Sporadically speaking

Having seen this post on bad_rpers_suck I was about ready to dismiss the idea of RP as therapy out of hand until it occurred to me that I have seen it happen. ( Read more... )

None of which is the RaceFail 2009 post I’ve been meaning to write but once my brain has kicked into gear I’m going to have something to say on the topic of dismissing the evidence because it’s a highly favoured academic tactic which illustrates one of the major problems with epistemic communities.

In other news, I have two DreamWidth invite codes to hand if anybody wants one.

( Dollhouse - last ep )

“But that's the great thing about killing something with fire; if they aren't dying enough from it, add more fuel.”
- alephz from this bad_rpers_suck post.


The significance of kitchens for ancient Egyptians The Daily Star Egypt


Alas I can’t seem to find the quote from either the Turkish PM or Foreign Minister recently regarding affairs along the south-eastern boarder at the moment which really could have taught Rumsfeld a thing or two about tact and diplomacy.

“Europeans across the political spectrum reacted with shock and condemnation when Rumsfeld brusquely dismissed the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to these prisoners on January 16, 2002, saying he didn't have "the slightest concern" about how they would be treated in light of their organizations' attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

A more careful diplomat than Rumsfeld would, in answer to a question about the convention's applicability to the prisoners, have simply said, "of course we will apply the principles of the Geneva Conventions to any prisoners we are holding" -- and then gone on to explain that government lawyers were considering how to apply those principles in this unprecedented situation. Indeed, this is precisely what the U.S. government ended up doing, but by then the damage had been done.”
- Rubin, J. P., 2003. Stumbling Into War. Foreign Affairs, 82 (5), pp. 59

Since I’ve been reading this courtesy of Fandom Wank and just today saw this post on bad_rpers_suck both regarding the matter of tracing IPs it seemed a suitable time to play Let’s See Where IP Trace Says I Am Today. Three IP tracing sites; three different locations, one not even in the same country.

Suffice to say I’m not in Amsterdam though the other two narrowed it down to the UK, just to two locations in an entirely different part of the country. Not just a different county but a whole region.
Interestingly it did narrow it down to the same wrong region which was a little bit interesting and the two places chosen are actually locations that I’ve been in on occasion, one I’ve even lived in before, though in that case the general location would be like saying that there was a rogue Narsi somewhere in Greater Manchester when what you’d need would be the fact that he was in Denton. I’ve been in Denton too for what it’s worth.

I suppose it’s quite useful that generally an IP trace can narrow down my country at least but it’s still got a little way to go before easily available and accurate geolocation. It could be worse though, since as long as I’m not relying on that sort of thing for directions I’m fine... unlike the case with a certain GPS system that told my cousin that his hotel was located in the middle of a roundabout just a little while ago.

In Praise of the Foolish Master (Eros Ezine article)
A rather charming article found via dot_bdsm_snark that’s probably applicable to a great many sorts of relational interactions really.

They're Just Not That Into (Playing with) You (bad_rpers_suck post)
A post that I’m presuming parodies the supposed dating manual of a similar name but is hilarious enough on its own while also being rather good advice beyond RP even.

And Les Liaisons Dangereuses in real-time and French starting in August: lesliaisons1782 which seems like it’ll be lots of fun and from the same marvellous folks who are currently running dracula1897.


And on that note I will continue to withhold comment on Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whateley in a film for which the IMDB outline begins "Wilbur Whateley pops over to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon and Sandra Dee" for a little while longer and take myself off to read some Lovecraft in the sun, with what’s probably a semi-cold pot of rose petal tea by now.


18:32: There’s always something about long afternoons that makes me crave scones with clotted cream and nice jam. I don’t have any nice jam at the moment though there’s a jar of awful gelatinous stuff about that I really ought to throw out. Maybe I should get some of this next time really.
Yes, I am twenty-six going on forty.

"There's just so much damage you can do with rose colored glasses and an iron determination to Do the Right Thing."

- scattercat on this thread from bad_rpers_suck

"This is how the world will end: not with a bang or a whimper, but some random angel dropping by to tell us God is done with the earth now, and it's going back in His eternal closet."

- skyshark in this post in bad_rpers_suck.



Also, some of the hentai I’m downloading had best be an improvement on Bible Black because I refuse to believe that it’s the only entertaining one out there.
Though Immoral Sisters 2 had more incest regardless of everyone being adopted and Moonlight Lady had more… camellias and the only interesting female didn’t do much till the very end, though I think the point of it all was for her to be reborn apparently.
And while I’m at it, Urotsukidoji is painfully overrated, though it did have amusing amounts of death following almost every sex scene. Because charred and blackened corpses are obviously what the public want or something.