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Dec. 18th, 2010 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Thanks to it being sacrilegious for any Christian to work in December, the government is no longer funded past Tuesday. Congratulations, Republicans, for your victory in the war against the American people. After all, it's the people who won't be getting their paychecks, unemployment insurance, or Social security checks who are the ones who will really suffer from this glorious Republican victory. Why do Republicans hate ordinary people so much?
* I think I just cottoned to the logic. It is blasphemy to work in December. First responders work in December and work extra hard on Christmas eve because of all the drunks and open flames. Therefore first responders are blasphemers by Republican logic and thus do not deserve health care or compensation for heroically saving people. Similarly, only the ultra rich can afford to take off all of December. Everyone else is a blasphemer, therefore they deserve to have government services stop. The ultra rich, being freed of the need to work, are by definition the only non-sacrilegious people and deserve an extra tax cut at the expense of all us sinners who haven't the luxury to take off a whole month. It all hangs together, really.
* Today, Republicans claimed they couldn't vote on a bill because there was no time for their many Amendments to be discussed. Democrats gave them time to read their amendments and they didn't have any. after a few hours, McCain managed to come up with one. It would be beautiful farce if this worse endangering the whole world by them not renewing the START nuclear monitoring treaty.
* The food safety bill died for good with the Spending bill last night. The Republicans have vowed not to include it in the new year, what with us not needing pesky food safety regulation to prevent big business from including toxic chemicals or e. coli in our food. I mean after all, it's not like we've had a whole bunch of fatal poisonings in recent years, Right? Well, only people not in the top 2% died, so it doesn't really count does it. Congratulations to the republicans on yet another victory in the war against ordinary people. Bonus points for children, the elderly, and the immuno-suppressed being most likely to die in the poisonings they've now enabled.
* I have now enticed Mache into sitting on the pettin throne twice since the furniture rearrangement. She would still rather sit on the lap top key board. Both boys approve of the move. It also has a side benefit of improving my hydration. Clearly a net win. I'm a little worried about the new guppy. He's swimming fine, but at feeding time, he hadn't the sense to follow the school to the surface. Pretty, but dumb. He's in Black and blue, like my crowntails, and nearly as aggressive as one. "That's right cowards! Run away! I'm king of this section of tank!" *other fish swim off to eat* *new guppy does victory dance* All the tetras were alive when I went in there to clean the algae off the tank glass. I expect to lose a few in the next few months, but am wildly pleased that they all passed the first survival hurdle. The white cats were so clingy and needy last night I started worrying hector was escalating, but tonight he's fine, so I think I'll hold off on meds.
(New readers: a side effect of my alternative brain design is a tendency to forget to drink, eat, and pee. This is particularly true with the water as the other two are better at sending signals at crisis that I have a reasonable chance of noticing. I've also worked in a routine mini-break at intervals to check for things like hunger and need for toilet, which really helps. When I was teaching, I used to do preventative toileting on a schedule. Something as easily ignored as thirst tends to fade into the background emergency signals about things like the seams in my clothes, the texture of the floor and fabric, and pain, etc.. I learned very young to drink automatically at regular intervals without thinking about it if water is close at hand to keep even hydration. Having the water slightly further away though in reach apparently short circuits this key survival habit. Stupid, I know. I find myself thinking of the last Hitchhiker novel. There's that culture with the books all exactly the same length and the one where the main character randomly dies of thirst. Arthur pages back to find a throwaway mention of the tap breaking earlier on. I'm not quite that bad, but I can really hurt myself if I'm not careful. I also tend to not notice things like cuts, bruises, and sprained ankles I can still walk on until hours later, making it hard to trace how I managed to damage myself this time. I've also been known to fail to notice my hand is burning until the damage was rather more severe than it would have been if I did that that reflexive pull away from the hot thing people with standard brain design do. The process goes: Me touching the hot thing, some time passing. "Hey, something hurts more than average." I look down. "Damn." Pull hand away. It's fairly fast, but not as fast as it would be without the loop through my frontal cortex for a decision.)
* I had downloaded Delicious with intent to use it for bookmarks like two weeks ago, but didn't get around to actually moving the bookmarks. I am so glad I didn't....
* I'm really liking Law and Order:UK. so far, my only complaints are tiny ones. 1. I think the law and Order franchise trappings are distracting and the show would be improved by dropping them. 2. Tonight's episode hadn't enough Freema Agyeman. (Seriously, I like watching the charming and lovely Ms. Agyman play intelligent and competent professional women).
* I keep thinking about why UK works and LA doesn't. The original franchises are very New York. The earlier ones are a topuch hokey in rerun, but the 21st century ones have a grittiness to them that makes them feel right. The UK version has a different flavour of gritty, but they are also working with an old grey city most of the time. The LA one is slick and generic, like the whole CSI franchise, which I find unwatchable, and NCIS, which I lost patience with due to the mysogyny. LALA isn't unwatchable, just boring, but I think it suffers from being too much like everyone else. I bet LA: Chicago or LA: Detroit would work better stylistically, and style matters here, I think.
* RM found, UFO shot out of sky above Israeli nuclear plant: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/16/israel.negev.shootdown/index.html
* Rm found, "Sexual Assaults Up 64% at Military Academies:" http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/12/16/Sexual_Assaults_Up_64_Percent_at_Military_Academies/
Read about the slap on the wrist penalty structure if you want to make your blood boil.
* wednesday, the symptom set for the current pathogen ramped up, rather. It's making things a bit extra difficult. It's inconvenient as i have a little thing to run on Trin.
* I don't watch a lot of celebrity interview type shows, as they are mostly dull, but flipping channels, I spotted Letterman interviewing Hoffman and DeNiro. I came in halfway through and got hypnotized by the mix of awkward and charming going on. I wish my mother could see it, but the drugs have rendered her so deaf that even with the hearing aid, TV is hard for her to follow and she has trouble processing subtitles while following the visuals, so closed captioning isn't the help to her it sometimes is to me. This was so up her alley though. She loved Actor's Studio and Cavet and this interview reminded me of those, which i do find interesting. The thing that fascinated me most was that I couldn't tell if the actors liked each other. They had a married couple familiarity, that Letterman remarked on, but Mr. Hoffman in particular is so hard to read, even for me. How much is real and isn't, and what the true emotion behind the tone is, is so hard to read.
* Re: the redoing cartoons as live action film trend. When my age was in single fidgets, if you'd asked me if I wanted to see a cartoon or a special effects laden live action thing, I'd have taken the cartoon every time. Just saying.
* Not connected to the previous point, I have only seen a tiny clip of Guliver and I can all ready tell it will infuriate me. To save y'all from a replay of Braveheart and Troy, I'm avoiding it like the plague.
* We saw Tron,/i>, but I'm simply not up to talking about it in the depth I'd intended. Suffice to say, I do hope they can make a third one.
* I think I just cottoned to the logic. It is blasphemy to work in December. First responders work in December and work extra hard on Christmas eve because of all the drunks and open flames. Therefore first responders are blasphemers by Republican logic and thus do not deserve health care or compensation for heroically saving people. Similarly, only the ultra rich can afford to take off all of December. Everyone else is a blasphemer, therefore they deserve to have government services stop. The ultra rich, being freed of the need to work, are by definition the only non-sacrilegious people and deserve an extra tax cut at the expense of all us sinners who haven't the luxury to take off a whole month. It all hangs together, really.
* Today, Republicans claimed they couldn't vote on a bill because there was no time for their many Amendments to be discussed. Democrats gave them time to read their amendments and they didn't have any. after a few hours, McCain managed to come up with one. It would be beautiful farce if this worse endangering the whole world by them not renewing the START nuclear monitoring treaty.
* The food safety bill died for good with the Spending bill last night. The Republicans have vowed not to include it in the new year, what with us not needing pesky food safety regulation to prevent big business from including toxic chemicals or e. coli in our food. I mean after all, it's not like we've had a whole bunch of fatal poisonings in recent years, Right? Well, only people not in the top 2% died, so it doesn't really count does it. Congratulations to the republicans on yet another victory in the war against ordinary people. Bonus points for children, the elderly, and the immuno-suppressed being most likely to die in the poisonings they've now enabled.
* I have now enticed Mache into sitting on the pettin throne twice since the furniture rearrangement. She would still rather sit on the lap top key board. Both boys approve of the move. It also has a side benefit of improving my hydration. Clearly a net win. I'm a little worried about the new guppy. He's swimming fine, but at feeding time, he hadn't the sense to follow the school to the surface. Pretty, but dumb. He's in Black and blue, like my crowntails, and nearly as aggressive as one. "That's right cowards! Run away! I'm king of this section of tank!" *other fish swim off to eat* *new guppy does victory dance* All the tetras were alive when I went in there to clean the algae off the tank glass. I expect to lose a few in the next few months, but am wildly pleased that they all passed the first survival hurdle. The white cats were so clingy and needy last night I started worrying hector was escalating, but tonight he's fine, so I think I'll hold off on meds.
(New readers: a side effect of my alternative brain design is a tendency to forget to drink, eat, and pee. This is particularly true with the water as the other two are better at sending signals at crisis that I have a reasonable chance of noticing. I've also worked in a routine mini-break at intervals to check for things like hunger and need for toilet, which really helps. When I was teaching, I used to do preventative toileting on a schedule. Something as easily ignored as thirst tends to fade into the background emergency signals about things like the seams in my clothes, the texture of the floor and fabric, and pain, etc.. I learned very young to drink automatically at regular intervals without thinking about it if water is close at hand to keep even hydration. Having the water slightly further away though in reach apparently short circuits this key survival habit. Stupid, I know. I find myself thinking of the last Hitchhiker novel. There's that culture with the books all exactly the same length and the one where the main character randomly dies of thirst. Arthur pages back to find a throwaway mention of the tap breaking earlier on. I'm not quite that bad, but I can really hurt myself if I'm not careful. I also tend to not notice things like cuts, bruises, and sprained ankles I can still walk on until hours later, making it hard to trace how I managed to damage myself this time. I've also been known to fail to notice my hand is burning until the damage was rather more severe than it would have been if I did that that reflexive pull away from the hot thing people with standard brain design do. The process goes: Me touching the hot thing, some time passing. "Hey, something hurts more than average." I look down. "Damn." Pull hand away. It's fairly fast, but not as fast as it would be without the loop through my frontal cortex for a decision.)
* I had downloaded Delicious with intent to use it for bookmarks like two weeks ago, but didn't get around to actually moving the bookmarks. I am so glad I didn't....
* I'm really liking Law and Order:UK. so far, my only complaints are tiny ones. 1. I think the law and Order franchise trappings are distracting and the show would be improved by dropping them. 2. Tonight's episode hadn't enough Freema Agyeman. (Seriously, I like watching the charming and lovely Ms. Agyman play intelligent and competent professional women).
* I keep thinking about why UK works and LA doesn't. The original franchises are very New York. The earlier ones are a topuch hokey in rerun, but the 21st century ones have a grittiness to them that makes them feel right. The UK version has a different flavour of gritty, but they are also working with an old grey city most of the time. The LA one is slick and generic, like the whole CSI franchise, which I find unwatchable, and NCIS, which I lost patience with due to the mysogyny. LALA isn't unwatchable, just boring, but I think it suffers from being too much like everyone else. I bet LA: Chicago or LA: Detroit would work better stylistically, and style matters here, I think.
* RM found, UFO shot out of sky above Israeli nuclear plant: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/16/israel.negev.shootdown/index.html
* Rm found, "Sexual Assaults Up 64% at Military Academies:" http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/12/16/Sexual_Assaults_Up_64_Percent_at_Military_Academies/
Read about the slap on the wrist penalty structure if you want to make your blood boil.
* wednesday, the symptom set for the current pathogen ramped up, rather. It's making things a bit extra difficult. It's inconvenient as i have a little thing to run on Trin.
* I don't watch a lot of celebrity interview type shows, as they are mostly dull, but flipping channels, I spotted Letterman interviewing Hoffman and DeNiro. I came in halfway through and got hypnotized by the mix of awkward and charming going on. I wish my mother could see it, but the drugs have rendered her so deaf that even with the hearing aid, TV is hard for her to follow and she has trouble processing subtitles while following the visuals, so closed captioning isn't the help to her it sometimes is to me. This was so up her alley though. She loved Actor's Studio and Cavet and this interview reminded me of those, which i do find interesting. The thing that fascinated me most was that I couldn't tell if the actors liked each other. They had a married couple familiarity, that Letterman remarked on, but Mr. Hoffman in particular is so hard to read, even for me. How much is real and isn't, and what the true emotion behind the tone is, is so hard to read.
* Re: the redoing cartoons as live action film trend. When my age was in single fidgets, if you'd asked me if I wanted to see a cartoon or a special effects laden live action thing, I'd have taken the cartoon every time. Just saying.
* Not connected to the previous point, I have only seen a tiny clip of Guliver and I can all ready tell it will infuriate me. To save y'all from a replay of Braveheart and Troy, I'm avoiding it like the plague.
* We saw Tron,/i>, but I'm simply not up to talking about it in the depth I'd intended. Suffice to say, I do hope they can make a third one.