sundries

[rm]

So, I am thinking, a pair of eye-glasses to replace my snapped cat-eyes ones and a pair of square-ish wire-rims with those transitions lenses so I can have prescription sunglasses on the cruise. Y/Y?

From the Department of WTF BBC: Should homosexuals be executed? I'm having a hard time cogently responding to this, but the very short version: you just apologized to Alan Turing, who, btw, helped save your asses in WWII. Doesn't that tell you the damn answer?

keori gives us an amazingly detailed overview of the history of impact of DADT.

Fela's Women.

Have now seen all the abstracts for Bristol.

I was weirdly and freakishly charmed by Stephen Colbert rapping with Alicia Keys last night.

More reaction to and fallout from the Chartrand mess: here and here. This is about a lot more than pseudonyms; it's about how you get paid better if you talk about how much women suck and how women on the Internet literally pay the price for all that casual vitriol from men fictive and not.

Design the next NYC condom package.

In India a call has gone out for volunteers to marry sex-workers to get them out of the biz (via catdancerz). This one's complicated and interesting.

About being a marginalized person and the expectation that you be willing to educate others about it in a way that considers their feelings, often more than your own. via i_am_schizo

Offered without my internal commentary: Looking young may mean living longer. via 00goddess on Twitter

Okay, so who exactly on the flist is going to Gallifrey One this year? I've actually lost track. Why do I need to know? Inappropriate trinket planning, of course.

Tomorrow Patty leaves for Ohio. This is *frowny face*. I will work and write like mad to catch up on everything (hi, Werewolves; hi Virtual Season; hi, ConSweet), and then when she returns on Jan 1, we get ready for the cruise!

Okay, actually, my book is back-ordered EVERYWHERE. I'm expecting the major e-tailers to get it in in time for Christmas shipping, but at this point am just not sure. I do have a decent stock of books in my house though, so if you want one and you're in the US and you need if for the holidays $14 via Paypal (sorry kids, I'm more than Amazon, list is $14.95) and I'll pick up the shipping and packing. Email or PM if interested.

Comments

sunglasses

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

If you are at all light-sensitive (light-eyed, meds, I forget if celiacs get light-sensitive) then I'd get actual sunglass tint on prescription lenses instead of transitions; it may be cheaper and it's almost certainly darker.

Re: sunglasses

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm light-sensitive, but also night-blind (although, OMG, this is finally improving -- this is a celiac thing), so I tend to like lenses that aren't very dark anyway, but a very good point. I also worry about the transitions lenses going dark or not transitioning quickly in less-bright indoor environments.

Re: sunglasses

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

My eyes adjust verrrrry sloooowly - I still have good night vision, it just takes a while for the tired muscles to get it working. I can swap sunglasses for regular glasses faster than Transitions lenses, cumbersome as that is.

Plus something just felt cooler about having Real Sunglasses, but that may just be me and years of sunglasses envy.

Re: sunglasses

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

R has transitions & one problem is when he comes inside from bright lights, it takes a few minutes for them to lighten. However, he really loves them in general.