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Dec. 14th, 2010 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressMy elljay pants are extremely bankrupt, but I'm probably going to fix that at some point. Twitter is completely not happening ever. Other...stuff.
This is mostly because Sparr was in town this weekend. Yeah. It was excellent, albeit oh-god-oh-god-oh-god1 in terms of working around my already planned schedule and needing to do homework and such. And I missed dance last night, in favour of Indian food and a printing press (and ohmygodbooks. Because ohmygodbooks. The MITSFS library is my new favourite room in the entire state.)
Soyeah. A better update of adventures may happen later, but I mostly doubt it. On the plus side, unlike the last time he surprised-visited, I actually managed to get my words done every day. Very proud of myself.
Quadrilling on Saturday went well, and I might have thoughts on that, too, but they're kinda overwhelmed by warmfuzzies and the fact that these jeans are now the best pants ever. I like people who understand me, and are willing to communicate in the methods I use best.
I have homework, and Yuletide, and...other stuff. I'm stressed and in denial, which is okay. On the plus side, there are good things this week, too!
***
Thought of the day: I am totally enamored with the concept of mad science, which basically boils down to science-that-is-awesome-and-often-dramatic. However, being a socially conscious sort of gal, it occurs to me that "mad" is a disablist term, and I am uncomfortable using it.
But how do I describe the sort of science that is more focused on electricity and explosions and cloning genetic monstrosities without using harmful language? I am leaning towards the phrase "diabolical science", but willing to entertain suggestions.
That's...all for now. Yeah. Bye!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I have probably already thought of whatever you are going to say here, and my mind is both dirtier and more witty than yours.
ETA: The first picture in this set is incredible, and not just because it totally looks like OLDman from Legend of Neil.
This is mostly because Sparr was in town this weekend. Yeah. It was excellent, albeit oh-god-oh-god-oh-god1 in terms of working around my already planned schedule and needing to do homework and such. And I missed dance last night, in favour of Indian food and a printing press (and ohmygodbooks. Because ohmygodbooks. The MITSFS library is my new favourite room in the entire state.)
Soyeah. A better update of adventures may happen later, but I mostly doubt it. On the plus side, unlike the last time he surprised-visited, I actually managed to get my words done every day. Very proud of myself.
Quadrilling on Saturday went well, and I might have thoughts on that, too, but they're kinda overwhelmed by warmfuzzies and the fact that these jeans are now the best pants ever. I like people who understand me, and are willing to communicate in the methods I use best.
I have homework, and Yuletide, and...other stuff. I'm stressed and in denial, which is okay. On the plus side, there are good things this week, too!
***
Thought of the day: I am totally enamored with the concept of mad science, which basically boils down to science-that-is-awesome-and-often-dramatic. However, being a socially conscious sort of gal, it occurs to me that "mad" is a disablist term, and I am uncomfortable using it.
But how do I describe the sort of science that is more focused on electricity and explosions and cloning genetic monstrosities without using harmful language? I am leaning towards the phrase "diabolical science", but willing to entertain suggestions.
That's...all for now. Yeah. Bye!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: I have probably already thought of whatever you are going to say here, and my mind is both dirtier and more witty than yours.
ETA: The first picture in this set is incredible, and not just because it totally looks like OLDman from Legend of Neil.
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on 2010-12-15 05:04 pm (UTC)It would be neat if we could remind the world that these characters generally represent people who have been outcast from the scientific community for their failure to meet some combination of standards of ethics, morality, and appropriate procedures for getting meaningful results. The last is why the cry of the "mad scientist" is "They all said it couldn't be done, but I'll show them!" Today that cry is usually heard when what they actually said was, "Your methodology is crap and can never yield meaningful results, stop pretending you've shown anything."
(For those playing along at home, obviously no, you can't step up as a token member of a disadvantaged group and state on behalf of that group that a term widely held by that group to be harmful actually isn't, nor can you give one person permission to use it anyway because they "don't mean it that way" or somesuch.)