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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
 Glee! I was browsing Ellen Datlow's livejournal, looking for references to an anthology she's editing that features a short story by Jim, when I came upon a reference to her anthology featuring a short story written by my college roommate! I boggle at the spectacular pedigree of authors involved. Ko is in great company!
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Academic Earth fills me with giddy glee. As described by LifeHacker:
Web site Academic Earth is like Hulu for academic lectures, pulling free lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale into one attractive, easy to navigate site. It's incredible.Wow. I am on that like beige on unbleached rice. Now I just have to figure out where to start! Biology? Economics? Psychology? History? I think I'll start with The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877. Priscilla said at 9:34 AM
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
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Friday, March 27, 2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Your result for The 3-Variable Funny Test...
(52% dark, 27% spontaneous, 11% vulgar) your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. You just have a more cerebral approach than most. Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais  Labels: memes Priscilla said at 5:35 PM I've updated the tnm.n photography gallery with the new photographs I took this past weekend. Shiny!
And again, I am struck silly by the dearth of photographs taken in 2008. I wonder if I have enough artsy photos to justify an "Around the City" category, like 2003's "Around Penn" section. Bet I do. Labels: site stuff Priscilla said at 12:58 AM
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009
I posted a massive number of new photographs in my LiveJournal! Check 'em out!
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Oooh! I accidentally bought the sweetened chocolate almond milk instead of the unsweetened! I like cutting down on sugar whenever possible, and the unsweetened is tasty enough, so the choice is obvious. But I do *prefer* the taste of the sweetened, so that was a pleasant surprise!
(Yes, this is the kind of drivel I'm compelled to share with others. Aren't you glad you kept poking me to take blogging back up, Ko and Chungy? :D) For Jo, and anyone else that was curious: The bizarre antiques store I visited yesterday was Billy's Antiques, located at 76 E Houston. For everyone not mentioned above, I shall legitimize this entry with cover art for the upcoming Middleman DVD (Fighting evil that distorts perspective and makes the heroes look like they're on completely different ground planes, so you don't have to!) and Really Geeky Political Cartoons. Labels: new york is awesome, silliness Priscilla said at 6:45 PM
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
BSG SPOILER ALERT!
BSG SPOILER ALERT! BSG SPOILER ALERT! BSG SPOILER ALERT! BSG SPOILER ALERT! BSG SPOILER ALERT! LA LA LA LA LAAAAAAAAA! I enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica series finale. I certainly blubbered enough during it! The first half was pure poetry, with the brilliant payoff of the classic "vision" sequence. However, the episode tanked for me as soon as Lee's "no cities" plan came up and was actually embraced by the others. Whuh? This is a society whose raptor pilots are offered the last tube of toothpaste as the ultimate form of incentive. This is a society that's used to a (more or less) ready supply of pharmaceuticals and cigarettes and feminine hygiene products and meals you may have to squabble for occasionally, but you don't have to grow yourself or track down and kill. Relief from an all-algae diet may be a brief morale booster, but I give them a week before some horde of survivors whose slates weren't all that dirty to begin with revolts and steals Adama's raptor and flies to some other part of the planet to create their own frakkin' city, thank you very much. Maybe that's what Atlantis was. The idea of cities somehow being a source of evil boggles my mind. In its simplest form, evil is the human desire for power, unchecked by human empathy. Human, human, human. Whether you life in a city or a farm or a nomadic hunter/gatherer culture or a crumbling Battlestar, the potential for human weakness exists in equal measure. And the "moral education" of the prehistoric humans being painted as some kind of noble undertaking was WAY too "White Man's Burden" for me. Also, I consider the explanation of Starbuck being some Wild Mass Hallucination (yet still capable of interacting with the world) to be a massive fumble. Fortunately, there were enough Moments of Greatness that I'm happy with it, overall. The idea that modern man is descended from the Awesome Fighting Agathons gives me great hope for humanity! And Roslin's death scene had me in tears. Oh, and then there were Head!Six and Head!Baltar being awesomely smug in the Great Preachifying Coda! I kind of love the idea of them head!traveling about the globe, observing events and commenting in a similarly smug fashion. The Awesomely Smug Adventures of Head!Six and Head!Baltar! This I can get behind. It was a fitting finale, a satisfying ending to an extraordinary show. Despite the fact that this post is 90% rant, I am a happy camper. Labels: bsg Priscilla said at 10:19 PM Today was weird.
I mentioned in passing that one of my coworkers is doing a weekly photography workshop. I ended up submitting this image last week, which was not taken in my front yard.  Our assignment for next week is to take a picture that illustrates motion. I had to run an errand over at Houston and Broadway--an area of town stupidly close to me, but which I rarely ever get to--and afterward, I decided to prowl that area for potential shots. The first place that caught my eye was a curios shop, which specializes in countless shiny odds and ends, subway signs, opera props, and bizarre statues and masks. I set up a number of shots of people reflected in mirrors among the odd bric-a-brac. One such shot featured the legs of a tall, slim man in black jeans and cowboy boots, who spontaneously walked into frame. Yay happy accidents! Then I looked up, and it was one of my coworkers! We stopped to chat and have a laugh about it, and he explained that he lives very nearby, and he stops in occasionally to see if there's anything new and interesting to see. That'll be a story to share with my fellow photographers! My next stop was a basketball court, where a bunch of young guys had banded together an impromptu game. I must have watched them for 15 minutes, taking photo after photo, before the game ended. I smiled at the guys in greeting afterward, ready to explain my presence to any who asked, when suddenly I caught the eye of the son of one of my family's oldest friends. We spent a few minutes catching up and generally boggling, then I was off once more. I strolled around a little longer, then made my way back home, whereupon I got my first jury duty summons in the mail. Yeah, today was weird. Labels: new york is awesome, photography, weirdness Priscilla said at 8:15 PM
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Friday, March 20, 2009
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Protest the Moronic Casting of Avatar: The Last Airbender!
For those who aren't aware: Avatar is a popular cartoon series based in an Asian-inspired world, yet for the live-action movie, Paramount is casting whites in the heroic leads while relegating people of color to villains and extras. Two of the heroes set to be played by white actors are brown-skinned, belonging to an Inuit-based culture in the original series, and the third hero, also set to be played by a white actor, is from a Tibetan Buddhist-based culture. This is dumb and frankly offensive. If you'd be so kind as to sign the petition, I'd really appreciate it! It takes thirty seconds.  Most online petitions are worthless, but this one is going straight to Paramount, MANAA and the EWP. It's absolutely worth the 30 seconds to sign and the two minutes it takes to spread the link in your blog or over email, if you think your friends/readers are likely to be interested. Check out racebending.com and the LJ comm aang-aint-white for more info. (Ganked from bzzinglikeneon and quietrevolution) Labels: stupidity Priscilla said at 11:45 PM Folks that follow my blog may be aware that I and my two friends Mickey and Fred serve as Thematic Consultants on the Dresden Files graphic novel series. This past year, we assisted in the production of a prequel to the book series called Welcome to the Jungle.
Folks that love science fiction and fantasy may be familiar with the Hugo Awards, which many consider to be the most prestigious award given in that genre. The 2009 Hugo Nominations were announced tonight. Among them: Best Graphic Story
Labels: comics, dresden files, jim butcher, omg hugo nomination Priscilla said at 10:14 PM Chronicling an event of epic, galaxy-spanning win: Battlestar Galactica Takes Over United Nations
There's a bunch of camera phone-quality video here (I haven't watched it yet), but the money shot is right here: Priscilla said at 6:28 PM
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Sigh. The glands in my jaw and neck have been tender and sore all day. And in the past couple hours, the soreness has spread to my shoulders and engulfed my head in sleepfog. I thought I was done with this stupid cold!
Labels: sickliness Priscilla said at 4:35 PM Ganked from everyone - the BBC supposedly says most people have only read 6 of these books. Here's how I measure up!
Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -- I've read or seen unabridged onstage (alphabetically) Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Twelfth Night, a handful of sonnets, and the Reduced Shakespeare Company. :D 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (complete "trilogy") 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (and I was one of like three people in my year that actually read the whole thing. Most people stopped at 200 pages. Not that I'm bitter.) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (why is this on here twice?) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- I've read a few, but by no means all 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in French) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total read: 31 Total partially read: 18 Wow. I'm actually embarrassed that I've gone without reading so many of these. Who are these people who have read fewer than six, and can I direct them to the nearest library? I'm amazed anyone can graduate high school without reading at least six of these. Heck, I'm surprised people can get through childhood without reading nearly that many. Priscilla said at 12:42 PM
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Monday, March 16, 2009
A coworker is holding a digital photography workshop on Wednesday. Today, we're each supposed to submit a photograph--digitally unaltered--for some sinister purpose. I've been going through my gallery, considering photos taken in Greece or on my pan-Southwest road trip, but I think I'm ultimately going to pick a photograph I took at home, in my front yard. Not sure what that says about me, but whatever it is, I think I'm okay with it. :D
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Monday, March 09, 2009
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
OH HELL YES!
The recycling program Linda and I started a few months ago is now OFFICIAL COMPANY POLICY! And it has been expanded from just plastic to paper, glass, and aluminum cans, too! Thank you, Awesome Boss! Now I have to figure out what my next goal will be. Now that "recycle" is in place, it's time to "reduce" and "reuse." I'd like to find a way to reduce the number of plastic bottles we go through, whether that be by getting a Brita or a water cooler, and having everyone use reusable glasses/mugs. Or if reusable glasses are too much to hope for, maybe we could replace the non-recyclable paper cups with a biodegradable alternative. Recyclable paper towels in the bathroom would cut down on waste quite a bit, as well. And of course, because my boss is trying to run a business, it all needs to be cost-effective. I'm going to make an appointment to chat with our financial guy to figure out how much we're currently paying, to see what kind of wiggle room I have. This is going to be fun. It's nice to have a mission! Labels: decreasing worldsuck, i love my job Priscilla said at 9:27 AM
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Monday, March 02, 2009
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Sunday, March 01, 2009
Priscilla said at 12:09 AM Title cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, used without permission.
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