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1) Family portrait and guinea pigs being zen, plus a bird and cat deciding to keep to themselves and a happy cow playing fetch (listen to the moos!)

2) Was asked by a friend what we've been watching lately and aside from Professor T and Unforgotten on PBS, it's been rather haphazard. We're seeing Penguin Town on Netflix which is a rather fun approach to a nature documentary. But mostly we've been chugging through seasons of Hogan's Heroes. Despite it being a half hour show this isn't all that quick since their seasons were as many as 32 episodes long!

But it was doing this watch that made me uncomfortably aware of something that's becoming more and more true – the fact that one is watching an entire cast of dead people. ( Collapse )

3) I recently zoomed through various movies while working on jigsaw puzzles. This includes Ready Player One (fun shoutouts to fandom things but otherwise not memorable), Birds of Prey, and the new Suicide Squad. The latter started boring me after half an hour though I semi-watched it all the way through. I found Birds of Prey much more fun. I wouldn't call it a great movie but the pacing was good and I think it did a good job with Harley's character, plus there were some good action scenes.

I also saw Chinatown for the first time. I think it's still a standout as a good mystery. I wasn't entirely spoiled for it, but being a big mystery reader I figured out Faye Dunaway's plotline well before the reveal. Not what one would call a happy story but unfortunately much closer to reality as a result.

4) Netflix's Ramped Up War On VPNs Comes With Collateral Damage: "Torrent Freak points to a growing number of complaints on Reddit from folks saying that they suddenly can't access content they pay for, and none of them appear to be using a VPN or proxy to disguise their real IP address. Netflix's response so far has been in a few instances to try and blame the user's ISP."

5) I came across this meme and realized there was no reason it couldn't be used for meta. So here are my responses:

a) How many works do you have on AO3?

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1) A friend recently said, "All of this history is going to make a sensational thriller for a new generation in about 20 years, like WWII is for us now." I personally think that in 20 years, that generation is going to look back in amazement at how we used to live, and how careless we were about health issues among many others. I started thinking about all the changes we're likely to see this October or whenever restrictions lift completely, as well as stuff we're not hearing much about. ( Collapse )

2) An article in Dutch media is pretty clear about just how hard it is for people with the most serious cases of 19 to recover from it.

"The threshold for admitting patients to an IC is lower in Italy than in the Netherlands. It could, in addition to the extreme explosion of seriously ill corona patients, be one of the reasons that ICs are overcrowded in Italy and that hospitals are overflowing. 'In the Netherlands, there is usually much better thought about whether a patient benefits from such a long intake of ventilation,' says Van der Spoel. Whether there is corona or not: we don't just take a patient in. It is different in those countries.” ( Collapse )

3) We discovered well after the fact that Trevor had only taken a week off and the Daily Show was back all last week. But our DVR function wasn't recording it because the show title was altered and it didn't pick it up. So now we're doing catch-up. The shows were ok, as was Colbert's return from home. Sam Bee shooting outdoors was a nice change of pace. It's interesting to see these shows when they come down to the basics. ( Collapse )

4) During The COVID-19 Outbreak, Evictions Get A Pause...In Final Fantasy 14

5) Took part in an icon meme, where littlestclouds picked 3 of them for me to discuss: ( Collapse )





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1) When we're kids we get to see new skills developing all the time. When we're adults I think we tend to more often gain new information than develop a new skill. It occurred to me today that video games have appeal for a number of reasons but this is probably one of them. ( Collapse )

2) Speaking of our education system, I'd like to see if I can tempt anyone into a meme. Today I heard a radio story about new essay questions for college applicants. Given they're meant to have short answers of 250 words or less (boy does this seem brief given what I write daily!) I thought it might be fun to see what responses people can come up with, no word count needed.

Here's the set of questions:

a) If you could create a food truck, what type of food would you serve. Name the truck. ( Collapse )

3) Oddities I've come across while filling out surveys – the questions that give you the choice of "Have not done X in the last month/year or ever." That's a pretty big difference, especially for things you likely do infrequently anyway. Also, they must have boatloads of bots trying to take these things because I have sometimes had to do 3 tests in a row in order to start a survey because apparently they think I am one.

4) I've been trying out Yellowstone recently which is well done but reminds me of Mad Men in that it's well written but it's such a bunch of unpleasant characters and a regressive setting that it doesn't encourage viewership. I also began but have not yet finished the pilot of Pennyworth and it made me think of how comic book stories are approached. ( Collapse )

5) What more needs to be said? Cops Digitally Erase Suspect's Facial Tattoos To Make Him Look More Like The Robbery Suspect Caught





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1) Thanksgiving was full of the pleasantly unexpected. ( Collapse )

2) One thing I discovered during my time out and about was that we're currently getting a free sample period from satellite radio. It was a nice surprise since I was in the car much more than usual over the past few days.

It also brought home to me the things music can tell you about yourself. ( Collapse )

3) Lastly we discovered that HBO had been doing a free week so we watched Last Week Tonight each day and caught up by Sunday.

With about 6 hours left I binge watched Sharp Objects (since Mike was busy working and couldn't watch Westworld with me). I found it a mixed bag. ( Collapse )

4) Speaking of disappointments, House of Cards' final season. ( Collapse )

5) I hadn't seen the Not Your Man meme until this article but I am amused by it. I can see many fannish applications!



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1) Pillowfort's version of memes has been Blanket Boxes. I did one the other day for travel topics and decided to post it here as well. Feel free to nab it for your own.

Past

> Where is your favourite place that you have travelled to? ( Collapse )

2) Apparently sometimes the obvious needs to be stated publicly. I ran into this twice recently with the explanation for why there will be no SPN spinoff and this discussion of why podcasting is growing so slowly.

3) Interesting that Audible is investing in audio only books. It makes perfect sense for me that they're launching that with Michael Lewis, but what also interests me is that they're planning to move to creating works that aren't books at all. ( Collapse )

4) More than 1,000 U.S. news sites aren't available in the EU even though they had two years to get ready for the GDPR. Rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have opted to block their sites in Europe which includes the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Dallas Morning News, Newsday and The Virginian-Pilot.

5) Given that we are now a decade into the social media era, you'd think content producers would be more savvy about leveraging their online popularity. In this story it appears it is the regional theater who bothered to market the play's soundtrack, thus giving the play a second life and an off-Broadway run. Granted, in this case it was the regional theater who presumably owned the production as they'd commissioned it. But still.

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1) So the bad news was we didn't get to see the new Ant Man this morning. Why? Turns out that the big screen projection at our local theater has been non-functional since last week. They thought they fixed it a few days ago but no. They don't expect it to be running again until next week. Yet there was no word of this online.

However our loss is your gain. Why? Because -- baby bunny! ( Collapse )

2) Uruguay vs France ( Collapse )

3) Brazil vs Belgium ( Collapse )

4) Nabbed this meme from blueswan. I think it's no coincidence that this goes back 14 years since that was the boom year for LJ content. My very first entry was actually a month later in August. Posting in reverse chronological order. ( Collapse )

5) Because I've been busy sorting photos, I thought I'd do the same meme but with images this time.

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1) Saturday was an odd weather day. Although it hasn't been what you could call warm lately I'm trying to remember if we've had more than a few flakes of snow since Christmas. What we were not expecting was for a day predicted around 40 and rainy (which it was most of the night) to suddenly turn cold enough mid-morning to turn to snow instead. Oddly, I was reading a fic the night before where weather had unexpectedly turned stormy completely against predictions. (Turns out Thor was arriving from Asgard).

Well, we didn't get Thor but we did get a lot of birds suddenly turning up for the relative shelter of our balcony. They're apparently foul weather friends. ( Collapse )

2) I rarely do memes but I nabbed this from silverusagi because I started wondering about my own answers to it.

1. What's the largest fandom you've ever been part of? ( Collapse )

3) I imagine most have seen these charts about fanfic professions, but I'm curious what things amuse you or stand out to you?

4) This sounds like a rather interesting movie. I was struck by how different the story of her making the film was to what many men's stories are.

5) Clue’s editorial site officially launched earlier this month. "The medical establishment has made women feel like their health issues aren’t real. That their pain is imagined, that birth control side effects are inevitable and to be tolerated. Diagnoses for very common conditions and illnesses like PCOS or endometriosis come too late or not at all...We use the best available evidence to dive into topics that have long been ignored or misunderstood. Any health information we publish here has been rigorously fact-checked and edited...Content on the site is divided into four categories: Cycle A-Z, Life Stages, Culture, and Sex.

Also of interest, when trying to get funding for the site "the men sitting across from her in pitch meetings said, 'I only invest in products I can use myself.'” ( Collapse )



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shadowkat tagged me on a book meme though my participation is rather hampered by not remembering books particularly well, and having read relatively few of late. Fewer still that I felt strongly enough about to rec in any way, and I doubted at first I could even come up with 10.

But as it turned out I did find more than 10 books I've found memorable, though as I haven't read any of them in a very long time I don't know how well they really hold up.

In putting together the list what seemed significant to me is that none of these books stand alone. What I clearly loved even more than genre was seriality. Given my longtime fannishness this perhaps goes without saying but it's what leaped out at me when I began looking at my bookshelf. Second is that I love historical fiction as much as mysteries. And third that these books serve as a sort of biography. As such I decided to put them in chronological order. ( Collapse )

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A) I nearly missed the "three weeks for Dreamwidth" celebrations. I don't usually do memes but it's now not only 7 years since I've been here but almost exactly 12 years that I've been at LJ. Because I've been slowly posting all my old meta on AO3, it's made me re-read a lot of history on these sites, giving me a sense of how much time has passed. (Remember when we could only download fan vids over slow modem connections?)

So for what it's worth, some selected items from this list ( Collapse )

B) This advice is so true, and I'm glad that there's now some long-term data on comparisons between giving professional investors your money and just making some simple decisions of your own.

Anyone watch "The Big Short"? ( Collapse )

C) I've just seen Captain America Civil War today and thought it was as good as critics and fans have been saying. It's very dense though, and I found myself wishing at various points that I could be seeing it at home so I could pause, rewind, etc. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to say about it until that point.

One downside is that there is entirely too much shaky camera footage in the film. It makes following action a lot more difficult which is a real waste of great stunts.

For those who have seen it, NPR had a segment on the politics in the film which I thought was well done.



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1) My friend Paula and her daughter have been working on Burma Shave signs for classic literature. I thought these were great! ( Collapse )

It seemed to me this would work well for fandoms or well known fanworks:

Stakes Out the Graveyard/Misquotes The Bard/Needs the Scoobies/Has Troublesome Woobies/Burma-Shave

Once And Future's/In Need of Sutures/Magic's a No-No/Albion's a No Go/Burma Shave

Guns and Rock Salt/Bring Scaries to a Halt/But Mission Is Eternal/For Hunters Supernal/Burma Shave

I know other people out there can do better. Anyone want to give it a go?

2) Paula also passed along this post about The 25 Most Powerful TV Shows of the Last 25 Years. It had some interesting stories in it. Perhaps of greatest interest to fans is #17. ( Collapse )

3) I was amused by this article about Consumer Report's high rating of the Chevy Impala. "“The Impala’s performance is one more indicator of an emerging domestic renaissance,” says Jake Fisher." I guess Impalas have moved on from saving the world to saving the U.S. auto industry.

4) The next business trend? Office and home are the same for a dozen or more people. ( Collapse )

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