linkspam has a lot of wrapping to do
I love that the tech is now available for these really marvelous short animated films to be made independently.
I've been making cookies lately, although not specifically Christmas cookies. Molasses cookies, snicker doodles, and Mark Bittman's butter cookies with pecans and crystallized ginger (which were a bit of a disappointment). Here's an article on the science of chocolate chip cookies. And if you want, here's the recipe all those experiments resulted in.
And coincidentally, the New Yorker has a history of the chocolate chip cookie. Excellent. I might have to make some more cookies soon...
I know Buzzfeed can be annoying, but dude, I loved this post on how the media will report the apocalypse. Well played, Buzzfeed.
Hmm, here's something worth watching: Neil Young and some of his old friends at this year's Bridge School Benefit.
Speaking of folk music, I went to see Inside Llewyn Davis yesterday, and enjoyed it enormously. That is a good movie. Excellent performances, great music, and just the right funny-and-awful tone you expect from the Coen Brothers.
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I never remember to read XOJane, but there's sometimes something useful there. Like this post on how to wear a badge for work fashionably. Me, I get a badge reel and clip it to my belt, or to a pocket, which is one reason I wear so many boyfriend cardigans.
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LTC Robert Bateman posted a thoughtful essay on Esquire's Politics Blog about reducing the amount of gun deaths in this country. In response, he got over 2000 emails, more than a few of which threatened his life and that of his wife, and/or threatened to rape his 6-month-old daughter.
Sometimes I despair of people, I really do.
But then I see something like this, and I'm encouraged.
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There's been a lot of discussion recently about the use of San Francisco and Oakland/Berkeley as bedroom communities for Silicon Valley, abetted by the employers, who provide free transportation for their staff. Such transport takes the form of large bus coaches with comfy seats and wifi, so the tech workers can get right to work instead of spending their commute standing in a corner of a packed-tight BART car. One of the articles I read stated that 35,000 people are currently being shuttled down the Peninsula by Apple, Google, Facebook, et al. This is one of the factors affecting the new housing crisis in the Bay Area: too many new residents, not enough housing, and a rental market that has spiraled out of control, forcing lower- and middle-income residents out of their life-long neighborhoods. Rebecca Solnit has a commentary at the London Review of Books. And this piece in Medium by David Taylor is even more thoughtful.
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Well, crap, this is bad news. But the tiny tiny silver lining is that I get to buy The Steerswoman in ebook form, with the rest of the series to come.
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I hope y'all have a lovely holiday, if you celebrate. And if not, well, at least there's Yuletide fic to look forward to!
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
I've been making cookies lately, although not specifically Christmas cookies. Molasses cookies, snicker doodles, and Mark Bittman's butter cookies with pecans and crystallized ginger (which were a bit of a disappointment). Here's an article on the science of chocolate chip cookies. And if you want, here's the recipe all those experiments resulted in.
And coincidentally, the New Yorker has a history of the chocolate chip cookie. Excellent. I might have to make some more cookies soon...
I know Buzzfeed can be annoying, but dude, I loved this post on how the media will report the apocalypse. Well played, Buzzfeed.
Hmm, here's something worth watching: Neil Young and some of his old friends at this year's Bridge School Benefit.
Speaking of folk music, I went to see Inside Llewyn Davis yesterday, and enjoyed it enormously. That is a good movie. Excellent performances, great music, and just the right funny-and-awful tone you expect from the Coen Brothers.
*
I never remember to read XOJane, but there's sometimes something useful there. Like this post on how to wear a badge for work fashionably. Me, I get a badge reel and clip it to my belt, or to a pocket, which is one reason I wear so many boyfriend cardigans.
*
LTC Robert Bateman posted a thoughtful essay on Esquire's Politics Blog about reducing the amount of gun deaths in this country. In response, he got over 2000 emails, more than a few of which threatened his life and that of his wife, and/or threatened to rape his 6-month-old daughter.
Sometimes I despair of people, I really do.
But then I see something like this, and I'm encouraged.
*
There's been a lot of discussion recently about the use of San Francisco and Oakland/Berkeley as bedroom communities for Silicon Valley, abetted by the employers, who provide free transportation for their staff. Such transport takes the form of large bus coaches with comfy seats and wifi, so the tech workers can get right to work instead of spending their commute standing in a corner of a packed-tight BART car. One of the articles I read stated that 35,000 people are currently being shuttled down the Peninsula by Apple, Google, Facebook, et al. This is one of the factors affecting the new housing crisis in the Bay Area: too many new residents, not enough housing, and a rental market that has spiraled out of control, forcing lower- and middle-income residents out of their life-long neighborhoods. Rebecca Solnit has a commentary at the London Review of Books. And this piece in Medium by David Taylor is even more thoughtful.
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Well, crap, this is bad news. But the tiny tiny silver lining is that I get to buy The Steerswoman in ebook form, with the rest of the series to come.
*
I hope y'all have a lovely holiday, if you celebrate. And if not, well, at least there's Yuletide fic to look forward to!
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.