Due to the new terms of service (analysis), I've turned off crossposting from Dreamwidth.org to here. Same user name. New entries will mostly be over there.

Note, this is a SHARE! Originally posted by vsbooklady at Easter Pepys

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Today I am "on strike" (International Women's Day; US protest).  So I've been doing laundry, emptying the dishwasher, and will go out "gardening" (picking up sticks, pruning) later.  All very domestic, which amuses me.  :-)

Also some reading:

Bombastic and impetuous, he sometimes made tactless pronouncements on sensitive topics without consulting ( Read more... )

I've been to a waltz and a couple of contras in 2017, and swing dancing in LA ( Read more... )

I am a little concerned that my last post,
Movies
where I talked about *Arrival* and related media, and asked for links to folks' commentary which I'd skipped at the time (avoiding spoilers), and
*Hidden Figures*, did not show up on LiveJournal. Is something going wrong with cross-posting? I re-set my password in the cross-posting settings, though ( Read more... )

I stumbled across another piece of under-told British history that would make another fine historical novel/movie, though this one has more of a horror aspect.

The Thomas Overbury affair was the greatest scandal of seventeenth century England featuring a heady mix of adultery, murder and necromancy, and has been described as "one of the most ( Read more... )

I've been posting mostly-little things elsenet but it's been a long time since I did a general update over here (DW transcribed to LJ).

Work

• Finally got a new member of my little SCM team. He's pretty sharp technically, doesn't need exhaustive instructions, and likes documenting things.
• December was stressy because a major wait-wait-wait ( Read more... )

A signed and sung performance of Hamilton's Cabinet Battle # 1 is so cool. I love how how the speakers AND the signers are acting (lots of attitude!). I saw a signed-and-spoken play ("The Dybbuk"?) once and it was great. Also the speakers behind the signers reminds me a little of what I've seen of the staged *The Lion King* with the animal mask- ( Read more... )

A lot of people are wearing Where's Waldo costumes to work today. Some anime hair. A cowboy, a couple of cat ladies, a shark, a Pikachu, Super Mario? a clown. A high Fed is "man cat" (the man pages for the cat command). I'm wearing black (down to my toe shoes) and a pretty coppery green checked mask. Best costume: my fave Fed is the Samsung ( Read more... )

"Pearl-clutching"  came up recently relevant to WorldCon (a panel moderator ran over his panel with a monologue supposedly about SJW pearl-clutchers), and reminded me that I've been meaning to write about it as a gendered slur for some time now.  Generally it's women who wear pearls, and women who are accused of getting "hysterical" (another ( Read more... )