sundries

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Things I don't love about Switzerland: the motion sensor in the bathroom TURNING THE LIGHTS OUT ON ME at inopportune times.

Things I do love about Switzerland: a popular catfood brand is ExcelCat. I see it, and I think, UBERCAT. Then I am pleased.

It's warm and beautiful here today. I've been watching the snow melt on the mountains when I've not been working my ass off.

Speaking of: I feel tired and fragile.

Patty so soon! We actually have to firm up dates to try to get her over here, because it's been complicated, but if nothing else, soon I will be there. I hope she got the package I sent her today, since it has Halloween treats in it. Any joy, baby?

neo_prodigy, with significant comprehensiveness, sums up the damage done to multiple communities by various straight, white female fans who don't get intersectionality.

Haiti still needs our help. It still hasn't finished recovering from the earthquake and the cholera outbreak is just one symptom of that.

Obama says his position on gay marriage has evolved. He's just not told us into what exactly. I'm getting tired of hoping. Let's have some happening.

Basketball and the billionaire. It's always the Nets. ALWAYS.

Public chess in NYC wound up with unique (incorrect) boards. So people are making due.

Links vastly not comprehensive, because I have time and connection problems. Seek out the world!

Theater Thursdays coming later!

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

FYI, the Hallowe'en production you posted about has been cancelled due to lack of material/actors. Alas! But the contact person is interested in my work, which is cool. :) Thanks for posting it.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

ExcelCat makes me imagine kitties making spreadsheets.

And then I passed out from cute overload.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

neo_prodigy has one item of fact wrong or else needs more detail-- moon was invited to be guest of honor well before her infamous post of september 2010.

i do not dispute the rest of what he says; my energy right now is on recovering from this rather than explaining my view of what happened (not that i'm saying mine disagrees much with his). it's just that that point is wrong, and i'd like us to get in trouble for what we actually did. [sighs]

--your friendly local wiscon concom member.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Does neo_prodigy think that straight white women are somehow worse than straight white men? Why is he calling out women specifically?

I don't know, I think most of us could use lessons on intersectionality, but I've seen enough sexism from him in the past that he's not the one I would choose to take lessons from.

Obama and gay marriage

[punzel.livejournal.com]

To me, an obvious re-election strategy would be to back off on gay rights a bit, since he's not likely to lose those votes to a Republican candidate who could do better on gay issues, and it might swing some fence-sitters or even Republicans who are wary of too extreme a Republican candidate.

It's probably not going to be good news.

[marcmagus]

Back when I lived alone, I used to have a motion sensor in my bathroom. It was pretty cool not having to fumble for the switch in the dark when I stumbled in there in the middle of the night. It was a lot less cool being plunged into pitch blackness unexpectedly in the middle of a shower and having to reach past the curtain and wave my hand around to get the light back. I uninstalled it and installed a pushbutton switch in an easy-to-hit-by-touch location.

The people interviewed about the chess boards didn't seem to realize that chess is symmetric. It's exactly the same game if you play it on the mirror-image board. It just doesn't fit the patterns you recognize by sight (which is a really significant factor). Glad they fixed they promptly.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

When I see "ExcelCat" I think "cat working on spreadsheets." HALP.

Checking out the public chess and intersectionality links. I missed sundries.

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of torn about the chess thing. On the one hand, everyone who plays chess has probably gotten well into a game and then realised the board was wrong. It's not like it makes it impossible to play, which is what the article made it sound like. The worst that's going to happen is that someone will think there was an illegal queen move and then you realise the board's wrong. On the other hand, if I sat down at such a table and went to set up the pieces, I'd almost certainly end up rotating the board, i.e. standing at the side of the table, because the need to fix it would be that strong.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The summer I lived in Prague, the bathroom was tiny. When you switched on the light, it turned on a giant rattling fan that echoed in the all tile room. It was like showering in a jet engine. Eventually I gave up and started showing in the dark.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

"My position on gay marriage has evolved to where I still don't support it but you aren't allowed to criticise me for thinking you're due less rights than straight people, 'kay?"


And damn, Neo-Prodigy is summarising a lot of badness I've seen - it's kind of depressing to see it altogether there

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

the motion sensor in the bathroom TURNING THE LIGHTS OUT ON ME at inopportune times.

A particular restroom in my office building does that to me. I'm glad I'm not self-conscious about gesticulating while on the toilet to make sure the sensor senses me. It's kind of fun.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Things I don't love about Switzerland: the motion sensor in the bathroom TURNING THE LIGHTS OUT ON ME at inopportune times.

That happens at my chiropractor's office sometimes and it's very disconcerting!