Philosophical Questions: Morals
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ysabetwordsmithPeople have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.
What are the biggest moral dilemmas your country is facing now?
Privacy, body autonomy, democracy, and climate change.
What are the biggest moral dilemmas your country is facing now?
Privacy, body autonomy, democracy, and climate change.
Everybody knows the world's gone wrong
Nov. 21st, 2025 09:48 pmsovayMy mother referred earlier this evening to the state of my health as farshlimmert, which definitely sounds classier than my saying it's gone down the tubes. On the other hand, I do not apparently have TB, so we can hold off on the consumptive poet jokes a little while longer yet.
As a reworking of Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) is trashtacular even beyond the whipsawing of its trans reading when it mixes the novella's Gothic horrors with historical ones—scrunching about six decades in the penny-dreadful process of folding in not only the Whitechapel murders but Burke and Hare, even without throwing in an allusion to Sweeney Todd or a street singer straight out of Val Lewton—but it dovetailed unexpectedly well with an article sent me byselkie about the obtrusiveness of AI-generation in art because it contains an in-camera effect so good that I stopped the film to gush about it to spatch. It's the emergence of the so-called Mrs. Hyde. One-shot, Jekyll wrenched with the effects of his absinthe-green potion buries his face in his hands, from which he slowly straightens to perceive in the same cheval glass that witnessed his convulsions a woman as severely dark-haired, night-pale and shocked as himself, who she is. It's not a trick of double exposures or duplicate sets or dissolves. While the camera tightly pivots behind the hunched protagonist, it looks as though a slight adjustment to the angle of the mirror allows an otherwise offscreen Martine Beswick to reflect beyond the identically dressed shoulder of Ralph Bates, their breath heaving in time, their hands slowly unmasking their shared face. It's very simple and uncannily effective. In some ways I find it more impressive than the red-filter transformation of Fredric March in the 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it's all sightlines. He's never out of shot and she's suddenly in it. Especially to an eye distracted from consideration of the sets or the cinematography by the switch of actors in the glass, it looks impossible. And someone had to think of it, or at least translate it from a stage illusion. It has never broken a film for me to see how a practical effect is done, which feels different from the suspicion of how much of an image is AI-slopped.
The almost talking blues whose first two lines I missed tonight on WERS turned out to be Lucinda Williams' "The World's Gone Wrong" (2025).
P.S. And a random thirty seconds of Clive Francis mixed in with the bleak London ultraviolence of Villain (1971), why not?
As a reworking of Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) is trashtacular even beyond the whipsawing of its trans reading when it mixes the novella's Gothic horrors with historical ones—scrunching about six decades in the penny-dreadful process of folding in not only the Whitechapel murders but Burke and Hare, even without throwing in an allusion to Sweeney Todd or a street singer straight out of Val Lewton—but it dovetailed unexpectedly well with an article sent me by
selkie about the obtrusiveness of AI-generation in art because it contains an in-camera effect so good that I stopped the film to gush about it to spatch. It's the emergence of the so-called Mrs. Hyde. One-shot, Jekyll wrenched with the effects of his absinthe-green potion buries his face in his hands, from which he slowly straightens to perceive in the same cheval glass that witnessed his convulsions a woman as severely dark-haired, night-pale and shocked as himself, who she is. It's not a trick of double exposures or duplicate sets or dissolves. While the camera tightly pivots behind the hunched protagonist, it looks as though a slight adjustment to the angle of the mirror allows an otherwise offscreen Martine Beswick to reflect beyond the identically dressed shoulder of Ralph Bates, their breath heaving in time, their hands slowly unmasking their shared face. It's very simple and uncannily effective. In some ways I find it more impressive than the red-filter transformation of Fredric March in the 1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because it's all sightlines. He's never out of shot and she's suddenly in it. Especially to an eye distracted from consideration of the sets or the cinematography by the switch of actors in the glass, it looks impossible. And someone had to think of it, or at least translate it from a stage illusion. It has never broken a film for me to see how a practical effect is done, which feels different from the suspicion of how much of an image is AI-slopped.The almost talking blues whose first two lines I missed tonight on WERS turned out to be Lucinda Williams' "The World's Gone Wrong" (2025).
P.S. And a random thirty seconds of Clive Francis mixed in with the bleak London ultraviolence of Villain (1971), why not?
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Nov. 21st, 2025 10:39 pmride_4everEver since Marjorie Taylor Greene "informed" us that California wildfires were being caused by "Jewish Space Lasers" I have been obsessed with making a mockery of her. (Hey, I'm Jewish, and if I had control of some space lasers I would NOT be using them to set California on fire.)
Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.
At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.
Bonus Image:
Now I see that she is resigning from Congress after The Orange One called her "wacky"...which is the first time I've ever agreed with something he said.
At this juncture I would like to show what I have created with my Refrigerator Magnet "What Will Marjorie Taylor Green Say Next" Conspiracy Kit.
Bonus Image:
Today's Smoothie
Nov. 21st, 2025 10:46 pmysabetwordsmithToday we made a smoothie with:
1 cup Pom pomegranate-blueberry juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice
The result is bright red-violet and on the thin side. It has a deeper fruit flavor from the pomegranate -- a nice fall smoothie.
1 cup Pom pomegranate-blueberry juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice
The result is bright red-violet and on the thin side. It has a deeper fruit flavor from the pomegranate -- a nice fall smoothie.
music I have been listening to lately
Nov. 21st, 2025 08:43 pmsnickficI finally wore myself out on Oasis and Lord Huron for a minute or two, so here are some things I've been listening to instead.
In the Earth Again by Chat Pile (noise rock/sludge metal) and Hayden Pedigo (acoustic guitarist). A bluesky friend turned me onto this, which is a really pleasing mix between menacing electric guitar and beautiful, contemplative acoustic, among other sounds. The concentration of each varies a lot depending on the track. I still don't love metal singing, and honestly there's only maybe two tracks here that I would choose to listen to on their on, but the interplay of all the elements never gets boring.
Lux by Rosalia. I don't feel musically educated enough to really appreciate this, lol, but it's gorgeous! I do lose steam towards the end once things get slow, but I really enjoy the first half or maybe 3/4.
"House" and "Chains of Love" by Charli XCX. My most recent obsession. Apparently she's making an entire concept album to accompany the new Wuthering Heights adaptation directed by Emerald Fennell? Okay!! I'm only mad I have to wait until February for the album, because I love these. "House" is pretty far outside my usual listening, and she's barely even on it, but that big moment the tuba comes in and then she follows? Incredible. And "Chains of Love" is more conventional and might not have grabbed me on its own, but paired with "House," idk, it really works for me.
Is this what finally gets me to click with Charli XCX? Signs point to yes.
In the Earth Again by Chat Pile (noise rock/sludge metal) and Hayden Pedigo (acoustic guitarist). A bluesky friend turned me onto this, which is a really pleasing mix between menacing electric guitar and beautiful, contemplative acoustic, among other sounds. The concentration of each varies a lot depending on the track. I still don't love metal singing, and honestly there's only maybe two tracks here that I would choose to listen to on their on, but the interplay of all the elements never gets boring.
Lux by Rosalia. I don't feel musically educated enough to really appreciate this, lol, but it's gorgeous! I do lose steam towards the end once things get slow, but I really enjoy the first half or maybe 3/4.
"House" and "Chains of Love" by Charli XCX. My most recent obsession. Apparently she's making an entire concept album to accompany the new Wuthering Heights adaptation directed by Emerald Fennell? Okay!! I'm only mad I have to wait until February for the album, because I love these. "House" is pretty far outside my usual listening, and she's barely even on it, but that big moment the tuba comes in and then she follows? Incredible. And "Chains of Love" is more conventional and might not have grabbed me on its own, but paired with "House," idk, it really works for me.
Is this what finally gets me to click with Charli XCX? Signs point to yes.
current stitching
Nov. 21st, 2025 08:22 pmthistleingreyThe Sundial WIP has nudged me repeatedly to consider contrasts.
Unlike with simple stripes, where two hues are adjacent, in Sundial several hues meet at once. Per pattern-segment, the three hues to consider are for the current primary yarn; the outbound secondary, which was primary in the prior segment; and the inbound secondary, which will become primary next.
Beyond that, a bunch of my yarn leftovers are variegated, such that more than three colors may be in play at once, and the variegation occurs at different rates and intensities. That's what makes the project akin to thread-on-cloth quilting, except that unlike most quilters, I don't have to care (and indeed I don't care at all) whether a section is coordinated. There's a rather small box, yarn-ball wide by about 9" = 24 cm long, to hold the working yarn and the next colorway or two. Though I set it up to keep the working yarn from rolling around (and to remind tiny housemate that whatever's in a container, even an open one, isn't for dogs), it also limits accidental overplanning.
So far, for Sundial I've broken into unused skeins only once, and undone stalled projects twice. The three skeins were bought 9, 12, and 14 years ago, respectively, each for socks I won't knit. I may yet knit socks sometime, but I'm sure not knitting any right now.
Unlike with simple stripes, where two hues are adjacent, in Sundial several hues meet at once. Per pattern-segment, the three hues to consider are for the current primary yarn; the outbound secondary, which was primary in the prior segment; and the inbound secondary, which will become primary next.
Beyond that, a bunch of my yarn leftovers are variegated, such that more than three colors may be in play at once, and the variegation occurs at different rates and intensities. That's what makes the project akin to thread-on-cloth quilting, except that unlike most quilters, I don't have to care (and indeed I don't care at all) whether a section is coordinated. There's a rather small box, yarn-ball wide by about 9" = 24 cm long, to hold the working yarn and the next colorway or two. Though I set it up to keep the working yarn from rolling around (and to remind tiny housemate that whatever's in a container, even an open one, isn't for dogs), it also limits accidental overplanning.
So far, for Sundial I've broken into unused skeins only once, and undone stalled projects twice. The three skeins were bought 9, 12, and 14 years ago, respectively, each for socks I won't knit. I may yet knit socks sometime, but I'm sure not knitting any right now.
Blocco 181 | Bea/Ludo/Mahdi
Nov. 21st, 2025 11:30 pmmaevedarcy posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
tvfanfictionTitle: we've only got so much time
Fandom: Blocco 181
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Summary: Mahdi finds himself sharing his clothes with Ludo and Bea.
Notes: Written forpolyshipweek day 3: sharing clothes
READ ON AO3
Fandom: Blocco 181
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Summary: Mahdi finds himself sharing his clothes with Ludo and Bea.
Notes: Written for
polyshipweek day 3: sharing clothesREAD ON AO3
Friday is thankful it is Friday finally...and the Vertigo is gone!
Nov. 21st, 2025 06:30 pmshadowkatI'm procrastinating dinner, mainly because I don't know what to eat? (I have to throw out the chicken and chicken soup that I made last weekend - and haven't touched, after getting incredibly ill. I didn't get ill because of it? But the idea of reminds me of it - so just no.)
Both Crazy Workplace and Apartment Complex are having holiday parties the second week of December, and since I will be around - I should probably go to them. ( Read more... )
There's a new list of top 100 books - that is kind of interesting? - it's the Australian Radio List or what I want to call the Top 100 Books that have been, will be or are soon to be adapted into movies or television series. I've either read, tried to read, seen or tried to watch over half of them - some I have on my to see/to read list, and actually own. I could literally go down a good portion of that list and give recommendations. I'm tempted.
Decided on the left over baked salmon, celery, carrots and some quinoa.
Then watched Buffy S4 Primeval, after watching Yoko Factor the night before.
Buffy S4 Rewatch - Yoko Factor and Primeval
After watching Yoko Factor again, I get why the fandom split over the character of Spike to the degree it did? I'd forgotten how cool Spike was as an anti-hero character, and how good an antagonist. ( Read more... )
What's interesting about Angel and Buffy's cross-overs to each other's series - is that Buffy only crosses over to Angel in S1. ( Read more... )
At any rate, Yoko Factor reminds me of why I love this series. Snappy banter, which is just a joy to behold (a lot of television writers ironically can't write dialogue - how they become television writers without being able to write good dialogue is beyond me?). Also, Adam is actually palpable in the episode - due to Spike. I was actually rooting for him to get his chip out and disappointed he didn't. Although, they'd have to kill him off. So that wasn't happening.
There's a hilarious scene where Xander gives Spike a gun, and Spike gleefully points it at him - only to get a migraine. ( Read more... )
Primeval - eh, this feels like watching a bad comic book brought to life. I remember liking it better in the early 00s. It doesn't age well, and is kind of on the campy side? Forrest is ...annoyingly misogynistic - so much so, that it doesn't surprise me that Whedon went there again with Warren and Caleb. I prefer the villains who aren't misogynistic. I really did not like the villians in S4 at all. This episode just reminds me of why.
( Read more... )
Note while this is the last arc episode? It's not the last episode of the season. Which is interesting, and different from S1-3, in which it would have been the last episode. Showing that S4 was meant to be a bridge episode between S3 and S5.
Some say this is the best episode of S4, IMBD did, which makes me wonder about some of their reviewers? I mean obviously HUSH is the best episode, with several others coming close. HUSH is among the best of the series. Each season has one or two standout episodes. S4 is hands down - HUSH.
***
Crazy Workplace
Breaking Bad: I swear this place could be a Paddy Chafesky play. It is a Paddy Chafesky play. It might even be better if it was.
Me: Paddy Chafesky wrote Network right?
Breaking Bad: Yup, excellent writer.
ME: Agreed. I read all his plays in high school. (Don't remember them, but I did read them.)
I even put a Paddy Chafesky quote from NETWORK in my high school yearbook. "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take any longer." I kind of regret doing that. But I found it amusing at the time.
***
Now that the Vertigo is blessedly gone, I've a ENT on Monday about it. (Taking the day off.) I'd rather have had the ENT appointment on Tuesday when it was still there, bugging me. On the other hand - I wouldn't have been able to get to the ENT appointment or provided coherent information, so maybe not.
Both Crazy Workplace and Apartment Complex are having holiday parties the second week of December, and since I will be around - I should probably go to them. ( Read more... )
There's a new list of top 100 books - that is kind of interesting? - it's the Australian Radio List or what I want to call the Top 100 Books that have been, will be or are soon to be adapted into movies or television series. I've either read, tried to read, seen or tried to watch over half of them - some I have on my to see/to read list, and actually own. I could literally go down a good portion of that list and give recommendations. I'm tempted.
Decided on the left over baked salmon, celery, carrots and some quinoa.
Then watched Buffy S4 Primeval, after watching Yoko Factor the night before.
Buffy S4 Rewatch - Yoko Factor and Primeval
After watching Yoko Factor again, I get why the fandom split over the character of Spike to the degree it did? I'd forgotten how cool Spike was as an anti-hero character, and how good an antagonist. ( Read more... )
What's interesting about Angel and Buffy's cross-overs to each other's series - is that Buffy only crosses over to Angel in S1. ( Read more... )
At any rate, Yoko Factor reminds me of why I love this series. Snappy banter, which is just a joy to behold (a lot of television writers ironically can't write dialogue - how they become television writers without being able to write good dialogue is beyond me?). Also, Adam is actually palpable in the episode - due to Spike. I was actually rooting for him to get his chip out and disappointed he didn't. Although, they'd have to kill him off. So that wasn't happening.
There's a hilarious scene where Xander gives Spike a gun, and Spike gleefully points it at him - only to get a migraine. ( Read more... )
Primeval - eh, this feels like watching a bad comic book brought to life. I remember liking it better in the early 00s. It doesn't age well, and is kind of on the campy side? Forrest is ...annoyingly misogynistic - so much so, that it doesn't surprise me that Whedon went there again with Warren and Caleb. I prefer the villains who aren't misogynistic. I really did not like the villians in S4 at all. This episode just reminds me of why.
( Read more... )
Note while this is the last arc episode? It's not the last episode of the season. Which is interesting, and different from S1-3, in which it would have been the last episode. Showing that S4 was meant to be a bridge episode between S3 and S5.
Some say this is the best episode of S4, IMBD did, which makes me wonder about some of their reviewers? I mean obviously HUSH is the best episode, with several others coming close. HUSH is among the best of the series. Each season has one or two standout episodes. S4 is hands down - HUSH.
***
Crazy Workplace
Breaking Bad: I swear this place could be a Paddy Chafesky play. It is a Paddy Chafesky play. It might even be better if it was.
Me: Paddy Chafesky wrote Network right?
Breaking Bad: Yup, excellent writer.
ME: Agreed. I read all his plays in high school. (Don't remember them, but I did read them.)
I even put a Paddy Chafesky quote from NETWORK in my high school yearbook. "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take any longer." I kind of regret doing that. But I found it amusing at the time.
***
Now that the Vertigo is blessedly gone, I've a ENT on Monday about it. (Taking the day off.) I'd rather have had the ENT appointment on Tuesday when it was still there, bugging me. On the other hand - I wouldn't have been able to get to the ENT appointment or provided coherent information, so maybe not.
Holiday Wishes 2025
Nov. 21st, 2025 04:30 pmused_songs posting in holiday_wishesHappy Holidays, holiday_wishes folks. My list is all free stuff (except for postage), because all I really want is connection with other kind, reasonable humans.
holiday_wishes folks. My list is all free stuff (except for postage), because all I really want is connection with other kind, reasonable humans. - I would love to exchange cards, snail mail, and postcards with anyone out there who likes to receive and send mail.I'm in the US, but I am happy to send mail internationally. DM for my address.
- I would love recs for art and/or craft projects that don't require a huge investment of money. I sew, draw a little, journal, and make zines, but I would love to try something different.
- This year I have started getting into horror books in a big way and I would love your recs. The best one I read this year was Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I don't like serial killer narratives, but I am open to most anything else.
- I started a new job this year, and I have decided my default vibe is goth Jessica Fletcher. Point me in the direction of cool ideas to make that happen, please! Right now it's mostly been scarves, cardigans, and pins, but I know I can do better.
- Like everyone on AO3, I would love for people to read my fic!
- Remember the old internet? I miss mp3 blogs, personal blogs, rings, goofy graphics, small archives, passion projects, and the like. Point me in the direction of some forgotten corners of the web that you love.
- Rec me a song that makes you happy. It's been a dour world lately, and like everyone else I need some cheering up. What is a song that brings you joy?
- Tell me a little known historical fact, the more obscure and the more local to you the better. I'm never going to know everything or get to go everywhere, but I always want to know more.
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I miss channel surfing on the boob tube.
Nov. 21st, 2025 03:31 pmrogueslayer452Taken from thefridayfive:
01. What's your favourite TV network?
I'm not much of a watcher of traditional television these days so I'm uncertain which networks even exist anymore that aren't streaming services, individual or merged.
Back in the day, though, I did have some networks and channels that I really preferred to watch over others: MTV, Comedy Central, Syfy (then SciFi Channel before they completely rebranded), and the WB. Of course, they all had their fair share of issues, but I recall watching those a lot more than any other ones. Also, growing up, I watched a lot of The Disney Channel (80s and early-to-mid 90s) and PBS, that was my childhood.
02. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
I would create one where it would air a lot of media that had been lost overtime, the shows and movies that you watched but are no longer available anywhere else except from a distant grainy VHS tape recording or even just from vague memory.
03. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
I don't think "bring back" in terms of it being rebooted or anything, but just brought back into syndication and to be more known: Ocean Girl. This was a childhood favorite of mine, and Australian show that syndicated on The Disney Channel in the 90s that I adored. It features a lot of really good messages especially in relation to nature conservation, specifically that of marine life, and it's a really good scifi adventure.
04. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
There have been shows that I haven't liked for various reasons, but not enough to hate and think it shouldn't have been made, and even if I did think that there will always be someone out there who will like and find enjoyment in it even if I didn't. The only ones that are valid to think they shouldn't exist is if they actually put the real people in the show itself into real danger, like competition reality shows where people are outright harmed. That a matter more focused on ethics of the networks and producers, though, for doing such things for ratings and less about focusing on the safety of the people involved.
05. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
Anything that I have enjoyed. I'm a proud collector of physical media.
thefridayfive:01. What's your favourite TV network?
I'm not much of a watcher of traditional television these days so I'm uncertain which networks even exist anymore that aren't streaming services, individual or merged.
Back in the day, though, I did have some networks and channels that I really preferred to watch over others: MTV, Comedy Central, Syfy (then SciFi Channel before they completely rebranded), and the WB. Of course, they all had their fair share of issues, but I recall watching those a lot more than any other ones. Also, growing up, I watched a lot of The Disney Channel (80s and early-to-mid 90s) and PBS, that was my childhood.
02. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
I would create one where it would air a lot of media that had been lost overtime, the shows and movies that you watched but are no longer available anywhere else except from a distant grainy VHS tape recording or even just from vague memory.
03. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
I don't think "bring back" in terms of it being rebooted or anything, but just brought back into syndication and to be more known: Ocean Girl. This was a childhood favorite of mine, and Australian show that syndicated on The Disney Channel in the 90s that I adored. It features a lot of really good messages especially in relation to nature conservation, specifically that of marine life, and it's a really good scifi adventure.
04. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
There have been shows that I haven't liked for various reasons, but not enough to hate and think it shouldn't have been made, and even if I did think that there will always be someone out there who will like and find enjoyment in it even if I didn't. The only ones that are valid to think they shouldn't exist is if they actually put the real people in the show itself into real danger, like competition reality shows where people are outright harmed. That a matter more focused on ethics of the networks and producers, though, for doing such things for ratings and less about focusing on the safety of the people involved.
05. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
Anything that I have enjoyed. I'm a proud collector of physical media.
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Everything changes and everything stays the same
Nov. 21st, 2025 09:50 pmrosa_heartlilyThis time last year we were having conversations about organising Christmas, I was watching Rex Sterling play FFVIII, and making progress with Nano.
Today was another cold sunny day. I popped into the Pound Shop on the way to work for lighters and Lemsip - and picked something up for Younger Grandson, too.
In work, I had a refresher on mentoring from the person who manages these things. Someone has asked me to be their mentor! Finally... I'm meeting them in a couple of weeks.
Big Boss and I had a session with the PMs and LM's LM to go over our shared experiences of running projects. We got some really good ideas out of it.
One of the PMs and I are trying to work out who to include on one of their project boards. I also need them to confirm we can move another of their projects on. AND I need LM to sign some stuff off. Why do I always have to CHASE people?! Previous LM was a dream.
After tea, we had exactly the same round of conversations about Christmas. Son suggesting 23 December because he'll be working 24 and 26, and daughter saying she and sil have already booked Christmas Eve. *heavy sigh*
I played FFXII expecting to just battle my way around the Bahamut and then finish Vayne off tomorrow. I'd forgotten that once you get on the ship you're on a one-way track. And there are so many cut scenes! Although you can skip... The guards and dogs just kept coming, so I ran past them. Just managed to keep enough people alive to get through. And my gang got through the multi-boss fight. Seriously - Gabranth (again!), and Vayne in 3 forms, all with no chance to save or heal in between. Then there's the final cut scenes and the credits.
Tomorrow, I try Thank Goodness You're Here.
Finishing the day with another episode of Accused. Justice is not served.
And now, more bloody fireworks!!! WTAF?!
Today was another cold sunny day. I popped into the Pound Shop on the way to work for lighters and Lemsip - and picked something up for Younger Grandson, too.
In work, I had a refresher on mentoring from the person who manages these things. Someone has asked me to be their mentor! Finally... I'm meeting them in a couple of weeks.
Big Boss and I had a session with the PMs and LM's LM to go over our shared experiences of running projects. We got some really good ideas out of it.
One of the PMs and I are trying to work out who to include on one of their project boards. I also need them to confirm we can move another of their projects on. AND I need LM to sign some stuff off. Why do I always have to CHASE people?! Previous LM was a dream.
After tea, we had exactly the same round of conversations about Christmas. Son suggesting 23 December because he'll be working 24 and 26, and daughter saying she and sil have already booked Christmas Eve. *heavy sigh*
I played FFXII expecting to just battle my way around the Bahamut and then finish Vayne off tomorrow. I'd forgotten that once you get on the ship you're on a one-way track. And there are so many cut scenes! Although you can skip... The guards and dogs just kept coming, so I ran past them. Just managed to keep enough people alive to get through. And my gang got through the multi-boss fight. Seriously - Gabranth (again!), and Vayne in 3 forms, all with no chance to save or heal in between. Then there's the final cut scenes and the credits.
Tomorrow, I try Thank Goodness You're Here.
Finishing the day with another episode of Accused. Justice is not served.
And now, more bloody fireworks!!! WTAF?!
Life with two kids: Limited Musical Choices
Nov. 21st, 2025 09:58 pmandrewduckerWe have a Spotify family account, so I thought I'd add Sophia to it.
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!
(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
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Nov. 21st, 2025 01:14 pmgreghousesgfI really shouldn't have gone out to get more cold meds but I had no choice, I needed them and there was no other way to get them. It's sometimes a real pain having to do everything myself. I took some and they're already starting to work, I just have to get as much rest as I can so I'm OK for Thanksgiving.
Science
Nov. 21st, 2025 02:59 pmysabetwordsmithLight has been hiding a magnetic secret for nearly 200 years
New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes through certain materials. Their work challenges a 180-year-old understanding of the Faraday Effect and opens pathways to new optical and magnetic technologies.
New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes through certain materials. Their work challenges a 180-year-old understanding of the Faraday Effect and opens pathways to new optical and magnetic technologies.