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This post is a clever way to lampshade the fact that I have temporarily run out of canned (i.e. pre-written) reviews. Clever, huh!
1. The roommate and I watched the premiere of The Walking Dead yesterday. I give the show points for not killing off the black characters in the first episode, but based on the promo image, they're not recurring cast members, which is a net deduction--and note too how the one Asian character is half-hidden in that same image. And I deduct more points for the protagonist's white man-pain and his patent idiocy in going to Atlanta, WTF. Not enough genre savvy, in other words (WARNING: link goes to TV Tropes), and I don't care about his wife or kid or best friend, either. My roommate being a bio major in undergrad, we spent a lot of the episode wondering how the zombies communicate and/or sense live prey (their senses can't be that developed, right? their flesh is rotting!).
2. My research project is so characteristically me, you guys, it kills me. I don't understand people who are uncomfortable with the idea that their theses reflect on them personally and/or psychologically; how else would anyone get anything done?
3. Google Chrome for Mac does not play well with the rich text editor. I've been thinking of submitting a bug report: yes? no? I've never written one before, but it'd be nice to get the code optimized to work with Chrome, assuming it's something in DW's control…
4. I'm reading Bleach again. I don't even want to talk about this, except that everyone is at least 2x as awesome now thanks to the time jump, and the moment they called Ishida "megane-kun," I was like, "Dude, he's going to KILL THEM ALL," and sure enough, I was right. Kudos to the scanlators, too; their dialogue is actually both idiomatic and funny.
5. I went to my local sff bookstore, which is awesome, in search of Cat Valente's new novel The Habitation of the Blessed last Thursday; their distributor hadn't shipped them copies yet, but my name is on the list. In the meantime I am reading The Broken Kingdoms and rewatching the promo vid about Prester John. Seriously, if you like the middle ages at all, you should totally watch the vid, and think about reading the book. There's a reason that medieval Latin is the most fun you can have in a classics department, and it's not just because everyone forgot how to write good Ciceronian prose.
1. The roommate and I watched the premiere of The Walking Dead yesterday. I give the show points for not killing off the black characters in the first episode, but based on the promo image, they're not recurring cast members, which is a net deduction--and note too how the one Asian character is half-hidden in that same image. And I deduct more points for the protagonist's white man-pain and his patent idiocy in going to Atlanta, WTF. Not enough genre savvy, in other words (WARNING: link goes to TV Tropes), and I don't care about his wife or kid or best friend, either. My roommate being a bio major in undergrad, we spent a lot of the episode wondering how the zombies communicate and/or sense live prey (their senses can't be that developed, right? their flesh is rotting!).
2. My research project is so characteristically me, you guys, it kills me. I don't understand people who are uncomfortable with the idea that their theses reflect on them personally and/or psychologically; how else would anyone get anything done?
3. Google Chrome for Mac does not play well with the rich text editor. I've been thinking of submitting a bug report: yes? no? I've never written one before, but it'd be nice to get the code optimized to work with Chrome, assuming it's something in DW's control…
4. I'm reading Bleach again. I don't even want to talk about this, except that everyone is at least 2x as awesome now thanks to the time jump, and the moment they called Ishida "megane-kun," I was like, "Dude, he's going to KILL THEM ALL," and sure enough, I was right. Kudos to the scanlators, too; their dialogue is actually both idiomatic and funny.
5. I went to my local sff bookstore, which is awesome, in search of Cat Valente's new novel The Habitation of the Blessed last Thursday; their distributor hadn't shipped them copies yet, but my name is on the list. In the meantime I am reading The Broken Kingdoms and rewatching the promo vid about Prester John. Seriously, if you like the middle ages at all, you should totally watch the vid, and think about reading the book. There's a reason that medieval Latin is the most fun you can have in a classics department, and it's not just because everyone forgot how to write good Ciceronian prose.