Random Neural Misfirings

A long walk. Gwen’s first full day in Japan

Destination: Takadanobaba

Since Mena asked so nicely, here’s my setup.
My MT database has seven blogs in it:

This blog–this and the next two would probably count as a single blog under Six Apart’s current licensing;
My “hit and run” blog;
My “longer articles” blog;
Instructions for making firedancing equipment. This isn’t very bloggy, but it was more convenient to do this [...]

I’m doing a little housecleaning and found this stack of old jobs shoved into an inaccessible shelf in a closet. These are all Japanese source documents, mostly faxes on flimsy thermal paper, with text now faded to pale gray. The stack is 24″ tall.
I didn’t make a careful survey, but it’s likely that very few [...]

Sit pat or move laterally, but do not advance.

I’m accustomed to getting various paypal scam-spams that direct me to a paypal-like page in the hopes that I will naïvely give them my login info. I just got another. This one is noteworthy for the URL:
http://v093707.dd2336.kasserver.com/zero/scampage/
Come on, guys, if you’re going to run a scam, don’t call attention to it right in the URL! [...]

The cult-film fanboy’s cult film

Saw The Seagull’s Laugh a little while ago. Noteworthy if for no other reason than being the first Icelandic movie I’ve ever seen, it’s interesting as a weird little slice into life in a postwar Icelandic village, and the study of a mythologically witchlike character (appropriately named Freyja) and her machinations. In fact, I suspect [...]

a rare treat: literate SF in the theater.

Yeah, but who’s really the freak?