Not mine, per se. And really, people are altering everything these days — Roombas being the latest revelation to my sheltered self — but I’d have never thought of modding My Little Ponies. This is fantastic.
Photo credit: Kameron Hurley
Makes me want to get all artistic with any childhood toy I can lay my hands on. I wonder if anyone’s retrofitted He-Man and She-Ra yet?
Just a quick one this time: thanks to a new poster at the IBTP message boards, I’ve been introduced to something I should have seriously missed* before now: Feminst SciFi - The Blog!(TM)
So far, it’s good. Touches on just about everything: on the front page right now are posts about BSG: Razor, the passing of Verity Lambert**, aliens and sex/gender (not sex with aliens, which is more typical), and a bit about Joss Whedon’s new series, Dollhouse.
I’m looking forward to more reading. (Although I still have to see Razor. Bah for me being so wiped out the Saturday after Thanksgiving I didn’t even remember it was on that night.)
*I’d even asked for recommendations for feminist/not-horribly-misogynist scifi lit on said boards. Didn’t even occur to me there’d be a blog about it somewhere. I really am clueless sometimes. Or just so used to SciFi==Teh Menz Wurld, kthxbai.***
**Which I knew about, amazingly, even though I’m not the Dr. Who fan I used to be. Thanks Richie!
*** and if I ever forget again how to make bog-damned footnotes, this is the code to use with this version of WordPress: <span style=”font-size:0.8em;”> </span>
It’s a simple, step-by-step process.
… here are the quiz results to prove it:
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
Congratulations!
Take it yourself: THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
Okay, so maybe I’m not MOSTLY a geek according to their definitions. STILL managed 60%. Yeah. Just because I’m not the horrible fan-girl (fan-folks just don’t have enough of a life, IMO).
That’s it. 
No thinking today.
This op-ed piece in the Daily Telegraph today re-examines writings of demographer and economist Thomas Maltus (1766-1834) and their relevance (and continuing accuracy) nowadays:
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio,” he observed. But “subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.” … We are, quite simply, much better at reproducing ourselves than feeding ourselves.
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Malthus concluded from this inexorable divergence between population and food supply that there must be “a strong and constantly operating check on population”.
Since I didn’t have anything better to do with my existing PayPal balance, I upgraded to customizable CSS. Look for more significant changes in the near future.
No dragons, no treasure, no dwarfs, and no wizards.
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So I’m learning PHP in order to make good templates for comics on Nightgig…
I finally finished the nasty take-home final for Dr. Gärtner… definitely a relief. So now I’ve thrown myself into PHP, at least while my sister naps. I needed a break from regular academic work.
It hasn’t broken my head yet, but still, it’s taking brainpower… that’s good for you, right?
Anyway, there will be much fun and rejoicing in Munich this weekend, and at the co-birthday party Friday night for my sister and Lyndsey.
Life is good when homework is done.
just for the record
Started learning Visual Basic 6.0 at 4:17 p.m. Ken has officially begun being a bad influence on me. 
frivolity
It’s Friday, and I’m wasting time, mostly searching for my favorite chocolate [impetus provided by BCCY] and browsing the archives on metafilter. I have now proven, beyond any doubt, that I am, indeed, a geek of the highest rank.
Well, second highest. I wouldn’t have thought to develop a search engine that looked for your birthdate (or any other numerical sequence) in pi, but I couldn’t resist playing around in it.
