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June 28th, 2010
 | 03:55 pm - baaaack
I have returned from the 16th century! If I missed anything in the last week that you think I really should have read/seen then link it to me here (I have tried to catch up on stuff, but probably missed some things).
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May 27th, 2009
| 02:26 pm
Informal poll;
If I were to say to you "let us get afternoon tea?" what would you think I meant by that? Er, I mean to say 'what do you think afternoon tea is, practically speaking' not 'what do you think this means about my relationship with you'. English, the language of unclearness.
No comments here, go to dreamwidth; LJ users can log in with open ID here .
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May 3rd, 2009
| 05:33 pm - Dress diaries
I needed a dress for my cousin's wedding. This one can double as a costume for off-duty Ariel Corps members methinks (from the books by Novik).
( beware the pictures )
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November 8th, 2008
| 11:42 pm - Books
I appear to be missing
a)Nightwatch (PTerry)
and
b)three Reynolds novels (revelation space + two sequels), paperback.
If you have them please own up...
(I suck at remembering what I have done with things)
ETA: found the Reynolds (I suck).
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August 27th, 2008
| 12:06 am
I went to DWCon, it was good. I got my wallet stolen (on the train going, not by nice DWcon-types), that was NOT GOOD.
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August 18th, 2008
| 05:26 pm
Food meme, from http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/uncategorised/the-omnivores-hundred/
Bold what you've eaten
strike what you won't eat
( foods )
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August 15th, 2008
| 08:27 pm
My new 'phone now has my old number. So 'phoning me will now work again.
On the SSH subject:- I've figured out the logging, it is finding chiark in the DNS but then timing out when trying to connect to it. I called O2 and they said that SSH isn't blocked by them. *sniff* why won't it work?
On different technical grrrr:- I can connect it to my computer at work via USB, this works fine (on Windows), of course it couldn't be that simple on Debian at home... (I don't know what sort of file system it is, oh well, I'll just have to take the USB cable back to work).
In entirely different news I finished one pair of socks and have acquired some more proto-sock. Socks are just the right size to knit in front of the computer.
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May 30th, 2008
| 10:41 pm
Now for something completely different!
Obviously we all remember that dress wot I started ages ago ( linky for those new to my LJ or forgetful, or not paying attention at the time or etc. etc. Progress has been made!
( now we have some more pictures )
( bonus photos of wooly things )
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May 29th, 2008
| 11:01 am
Naamah makes a nice post here about misogyny (warning, it's kinda sweary maybe NWS and your W). Anyway I wanted to pick up on a small part of it.
here's a widespread attitude that stuff on the individual, personal level doesn't count as misogyny -- one guy being an asshole to one woman does not count as misogyny. It absolutely does count. We are talking about a pattern, and a pattern is made up of individual incidents.
( my thoughts became long )
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May 15th, 2008
| 04:47 pm - A thing I hate
I really hate it when people say "you should X more, $good-thing when you X" where X is an INVOLUNTARY REACTION to something (and $good-thing is like, oh, "look pretty" or something, something for their benefit anyway).
If X is a thing I *choose* (like "wear that dress" or "come to my party") and I like you at least enough to put out the effort of choosing X so you can enjoy $good-thing then that's fine, and the phrase is just a request - could be politer (well, depends on what $good-thing is; I think it's politer to ask me to do things for you by saying what benefit *you* will get, not imagining that I will benefit from doing something *you* want; but only a little bit politer) but could be ruder. Maybe I don't like you that much (maybe 'that much' would have to be a great deal, depends on X), but it's still a polite request; even if I'm going to say "no".
But when X is something like "smile" then I just think this is so completely obnoxious. I mean, if *you* want to see me smile (maybe you don't, in which case, dur, you wouldn't be bugging me about it) then *you* should do things that make me happy because when I am happy I smile. Sure, I've got no reason to suppose that you should want to make me happy, and I'm fine with bumbling along and not smiling. And if you think "make naath happy" is over-much effort for "see naath smile" then, well, that's up to you (and no way to I expect all-people to spend lots of effort to make me happy); but you shouldn't tell me to go around faking being happy just so you don't have to cope with the idea that maybe I'm not smiley-happy right now.
(We can substitute many things for "smile" actually, although "smile" is the only thing that comes to mind that is commonly used *in public* in this way and which could easily be done immediately, most of the others are rude or more life-style comments than right-now ones like eg "loose weight").
This post brought to you by reading something libellum wrote about sexism.
And BTW it is *especially* irritating when *total strangers* say shit like this. "Smile, maybe it'll never happen" - well *maybe* it *just did*, take your oversized nosed out of my business.
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