Saturday October 19, 2013 Picked up two fantasy novels from Southeast Library.
Maz Gladstone, Three Parts Dead. Tor, 2012. Enjoyable. Pulpish, with interesting characters and a background which held up.
Note: the cover shows a young Black woman, fully clothed. (Since the book isn't set in our world, "Afro-American" would be inaccurate.)
Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Found it boring.
***Rain mixed with ice pellets today. Rain mixed with snow coming up. I think I can put away my shortsleeved shirts.
***comment from soon_lee on LiveJournal, October 19:
"Liver (more mushy) & giblet (more chewy, even sometimes rubbery) have very different textures."
Here's what the OED has to say:
giblets...
the liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/giblets?view=uk
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/giblets
***In conclusion, _Hideous Progeny_ is a thoroughly researched and
well-structured introduction to eugenicist thought on disability in
classic horror films. It reveals eugenicist uses of disability as
pernicious, and offers a variety of nuanced and developed arguments
about the use of horror to undercut eugenical rhetoric, and, more
importantly, presents it as fundamentally unstable, "obsessively
fascinated with the deviance it claimed to abhor" (p. 7). Such
fascination is as relevant to contemporary cultural studies of
disability as it is to 1930s horror films, and _Hideous Progeny_ is a
valuable contribution to discussions of disability, spectacle, and
eugenics in genre fiction and film.
Citation: Hannah Tweed. Review of Smith, Angela M., _Hideous Progeny:
Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema_. H-Disability, H-Net
Reviews. October, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38628
***From Twitter:
Mr Rossignol @jimrossignol
The internet contains so many sentences starting "Am I the only person who..." and the answer is always "no".
Retweeted by Texas Triffid Ranch
Al Jazeera America @ajam
Video: California man secures health insurance for $1 per month through Obamacare http://alj.am/1c4C4V6
Lauren Hall-Lew @dialect
Labov announces that the Atlas of North American English is being made available for Open Access! Whoo hoo! #NWAV42
Retweeted by Benjamin Lukoff
Davho Pldal @SnarkOnTap
Freedomworks CEO says shutdown was a brilliant strategy. Freedomworks is going broke. Coincidence? Uh, no.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #6 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Wednesday October 16, 2013 Sickish. At least partly Fall allergies, I suspect.
***In my opinion, the House Republican leadership has done for responsible conservatism what Frank and Jesse James did for the banking industry. But now, at the last minute, they acted responsibly.
****October 15 Seawasp says:
"> Thoughts: Ability to transmit sensations other than sight and sound might
> make computer dating sites more interesting. 'This is what my [body part]
> feels and tastes like.'
"> I haven't seen this done in science fiction. Has anyone else?
"Well, that sounds like immersive VR with selectable transmission (for your dating idea).
"OOO! How about this! Computer dating where your date controls the sensations you can access! So like many games, you get achievements at various levels of successful dating. *Bing* Your recent dates have made _Your Date_ very happy. You have unlocked Breasts!"
I was thinking about using the Net to find people for in-person dating. But this does sound interesting.
From Twitter:
RAND Congressional @RAND_OCR
Just ended: brief on preparing for possibility of #NKorea regime collapse. Download book free http://bit.ly/1cupGuk pic.twitter.com/d9ZdYZMHuS
Retweeted by RAND Corporation
Davho Pldal @SnarkOnTap
*spit-take* RT @AlanColmes: GOP Rep: Press To Blame For Falsely Reporting We Wanted To Repeal Obamacare http://colm.es/1cuObHC #p2
Kory Stamper @KoryStamper
Oh, email: "Just because a word is in historic print, or because people used it, doesn't make it a word!!" By this logic, words don't exist.
Retweeted by Copyediting
Wednesday October 16, 2013 Sickish. At least partly Fall allergies, I suspect.
***In my opinion, the House Republican leadership has done for responsible conservatism what Frank and Jesse James did for the banking industry. But now, at the last minute, they acted responsibly.
****October 15 Seawasp says:
"> Thoughts: Ability to transmit sensations other than sight and sound might
> make computer dating sites more interesting. 'This is what my [body part]
> feels and tastes like.'
"> I haven't seen this done in science fiction. Has anyone else?
"Well, that sounds like immersive VR with selectable transmission (for your dating idea).
"OOO! How about this! Computer dating where your date controls the sensations you can access! So like many games, you get achievements at various levels of successful dating. *Bing* Your recent dates have made _Your Date_ very happy. You have unlocked Breasts!"
I was thinking about using the Net to find people for in-person dating. But this does sound interesting.
From Twitter:
RAND Congressional @RAND_OCR
Just ended: brief on preparing for possibility of #NKorea regime collapse. Download book free http://bit.ly/1cupGuk pic.twitter.com/d9ZdYZMHuS
Retweeted by RAND Corporation
Davho Pldal @SnarkOnTap
*spit-take* RT @AlanColmes: GOP Rep: Press To Blame For Falsely Reporting We Wanted To Repeal Obamacare http://colm.es/1cuObHC #p2
Kory Stamper @KoryStamper
Oh, email: "Just because a word is in historic print, or because people used it, doesn't make it a word!!" By this logic, words don't exist.
Retweeted by Copyediting
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday May 21, 2013 From Twitter: Peace Corps @PeaceCorps
Proud to announce we'll begin accepting Volunteer apps from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together http://1.usa.gov/16McG2M
Retweeted by rivenhomewood
***From Twitter: Media Matters @mmfa
NRA lists the 'coolest gun movies': http://bit.ly/10SdID9 Flashback: NRA blames mass shootings on movies http://mm4a.org/UkYROn
Retweeted by Dan Savage
***Shopping: The Wedge Coop. Steeple People Thrift Store, where I found a couple of things I needed.
On to the Dollar Store on Franklin Avenue, and the nearby Aldi grocery.
***"DARE [Dictionary of American Regional English] has received a grant from NEH to do a pilot study in Wisconsin to
test a new Questionnaire and a new methodology for a second round of nationwide fieldwork.
"This time we won't be using Word Wagons--instead, the survey will be conducted online. We are working with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center to develop the method, and we will include a recorded telephone interview to collect phonological data for comparison with the original DARE recordings.
"We plan to omit questions for practices that are now obsolete (farming with oxen, kinds of sleigh, etc) and add questions that reflect changes in our society over the last 50 years."
And what questions will they be asking 50 years from now?
Proud to announce we'll begin accepting Volunteer apps from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together http://1.usa.gov/16McG2M
Retweeted by rivenhomewood
***From Twitter: Media Matters @mmfa
NRA lists the 'coolest gun movies': http://bit.ly/10SdID9 Flashback: NRA blames mass shootings on movies http://mm4a.org/UkYROn
Retweeted by Dan Savage
***Shopping: The Wedge Coop. Steeple People Thrift Store, where I found a couple of things I needed.
On to the Dollar Store on Franklin Avenue, and the nearby Aldi grocery.
***"DARE [Dictionary of American Regional English] has received a grant from NEH to do a pilot study in Wisconsin to
test a new Questionnaire and a new methodology for a second round of nationwide fieldwork.
"This time we won't be using Word Wagons--instead, the survey will be conducted online. We are working with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center to develop the method, and we will include a recorded telephone interview to collect phonological data for comparison with the original DARE recordings.
"We plan to omit questions for practices that are now obsolete (farming with oxen, kinds of sleigh, etc) and add questions that reflect changes in our society over the last 50 years."
And what questions will they be asking 50 years from now?
Monday, May 6, 2013
Saturday May 4, 2013
Ye knowe eek that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do
(Chaucer, circa 1385)
On the American Dialect Society mailing list, I had asked:
I'm looking for writings on the future of the English language. I own _Predicting New Words_.
Presumably, there's other material more recent than L. Sprague De Camp's 1938 essay "Language for Time Travelers."
And more useful than "The Internet/crystal radio/texting/___ is destroying our language!"
In response, Neal Whitman recommended http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr has much more of linguistic and/or science-fictional interest. Recommended for anyone writing sf. (Probably also good for game designers; but I don't know enough about that process to say.)
For the near future, I recommend: Allan Metcalf, _Predicting New Words: the secrets of their success_; Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
***From Twitter:
Ray Radlein @Radlein 3m
RT @davewiner: RT @morningmoneyben: I hate how the media just covers the Derby as a horse race and ignores the substantive issues.
Ye knowe eek that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do
(Chaucer, circa 1385)
On the American Dialect Society mailing list, I had asked:
I'm looking for writings on the future of the English language. I own _Predicting New Words_.
Presumably, there's other material more recent than L. Sprague De Camp's 1938 essay "Language for Time Travelers."
And more useful than "The Internet/crystal radio/texting/___ is destroying our language!"
In response, Neal Whitman recommended http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr has much more of linguistic and/or science-fictional interest. Recommended for anyone writing sf. (Probably also good for game designers; but I don't know enough about that process to say.)
For the near future, I recommend: Allan Metcalf, _Predicting New Words: the secrets of their success_; Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
***From Twitter:
Ray Radlein @Radlein 3m
RT @davewiner: RT @morningmoneyben: I hate how the media just covers the Derby as a horse race and ignores the substantive issues.
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