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5 things make a ... thing
Feb. 7th, 2015 07:15 amJust because.
1) This information tidbit has been floating around in my head since I first heard it, a few months ago, and I've been meaning to post about it:
Quote:
Unquote.
Where I found that quote, today: Sex, chocolate... new language?
I always knew words turned me on, figuratively... But it turns out they also do it literally. ;-)
2) There's a new-ish series on PBS (in its second season), called "Genealogy Roadshow." Between that, and the British (And America-clone) show "Who do you think you are?" I've now come to the conclusion that Genealogy is the new Astrology -- people searching for, and clinging to, explanations for their lives ... And, like astrology, it all works through invisible forces acting at a distance (only through time, instead of space): "My mother is an accountant, and my father is a tone-deaf real estate agent, but my third-great granduncle was a vaudevillian juggler; so that's where my drive to become a dancer on Broadway comes from!" Individual lives are so full of tiny, often contradictory details, that like horoscopes, we can all find exactly the parts of ourselves we wish to see. And like astrology, genealogy is cloaked in scientific sounding language.
...But I still like watching these shows.
3) I realized, in making a post, yesterday, that I don't have any sort of access filter for Disability-related topics (history, culture, personal confrontations with ableism, etc.). Should I? And if I made one, would you like to be on it?
4) I made a new journal icon, a couple days ago:
(text only: "Beware of the Words" in the colors of an antique book)
I have an icon with illustration of Mother Goose flying on her gander, with a witch-like hat, and carrying her crutch, and the caption: "Beware the magic of words." But it occurred to me that detail is often inversely proportional to impact, especially if (as I suspect) the associated visual image has shifted in public awareness -- When people think of Mother Goose, these days, I doubt many of them conjure up an image of a spell-casting witch that could dive bomb you at a moment's notice. ...But that's just a hunch.
5) ( Gee, didn't realize when I started this, that I'd go into such a rant. TL;DR version: Dammit, people, write your own closed caption tracks!! ) If you already take the time to check your sound levels and lighting, to edit out bloopers and reshoot scenes -- in short, if you've already decided to make sure your work has some level of professional quality before you upload it to the public sphere, you have no excuse to skip writing the caption track.
I wrote a set of instructions on how to do it a few years ago and posted it here updated a few weeks ago since Windows 8.x has made it even easier than XP did.
1) This information tidbit has been floating around in my head since I first heard it, a few months ago, and I've been meaning to post about it:
Quote:
Learning new words stimulates the same brain center as such long-proven means of deriving pleasure, as having sex, gambling or eating chocolate, a new study says.
Unquote.
Where I found that quote, today: Sex, chocolate... new language?
I always knew words turned me on, figuratively... But it turns out they also do it literally. ;-)
2) There's a new-ish series on PBS (in its second season), called "Genealogy Roadshow." Between that, and the British (And America-clone) show "Who do you think you are?" I've now come to the conclusion that Genealogy is the new Astrology -- people searching for, and clinging to, explanations for their lives ... And, like astrology, it all works through invisible forces acting at a distance (only through time, instead of space): "My mother is an accountant, and my father is a tone-deaf real estate agent, but my third-great granduncle was a vaudevillian juggler; so that's where my drive to become a dancer on Broadway comes from!" Individual lives are so full of tiny, often contradictory details, that like horoscopes, we can all find exactly the parts of ourselves we wish to see. And like astrology, genealogy is cloaked in scientific sounding language.
...But I still like watching these shows.
3) I realized, in making a post, yesterday, that I don't have any sort of access filter for Disability-related topics (history, culture, personal confrontations with ableism, etc.). Should I? And if I made one, would you like to be on it?
4) I made a new journal icon, a couple days ago:
I have an icon with illustration of Mother Goose flying on her gander, with a witch-like hat, and carrying her crutch, and the caption: "Beware the magic of words." But it occurred to me that detail is often inversely proportional to impact, especially if (as I suspect) the associated visual image has shifted in public awareness -- When people think of Mother Goose, these days, I doubt many of them conjure up an image of a spell-casting witch that could dive bomb you at a moment's notice. ...But that's just a hunch.
5) ( Gee, didn't realize when I started this, that I'd go into such a rant. TL;DR version: Dammit, people, write your own closed caption tracks!! ) If you already take the time to check your sound levels and lighting, to edit out bloopers and reshoot scenes -- in short, if you've already decided to make sure your work has some level of professional quality before you upload it to the public sphere, you have no excuse to skip writing the caption track.
I wrote a set of instructions on how to do it a few years ago and posted it here updated a few weeks ago since Windows 8.x has made it even easier than XP did.
