August 14-20, 2014

Thursday August 14, 2014.  Adult Children Anonymous -- got my eight-year medallion.

***On the bus home, a large group which included some with cat whiskers painted on their faces boarded.  Turned out they were returning from the International Cat Video Festival.

***The August issue of Chess Life has an article on Fritz Leiber's chess-related sf and fantasy stories.

***Friday August 15, 2014.  I usually wish the classical music announcers on KSJN talked much, much less.  However, this was Leon Theremin's birthday.  Turns out he was a Soviet spy, along with his other work.

***Saturday August 16, 2014.  Mnstf (Twin Cities sf club) meeting at Scott and Irene Rauns.  Good meeting.

***Sunday August 17, 2014.  Reread Melissa Scott's Conceiving the Heavens -- a book on writing science fiction, published in 1999.  Included was a bit of speculation about electronic currency. I suspect Ms. Scott didn't expect it to arrive just ten years later. 

***MinnSpec (Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers) meeting at the Uptown Lunds supermarket.  Topic:  Emotional Manipulation of the Reader.  I suspect the topics brought up could be used for at least six panel discussions.

I brought the (not(yet?)) official MinnSpec Library for its first outing.  The library was, so far, six books on writing which I hadn't read in a while.  One got taken out.

***Wednesday August 20, 2014.  Birthday of H. P. Lovecraft and Jacqueline Susann.

Thursday March 27, 2014  Joined LinkedIn.  I'd gotten an invitation to join someone's network. 

Once I joined, turned out several other people I knew were on LinkedIn.

I quickly got invites from some people I didn't know and hadn't heard of.

Next:  figure out how LinkedIn can be useful to me.

***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  Learned something I needed.

The topic was making amends.  In discussion, someone brought up making amends to one's body.

***From Twitter:

Retweeted by Kory Stamper
Colleen Barry ‏@CopyCurmudgeon I strongly support word-makeupification.

Retweeted by Blake Hounshell
New York Times World ‏@nytimesworld At least one artist whose name appeared on petition hailing annexation of Crimea was dead. http://nyti.ms/1iE31iD

 Retweeted by William Gibson
MattHardigree ‏@MattHardigree "I was coming off of amphetamine and I was pursuing a blonde lady whom I met in a Nazi poster" -- Leonard Cohen

Start Your Novel ‏@StartYourNovel "Progressive rock songs are actually fairy tales in disguise." http://tmblr.co/Z7JSKp1BM-nYC  via @lolmythesis

Thursday November 14, 2013  Novel about synesthetic vampires:  Susan Hubbard, The Society of S.  Seen at Minneapolis Central Library.

***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.  Topic:  Laundry List traits 7 and 8:
We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead of giving in to others.

We became addicted to excitement.
 
***Comments from:
bubbleblower, 11/13 "I sometimes think in words, and sometimes in pictures.  The pictures are sometimes electronic schematics or other diagrams, and sometimes move (that includes animated diagrams).
 
"I may occasionally think in other modes, but not often."

Dreamshark, 11/13 "Words, mostly."

stardreamer, 11/13 "I think in words, unless I'm specifically trying to visualize something.  This is also one of the reasons I can't read and carry on a conversation at the same time; I 'hear' the words in my head when I'm reading, and they compete for the aural-processing channel."

houseboatonstyx, 11/13 " Pictures Movies Visual diagrams

and

Kinesthetic choreography!

"What NLP calls 'Derived Kino'. As when Lewis said, 'Our muscles respond as we read it.'"

Andre Guirard, 11/13 "I think in condiments."

Lois Fundis, 11/13 "All of the above? Plus music!"