Another in the long series of things I never thought I’d have to say:
“The Death Star needs to stay outside the bathroom.”
Category: Fediverse
This is a park at the top of a hill rising up from the Pacific …
This is a park at the top of a hill rising up from the Pacific Ocean. Today there were a zillion crows riding the air currents and occasionally alighting on the fence that separates the park from the steep drop-off.
I liked the idea that the crow might be bristling at the prohibition. But I miss the old signs they used to have on the fence. They had a bit more personality.
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A few more photos from today’s hike.
🌸Cherry blossoms🌲
Cherry blossoms at the South Coast Botanic Garden. The whole park is curated, with some parts arranged to seem wild(ish) and others, like this one, more garden-like.
This is promising: SmugMug has bought Flickr & plans to “maintain Flickr as a standalone community…”
This is promising: SmugMug has bought Flickr & plans to “maintain Flickr as a standalone community of amateur and professional photographers and give the long neglected service the focus and resources it deserves.” (quote from article)
Now I don’t have to worry about Verizon shutting it down!
Exclusive: Flickr bought by SmugMug, which vows to revitalize the photo service
And the Flickr Q&A
I’ve finished part 3 (of 5) of #LesMiserables, which ends on a solid cliffhanger….
I’ve finished part 3 (of 5) of #LesMiserables, which ends on a solid cliffhanger.
Something I realized is a major difference from the last time I read it: I’m looking ahead for connections, not just backward. Since It’s only been 5 years since the last time, I remember more of the book (and not just the musical).
I’ve also started listening to a weekly podcast that’s also going through the book this year, which has been fascinating: https://readlesmis.libsyn.com/
It’s been a long time since I read the original trilogy…
Re: The Book of Dust
It’s been a long time since I read the original trilogy, so I had to look up a lot of the references.
The things that struck me most were the changes in understanding how Lyra’s world works: The supernatural elements encountered in the flood, which went far beyond what I remember, and the discovery that the Magisterium’s solid grip is so recent.
(That and the migraine auras. I’ve never encountered a character who experiences them, and the descriptions were spot-on.)
Murals in progress on what used to be featureless gray walls
Murals in progress on what used to be the featureless gray walls of an apartment complex. The aviation theme on two of them is due to this being Aviation Blvd.
Composition brought to you by the angle I could take a photo out the car window before the light turned green. 😁
Update: I drove by it again, and this time stopped to look. There’s a signature: on the last section: Jacque Dupuy 2018, Mural Executed by LeviPonce.com
Brush fire reported at the marsh preserve where I took the last photo I posted …
Brush fire reported at the marsh preserve where I took the last photo I posted here. It’s not a very big preserve – basically a large city block, in the middle of suburbia. (There’s literally a Target across the street.)
Here’s hoping they manage to stomp it down quickly, before it does too much damage.
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Got a follow-up alert that the fire’s been put out. The word “small” was included, which is a good sign. Next time I hike there, I’ll have to ask about it.
The problem with “move fast and break things”
The problem with “move fast and break things” is that you’re likely to break things without regard for how important they are, or how hard it might be to fix or replace them.
@noelle Further complicated by the “so-and-so liked…” notices in the news feed on …
@noelle Further complicated by the “so-and-so liked…” notices in the news feed on FB/birdsite making them a low-key boost as well, making the waters even muddier.
I have a few books that I return to over & over.
@bridgebury I have a few books that I return to over & over. ATM I can only think of Les Mis (since I’m reading it now) & the Earthsea series, but there are a few others. I’m amazed at all the stuff I missed or forgot in Les Mis, especially since I blogged the entire previous read through 5 years ago.
Les Mis: Marius/Cosette Courtship
One of many things that gets lost in adaptation is the extended courtship between Marius & Cosette (usually condensed to love at first sight). They pass each other in the park on a daily basis w/o paying much attention to each other, until she hits puberty & they start stealing glances at each other, trying to keep Valjean from noticing. She’s a lot better at that part than he is, though, which gets funny at times.
It does get creepy later on when Marius starts, well, creeping around her garden at night.
But at this point, it’s funny watching Marius hide behind trees so he & Cosette can make eyes at each other w/o Valjean seeing, make a fool over himself with the handkerchief he thinks she dropped (it was actually Valjean’s, so she can’t understand why he’s so fascinated by it), etc.
And when Valjean gets suspicious, and sets traps? Marius blunders into every single one.
TODO: Check to see how much it retreads Stealth Courtship and Rue Plumet from the first read-through, and overlap with the Twitter version.
Some sort of flowering scrub brush
Some sort of flowering scrub brush in the dry part of Madrona Marsh preserve. Some parts of the preserve have ponds year-round, some collect rain in winter and spring, and some are always dry land with grass or chaparral.
Marius’ grandfather, after reading the morning news, rants about kids these days, their sloppy dressing, …
Marius’ grandfather, after reading the morning news, rants about kids these days, their sloppy dressing, entitlement, disrespect for political systems that were good enough back in his day, disparages their masculinity, makes racist comparisons, & declares all news media a scourge.
It’s presented as ridiculous. And it is.
But it’s also depressing in how familiar it is. >150 years later, it’s exactly what you’d expect from an old man shouting at the news today. #lesmiserables
@Einahpets 😆 On a similar note, my wife spotted someone dressed as a cosplay mashup …
On a similar note, my wife spotted someone dressed as a cosplay mashup of Tamatoa with Ziggy Stardust at WonderCon last week: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/41140053401/
I’ve been using the same headshot across multiple social sites for ages. Now that …
I’ve been using the same headshot across multiple social sites for ages. Now that I’m juggling multiple Mastodon accounts, it’s gotten confusing, so now I’m going for themed avatars.
It got even more confusing since I signed up with the same username across all of them!
@unwary No worries – I think my run-on sentences will outweigh any extra sentence fragments… …
@unwary No worries – I think my run-on sentences will outweigh any extra sentence fragments… 😃
@Nezchan The worst part of it is that they almost can’t do the small …
@Nezchan The worst part of it is that they almost can’t do the small stakes stories anymore because they won’t be seen as “important,” so everything has to be a world-ending threat — and then where do you go from there. Save the solar system? Galaxy? Universe? Oops, better reboot….
@unwary That got a lot bleaker than I was expecting… 😲But yeah, it really is …
@unwary That got a lot bleaker than I was expecting… 😲
But yeah, it really is about finding your own…I don’t want to say meaning, but goal works — for what the game’s appeal is to you. I get bored in creative mode and would rather explore a survival world, but my son is all about building things and experimenting in creative. Which works out great except when we try to do multiplayer…