Eventful first week of classes.
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silveradeptTomorrow, after a short stint at the office, err, Festifall, whoring out promoting the gaming organization, I'll be on the road with a car full of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annaonthemoon's stuff. And her, too. Tomorrow, she goes home (although I find it rather problematic that nobody else could be arsed to get her and her materials. Ah, well.) and Friday will be spent in semi-idleness about Philadelphia. I'll get to be the clueless newbie wandering around the big city, and annaonthemoon will be able to tell me to hurry up. It'll be a ncie role reversal, I'm sure. Of course, I still have to actually make it to her house with the carload of stuff we packed and unpack that. It sounds bad to say that I'm basically hired muscle for this, but that's really the truth. Maybe when we get to her house, we can enlist another body or two to help with the unpacking and such. Or maybe not. We'll see how it turns out.
Good news from the Crysanthemum Throne - Princess Kiko has given birth to a boy child. The first boy in forty-one years, apparently. (See? It's not just the United States and England that keep a close eye on their celebrities...)
A superintendent did a charitable thing and posed for a calendar to make money. It's not said whether he was buff or not, and since it appeared to be a greenscreen shoot, it's likely not at all. In the finished product, anyway, the bits were blocked by a desk. Now, though, the super super is getting calls for his head after his philanthropic pose. The blurring between professional life and personal life is continuing, we see. It's not possible anymore, I guess, to be effective at your job and a little eccentric in your home life, or to do things for a good cause if someone is going to object to them. I can understand people wanting to know if the teachers are paedophiles and making advances at the kids, but a superintendent doing this as a riff on an earlier concept and for charitable work? We should be lucky to have creative people in charge of the schools. Goodness knows the students are being creative. Like the one that called in a hoax about six armed people in her school. Creative, but ultimately stupid.
In an attempt to do some dot-connecting, as well as talk about an elephant in the room (as they paint it), the Columbia Journal Review remarks that the mainstream media wasn't interested in torture before it became impossible to ignore it, and since then, has still not been covering everything. If that was the apathy of editors, then if the proposed legislation gutting the War Crimes Act should get no coverage at all. At least Mr. Bush has finally admitted that secret prisons exist.
A counterscript to read back at a telemearketer. Using the technique of the telemarketer against them may have some hilarious results.
However, I don't find the following very funny at all - it appears that a post appeared on craigslist, a personal ad, I would guess, where the authors posed as a submissive woman to collect responses. (One NSFW bit - a picture was included with the advert) They did - and some of the responders were not particularly smart about divulging personal information - there were also apparently a large amount of pictures. And the authors of this jake then posted the entirety of the responses, uncut - including personal data. Fine, sure, you had your laugh. Also, you've made people who might actually be seeking serious relationships or friends in either dominant or submissive even more wary about finding people to talk to. Nice going. I hope the laughs were worth it. So when you respond to someone else's false ad and have your data plastered across the Internet, I hope you have a good laugh at your own expense, too.
I took the funny bar graph thingy meme.
Neurotic: 88
Extraversion: 31
Openness: 86
Agreeableness: 84
Conscientiousness: 29
This makes me... a mad scientist. Sort of. Highly neurotic, very introverted, but able to experience things that are new and trying to be agreeable, and a significant slob. I'm the classic mad scientist archetype. So ph33r my d34th r4y 0f d00m! Maybe it's a good thing I'm becoming a librarian, then.
This is the stuff for tonight. As things are, I'm probably going to have to worry about making sureannaonthemoon doesn't soak any important maps or directions tomorrow - I expect that she'll be very sad to see Ann Arbor and me go.
annaonthemoon's stuff. And her, too. Tomorrow, she goes home (although I find it rather problematic that nobody else could be arsed to get her and her materials. Ah, well.) and Friday will be spent in semi-idleness about Philadelphia. I'll get to be the clueless newbie wandering around the big city, and annaonthemoon will be able to tell me to hurry up. It'll be a ncie role reversal, I'm sure. Of course, I still have to actually make it to her house with the carload of stuff we packed and unpack that. It sounds bad to say that I'm basically hired muscle for this, but that's really the truth. Maybe when we get to her house, we can enlist another body or two to help with the unpacking and such. Or maybe not. We'll see how it turns out.Good news from the Crysanthemum Throne - Princess Kiko has given birth to a boy child. The first boy in forty-one years, apparently. (See? It's not just the United States and England that keep a close eye on their celebrities...)
A superintendent did a charitable thing and posed for a calendar to make money. It's not said whether he was buff or not, and since it appeared to be a greenscreen shoot, it's likely not at all. In the finished product, anyway, the bits were blocked by a desk. Now, though, the super super is getting calls for his head after his philanthropic pose. The blurring between professional life and personal life is continuing, we see. It's not possible anymore, I guess, to be effective at your job and a little eccentric in your home life, or to do things for a good cause if someone is going to object to them. I can understand people wanting to know if the teachers are paedophiles and making advances at the kids, but a superintendent doing this as a riff on an earlier concept and for charitable work? We should be lucky to have creative people in charge of the schools. Goodness knows the students are being creative. Like the one that called in a hoax about six armed people in her school. Creative, but ultimately stupid.
In an attempt to do some dot-connecting, as well as talk about an elephant in the room (as they paint it), the Columbia Journal Review remarks that the mainstream media wasn't interested in torture before it became impossible to ignore it, and since then, has still not been covering everything. If that was the apathy of editors, then if the proposed legislation gutting the War Crimes Act should get no coverage at all. At least Mr. Bush has finally admitted that secret prisons exist.
A counterscript to read back at a telemearketer. Using the technique of the telemarketer against them may have some hilarious results.
However, I don't find the following very funny at all - it appears that a post appeared on craigslist, a personal ad, I would guess, where the authors posed as a submissive woman to collect responses. (One NSFW bit - a picture was included with the advert) They did - and some of the responders were not particularly smart about divulging personal information - there were also apparently a large amount of pictures. And the authors of this jake then posted the entirety of the responses, uncut - including personal data. Fine, sure, you had your laugh. Also, you've made people who might actually be seeking serious relationships or friends in either dominant or submissive even more wary about finding people to talk to. Nice going. I hope the laughs were worth it. So when you respond to someone else's false ad and have your data plastered across the Internet, I hope you have a good laugh at your own expense, too.
I took the funny bar graph thingy meme.
Neurotic: 88
Extraversion: 31
Openness: 86
Agreeableness: 84
Conscientiousness: 29
This makes me... a mad scientist. Sort of. Highly neurotic, very introverted, but able to experience things that are new and trying to be agreeable, and a significant slob. I'm the classic mad scientist archetype. So ph33r my d34th r4y 0f d00m! Maybe it's a good thing I'm becoming a librarian, then.
This is the stuff for tonight. As things are, I'm probably going to have to worry about making sure
annaonthemoon doesn't soak any important maps or directions tomorrow - I expect that she'll be very sad to see Ann Arbor and me go.
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:41 am (UTC)You all have a safe trip.
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Date: 2006-09-07 12:33 pm (UTC)As for calling in hoaxes and threats, I think you're right, and it's a byproduct of the freedomfreedomFEARFEARFEARfreedomfreedom mentality that's been bred in with five yearas of yellow alerts. It's probably thought of the easiest because people are waiting for some other disaster, be it bomb, terror, or a kid in a trenchcoat.
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Date: 2006-09-07 09:35 am (UTC)My biggest wonder is what's gonna happen to the discussion of amending the Japanese Constitution to allow an Empress to succeed the Chrysanthemum Throne since the current one took a lot from the Meiji Constitution in regards to only males ascending the Throne. I just hope this doesn't kill the hope of allowing an Empress to reign.
As for your trip to The City of Brotherly Love...enjoy and you better have her take you to get some great Philly Cheese Steak!
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Date: 2006-09-07 12:29 pm (UTC)As for the royal family of Japan, I think that the world would be quite happy to see an Empress sit the throne. The question is whether or not the Japanese people are going to be progressive or traditional about it. I can see this debate taking lots of time and not possibly a few violent outbursts here and there.
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Date: 2006-09-07 04:39 pm (UTC)Go figure.
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Date: 2006-09-08 02:08 am (UTC)I'd heard about Princess Kiki's pregnancy awhile ago. Everyone interviewed was *very* reluctant to want any amendment that would DARE let a lady be Empress. I was really hoping it'd either be a girl or a miscarriage. Would've *forced* them to change. Now they can stay knee deep in male tradition.
So yeah, I'm very disappointed.
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Date: 2006-09-07 04:40 pm (UTC)Oh wait.
Nevermind.
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