. But I liked our previous arrangement, where they showed me ads and I ignored them.
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Apr. 27th, 2013 11:39 amThere is Holmes/Watson AU fic where they're Supernatural fanboys.
I mean, of course there is. Why wouldn't there be? Oh fandom. <3 <3 <3
RDJ!Holmes, but you can't have everything.
I mean, of course there is. Why wouldn't there be? Oh fandom. <3 <3 <3
RDJ!Holmes, but you can't have everything.
A place I'm trying to get to
Mar. 2nd, 2013 09:17 pmStop Apologizing for What You Like to Read.
But on the other hand, I'm still not sure I should be on a steady diet of fanfic and late 19/early 20th C memoirs.
From Slacktivist.
But on the other hand, I'm still not sure I should be on a steady diet of fanfic and late 19/early 20th C memoirs.
From Slacktivist.
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Oct. 31st, 2012 09:49 pmjanice_lester says Give Sexy Actors Sexy Wheelchairs! I say, wow, those are some damn awesome machines. Go look!And! people in wheelchairs going up stairs! so cool!
via
kate_nepveu
It's international book week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.
Je suggère que tu prennes une chambre ici, au Chaudron baveur et...
I need a better shelving system than "stacks on the floor." But there are Reasons for this one.
Je suggère que tu prennes une chambre ici, au Chaudron baveur et...
I need a better shelving system than "stacks on the floor." But there are Reasons for this one.
BBC Sherlock
Sep. 6th, 2012 05:31 pmThis is not actually a review, as I'm too sleep deprived to say anything non-sweary. We saw the first episode the other day, and then three episodes in a row last night, which was a bad idea. Not actually in a row, there was Doctor Who in between. So this is an overdose, with the usual unpleasant side effects. After a couple days I will have assimilated it and might like it better.
But I just got more caffeinated than I've ever been, which isn't actually saying much, and wrote 1500 words on my own gender-swapped race-swapped modern AU (which has been around since before I knew anything about the episode plots), thank you very much, which passes the Bechdel test and won't pass the reverse Bechdel test if I can help it, and will hopefully be at least a little less faily on race issues because honestly the only way to be worse than S1E2 on race issues is to deliberately try and then call in a couple consultants to make sure.
And can we have a female character (other than maybe Mrs. Hudson) who isn't defined by her sexuality, immediately, at her first appearance? One? FFS.
And that's just the Issues. There's also the way you can poke the plots anywhere and they tear apart like wet tissue paper.
Anyway. I will watch the rest, but I'm glad I didn't pay for it, though of course I acquired it through Perfectly Legal Means. (That link goes to TVTropes. Don't click on it.)
So, I guess that was a review. The internet: not just for porn, it's for rants. And cat photos. I'm going to go look at some. I really dislike being angry.
But I just got more caffeinated than I've ever been, which isn't actually saying much, and wrote 1500 words on my own gender-swapped race-swapped modern AU (which has been around since before I knew anything about the episode plots), thank you very much, which passes the Bechdel test and won't pass the reverse Bechdel test if I can help it, and will hopefully be at least a little less faily on race issues because honestly the only way to be worse than S1E2 on race issues is to deliberately try and then call in a couple consultants to make sure.
And can we have a female character (other than maybe Mrs. Hudson) who isn't defined by her sexuality, immediately, at her first appearance? One? FFS.
And that's just the Issues. There's also the way you can poke the plots anywhere and they tear apart like wet tissue paper.
Anyway. I will watch the rest, but I'm glad I didn't pay for it, though of course I acquired it through Perfectly Legal Means. (That link goes to TVTropes. Don't click on it.)
So, I guess that was a review. The internet: not just for porn, it's for rants. And cat photos. I'm going to go look at some. I really dislike being angry.
