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People understand the idea of 'simile', right?
I wouldn't have bothered saying something, but some normally interesting locations are leaping into this fray with over-excited headlines and little rational argument: Ken Buck, a conservative candidate for Senate in Colorado, said that ""I think that birth has an influence over [homosexuality], like alcoholism and some other things, but I think ( Read more... ) -
West Coast Swing workshop
This weekend was taken up with an intense west coast swing workshop at Two Left Feet. For the uninitiated, I should point out that Two Left Feet is probably the best venue in the entire bay area for west coast swing; however, it's located out in the middle of nowhere, roughly an hour away on the other side of the Bay. So I unfortunately don't make ( Read more... ) -
Recent movies
Down to 488 DVDs/248 instant streams on netflix. Finished up Wristcutters: A Love Story (well done, but predictable), Californication: Season 1 (really good; watched it all in a night), Capote (not a big fan of it), Shopgirl (don't waste your time), L'Ennui (worthy of its title), and The Incredible Hulk (soooo much better than the Ang Lee ( Read more... ) -
Review: This is Not a Game
This is Not a Gameby Walter Jon Williams ( Read more... ) -
Review: Kushiel's Justice
Kushiel's Justice
by Jacqueline Carey
Fantasy has served a lot of different religious traditions, from disguised Christianity like Narnia, to token Anglicism like in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel to entirely invented theistic worlds, like Chalion. But one thing it hasn't done a lot of is forked alternate worlds based on "heretical Christianity", ( Read more... ) -
Review: The Domino Pattern
The Domino Patternby Timothy Zahn ( Read more... ) -
52s
Yeah, that last entry was weak. It was a draft my browser kept reminding me about when I came to write a new entry, so it was acting as a logjam. I got that out of the way just so I could continue with my attempt to write again. Expect at least a few more entries this year, as I attempt to follow the Project 52 idea of at least one post a week this ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Thanks to the magic of the DVR, I'm still watching a show that aired months ago. But so it goes. Two dances I really liked this week: Dmitri and Miya's foxtrot (I tried choreographic a foxtrot to this song once with Alicia; we eventually gave up on it, because we weren't doing anything to live up to the music, were having trouble getting together, ( Read more... ) -
Movies in the background
so I was working late, with movies playing in the background, and may have figured out a way of halving this silly false positiver rate; sadly this is an obvious thing I considered about two weeks ago but let the massive pile of data distract me from. now to double check it against some validation sets...
At any rate, Sunset Boulevard is a very ( Read more... )