chomiji: Sai, the courtly, go-playing Heian ghost, playing a flute - from Hikaru no Go (Sai - music)

I'm not even 100% certain why, except that almost 40 years after they first recorded it, Cheap Trick could still do this song (with a sing-in from host Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates):

This is from a web video series called "Live from Daryl's House." I'm actually spending time watching a lot of videos lately, mostly music of some sort.

chomiji: A luna moth, wings spread (Luna Moth)

Snarfed from [personal profile] viridian5:

which "-core" aesthetic are you?

cryptidcore

stop simping for mothman!!! also, there's no way you're cis. i can feel it in my bones. you have a wide variety of interests which rarely align with one another, but that just makes you all the more interesting. you dream not only of meeting a cryptid, but of becoming one yourself. for now, you'll keep on vibing in liminal spaces until that day comes.

Well, I was cis last I checked? Maybe your bones need a tuneup. Now, I may not be het, but that's another issue.

chomiji: An image of a classic spiral galaxy (galaxy)

Some SFF/pop/media website had a yearly tournament bracket feature where they pitted characters against each other and had someone (sometimes someone pretty good) narrate how it would have played out, at least for like the final four. Readers vote to advance their preferred opponent to the next round. The tournament featured all kinds of characters: I know Ged from Earthsea showed up one year, for example.

I cannot for the life of me recall where it was, and it's making me nuts. I *think* I saw Gideon Nav in it last year, and I'm re-reading Gideon the Ninth, which I had not read at the time. I have a vision of the little stylized image of her with her cropped red hair, shades, and big honkin' sword, from the site. So now I want to see who she was slated to fight and how it worked out.

Anybody recognize what I'm talking about? If so, can you point me to the site? I usually can find this stuff for myself, but I'm getting NOWHERE.

Oh Look

Oct. 23rd, 2017 09:09 pm
chomiji: Tenpou from Saiyuki Gaiden, holding a sheaf of papers. Caption: A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind (tenpou - desk)

Also, I'm procrastinating. There are dirty dishes in the kitchen, plus it's garbage/recycling night.


Create Your Own Visited States Map

Yeah, mostly we just drive (or sometimes fly) up and down the U.S. east coast. (This is [personal profile] viridian5's fault - she posted it first.)

chomiji: Goku from Saiyuki, looking confused. Caption: Huh? (Goku - huh?)

If something is tagged fandomedit, where fandom is (duh) a fandom, does it refer to photo-edits (such as finding a photo that looks like a character and then editing the photo somehow)?

Or am I totally off base, and if so, what does actually mean?

chomiji: Kio Kaedo from Loveless, licking a lollipop.  Caption: Life Is Sweet (Kio - Life Is Sweet)

This Vote Is Legally Binding

She's also the author/illustrator of Digger (which won a Hugo a few years ago) and under her pen name, T. Kingfisher, the author of The Raven and the Reindeer.

chomiji: Discworld's Sgt. Angua of the City Guard, with the caption - Life's just one long bad hair day (Angua - bad hair day)

Damn, I keep missing people's (and communities') posts on LJ/DW! I can't really figure out why, either. They have both slowed down enough that it should be easy to click through a day's posts.

I think part of the part of the problem may be the behavior of the things I have as feeds on the two sites. Sometimes they won't post for a day or two, and then they'll dump a lot at once. The result is I'll be flipping through my reading list/friends feed and hit something I know I've read already, and then I'll stop. And in some cases, I've read it already at the source blog or site itself (like Scalzi's Whatever) instead of on LJ/DW.

I'm going to try to do a better job of combing though these things more carefully. I keep missing beta requests on Fan Grammarians as well as posts on things like the Weiss v. Saiyuki writing challenge comm.

chomiji: A chibi drawing of Akari from Samurai Deeper Kyo, holding a plate of mochi dumplings, with caption Coming Right Up! (Akari-mochi)

There's a new DW perfume comm called [community profile] smellsgood. Generally, I assume that I can't wear most of what will be discussed, but given my reaction to the recent rash of perfumery reviews going around (rapt attention), I'm sure I'll enjoy what's posted anyway.

chomiji: Saiyuki's Hakkai with a pile of clean laundry and sparkles (Hakkai - fresh & clean)

Yes, it's the All Baby Dragons All the Time Channel!

Cut for three dragon pictures )
chomiji: Saiyuki's Hakkai with a pile of clean laundry and sparkles (Hakkai - fresh & clean)

I have two new baby dragons! One is very flashy, the other rather goth:

They're both of a breed called Tundra.

With what's happening in my life lately, playing Flight Rising is one of the few things I feel like doing. I have two more clutches of eggs incubating, so more hatchlings to come.

chomiji: Saiyuki's Hakkai with a pile of clean laundry and sparkles (Hakkai - fresh & clean)

So I'm loading my iPad Mini with favorite stories. Stories that are on AO3 are easy: I download them as ePub files and then I can open them in iBooks.

Stories that aren't on AO3 were a bit more challenging. But then I discovered Pocket. Pocket captures HTML files and puts them on your mobile device so you can look at them when you have no connectivity. I've downloaded four files, and it seems to work like a champ. One of the great things about it, from my point of view, is that it downloads them as clean HTML with minimal layout, graphics, etc.

One problem is, it uses whatever the HTML page title was. This is not always a good thing: if the LJ or DW entry with your story was titled something generic rather than the actual title of your story, then the Pocket copy will be titled that way too. And there's no way to edit the titles, although that seems to be something that lots of users are requesting, so maybe someday.

Anyway ... this ends my commercial for Pocket. We'll see how it pans out when I put, say, all 27 chapters of "Cupidity" on the Mini.

chomiji: Saiyuki's Hakkai with a pile of clean laundry and sparkles (Hakkai - fresh & clean)

Two very different things, in fact:

SF critic [livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll lives to stir up his readers. Today, he asked "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Fantasy or SF?" The ensuing discussion, both serious and snarky, is most enjoyable.

Writer Madeline Ashby addresses a topic of great concern to a number of us: Periods, and how to write them. I like the cut of her jib. (Warning: very frank talk about female body functions.)

chomiji: Nase Asumi with a wry smile on her face, and the caption Awesomesauce (Asumi - awesomesauce)

From a Spanish TV show called Tú Sí Que Vales" ("You Can Do It").

chomiji: Ikkaku form Belach, with the caption Let Me Explain via Interpretive Dance (ikkaku-explain)

"[I]t seems to be an issue with alter.net, which is run by Verizon."

And if I try searching for recent messages online about Alter.net and communications problems, I find, for example, this: "The host google-gw.customer.alter.net (alter.net is part of Verizon network) is experiencing horrific packet loss, sometime upwards of 50%." That means that along this route, communications on the Web, which is broken up into a stream of chunks called "packets," is being compromised not only by the loss of the packets themselves, but by the fact that if the sending server (the host) knows that a packet has gone missing, it will re-transit the packet, and so traffic bulks up again.

It seems that playing Youtube videos is where the major slowdown is seen most often. There were several recent postings at various message boards about this issue.

I tried doing a "traceroute" myself, and yes, I can see where the communication runs through Alter.net.

On the other hand, response this morning is pretty sprightly. Either things have improved, or there are just fewer people online (and downloading chunky stuff like videos) at 8:00 a.m. U.S. ET!

So yeah, if your connection to DW runs through Alter.net, you may be seeing (or have seen - let's be optimistic) this issue, and if not, you likely won't.

chomiji: Tenpou from Saiyuki Gaiden. with the caption Not necessarily by the book (Tenpou - Not by the book)

In response to a comment on a Fandom Grammar draft, I have discovered there is an HTML character entity for a thin space, which is useful for things like setting nested single/double quotation marks.

It's

 

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