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One really does meet the most interesting people on trains. Tonight, my dinner companions were:
- M, a lawyer representing the state of Florida in efforts to recover money from the BP oil spill, on her way to Washington
- J, her husband, a former CTO of a British engineering firm
- R, a former insurance businesswoman who had spent 21 years on the board of ( Read more... )
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Important re: song circles
Trigger warning: Discussion of rape triggers
So, here is a thing about filk circles, folk sings, pub sings, etc. There are a lot of old folk songs that are about rape. "The Two Magicians" and "Bonnie Mae" spring to mind, but there are plenty of others out there. Most of them don't use the word "rape", but it's still very clear what's going on ( Read more... ) -
I think I have a new hero
Representative Jared Polis (D-CO), managed to get the entire lyrics of "The Internet is for Porn" into the congressional record in the House debate on SOPA.
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Assorted things
Highlight of the weekend: I had not previously realized that the thing that would elevate Softly, Good Tummas from a great dance to a truly awesome one would be the addition of a bass drum to the instrumentation. Played by Noah VanNorstrand. (Initial thought: "Huh, the floor is being really boomy." Slightly later: "Oh, that's not the floor. ( Read more... ) -
NPR book meme
NPR compiled a list of the most popular science fiction and fantasy books/series (determining whether things got listed as whole series or individual books by whether they tell a continuous story-so the Vorkosigan series gets a single entry, while Discworld does not, though they've clearly screwed up in some cases, like only listing one book of the ( Read more... ) -
Dead phone
My phone has finally died, presumably of extreme old age. (It was 6, which is probably over 200 in phone years.) Email or IM if you want to reach me for now. Originally posted at DreamWidth, where there are
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I don't where I'm going, I don't know where I'm bound
Well, it's been about a year and a half since I last posted, but I want to throw as wide a net as possible, here: I need to move on or about May 31 or June 1. (Non-local people can stop reading here if you don't have local connections with housing opportunities.) Yes, that is in less than a month. I'm just looking for something for the summer, ( Read more... ) -
Chits. Of. Steel.
So, I just opened my Dominion: Seaside set. I took out the expected cards, and a bunch of mats to go with various of those. And then I picked up the small bag of chits (coins and embargo tokens) that go with the Pirate Ship and Embargo cards. "Huh," I thought to myself, "these chits are surprisingly heavy." You know why they are heavy? Because ( Read more... )
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