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[sofiaviolet]

Helped four statues and a balloon clown move house yesterday!

It went pretty well - in spite of having to make two trips, the Uhaul got returned on time. And Ellie came by with the Subaru Wonder Wagon for physical assistance (being a person of greater upper body strength than, say, my puny self), transportation of items smaller than mattresses, and the driving from A to B of the five cats.

Injuries sustained by me: cardboard rash on my palms and the insides of my arms, two parallel paper cuts on my left wrist, at least three separate bruises on my left knee. And of course my muscles are Not Pleased, but that is why we have pain relievers. Oh, and we dropped a dry sink on my foot heading down the stairs at the old place. Thank god for my boots, because although it hurt at the time, there's no evidence of it today.

Then I went to work today! Only for the remaining few hours I could earn actual money for, but still. Ow to slinging boxes of documents and photos after that.

And tonight we had Cid and Jason over for dinner. Alfredo sauce, ravioli, olive oil and bread.

• dw_maintenance: imports stalled from LJ
• dingsi: How to switch quickly between Delicious.com accounts
• flourish: Simulation & narration

  Yesterday and today I've been thinking a lot about the best ways to implement rooms that are absolutely full of stuff in interactive fiction. For those of you who don't know, meaning those of you who aren't on IFMud, I've been working on a piece of Harry Potter fanfic IF. It's my first time really trying to see a project through and I'm running into all the classic problems with IF, one of which I will now pontificate about...

• recessional: "No. Clean SOME of the things. The things you can clean in about twenty minutes."

  Because it turns out that actual functional adulthood isn't cleaning all the things! Or emptying out all the emails! Or always going to the bank! Or any of that! No, the first meaningful skill of adulthood?
  
  Triage. Or, in less dramatic words, prioritization.

• laughingrat: -Isms for the casual user

  This is what I work with every day: you're not disabled unless they can see signs of it, but if they can see signs of it, then you're a big stupid problem that needs to be swept away and erased. You need to be removed from the roster of society, deprived of medical care, shelter, food, and other necessities through the deprivation of the right to work (or the right to work in an environment that doesn't hurt you). And if you have a disability that manifests physically, even that's suspect, because you're probably just not trying hard enough, or you should get more sleep, or you should eat differently, or we shouldn't have to rearrange the tables to make sure someone in a wheelchair or with walking aids could get through, because Christ, what a pain in the ass. People rarely say this stuff explicitly, but they say it implicitly all the time.
  
  These are ordinary people. These are, in fact, people who are generally considered a cut above. This is an everyday situation.

• cereta: No, it is not least important

  However, when you say that the racial issues are the "least pressing problem" or are "far less important" than the quality issues, you are setting a priority that makes me deeply uncomfortable. Perhaps you are saying that they are less pressing to the purposes of your review, but I wish you had been more explicit about it. Because in the grand scheme of things, whether TLA is a crappy movie doesn't matter all that much. We still have the cartoon. But the ongoing problem of whitewashing and white default casting? Kinda important.

• jmtorres: sabotage

  So we were reading Ebert's review of The Last Airbender, about how it's unrelenting bad, like, all aspects of it are bad, cinematographically speaking, and there's a line in the review about "The laws of chance suggest something should have gone right. Not here." It made me start wondering if someone had sabotaged the thing. And I was thinking, maybe the editor. Because you can sabotage a fucking lot in post. You can make the plot meanderingly arcless and awful with editing. You can make the actors look shitty by choosing mediocre to awful takes. You can fuck the effects. You can fuck the 3D. You can fuck a lot as the editor.

• mecurtin: The Last Airbender movie and the ways to fail; UPDATED

  M. Night Shyamalan has said he wanted to do the movie because his daughter loved the series, and loved seeing people like herself, for once. Yet clearly, he DOESN'T GET IT -- he thinks so much like the white American male Hollywood powers (the ones The Hathor Legacy blogs about, the ones who are only interested in seeing other white males and who think anything else "doesn't sell") that he can't even see his own child. He took her out of the picture, and he doesn't even notice.

• glockgal: Sam and Dean Winchestgopal
• dingsi: Quick Link(s) on Doctor Who

Comments

[renne]

Hey yooou, thank you so much for the NOLA postcard, I love it! It's joined my small & exclusive collection on my fridge (it is now a collection of TWO.)

♥

[sofiaviolet]

You're welcome!! *feels special*

[zulu]

w00t, glad the move was successful! Thanks for these links, too!

[sofiaviolet]

Me too. And their new place is sooooo much nicer. And much easier to get to by T.