conversational randomness
Nov. 22nd, 2004 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeI had a lovely conversation (first time in real time!) with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anthrochica tonight. We got to confirm our mutual suspicions about each others' accents (apparently about right), talk grad school (not as much as I expected), avoid politics (rather well), exchange all sorts of creative book and extracurricular reading suggestions (see below) and try to work out if she friended me first or vice versa (we couldn't figure it out).
Among the other conversational detritus, I realized I needed to keep a list of things we talked about so I could share the links. Here it is:
The Brunching Shuttlecocks no longer make new material, but their Geek Hierarchy is worth understanding, and explains the Furry culture (oh my god, what is a fursona?), aChristian preachy homophobic evangelical variant of which came up today at bOINGbOING.
Speaking of furries (no, this wasn't the whole conversation, though it was probably the part where I laughed the hardest) -- we'd both somehow gotten a free copy of Wild Animus (I love that the publisher is called "Too Far" -- I should say so!). Then I remembered thatexterra had released that copy on BookCrossing, panning it. (If you'd like to join BookCrossing, tell 'em I sent you.)
We also talked aboutimtboo's difficult role as Nadezda in Srbjana Biljanovic's Family Stories, and how it was difficult to watch, because it was so scary after the elections.
My last note -- though not the end of the conversation, just where I stopped making notes -- was to mention Roger Zelazny's Amber series, which I should really revisit, and to have recommended to me the His Dark Materials series. All in all, a good conversation. I wish we could have it in person.
anthrochica tonight. We got to confirm our mutual suspicions about each others' accents (apparently about right), talk grad school (not as much as I expected), avoid politics (rather well), exchange all sorts of creative book and extracurricular reading suggestions (see below) and try to work out if she friended me first or vice versa (we couldn't figure it out).Among the other conversational detritus, I realized I needed to keep a list of things we talked about so I could share the links. Here it is:
The Brunching Shuttlecocks no longer make new material, but their Geek Hierarchy is worth understanding, and explains the Furry culture (oh my god, what is a fursona?), a
Speaking of furries (no, this wasn't the whole conversation, though it was probably the part where I laughed the hardest) -- we'd both somehow gotten a free copy of Wild Animus (I love that the publisher is called "Too Far" -- I should say so!). Then I remembered that
exterra had released that copy on BookCrossing, panning it. (If you'd like to join BookCrossing, tell 'em I sent you.)We also talked about
imtboo's difficult role as Nadezda in Srbjana Biljanovic's Family Stories, and how it was difficult to watch, because it was so scary after the elections.My last note -- though not the end of the conversation, just where I stopped making notes -- was to mention Roger Zelazny's Amber series, which I should really revisit, and to have recommended to me the His Dark Materials series. All in all, a good conversation. I wish we could have it in person.
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Date: 2004-11-23 07:28 am (UTC)quidem. Next year in Jerusalem? Or, barring that, next summer on the East Coast?
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Date: 2004-11-23 07:40 am (UTC)East Coast summers, we'll see. Don't know yet, though it's looking like it might happen for me.
Ah, I also see that I forgot to include our mutual admiration for obscure bits of Latin within English text. however, googling quidem didn't help. I infer from context that it means "I wish it too"?
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Date: 2004-11-23 07:48 am (UTC)