Heading out to case the promise land

( Cut for discussion of dog's bodily functions. )

I think this has used up all my getting stuff done ability for the day and I had plans.

I'm doing this on a different computer, so I hope I didn't jumble any links - otherwise please tell me so I can fix it.

xenologer: Atheist "Evangelism": "Sometimes atheists talk about being atheists because it makes it easier for other atheists to be atheists. It's just like how some people talk about being LGBT because it makes easier for other LGBT people to be LGBT."

angelikitten: On dealing (or not) with gynaecological exams and PTSD; I'm linking to day view so you can choose which parts of the entry you want to read. (Content notes are above the cut)

pipisafoat signalboots Consentfest 2012.

yourlibrarian: I could use some help: "I plan to write an entry for the month_of_meta on the topic of consent in fanworks vs. canon. What I'm looking for are examples that you've noticed in how each is dealt with in either a show storyline or a fanfic storyline, particularly if these differ within the same fandom (specific examples particularly welcome)."

anotherslashfan: Revisiting my fannish origins: my fannish history - the researched version: "About a year back I realised that while me learning of ZetsuAi/Bronze was the start of my yaoi-fan days, it wasn't really the starting point for my fannishness." - Particularly interesting because perspective of a German fan.

sharpest_asp hosts a love meme.

whatawaytoburn hosts a Confessions thread (trigger warning in original entry) where you can get things off your chests. This reply and ensuing conversation about kink-related shame (and being ashamed of feeling ashamed) then lead to...

Let's celebrate kink! Because why the fuck not?, also atwhatawaytoburn: 'You can do it anon if you like and you can say as much or as little as you want but the point is here that there should be no shame, no guilt for what you are into. You should dance in it, spin in it, be happy you enjoy what you enjoy, even if its dark, even if some people might look at you and say "Dude, that's fucked up."'

As many Italian businesses do, my company closes down for two weeks in mid-August. Every year I am forced to take those two weeks off, whether I like it or not.

The boy has recently found gainful employment again (huzzah), which means he won't have accrued a lot of time off by the time August rolls around (and being the most junior employee in his office YET AGAIN he will get the little time off he has a right to in the off-peak season,anyway, i.e. from September on, when my teaching terms starts).

So, we won't get to have a holiday together this summer, and we're going to have to turn down my BFF's invite to do a (short) road trip in New England with her and her boyfriend. :( Oh well.

However, something quite brilliant just occurred to me.

How about spending those two weeks doing some sort of intensive Norwegian course...in Norway? :D

PROS Norwegian learning. ♥ In Norway! ♥ ♥

CONS The cost. Norway is unbelievably expensive.

But anyway, this is a great idea. Will have to look into schools that offer intensive Norwegian courses.

PS: Since I'll get another week off in late July/early August anyway, the tentative plans for a week in Finland are still go, misscam and unikorento. I'm game if you are. Do remind me what dates work best for you guys.

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Arthur Miller's All My Sons is a play about two men who knowingly distributed defective airplane parts during World War II, and how the past comes back to haunt their families. Los Angeles' The Matrix Theatre Company adds race to the mix of messages about corporate greed and social justice by staging a multi-racial production, because, hell yeah these things still matter. Here are some more

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Got this opportunity passed to me from my buddy Dan... Our friends at International Secret Agents (ISA) are on the lookout for some interns and talent to help them take things to the next level as a premier concert production and media arts company.

They've put out a casting call for On-Camera Hosts and Field Correspondents, as well as an open call for internships in graphic design, online

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Hey, it's the Fung Brothers, featuring Jason Chen, dropping yet another clever tribute to the food, friends and fun of the San Gabriel Valley, aka the "626," to the tune of Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild & Free." Guaranteed to give you a serious craving some noodles, chicken or boba. Check it out:


Damn. I watched this and had to resist a serious urge to hop in my car and make a run for some

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I'm not entirely clear on the story line, but as far as I'm concerned, it looks amazing. It could very well be a mix between Moulin Rouge and Marie Antoinette. I mean, it is a French film.

I suppose that the part where she's with the other girl is her dream, protecting her, because this seems akin to the original tale. The two children are hers, whom she gave birth to while under the spell. Only it's not a child who wakes her up, but a prince, bringing it back around to something a little more... settling, than the original version.



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Just finished making travel plans for Europe this summer. First overseas travel since 1979. Now all I have to do is finish my talk!

Watched bits and pieces of a wonderful 3-hr special on cetaceans. The second segment was on cognition.

Tired.

So there are lots of nice pre-defined variables in core2 for us to use in coding themes, but you kind of have to dig into the core2 code (or see what other people have done) to find what's available. I figured I'd pull out the font and color ones (which I think are what come up the most for just-CSS styling) so they'd be a little more accessible.

Keep in mind that if there isn't a specific font or color property that you want, you're better off making a new one one, rather than doubling up or using a variable for a use other than what it was defined for. Moving them around ends up with confusion and frustration for end-users in the wizard, as it means what the description says the color does doesn't end up being what it actually does.

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( colors )

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What the hell. Some crazy horrific news out of New Jersey, where a man has been charged with murder for repeatedly running over his girlfriend with his car after she tried to break up with him: Fort Lee hit-and-run suspect Charles Ann accused of running down girlfriend.

In Fort Lee, 26-year-old Charles Ann reportedly struck his girlfriend 25-year-old Aena Hong with his car, backed over her, then

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Wil Wheaton and I got excited and made this “Fighting Time Lords” shirt for you! 

JoCo Cruise Crazy II Guest Week is stranded up on a desert island! I am surviving on the contents of the buffet trays that keep washing ashore and have constructed a rudimentary shelter out of David Willis. The good news is the drinks are now free. The bad news is the drinks are all sea water. Those of us that remain has formed a simple organizational hierarchy, but I fear for the safety of Piggy. I just don’t think he has what to takes to not be murdered. HEY A CRAB!

Sometime around 1997 Kris Wilson along with an elite group of boobies-obsessed preteens, middle aged engineers and Rupert Murdoch met in secret to write the original charter for the Internet. Kris was the one that decided on the “dot” in “.com” due to its ressemblance to both a dick hole and the dickhole-shaped birthmark he has on his dickhole. At only 15 years old, this dude was shaping the very web-o-tron that we live, work and prey on today. Was his early entry into the hall of eHeroes a case of child prodigy, lax parenting or both? The answer, like our collective innocence, is lost to the ages. The answer is also “both.”

There are few people on this planet whose company I enjoy more than Kris Wilson’s. And that is saying a lot considering he spells his name like a girl and he was born in Wyoming. We met at C2E2 2010 in Chicago and within moments we were singing karaoke’d Creed to a party of drunken bride’s-harpies. It was a fast friendship after that and an even faster, more furious courtship. I expect the court proceedings to be even more so 5ast and 5uriou5.

Kris is one of those guys that’s down for anything, ready to run with any joke premise no questions asked and would rather lift up those around him than bring them down or see them fail. These attributes are what has kept him alive all these centuries and what will make facing him in The Cartoonist Quicken all that much harder. Still, I shall have his head for my trophy belt. My belt of heads. It is impossible to sit down while wearing that thing.

He and his Explosm cohorts (one of which is on a boat with me right now! Hi Rob! Can you get me another rum punch? No? You’re forgotten how to walk? Whale venom will do that to you.) are working on a TV pilot for Comedy Central right now. At least I’ll be able to say, “I knew him when…” and “Can I borrow like $40,000? I KNOW you got it man! I KNOW YOU GOT IT! YOU COCKSUCKER! THEY’RE GOING TO TAKE MY HANDS! MYYYY HAAAAAANDS!”

The above comic illustrates everything I love about being a self-employed cartoonist. The dialog comes straight from a BUSINESS EMAIL between me, Kris and a few others. BUSINESS. Like the stuff you get paid for. That kind of business. What?

COMMENTERS: What conversation, activity, or other whatever have you been the most shocked by (either positively or negatively) in a business setting? One time my old boss called me into his office to look at something that was wrong with his computer. When I got there he typed on his screen, “You can totally see down [female coworker]‘s top from here. She keeps shaking her foot and making them bounce. I can’t get any work done. I don’t know what to do?”

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In an upcoming profile of AMD, Forbes reports that the company's Llano family of Fusion combination CPU-GPU systems was under consideration by Apple to be used as the brains behind the MacBook Air for its 2011 revision. AMD lost out to Intel, however, as the necessary parts were late in being delivered to Apple and had unacceptably high failure rates.

AMD struggled with its new fabless model while trying to crank out “fusion” processors that combined a CPU and a GPU in a single part. On paper the idea was promising. A notebook processor dubbed “Llano” got a close look from Apple for an update to the ultralight MacBook Air, scheduled for launch in mid-2011.

But AMD couldn’t get early working samples of Llano to Apple on time, one former employee says. Several former AMD employees disagree on just how close AMD came. “We had it,” one says. But too many of the Llano parts were faulty. AMD lost the deal.

The company reportedly also pitched Apple on using its Brazos family of Fusion systems in the Apple TV, but Apple proved to be uninterested in the proposal.

Forbes' Brian Caulfield has more on AMD's efforts to lure Apple in a separate article in which he talks further about yield issues on the Fusion chips planned for the MacBook Air.

The claim echoes a November report from SemiAccurate alleging that AMD's Fusion platform was Apple's "Plan A" for the 2011 MacBook Air and that such machines were "on the verge of production" before Apple ultimately decided to stick with Intel.

Apple had been struggling with chip options in its small portables for several years as licensing issues prevented graphics companies such as NVIDIA from developing integrated graphics solutions for Intel's latest processors. With Apple being forced to choose between slower Core 2 Duo processors paired with fast NVIDIA graphics and faster Intel Core i-series processors hampered by slow integrated graphics from Intel, Apple opted to continue using the aging Core 2 Duo processors for much longer than it would have otherwise liked.

Improvements in Intel's integrated graphics did allow Apple to transition to significantly improved Core i5 and i7 processor in the current generation of MacBook Air models, but it seems that Apple was also weighing AMD's offerings as it sought to work its way out of the constraints of Intel's graphics issues.


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Ugh work stress, you guys. Work stress. Which, as I'm sure you all noticed, leads to inordinate amounts of vidding. Yeah I don't know why that happens either, but it obviously does. Which means now that Galentine's Day spamming is over, my brain wants to turn to the next project. Which is an idea that is probably well beyond my capabilities, and yet my stupid brain wants to attempt it anyway. It's all cryptic because I'm not sure I can pull it off, and hate to go talking about something that ends up not happening, but in essentials it's an attempt to vid a book's narrative using several TV/movie sources to construct the book character's story. Which means I am "casting" sources, characters and settings from TV/movies that I might be able to pull shots from to build the story, and could use some suggestions. 

Specifically, does anyone know of movies or TV episodes that include a black or African-American woman pregnant or with a baby or very young child in a somewhat dystopian or post-apocalyptic type setting, or a setting that could pass for dystopian? The setting can be anything really, as long as I have a hope of making it pass for somewhat dystopian with the magic of cropping or editing, i.e. not in modern urban buildings or super clean settings, etc. (Even something like jail could work). Even a minor character with just a few relevant shots could work, as I'll just be using them to sort of imply that the woman had a baby, like a memory. It'll probably be all implied and artsy and yeah...see above re: what I said about it being beyond my capabilities. I already know of Kee in Children of Men, but if anyone knows of anything else that might be a possibility, let me know and I'll check it out.

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Speaking of--the vid I want to make is ostensibly for Wiscon, since that's the only audience I can imagine even potentially caring about it--every year I half consider going to Wiscon (a feminist con!!1!), and then don't because I'm scared of cons. Then I always find out that more people I know from the interwebs go than I think. This year I'm half considering it again--though finances and some work things have to sort themselves out before I can seriously consider it anyway--but I am just sort of curious who else is planning on going this year? 

Oh HAI nice DW peoples I missed you.

I finally managed to see Coriolanus today. It was outstanding. Ralph Fiennes was great both as star and director, Gerard Butler as Aufidius did better than I had hoped for (though I'd have preferred to see Michael Fassbender in the role), and Vanessa Redgrave was stellar as Volumnia.

See it if you possibly can. I almost missed it because it was playing at the tiny little art cinema, the one that barely advertises and is only intermittently listed on movie websites. I'd find it weird that with Ralph Fiennes's name behind it, the film isn't getting wider distribution, but this is obscure and grim Shakespeare rather than Oscar-bait Shakespeare.

I never expected to like Britney Spears' "If U Seek Amy" or Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" as much as I do. There was such "controversy" surrounding both songs when they came out that I didn't bother with either. So, here I am 4-5 years late to the party, listening to this mash-up to and from work every day for weeks on end. Apparently, all you need to do to get my attention is add Decepticons.

Seriously, this is a brilliant mash-up, and features 3 songs (Personal Jesus, Spin Me Round, and Tainted Love) that I've liked for a long time.

From a fandom perspective, sabersensei gets mad props from me for making excellent use of the subtext between Airachnid and Arcee.

Of course, everyone wants Starscream. That's fanon.



If U Seek Amy (Britney Spears)
I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry)
Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Spin Me Round (Flo Rida)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Reach Out (Hillary Duff, featuring The Prophet)
Strict Machine (Goldfrapp)