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Depending on the definition
I was thinking, a while back, about a nasty rhetorical trick some dishonest people use to demonize others: pick a label that has multiple definitions, sweep their "enemy" under one definition of that label, and then attribute to them a set of highly undesirable characteristics associated with that label - but under a different definition of the ( Read more... ) -
Time flies (if you can get them to travel a marked course)
Today is the Winter Solstice ( Read more... ) -
I heard the news today, oh boy...
I woke up, read the headlines from the newspapers, and wanted to go hide under my bed, even though I'm 8 time zones away from Ferguson, Missouri ( Read more... ) -
Random update stuff:
Before I forget completely and this blog starts growing moss between its entries...
One: happy birthday to wiliqueen!
Two: I've decided to stay away from newspapers and news blogs and the like until November 11. Bleech.
Three: home for the holidays in less than two months. (Yay!)
Four: found an entertaining book: The Martian, by Andy Weir. Apparently it ( Read more... ) -
Private number
Back in May, some person got hold of my mobile number and decided to call it on a lark. I don't remember what was going on with my job that day, but I do remember the person calling about seven or eight times that day, ending up with me yelling at him to delete my number from his phone and never call it again ( Read more... ) -
Email hacked
I don't know how many people got spam messages from my bk the irregular at aol dot com account, but there were several. Looks like I got hacked (I'd nearly forgotten I still had that AOL account ( Read more... ) -
One small step
45 years ago today, two men left boot marks on the surface of the moon.
Back in 2001, I wrote something on the topic - the first fanfic I ever put up for public consumption. For the occasion, I'm reposting it to AO3:
Moonwalk
This entry is cross-posted from http://bktheirregular.dreamwidth.org/588167.html. Feel free to comment here, or on ( Read more... ) -
Music hath charms?
Lots happening. My job is pulling up stakes and moving to a new building (closer to my apartment, which is nice). People are still getting hit with stressful workloads. People continue to blow up. (Thankfully, it's not daily any more, but I can't remember a week this year in which there wasn't some blow-up or other. The week I was away for ( Read more... ) -
Genre TV. Been a while.
After hearing a lot about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and seeing the new Captain America movie, I finally broke down and took advantage of my iTunes account still giving me US-based choices (because it predates my transatlantic move, and the billing address for its associated card is still Stateside), and purchased the season pass ( Read more... )
