wherereasonfailed

Only a 'what has actually changed' set of notes today, rather than a reflection on where I am on the goals.

craft - the middle of the year 100 days goal to have fewer WIPs is moving along steadily. I have a document and it has a lot of information / ideas in it. I have found yet another list that is to be reconciled into the main list (this one is in trello).
reading - ahead 26 'books' and 59 pages (this has not been much of a reading week).
music - Malle Symon now mostly doable at what might be a performance speed. Found a recording of someone else playing it, on a much larger recorder than I use, so the last practice I did on the alto rather than the soprano. I'm not sure if that is what made it a better run through, or maybe just I'm nearly dealing with that speed.
organisation The three boxes of fabric and yarn have been taken away; two empty boxes have been returned; it is possible some of the fabric will come back but at the moment I'm calling that specific goal complete.
writing I have spent some time poking at the neocities site. I have more text in it. I still haven't worked out how I want to handle some stuff. I also now have an airtable base with many Untapped books (it is intensely frustrating that there isn't just a list of them readily accessible, but needs must, and I'm poking at several different sources - I have a search in trove open, it has slightly more books than I've identified already).

So, I've been off poking at recorder playing websites, in an attempt to do some upskilling. At the moment, I'm thinking about experimenting with learning circular breathing, because it looks like fun.

Most of what I've been reading is fine. And then I got to this piece on mouthpieces which was going just fine when talking about two breathing styles.

Then it gets into specifying which playing characteristics go with which breathing style, which had me making that 'what are you talking about' face, because I really don't believe that ones breathing style is going to affect how one positions one's fingers, and I *really* don't believe it goes with footedness.

Then it jumped the shark.

Apparently you can tell which breathing style a person is going to be, based on the ratio of sun energy to moon energy on the day they are born. There are two links to look further in to this, and determine which side of the binary you are, but both are in German, and I decided I'd read enough.

Also: I believe that both breathing styles are useful, and it does rather depend on the type of music you are playing.

Also Also: I'm not convinced that these are all the options.

fred_mouse

From [Book Jockey Alex’s] blog:

Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2024 - while the original post was at the blog, the actual list is at ReacTor Mag.
YA Book Bundles – Science Fiction & Fantasy, Part 1
YA Book Bundles – Science Fiction & Fantasy, Part 2

general thought: Look, I get that the USA has a stranglehold on some aspects of publishing, and that someone writing from North America about books published in English is going to get a lot more options set in the USA. But for me to pick something set there to spend my precious reading time, the summary has to be spectacular. Ditto ‘class warfare (near) future dystopia’. I’m here for the escapism, dammit. In the Reactor article there were books more relevant to my interests later on, but I nearly noped out when the first five or so were so dire.

Overall - I didn’t quite make it through these lists. I found it near impossible to focus on the descriptions to see if there was something I was going to like; then I just skimmed to see if there was anything jumped out at me. Also, two of these are from 2020, so there were several I’ve either got on the wishlist, or have read. Of the ~80, I added four to the wishlist, but only one is a ‘really want to read’, and that’s because it is one of my must read authors.

The Spinoff’s best NZ books of 2024 - I found the summaries much more readable than the previous, and yet I added zero books to the reading wishlist.

The Best Books We Read in 2024—And What We’re Looking Forward to in 2025 by Words without Borders - books in translation. Another one where the summaries/reviews were interesting reading, but none sparked an interest in actually reading the books.

Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List by Sonia Sulaiman - to be fair here, I’ve read five booklists already, and I’m starting to flag. But this is the last one, and then I can close the window, and I’m very invested in that. So, I’m expecting to be unmotivated by any of the books, and that is not actually a commentary on what is written. … and then I started reading and discovered it is a stack of links. For now, I’ve shoved it into the ‘reading plans’ tab group, which is where anything online short fiction gets put until I have the oomph to read it.

kaberett

Reading. I continue to make slow progress with both What An Owl Knows (Jennifer Ackerman) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke).

Writing. Grumpy e-mails to Labour, mostly? Grumpy e-mails to Labour. Oh, and separately to the DWP courtesy of My UC Journal.

Playing. I have tripped and fallen back into 2048. I do not know why I have tripped and fallen thus. There are other things I would rather be doing. Brain whyyy.

I Love Hue current status: just started The Alchemy/Knowledge/12.

Cooking. Two new-to-us recipes from East: caramelised fennel and carrot salad with mung beans and herbs, of which I am a fan but about which A is a bit meh; and Amritsari pomegranate chickpeas, with the decaf English Breakfast I bought the other week, which I also quite liked but A was mildly dubious of.

Today has featured a different Welsh cake recipe, from one of the charity-shop books I acquired for the purposes of the special interest in EYB indexing. This one includes honey and ground mixed spice; I am decidedly disconcerted by how much they taste like Wrong Texture Mince Pies when cool.

Eating. ... yeah it's been A Migrainey Week, and has consequently contained two rounds of Wagamama. TRAGICALLY I decided on the first of these to branch out and try Not My Usual. Not My Usual turned out to contain The Dread Mayonnaise (I had been lulled into a false sense of security by the number of things called "slaw" I had recently encountered that did not contain mayo). It was mostly salvageable...

Exploring. ADVENTURES in VAN HIRE for the purposes of moving SHED. This involved heading out to Hatfield, because the one fifteen minutes up the road was already Thoroughly Booked. We got to observe MORE FLOWERS and lo they were good.

... I think that's it? I think that's it. (A also went on another adventure to acquire roof box and appropriate rack, but I stayed at home for that one.)

Making & mending. I have not, technically, actually resumed A's pair of gloves, BUT I have now got the information from A I need in order to do so! So that's a progress.

... there has also been. Event prep. So much event prep. The meal ticket booklets for crew are all done; the potions are all sliced and folded ready for laminating (except for the one that needed someone to actually finish writing what it did); ... progress?

Growing. SO MANY SQUASH. Not all of the ones I sowed, but... a lot... have come up.

Somewhat irritated that somebody found my Bravest Dwarf Pea, which had actually managed to find and attach itself to the pea sticks, and severed the stem a little below said attachment. :|

Main infrastructural progress this week was getting all the railway sleepers and shed bits up to the plot (with significant and indispensable help from A). I've not done anything with them yet but they are there, I have plans, necessary hardware is en route, etc.

What else what else? First of the beans are in the ground. I was feeling decidedly surly about my redcurrant but this turns out to have been premature and unfair -- since last weekend it's unfurled a little more and is looking much more promising in terms of potential harvest. The raspberries also seem to be very much enjoying the mulch + semi-regular watering, which is pleasing.

Observing. I totally forgot to mention in last week's section on this topic that on the ride back from Anglesey Abbey we observed Many Cowslips, including at least one that was red!

Tulips continue fantastic. Irises are getting into the swing of things at this point. The bindweed is definitely waking up...

umadoshi

Reading: Still working my way through The Spear Cuts Through Water--somewhere past the halfway point now.

Watching: I finished my Guardian rewatch!

scruloose and I finished season 1 of Kingdom and did indeed opt to hold off on season 2 until after we finish season 2 of The Last of Us. (Is Kingdom complete at two seasons? Anyone know offhand? Fear of spoilers makes me not want to search up the info.) We also saw the season premiere of TLoU and the first episode of The Pitt.

Playing: Because the evil 368chickens game keeps track and springs the number on you when you beat it, I know that when I finally rescued 368 chickens a few days ago it was after 454 tries. And for reasons that are not clear to me, the victory screen (at least in the browser version) also informs you that you can't play anymore and is all that shows if you reload. (There are ways around it, of course--incognito tabs, simply using a different browser, whatever--but it just seems weird to me. I have thus far avoided going back to it, but that just means returning to my default couple of games that I play endlessly when my brain is completely incapable of focus but needs to be doing something. >.<)

Adulting: Mid-week,

scruloose and I took the day off for my birthday and both dropped off our tax documents with our tax guy (bless our tax guy) and voted in the federal election at the Elections Canada office. I'm glad we got the voting taken care of so early--sounds like lineups for advance polls have been unusually lengthy this weekend (and here's hoping that's a good sign for the outcome!).

( under the cut: fruit and meat consumption (separately) )

Current Mood: okay

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mdlbear

For once, I seem to be mostly okay today, and on the whole I think it was a pretty good week, modulo worry about what's going on in the US. I noticed after the household seder last night that I wasn't shivering, which supports the theory that it's psychological rather than thermal. (Does not rule out something else, like iron deficiency.)

I got quite a lot done, including backing/ordering a Roamate Mobility Device (a combination rollator and powered! wheelchair), going to an initial appointment at the local hospital (mostly for bloodwork; I have another this week to discuss it, and another next month with the oncology team), helping N and N" clean up the living room (prep for Saturday's seder), filing my income tax extension, and singing at Eurofilk on Thursday (only one song, because I still suck at deciding what to sing),

And I completely forgot to include the fact that we have tulips blooming in the planters on our back deck in this week's Thankful Thursday post. I still sometimes have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I live in Nederland now, but I have to admit that tulips next to a canal are very convincing.

In case it gets omitted from wherever you get your news, yesterday Protesters gather[ed] for 'day of action' against Trump administration, Anti-Trump protests build momentum in WA: ‘We’re just getting louder’ | The Seattle Times. There have been a couple of promising court victories, but we all know how much respect the current administration has for the courts. On this side of the pond, Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling.

A few nice things in the links: there's a Capybara Cafe in Florida, and last month was the first on record when fossil fuels drop below 50% of US power mix,

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: worried but otherwise mostly okay
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: household seder last night

kaberett

Conveniently I can no longer find the bit of the allotment rules that says No Bringing In Gravel, so I am making plans to blithely bring in gravel for the sake of a base for The Shed, which is Definitely going to Happen this time, Honest.

The chief component I am now missing is a floor. Conveniently, there's an almost-complete house being built just up the road, with a big skip outside it, which currently contains several large sheets of plyboard. I can't actually get at them (it's all behind gates), but I am intending to show up on Tuesday morning and look hopeful at whoever's working there then.

(I am also missing enough sharp sand to level, and the gravel, but gravel at least should be fairly readily acquirable. It is possible I am also missing Some Important Bits Of Wood, but I care less about that because I have so many bits of misc wood at the allotment that I am pretty sure I can cobble something together.)

I am not going to manage to get all of this together before I disappear off to a field for a week, but I'm optimistic about getting it done in time to e.g. actually fill the greenhouse with chillis for the summer (an irritating amount of said greenhouse is currently functioning as storage space and actually I'd prefer it to be growing space. Actually.) Even I have now read enough guides to putting sheds together that I'm at least half-convinced I can probably actually more-or-less work it out.

... I will report back either triumphantly or shamefacedly in a few weeks' time. Watch This Space, etc.

dhampyresa

AUC, babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

fred_mouse

morning: today is an ow, stay in bed day, except for the fact that it is family dinner night; how that gets handled is for future me (although by the time this gets posted, future me might already have made notes on this)
today's digital decluttering is my 'goal setting' tab (16 tabs); plus a separate window with two potentially relevant web pages. Most of these are things that can be closed, but also I've ended up with a stack more small to do list items as follow up. At the end of the process, I had four tabs still open. One requires about an hour of follow up, one requires reading a book, and the other two are likely to be kept for the time being.
made bikkies, with help from Eldest, although they had a time based commitment so were only helpful at the start. Only filled the two good trays (I need more of these and to rationalise the assorted collection of trays, because these are the only ones I really like using, and they are a sad shadow of the ones I remember from my childhood which I really really wish I could replace) and put the rest of the mix in the freezer for some random future time. This happened because I've had several items on the counter for multiple days, and Youngest wanted to use some of the equipment, which meant that the oven would already be on. And then they were 'I'm about to do this and then the oven would be available, now is the time for the biscuit making'. And I grumbled and swore and got up and it wasn't fun but at least it is more done than it was.
family dinner went well, we went through some of the stash of stuff. This included me pulling out a box of puzzles, of which we kept one or two and the rest have gone with Middlest to see whether or not their household are interested in any. I'm assuming that they are going to bring them all back, and then I'll see about rehoming them - I'm planning on taking them to gaming, because I think at least one of the D's might be interested at least in having a play

fred_mouse

Last year I captured all book acquisitions in storygraph and made a list of books I own to prioritise reading in librarything. And then I confused matters by creating two other storygraph tags: 2024-aquisitions---read and 2024-aquisitions---dnf. I had allowed for adding acquired books to the librarything list by only putting ~50 books on at the beginning of the year.

At the start of writing this post, there were books in the storygraph 'acquired' list that had been read, so I needed to transfer those; I also decided that renaming it was useful because it wasn't grouping properly. Now, in storygraph, I have 78 unread books (including 11 that are in progress at various levels of ~~abandoned~~ forgotten about), 2 DNF and 17 read for a total of 97.

The librarything list ended up with 98 books, 36 of them with 2024 entry dates, and thus theoretically new to me in 2024. I've put reviews/ratings on 13. I've finished Passing Strange in the last week, but haven't reviewed it yet, and have 7 in the wilderness of 'in progress'.

There is obviously a significant overlap between these two lists. I didn't put everything acquired in the librarything tag, because I was capturing that in storygraph.

I was going to look at these in some detail and make commentary on my reading habits and so on and so forth, but actually, I don't think I care to. The numbers are interesting, but not really a surprise, because I know that I rarely keep to a plan and I also have a dreadful track record of reading books I own.

Going forward: I intend to do the same data capture in storygraph; I have not done the same thing in librarything. Instead, I have a tag for thestoryinside and I pick a set of books each month that meet the current selected categories, and that is causing me to read some of the books languishing on my shelves (I'm trying to remember not to put recent acquisitions on that list).

dhampyresa

To be clear: The movie is simply titled "Fanon". It's just that that's also a word and I wanted this entry title to be not confusing.

I just saw this 2025 movie by Jean-Claude Barny. It's only come out in very few French theaters (for... some... reason...) but I hope it ends up getting a wider/international release.

It's really good! It covers Fanon's life from 1953 to his death in 1961. It's mostly about his work as part of the pro-Algerian independance resistance and anticolonialism/antiracism activism rather than his work as a psychiatrist. I didn't know he was so hands-on with the resistance.

Fanon's social status as a Black French citizen is really interesting, because the film makes the very deliberate to only show scenes in North Africa. Fanon is a Black man, which makes him a victim of anti-Black racism, but the main form of racism he lives within is racism directed towards people of Maghrebi/North African origin[1]. He's a Black man but he is also a French citizen, which gives him rights and protections many of his friends don't have -- he doesn't have to obey a curfew and can't get arrested by the army, for two relevant examples.

[1] Tbh this is the main form I see racism in France take -- this isn't to say there are no other forms of racism in France, simply that the biggest racialised minority in France is people of North African descent.

I was wary of Josie, his wife, taking a completely passive role in the story. She never becomes an active character but she is still a person in her own right. I liked the scene where she quotes back more of the poem he was quoting back at Ramdane while Fanon is like ._.

One thing that really stuck out to be was how the French army was filmed. They were filmed like... Well, like Germans. As in, like how the German army is filmed in WW2 films. I don't know how else to put it? Maybe it's the thudding of the boots or the crispness of the uniforms or something but it was noticeable.

Besides the obvious warning for racism, both anti-Black and anti-North African (including one use of a slur directed at each), I should also point out that there is a somewhat graphic surgery scene at one point, an onscreen strangulation and at least two occasions of people being shot, as well as implied/offscreen torture, murder and bombings.

kaberett

Okay. SO.

Via THE GATE APPRECIATION SOCIETY on Facebook, earlier today I became aware of the Ginkgo Gates at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens. I took one look at the short sections and went I WANT TO KNIT IT.

Ergo lireavue went and poked Ravelry with sticks, and... this shawl fell out.

There Was Shrieking.

And then the shrieking Intensified because all of a sudden the outline of a possible character for the game that Admin: the LRP supports Arrived All At Once. Namely, one of the nations of the Empire is Navarr (summary of influences: "wood elves"). From the look and feel page for Navarr:

The Navarr look draws heavily on the forests for its inspiration. The colours are primarily greens and browns with occasional splashes of dark autumnal red or yellow. Materials are practical, primarily those that come from hunting - leather and fur. [...] Rather than rich materials or unusual colours the Navarr personalise their appearance by adorning their costume with embroidery, beads, feathers, fetishes, and other accessories. It is also common to weave such items into the hair. [...] Layers of well-worn, practical wool and leather in natural shades often serve as the foundation of Navarr costume.

Also relevant context: the existence of magical items that grant you Additional Tricks. Like, for example, mage robes, where I am raising particular eyebrows at the part where the information for Volhov's Robe notes that even the Navarr "see great value in a skilled individual being able to help an established coven".

Additional and further relevant context: there are four events a year. In-game, these events take place during the Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Autumn Equinox.

It Is Also The Case That: a particularly distinctive piece of kit can get very strongly associated with The Specific Character Who Wears It in the general cultural wossname.

... I abruptly very badly want to make myself a set of three shawls identical except in colour: spring green, summer green, autumn blazing yellow. Obviously the conceit is that it is not three shawls, It Is One Single Magic Shawl. It Changes With The Seasons. Do I know anything about this potential character other than "Navarri, magician, magic shawl"? NOPE. Have I ever actually LRPed? NOPE. Am I nonetheless actually kind of tempted? ...

fred_mouse

Change.org have:

Overturn the UK's New Legal Definition of a Woman

can be signed regardless of location.

fred_mouse

Over on tumblr, someone shared some lovely pictures of red tailed black cockatoos. To which the response was 'what lovely parrots'. Hmmph said I, those are cockatoos.

So I asked that most helpful (if sometimes inaccurate and regularly overly didactic) of sources, wikipedia. Which told me there are three superfamilies of parrots, being cockatoos, true parrots, and New Zealand parrots.

Hmmph said I. Not reeeeally parrots then are they.

(Yes, I have a basic understanding of taxonomy, this is absolutely me being a grump)

dhampyresa

There are only two seasons in a year: soup season and salad season.

mdlbear

Today I am grateful for...

Mastodon, The Social Network That Can't Sell Out. And the rest of the Fediverse as well, though I haven't tried any of the other things yet.
A large box-free space in the living room. Many of the banker's boxes have been pushed to the periphery, mostly between the couch and the back window; the rest, and the larger boxes, have gone into the storage room. Thanks, too, to N and N" who did most of the box-moving on Monday, and to my and N's ongoing efforts to triage the books.
Monday's appointment and bloodwork, and the upcoming appointments with my urological oncology team. NO thanks for emails getting dropped between DreamHost and $G (which I've been using as an aggregator).
Cuddly cats, including an increasingly cuddly Bronx. Or maybe I've just gotten enough better at understanding Cat.
Air filters with UV sanitizing, which let us have the occasional visitor without everyone having to don masks.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag

fred_mouse

I had ideas above my energy for today. I have done no sewing because the machine is having a snit and I can't find the manual to look up why; I got the shakes early in the day so no baking. Something else planned got not done for similar reasons, and I've spent the day flaked on the couch (I am winning on goal 'do not spend all day in bed').

I did find the bass recorder book I'd misplaced, and a patchwork book that I knew was in the sewing space Somewhere, so have poked at both of those. Also found bits of Eldest's quilt so have brought those out to be looked at. Have poked at a few other bits of craft.

Last night I pulled the basket of 'need to sew the ends in' down and watched youtube videos while doing so. Today I've done a tiny bit of making squares to use up yarn scraps. I've found a pile of squares, and need to work out what to do with them (stick them in the assorted squares box is easy, but not necessarily optimal)

I've read week 1 of the artist's way, grumbled at some of the stuff, and set up a log for the exercises, because they are lots of writing. I'm not yet doing the bits about affirmations, maybe that can be tomorrow's task. I did at least go and sit in the sun while reading, so got a bit of outdoor time.

fred_mouse

I started cutting pieces for the borders of chaosmanor's quilt yesterday. I did an amount of math, and concluded that yes, I could do 18 pieces at the shorter length, rather than 9 pieces at the longer length. (each piece costs 1/4" of fabric for seams)

I have no idea where those numbers came from now, because I have four sides, and therefore however many I have has to be a multiple of four. Which I think means I need 24 pieces of each colour and I may have stuffed myself up right royally.

Off to look through my notes and see where the numbers went squirrelly. Also, because I needed 2 3/4" but there was an issue with the cutting mechanism, I cut the first two colours at 3", which means that I have a fair bit of extra, if I need it. Also, I was doing the math for slightly longer than needed in the hope that that would mean that if my seams were too wide I'd be fine, so possibly I just have to do very scant 1/4" seams.

ETA: worked it out. 24 pieces of each colour across the four sides, but three colours * 6 sets -> 18 pieces on a side, all three colours combined, so six pieces on a side.

kaberett

Four daffodil flowers, with yellow petals and a white crown.

From Sunday: I did not quite believe what I was seeing initially? Or perhaps better I did not quite understand what I was seeing. Brain was entirely made of "daffodil??? backwards?????"

As a consequence of attempting to hunt down the variety (which I had failed to make a note of while actually in its presence) I realised I could ask the RHS to show me a list of all the daffodil cultivars they know about. Apparently this is actually a subgenre with several members! But the thing that has thus far made me squawk WHAT most loudly is, without contest, Narcissus viridiflorus.

silveradept

Let us begin with the formal dissolution of NaNoWriMo, after several bad decisions, scandals, and questionable alliances had many of the participants moving away from the official forums or having official affiliations with the group.

musesfool gives us a poem from Barbara Jane Reyes that is a prayer to the Goddess of Lost Things, but the things that are lost are not merely the things that are physical, and several of the lost things are misplaced at a time where they are needed.

Social media influencers and thrill-seekers are still attempting to make contact with isolated peoples that have expressed a wish to stay isolated. Because the clicks and the potential revenue are worth more than the violation of international treaty, right? Or the possibility of bringing a disease with you that the isolated people have no defense against.

Obscenely wealthy person plans on going to another country because she's no longer getting a tax-preferred status, tries to soften the headline by claiming she'd be happy to pay more tax to maintain her preferred status.

There are burgeoning services for Catholic parishes, dioceses, and schools, to help make sure there isn't financial malfeasance and to give transparency and communication between clergy and laity to make those places work better for everyone. A far cry, indeed, from the Church that expected the laity to attend, say the appropriate prayers at the appropriate time, and otherwise just trust that the men who were priests and administrators were going to do well with it, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.

There are a lot of people out there who want the "right" people to have more children, and to have designer babies, and while many of them are also allegiants of eugenetics, people who decry the presence of women in the workplace (or doing anything other than popping out babies and raising them), and ideologies that praise white culture over any and all others, most of them also don't have a thought in their heads about what it would take to actually successfully raise all those kids. They've gotten to "Well, women should do it, because the only women we want are women who will enjoy having and raising children," and they think that will be sufficient as a national policy. Unfortunately for them, history did not begin in the 1950s, and therefore what they believe is timeless and traditional is actually quite newfangled and not very good for a lot of the population.

The National Health Service of the UK has announced that emergency contraception will be available at all community pharmacies for no charge, so as to try and alleviate some of the effects of variations in access and cost. This goes with plenty of other contraception available for no charge through the NHS.

Microsoft employees who protested the company's involvement in allowing Israel to prosecute its war against Gaza received retaliation for their act, either being ordered to retire a few days earlier or fired from their position.

( Your semi-monthly dose of U.S. politics, technology hacks, and people behaving poorly inside )

Last out for tonight, the trend of staying and living at your parents house for longer has been happening for quite some time, admittedly because there's less pressure for someone to leave and get an education, or to leave and put themselves into service in some other household. The people who are gung-ho about repealing child labor laws are probably hoping they can point to this kind of research and call it natural for children to go to work, never mind all the laws that are in place to prevent the exploitation of children and to make sure that they get enough sleep to go to their required schooling the next day.

And something to make you smile - a project to connect children to elders in Saidosho by turning the elders into trading card characters has worked extraordinarily well, with an entire TCG developing of these various community members and their skills.

(Materials via

adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

boxofdelights,

cmcmck,

conuly,

cosmolinguist,

elf,

finch,

firecat,

jadelennox,

jenett,

jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

umadoshi,

vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

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Current Music: Danny Elfman - Serenada Schizophrana - I Forget

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