1. I will not sing “Blue Entoloma” to the tune of “Smooth Operator” whenever I come across said plant.
2. Nor will I tell my husband to “wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute” when I come across cotton
3. Same with “Flax! Ah-aaaa! Savior of the Universe!”
4. Ditto “Hey Jute.”
5. I will not refer to trickster god Rajhin as the Dickster God, even if he is.

I got to talking to Ted O. on Facebook about Wittgenstein, which inspired me to tell a story from a philosophy class at Vassar.

The course was The Limits of Thought, a 300-level seminar about paradox taught by Doug Winblad. We were studying Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which is basically a series of axioms around which ( Read more... )

I decided that rather than continuing to wallow in my writerly angst, I needed to actually get back on track. May 1st seemed like a good time for new beginnings. Back in the North Country, trilliums would be blooming; it was the start of the new year in Riverun, that liminal dream world I created in my backyard as a teenager ( Read more... )

I decided that AO3 must have 288 Jeeves-related works for a reason, and started reading some of them last night. Jeeves/Wooster, naturally.

I was quite fond of this one, though it's not finished: Jeeves and the Romantic Novelist or The Perils and Perks of Eavesdropping, rated M. This person is channeling Plum himself. It's quite beautiful. Just ( Read more... )

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I've reached 15k words on Lioness. That's roughly 13k towards my Camp NaNo goal, which is behind, but I'm not too worried about my final word count? Mostly I just want to be making consistent forward progress. And I am!

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Been playing a little SWTOR lately. Finally (FINALLY!) finished the Makeb quests, which only got me to 54 :( Last night lightgamer and ( Read more... )

I saw Now You See Me on Tuesday. It was... entertaining. It's hard to discuss what I felt the weaknesses of it were without being spoilery, alas. But I felt it was definitely worth the discount price I paid ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing, either here or in general. I've kind of been in hermit mode--a little incongruous for the season, but there it is. I've been spending a lot of time playing Skyrim, knitting, rewatching Arrested Development, and poking about in the woods or on the lake with Matt.

In the Skyrim front: ( The continuing adventures of Morvayna and Br'ihnassi )

Some silly, some serious things today:

1. Mobile Usability for Cats: Essential Design Principles for Felines. By Jakob Nielsen. Favorite quote: "Given the average cat's paw size, we recommend tap target zones of at least 3 cm (slightly larger than one inch), although a Maine Coon might need more due to their unbelievably enormous mitts."

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Recently the lovely _andre_ sent me Skyrim Week of Madness: the World According to Sheogorath, in which the writer installs "200 blindly-installed mods," and tries to play through the resulting madness ( Read more... )