The DVD recording of Robert Carsen's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is rather good and features a very green David Daniels. In other Carsen news, I was back at the Four seasons centre on Friday night to take a second look at his production of Poulenc'e Dialogues des Carmélites.
the good part of visiting the eye doctor for my first eye exam in four years (yeah, i know, i know): getting a prescription for new glasses, since according to the eye charts my vision (usually correctable to 20/15) had slipped down to about 20/30 with the current prescription.
the bad part of etc: having to wait for the lenses for the new glasses to be manufactured, since they don't keep my prescriptions in stock :D
i also got a box of contact lenses for the first time in ages; the eye doc i had as a child put me in lenses at a pretty-much-unheard-of-at-the-time age 10 or 11, since my eyes were degenerating so rapidly he thought that maybe the lenses would keep them from continuing to degrade. (and it mostly worked! my eyes kept getting bad after that, but nowhere near as quickly.) i wore contacts for about 18 or 19 years until i got too lazy to keep up with them, and i was a little afraid that having gone back to the glasses would start the downslide back up again, but nope, still correctable to 20/15, in glasses at least. (i could get better correction with the contacts if i were going to wear them more often and thus could justify spending more money on the more expensive ones that will also correct the astigmatism, but since the contacts are only going to be for occasional use, it's definitely not worth it.) although the eye doc says that i've probably only got another few years before i'll need bifocals, whee.
i'm trying the new "high definition" lenses they've developed, for the new pair of glasses. i am very interested, since i've always had refraction problems and they're supposed to be good for staring at computer screens for long periods. i will report back.
i've also finally bitten the bullet and admitted that my damn arms are not getting better from rest/ice/steroid shots/etc, so i dropped a bunch of money on technology that's hopefully going to make things better. including giving up and admitting it's time to try to work with dictation software, despite the fact that is the exact fucking opposite of how my brain works and is probably going to be a fucking nightmare. i'm hoping that just using the voice controls for things like page down when reading long documents, dictating short bursts of things, making my notes-to-self, doing a few emails, etc, will be enough to address the problem, especially when combined with the new two-piece, super-split keyboard i ordered so i can stop reaching inward to type and exaggerating the pronation and deviation, will help enough that i don't have to use the dictation software for extended bursts of composition or creative writing, since i absolutely cannot do that verbally. (i've tried before, but at least one of the meds i'm on gives me minor-but-significant verbal aphasia and that is no place to go for a good time.)
on the bright (?) side, at least the new adaptive tech means a new laptop to go with it. this one i'm using now isn't that old, not old enough to have a ton of problems running the software or whatever, but a faster laptop will help, and i'm getting a 13" MacBook Pro instead of the 15" i have now; i'm hoping the smaller, lighter laptop will help, and it will mean i can just put the two pieces of the split keyboard on either side of the laptop more easily.
(plus, i ordered the retina display model. i mean, why not, right?)
the bad part of etc: having to wait for the lenses for the new glasses to be manufactured, since they don't keep my prescriptions in stock :D
i also got a box of contact lenses for the first time in ages; the eye doc i had as a child put me in lenses at a pretty-much-unheard-of-at-the-time age 10 or 11, since my eyes were degenerating so rapidly he thought that maybe the lenses would keep them from continuing to degrade. (and it mostly worked! my eyes kept getting bad after that, but nowhere near as quickly.) i wore contacts for about 18 or 19 years until i got too lazy to keep up with them, and i was a little afraid that having gone back to the glasses would start the downslide back up again, but nope, still correctable to 20/15, in glasses at least. (i could get better correction with the contacts if i were going to wear them more often and thus could justify spending more money on the more expensive ones that will also correct the astigmatism, but since the contacts are only going to be for occasional use, it's definitely not worth it.) although the eye doc says that i've probably only got another few years before i'll need bifocals, whee.
i'm trying the new "high definition" lenses they've developed, for the new pair of glasses. i am very interested, since i've always had refraction problems and they're supposed to be good for staring at computer screens for long periods. i will report back.
i've also finally bitten the bullet and admitted that my damn arms are not getting better from rest/ice/steroid shots/etc, so i dropped a bunch of money on technology that's hopefully going to make things better. including giving up and admitting it's time to try to work with dictation software, despite the fact that is the exact fucking opposite of how my brain works and is probably going to be a fucking nightmare. i'm hoping that just using the voice controls for things like page down when reading long documents, dictating short bursts of things, making my notes-to-self, doing a few emails, etc, will be enough to address the problem, especially when combined with the new two-piece, super-split keyboard i ordered so i can stop reaching inward to type and exaggerating the pronation and deviation, will help enough that i don't have to use the dictation software for extended bursts of composition or creative writing, since i absolutely cannot do that verbally. (i've tried before, but at least one of the meds i'm on gives me minor-but-significant verbal aphasia and that is no place to go for a good time.)
on the bright (?) side, at least the new adaptive tech means a new laptop to go with it. this one i'm using now isn't that old, not old enough to have a ton of problems running the software or whatever, but a faster laptop will help, and i'm getting a 13" MacBook Pro instead of the 15" i have now; i'm hoping the smaller, lighter laptop will help, and it will mean i can just put the two pieces of the split keyboard on either side of the laptop more easily.
(plus, i ordered the retina display model. i mean, why not, right?)
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I’m a theatre lighting designer. We take 3-6 weeks to think about a design. Every instrument is carefully positioned, focused and plotted. We pick our colours carefully, analyse scenes and then spend anywhere between 12-72 hours stuck behind a lighting desk carefully constructing every single moment of a play.
Added to this, I know little about music. Don’t get me wrong… I can play a couple of instruments, sorta, and have lit more musicals in the last few months than the mind can comfortably conceive, but it’s something of a running gag among my friends that my knowledge of ‘popular culture’ (whatever that means) gets a little rusty around 1707.
Which makes the fact that I’ve been lighting gigs at a local venue, really kinda odd. And I’m loving it.
There’s a fine balance to be found between trying to enhance the music, create a mood or lift an exciting experience, without actually becoming distracting. It’s a similar balance to what you do in theatre – light a moment or make a place without drawing attention away from the thing happening on stage – but far more heightened and (this being the slighty nerve-wracking bit) you have to do it without the advantage of fore-knowledge.
That said, I always try and do my research, and look up whoever it is I’m about to light to get a feel for their songs. But even if you know what you want to do, trying to achieve it on the fly is tricky. Particularly when using a lighting desk that was obsolete in conception, let alone in construction – a hideous bit of technology manufactured by people who wouldn’t know a good lighting desk if it fell on them from a great height with a ribbon round it.
Sometimes, I’m beginning to suspect, you run into less technological, than creative difficulties. One group in particular wanted everything dark. As a lighting designer, I read ‘dark’ for being ‘moody’. But oh no. We’re not talking moody. We’re talking dark. A very lovely lady stood by me throughout the gig going, ‘darker, darker!’ and as I pulled channels out and intensities down I felt the overwhelming urge to scratch at the back of my eyeballs. ‘It looks great!’ she exclaimed. ‘It’d look better in blackout!’
‘It’d look black, in blackout,’ I replied. ‘It’d look like nothing that can look at all.’
How to describe the horror of this experience. Of having everything you know, everything you’ve experienced, everything you’ve been trained in, dedicated years of your life to, pulled out beneath your feet by someone who is, technically, more senior (but less experienced) than you hollaring, ‘darker! Darker now!’
I came away from that gig actually shaking. Not merely shaking with aesthetic displeasure – that’s fine – but with the horrible thought that perhaps this was what people wanted. Perhaps people liked their gigs to be invisible, perhaps they wanted to not be able to see the band, perhaps they were okay with the only light source on stage being a bit of red front light. Perhaps all my career I’d got it wrong. The thought horrified me, and for a few days I actually fretted that perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps what I’d been doing was wrong, and I was only a theatre LD, and didn’t know how to light gigs, and I was… wrong.
Thankfully, one week later, my faith in lights, gigs and to a degree, myself, was restored by another event at the same venue. This was for a group led by a woman called Laura Mvula, who I hadn’t heard of (presumably because she was born after 1707) but who it turned out was something of an up-and-coming someone. More to the point – and this is why she actually gets named here – her gig was one of the best I’d seen, both musically and in terms of atmosphere and interaction with the audience.
And she had a proper lighting designer. Proper, in the sense that he was clearly a trained LD with experience of lighting gigs. Lighting designer as well in that, as I had done first time I walked into the venue, he sat down in front of the desk, took one look at it and pulled a facial expression of horror and dismay, at which point my respect for him surged.
And he started programming, and building states, and I helped out as I could with advice on the (hideous) desk (blimey, even as I write this I’ve just had a minor revelation about attribute control off submasters… anyway, moving on…) … and as I watched him work the realisation hit me – joy! Joyous revelation, but he was doing PRECISELY what I would have done in his circumstances. In fact, as I’d already been in for an hour and a half already, he was exactly replicating what I did, but in a slightly different control manner. As there wasn’t time to tell him the full story of how my faith had been shattered the week before, he must have been a bit confused my my jubilant grin, but lo, the gig started and he made exactly the same artistic choices I would have, and I was relieved. Deeply, and utterly relieved.
Lighting designers and writers both don’t get out much. Lighting designers certainly get out and meet directors and designers a lot, but very rarely do we interact with other LDs and thus, after a while, you start to forget that you are part of a community of peers. Sure, there’s the once-monthly meeting of the Association of Lighting Designers you could attend, but generally the conversation is about plugs and control equipment, and you can’t exactly turn on a theatre lighting grid in the pub and go, ‘what do you think of this?’ In short, LDs spend a lot of their time working with people who don’t really get what they do, and trust them to do it well, and thus it can become easy to forget that yes, you are doing a thing that is generally considered Good. And Right. And what others of your professional kin would do in your circumstances.
Writers in many ways have a similar problem. We can read other people’s books and judge them extensively (and we do) but being so immersed in our own writing it can be hard to remember that there’s a world beyond the pages we are absorbed in. This in many ways is why bad reviews hurt writers (and LDs for that matter) so much. We exist in a little bubble of unlikely expertise, absorbed in doing something that not many others do, and when strangers disapprove, we take that as a universal condemnation, having nothing better to go on for ourselves.
I'm not very good at doing this meme regularly. /o\ And I have also fallen shockingly behind on the weekly reading meme!* Everything is to be laid at the door of the novel -- I have two chapters to finish before I may go off to Chicago and Wiscon with a clear conscience.
21 days of Dreamwidth
9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?
I will pass on this question! Firstly because I can't think of anyone, secondly because even if I could think of anyone I would probably be wrong. I am a very bad matchmaker.
*I am reading Gwyneth Jones's Divine Endurance, which so far I like, but I'm mostly pretending that the map at the front of the book doesn't exist, and that all the action is taking place on some other Peninsula entirely. For those who do not know the book, she has set her dystopian authoritarian future-world on Malaya. (Sabah and Sarawak and Kalimantan get the appellation "desert island".) But it doesn't really feel local so it is confusing -- and a bit annoying, TBH; you sort of think she could have used some other peninsula, instead of appropriating your own.
21 days of Dreamwidth
9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?
I will pass on this question! Firstly because I can't think of anyone, secondly because even if I could think of anyone I would probably be wrong. I am a very bad matchmaker.
*I am reading Gwyneth Jones's Divine Endurance, which so far I like, but I'm mostly pretending that the map at the front of the book doesn't exist, and that all the action is taking place on some other Peninsula entirely. For those who do not know the book, she has set her dystopian authoritarian future-world on Malaya. (Sabah and Sarawak and Kalimantan get the appellation "desert island".) But it doesn't really feel local so it is confusing -- and a bit annoying, TBH; you sort of think she could have used some other peninsula, instead of appropriating your own.
I just realised that my Seasonal Spuffy day is just around the corner, and my story is still unbetaed. Any volunteers? It's the next chapter of "When the Rest of Heaven Was Blue".
Pretty please with sugar on top, I could really use a second pair of eyes for this.
And while we're on the subject of betas, I could also use one for the final chapter of my The Mentalist WIP "Fathers' Day".
Pretty please with sugar on top, I could really use a second pair of eyes for this.
And while we're on the subject of betas, I could also use one for the final chapter of my The Mentalist WIP "Fathers' Day".
JASIKA WISHED ME GOOD LUCK FOR MY UPCOMING TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS!
No, seriously, see?
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hermine went to FedCon, and all I got was not a lousy shirt but the best greeting card one could ever receive: Hermine had Jasika Nicole sign a little well-wishing ladybug card, and then sent Jasika's autograph with her own words from Germany to the US. ♥ Got the best friends.
(Also found upon coming home: that the cat had vomited all over floors and carpets; with the roommate on vacation was once more the one cleaning it up. But that's the flip side of the kitty coin, and besides, nothing is wiping this grin off my face tonight.)
No, seriously, see?
My darling
hermine went to FedCon, and all I got was not a lousy shirt but the best greeting card one could ever receive: Hermine had Jasika Nicole sign a little well-wishing ladybug card, and then sent Jasika's autograph with her own words from Germany to the US. ♥ Got the best friends. (Also found upon coming home: that the cat had vomited all over floors and carpets; with the roommate on vacation was once more the one cleaning it up. But that's the flip side of the kitty coin, and besides, nothing is wiping this grin off my face tonight.)
1. My mom's birthday is next week and I've been meaning to get her some books but keep not thinking about it when I'm actually at the computer. Tonight I remembered and finally ordered them, and while I was at it, got myself a new wiimote and nunchuk, since I'll be sending the old Wii ones to Irene along with the Wii (she was going to take it in her luggage, but there ended up not being room).
2. Speaking of finallys, I also finally got my new iphone stand thingy set up. I have been wanting a stand for ages because I facetime with Irene several times a week and it gets really annoying to hold the phone the whole time (and sometimes my hand hurts), so now I will just be able to set it on the table and not worry! She had bought me one and brought it with her, but since I wasn't actually calling her while she was here and plugging it in involves getting under my desk, which I didn't want to do, I hadn't set it up yet.
3. TWO people called in sick today at work, both of them scheduled for the same shift (it's not so bad if one person calls in sick in the morning and one person in the evening, but both at the same time means there is only one person left). I called the three people who weren't working today, but my hopes weren't high, so I was resigned to spending my last several hours of work on the register once we were down to one cashier, but someone did call and say they could work! (And it was the person I almost didn't call because I thought it was so unlikely she'd say yes. She's an older lady who only wants to work like 15 hours a week and so far has said no every time she's been asked to work an extra day or stay even an hour or half hour extra.) So while I did have to spend more time than usual helping at the registers today, it wasn't as much as I'd feared and I did manage to get a fair amount of work done at my desk.
4. I've been playing Super Mario World tonight and wow, it looks so old! It's weird because even though it's a newer game than SMB 1, 2, and 3, for some reason I remember those better. Maybe I played them more? I remember being super excited about SMW when it came out and reading all these magazine articles before the SNES's release. I'm sure I played it a lot when it was first released, but I guess I didn't go back and play it much later? idk. Anyway, I don't remember anything. Also having just been playing New SMB Wii U means that I get confused about what I can and can't do a lot. ^_^;; Can't butt pound blocks. Can't flutter with Yoshi. Can't wall jump. Some of these things can be deadly when you think you can do them and then you can't. :p I also feel like I have no goal when there's not the three big coins to collect. I'm like, okay, I'm just going through the level, but not doing anything. Having the goal just be "get to the end" is weird. I'm not used to that anymore.
5. New SMB Wii U is also super awesome and fun, though. It's also really short and easy? I mean, Mario games generally are pretty short, but this seems easier than the Wii one. I beat the cloud world tonight, which means there's just Bowser land left, and while there are still coins to go back and get, there's not a ton. Most were easy to get the first time through. (I know for sure I've completely finished worlds 1 and 2.)
2. Speaking of finallys, I also finally got my new iphone stand thingy set up. I have been wanting a stand for ages because I facetime with Irene several times a week and it gets really annoying to hold the phone the whole time (and sometimes my hand hurts), so now I will just be able to set it on the table and not worry! She had bought me one and brought it with her, but since I wasn't actually calling her while she was here and plugging it in involves getting under my desk, which I didn't want to do, I hadn't set it up yet.
3. TWO people called in sick today at work, both of them scheduled for the same shift (it's not so bad if one person calls in sick in the morning and one person in the evening, but both at the same time means there is only one person left). I called the three people who weren't working today, but my hopes weren't high, so I was resigned to spending my last several hours of work on the register once we were down to one cashier, but someone did call and say they could work! (And it was the person I almost didn't call because I thought it was so unlikely she'd say yes. She's an older lady who only wants to work like 15 hours a week and so far has said no every time she's been asked to work an extra day or stay even an hour or half hour extra.) So while I did have to spend more time than usual helping at the registers today, it wasn't as much as I'd feared and I did manage to get a fair amount of work done at my desk.
4. I've been playing Super Mario World tonight and wow, it looks so old! It's weird because even though it's a newer game than SMB 1, 2, and 3, for some reason I remember those better. Maybe I played them more? I remember being super excited about SMW when it came out and reading all these magazine articles before the SNES's release. I'm sure I played it a lot when it was first released, but I guess I didn't go back and play it much later? idk. Anyway, I don't remember anything. Also having just been playing New SMB Wii U means that I get confused about what I can and can't do a lot. ^_^;; Can't butt pound blocks. Can't flutter with Yoshi. Can't wall jump. Some of these things can be deadly when you think you can do them and then you can't. :p I also feel like I have no goal when there's not the three big coins to collect. I'm like, okay, I'm just going through the level, but not doing anything. Having the goal just be "get to the end" is weird. I'm not used to that anymore.
5. New SMB Wii U is also super awesome and fun, though. It's also really short and easy? I mean, Mario games generally are pretty short, but this seems easier than the Wii one. I beat the cloud world tonight, which means there's just Bowser land left, and while there are still coins to go back and get, there's not a ton. Most were easy to get the first time through. (I know for sure I've completely finished worlds 1 and 2.)
( Spoilers. The opposite of squee. )
IDK I keep saying this, but I really think this might be it for me. I'm not even sure I care about the 50th special anymore.
IDK I keep saying this, but I really think this might be it for me. I'm not even sure I care about the 50th special anymore.
Okay, so the thing that fills me with the MOST dread about this movie is that, out of all the reactions I have seen, I have heard every major character mentioned EXCEPT ONE.
I have heard about Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Chekov, Uhura, and even Pike and the bad guys and minor characters who are original to this movie and unnamed bridge officers.
I have not heard ONE WORD about Sulu.
Fuck that noise. Those who have seen it, please spoil me in the comments. I have been spoiled for literally everything else in this movie, so don't worry about spoiling other things. But tell me how much Sulu content there is, and how often he gets to speak (other than "aye, Captain" lines), and whether he gets any scenes that show his badassery?
If he doesn't even get a single "I am the badass" scene, then fuck it, I am waiting for camrips out of protest.
(Obviously, people should expect there to be spoilers in the comments here.)
I have heard about Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Chekov, Uhura, and even Pike and the bad guys and minor characters who are original to this movie and unnamed bridge officers.
I have not heard ONE WORD about Sulu.
Fuck that noise. Those who have seen it, please spoil me in the comments. I have been spoiled for literally everything else in this movie, so don't worry about spoiling other things. But tell me how much Sulu content there is, and how often he gets to speak (other than "aye, Captain" lines), and whether he gets any scenes that show his badassery?
If he doesn't even get a single "I am the badass" scene, then fuck it, I am waiting for camrips out of protest.
(Obviously, people should expect there to be spoilers in the comments here.)
So, today* darthneko cleared out all but 70 gold from our guild bank to buy the third guild storage tab (500 gold). Then she and I hauled our pandas out to Northrend.
By the time we were finished, we stuffed enough gold back in the bank to buy the fourth tab (1000 gold), with 200 gold left over. Also, we are only five levels away from getting to go to Pandaria. We are hoping to find slightly more panda-friendly armor there, as gear designed for six foot tall, ninety-eight pound elves just looks silly on pandas.
Edit: ( Some screencaps behind the cut. )
*yesterday, technically, but I haven't slept yet
darthneko cleared out all but 70 gold from our guild bank to buy the third guild storage tab (500 gold). Then she and I hauled our pandas out to Northrend.By the time we were finished, we stuffed enough gold back in the bank to buy the fourth tab (1000 gold), with 200 gold left over. Also, we are only five levels away from getting to go to Pandaria. We are hoping to find slightly more panda-friendly armor there, as gear designed for six foot tall, ninety-eight pound elves just looks silly on pandas.
Edit: ( Some screencaps behind the cut. )
*yesterday, technically, but I haven't slept yet
Title:
Ability to freeze comments to an entry
Area:
entries, managing comments
Summary:
I think it'd be useful to have the ability to freeze <i>all</i> comments to an entry at once, instead of manually doing so.
Description:
Occasionally, you want to disable the ability of people to leave comments without destroying those already there, and quite frankly, going through and manually freezing each thread is a) time consuming, and b) a little annoying. If there was a way to mass-freeze all threads so that new comments couldn't be added, it'd be useful. The options to delete, screen, and unscreen en masse are already there, after all. I'd be a whole lot more likely to mass freeze all comments rather than delete them, but I have the functionality to do the latter and not the former
Poll #13464 Ability to freeze comments to an entry
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17
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Should be implemented as-is.
16 (94.1%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)0 (0.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)1 (5.9%)
(Other: please comment)0 (0.0%)
Title:
Option for Blind Polls Until Closed
Area:
Polls
Summary:
Allow an option for polls to not show their results until after they're closed.
Description:
I've noticed that seeing how voting has gone so far in a poll can affect the poll outcome. It would be wonderful if a poll could be blind to everyone, or just to everyone but the creator, until the poll closes. This would be an option and not a requirement for polls.
Basically, we've found that polls that were supposed to gage a measure of change in a character to obtain a new status ended up being nothing more than popularity polls. (Yes, it's an RPG.) Even though there are suggestions in the works to improve the poll, the suggestions I can come up with still have an element of becoming a popularity poll as people can still view current results before voting themselves. Only a truly blind poll could really alleviate this issue. I'm sure other types of communities would also use this option. The rest of the poll options would stay the same, including what results would be seen, but the results still would not be shown until the poll is closed. Basically, it'd reflect how we do voting in everyday life (elections, closed ballots, etc).
That way, polls would more closely represent individuals choices and not have their opinions influenced by others. (Also, the surprise element is fun!) It wouldn't prevent users from talking amongst themselves on whom they voted on, but it'd be closer to how voting works outside of Dreamwidth.
Poll #13463 Option for Blind Polls Until Closed
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19
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Should be implemented as-is.17 (89.5%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)0 (0.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)2 (10.5%)
(Other: please comment)0 (0.0%)
As soon as the rain stops and it dries out a little, my pretties are ready to go in...
Title:
Handling alt text with emailed images
Area:
entries, images, post by email, accessibility
Summary:
Development (mostly Mark & Fu) intend to improve the workflow of posting images, and I'm the one tagged to post this bit for suggestions discussion. :) Specific to this discussion: adding alt text to a single image that is attached to an emailed entry. We call upon the collective creativity of the dw_suggestions community: how should it work?
Description:
The existing post-by-email optional/extra/advanced features are documented:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailp
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailp
Should the alt text take the form of another "post" command at the top, like one of these two:
post-alt: image's alt text goes here
post-image: image's alt text goes here
Should it be done another way? If so, how?
Poll #13462 Handling alt text with emailed images
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6
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Should be implemented as-is.1 (16.7%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)0 (0.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)5 (83.3%)
(Other: please comment)0 (0.0%)
Send error if you try to email post from the wrong address
10 Apr 2013 07:53 pmcesy posting in ![[site community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_suggestionsTitle:
Send error if you try to email post from the wrong address
Area:
email posting
Summary:
Don't fail silently on email posting - show an error message somewhere with an explanation.
Description:
If you try to email a post to your journal, there is a setting that lists the email addresses that are allowed to do this. If you have multiple email addresses, and accidentally send it from one that's not one of the three on http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settin
Instead of failing silently with no clues, you should get a notification of some sort to let you know it happened and give you a clue why. This should include appropriate caveats about telling Support or improving your security if it wasn't you that did it, and could go either to your Inbox, to your main email, or to the email you tried from, whichever is considered to be most secure.
Poll #13461 Send error if you try to email post from the wrong address
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7
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Should be implemented as-is.3 (42.9%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)1 (14.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)3 (42.9%)
(Other: please comment)0 (0.0%)
Title:
Set default country according to IP
Area:
Shop
Summary:
When making purchases in the shop, it would be nifty if your country could be defaulted to a best guess based on IP.
Description:
It would be a minor convenience feature, and might involve quite a lot of work/hassle/complexity... but I thought I'd throw it out there in case somebody says "oh, that'd be easy actually" :-)
Drawbacks: Slowdown as the lookup is done; don't know whether this would be significant. Maybe there are some situations in which people would be offended by an incorrect guess?
Poll #13460 Set default country according to IP
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10
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Should be implemented as-is.1 (10.0%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)0 (0.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.5 (50.0%)
(I have no opinion)3 (30.0%)
(Other: please comment)1 (10.0%)
Review the countries that are at the top of the "country" dropdown in the shop
2 Apr 2013 08:18 amswaldman posting in dw_suggestionsTitle:
Review the countries that are at the top of the "country" dropdown in the shop
Area:
Shop
Summary:
When paying by credit card in the DW shop, one specifies one's country in a drop-down. This drop-down is alphabetically sorted except for United States, which appears at the top.
Suggestion is to review which countries appear at the top.
Description:
It is fairly common for such dropdowns to promote a few most-common countries out of their alphabetical order and put them at the top of the list.
The Dreamwidth Shop does this with United States.
My suggestion is to review which countries appear at the top in this way: are there others that hold a sufficiently large proportion of the DW paid userbase to merit this treatment? I suggest that 3-5 of the most common countries should appear here, and that a separator should then be inserted in the list to make it clearer what is going on.
Poll #13459 Review the countries that are at the top of the "country" dropdown in the shop
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Should be implemented as-is.7 (63.6%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)0 (0.0%)
Shouldn't be implemented.0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)4 (36.4%)
(Other: please comment)0 (0.0%)
I am having marvellous fun playing with my self-indulgent NCIS crossover. It's just for fun so the sentences can be as long as I want and I get to talk about shoe-shopping for paragraphs at a time.
Anyway, tonight I felt like taking a related frolic through my school's databases.
Two articles I have full-text access to:
"Undercover agent assessment centers: Crafting vice and virtue for impostors" by M. Girodo, 1997, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 12 issue 5 pages 237-260.
"Dissociative-type identity disturbances in undercover agents: Socio-cognitive factors behind false-identity appearances and reenactments" by M. Girodo, T. Deck, and M. Morrison, 2002, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 30 issue 7 pages 631-644.
Two articles I do not have access to, aside from abstracts:
"World War II Never Ended in My House: Interviews of 12 Office of Strategic Services Veterans of Wartime Espionage on the 50th Anniversary of WW II" by C. Susan, in Psychobiology of posttraumatic stress disorders: A decade of progress edited by R. Yehuda, 463-471, Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
"Illuminating feminine cultural shadow with women espionage agents and the dark Goddess" by D. E. Rickards (dissertation abstract, 2006)
Anyway, tonight I felt like taking a related frolic through my school's databases.
Two articles I have full-text access to:
"Undercover agent assessment centers: Crafting vice and virtue for impostors" by M. Girodo, 1997, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 12 issue 5 pages 237-260.
The government agent's personality is one of the principal instruments of an undercover operation. This paper provides an overview of long standing problems in assessing essential job-related abilities in undercover agents, and some solutions which have been implemented over the last 20 years. ( Read more... ).
"Dissociative-type identity disturbances in undercover agents: Socio-cognitive factors behind false-identity appearances and reenactments" by M. Girodo, T. Deck, and M. Morrison, 2002, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 30 issue 7 pages 631-644.
The uncontrolled dissociative-type reappearance of a fabricated false identity in undercover agents was investigated in 48 federal police officers (male and female; aged 26-41 yrs old) undergoing 3 wks of undercover field exercises in 2 separate classes. ( Read more... )
Two articles I do not have access to, aside from abstracts:
"World War II Never Ended in My House: Interviews of 12 Office of Strategic Services Veterans of Wartime Espionage on the 50th Anniversary of WW II" by C. Susan, in Psychobiology of posttraumatic stress disorders: A decade of progress edited by R. Yehuda, 463-471, Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
The author conducted sociological interviews of 12 OSS spies (7 male, 5 female) who were operatives in France during World War II ( Read more... )
"Illuminating feminine cultural shadow with women espionage agents and the dark Goddess" by D. E. Rickards (dissertation abstract, 2006)
This research is an exploration into western feminine cultural shadow through the interviews of eight women from Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, and United States, who volunteered for espionage work such as couriers, weapons specialists, and saboteurs in the Second World War. ( Read more... )
Because I reread all my old rat entries and realized I had forgotten stuff, and because I don't want to go to sleep yet because I hate that moment of waking up and then remembering that they're gone.
( By me and CB )
( By me and CB )
Things that I do and I don't want to admit:
I didn't want to download Amazon's Cloud Player. I updated to iTunes latest version (what a mistake that was) and ended up with, unasked, their cloud. It's seeded with disconcerting songs I don't want. (But I do readily admit the Doctor Horrible songs were a smart call.)
Then I found Amazon had all the music I'd ever bought from them.
Including music I lost to my ex, WG.
Oh.
Sheepishly I downloaded it, even after being slightly obnoxious to the Amazon chat-rep, "What do you mean I have to download the cloud player when my download yesterday didn't work, I don't want the cloud player, why, iTunes' cloud is irritating, gimme my ninety-nine cent refund" -- oops, the song I'm trying to buy is there already, like you said. Oh, I'm sooo not confessing this.
Then I discovered the music is Tangerine Dream I bought for WG.
A pang of loss startled me. Combined with something I never admitted to WG: relief. I was never fond of his Tangerine Dream. They're okay. Just ... boring.
What I also don't want to admit: I like them better now than I did when I pretended to like them.
I didn't want to download Amazon's Cloud Player. I updated to iTunes latest version (what a mistake that was) and ended up with, unasked, their cloud. It's seeded with disconcerting songs I don't want. (But I do readily admit the Doctor Horrible songs were a smart call.)
Then I found Amazon had all the music I'd ever bought from them.
Including music I lost to my ex, WG.
Oh.
Sheepishly I downloaded it, even after being slightly obnoxious to the Amazon chat-rep, "What do you mean I have to download the cloud player when my download yesterday didn't work, I don't want the cloud player, why, iTunes' cloud is irritating, gimme my ninety-nine cent refund" -- oops, the song I'm trying to buy is there already, like you said. Oh, I'm sooo not confessing this.
Then I discovered the music is Tangerine Dream I bought for WG.
A pang of loss startled me. Combined with something I never admitted to WG: relief. I was never fond of his Tangerine Dream. They're okay. Just ... boring.
What I also don't want to admit: I like them better now than I did when I pretended to like them.
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This story is a sequel to "Love Is for Children," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," and "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," and "Birthday Girl."
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Hulk, Steve Rogers, Betty Ross, JARVIS, Bucky Barnes, Nick Fury.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mind control. Inferences of past child abuse and other torture. Current environment is supportive.
Summary: A mission in Russia introduces the Avengers to the Winter Soldier. Steve wants Bucky back and will stop at nothing to make that happen. Everyone else helps however they can.
Notes: Asexual character (Clint). Aromantic character (Natasha). Asexual relationship. Sibling relationships. Fix-it. Teamwork. Canon-typical violence. BAMF!Avengers. Vulgar language. Drama. Rescue. Hurt/Comfort. Emotional whump. Survivor guilt. Friendship. Confusion. Mind control. Memory loss. Slow recovery. Nick Fury makes stupid-ass decisions. Fear of loss. Fluff. Nonsexual ageplay. Making up for lost time. Tony Stark has a heart. Games. Trust issues. Safety and security. Howard Stark's A+ parenting. Obadiah Stane's A+ parenting. Food issues. Multiplicity/Plurality. Sleep issues. Non-sexual touching and intimacy. Yoga. Personal growth. Family of choice. ALL THE FEELS. #coulsonlives.
Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8.
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Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Hulk, Steve Rogers, Betty Ross, JARVIS, Bucky Barnes, Nick Fury.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mind control. Inferences of past child abuse and other torture. Current environment is supportive.
Summary: A mission in Russia introduces the Avengers to the Winter Soldier. Steve wants Bucky back and will stop at nothing to make that happen. Everyone else helps however they can.
Notes: Asexual character (Clint). Aromantic character (Natasha). Asexual relationship. Sibling relationships. Fix-it. Teamwork. Canon-typical violence. BAMF!Avengers. Vulgar language. Drama. Rescue. Hurt/Comfort. Emotional whump. Survivor guilt. Friendship. Confusion. Mind control. Memory loss. Slow recovery. Nick Fury makes stupid-ass decisions. Fear of loss. Fluff. Nonsexual ageplay. Making up for lost time. Tony Stark has a heart. Games. Trust issues. Safety and security. Howard Stark's A+ parenting. Obadiah Stane's A+ parenting. Food issues. Multiplicity/Plurality. Sleep issues. Non-sexual touching and intimacy. Yoga. Personal growth. Family of choice. ALL THE FEELS. #coulsonlives.
Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8.
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Congratulations! You're almost halfway through your pregnancy - only 91,422 weeks to go!
At 24 inches and 73 pounds, your baby is about the size of a widescreen TV. He's got a long way to go - remember, a healthy full-term baby will be about the size of the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale major metropolitan area. However, all his major systems and organs are already formed! Your baby has the ability to kick, roll over, wallow in his own urine, suck his thumb, and whine for crackers. Now his organs just need to grow larger and mature. And you may ask yourself, if everything is basically formed, why does he have to mature on the INSIDE of my abdominal muscles? I can totally create a warm and welcoming environment on the outside of my body, I will order some cute goddamn wall decals from Etsy or something. And the answer is, ahahahahaha sucks to be you, that's why.
Incidentally, if you ever plan to be pregnant and you want to keep that shit under wraps as long as possible - which you shouldn't have to, that's totally up to you, but especially if you plan to keep working people do treat you differently once they know you're pregnant and there can definitely be some advantages to keeping it to yourself, like for example not getting demoted from something like project manager to something more like head of stationery organization - do not even mess with empire waist blouses and crap like that until you are in your third trimester, when you won't have much choice anyway. The reason being that they make you look like you're in your third trimester when you're not even pregnant. What you want are some long loose cardigans of the kind that don't fasten at all but just have drapes in front. Basically you want to look like you have enormous labia down the front of your entire torso. You can totally hide a three months' belly behind that.
I went to the Junebug's daycare on Friday and like half the mothers of kids in his cohort are pregnant. The other half already have more than one kid. I guess it's that time - about two years apart. Nice to be painfully predictable, but at least we can greet each other with a grim fist in the air and a "Be strong, sister."
At 24 inches and 73 pounds, your baby is about the size of a widescreen TV. He's got a long way to go - remember, a healthy full-term baby will be about the size of the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale major metropolitan area. However, all his major systems and organs are already formed! Your baby has the ability to kick, roll over, wallow in his own urine, suck his thumb, and whine for crackers. Now his organs just need to grow larger and mature. And you may ask yourself, if everything is basically formed, why does he have to mature on the INSIDE of my abdominal muscles? I can totally create a warm and welcoming environment on the outside of my body, I will order some cute goddamn wall decals from Etsy or something. And the answer is, ahahahahaha sucks to be you, that's why.
Incidentally, if you ever plan to be pregnant and you want to keep that shit under wraps as long as possible - which you shouldn't have to, that's totally up to you, but especially if you plan to keep working people do treat you differently once they know you're pregnant and there can definitely be some advantages to keeping it to yourself, like for example not getting demoted from something like project manager to something more like head of stationery organization - do not even mess with empire waist blouses and crap like that until you are in your third trimester, when you won't have much choice anyway. The reason being that they make you look like you're in your third trimester when you're not even pregnant. What you want are some long loose cardigans of the kind that don't fasten at all but just have drapes in front. Basically you want to look like you have enormous labia down the front of your entire torso. You can totally hide a three months' belly behind that.
I went to the Junebug's daycare on Friday and like half the mothers of kids in his cohort are pregnant. The other half already have more than one kid. I guess it's that time - about two years apart. Nice to be painfully predictable, but at least we can greet each other with a grim fist in the air and a "Be strong, sister."
( earlier days )
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
BELA. She shoulda been around for quite a while longer, she had a lot of potential, still does have if it ever occurs to Carver to bring her back as a demon.
( later days )
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
BELA. She shoulda been around for quite a while longer, she had a lot of potential, still does have if it ever occurs to Carver to bring her back as a demon.
( later days )
21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme
20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?
Why is that even a meme? It's just slash based on Japanese-origin media.
20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?
Why is that even a meme? It's just slash based on Japanese-origin media.
Hey--so who's watching Orphan Black? Pretty great, right?
This post brought to you by an offhand comment in an AV Club episode review by Dennis Perkins, which compared it (favorably) to Dollhouse, and thus made me realize in a bolt of lightning that I like Orphan Black (and Dollhouse) partially for the same reasons I like AU fanfic: I like exploring *all* the ways a story or character can go, not just one.
This post brought to you by an offhand comment in an AV Club episode review by Dennis Perkins, which compared it (favorably) to Dollhouse, and thus made me realize in a bolt of lightning that I like Orphan Black (and Dollhouse) partially for the same reasons I like AU fanfic: I like exploring *all* the ways a story or character can go, not just one.
Sherlock Seattle Convention: October 4-6, 2013, Seattle, WA
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- Memberships for Sherlock Seattle are on sale now! Our website is http://sherlock-seattle.org
- The guest list is slowly but surely growing. Confirmed guests so far include Reapersun, Liz Eckhart (aka professorfangirl), Caitlin Obom, John Longenbaugh (Sherlockian playwright), Abundantlyqueer, Berlynn Wohl, Inchells, Feyuca, Daunt, and (hopefully!) Sketchlock and Madlori.
- The convention is currently accepting applications from anyone who is interested in having a vendor table for the weekend, a time slot in the Artists’ Alley, or being a panelist at the convention!
Groucho does not want to share the catnip sachet, even if Fig just chews on the other side.
I'm seriously tempted to declare Dreamwidth bankruptcy and just try and keep up on everyone's entries from now on. I'm so sorry. =x
I'm thinking about doing a fundraiser. I'll definitely explain why when I do it, but before then...
I'm curious, out of the following, which would be most interesting to you and which would you be willing to donate money to see:
If you have ANY other ideas for things you'd like to see me do, please do comment, and please do respond because I'm very interested. I want to be MUCH more involved in the DW community but dear lord I have to clean up my own shit life first.
I'm thinking about doing a fundraiser. I'll definitely explain why when I do it, but before then...
I'm curious, out of the following, which would be most interesting to you and which would you be willing to donate money to see:
- write drabbles
- do tarot readings (i am a RANK amateur)
- make any number of origami cranes (and either send them to you or take a picture of them here)
- write journal entries
- if journal entries, a specified number per week on no particular topic OR an entry on a specific topic
If you have ANY other ideas for things you'd like to see me do, please do comment, and please do respond because I'm very interested. I want to be MUCH more involved in the DW community but dear lord I have to clean up my own shit life first.
Person of Interest (through S1)/Angel crossover AU total crack. Please don't spoil me for PoI S2. (I judge this unlikely, but just in case.) PG, gen?
I should not be allowed to write words. They should take away my word-writing license. Just saying.
The Machine
900 words
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I should not be allowed to write words. They should take away my word-writing license. Just saying.
The Machine
900 words
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Colloquy #1- Interview with William Shakespeare
Doctor Frank C. Baxter interviews the shade of late William Shakespeare, in particular about the knotty problem of who actually wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. They are joined by Kit Martlowe, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (both of whom claim authorship), Francis Bacon (who does not) and Richard Burbage (there to make the case for the importance of the actor in plays).
The discussion gets rather heated. I was a bit surprised to hear "pederast" tossed around as an insult at one point.
I will admit I found parts of this funny, not least because I once got to watch a Shakespearian expert deal with an ... energetic and determined fan of one of the alternate authors of Shakespeare's plays.
Doctor Frank C. Baxter interviews the shade of late William Shakespeare, in particular about the knotty problem of who actually wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. They are joined by Kit Martlowe, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (both of whom claim authorship), Francis Bacon (who does not) and Richard Burbage (there to make the case for the importance of the actor in plays).
The discussion gets rather heated. I was a bit surprised to hear "pederast" tossed around as an insult at one point.
I will admit I found parts of this funny, not least because I once got to watch a Shakespearian expert deal with an ... energetic and determined fan of one of the alternate authors of Shakespeare's plays.
( Depressing medical details )
Momo was a little ratling who was so scared when I got him that he hid in my shirts in the back of my neck all the time. Haru and Momo were my first shoulder rats, and I loved walking around with them there, even though they would try to climb up my face and left scratches all around my neck. As a ratling, Momo tried to shove himself up my nose and into my ear, and when they escaped, he was even harder to catch than Haru. He was the top rat of the cage until his legs started getting worse, and by the end, Haru was helping to groom him in the spots he couldn't reach. Momo chewed up my iPhone cable and my laptop charger when CB and I were having a hard time due to depression and moving, and I showed CB the picture of the cables after a fight and he laughed. When I gave him an ethernet cord to chew on later, he refused to touch it, probably because it wasn't forbidden. He was terrified of CB's tile floors.
I think losing Haru hit him hard, and he probably had had the tumor or infection in his jaw already. He tried to fight it up until the end, CB says because he was trying to hang on for me. I'm glad he's not in pain anymore, and I hope he and Haru are hanging around again, and that Momo can now reassert his status as top rat since he is not sick anymore.
I'm not really sure what to do for myself. I haven't not had rats since I got Fitz-rat and Fool-rat back in 2004, and disassembling just the travel cage was awful. As previously mentioned, we're probably going to look into getting a cat, but right now, life feels very empty without my ratses around, and I miss them a lot.
Momo was a little ratling who was so scared when I got him that he hid in my shirts in the back of my neck all the time. Haru and Momo were my first shoulder rats, and I loved walking around with them there, even though they would try to climb up my face and left scratches all around my neck. As a ratling, Momo tried to shove himself up my nose and into my ear, and when they escaped, he was even harder to catch than Haru. He was the top rat of the cage until his legs started getting worse, and by the end, Haru was helping to groom him in the spots he couldn't reach. Momo chewed up my iPhone cable and my laptop charger when CB and I were having a hard time due to depression and moving, and I showed CB the picture of the cables after a fight and he laughed. When I gave him an ethernet cord to chew on later, he refused to touch it, probably because it wasn't forbidden. He was terrified of CB's tile floors.
I think losing Haru hit him hard, and he probably had had the tumor or infection in his jaw already. He tried to fight it up until the end, CB says because he was trying to hang on for me. I'm glad he's not in pain anymore, and I hope he and Haru are hanging around again, and that Momo can now reassert his status as top rat since he is not sick anymore.
I'm not really sure what to do for myself. I haven't not had rats since I got Fitz-rat and Fool-rat back in 2004, and disassembling just the travel cage was awful. As previously mentioned, we're probably going to look into getting a cat, but right now, life feels very empty without my ratses around, and I miss them a lot.
I slept a lot today. Morgan went to see Star Trek (he's being very good and not telling me anything about it; I am hopefully going with my iWife once she gets here) and then spent some time wandering around Alderwood Mall, and I took advantage of him being gone to...no, I lie, I didn't do anything except sleep and take a shower.
But we did get some cleaning done tonight so the place is ready for people to come over for game tomorrow (this one is being run by Schmallturm, with Spoo, Morgan, and Strahd playing--Spoo's fiancee A is supposedly in but has had to pull back due to wedding and school plans, so she'll drop in as she can) and then we went to the grocery store and bought all the groceries and now we're home, and I should probably eat something. And I just realized three things I forgot at the store. *facepalm* It can wait until tomorrow.
Tomorrow I am working and then coming home to the game, and then Monday I have a waxing appointment after work and then will come home and clean out my car, and then Tuesday I'm working the morning shift so after work I can head down to Seatac and pick up my iWife :D I cannot wait to see her.
But first, I need to eat something and drink moar water to fix my headache and maybe get some writing done.
But we did get some cleaning done tonight so the place is ready for people to come over for game tomorrow (this one is being run by Schmallturm, with Spoo, Morgan, and Strahd playing--Spoo's fiancee A is supposedly in but has had to pull back due to wedding and school plans, so she'll drop in as she can) and then we went to the grocery store and bought all the groceries and now we're home, and I should probably eat something. And I just realized three things I forgot at the store. *facepalm* It can wait until tomorrow.
Tomorrow I am working and then coming home to the game, and then Monday I have a waxing appointment after work and then will come home and clean out my car, and then Tuesday I'm working the morning shift so after work I can head down to Seatac and pick up my iWife :D I cannot wait to see her.
But first, I need to eat something and drink moar water to fix my headache and maybe get some writing done.
I've had to put the various fics I've been writing for The Hobbit aside for the time being (they all keep growing, and growing, and growing, and...), in order to focus on stories that, well, have deadlines. Deadlines such as, uh, this coming Wednesday.
... yeah. *headdesk* The day I start my new job. Perfect timing, isn't it?
Anyway, would anyone be willing to beta a Marvel fic for me? It's for![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
cap_ironman, so there is some Steve/Tony, although it's more friendship than 'ship. PG-13(ish). Final wordcount is probably going to be somewhere around ~10,000.
It's a non-superhero AU, with characterization stemming from a combination of 616 and MCU depending on whether or not said character has a MCU counterpart. (Hint: the MCU doesn't have enough women in it for my tastes, so I borrowed some from 616.)
I'll have the story to you by tomorrow. I'm trying to get it finished tonight, but I'm getting tired so I might have to put it off until in the morning before I can finish up the last bit.
... yeah. *headdesk* The day I start my new job. Perfect timing, isn't it?
Anyway, would anyone be willing to beta a Marvel fic for me? It's for
cap_ironman, so there is some Steve/Tony, although it's more friendship than 'ship. PG-13(ish). Final wordcount is probably going to be somewhere around ~10,000.It's a non-superhero AU, with characterization stemming from a combination of 616 and MCU depending on whether or not said character has a MCU counterpart. (Hint: the MCU doesn't have enough women in it for my tastes, so I borrowed some from 616.)
I'll have the story to you by tomorrow. I'm trying to get it finished tonight, but I'm getting tired so I might have to put it off until in the morning before I can finish up the last bit.
I made a up nice recipe! It is green apple rhubarb crumble and is gluten free.
- crumble stuff is brown sugar, butter, oats, tapioca flour, coconut flour
- 4 green apples, maybe 8 stalks rhubarb, brown sugar, tapioca flour, cinnamon, ginger, honey
I sauteed the rhubarb for a few minutes to see if it was very juicy, but it wasn't. Threw a spoonful of honey in there and about as much ginger as my thumb. Then mixed it with the apples and sprinkled some sugar, cinnamon, and tapioca flour on it all figuring that would thicken the juicy inside.
Mash the brown sugar into the butter, then mix in the oats and various kinds of flour.
I cooked it maybe 40 minutes at 375. It is perfect! The ginger really makes it. If I could have found the cardamom I would have put a pinch into the apple/rhubarb filling. This much stuff filled a 9 inch square glass pan.
Gluten free stuff is for Zond7 who is trying this out and seems to be doing better on it. Hard to stick to. Next I will try making gf cornbread again and then gf mac and cheese with brown rice pasta.
Day of domesticity and naps - I put up a lot of hooks and brackets and did a lot of laundry. A. continues excitedly doing things to create a Paradise for Birds. At 7am she was up asking me for "chores -- chores that might be like watering the garden or filling the bird feeders." OK! Chores! 7am! hop to it, kid! Over the course of the day she helped me drill holes, screw screws, and oil the patio benches with teak oil.
She duct taped a yogurt container up on top of the highest fence for crows. Her rambly singing has switched between lullabies and fake crow calls all day. Moomin did some homework (but has WAY MORE) everyone but me played a board game called zooloretto and A.'s friend from school came over.
Zond7 slept off his jet lag. I also did some worky things over the day when I was resting my ankles and not asleep. We're hoping to see the star trek movie tomorrow!
So lovely to have more energy, be able to walk around today, etc. and use my hands so much for things like drilling, screwdrivers, laundry, and carrying things. It may not feel very good tomorrow. And yet Enbrel <3 <3 <3 <3
- crumble stuff is brown sugar, butter, oats, tapioca flour, coconut flour
- 4 green apples, maybe 8 stalks rhubarb, brown sugar, tapioca flour, cinnamon, ginger, honey
I sauteed the rhubarb for a few minutes to see if it was very juicy, but it wasn't. Threw a spoonful of honey in there and about as much ginger as my thumb. Then mixed it with the apples and sprinkled some sugar, cinnamon, and tapioca flour on it all figuring that would thicken the juicy inside.
Mash the brown sugar into the butter, then mix in the oats and various kinds of flour.
I cooked it maybe 40 minutes at 375. It is perfect! The ginger really makes it. If I could have found the cardamom I would have put a pinch into the apple/rhubarb filling. This much stuff filled a 9 inch square glass pan.
Gluten free stuff is for Zond7 who is trying this out and seems to be doing better on it. Hard to stick to. Next I will try making gf cornbread again and then gf mac and cheese with brown rice pasta.
Day of domesticity and naps - I put up a lot of hooks and brackets and did a lot of laundry. A. continues excitedly doing things to create a Paradise for Birds. At 7am she was up asking me for "chores -- chores that might be like watering the garden or filling the bird feeders." OK! Chores! 7am! hop to it, kid! Over the course of the day she helped me drill holes, screw screws, and oil the patio benches with teak oil.
She duct taped a yogurt container up on top of the highest fence for crows. Her rambly singing has switched between lullabies and fake crow calls all day. Moomin did some homework (but has WAY MORE) everyone but me played a board game called zooloretto and A.'s friend from school came over.
Zond7 slept off his jet lag. I also did some worky things over the day when I was resting my ankles and not asleep. We're hoping to see the star trek movie tomorrow!
So lovely to have more energy, be able to walk around today, etc. and use my hands so much for things like drilling, screwdrivers, laundry, and carrying things. It may not feel very good tomorrow. And yet Enbrel <3 <3 <3 <3
Jo Walton, in an update about a novel she's working on, wrote:
I'm...not sure I feel that way, but I know this is a sentiment I haven't heard much, so I like the contrast! Any thoughts from the peanut gallery on which you prefer?
You know, now that I think about it more, I think I enjoy writing more than having written. Mostly because I usually have a self-confidence crash of 'OH MY GOD THIS IS TERRIBLE' that lasts for a couple of years after I finish something...:D
In other things that have amused me, David Paich of Toto (or one of his representatives) apparently described himself as "copywright holder" in a copyright infringement claim to YouTube, at least judging by the message that popped up on a pulled video of an a capella group doing "Africa." *snicker*
But I am grateful for being able to do this. I love writing. Sonme writers don't, they like having written, but they don't actually enjoy the process of composing. I do. I like it of all things. I'd say my two favourite things to do are writing and having good conversations.
I'm...not sure I feel that way, but I know this is a sentiment I haven't heard much, so I like the contrast! Any thoughts from the peanut gallery on which you prefer?
You know, now that I think about it more, I think I enjoy writing more than having written. Mostly because I usually have a self-confidence crash of 'OH MY GOD THIS IS TERRIBLE' that lasts for a couple of years after I finish something...:D
In other things that have amused me, David Paich of Toto (or one of his representatives) apparently described himself as "copywright holder" in a copyright infringement claim to YouTube, at least judging by the message that popped up on a pulled video of an a capella group doing "Africa." *snicker*
Oh, this show. ♥
So, yes, I know that I haven't really been talking about it much, but I've been keeping up with Elementary as the new episodes have aired. And the season finale was pretty much everything I was hoping for and then some.
I'm really hoping that next season stays as strong as this season has been. If I can get through the first half of the second season of a procedural on CBS, the odds are that I'm going to stick with it for the long haul. There have only been a handful where I've lasted through that breaking point, though; it's much more common for me to throw my hands up and give up on a CBS show within a few episodes of S2 starting.
I guess we'll find out in three or four months?
So, yes, I know that I haven't really been talking about it much, but I've been keeping up with Elementary as the new episodes have aired. And the season finale was pretty much everything I was hoping for and then some.
I'm really hoping that next season stays as strong as this season has been. If I can get through the first half of the second season of a procedural on CBS, the odds are that I'm going to stick with it for the long haul. There have only been a handful where I've lasted through that breaking point, though; it's much more common for me to throw my hands up and give up on a CBS show within a few episodes of S2 starting.
I guess we'll find out in three or four months?
We Australians are wild about Eurovision! We're all waiting eagerly to watch the SBS broadcast of the final tonight. It's a thing we look forward to every year. We have parties and stuff. We really, really love our Eurovision parties.
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL US! PLEASE USE CUTS!
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL US! PLEASE USE CUTS!