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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 |
sartorias
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slacktivist2
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ljgeoff
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10:53a |
drought and fire
I drove from Negaunee to Minneapolis, and then from Minneapolis to Madison, most of it through rain, both fierce and gentle, but the rain didn't make it to the Duck lake fire. It's burned over 21,000 acres as of yesterday and is only 20% contained. It was started by a lightning strike. It's over 120 miles from Negaunee, so no worries, just ... those poor folks, hey? ( pics ) |
redbird
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9:01a |
Wiscon panel: The anatomy of friendship
I went to this rather than the other good things in that time slot because the day before, Elise Matthesen and Debbie Notkin had told me and Velma we should be there in the front row, partly so she could point to us as an example of a very long-duration friendship. I might have gone without that push, and am glad I did, because there was good discussion about things including what friendship means, how to nurture a friendship, and some of the problems that can come up, of expectations and either person feeling that s/he isn't giving as much as she's getting. Cat Hanna talked about some of the ways that friendships overlap and affect each other, including social groups that seem to center on a couple, and the unfortunate fact that a breakup can cost the ex-couple's friends some of their friendships, not only with the couple but each other. This was in the context of the lesbian community, people for whom friends become chosen family. (No ideas on avoiding that sort of loss, alas.) Before the panel, I was reminded that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) rysmiel will say "my friend" to me in email, or while we're talking in bed, because that is so large a part of the connection there. (We were friends for a long time before that became a romantic relationship.) Which connects to Debbie (wild_irises)'s saying that she dislikes "just friends" because it devalues something important and difficult, and that you don't hear "just lovers." (My thoughts, not stated on the panel, but connected: There's a cultural assumption that if it's more than a single encounter, a sexual relationship must be important, and should be foregrounded and given priority over other things; unfortunately, we don't have another good way to say "friends who are not romantically/sexually involved.) I really want more vocabulary here, vocabulary that if it doesn't map closely onto the specifics of my life and feelings, at least doesn't contradict them. Cross-posted from Dreamwidth ( http://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1339109.html), where there are  comments. I welcome comments here or there (OpenID and "anonymous" are fine if you don't have a DW account). |
sinandsalvation
[ angelamaria ]
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10:08p |
Of sales and swaps and DISO-plugs, of perfume oils and imps
Sale bump: all multiple-bottle purchases are currently 10% off :) There are new Villainess extrait samples, as well as new BPAL: Halloween LV, Leather Phoenix, Sleep, Macadamia Coconut Button Mushroom and Marshmallow, Sprinklecake, Stardust, etc. All GC imps are also now only $1 each. I'm still DISO Parker Lily, always willing to swap or Paypal--also looking for the non-red-oil Blossoms in Springtime, even only to try. I'm also in search of some more of Evening Star, Faith, Jareth, Jibiki Danuki, Lady on the Grey, Yvaine, and the Arcana blend Devilish; and I will almost always swap for The Girl, The Unicorn, and pre-2011 Lyonesse bottles. Depending on how much I have, I may be willing to swap for, or swap with, some of my keeper blends. Try me! Also, just in case: I'm debating on a few bottles in the latest Etsy update, but not willing to pay full $19 to ship a handful of bottles only. Is there any interest in a group order? I cleanly test bottles with a toothpick and imps/decants with the attached dabber on clean, freshly washed skin--and they're all stored in a cool dark place. I ship from Singapore, with a flat rate of $5 which includes registration and tracking (to most countries), regardless of how much you buy. I'm angelamaria on the bpal.org forums if you'd like to take a look at my feedback. Click here for the full list of smellies :) |
wiscon
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| Sunday, March 11th, 2012 |
specficmarkets
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7:17p |
Call for Submissions: Issue Three of Demeter's Spicebox
Hullo all! Submissions Guidelines for Issue Three of Cabinet des Fees's Demeter's Spicebox are now up! We have chosen the Aarne-Thompson type 2031C, The Mouse Who Was To Marry The Sun for Issue Three, do refer to the guidelines for the additional prompts! Reading Period: 5 APRIL 2012 onwards (until we get the perfect two stories for the next issue). Do bear in mind that you will need to read the stories from Issue One and Issue Two, as this is a storytelling project and the prompts reflect this. DS runs in Volumes of four issues each, and each Volume will start with a fresh set of prompts. If you have any questions or doubts, feel free to email us at demeterspice (gmail) in April! Best, Nin Harris |
| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 |
specficmarkets
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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | |
mind_hacks
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10:16a |
The trouble with fMRI
http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/27/the-trouble-with-fmri/ http://mindhacks.com/?p=22721  I’ve written a piece for The Observer about ‘the trouble with brain scans’ that discusses how past fMRI studies may have been based on problematic assumptions.
For years the media has misrepresented brain scan studies (“Brain centre for liking cheese discovered!”) but we are now at an interesting point where neuroscientists are starting to seriously look for problems in their own methods of analysis.
In fact, many of these problems have now been corrected, but we still have 100s or 1000s of previous studies that have been based on methods that have now been abandoned.
In part, the piece was inspired by a post on the Neurocritic blog entitled “How Much of the Neuroimaging Literature Should We Discard?” that was prompted by growing concerns among neuroscientists.
The fact is, fMRI is a relatively new science – it just celebrated it’s 20th birthday – and it is still evolving.
I suspect it will be revised and reconsidered many times yet.
Link to Observer article ‘The Trouble With Brain Scans’
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filkertom
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rozk
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10:10a |
I've not posted for almost a month and that's partly because I've been ill - some viral ick and then bacterial seediness that has taken two courses of antibiotics to knock out. Also writing for the Guardian - the radfem piece most of you have seen by now and the first two John Donne pieces. Also FLUTE DANCE, a short story for the second TALES FROM THE HOUSE BAND - it's another Mara story and possibly the best thing I've writted in the Rhapsodyverse. Publication looms, and a September US trip, and I still have about 15 k to write of Vol 2 REFLECTIONS. I know everything left to happen, sort of, and am getting up to speed and writing my thousand a day. So I will finish in June, and start the next critical book in July, and start volume 3 in January. If fate allows. Poetry has gone into a fallow time, but more soon. |
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sjgames
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7:33a |
May 27, 2012: Break Time Will Reshuffle GURPS Pipeline
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/a/2012-05-27 Recently, our small, but efficient, but SMALL staff has been getting a bit fried. Randy Scheunemann has rejoined us (Welcome back, Randy!) and is taking on vital convention and Revolution!-brainstorming tasks. But too many of us are developing that thousand-inch stare (Hey, I'm nearsighted . . .)
I've agreed to let Phil send me home for a couple of months, provided he and others take some breaks too. I'll be out of the office for a couple of months, starting about a half-second after Ogre goes to press, and not returning till sometime in August. I will probably be writing during that time, but it won't be for Munchkin. There's at least one GURPS project I want to pick up, and one off-the-wall thing that I would really enjoy working on if it didn't have a deadline. So it doesn't!
Andrew has already started his vacation. Monica will take serious time off starting as soon as Ogre gets out of here, and won't come back until after Worldcon.
Phil promises to take a real vacation too, real soon now, honest.
So what does that do to the schedule?
It doesn't affect Ogre. That game will leave here before I do.
It doesn't affect announced Munchkin releases. We pushed back the schedules on a couple of unannounced ones to focus on Munchkin Apocalypse. And it went to press, and we are happy. Things after that will also just get pushed back, because Andrew and Monica are both vital to getting Munchkin things to print (I sometimes help a little, too). This also means that John Kovalic will get to take his nose away from the Munchkin grindstone for a while, so when he comes back, he'll be all tanned and ready. (Can you even GET a tan in Madison? But I digress.)
The schedule that gets reshuffled the most is GURPS. Monica is a key part of the GURPS process. She's the last copy editor and proofreader to see each GURPS release, and she does the proof checking. Sure, we have backups for some of the things she does. The chief ones are named Steve and Andrew . . . who are also Out Of Here.
So the bad news is that the steady flow of new PDF releases will remain choppy at best for the next few months. We'd rather delay these than send them out without the final check.
That, however, means that more of our old GURPS books will be released in PDF.
But the really good news is that, once we accepted that the flow of new PDFs would be broken up, that freed the writing side of the team to work farther ahead.
• GURPS Line Editor Sean Punch will finish editing the new edition of GURPS Discworld. Then he'll start writing GURPS Zombies, a new hardcover planned for a 2013 release. (Hmm. I don't think we had told you about that one before, have we? Surprise! Kromm, zombies, awesomeness!)
• Assistant GURPS Line Editor Jason Levine will dive into the Girl Genius Sourcebook and RPG, editing existing text and writing more, so this long-delayed book can also appear in 2013.
• Pyramid Editor Steven Marsh, with the help of e23 Editor Nikki Vrtis, will work to get ahead on Pyramid issues so that we have a stockpile of issues ready (which will make the fall easier on us all).
So, in theory, some of the people here will get less crazy, and you'll see Ogre and Munchkin Apocalypse in 2012 and three new GURPS hardbacks in 2013. Wish us luck!
– Steve Jackson
Warehouse 23 News: An Affordable Trip To Florence
You don't need a time machine to experience the wonder and majesty of the cradle of the Renaissance. Simply book passage to GURPS Hot Spots: Renaissance Florence. Discover its delights at e23! |
| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 |
hsifyppah
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11:41p |
La la la, I keep forgetting to post. The things that I am thinking about most lately are not suitable for LJ, and the things that are particularly well-suited to LJ are busy (a) climbing on the furniture, (b) being in bloom outside, or (c) involve being asleep in a sunbeam, all of which interfere with typing. Greg is the climbingest! Oh god, a new piece of furniture is conquered every day. I keep peeling him off of, fishing him out of, or coaxing him down from locales that strain topological credulity. He always looks exceptionally pleased with himself, and a little irritated that I am calling a halt to things before the news crew and the verification team from Guinness World Records arrives to admire his latest ascent, but he has a happy nature and is willing to forgive me and move on, particularly if I have some distracting cheese in hand. TOE! is the word of the week. We all have toes, it develops, and he points out all toes frequently in case anyone had any doubt. TOE! also means Toby, our cat. Dr. Gramma offered him some TOast and the confusion was palpable. For my feet? Oh... for the cat? Oh... for a snack! There sure are a lot of toes! We have also mastered NOSE! and UH OH! and CHEESE!; and he can reliably point at mumma, Greggie, gramma, grampa, auntie, Ben, dada/papa, cat. He will fetch his bottle, his truck, or his binky if asked, or anyway he will maybe half the time, because you have to be in the mood to obey, and well, toddler. I am still loving on my new-to-me macbook. Today I have been specifically loving on a hidden object game, Pure Hidden. Now, I like the usual sort of hidden object game, which drip cheese like a tuna melt, but this is something else altogether. They took a hidden object game, removed the plot entirely, and shipped all the cliches off to a correspondent on a far-away planet who had never heard of them but was DELIGHTED by them but also a little confused, and shook it around a bit, and sent it to France to class up, and it's just so WONDERFUL. The hidden object scenes are really artfully arranged, everything clearly hidden and disguised by hand by a skilled graphic artist. The traditional pipe rearranging mini-game appears first as "redirect the heat from a chicken's butt to hatch out eggs in a bizarre labyrinthine chicken coop" and the first reassemble this puzzle mini-game is an art print of a volkswagen van done over by graffiti artists. At one point dramatic, sombre piano music starts playing and the game sternly commands: "DECORATE YOUR BATHROOM." There's a scene where a comic book hero shakes his head disapprovingly at you while you search for a banana. The overall effect is like, a really zen version of Hyper Bishi Bashi Champ. <3 <3 <3 That's a link not to the game developer's site, which has autoplay sound, EW, but to game distributor Big Fish, who are my main hookup for cheesy casual games. They publish from a variety of developers and the quality and style are widely varied, but I wish to call them out for their fabulous and praiseworthy customer service. I've had issues with a couple of games to the point of needing to contact tech support, and they write back promptly with these lengthy, articulate, polite emails, where it is clear that an intelligent and technically capable person has thoughtfully considered every word I wrote to them, gushing with the desire to either fix my problem or get me a credit for a replacement game. I just.. was not expecting that from a place that sells BAKERY DASH 3: EVEN MORE CINNAMON and PHANTASMAGORICURSE: MYSTERY OF THE LEGEND OF THE HIDDEN PUPPET and MAHJONGG JEWEL ADVENTURE. (Well... or games to that effect.) But you get down with your bad casual self, Big Fish, you're doing it right. Golf clap! |
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slacktivist
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7:24p |
This week in The Slacktiverse, May 26/27 2012
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2012/05/this-week-in-the-slacktiverse-may-2627-2012.html
The Blogaround
This week, Storiteller contemplated the many ways biking reverberates throughout communities. In National Bike Month, Week 3: Ride of Silence , she describes her participation in a ride meant to honor and remember bicyclists lost to bicycle-car accidents. A few days later, she pedaled her way to work, along with 12,000 other people in the region. Although it was Bike to Work Day, she made an unexpected pit stop on the way home to get a book signed by author John Scalzi.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Twilight: Painted Waitresses
(Trigger Warning: Rape, Surgery, Cancer, Choice, reference to BDSM)
Bella is sitting in the car with Edward while Edward calms down after rescuing Bella from a situation of possible gang rape.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Hunger Games: A Question of Agency
(Trigger Warning: Death, Agency, Reproductive Rights)
I've decided to run a Hunger Games deconstruction to post on a non-regular basis. This will not be a line-by-line deconstruction like Twilight and will not precisely be a read-a-long like Narnia; it will be a thematic deconstruction by chapter with the assumption that everyone is already familiar with the books. Spoilers lurk herein.
This week Ana Mardoll posted:
Narnia: Savior White, Savior Bright
(Trigger Warning: Genocide, Othering through Romanticization, Nazis)
The Pevensie children have rescued a dwarf.
Kit Whitfield continues her analyses of famous first sentences. This week: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Michael Mock reports: This week at Mock Ramblings, there's some big-ish news. At least, I think it's big news. Hope so, anyway. Back in December, I wrote a post aimed at Christian Parents of Atheist or Agnostic Children. In the months since, it has received a modest-but-steady stream of page views and fresh comments. This week, by reader request, I joined with Matt Mikalatos, author of My Imaginary Jesus and Night of the Living Dead Christian, to create a Facebook support group for parents whose children had left the faith (or parents who find themselves in comparable situations). The group is here. So far it's still tiny, but if anyone here is interested in joining - or helping out - you'd be very welcome.
Other weekly ramblings include an explanation of The Wombat Massage, the first section of a new fantasy writing project called Into The Game, some thoughts on Music Festivals and Ableism, and the second installment of Pimp My Art Friends.
yamikuronue reports: Last weekend we saw the first post in a new series called Decon Vs, in which my partner Chaos deconstructs two sports anime, comparing the way they handle characters and plot pacing and so forth. A new post in that series will be queued up for this weekend as well.
Monday and Wednesday both saw RSS Quickies posts from Real Simple Magazine's website: one on cleaning and one on children viewing pornography online. There was no TPD this past week, but Easily Amused examined the dark side of Hubert's character.Friday had another Life Lessons, this time on the phrase " everything happens for a reason".
Last week Ana Mardoll posted:
Twilight: Appropriating Victims' Experiences
This is serious priority inversion, and it happens all the time in real life and in literature, and it irks me so very much. I have to assume it's a symptom of Privilege; when everything in your entire life has been framed in terms of how you -- Privileged White Male Vampire -- feel, then of course a traumatic experience that happened to someone else should immediately (and only!) be framed in terms of how the Privileged White Male Vampire in the room feels about things! It's just the natural order of things, right? Privileged White Male Vampire feelings come first.
Last week Ana Mardoll posted: Deconstruction: The Patriarchy Hurts Women, Too
We live in a harmful Patriarchal society where women are frequently judged, insulted, and slandered not by their words or their positions or by their beliefs, but by their gender and sexuality. The intent is to de-personify women who commit the crime of being public figures, who work publicly for political and social change.
Leum reports: (Trigger Warning: Rape) I've discovered Project Unbreakable. People hold up posters with quotes from their attackers and the people (family members, friends, law enforcement officials) they've told. Very sad, but also very powerful.
Things you can do
From the World Food Programme: Ongoing drought, combined with rising food prices, is creating an alarming situation in the Sahel region of West Africa. Working together with our partners on the ground, WFP aims to reach more than 9 million people with life-saving food.
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Will you stand between a woman or child and hunger today? $50 helps us provide food for the next 100 critical days.
  The Slacktiverse is a community blog. Content reflects the individual opinions of the contributors. We welcome disagreement in the comment threads, and invite anyone who wishes to present an alternative interpretation of a situation to write and submit a post.
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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | |
electroside
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slacktivist2
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12:58a |
Smart people saying smart things
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/05/26/smart-people-saying-smart-things-40/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=7818 Vorjack: “Ur Doing It Wrong“ Religions are variegated things that allow the individual more control than most folks acknowledge. We’re fond of treating religion as something you’re born into and stuck with barring deconversion. We don’t often talk about the streams of tradition within the religion that an individual must accept or reject. Look around you: in our culture the chances are you’re going to see someone who is a Christian but holds to different interpretations of what Christianity means. Every sect has a tradition that explains how they’ve come to understand their religion the way they do. Every permutation has an argument as to why their tradition is legitimate. And this is fractal: every community has within it different streams of tradition that emphasis and interpret the components differently. Perhaps you’re an evangelical who places high importance on the words of the Bible. But why do you take this passage at face value, while interpreting that passage in its historical context? Why is this verse intended only for that time and place while that verse is immortal and internal? Why do you interpret this passage in light of that passage instead of the other way around? … Rabbi Hillel is supposed to have said that the golden rule is the core of the law, and that all the rest is commentary. If your interpretation of the law leads you towards treating someone in a way that you would find hateful if the situation were reversed, then your interpretation is wrong.
Nick Hanauer: “The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You“ For thousands of years people were sure that earth was at the center of the universe. It’s not, and an astronomer who still believed that it was, would do some lousy astronomy. In the same way, a policy maker who believed that the rich and businesses are “job creators” and therefore should not be taxed, would make equally bad policy. I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all those jobs would have evaporated. That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a “circle of life” like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me. So when businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it’s a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.
Josh Kosman: “Why Private Equity Firms Like Bain Really Are the Worst of Capitalism“ Romney didn’t make his fortune through venture capital; he made it through private equity. … Here’s what private equity is really about: A firm like Bain obtains cheap credit and uses it to acquire a company in a “leveraged buyout.” “Leverage” refers to the fact that that the company being purchased is forced to pay for about 70 percent of its own acquisition, by taking out loans. If this sounds like an odd arrangement, that’s because it is. Imagine a homebuyer purchasing a house and making the bank responsible for repaying its own loan, and you start to get the picture. O.K., but what about this much more virtuous business of swooping in and restoring struggling companies to financial health? Well, that’s not a large part of what private equity firms do, either. In fact, they more typically target profitable, slow-growth market leaders. (Private equity firms presently own companies employing one of every 10 U.S. workers, or 10 million people.) And that’s when the fun starts. Once the buyout is completed, the private equity guys start swinging the meat axe, aggressively cutting costs wherever they can – so that the company can start paying off its new debt – by laying off workers and cutting capital costs. This process often boosts operating profit without a significant hit to the business, but only in the short term; in the long run, the austerity approach makes it difficult for companies to stay competitive, not least because money that would otherwise have been invested in expansion or product development – which might increase revenue down the line – is used to pay off the company’s debt. It takes several years before the impacts of this predatory activity – reduced customer service, inferior products – become fully apparent, but by that time the private equity firm has generally resold the business at a profit and moved on.
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 |
redbird
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10:41p |
Haiku earrings
"The astronaut makes her wish" Stars never fall. Watching geysers leap, she Wishes on an elm. (I have seven or eight slips of paper with slightly different versions of this, but the whole process was fairly quick, with mostly small changes.) Cross-posted from Dreamwidth ( http://redbird.dreamwidth.org/1338467.html), where there are  comments. I welcome comments here or there (OpenID and "anonymous" are fine if you don't have a DW account). |
sinandsalvation
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10:43p |
Sale Bump
USA Shipping is $3.00 and I'm sorry but I can only ship within the USA. I always include DC and ship 1st class mail. I ship next business day. :) All are 5ml bottles with fill level indicated below. I have loads of feedback on BPAL.org under the same user name angelicruin. Thanks for looking!!! - Snow Angel '08 (BPTP Inquisition 2008) - Full w/ dip - $25.00
- Overprotective Possessed Talking Doll (BPTP Inquisition 2009) - Full - $20.00
- Left His Nurse While In A Crowd (BPTP Inquisition 2009) - Minus 1/2 decant - $20.00
- Old Moon '11 - Full - $20.00
- CD: Misfortune Teller v3 - Full - $17.00
- Green Apple of Venus - Full - $13.00
- Maison en Pain E'Epices - Full - $13.00
- B340 (Convergence) - Full - $13.00
- Lilith's Tea Party (Forum Only) - Full - $13.00
- Anne Beany (Forum Only) - Full - $13.00
- Pumpkin Masala Roobios - Full - $13.00
- Lilith vs. The Giant Crab (Forum Only) - Minus 1/2 decant - $13.00
- Berry Moon '11 - Full - $13.00
- Blood Moon '11 - Full $13.00
- Nightmare (Land of Dreams Series) - Full - $13.00
- Plum Puddin - Full - $13.00
- Slaugh - Full - $13.00
- Golletes - Full - $13.00
- Pumpkin V '09 - Full w/ dip - $10.00
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linguaphiles
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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 |
papersky
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12:28a |
Thud: Turnover
Words: 2264 Total words: 5764 Files: 3 Tea: White Orchard Music: Three Double Concertos, arguably the best music of all time ever. RSI: Forgot that line, didn't I? Well, reminded of it now. Reason for stopping: end of chapter. I'm two chapters in, and these people are five courses through a twelve course lunch? Seriously? Oh well, we've also had a lot of backstory. It'll work out. Anybody know anything about ballet that they didn't get from Noel Streatfeild and Rumer Godden? Any recommendations for ballet blogs? |
linguaphiles
[ vicious_virtue ]
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2:19a |
Brushing up on a language
Imagine that you spent years learning a language, actually taking classes and finishing a complete course at a language school, but then stopped practicing it completely. What would you do to somehow recover your knowledge, given that there is no chance of getting any private classes or going back to school? I'm more or less used to learning on my own, so far it's worked very well with French and Italian and a bit worse with some other languages. My problem is now Spanish. I used to speak it rather well, that course thing mentioned above finished after C1, so my language was more or less at that level. My listening and reading skills almost haven't dropped since then, I can write relatively well, but whenever it comes to speaking, my brain freezes. If I do grammar exercises from a book, I can still remember most of the rules but those grammar constructions just don't come to mind when I'm writing something. I won't even mention what basic constuctions I use while speaking... Then I've become too shy to talk to native speakers because of the stupid language barrier. We actually communicate with my Spanish roommate like this: she says something in Spanish, I answer in Italian (Italian is the language we use in the house with other roommates). I guess I can say my Spanish has switched from active to passive. So, the question is: how do you regain active knowledge? Books? What kind of books then? The ones with just grammar exercises don't help much, they just help me remember how much I've forgotten. Typical classroom books? Writing essays? Any tips are welcome) |
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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 |
sinandsalvation
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9:16a |
No real story behind this, I'm afraid! Just selling bottles off in exchange for cash or bottles I do want. I'm in Australia where postage is literally up around $11, but I'm charging $6 to get these moving and I frimp pretty generously. Once these are gone I'll be going through my "kept" collection to see which ones make it through to the grand final of my BPAL collection. This analogy totally makes sense. $8Sea of Tranquility(1/2) (silver dusted lotus, white amber, rose otto, passion flower, white sandalwood, buttonweed and white poppy)$15Ded Moroz (Golden amber, white amber, redwood, teak, bois du rose, sage, tree moss and snow)Hungry Ghost Moon 2011 (Offering of sweet rice, ginger candy, sugar cane, smoky vanilla, and rice wine mingle with a ghost's perfume of white sandalwood, wisteria, ho wood, ti, white grapefruit and crystalline musk. This scent is tempered by the presence of ten herbs, woods and resins used in the purification of the spirit)Old Man Ackerman's Instructional Toys ( An ancient baetylus floating within an array of bizarre trapezoidal figures, glimmering tubes, rusting spheres, and whirling gogs formed from peculiar metals, glowing tektites, strangely suspended lead mirrors, and eerie driftings of meteoric dust.)Smoky Moon (Soft sandalwood, nicotiana and velvety orris drifting over lustrous pale musks, stephanotis, elemi and cyclamen)The Lady of Lake Ronkonkoma (Balsamic, reedy water, sweetgrass, algae, loosestrife and lady's slipperThe Lincoln Tunnel Vortex (Swirls of discordant, high-pitched notes, pavement and a thin coating of sweet, green-glowing radiator fluid)$17Enchanted Wood Florist (A burst of sweet, strange flowers, luminous Moon-tree sap, and ornamental grasses.)Green Tree Viper (Snake Oil with four mints, bergamot, and green tea.)Tears, Idle Tears (A bittersweet aquatic lifted by white rose, olibanum, amber, orris root, davana, and oude.)Three Brides (Moroccan rose, king mandarin, red sandalwood, Egyptian amber, orchid, carnation, benzoin, tonka, calla lily, vanilla flower.)SwapsCeleste Cleric v2 Eidolon Geek.Goth Penthus Sparkling Apple Cider Tempest Tokyo Stomp Winter Holiday Stress Relief Elixir (to just under top of label) The Harp of Cnoc I'Chosgair (Gilded amber, tiare, golden sandalwood, vanilla, cardamom, and tagetes.) |
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