My brothers walk on crushed glass
For the first time in months, I had a dream that was not a nightmare. Awake, it looks rather like the serial numbers filed off a contemporary Turn AU, but it contained railway lines and did not leave me unhappy. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
muccamukk: "The Philosopher and the Detectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Enduring Passion for Hardboiled Fiction." I had read some of the earlier articles cited in this one, but not the article itself before Mucca sent it to me. I like its stylistic conclusions and continue to feel validated that if I can read and watch noir for its ethical questions, so can actual philosophers.
2. Courtesy ofthisbluespirit: wholesome eldritch monstrosities. The creeping horror got into the recycling again.
3. Charles Payseur says resonant and appreciative things about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" at Quick Sip Reviews: "I just love the feel of this story (plus everyone is queer and that’s a big plus)."
4. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: I know Michael Sheen isn't Jewish, but his birth story sure looks like proof that changing names to confuse the malekh-hamoves really works.
5. Having been reminded to catch up on Existential Comics, I must say that Schopenhauer vs. blood sugar is relatable.
Becauseselkie exercised the double-edged magic of the gig economy to send us groceries, we cooked salmon for dinner last night. It was the first time since June I'd had fish that didn't come out of a tin. Little cats were permitted to share in the bounty. Autolycus is irresistibly patient.
1. Courtesy of
muccamukk: "The Philosopher and the Detectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Enduring Passion for Hardboiled Fiction." I had read some of the earlier articles cited in this one, but not the article itself before Mucca sent it to me. I like its stylistic conclusions and continue to feel validated that if I can read and watch noir for its ethical questions, so can actual philosophers.2. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: wholesome eldritch monstrosities. The creeping horror got into the recycling again.3. Charles Payseur says resonant and appreciative things about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" at Quick Sip Reviews: "I just love the feel of this story (plus everyone is queer and that’s a big plus)."
4. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: I know Michael Sheen isn't Jewish, but his birth story sure looks like proof that changing names to confuse the malekh-hamoves really works.5. Having been reminded to catch up on Existential Comics, I must say that Schopenhauer vs. blood sugar is relatable.
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selkie exercised the double-edged magic of the gig economy to send us groceries, we cooked salmon for dinner last night. It was the first time since June I'd had fish that didn't come out of a tin. Little cats were permitted to share in the bounty. Autolycus is irresistibly patient.
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I am honored to be one. (I benefit significantly!)
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BBC News - The daring plan to save the Arctic ice with glass
http://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200923-could-geoengineering-save-the-arctic-sea-ice
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That is fascinating and I agree with everyone who hates that it's come to this kind of planning.
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I don't think it's foolish to consider potential consequences beforehand: human history is littered with the unintended destructions of seemed like a good idea at the time, especially where the complexities of ecosystems are concerned. I like that the inventor is testing them on the small scale of tidepools and that she has already considered a biodegradable version, which would save them from silting up uselessly around the world. I agree it's a time-buyer, not a solution. But I would also rather buy time than do nothing at all.
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I say, let's stop pussyfooting around. Boom boom whoopee boom! Megaton-yield ground-pounders detonated in shallow seas can blast enough steam and rock vapor into the stratosphere to plunge the entire Northern Hemisphere into a volcanic winter that will make “Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death” look like a rehearsal! Hoo-ahh!
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It worked for Snowpiercer!
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Back in my high school days I didn't <font color="envy green">build any radio telescopes</font> - but I had learned about the concept of “Snowball Earth” and how, if the equatorial oceans get clear, the albedo-darkening cycle that article mentions will eventually tip over and start rolling downhill, and in a mere thousand years (!) the planet will have lost that ice cover.
So I created a role-playing game setting where Mark Twain’s famous line, “Buy land, they aren't making it anymore” was wrong: New land was emerging daily, yearly, advancing north and inland… and uncovering ruins. 99% of original life was dead - no photosynthesis, save algae - and Imperial / Federation scientists soon quite literally discovered the truth: This had been an act of war, millennia ago. Gosh, wouldn’t it be swell to find that planet-killer or how to do it yourself? Gosh…
“There isn’t a government on this planet that wouldn’t kill every one of us to get hold of that thing.” - Sneakers
In a better life, all that work would have been published. O well.
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(I am treating myself to some restaurant-overrun scallops or scrap Dover sole as soon as N’s wages go back up. It’s been six long months of ground turkey. I did get some rather nice tuna belly inna tin, which I may share with Mr. Moocher Man.)
*hugs* One must, as the song tells us, kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight.
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It did not languish for long. It was a very brief cameo. But a delicious one.
(I am treating myself to some restaurant-overrun scallops or scrap Dover sole as soon as N’s wages go back up. It’s been six long months of ground turkey. I did get some rather nice tuna belly inna tin, which I may share with Mr. Moocher Man.)
I believe he has a note from his doctor that human foods are the best foods for his condition. Autolycus has often presented us with same.
One must, as the song tells us, kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight.
I am whaling on the darkness as best I can.
*hugs*
... vs. blood sugar
In retrospect, it was A+ parenting.
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Agreed!
(As a child, I experienced whiteouts and headaches if I did not eat at regular enough intervals, and so also learned to pay attention to what my body needed even if it wasn't bothering to inform my brain.)
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The Schopenhauer toon reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes I have often found helpful. Approximately: Calvin worries about big, existential questions for three panels, followed by Hobbes wondering "What's for dinner?"
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Thank you! I can't decide if it's reckless to hope for the same tonight.
Approximately: Calvin worries about big, existential questions for three panels, followed by Hobbes wondering "What's for dinner?"
I remember that one. Legit.
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Aw, good! ♥
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It was a nice thing!
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That's one reason that never occurred to me at the time! :o)
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See? Now you're immortal.
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(2) I like the one peeking in at the guy working on his laptop and the one with the basketball--is it making an assist or stealing the ball, I wonder.
(3) I like Charles Payseur's approach to reviewing, and yes, I like very much what he says about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight."
(5) Laughing. Absolutely true.
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Thank you! They have positive associations in my symbol-set, too. (I miss train journeys. I miss travel.)
I like the one peeking in at the guy working on his laptop and the one with the basketball--is it making an assist or stealing the ball, I wonder.
I think it thinks it's helping.
I like Charles Payseur's approach to reviewing, and yes, I like very much what he says about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight."
He's one of the reviewers where even if their interpretation of a story or poem of mine is wholly orthagonal to what I know went into it, I am always so interested by what they have to say, as long as it's not factually incorrect I'm fine with it.
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Absolutely! I find those sorts of readings fascinating. (And/But the part after the asterisks is a very important qualifier.)
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People who get textually stated facts of my stories wrong—even if they like the results!—aggravate me.
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1. Up until this article, I'd have assumed Wittgenstein would have been a Sayers fan. There's something cheering in the image of him curled up with an issue of Black Mask.
2. Wow. My favourite is the basketball game. The humans are basically all "Aww, man. Not AGAIN." The eldritch's so obviously thinking: "Hur hur, I like dis game."
3. Well, a great story deserves a great review.
4. The more I read about Sheen, the more I like him. I'm glad he dodged the bullet.
How was the salmon?
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Thank you! They were naturally, ironically chased by not sleeping at all last night, but I am hoping the situation will improve. I spent so much of this summer not sleeping, I don't have the stamina to spend the fall the same way. [edit] I SLEPT TEN HOURS IT WAS GREAT.
Up until this article, I'd have assumed Wittgenstein would have been a Sayers fan. There's something cheering in the image of him curled up with an issue of Black Mask.
I have always been just as charmed by it as by his love for Hollywood musicals. I wish I knew what Sayers he had been reading. I would also have kind of expected at least the Harriet Vane novels to be a hit.
Wow. My favourite is the basketball game. The humans are basically all "Aww, man. Not AGAIN." The eldritch's so obviously thinking: "Hur hur, I like dis game."
The facepalm really makes it.
Well, a great story deserves a great review.
*hugs*
The more I read about Sheen, the more I like him. I'm glad he dodged the bullet.
Same. I feel very lucky to have seen him onstage, years before I knew it would be relevant.
How was the salmon?
Delicious! We put some some of the spice mix we call allium in a can (technically it is shallots, chives, green peppercorn, dill, basil, tarragon, chervil, and bay leaf, but the shallots and chives leave a dominant impression) on the non-skin side and pan-seared it until it made a crust and ate it like hungry cats, snip-snap-snup. The pandemic has really been interfering with my normal fish consumption. I feel sea-starved on so many levels.