Home!
*flop*
hooooome
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#hoooooome #my very own couch to convalesce on #my very own bed to sleep in #complete with humidifier/white-noise-generator to drown out my parents’ snoring down the hall #my very own health card in case I trip and break something #(we *did* have travel insurance) #(but it doesn’t completely soothe the paranoia) #hooooooome #oh look an original post #our home and cherished land
Stop the clock. Two years, ten months between colds.
It was a good run. I would have preferred it to last a couple more days so I could get back from vacation first, but still.
(And hey, I managed to stay well for an additional week after Dad and Brother got sick. I looked ridiculous wearing a surgical mask on the airplane–I’m not in a culture where it’s standard–but it was probably a good move.)
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#I promised the universe I wouldn’t complain if I caught a cold* on vacation #*offer not transferable to any other illnesses #as long as it waited to manifest until I got back #but it didn’t wait #so I’m complaining #I’m so glad we brought a bottle of decongestant ‘just in case’ #illness tw #oh look an original post
How come I haven’t seen anyone talking about the end of dashboard nested reblogs except in future tense? I’m already seeing the new design. Am I actually in the first wave of a gradually rolled-out update for once?
I’m hopeful about it, really. Sure, every change takes some getting used to, and it’s a little annoying not being able to see at the beginning of a thread how many entries it has, but I do like actually having people’s names next to their writings.
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #(which I use for all posts regarding Tumblr updates) #oh look an original post
‘“You know,” Harry’s voice said quietly from beside him where his arms leaned on the railing next to Draco’s, “one of the things that Muggles get really wrong, is that they don’t turn all their lights out at night. Not even for one hour every month, not even for fifteen minutes once a year. The photons scatter in the atmosphere and wash out all but the brightest stars, and the night sky doesn’t look the same at all, not unless you go far away from any cities. Once you’ve looked up at the sky over Hogwarts, it’s hard to imagine living in a Muggle city, where you wouldn’t be able to see the stars. You certainly wouldn’t want to spend your whole life in Muggle cities, once you’d seen the night sky over Hogwarts.”‘
excuse me but fuck you
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#Brin reads HPMOR #Brin is touchy about stars #I think this is a stronger version of the reaction I had a couple dozen chapters ago #when he casually claimed that human emotions were universal among humans #I know *very* well that just because you’re running on human wetware *doesn’t* necessarily mean you’ve got the full suite of human emotions #very well indeed #oh look an original post #things that make me uncomfortably aware of my apparent inability to feel awe
“I will only ask that you think twice and ponder three times again, the next time someone tells you to distrust me.”
…because that’s not suspicious at all. Especially from someone who proceeds to more or less state outright that he knows he’s in a fantasy novel, inhabiting the role of mentor.
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#Brin reads HPMOR #mostly unspoiled #a while back I was thinking about The Boy Who Cried Wolf #the supposed moral is that lying is bad #the friendly neighbourhood Cardassian thinks the moral is that one should never tell the same lie twice #but it seemed to me that the moral is that a reputation for honesty is important #not *being* honest mind you #having a *reputation* for honesty #tell enough truths for a long enough time and people will believe the first lie you tell #save up social currency so you can spend it at the right moment #sounds to me like Dumbledore’s making a deposit #(I guess I’ll find out) #oh look an original post
Arrogant little bastard, but so entertaining.
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#five points to anyone who correctly guessed I was referring to Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres #(I wouldn’t be *too* surprised if someone actually *did* guess) #last night I was upset and looking for a good distraction #and it occurred to me that I would like to be a person who has read HPMOR #so I can understand better when people talk about it #(Worm will have to wait) #and I’ll probably enjoy the process of becoming such a person because I enjoyed other stories in the genre #and stories of that genre *are* very distracting #distracting enough that summer break is probably the best opportunity I’ll get to read such a long one #so basically there’s no time like the present #except not really because fifteen minutes before bedtime is a *terrible* time to start reading a book you expect to be page-turny #so I waited until morning #ftr I mentally composed this post halfway through Chapter 14 and wrote it up and posted it after finishing the chapter #I tagged the other post involving HPMOR #I still don’t have a rationalist tag #which is a weird thing to use as a category tag but maybe I will go back and add a proper one later #I’ll also throw in #Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality #tag rambles #oh look an original post
“Fun” Tumblr fact of the day: if you have HTML in your blog’s sidebar profile, you have to re-code all of it (manually; there’s no Rich Text Editor that I could find) every time you edit that profile in any way. Otherwise, the HTML will be stripped from the new profile.
(I’ve only tested this with links, but I doubt the rest is any better.)
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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #oh look an original post #this post prompted by someone who asked for clarification on the original version of my profile #I went to rephrase it to make it more clear it was a link and accidentally *removed* the link #figured it out though #(and she just sent me an ask saying that wasn’t actually the problem anyway) #(but this is still good information so I will leave it)
vaaaacaaaationnnn
eeeeeeeeeeee
(I didn’t talk about finals here while they were happening because I was worried it would make it seem too viscerally, overwhelmingly real. But, now they’re over! I got an A in English; I don’t have the results for Java yet, but all of the exam questions were about very familiar stuff, so I feel really good about my answers.)
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#adventures in University Land #oh look an original post #we are going to the local Italian place tonight to celebrate
My second Crawl win! (The first was with a Spriggan Enchanter of Okawaru back in February 2013, in version 0.11.)
(For those of you unfamiliar with Crawl*, I’m called a “Politician” because I’m very good at backstabbing. (Only in the literal sense, though.) For those of you unfamiliar with roguelikes in general, Crawl is not an easy game to win. There was a statistic on the dev-blog a little while ago that 98% of games played on the online servers end in a loss, and that’s lumping the games of uber-players in with everyone else.)
Now that I’ve finished my current Crawl game, I’m going to give Rogue a try. I’ll be using this browser emulator, which was making the rounds on Tumblr a while back. I was catching up on @Play today and found a link to this Rogue guide, but I won’t use it right away: I want to see how much of the game I can understand using only my (slightly rusty) fluency in Nethack (plus the occasional thing I remember from reading @Play).
*Which might be all of you. I know comparativelysuperlative and amaranththallium both speak a couple different dialects of Nethack, but I don’t know what else they speak.
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#Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup #roguelikes #obvious GIMP is obvious #(I play Crawl under a different username) #I’ve been in a roguelike mood the past few days #oh look an original post
This is my home! This is my home! How can you sit here within it and tell me that nobody lives here?!
(and say it like it’s obvious, say it with condescension, I am so fucking sick of my lived experience being met with condescension and casual declaration of impossibility, or at best saying that it may well have happened but I should still shut up and just let the first-generations speak, their problems their experiences are more numerous more important the only ones worth public acknowledgement)
(You say you want a world like mine, a world with people like me in it. You say you work to achieve it, to achieve us. Decide now how you will react to us when we come to be, for we are already here. You cannot afford to wait until you deem the tide to be turning in your favour, for the world is vast and contains multitudes and the tide is always in your favour somewhere, even if those places are small. Even if those places are small, they may still be big enough to raise a child.
Decide now. Decide wisely.)
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#my issues with sj let me show you them #in which Brin hails from a subculture in deep denial about its own subcultural status #did you know? #in the particular SJ sub-subculture where I was raised ‘queer’ *had been* reclaimed #past tense #it was just what you said when you wanted an umbrella term for people who weren’t straight #(sometimes also people who weren’t cis) #you didn’t have to be queer to use it #connotations of the word were neutral-to-positive #I didn’t even know for seventeen years that it had *ever* been negative #that’s how thoroughly it had lost that negativity #I’m probably the only person reading this who actually knows what a successfully reclaimed word looks like in practice #everyone else I’ve met on the Internet comes from places where it hasn’t been done and thinks those places are the only places #I’ve watched that ignorance hinder their own attempts at reclamation #rants #oh look an original post #(I’m not even thinking of a particular person right now this just happens to me a lot) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #our roads may be golden or broken or lost
