A pretty small update
Earlier today I was so sure I had things to post about, but they're mostly boiled down to point form now. It's been a good day, but I'm tired.
The political link is a week old and so most of you who follow such things probably know already, but these days there's so much awful legislation being proposed and put through in the US that I want to note it anyway. The Daily Kos headline is "Obama administration rescinds Bush's 'conscience' rule for medical providers". THANK you. Between that and the US Department of Justice no longer defending DOMA in court, it was a nice change from the otherwise-unrelenting ugly and/or heartbreaking news.
The geeky link: over at Soliloquy in Blue, Michelle Smith and Melinda Beasi have a new installment of their Let's Get Visual manga column: "The Verklempt-Makers", specifically looking at scenes from NANA vol. 6 and One Piece vol. 9 as examples of conveying emotion really well through the artwork. I was momentarily sad when they said one of their examples was One Piece, because I think of myself as not having read that much of the series, so I thought for a sec I wouldn't be able to read that half of the post. Except I've read something like 32 23 volumes, and will read more once my library finally manages to actually have the next ten volumes in its collection. (More than ten would be nice, but I requested ten for purchase something like six months ago and they've been showing as "on order" for most of that time. -_-)
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- Work seems to be going well! I still have a lot of things I need to get down, but I think overall I'm doing a decent job, and the people who're reviewing my work are good about giving me feedback, which is great. Very few places have ever given enough feedback for my tastes.
- I had technological road rage this afternoon when trying to move some mp3s from Jiip to my iPod. >.< The new version of Amarok is horrible, at first glance--and I think I'd heard that before, but I'm running an older version on Garcia (who I probably ought to update to a newer version of Debian), so I hadn't dealt with it firsthand. The music player that came with Mint also seems horrible. Fortunately there's apparently something called Clementine which is an attempt at replicating Amarok before it went off the rails; I haven't yet figured out how to install it, but at least it gives me a bit of hope. And really, even if I can't get it going, I can just take my iPod home in two weeks and get the files I want off Garcia.
- Today was set aside for celebrating shiroiko's birthday! For logistical reasons our small mob of people went for dessert before supper, which turned out to be a bit tricky. Several people had gone to a showing of The Princess Bride beforehand, and the rest of us were coming from a few different places, and the first three places we tried didn't have enough seating. But we prevailed, and fortunately had no such trouble with supper. Supper reservations=so much easier to make. Cupcake joints should take a memo.
The political link is a week old and so most of you who follow such things probably know already, but these days there's so much awful legislation being proposed and put through in the US that I want to note it anyway. The Daily Kos headline is "Obama administration rescinds Bush's 'conscience' rule for medical providers". THANK you. Between that and the US Department of Justice no longer defending DOMA in court, it was a nice change from the otherwise-unrelenting ugly and/or heartbreaking news.
The geeky link: over at Soliloquy in Blue, Michelle Smith and Melinda Beasi have a new installment of their Let's Get Visual manga column: "The Verklempt-Makers", specifically looking at scenes from NANA vol. 6 and One Piece vol. 9 as examples of conveying emotion really well through the artwork. I was momentarily sad when they said one of their examples was One Piece, because I think of myself as not having read that much of the series, so I thought for a sec I wouldn't be able to read that half of the post. Except I've read something like 32 23 volumes, and will read more once my library finally manages to actually have the next ten volumes in its collection. (More than ten would be nice, but I requested ten for purchase something like six months ago and they've been showing as "on order" for most of that time. -_-)
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