Sundries!

[sorcyress]

I am 'zhausted (I blame having to wake up twice this morning) and a little cranky, and really ought to be getting things done. But have a Sundries post!

Ohwow. And now that it's...like...six hours later, I'm feeling much better. In part due to my brother being an awesome dude and going grocery shopping with me (Nik is a lot of fun to hang out with, we have similarly snarky senses of humour) and in part to leiacat and bfudlmint taking me out for sushi.

Mmmmmmm, sushi.

At any rate, you should still have a sundriespost. Because a summation of my adventures of the last week is much less relevant or something.

*Shaenon says they will debut at Arisia. I am currently contemplating what the fastest way to make twenty bucks so I can buy one is.

*So, apparently Miriam-Webster does a regular "ask an editor" series of videos. Here is one about the correct pluralization(s) of octopus, a topic near and dear to my heart. Mostly because I date pretentious people.

*No seriously, Magus and I were discussing that over dinner the other night. Pretty much everyone I date is pretentious. Alternatively, everyone I date comes across as pretentious but can actually back it up. Also, if you say pretentious enough times, you start losing track of what the hell it means.

*Mx! Mx is totally my new preference for the whole title¹ thing. I agree with Racheline, it's _perfect_.

(I don't know how Rach has been pronouncing it, or how Mx Bond pronounced it, but I've been using "Mix" more or less)

*About the best thing from reading Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions (thanks xkcd) is learning that there aren't just five senses. Huh, who knew, right? I approve of this knowledge, and fully intend to use it to be an ass whenever possible.

*After taking a month off, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is back in action! There is an omake chapter² here

*What the hell livejournal. Why did you eat like...four sentances?

Anyways, have a quote:

Apparently Intuitive Eating is a thing where you pay really close attention to what you're hungry for and you eat that. You have to be careful because if you're used to policing yourself you might be all I WANT ICE CREAM just because you're used to wanting ice cream or because everyone around you is having it, but with Intuitive Eating you can have ice cream only when you genuinely want it.

At the time I thought I was only half-listening to the lady because I don't really care about eating plans and weight and stuff like that, but by the time I got home I thought maybe it sounded cool. And I was kinda hungry so I decided to listen to my body and have what I really wanted.
And I really wanted a villain from the X-Men.

This is from the super-entertaining lex_of_green and leads to Magnetoast

*jere7my grabbed me on IM the other day and told me to google image search "241543903". It's worth doing --SFW but a little weird.

*Dudes strap a camera to the tip of their sword before doing forms. Best video I've seen this decade.

(Did the decade start this year? I hope so, it'd be terribly awkward if it started in 2010, since I might have seen a better video in 2010. But maybe not. I think this is probably cooler than Bad Romance, as much as it pains me to say it.)

*Are you going to be at Arisia? Last year, sunspiral's clan determined that there were no parties that weren't serving alcohol (and therefore were all off-limits to his seventeen year old youngest child) and so they hosted a COMPLETELY AWESOME Peter Pan themed party on a day's notice and planning. It's where I met s00j, so you know they attract a good crowd.

This year, they are actively planning another awesome open-to-all party. And since Arisia is mad-science themed, the party will be Our Robot Overlords themed.

I can practically guarantee it will be well worth stopping by, at least for a little bit

*40 Dinosaurs Having Sex (nsfw if you are a dino). Exactly what it says on the tin. Except it's technically eighty dinosaurs, since it's forty pics with two dinos each.

*Have I mentioned Law and the Multiverse yet? It is an awesome blog where a couple of lawyers discuss what the legal ramifications would be should our world suddenly have superheroes in it, a la Marvel/DC/etc

*Dog is totally one of my favourite people ever. Most recently because he is doing a post in which he replies to questions with bad advice. In verse.

*The Bloggess has a New Years Resolution. It involves stopping giving heroin to cats.

For what it's worth, I have New Years Resolutions too, even though my general belief is if I want to change something, I should do it soon. According to the file on my computer, they are:

• Set alarms realistically and wake up with them --arrange things as to not hit the snooze button eight times.


• On 750words, reach an average of 1k words per day by the time I hit 200 consecutive days. (Currently requires writing 1157 wpd for the next 27 days (counting today))


• Don't post when emo, which is far too vague to be a useful resolution, but I'll try to keep it in mind, for everyone's sake


• Do the 100 push-ups challenge as many times as it takes to actually manage 100 push-ups. (Not starting until the semester does)


• Secret project. Oooo, ahh, secrets! I will announce it in March, if it goes well. If it does not go well, I will quietly abandon it and no one will ever know. Except the people who already do. Man, I am just terrible at secrets.

And that's me! Off to do words and clean house and such.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Mr, Miss, Mrs, Ms...

2: As far as I can tell, Omake chapters are a chance for the author to just screw around and goof off. Or something like that?

ETA: I'd like to add an informal goal of getting the whole of my livejournal tagged. It is really a thing I need to do if I want to be useful.

Comments

[londo.livejournal.com]

Maybe there are forty couplings constructed of forty dinosaurs.

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Your robot overlords party link is Swedish Chefed.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

No, if it were Swedish Chefed it would look like this:

Ereesia Rubut Perty!
Deer evesume-a Ereesia fulks!

Du yuoo remember zee Vunderlund/Peter Pun perty lest yeer? Deed yuoo lufe-a it leeke-a ve-a deed? Thees yeer, ve-a're-a hefeeng unuzeer greet perty! Thees letter ooootleenes zee beseecs ooff it:

Greeteengs Hoomuns,

It hes cume-a tu oooor Rubut Ooferlurd ettenshuns thet yuoo ere-a huldeeng a Med Sceeence-a zeemed cunfenshun veethuoot ecknooledgeeng zee fest lundscepe-a ooff emezeeng cuntreebooshuns tu med sceeence-a mede-a by yuoor Rubut Ooferlurds. Tu thees ind, ve-a hefe-a deceeded tu huld a [perty] vhere-a yuoo veell cume-a und leern ebuoot zee emezeeng instunces ooff yuoor Rubut Fureuferlurds.

Ve-a hefe-a demucreteecelly ilected hoomun representeteefes tu hust zee perty. Pleese-a shoo yuoor unsverfeeng luyelty. Ell yuoo need tu du is shoo up (ettendunce-a is mundetury) und hefe-a [foon].

Seegned,
Yuoor Rubut Ooferlurds

Suoonds emezeeng, duesn't it? Throoeeng a perty is a beeg choonk ooff vurk, und is deffeenitely a cummooneety iffffurt. Oooor perty lest yeer ves su greet becoose-a ooff cuntreebooshuns frum peuple-a joost leeke-a yuoo. Hoo yuoo cun help:

Dunete-a muney tu zee coose-a! Muney veell be-a used tu booy reffreshments und decureshuns tu meke-a zee reeght etmusphere-a. Duneshuns cun be-a sent thruoogh peypel tu vetermuseeec [et] gmeeel [dut] cum, oor yuoo cun cuntect me-a in persun et zee seme-a i-meeel eddress. Ifee $10 gues a fery lung vey. Dunurs veell be-a poobleecly thunked et zee perty.

Fuloonteer fur us! I-meeel me-a su I cun get in tuooch veet yuoo et zee cunfenshun. Zeere-a veell be-a reffreshments tu set up, decureshuns tu hung, und infeeteshuns tu spreed oooot ebuoot zee cunfenshun.

Shoo up und breeng yuoor freeends! Reelly, it's zee peuple-a vhu creete-a zee perty, und ve-a cun't du it veethuoot yuoo. Keep un iye-a oooot fur zee ruum und teeme-a, und zeen shoo up! Thees is fery speceefficelly un elcuhul-und-luood-mooseec-free-a perty. Ve-a vunt peuple-a ooff ell eges tu meet iech oozeer und hefe-a a guud teeme-a!

Oooor iffffurt is tu lefeesh ettenshun und resuoorces oon ifeneeng ifents geered tooerd inclooseeun, tu prufeede-a elterneteefes tu zee mure-a ixclooseefe-a und 'edoolt' zeemed perteees. Pleese-a sooppurt us in thees indeefur.

Thunks :)

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

This? Is the greatest thing.

~Sor

nits picked while-u-wait

[woozle.livejournal.com]

You're missing a footnote for #2. (Unless I'm misundercomprehendamating what "²" means in that context.)

[minerva42]

Thanks for the braindump and sweet links!

[mekthehatter.livejournal.com]

I was way too happy to see that one of the dinosaur pictures depicts the dinosaurs with feathers.

Sundries?!? But it is only Saturday

[dhs.livejournal.com]

*40 Dinosaurs Having Sex (nsfw if you are a dino). Exactly what it says on the tin. Except it's technically eighty dinosaurs, since it's forty pics with two dinos each.
So... Dinosaurs don't get threesomes?

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

I keep reading "Dudes strap a camera to the tip of their..." and then reading "...sword" and being disappointed.

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

if you say pretentious enough times, you start losing track of what the hell it means.

I've found that this applies to most any word. I think if you repeat a word a bazillion times you start to focus on the phonemes and how they fit together and how they feel rather than the meaning, for whatever reason. (Relatedly, many words that are not ordinarily amusing at all become hilarious when repeated repeatedly.)

Also: Hooray XKCD, 'cause that wiki article reminded me of a bunch of senses that I had forgotten about (like internal stretch sensors). My favorite is proprioception, I think, both because of the word and because I like imagining explaining what it is to people and having them touch random body parts to other random body parts and end up simultaneously fascinated and in some bizarre position.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

You mean there IS a demand for booze-less con parties?

And people actually show up to them?

Note to self: consider throwing one at some point.</future plans>

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

It depends on the people, a little bit. Sunspiral's three (Folzgold, T and G) are all very charismatic and very loved in the second-gen fandom sort of way, meaning that they had a _huge_ pool of people to draw on for invitations and help. Which is not at all meant as discouragement, only to point out that they had a slight advantage that you and I might not.

They also had the advantage that no other Arisia party (that night? At all?) was open to the under-21 set. Considering I think two of them were under-21 at that point (or maybe G was and T had just turned) this was not fun, and so they decided to fill the niche for the people who wanted a non-booze, non-SUPEROMGLOUDmusic party.

When I visited the party, there were about fifteen-twenty people of all ages, music going in the background in a not distracting manner, a giant piece of paper tacked up to the wall with people drawing a map of neverland all over it, and happy fun conversations. I got the sense that this is how the party went all night, which is a-ok in my book!

~Sor

A Warning

[petrona.livejournal.com]

I did the "241543903" thing and picked up a Trojan at the official website.

[joshuazelinsky.livejournal.com]

Omake is a Japanese term that comes from anime. It essentially means "extra" and generally has fake out-takes(since they are cartoon characters) or other non-canon stuff.

[austein]

I really like these videos from the editor. Just the right level of snark :-)

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

If you find a way to edit a journal entry you are looking at, please let me know.

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[(Anonymous)]

/ You can also do searches on Twitter, where there are tons of wretirs, or look for forums on LinkedIn, where certain topics get lively responses. Don't forget in-person hanging out, too. I've been in a critique group with the same people for nearly 10 years, and we've supported each other through a lot of writing!

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[(Anonymous)]

This is the Brazil novel that deals the most explicitly with the War, what with the thleilrr plot part of it. But the effects of the War is All Over her novels in the later part of the conflict anything published 1916-1919, really. In some ways those are more interesting, in the way they handle the daily life effects on the home front, than in this one. L.