In case you were wondering what the recent dearth of posts was down to. Of course, now that mere trivialities such as ownership and mortgages have been dealt with, it's time to scale the peaks of renovating, decorating, moving...
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Anonymous said…
Congratulations on the new home! I hope you'll be very happy there. Gillian A
Anonymous said…
Wonderful! Congratulations.
-- Rich Horton
Anonymous said…
It is unsafe to post photos of keys, since they can be used to replicate the keys and break into your house.
Abigial's Mom said…
Not to worry.
My job first thing tomorrow is to bring a locksmith to replace the locks -- they are old and need repairing in any case.
Anonymous said…
Congrats!
Raz Greenberg said…
Congratulations! Having moved an apartment myself in the past two weeks, I know what a pain it can be. Eagerly awaiting new posts once you have the time for them :-)
Raz, you mentioned your upcoming move last time we met - glad it's (mostly?) over. Right now, I'm in pre-move mode, and so less busy (though I am that) than preoccupied, all my mental real estate taken up with plans and lists. If you woke me up in the middle of the night I'd probably start obsessing about how to set up the living room - of course, I already know where the bookcases should go.
abigail, you should really try the movie CHRONICLE which is about a bunch of kids who acquire superpower and is filmed in a found-footage format. i'd be really curious about your thoughts on it.
The last month has been a busy one in Hugo and Worldcon fandom. After the shock of the much-belated 2023 nominating stats, and their revelation of serious irregularities in the compilation of the award's ballot, there was a great ferment of conversation and action. Mainstream publications have caught wind of the scandal and publicized it far and wide . Turnover in the few permanent committees that oversee the Hugo trademark and intellectual property has been high . The poor folks at the upcoming Glasgow Worldcon have been scrambling to respond to the evolving situation and to distance themselves from the previous committee—including, most recently, making a laconic announcement that they would refuse any of Chengdu's passalong funds, the budgetary surplus that is traditionally bequeathed from one Worldcon to the next. And stats nerds—of which this community is, unsurprisingly, blessed with a surfeit—have been furiously crunching the nominations numbers and EPH calculations
My overall reaction to this movie is: "fine, I guess". And perhaps that's less a function of the film itself as of the state of the character, who has received five different cinematic takes in thirty years, the last two of which have converged on a sort of a Batman orthodoxy that mandates gloom, brooding, and violence. But even allowing for the tiredness of the material, Matt Reeves's version feels uninspired, stitched together from the pieces of previous attempts, lightly rehashing ideas that have already been thoroughly chewed over, and adding nothing new to the concept or the character. The guiding principle was clearly " The Dark Knight , but more so". The film is structured more as a crime story than a superhero story, with a strong presence for the Gotham police department, an emphasis on organized crime and institutional corruption, and a deranged villain—Paul Dano as the Riddler—who is obsessed with exposing the seedy underbelly of the supposedly re
It's been a while since we've had one of these dramas. On Saturday, the nominating stats for the 2023 Hugo awards, which were announced in Chengdu, China in October 2023, were released to the public . There was a great deal of anticipation for these numbers, in no small part because of their much-delayed release. Though the WSFS constitution permits Hugo administrators to wait as long as 90 days before releasing the voting and nominating stats, most Hugo teams have them ready to go within minutes of the ceremony's conclusion. Chengdu, in contrast, waited the full allotted period, and even went a little bit over (the voting stats were released separately in December). Once the stats were released, it quickly became clear why the Chengdu Hugo team were hesitant to make them public. There are any number of irregularities and questionable choices in this document that suggest everything from erratic voter behavior, to incompetent collation and calculation of the nomination rank
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Gillian A
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Rich Horton
My job first thing tomorrow is to bring a locksmith to replace the locks -- they are old and need repairing in any case.
Having moved an apartment myself in the past two weeks, I know what a pain it can be. Eagerly awaiting new posts once you have the time for them :-)
-Raz Greenberg
Raz, you mentioned your upcoming move last time we met - glad it's (mostly?) over. Right now, I'm in pre-move mode, and so less busy (though I am that) than preoccupied, all my mental real estate taken up with plans and lists. If you woke me up in the middle of the night I'd probably start obsessing about how to set up the living room - of course, I already know where the bookcases should go.
Congratulations on the new home, Abigail!
abigail, you should really try the movie CHRONICLE which is about a bunch of kids who acquire superpower and is filmed in a found-footage format. i'd be really curious about your thoughts on it.
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