5 more things
Jan. 19th, 2013 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mnil. My blanket poncho (birthday present) arrived. It's not as heavy-thick as I was expecting. But when I take it off, I notice that it had been keeping me warmer than I realized. My cat Trixie can't decide if it's the bestest thing ever, or perplexing, as it changes the feeling underfoot when she's trying to climb into my lap; OTOH, it's so fluffy!
2) Wherefore hast CBS.com not uploaded the latest new episode of Elementary? Without an antenna, I can't watch it broadcast through the air... but I still get all the commercials they would have shown me anyway, watching it online. If you've seen the episode, please to be leaving spoilers in comments...
3) Usually, I tend to stay away from things popular with large crowds of people, but recently, I've discovered the Vlogbrothers channel on YouTube. One half of the brother duo is John Green, who wrote The Fault in our Stars which has gotten positive reviews in my circles for a decent portrayal of a disabled main character, and treatment of living with illness (and which I have not yet read, but it's on my to-read list). The first time I watched one of their videos, the style struck me as off-putting and random (they tend to pop up in recommendations when you watched anything associated with geekery, such as Doctor Who clips or science videos). But, as with continued exposure to a new genre of music, I now find their style "catchy" in the same way music can be catchy. Yesterday, I left a comment on their most recent video and got 28 up votes in two hours.* Personally, I get more chuffed when someone votes up a comment I made than when they vote up a video. ... It's a sign that I'm contributing to the community dialog in a positive way. (Still got my pro-fun troll chops).
4) Daffodils are on the verge of blooming in my back yard -- the leaves are nearly full height already, and the buds won't be far behind. Friends! I've lived here going on seventeen years, and I'm still not used to the seasonal shifts down here. Daffodils are Easter's flowers! Not New Year's flowers! Ahhhhh! /o\ Full of Wrongness!!
5) I know I had a fifth thing... Ah -- now I remember:
Anyone catch the news, last week, that astronomers working with the Kepler telescope now estimate that there are roughly Seventeen Billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way? And yesterday, on Science Friday, I heard one interviewed astronomer dude say that perhaps 6% of those are the right distance from their stars to harbor water-based life.
Suddenly, science fiction seems a lot less "out there" than it did when I was growing up....
(this makes me happy)
*what I said:
(quote)
As a lifelong user of wheelchairs, I have to agree that the fault is in our stairs (and also stares) -- my arch-nemesises (nemesi?)!
What is the plural of nemesis?
Also, guys! The Evening of Awesome was awesome (thanks for the clip of your dancing feet; I noticed you had your camera out on stage).
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2) Wherefore hast CBS.com not uploaded the latest new episode of Elementary? Without an antenna, I can't watch it broadcast through the air... but I still get all the commercials they would have shown me anyway, watching it online. If you've seen the episode, please to be leaving spoilers in comments...
3) Usually, I tend to stay away from things popular with large crowds of people, but recently, I've discovered the Vlogbrothers channel on YouTube. One half of the brother duo is John Green, who wrote The Fault in our Stars which has gotten positive reviews in my circles for a decent portrayal of a disabled main character, and treatment of living with illness (and which I have not yet read, but it's on my to-read list). The first time I watched one of their videos, the style struck me as off-putting and random (they tend to pop up in recommendations when you watched anything associated with geekery, such as Doctor Who clips or science videos). But, as with continued exposure to a new genre of music, I now find their style "catchy" in the same way music can be catchy. Yesterday, I left a comment on their most recent video and got 28 up votes in two hours.* Personally, I get more chuffed when someone votes up a comment I made than when they vote up a video. ... It's a sign that I'm contributing to the community dialog in a positive way. (Still got my pro-fun troll chops).
4) Daffodils are on the verge of blooming in my back yard -- the leaves are nearly full height already, and the buds won't be far behind. Friends! I've lived here going on seventeen years, and I'm still not used to the seasonal shifts down here. Daffodils are Easter's flowers! Not New Year's flowers! Ahhhhh! /o\ Full of Wrongness!!
5) I know I had a fifth thing... Ah -- now I remember:
Anyone catch the news, last week, that astronomers working with the Kepler telescope now estimate that there are roughly Seventeen Billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way? And yesterday, on Science Friday, I heard one interviewed astronomer dude say that perhaps 6% of those are the right distance from their stars to harbor water-based life.
Suddenly, science fiction seems a lot less "out there" than it did when I was growing up....
(this makes me happy)
*what I said:
(quote)
As a lifelong user of wheelchairs, I have to agree that the fault is in our stairs (and also stares) -- my arch-nemesises (nemesi?)!
What is the plural of nemesis?
Also, guys! The Evening of Awesome was awesome (thanks for the clip of your dancing feet; I noticed you had your camera out on stage).
(end quote)
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Date: 2013-01-19 10:25 pm (UTC)4) Wroooooong!!1!! ;-)
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Date: 2013-01-19 11:19 pm (UTC)Gah!! Daffodils are my mother's Birthday Flower (April 8th -- in the snow), not mine!
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Date: 2013-01-20 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-20 07:37 pm (UTC)I moved down here for three reasons:
1) I thought winters were too hard to tolerate, especially in a wheelchair (half an inch of snow is impassible in a chair, and the ice gets dragged into the mechanics. So I thought if I moved somewhere where everybody is stopped by half an inch, I'd be on more equal ground)
2) I thought I needed to have neighbors close by in order to have community support (where I used to live, my nearest neighbor was 1/4 mile away
3) I was promised wheelchair accessible transportation.
What I've learned since moving here:
a) I have a deep psychological need for winter.
b) I underestimated the dual impacts of being a single woman in a marriage/male-centric society and the lack of visitibility.
c) The local public transit department promptly broke all promises about wheelchair accessible transportation within two years of my moving here (making eligibility stricter while simultaneously cutting back the service to make it completely unusable unless you are already living with a bus stop on your residential corner -- in other words, unless you don't need it).
My regret is deep and bitter, let me tell you... And to top it all off, the daffodils come in the entirely wrong season.