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professionalization & celebrity: some links & thoughts
professionalization
see this excerpt from Marie Hicks's Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (h/t Ted Lee's 2019 books retrospective):
‘The pay scale of the Senior machine Operator is increasingly causing us unease,’ wrote an executive officer at the government’s Central Computer Bureau ( Read more... ) -
ocean of time
a friend popped across my feed, a friend who i haven't thought about in-gosh, forever ( Read more... ) -
no August book post
since last time, i started but did not finish:
* The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedua. it wasn't a bad book, but it was a bit dull/slow in the hundred or so pages i read, and then the library started nagging me to return it and i decided i didn't care about it enough to deal with the overdue fines
* Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil ( Read more... ) -
trusting fiction
i tried to write about how i felt after finishing a really good manga tonight, and it was supposed to be like, half a paragraph (hence, typing it up on Tumblr)
...but then i apparently needed to get a bunch of Literary Musings down before i could just talk about my feelings like a normal person, so
here's that post-about the many ways that an ( Read more... ) -
some books i read lately (april edition)
didn't read as much as i wanted to these past two months. alas. here's what i did manage to read:
( War and Peace (part 1 of 4) ) -
musings on Final Fantasy IX, and also things vaguely related to Final Fantasy IX
did you know Final Fantasy IX is available on the Switch?
i found out last week and i've been fuckall productive since then. it turns out replaying beloved old RPGs is delightful when you can just hit the "win" button to blast through battles that you just don't wanna deal with. 10/10 nostalgia experience, would play again ( Read more... ) -
Party Coherence Factor
i have seen this called the "D&D problem": when you have a large cast of disparate characters going adventuring together, how do you actually make it make sense for them to stick together ( Read more... ) -
loosely-related literary ideas that have been bouncing around in my head lately
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This past weekend I read James Joyce's "The Dead," allegedly one of the best short stories of all time. Spoilers: it isn't.
Oh, I see what it was trying to do. Like a good neurotic overachiever I've now read five essays on the damn story, to make sure I didn't miss anything ( Read more... ) -
some books i read lately (february edition)
this looks like i read a lot, but most of these are very short and also very low-effort, because i was kinda shit in january ngl
( Top Elf by Caleb Zane Huett )