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Hello again! Let's start with something that is easy to say and difficult to do: you do not have to be good to enjoy your hobby. The tricky part is that in our connected world, we quickly run into the taste-skill boundary because we have so many examples of our hobby around that are good and better than we are that the comparison game can get entrenched early. For that, I have Tenured Professor Rogers Talks About Impostor Syndrome.
The Doomsday Clock continues to be set at two minutes to midnight, a grim reminder that the current abnormality should not be seen as a good thing.
A significant amount of taxpayer money goes toward maintaining sites that promote the idea that the Confederacy was right, slavery was beneficial to the slaves, and the Civil War was about something other than abolition and the subjugation of black people.
Sentences that could use some extra commentary to clarify their meaning.
( There's so much more inside! )
Last for tonight, what qualifies as "unparliamentary language" for any given body varies from time to time and place. The Parliament of New Zealand offers some of the more choice phrases uttered that were questioned, at least to the 1980s or so, and Strong Language takes a look at some choice Canadian varieties. Some of them are fairly familiar curses and ablist terms, but there are especially good turns of phrase mixed in with them as well.
And, because it is always useful to have a record that everything we think of as new was said by someone before, An ebook copy of a collection of articles about fanzines that span the last 70s and 80s. This will be a very entertaining 200 pages or so to go through, because there's not really any talking about the technical aspects, and more about the philosophical and ideological parts.
Angie's List takes a look at the layouts of the captain's quarters from each of the Federation vessels or stations that we've been able to see the inside of.
And one very nice story about a robot finding not just a good show to watch, but a nice bunch of fans to collaborate writing with.
The Doomsday Clock continues to be set at two minutes to midnight, a grim reminder that the current abnormality should not be seen as a good thing.
A significant amount of taxpayer money goes toward maintaining sites that promote the idea that the Confederacy was right, slavery was beneficial to the slaves, and the Civil War was about something other than abolition and the subjugation of black people.
Sentences that could use some extra commentary to clarify their meaning.
( There's so much more inside! )
Last for tonight, what qualifies as "unparliamentary language" for any given body varies from time to time and place. The Parliament of New Zealand offers some of the more choice phrases uttered that were questioned, at least to the 1980s or so, and Strong Language takes a look at some choice Canadian varieties. Some of them are fairly familiar curses and ablist terms, but there are especially good turns of phrase mixed in with them as well.
And, because it is always useful to have a record that everything we think of as new was said by someone before, An ebook copy of a collection of articles about fanzines that span the last 70s and 80s. This will be a very entertaining 200 pages or so to go through, because there's not really any talking about the technical aspects, and more about the philosophical and ideological parts.
Angie's List takes a look at the layouts of the captain's quarters from each of the Federation vessels or stations that we've been able to see the inside of.
And one very nice story about a robot finding not just a good show to watch, but a nice bunch of fans to collaborate writing with.
