I finished watching all of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic last night.  I really enjoyed it and I'll be keeping my eye out for the next season.  I've also been watching some fan-made videos and things.

Shut up.  End of year grading is a miserable thing to have to do.  It's part of my job, but one of the least pleasant bit, the least pleasant ( Read more... )

I've been chewing on this one for a while, but some recent things--the Hunger Games and Avengers movies, in particular, brought this on.  I've written about warnings elsewhere: A Warning About Warnings and Warnings in Sim Stories.  This one's related: it's about ratings.

( Stuff about ratings, Avengers, Hunger Games, and why warnings may actually pwn ratings. )

I've been working really hard, and finally got it together enough to renew my reader's card at the Huntington. And to my embarrassment I was there about an hour when I ran into some colleagues from grad school. THEY were working. One of them is there working all the time, and of course I ought to have been doing this all along. Oh, well.

So of ( Read more... )