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sticky: about this journal
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- I don't make private posts. What you see here is what you get. Feel free to subscribe and/or grant access. I'll eventually notice and grant access back but it won't change ( Read more... )
- If you are reading this on Livejournal: this version of my blog is no longer being updated. The canoncal source is (and has been since early 2012) at totient.dreamwidth.org.
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live each day
My first Wiscon was Wiscon 30. Chaired by Jeanne Gomoll, it was clearly a transformative year for the con -- but not the first one. Gomoll also chaired Wiscon 20, at which the con made a quantum leap from average Midwestern science fiction convention with a feminist focus to worldwide feminist event with a science fiction focus. Some of what she ( Read more... ) -
ambition
In a file 770 thread, Steve Davidson accuses Arisia of wanting to be Dragon-Con.
Arisia has never wanted to be Dragon-Con. There was a time when we wanted to be SXSW. I'd like to think I have gotten us past that desire.
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trading posts
Scattered across the American southwest are trading posts. Not the Hudson's Bay company fur trading posts that mostly closed in the 1840s; these are trading posts founded to trade with the Navajo and other tribes in the 70 years after the Long Walk. At their peak, just before World War II, there were nearly 150 of them, of which dozens remain in ( Read more... ) -
Where I slept 2021
Marion MA
Somerville MA
Granville MA
Orleans MA
Gaithersburg MD
Melrose MA
Lewiston ME
New York NY
Mt Laurel NJ
Newburgh NY
San Francisco CA
Monterey CA
Santa Barbara CA
Altadena CA
This is back to normal on count, though very differently motivated and by and large closer to home than it used to be.
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shrimp ceviche
Third in the series. This is a gazpacho-inspired modern ceviche and my first time writing a recipe that could really use the word "inspired" in that way.
1# shrimp, fully peeled and deveined. If this is raw, cook it for 2 minutes in a big pot of water at a rolling boil, then quench in an ice bath. Cut into pieces to better fit on a fork.
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haddock ceviche
second of a planned trio of ceviches.
1# trimmed haddock or similar white fish (if the skin has to be trimmed this will require about 1.25# to start), cut into 1/2" pieces
4oz lemon juice
2oz orange juice
1t salt
3/4t honey or agave
3-4 oz red onion, chopped very fine
3/4 oz jalapeno, about 1 small or 1/2 large pepper, chopped fine
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new watch
A long time ago I had a Pebble smartwatch. Remember those? They were just the thing for undiagnosed ADHD wearers. Long battery life so you didn't have to remember to charge them all the time, a warning on your wrist when it lost contact to let you know when you'd absently left your phone somewhere or let its battery run down, good control over ( Read more... ) -
stories
I found myself tonight once again answering the question "so where did the name 'phi' come from" with an explanation I've used for a while now, that stories get less and less true as time goes on, and at this point the origin of my name is many stories, none of them with any bearing in reality at all.
And I came to two realizations as I was making ( Read more... )
