RIP: Keith Giffen
Oct. 11th, 2023 10:18 pmGood evening, everyone.
I have read of Keith Giffen's passing earlier tonight. I've made friendships because of his work, and he was one of the artists that inspired me to try my own hand at the crafting of comics.
I'm sorry he's gone. I'm grateful that he was here.
I have read of Keith Giffen's passing earlier tonight. I've made friendships because of his work, and he was one of the artists that inspired me to try my own hand at the crafting of comics.
I'm sorry he's gone. I'm grateful that he was here.
RIP: Nichelle Nichols
Jul. 31st, 2022 04:18 pmIn memory of the first to embody the role of Nyota Uhura...
https://ca.startrek.com/news/remembering-nichelle-nichols-1932-2022
https://ca.startrek.com/news/remembering-nichelle-nichols-1932-2022
Gratitude at the End of 2020
Dec. 31st, 2020 10:45 pmI can't say I didn't keep looking. I can't say I didn't keep trying to learn new skills and update old ones. I can't say I didn't have help to keep going throughout this whole year no matter what. And yes, I've been making mistakes throughout this whole year.
You've been some of that help that's kept me going in spite of everything this year. I am grateful to you all for that.
You've been some of that help that's kept me going in spite of everything this year. I am grateful to you all for that.
A Funeral for Naomi Wilansky
Dec. 11th, 2020 01:22 pmNaomi's funeral was held this morning.
I attended via Zoom, like some two dozen other friends and relatives. The Pandemic in Progress was certainly part of why. The travel time to and from the cemetery was also a factor. Ottawa is a very large city, so local public transit's current limitations meant a two-hour-in-each-direction travel time between where I currently live and the cemetery.
Anyway...the service was short, and I have a sense of her family and other friends being robbed of precious things by the Pandemic here too.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
siderea has discussed such things at some length in recent weeks and months: the loss of ritual, of community, stolen away by the need to protect one another. So have others, be they friends, family, or strangers to me, across the world. The rituals of shiva in particular, in this funeral's context, came to mind.
It's not the tradition I was raised with, but I don't much care about that. Unearned pain has been suffered here by too many already. And in order to move past my resentment, to master it and cast it out, I must first admit that it is here. In my heart.
And I miss my friend. One more among several, already gone.
Thank you, Naomi, for bringing what you could and what you did to my life.
I attended via Zoom, like some two dozen other friends and relatives. The Pandemic in Progress was certainly part of why. The travel time to and from the cemetery was also a factor. Ottawa is a very large city, so local public transit's current limitations meant a two-hour-in-each-direction travel time between where I currently live and the cemetery.
Anyway...the service was short, and I have a sense of her family and other friends being robbed of precious things by the Pandemic here too.
siderea has discussed such things at some length in recent weeks and months: the loss of ritual, of community, stolen away by the need to protect one another. So have others, be they friends, family, or strangers to me, across the world. The rituals of shiva in particular, in this funeral's context, came to mind.It's not the tradition I was raised with, but I don't much care about that. Unearned pain has been suffered here by too many already. And in order to move past my resentment, to master it and cast it out, I must first admit that it is here. In my heart.
And I miss my friend. One more among several, already gone.
Thank you, Naomi, for bringing what you could and what you did to my life.
MOVIES: Knives Out
Feb. 5th, 2020 10:44 pmTo everyone who recommended this movie to me: thank you. As with The Good Liar, I feel a little guilty over having paid less than full first-run fare to see it because discount cinema chain.
To all the people who worked on both sides of the cameras on Knives Out, thank you all! No idea if any of you will read this here, but I'm saying it anyway.
To all the people who worked on both sides of the cameras on Knives Out, thank you all! No idea if any of you will read this here, but I'm saying it anyway.
Freenet: Boosting Service
Nov. 18th, 2019 07:47 pmThis morning, I had 87 % of my mailbox quota filled.
Tonight, without deleting a single e-mail sent or received beyond what I normally get rid of, the mailbox was filled to 29 % of capacity. NCF management decided they could afford to give us user-member-subscribers more storage capacity, so why not do it?
Thanks, friends!
Tonight, without deleting a single e-mail sent or received beyond what I normally get rid of, the mailbox was filled to 29 % of capacity. NCF management decided they could afford to give us user-member-subscribers more storage capacity, so why not do it?
Thanks, friends!
A thing I am grateful for
Aug. 31st, 2019 10:47 pmI am grateful to be living in a city where I can do a bookstore crawl.
About the Game of Thrones
May. 20th, 2019 07:59 pmFor whatever records there are.
I never watched Game of Thrones. Haven't even read the books. But I've had a lot of fun watching those of my friends who have done arguing amongst themselves about the whole thing.
Thank you for that.
I never watched Game of Thrones. Haven't even read the books. But I've had a lot of fun watching those of my friends who have done arguing amongst themselves about the whole thing.
Thank you for that.
Linkage: Overcoming Bias
Apr. 8th, 2019 08:24 amNot sure what to make of this yet, but my thanks to andrewducker for pointing this out to me:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/
andrewducker for pointing this out to me:http://www.overcomingbias.com/
New(/old?) friends...
Oct. 21st, 2018 04:55 pmThanks to notasupervillain for adding me to their own reading list here...
notasupervillain for adding me to their own reading list here...Thanks to sabotabby...
Jun. 17th, 2018 09:49 pm...for trusting me as part of their circle here at Dreamwidth. I'll do what I can to be worthy of that.
To Jason Isaacs
Jan. 28th, 2018 09:45 pmFor Gabriel Lorca as you and the rest of the Star Trek: Discovery team gave us to know him:
Thank you kindly, sir. Stay as well as you can, okay?
Thank you kindly, sir. Stay as well as you can, okay?
My thanks to John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell, Bob Greenberger, Karl Kesel...and there are others as well. But those four got the ball rolling back in 1986 and without that, the movie wouldn't be today.
A Note About a Novel
Jun. 11th, 2016 11:26 amSpecifically Windswept by Adam Rakunas. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
james_nicoll for drawing my attention to it by reviewing its sequel and suggesting to start with Windswept and go to Like a Boss from there. Turns out the Ottawa Library has a couple of copies of Windswept in the circulating collection, so I was able to get a look for myself. Glad I did.
FYI: The reason I include "labour dispute" and "human rights" among the tags for this entry is because of themes in both novels.
james_nicoll for drawing my attention to it by reviewing its sequel and suggesting to start with Windswept and go to Like a Boss from there. Turns out the Ottawa Library has a couple of copies of Windswept in the circulating collection, so I was able to get a look for myself. Glad I did.FYI: The reason I include "labour dispute" and "human rights" among the tags for this entry is because of themes in both novels.
Quiet Notes in Walking
Jan. 1st, 2016 10:12 amWent for a walk this morning to pick up the Toronto Star at the closest open convenience store. A long, roundabout walk. Grateful for the transit system being up and running, for the people working on clearing out the accumulated mountains of snow in assorted parking lots across town(despite not owning or driving a car myself)...and for the good weather of the morning.
Home from the Movies
Nov. 21st, 2015 11:24 pmJust got home from watching Spotlight at the movie theatre. Worth the time, worth the money. Packed room, I'm pleased to note.
Personally, I hope it has a very successful run. To those who worked on it in whatever role, whether on either side of the cameras, or in the background nowhere near either location shoots or soundstages?
Thank you all.
Personally, I hope it has a very successful run. To those who worked on it in whatever role, whether on either side of the cameras, or in the background nowhere near either location shoots or soundstages?
Thank you all.
To everyone who worked on those two movies, I say this:
Thank you.
Scripts, VFX, security, craft services, legal paperwork, janitorial, anything that I'm forgetting to mention?
Thank you.
Whatever language you worked on the films in?
Thank you.
You did good.
Thank you.
Scripts, VFX, security, craft services, legal paperwork, janitorial, anything that I'm forgetting to mention?
Thank you.
Whatever language you worked on the films in?
Thank you.
You did good.
