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jeudi 8 mars 2012

Obligatory International Women's Day Celebration Post

What I'd Like To Be Doing:
  • Posting about #KONY2012 and wondering what this says about [THING] (glittering tinsel of neo-colonialism and neo-militarism yayy)
  • Rereading Ethan of Athos (yet another Bujold book) for the lulz perhaps, because it was supposed to be about uterine replicators and monasticism, and wondering about uterine replicators (and privilege, and access, and guiltily about dying in birth and its current reality)
  • Posting about what I learned about feminism in the last year
  • Posting about stupidity and control in that birth control debate (not a very good R. Catholic, I know), of which somehow the readers of Charles Stross' blog have somehow concluded that there are some people who like control over women (this much is obvious) and that some prominent people have BDSM tendencies, or something
  • Starting Internet memes, or at least adding to the humour on the Internet.
What I'll Actually Be Doing:
  • Writing about "The Boat" and cadeaux salés du sang and MacLeod and global vs local and values et cetera
  • [SOMETHING ABOUT HITLER] - Modern History student, remember?
  • Humanity in Frankenstein and Blade Runner! More fun times ahead!
  • And of course, thankfully anaesthetic maths. Not soporific, hopefully, but nicely anaesthetic.

Of course, things could always be worse - one could be an abused traumatised kidnapped enslaved Ugandan child soldier, or are they not in Uganda anymore? (no demeaning of problems in Central Africa intended, but dodgy charity campaigns...)

mercredi 25 janvier 2012

In which I post like a demented ferret on speeeeeeeed (unedited, for the most part)

Meaning, in general, inchoate squeeing because I'm posting at 1:30 am without WYSIWYG.
(Yes, I did in fact watch that episode of House. That part was memorable.)

Since this blog might as well be entirely squee and snark and no-one, least of all myself, could tell the difference, I started a more serious blog at http://purpleshift.wordpress.com/ , wherein I do [something, God knows what]. I am not, however, suggesting that this blog is now automatically funny because it is now definitely random & personal.

I honestly cannot believe that I have not previously used a "holidays" tag.

Posted 27/02/2012, 21:13

For The Great & Glorious Advance Of Science!

Or, Whenever I Read Somebodies Elses' "I Extremely Dislike This Behaviour" Posts Where They Direct Their Anger At Particular People WITHOUT NAMING SAID PERSON, My First Instinct Is To Think It's About Me And Offer To Grovel Vociferously (which is why I name the person I'm directing my anger against, in an Austenian or Brontëist manner)
Or, Sometimes I Feel I Deserved October Last Year (in a cosmically just &/or masochistic manner)
Or, Kick Dichotomies To The Curb And Go Beyond The Impossible! (in a manner that is an inverted & twisted parody of Tenga Toppen Gurren Lagann)
Or, Ethical Mad Scientists Are Not Oxymoronic (much like the content below the cut)

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY & BLATANTLY UNFINISHED BUT I NEED THE TAGS

Cut for a "meme" (well, the questions spread memetically...) shamelessly stolen from Shelley. Bolded italic text originally Shelley's, vanilla text mine.