portrait of the artist as a...
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synecdochicthe artist has come to terms with the fact that we've hidden away all his materials and is willing to deign to lower himself to more traditional media.
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Bug 4527 bounty
May. 21st, 2013 04:58 pmalanj posting in ![[site community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_devI'll donate $100 to the Electronic Freedom Foundation in the name of anyone who gets Bug 4527 (crossposting Markdown results in bare syntax on remote site) fixed, payable when the fix shows up in production ;)
I would really like to start using Markdown. Unfortunately most of my friends are not cool enough to use Dreamwidth, so I am dependent on crossposting, so this issue makes Markdown use impossible for me. It should be a very small patch; my guess when I looked at it was under 10 lines, though proper error-handling and comments and such will bump it up some.
I would really like to start using Markdown. Unfortunately most of my friends are not cool enough to use Dreamwidth, so I am dependent on crossposting, so this issue makes Markdown use impossible for me. It should be a very small patch; my guess when I looked at it was under 10 lines, though proper error-handling and comments and such will bump it up some.
extra space!
May. 21st, 2013 02:02 pmbadgerbaghalloa! i will be flying out to WisCon tomorrow, with Moomin! So excited.
our 3rd roommate will not be getting in till friday morning, so if you need a space to crash on Wed. or Thurs night, or need a spot to rest up during the day, just ask!
Yay yay yay I am very excited. But I have to keep thinking about work for another couple hours here. I worked late last night figuring that today my head would be full of packing and plans and it is VERY DISTRACTING. :)
our 3rd roommate will not be getting in till friday morning, so if you need a space to crash on Wed. or Thurs night, or need a spot to rest up during the day, just ask!
Yay yay yay I am very excited. But I have to keep thinking about work for another couple hours here. I worked late last night figuring that today my head would be full of packing and plans and it is VERY DISTRACTING. :)
21 tweets for 2013-5-20
May. 20th, 2013 11:55 pmazurelunaticIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Sunday, 2356: RT @NoelMcKinney: I want a smart washing machine doesn't start until it tells me I left chapstick in my pants pockets yet again.
- Monday, 0005: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/19/2013: 469 steps and 0.2 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
- Monday, 0133: @feliciaday You're not the only one. I watch movies and see if they even have women talking to each other.
- Monday, 0133: RT @chip_uni: Dear Princess Celestia, Today I learned that when someone offers you a taste of ghost pepper extract, SAY NO. Your student, C…
- Monday, 0637: @WaPoExpress http://www.readexpress.com/2013/05/an-u
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My Bechdel Test Pass Life: a day at work
May. 20th, 2013 10:09 pmazurelunaticI don't actually know the answer to this question, which is why I'm devoting an entry to it now, and may re-visit it. Would Alison Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace be able to watch a movie about my life?
Obviously I am not the only woman* in my life, and not the only woman of significance -- there are more women around me than just bit players; there are women who I introduce to my other friends by their names (or unique monikers for privacy purposes). Unlike The Shawn Era, I'm doing pretty well here.
I talk to the women in my life. Perhaps not all of them as often as I probably ought (I should call Mama sometime that I'm not hair-on-fire busy) but I do talk to various people, and fairly often for me, even if it's not all that often for each of them.
I talk to the women in my life about things which are not men. Let's explore today.
I talked withnorabombay about an entire array of mostly-not-men topics, including dogs, work/job-hunting, food, cooking, and various shenanigans. I'm not sure if His Crumbliness came up at all today.
I talked with my Overlady at work! Mostly this was about the Upcoming Event, but we had a good long debriefing about a number of other things. I think there were two conversations about men: the Stage Manager hasn't given me back my highlighters yet ("Order another set.") and that our Grandmanager's response to seeing me in tears that one time will never not be funny. (There was something stressing me out which touched on work, he was the first work person I ran into, I started to cry, and his face went through this incredible series of truly hilarious gymnastics, which were entirely worth the price of admission.) (The irony of the fact that I'm illustrating the fact that mostly we didn't talk about men, by enumerating the men we did talk about, does not escape me.)
The interlude where I retrieved a co-worker who was in town from Israel for the upcoming Thing, and whose meeting got canceled thus leaving me in charge of Monday's hospitality, and all the related conversations and introductions don't count, as that co-worker was a man.
All of the deeply hilarious administrivia related to the Upcoming Thing counts, because it's the Upcoming Thing, and most of the people I was speaking to about it are women: my Overlady, her Understudy, my manager, the other manager with the fabulous sweater -- we had a great old time making sure that stuff was ready and organized.
I had occasion to be pretty fabulously organized about office supplies. This entry is not the place to go into detail, as it was in support of a talk for some male co-workers.
On my way home, Nora and I talked again, about anything and everything as usual. After I got home and started poking Twitter,![[twitter.com profile]](http://twitter.com/favicon.ico)
amyty and I discussed the fitbit.
And so, to bed.
* For practical purposes.
Obviously I am not the only woman* in my life, and not the only woman of significance -- there are more women around me than just bit players; there are women who I introduce to my other friends by their names (or unique monikers for privacy purposes). Unlike The Shawn Era, I'm doing pretty well here.
I talk to the women in my life. Perhaps not all of them as often as I probably ought (I should call Mama sometime that I'm not hair-on-fire busy) but I do talk to various people, and fairly often for me, even if it's not all that often for each of them.
I talk to the women in my life about things which are not men. Let's explore today.
I talked with
norabombay about an entire array of mostly-not-men topics, including dogs, work/job-hunting, food, cooking, and various shenanigans. I'm not sure if His Crumbliness came up at all today. I talked with my Overlady at work! Mostly this was about the Upcoming Event, but we had a good long debriefing about a number of other things. I think there were two conversations about men: the Stage Manager hasn't given me back my highlighters yet ("Order another set.") and that our Grandmanager's response to seeing me in tears that one time will never not be funny. (There was something stressing me out which touched on work, he was the first work person I ran into, I started to cry, and his face went through this incredible series of truly hilarious gymnastics, which were entirely worth the price of admission.) (The irony of the fact that I'm illustrating the fact that mostly we didn't talk about men, by enumerating the men we did talk about, does not escape me.)
The interlude where I retrieved a co-worker who was in town from Israel for the upcoming Thing, and whose meeting got canceled thus leaving me in charge of Monday's hospitality, and all the related conversations and introductions don't count, as that co-worker was a man.
All of the deeply hilarious administrivia related to the Upcoming Thing counts, because it's the Upcoming Thing, and most of the people I was speaking to about it are women: my Overlady, her Understudy, my manager, the other manager with the fabulous sweater -- we had a great old time making sure that stuff was ready and organized.
I had occasion to be pretty fabulously organized about office supplies. This entry is not the place to go into detail, as it was in support of a talk for some male co-workers.
On my way home, Nora and I talked again, about anything and everything as usual. After I got home and started poking Twitter,
And so, to bed.
* For practical purposes.
Oh, okay, a meme.
May. 20th, 2013 10:05 pmstaraniseI have 32 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 32 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.
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Dialogue While Watching "How It's Made"
May. 20th, 2013 07:22 pmwordweaverlynnhousepet: I can't imagine who would have invented the tuba.gramina: I think it was someone in the middle ages.housepet: They must have been bored.wordweaverlynn: They didn't have reality TV.housepet: How did they think up anything so convoluted? They must have been licking toads.(no subject)
May. 20th, 2013 02:23 pmstaraniserushthatspeaks reviews a book on Native American ghosts in American literature; the book sounds fascinating, but I find the essay talking about it just as fascinating, since it talks about how we interface with these vast cultural stories.It's fabulous. I recommend it. This entry is not about that. It's about something completely different.
See, the essay sparked a series of half-formed thoughts about how this plays out in Canadian contexts. But I, in fact, spent as much of my academic career dodging Canadian literature and history as humanly possible (I regret it now, but I was young and enamoured of medieval Europe). So the amount I'd be able to substantively fit into that conversation could fit in a teacup. I thought for a while that I might have a little smidgen to contribute and spent a while googling around for something related, but I found I'd misremembered it and found it didn't apply at all.
But while I was doing so, I found a review for Candace Savage's A Geography of Blood, which is a nonfiction book about the time she spent living in a small town in Saskatchewan, and travelling and researching the stories of her own intimate circle of the vast (but certainly not featureless) sweep of the prairies.
I haven't read her book, but I'm trying to articulate just what about the book made me go Oh god, you too? since A Geography of Blood is about the same things I think I would write a book about if I stayed on the prairies. On one level that's pretty similar just because those are the issues you deal with living in Albertisaskatoba, but it also sounds like, to her, this was not some cognitive exercise. It makes me think: Oh wow, she felt it too.
I don't know how to describe that feeling of... acutely felt disconnection from the land. That call that the land has stories and wants you to listen a little closer. Or, no. *flaps hands around* The sense of eternity about the prairies, the sense of "everything that has been lost and everything we are now losing". Is that it? Or--how did we put it? I find people here in Vancouver who will talk about this thing I'm trying to describe much more than people actually on the flatlands. And not everybody feels it. But we get to talking, some prairie expatriates and me, and we talk about feeling, and leaving because we felt, this kind of sense that dealing with that sky and that land... asks you to make peace with something eternal, as absolute and unnegotiable as the horizon, something about mortality and emptiness and... phagh.
We talk about this feeling that if we stayed, the land would ask to take something from us. That we would have to give it up. Not that we'd be hurt or injured by the deal, just... changed.
I've described it and had a professor go, "Yes! That." A client talked to me about it despairing that anyone in Vancouver would know what it was or why she felt its absence. I have Albertan friends who talk about it in circumlocutions.
This is part of why, when I think about moving, I have to feel a place that "feels right". This is my best try at explaining what the quality and nature of that kind of feeling is, and I don't know if I've even managed.
(From earlier today, before I read any of this, I was discussing with a friend that even the small town in a picture I showed her was too built-up and urban for me:
(8:50:22 AM) Friend: Jesus, how are you making it through the day in Vancouver?!
(8:50:27 AM)
staranise: DRUGS(8:50:35 AM)
staranise: I mean(8:50:46 AM)
staranise: mostly just: I put up with always feeling kind of itchy)Care and Feeding of a Were-Duck at WisCon
May. 20th, 2013 10:40 amwere_duckIn case you haven't heard, I WILL be at WisCon. Though at this particular moment I'm considering just sleeping for the whole weekend instead :p
+ Please don't publicly connect my RL name and this handle! It's fine to let other fans to know my RL name, but I'd rather they not be online easily googled by present or future employers :p When in doubt, just ask me which to use.
+ I don't like to make plans ahead of time, but feel free to try to grab me for lobbycon etc.
+ I am on two panels--the vid panel and one on polyish relationships in SF/F. I also have some public speaking responsibilities, so you may see me being heinously awkward onstage. You'll also see me in the dealer's room a bit.
+ I am staying in the hotel this year. I'm probably not going to go out for every meal because I am poor and just had to buy a new computer. I'd be more than happy to hang out in non-restaurant situations, however, and maybe one or two meals with smallish groups.
+ If you don't have my cell and would like it, let me know and I will DM you. I prefer texts or email or tweets to being called.
+ I like hugs but I appreciate knowing they're coming--please don't sneak-attack hug me.
+ I am bad at faces, and WisCon is FULL of faces. Please just remind me if I look confused--chances are I'll remember your name/who you are and just need to have your face connected to your identity.
I think that's it! :D Ahhhhhh I am so excited to see everyone!
+ Please don't publicly connect my RL name and this handle! It's fine to let other fans to know my RL name, but I'd rather they not be online easily googled by present or future employers :p When in doubt, just ask me which to use.
+ I don't like to make plans ahead of time, but feel free to try to grab me for lobbycon etc.
+ I am on two panels--the vid panel and one on polyish relationships in SF/F. I also have some public speaking responsibilities, so you may see me being heinously awkward onstage. You'll also see me in the dealer's room a bit.
+ I am staying in the hotel this year. I'm probably not going to go out for every meal because I am poor and just had to buy a new computer. I'd be more than happy to hang out in non-restaurant situations, however, and maybe one or two meals with smallish groups.
+ If you don't have my cell and would like it, let me know and I will DM you. I prefer texts or email or tweets to being called.
+ I like hugs but I appreciate knowing they're coming--please don't sneak-attack hug me.
+ I am bad at faces, and WisCon is FULL of faces. Please just remind me if I look confused--chances are I'll remember your name/who you are and just need to have your face connected to your identity.
I think that's it! :D Ahhhhhh I am so excited to see everyone!
(no subject)
May. 20th, 2013 09:22 amsynecdochicMondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.
(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)
(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)
10 tweets for 2013-5-19
May. 19th, 2013 11:55 pmazurelunaticIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Sunday, 0101: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/18/2013: 696 steps and 0.3 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
- Sunday, 0113: RT @spuffyduds: So next question: DEAR AO3, WHERE IS ALL THE NAVIGATION OFFICER DARWIN FIC?
- Sunday, 0126: @freerangefatty I think there is a "taxi" service?
- Sunday, 0147: RT @aliendovecote: Q: what bleeds for a week but doesnt die A: you as i slowly cut you up for making misogynist jokes that portray periods…
- Sunday, 0151: RT @askaphysicist: This week on "kids say the darndest things," my 3 year-old insists that kangaroos live on Mars because they are marsupia… ( read the other 5 )
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Linkspam is counting the hours till Wiscon
May. 20th, 2013 01:45 amwiredI want one of these recycled bike tire belts. Because they're cool, that's why.
I found them through this article about bike clothing. Which is battered in privilege like the finest of tempura. Gee, the shorts are $190, and so is the v-neck t-shirt? Are you kidding me? Just for reference, there is one picture where the female model is wearing $300 worth of clothes -- not specialized weather gear, just clothing branded bike-y ($100 Chrome hoodie, FORSOOTH). Or as I like to think of it, 1/3 of my fantasy winter commuter bike. That's not to say I don't spend money on bike clothes, that I don't think about it, that I don't see the advantages. It's just that I flat out can't afford to dress like that. I don't spend even close to that amount on work clothes. My average work outfit is a $40 sweater or blazer, $40 pants, and a $10 t-shirt. And don't even get me STARTED on the size-ism rampant in workout clothes of all types, but I am especially cranky about the bike type.
This article on the IRS screwup seems pretty reasonable. I find it interesting because I remember not so many years ago, the leadership of my church (the United Church of Christ) sweating bullets because they had come up on an audit on their tax-exempt status because they had a prominent member of the church speak at the nationwide church gathering. The speech was in 2007. The speaker was Barack Obama. Was it an occult campaign appearance? Was the ENTIRE CHURCH BODY going to lose tax-exempt status? (It all got settled when they realized he'd been booked when he was still only a senator, and he really was talking to the church qua church). Just' sayin, we really should be looking at everyone who claims tax exemption. The righteous will not be harmed.
I would love to read this hypothetical textbook. I remember spending a lot of time on pre-columbian history, but very much with a colonizer's point of view.
I want this fabric like burning. Only I need to figure out how to modify a skirt meant for LITTLE girs into something for taller people......like Kay! I certainly wouldn't be coveting a pirate-flying-fish skirt for my crotchety old self, right? Right. (Speaking of, Kay is currently two inches taller than her brother again. This is what I get for mating with a hill giant.
I don't know what I love better. This NatGeo picture, or the au courant caption.
Oh. My. God. Look what sprang from my loins. His fourth post on this blog is a grammar rant. I feel like I have bred true. And also that I want to correct a couple things in that post, and is he really putting periods at the end of all his post titles? But mostly I am just so, so proud. Verklempt even.
I liked this list of responses to reasons a person might not bike commute. THAT SAID, "I don't want to" should be a sufficient reason for you to get up off their back.
I really liked this short-short from Sherman Alexie. It is unsentimental, but awesome.
I found them through this article about bike clothing. Which is battered in privilege like the finest of tempura. Gee, the shorts are $190, and so is the v-neck t-shirt? Are you kidding me? Just for reference, there is one picture where the female model is wearing $300 worth of clothes -- not specialized weather gear, just clothing branded bike-y ($100 Chrome hoodie, FORSOOTH). Or as I like to think of it, 1/3 of my fantasy winter commuter bike. That's not to say I don't spend money on bike clothes, that I don't think about it, that I don't see the advantages. It's just that I flat out can't afford to dress like that. I don't spend even close to that amount on work clothes. My average work outfit is a $40 sweater or blazer, $40 pants, and a $10 t-shirt. And don't even get me STARTED on the size-ism rampant in workout clothes of all types, but I am especially cranky about the bike type.
This article on the IRS screwup seems pretty reasonable. I find it interesting because I remember not so many years ago, the leadership of my church (the United Church of Christ) sweating bullets because they had come up on an audit on their tax-exempt status because they had a prominent member of the church speak at the nationwide church gathering. The speech was in 2007. The speaker was Barack Obama. Was it an occult campaign appearance? Was the ENTIRE CHURCH BODY going to lose tax-exempt status? (It all got settled when they realized he'd been booked when he was still only a senator, and he really was talking to the church qua church). Just' sayin, we really should be looking at everyone who claims tax exemption. The righteous will not be harmed.
I would love to read this hypothetical textbook. I remember spending a lot of time on pre-columbian history, but very much with a colonizer's point of view.
I want this fabric like burning. Only I need to figure out how to modify a skirt meant for LITTLE girs into something for taller people......like Kay! I certainly wouldn't be coveting a pirate-flying-fish skirt for my crotchety old self, right? Right. (Speaking of, Kay is currently two inches taller than her brother again. This is what I get for mating with a hill giant.
I don't know what I love better. This NatGeo picture, or the au courant caption.
Oh. My. God. Look what sprang from my loins. His fourth post on this blog is a grammar rant. I feel like I have bred true. And also that I want to correct a couple things in that post, and is he really putting periods at the end of all his post titles? But mostly I am just so, so proud. Verklempt even.
I liked this list of responses to reasons a person might not bike commute. THAT SAID, "I don't want to" should be a sufficient reason for you to get up off their back.
I really liked this short-short from Sherman Alexie. It is unsentimental, but awesome.
Yes, I will be at Wiscon
May. 19th, 2013 07:53 pmredbirdI am arriving Thursday afternoon, possibly in time for the Room of One's Own reception and readings, weather and traffic through O'Hare allowing, and will be leaving after breakfast on Monday. Seattle is a lot further from Madison than New York is, and there are no nonstop flights. I'm not on programming this year (I didn't volunteer, because I wasn't sure I could attend the con until after the sign-up deadline), which means either that I am more flexible than usual, or that I will spend more time wondering what to do when.
ah, technology
May. 19th, 2013 06:39 amsynecdochicthe good part of visiting the eye doctor for my first eye exam in four years (yeah, i know, i know): getting a prescription for new glasses, since according to the eye charts my vision (usually correctable to 20/15) had slipped down to about 20/30 with the current prescription.
the bad part of etc: having to wait for the lenses for the new glasses to be manufactured, since they don't keep my prescriptions in stock :D
i also got a box of contact lenses for the first time in ages; the eye doc i had as a child put me in lenses at a pretty-much-unheard-of-at-the-time age 10 or 11, since my eyes were degenerating so rapidly he thought that maybe the lenses would keep them from continuing to degrade. (and it mostly worked! my eyes kept getting bad after that, but nowhere near as quickly.) i wore contacts for about 18 or 19 years until i got too lazy to keep up with them, and i was a little afraid that having gone back to the glasses would start the downslide back up again, but nope, still correctable to 20/15, in glasses at least. (i could get better correction with the contacts if i were going to wear them more often and thus could justify spending more money on the more expensive ones that will also correct the astigmatism, but since the contacts are only going to be for occasional use, it's definitely not worth it.) although the eye doc says that i've probably only got another few years before i'll need bifocals, whee.
i'm trying the new "high definition" lenses they've developed, for the new pair of glasses. i am very interested, since i've always had refraction problems and they're supposed to be good for staring at computer screens for long periods. i will report back.
i've also finally bitten the bullet and admitted that my damn arms are not getting better from rest/ice/steroid shots/etc, so i dropped a bunch of money on technology that's hopefully going to make things better. including giving up and admitting it's time to try to work with dictation software, despite the fact that is the exact fucking opposite of how my brain works and is probably going to be a fucking nightmare. i'm hoping that just using the voice controls for things like page down when reading long documents, dictating short bursts of things, making my notes-to-self, doing a few emails, etc, will be enough to address the problem, especially when combined with the new two-piece, super-split keyboard i ordered so i can stop reaching inward to type and exaggerating the pronation and deviation, will help enough that i don't have to use the dictation software for extended bursts of composition or creative writing, since i absolutely cannot do that verbally. (i've tried before, but at least one of the meds i'm on gives me minor-but-significant verbal aphasia and that is no place to go for a good time.)
on the bright (?) side, at least the new adaptive tech means a new laptop to go with it. this one i'm using now isn't that old, not old enough to have a ton of problems running the software or whatever, but a faster laptop will help, and i'm getting a 13" MacBook Pro instead of the 15" i have now; i'm hoping the smaller, lighter laptop will help, and it will mean i can just put the two pieces of the split keyboard on either side of the laptop more easily.
(plus, i ordered the retina display model. i mean, why not, right?)
the bad part of etc: having to wait for the lenses for the new glasses to be manufactured, since they don't keep my prescriptions in stock :D
i also got a box of contact lenses for the first time in ages; the eye doc i had as a child put me in lenses at a pretty-much-unheard-of-at-the-time age 10 or 11, since my eyes were degenerating so rapidly he thought that maybe the lenses would keep them from continuing to degrade. (and it mostly worked! my eyes kept getting bad after that, but nowhere near as quickly.) i wore contacts for about 18 or 19 years until i got too lazy to keep up with them, and i was a little afraid that having gone back to the glasses would start the downslide back up again, but nope, still correctable to 20/15, in glasses at least. (i could get better correction with the contacts if i were going to wear them more often and thus could justify spending more money on the more expensive ones that will also correct the astigmatism, but since the contacts are only going to be for occasional use, it's definitely not worth it.) although the eye doc says that i've probably only got another few years before i'll need bifocals, whee.
i'm trying the new "high definition" lenses they've developed, for the new pair of glasses. i am very interested, since i've always had refraction problems and they're supposed to be good for staring at computer screens for long periods. i will report back.
i've also finally bitten the bullet and admitted that my damn arms are not getting better from rest/ice/steroid shots/etc, so i dropped a bunch of money on technology that's hopefully going to make things better. including giving up and admitting it's time to try to work with dictation software, despite the fact that is the exact fucking opposite of how my brain works and is probably going to be a fucking nightmare. i'm hoping that just using the voice controls for things like page down when reading long documents, dictating short bursts of things, making my notes-to-self, doing a few emails, etc, will be enough to address the problem, especially when combined with the new two-piece, super-split keyboard i ordered so i can stop reaching inward to type and exaggerating the pronation and deviation, will help enough that i don't have to use the dictation software for extended bursts of composition or creative writing, since i absolutely cannot do that verbally. (i've tried before, but at least one of the meds i'm on gives me minor-but-significant verbal aphasia and that is no place to go for a good time.)
on the bright (?) side, at least the new adaptive tech means a new laptop to go with it. this one i'm using now isn't that old, not old enough to have a ton of problems running the software or whatever, but a faster laptop will help, and i'm getting a 13" MacBook Pro instead of the 15" i have now; i'm hoping the smaller, lighter laptop will help, and it will mean i can just put the two pieces of the split keyboard on either side of the laptop more easily.
(plus, i ordered the retina display model. i mean, why not, right?)
Dork dork dooork is my cry
May. 19th, 2013 12:07 amstaraniseI am having marvellous fun playing with my self-indulgent NCIS crossover. It's just for fun so the sentences can be as long as I want and I get to talk about shoe-shopping for paragraphs at a time.
Anyway, tonight I felt like taking a related frolic through my school's databases.
Two articles I have full-text access to:
"Undercover agent assessment centers: Crafting vice and virtue for impostors" by M. Girodo, 1997, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 12 issue 5 pages 237-260.
"Dissociative-type identity disturbances in undercover agents: Socio-cognitive factors behind false-identity appearances and reenactments" by M. Girodo, T. Deck, and M. Morrison, 2002, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 30 issue 7 pages 631-644.
Two articles I do not have access to, aside from abstracts:
"World War II Never Ended in My House: Interviews of 12 Office of Strategic Services Veterans of Wartime Espionage on the 50th Anniversary of WW II" by C. Susan, in Psychobiology of posttraumatic stress disorders: A decade of progress edited by R. Yehuda, 463-471, Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
"Illuminating feminine cultural shadow with women espionage agents and the dark Goddess" by D. E. Rickards (dissertation abstract, 2006)
Anyway, tonight I felt like taking a related frolic through my school's databases.
Two articles I have full-text access to:
"Undercover agent assessment centers: Crafting vice and virtue for impostors" by M. Girodo, 1997, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 12 issue 5 pages 237-260.
The government agent's personality is one of the principal instruments of an undercover operation. This paper provides an overview of long standing problems in assessing essential job-related abilities in undercover agents, and some solutions which have been implemented over the last 20 years. ( Read more... ).
"Dissociative-type identity disturbances in undercover agents: Socio-cognitive factors behind false-identity appearances and reenactments" by M. Girodo, T. Deck, and M. Morrison, 2002, in Social Behavior and Personality volume 30 issue 7 pages 631-644.
The uncontrolled dissociative-type reappearance of a fabricated false identity in undercover agents was investigated in 48 federal police officers (male and female; aged 26-41 yrs old) undergoing 3 wks of undercover field exercises in 2 separate classes. ( Read more... )
Two articles I do not have access to, aside from abstracts:
"World War II Never Ended in My House: Interviews of 12 Office of Strategic Services Veterans of Wartime Espionage on the 50th Anniversary of WW II" by C. Susan, in Psychobiology of posttraumatic stress disorders: A decade of progress edited by R. Yehuda, 463-471, Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
The author conducted sociological interviews of 12 OSS spies (7 male, 5 female) who were operatives in France during World War II ( Read more... )
"Illuminating feminine cultural shadow with women espionage agents and the dark Goddess" by D. E. Rickards (dissertation abstract, 2006)
This research is an exploration into western feminine cultural shadow through the interviews of eight women from Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, and United States, who volunteered for espionage work such as couriers, weapons specialists, and saboteurs in the Second World War. ( Read more... )