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gimme the ring, kissed and told
May. 26th, 2026 07:18 pmNow you know I'm not a big basketball fan but with the Knicks in the finals I will probably be talking about it some, especially since the Mets are so terrible and it looks like the Habs might not be moving on. I don't wanna root for the Canes. I do not like them! But I cannot root for VGK, so it is what it is.
Anyway, this was a fun article about Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs center, and the "Read like Wemby" campaign a library in San Antonio started. (Ignore the snobs in the comments talking about how he should read "real" literature instead of SFF - they are not serious people.) I love when libraries do stuff like this and they are always doing cool stuff like this.
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Anyway, this was a fun article about Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs center, and the "Read like Wemby" campaign a library in San Antonio started. (Ignore the snobs in the comments talking about how he should read "real" literature instead of SFF - they are not serious people.) I love when libraries do stuff like this and they are always doing cool stuff like this.
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I did get all the laundry done, even the sheets and towels, though the sheets are still waiting to be folded. Everything else was folded and put away. Whew.
Shockingly, my new TV arrived this afternoon - thankfully, the UPS guy brought it up to my door so I didn't have to schlep it up the three steps to the elevator. Of course, the new HDMI cables to hook it up (I mean, I have HDMI cables now, but new TV, new cables seems like a reasonable thing to me) have not yet arrived - the delivery time keeps getting later and later, so I am thinking of not bothering to set it up tonight.
I did some poking around and the current TV was bought in September 2012, so despite feeling weird about getting rid of it while it still mostly works - I get emotionally attached to things, so it's hard for me to replace them when they're not really broken, but it is over 10 years old so it really was time, I think.
In other news, my niece texted me a picture of the baby in the Flash outfit I bought her and despite the lightning bolts on the hat not sticking out the way they do for JLU Flash, it is ADORABLE.🥰🥰🥰
And lastly, I am not on TikTok, but I got this link and it made my day: Mo's Mountain Mutts boarding the bus. THE DOGS RIDE THE BUS. I AM DELIGHT.😍😍😍
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Shockingly, my new TV arrived this afternoon - thankfully, the UPS guy brought it up to my door so I didn't have to schlep it up the three steps to the elevator. Of course, the new HDMI cables to hook it up (I mean, I have HDMI cables now, but new TV, new cables seems like a reasonable thing to me) have not yet arrived - the delivery time keeps getting later and later, so I am thinking of not bothering to set it up tonight.
I did some poking around and the current TV was bought in September 2012, so despite feeling weird about getting rid of it while it still mostly works - I get emotionally attached to things, so it's hard for me to replace them when they're not really broken, but it is over 10 years old so it really was time, I think.
In other news, my niece texted me a picture of the baby in the Flash outfit I bought her and despite the lightning bolts on the hat not sticking out the way they do for JLU Flash, it is ADORABLE.🥰🥰🥰
And lastly, I am not on TikTok, but I got this link and it made my day: Mo's Mountain Mutts boarding the bus. THE DOGS RIDE THE BUS. I AM DELIGHT.😍😍😍
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what's up, danger?
Dec. 13th, 2022 06:42 pmAcross the Spiderverse trailer!!!! GIVE IT TO ME!!!
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Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think - this was a fascinating read (I read the transcript rather than listening to the podcast) about how we experience time and what time really is and...just really interesting. (NYTimes link, so probably paywalled.)
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Updates from yesterday's post:
- 350 words on yuletide! Maybe by Friday they will form a coherent story??? At least it's entertaining me to think about even if writing it is like trying to get blood from a stone.
- my package arrived!
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Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think - this was a fascinating read (I read the transcript rather than listening to the podcast) about how we experience time and what time really is and...just really interesting. (NYTimes link, so probably paywalled.)
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Updates from yesterday's post:
- 350 words on yuletide! Maybe by Friday they will form a coherent story??? At least it's entertaining me to think about even if writing it is like trying to get blood from a stone.
- my package arrived!
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and then throw it over there
Aug. 23rd, 2022 08:25 pmI started to post and then I got distracted looking for non-paywalled links to this stuff:
= JUPITER!
= NASA Released the Sound of a Black Hole and It's Creepy as Hell
SPACE! SO COOL!
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= JUPITER!
= NASA Released the Sound of a Black Hole and It's Creepy as Hell
SPACE! SO COOL!
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This is so cool: Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off coast of Antarctica - the pictures are so haunting and majestic.
This was also pretty interesting and confirms my feelings that what executives want is not what employees want: Making sense of why executives are eager to get employees back in the office (note: I couldn't get the site to show up in Firefox - it kept flashing the article and then whiting the page out even after I disengaged my adblocker for that page - but it works in Chrome). I shared that with my boss a little while after we did my review.
Yes, I had my annual review this morning and it was glowing. *g* We spent about 10 minutes talking about how awesome I am and then about 30 minutes chitchatting about the weather today, which is toggling between fluffy snowflakes and hard rain. Bleh. I hope it's all gone by tomorrow when I have to commute.
Anyway, Wednesday reading!
What I've just finished
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, and having read the Akallabeth now, I'm glad I didn't remember any of it and I hope to return to that state soon enough. Human sacrifice, really? And while I know it's supposed to be an Atlantis expy, I couldn't help but see all the biblical symbolism as well - Ar-Pharazon hardens his heart despite the Valar sending all sorts of curses and plagues upon Numenor?
I am glad I read it, though I continue to side-eye the Valar for their Elf-favoritism and their many mistakes in handling the Elves (and Morgoth). Like, clearly their mistakes with the Elves led them to be 99.98% hands off with Men, and maybe that was also not the best idea? IJS.
So all the Elf stuff is great and tragic and entertaining - I maintain my fondness for Earendil and now also love Tuor and Finrod (and Huan! Who was a dog not an Elf but he's such a Good Boy!) - and while I have heard numerous defenses that Tolkien's not racist - and I don't think he necessarily was beyond what a white English dude in his time was (and quite a bit less than some - I don't think the Dwarves are intended to be antisemitic, for example) - there's a lot in there about men of lesser blood and swarthy men and men who haven't been uplifted by exposure to Elves that I also feel is definitely hinky but not as in your face as, say, the racism in "The Horse and His Boy" re: Calormen. The Elves themselves are definitely kind of racist and the text supports their feelings of clear superiority, which make me like them slightly less even as it makes them slightly more #relatable.
I think mostly despite loving many of the Elves, I feel like Men get a raw deal here (death is a gift but we can't tell you how or why...sounds fake but okay), and only by being Elf-like can we overcome and not fall into darkness? And part of me feels like this is a comparison between pre- and postlapsarian people, but like, the Elves fell too! What else is the Kinslaying but a most grievous fall?
Anyway, I'm glad I reread it (and understood it this time!) - it has some fantastic stories in it - but there was also stuff that made me cringe a little (also, too much time on Turin! Not enough time on Tuor!). I'm also glad I read the Tor.com primer, which made it easier to keep track of who was who etc.
What I'm reading now
I didn't intend to start rereading The Hobbit, but it's kind of right there waiting when you finish the Silm, so, yeah, I started rereading it last night before bed. *hands*
What I'm reading next
I don't know. I don't intend a full LotR reread, but we'll see what happens.
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This was also pretty interesting and confirms my feelings that what executives want is not what employees want: Making sense of why executives are eager to get employees back in the office (note: I couldn't get the site to show up in Firefox - it kept flashing the article and then whiting the page out even after I disengaged my adblocker for that page - but it works in Chrome). I shared that with my boss a little while after we did my review.
Yes, I had my annual review this morning and it was glowing. *g* We spent about 10 minutes talking about how awesome I am and then about 30 minutes chitchatting about the weather today, which is toggling between fluffy snowflakes and hard rain. Bleh. I hope it's all gone by tomorrow when I have to commute.
Anyway, Wednesday reading!
What I've just finished
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, and having read the Akallabeth now, I'm glad I didn't remember any of it and I hope to return to that state soon enough. Human sacrifice, really? And while I know it's supposed to be an Atlantis expy, I couldn't help but see all the biblical symbolism as well - Ar-Pharazon hardens his heart despite the Valar sending all sorts of curses and plagues upon Numenor?
I am glad I read it, though I continue to side-eye the Valar for their Elf-favoritism and their many mistakes in handling the Elves (and Morgoth). Like, clearly their mistakes with the Elves led them to be 99.98% hands off with Men, and maybe that was also not the best idea? IJS.
So all the Elf stuff is great and tragic and entertaining - I maintain my fondness for Earendil and now also love Tuor and Finrod (and Huan! Who was a dog not an Elf but he's such a Good Boy!) - and while I have heard numerous defenses that Tolkien's not racist - and I don't think he necessarily was beyond what a white English dude in his time was (and quite a bit less than some - I don't think the Dwarves are intended to be antisemitic, for example) - there's a lot in there about men of lesser blood and swarthy men and men who haven't been uplifted by exposure to Elves that I also feel is definitely hinky but not as in your face as, say, the racism in "The Horse and His Boy" re: Calormen. The Elves themselves are definitely kind of racist and the text supports their feelings of clear superiority, which make me like them slightly less even as it makes them slightly more #relatable.
I think mostly despite loving many of the Elves, I feel like Men get a raw deal here (death is a gift but we can't tell you how or why...sounds fake but okay), and only by being Elf-like can we overcome and not fall into darkness? And part of me feels like this is a comparison between pre- and postlapsarian people, but like, the Elves fell too! What else is the Kinslaying but a most grievous fall?
Anyway, I'm glad I reread it (and understood it this time!) - it has some fantastic stories in it - but there was also stuff that made me cringe a little (also, too much time on Turin! Not enough time on Tuor!). I'm also glad I read the Tor.com primer, which made it easier to keep track of who was who etc.
What I'm reading now
I didn't intend to start rereading The Hobbit, but it's kind of right there waiting when you finish the Silm, so, yeah, I started rereading it last night before bed. *hands*
What I'm reading next
I don't know. I don't intend a full LotR reread, but we'll see what happens.
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