-
Musical scales on my iPad?
I had a fantastic Christmas holiday! But that's not what I'm here to ask you about, dear friends.
So...for Christmas, I tried (and failed) to give my violin to one of my brothers. I have lots of rationalizations about why I failed, but I suspect that closest to truth is that the more I fixed up and handled the fiddle, the more I wanted to play it ( Read more... ) -
Copyright when no humans are involved
I thought this might be interesting for OTW's lawyers, and possibly for people writing IronMan fic about what happens when Tony Stark's robots start producing fanfic:
So photographer David Slater wants Wikipedia to remove a monkey selfie that was taken with his camera. As you can see from this screen shot, Wikipedia says no: the monkey pressed ( Read more... ) -
Untitled 404 fanfic rec
I didn't expect to stumble across this.
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Second person POV fic, AU (Marvin is a web server)
Author unknown, but presumably a human at the Association for Computing Machinery
Link: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/404
Crossposted here (
( Read more... ) -
Boston peeps? When was Market Basket brutalized?
Wow, I go away on vacation, and when I return, the best grocery store in town is *gone*, replaced by an idiotic shadow of its former self.
I didn't recognize any employees. I didn't even see any employees between the ages of 25 and 50. I can only assume they are no longer paying a living wage.
There's barely any meat, or produce, or store brands ( Read more... ) -
Dear Fellow US Citizens
If you give a damn about your economic situation and/or democracy, do two simple things ( Read more... ) -
Happy Big Red Heart Day
I have stuff to say, and this seems like the best of available venues for it.
Forget about the roses and chocolate and sex of Valentine's Day for a minute. I wanna talk about other sorts of love.
( Cut for some blatant Christianity about love )
