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1) The dream I had this morning / through the night (it was one of the ones where I'm not sure whether each cycle through REM sleep were separate dreams, or just continuing "chapters" in one long dream) included (In order of descending complexity, incomplete):
2) Last night, I watched this video, which was posted back in January to mark the tenth anniversary of the probe Huygens landing on Saturn's moon Titan. I don't have any working earphones/speakers at the moment, so if the narration and/or background music is cringe-worthy, I apologize. But I was captivated without any sound at all; you can always mute. My favorite part is at the very beginning, where you see the Earth and Moon from Huygens' p.o.v., showing just how small the Earth is, how small the moon is, and how far away the moon really is. That's what it looks like "to scale;" good to remember:
3) Last evening, while I was having dinner, I watched a grey squirrel outside my kitchen window dig up (what I think was) an acorn and eat it -- hooray for springtime cliches (and dining companions)! BTW, squirrels don't bury their acorns because they're afraid of thieves. It's just that (contrary to Beatrix Potter illustrations) they do not have tiny kitchens with tiny stoves and tiny pots. Acorns fresh off the tree have too much tannin to be edible, but autumn rains, winter snows and spring thaws all work to leach the tannin out. This is how humans do it. The squirrel way takes longer, but seems so much much easier, I'd try that method, first, frankly.
1) The dream I had this morning / through the night (it was one of the ones where I'm not sure whether each cycle through REM sleep were separate dreams, or just continuing "chapters" in one long dream) included (In order of descending complexity, incomplete):
- "My father" preparing to leave on some sort of business trip getting targeted for a fight by a street performer's pony -- which was actually two miniature men (without dwarfism) in a pantomime horse costume. The fighting style was Judo. One of the bystanders (at the curb in the taxi-pickup area) was tall woman on roller skates and her shaggy dog. The dog decided to come to "my father's" defense, but her leash kept getting tangled around around the woman's legs, and the woman got pulled (rolling) along. The scene ended when I thought, in dream: "This is ridiculous!"
- Colin Baker (Sixth actor to play the Doctor) as himself, at his current age. This time, he had a job as a department store Santa, and he was there with about half a dozen other Santa actors. There were also brief "clips" from the feature film where he'd played Santa, with moderate fame -- it was a sort of mash-up of Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life (involving the spiritual/social redemption of an alcoholic uncle).
- My favorite part of the dream was that it had this musical number (yes, even dream riffs on the choreograhy) as a background theme throughout the whole thing (or nearly) which is now an earworm in my head (not that I mind):
2) Last night, I watched this video, which was posted back in January to mark the tenth anniversary of the probe Huygens landing on Saturn's moon Titan. I don't have any working earphones/speakers at the moment, so if the narration and/or background music is cringe-worthy, I apologize. But I was captivated without any sound at all; you can always mute. My favorite part is at the very beginning, where you see the Earth and Moon from Huygens' p.o.v., showing just how small the Earth is, how small the moon is, and how far away the moon really is. That's what it looks like "to scale;" good to remember:
3) Last evening, while I was having dinner, I watched a grey squirrel outside my kitchen window dig up (what I think was) an acorn and eat it -- hooray for springtime cliches (and dining companions)! BTW, squirrels don't bury their acorns because they're afraid of thieves. It's just that (contrary to Beatrix Potter illustrations) they do not have tiny kitchens with tiny stoves and tiny pots. Acorns fresh off the tree have too much tannin to be edible, but autumn rains, winter snows and spring thaws all work to leach the tannin out. This is how humans do it. The squirrel way takes longer, but seems so much much easier, I'd try that method, first, frankly.
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Date: 2015-03-20 02:51 pm (UTC)re 3: That's a lot of boiling. :p
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Date: 2015-03-20 03:39 pm (UTC)3. It is. You can see why I think the squirrels have come up with a better solution. We could tweak it, if we must, to fit our delicate human sensibilities, by rigging up a basket lined with cheesecloth, or something, to keep out the dirt and bug poo. After all, we're perfectly happy to use the "Bury it, and don't think about it for months" technique when it comes to fancy cheeses, pickles, and wine...
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Date: 2015-03-20 05:17 pm (UTC)3. Even a non-degrading bag would do, so that one only has to dig up the bag instead of individual acorns. That way they're easy to wash, too.
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Date: 2015-03-20 05:30 pm (UTC)3. Just so... Bag and bury them at Halloween; dig them up at Easter. If they still have too much tannin, then you can boil and drain them once, maybe twice, depending on how delicate your tummy is.
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Date: 2015-03-20 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-20 05:03 pm (UTC)...But we do insist on calling ourselves "sapiens..."
*tsk*
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Date: 2015-03-22 03:51 am (UTC)I look forward to watching the Titan video later on :)
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Date: 2015-03-22 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-23 12:37 pm (UTC)http://bitchmagazine.org/post/should-batgirl-be-cured-disability-in-pop-culture
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Date: 2015-03-23 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-25 12:51 pm (UTC)http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/03/guest-post-special-needs-strange-worlds-sandra-m-odell-compassion-hidden-disabilities/
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Date: 2015-03-25 07:24 pm (UTC)I've got to say, though, the more I see the phrase "Special needs," lately, the more annoyed I get. I do not have "special" needs -- I have the same needs as every other human. ... I just have a few idiosyncratic ways of meeting those needs. It may be nit-picky, but I think phrasing like this matters, especially when its ubiquitous, because it shapes the ways our society maps itself.
You know?
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Date: 2015-03-25 07:30 pm (UTC)That article's actually part of a series at the same website, with the same title and varying subtitles, but the previous articles were either by serial Failers (didn't read) or so simplistic that I was unimpressed. If nothing else though, it's interesting imo to compare the offering from a feminist site such as bitchmagazine with an SFF site such as sfsignal.
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Date: 2015-03-25 08:02 pm (UTC)[/rant mode]
it's interesting imo to compare the offering from a feminist site such as bitchmagazine with an SFF site such as sfsignal.
Well, feminism has its own checkered reputation of ableism, but at least, if you're starting from a feminist perspective, you're probably already willing to concede the point that the cake is very likely a lie, and move on from there, which mainstream SFF is often not.
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Date: 2015-03-26 06:10 pm (UTC)That's an excellent point. I'd like to moderate my previous casual critique of "so simplistic that I was unimpressed" to acknowledge that I'm probably not the primary audience those articles were written for and at least there are multiple viewpoints building into a jigsaw, which adds complexity.
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Date: 2015-03-26 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-26 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-26 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-25 07:38 pm (UTC)http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/category/columns/special-needs-in-strange-worlds