Thursday the 25th, Thanksgiving, the things that didn't go into the Update to Family/Official Thanksgiving Post.
Thursday, 0003: I am #thankful for the internet, and the amazing people I would never have met otherwise.
8:23 AM 11/25/2010
http://theferrett.dreamwidth.org/40942.html?thread=23022#cmt23022
I am thankful for Cyteen, which came along and told me: If you want to be sane, remember that everything in your head comes from some input you have had. Remember the sources of the things that make you what you are. If one of them turns out to be flawed, later on, you may have to rebuild, and you'd best make it easy on yourself. If you ever stop accepting and analyzing input, you are on a quick route to something very very irrational indeed. People who accept things as unquestioned truth are amazingly vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation, even if that which they accept actually is true.
Every time I am dogsitting at my aunt's, I have to roll a will save vs. excessive marathon-watching of MythBusters. I watched a rather lot of it. Twitter was helpfully sharing the Thanksgiving plans of large chunks of the US, including many of the MythBusters. Jamie made suckling pig with pepper spray. Adam was there too, since he was sharing pictures of the spit rig.
http://plixi.com/p/59193776 (amazingly cute dog; I briefly met her while waiting to see if I was eligible for No Pain, No Gain.)
http://plixi.com/p/59193924
http://plixi.com/p/59194049
Grant: "Intense heat, random poultry products, potential for explosion... Thanksgiving reminds me of work."
I started reading Omnitopia: Dawn, which I recommend to not just the intersection of the fans of Diane Duane's work and the players of MMORPGs, but to the union of those who intersect with book-readers. Also to anyone who's read the Young Wizards books and thought that the build-a-universe thing was nifty but felt like it didn't fit the Young Wizards paradigm so well.
It was absolutely delightful to see![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
maiden, and there was a lot of catching-up-on-stuff. Also a certain amount of cooking hilarity. jd is really leveling up as a cook.
I bade my farewells and headed off togushi's Thanksgiving shindig, the other place I was expected. In the morning, I'd been listening to "Alice's Restaurant" because someone had linked it on Facebook, but the page did something strange and I wound up stopping partway through (I think it navigated me to a new page while I was still listening); I turned the radio on while driving, and there it was, right at about the point where I'd stopped listening on Facebook. Nice little touch. I was happy.
I was a touch on the late side, and the dogs were very excited and very hungry. Deacon was getting out of the car very slowly, and Dazzle decided to bounce out and start trotting across the road. He has damn good recall, I have to say. He was well-praised for coming back.
There was a bit of last-minute finagling as there were actually dog-allergic people there, but eventually the dogs got fed and set up in a room that was in earshot but not quite eyeshot. This was not quite ideal (Deacon was annoyed and wanted attention, and the poodle was nervous) but workable. I got food (which gave me back my brain) and there was hilarity, gossip, shop talk.
I took the dogs out for their walk, accompanied by one of the guys, whose name sadly I did not catch. We had a good chat. He wound up wrangling the poodle.
Back in, there was more fun, and the ritual sharing of horribly scarring things we have found on the internet. I shared Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend, and the reaction of the room was a resounding WTF. Also "Tickle Me Harder", which got giggles. (Later, I remembered that I did not watch either the guy setting his junk on fire, or the original music video for Dragostea din Tei, both of which are traditional for me, but that was all right.)
I'd never seen Addams Family Values (or, indeed, any other Addams Family movie) before, but it was perfect. The aspiring bride reminded me enough of Bobbi Stakowski that I had to double-check IMDB.
At one point the poodle trotted off and got his mouth on some turkey bones, but that got resolved before I got there. Aiii. Dogs! I eventually leashed them under the table, where they sacked out.
I really need cards, both in legal-name for business-type networking purposes, and real-name, for fun people from the internet.
Thursday, 0003: I am #thankful for the internet, and the amazing people I would never have met otherwise.
8:23 AM 11/25/2010
http://theferrett.dreamwidth.org/40942.html?thread=23022#cmt23022
I am thankful for Cyteen, which came along and told me: If you want to be sane, remember that everything in your head comes from some input you have had. Remember the sources of the things that make you what you are. If one of them turns out to be flawed, later on, you may have to rebuild, and you'd best make it easy on yourself. If you ever stop accepting and analyzing input, you are on a quick route to something very very irrational indeed. People who accept things as unquestioned truth are amazingly vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation, even if that which they accept actually is true.
Every time I am dogsitting at my aunt's, I have to roll a will save vs. excessive marathon-watching of MythBusters. I watched a rather lot of it. Twitter was helpfully sharing the Thanksgiving plans of large chunks of the US, including many of the MythBusters. Jamie made suckling pig with pepper spray. Adam was there too, since he was sharing pictures of the spit rig.
http://plixi.com/p/59193776 (amazingly cute dog; I briefly met her while waiting to see if I was eligible for No Pain, No Gain.)
http://plixi.com/p/59193924
http://plixi.com/p/59194049
Grant: "Intense heat, random poultry products, potential for explosion... Thanksgiving reminds me of work."
I started reading Omnitopia: Dawn, which I recommend to not just the intersection of the fans of Diane Duane's work and the players of MMORPGs, but to the union of those who intersect with book-readers. Also to anyone who's read the Young Wizards books and thought that the build-a-universe thing was nifty but felt like it didn't fit the Young Wizards paradigm so well.
It was absolutely delightful to see
maiden, and there was a lot of catching-up-on-stuff. Also a certain amount of cooking hilarity. jd is really leveling up as a cook. I bade my farewells and headed off to
gushi's Thanksgiving shindig, the other place I was expected. In the morning, I'd been listening to "Alice's Restaurant" because someone had linked it on Facebook, but the page did something strange and I wound up stopping partway through (I think it navigated me to a new page while I was still listening); I turned the radio on while driving, and there it was, right at about the point where I'd stopped listening on Facebook. Nice little touch. I was happy. I was a touch on the late side, and the dogs were very excited and very hungry. Deacon was getting out of the car very slowly, and Dazzle decided to bounce out and start trotting across the road. He has damn good recall, I have to say. He was well-praised for coming back.
There was a bit of last-minute finagling as there were actually dog-allergic people there, but eventually the dogs got fed and set up in a room that was in earshot but not quite eyeshot. This was not quite ideal (Deacon was annoyed and wanted attention, and the poodle was nervous) but workable. I got food (which gave me back my brain) and there was hilarity, gossip, shop talk.
I took the dogs out for their walk, accompanied by one of the guys, whose name sadly I did not catch. We had a good chat. He wound up wrangling the poodle.
Back in, there was more fun, and the ritual sharing of horribly scarring things we have found on the internet. I shared Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend, and the reaction of the room was a resounding WTF. Also "Tickle Me Harder", which got giggles. (Later, I remembered that I did not watch either the guy setting his junk on fire, or the original music video for Dragostea din Tei, both of which are traditional for me, but that was all right.)
I'd never seen Addams Family Values (or, indeed, any other Addams Family movie) before, but it was perfect. The aspiring bride reminded me enough of Bobbi Stakowski that I had to double-check IMDB.
At one point the poodle trotted off and got his mouth on some turkey bones, but that got resolved before I got there. Aiii. Dogs! I eventually leashed them under the table, where they sacked out.
I really need cards, both in legal-name for business-type networking purposes, and real-name, for fun people from the internet.
