A few snippets
Nov. 4th, 2011 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magid+ A good week in crocheting: I finished three hats completely, and the crocheting part of another hat (I'm working on decorations for a themed gathering in a few weeks). (However, I haven't yet found the color of a particular yarn I need for a commission, which is frustrating; more legwork next week.)
+ I stopped by Occupy Boston to drop off some warm clothes. I chatted with a couple of people, and the community feeling was great. It felt particularly appropriate that the fleece hat I'd found on the playa would end up here. And the walk there and back felt great, though it made it clear to me just how much I've been slothful recently
+ Newest food experimentation: carrot liqueur (plain, though if it works as I hope, perhaps there will be more batches, with cinnamon and/or ginger or other things), and my first attempt at actually fermenting fruit, with some of the many, many pounds of apples I got at the farmers market this week (they were on sale if I got lots!).
+ I got a boxed set of Florence Heide/Edward Gorey books via LibraryThing. The stories are, like the illustrations, just a little creepy, with everyone around Treehorn being oddly disinterested in the strange things that happen to him (shrinking, turning green, finding a genie, harvesting a money tree). It's as if no one really has any true agency. Weird, yet amusing.
~ I caved, and started watching the new Battlestar Galactica on Hulu (um, new as in not the 1980s :-), and I have to admit, everyone who said I should watch it was right. Hulu only has the first two seasons for free (except the pilot, for some reason); anyone willing to lend me the rest on DVD?
~ Speaking of TV, it's been interesting to see how there's an inverse correlation between episode length and year. It used to be in the low 50s, and now it's the low 40s (and I've even seen 39!). No wonder no one wants to watch TV as it airs! Watching older shows also points out how different storytelling used to be. Of course, there's the big divide in plotting before and after VCRs, which solidified wihen DVDs became commonplace: there could be season-long story arcs with much more detail than previously, because of the presumption that episodes won't be missed. (I remember watching TV as a kid, and if I missed something, maybe I'd catch it in summer reruns, but perhaps not.) Pacing has gotten faster, and dedicated credits time much less; there's more detail and plot twists packed into the average show compared to shows in the same genre decades earlier.
It also shows me how far we've come in what's really a pretty short period of time, really, when I consider treatment of women in the workplace, or changes in technology (heck, just cell phones). It reminds me that however much there are many things that are far from perfect, at least there's a trajectory.
+ My dad had a... health event that had me stressed for a bit, but he seems to have recovered completely. Hopefully, until 120!
Reminder: clocks change this weekend (in the States, anyway); next week will be the first of WES: wicked early Shabbatot.
Shabbat shalom, happy weekend, happy Guy Fawkes, etc.
+ I stopped by Occupy Boston to drop off some warm clothes. I chatted with a couple of people, and the community feeling was great. It felt particularly appropriate that the fleece hat I'd found on the playa would end up here. And the walk there and back felt great, though it made it clear to me just how much I've been slothful recently
+ Newest food experimentation: carrot liqueur (plain, though if it works as I hope, perhaps there will be more batches, with cinnamon and/or ginger or other things), and my first attempt at actually fermenting fruit, with some of the many, many pounds of apples I got at the farmers market this week (they were on sale if I got lots!).
+ I got a boxed set of Florence Heide/Edward Gorey books via LibraryThing. The stories are, like the illustrations, just a little creepy, with everyone around Treehorn being oddly disinterested in the strange things that happen to him (shrinking, turning green, finding a genie, harvesting a money tree). It's as if no one really has any true agency. Weird, yet amusing.
~ I caved, and started watching the new Battlestar Galactica on Hulu (um, new as in not the 1980s :-), and I have to admit, everyone who said I should watch it was right. Hulu only has the first two seasons for free (except the pilot, for some reason); anyone willing to lend me the rest on DVD?
~ Speaking of TV, it's been interesting to see how there's an inverse correlation between episode length and year. It used to be in the low 50s, and now it's the low 40s (and I've even seen 39!). No wonder no one wants to watch TV as it airs! Watching older shows also points out how different storytelling used to be. Of course, there's the big divide in plotting before and after VCRs, which solidified wihen DVDs became commonplace: there could be season-long story arcs with much more detail than previously, because of the presumption that episodes won't be missed. (I remember watching TV as a kid, and if I missed something, maybe I'd catch it in summer reruns, but perhaps not.) Pacing has gotten faster, and dedicated credits time much less; there's more detail and plot twists packed into the average show compared to shows in the same genre decades earlier.
It also shows me how far we've come in what's really a pretty short period of time, really, when I consider treatment of women in the workplace, or changes in technology (heck, just cell phones). It reminds me that however much there are many things that are far from perfect, at least there's a trajectory.
+ My dad had a... health event that had me stressed for a bit, but he seems to have recovered completely. Hopefully, until 120!
Reminder: clocks change this weekend (in the States, anyway); next week will be the first of WES: wicked early Shabbatot.
Shabbat shalom, happy weekend, happy Guy Fawkes, etc.