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Breaking News
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1146
[Thursday, 3 August, 2017, 3 p.m.]]

:: A problem that requires attention from Boss Finn interrupts Doctor Elisabeth Finn’s day. Part of the Unfair Trades arc in Mercedes, within the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

Doctor Finn rarely used her office. There were computer workstations set near the nurses’ areas, but easily closed off behind security doors that locked. That way, she could duck in and annotate a patient’s file right away, or follow up on the specialized tests that stacked up like a deck of cards before a probable surgery.

Having a nurse that she considered unflappable rap on the open door frame with hands that trembled visibly was enough to make Elisabeth slap the ‘save’ command key and immediately turn away from the computer. “What’s wrong?”
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Current Mood: blah

shadowkat

This is for the sailors and would be sailors out there (

threemeninaboat ).

It was a pretty day today, warm with a nice breeze, so I decided to take a long walk. Original plan was to walk to the Freedom Tower and 1 World Trade to see the "Walk of Heroes" virtual exhibit, but I decided that it will be crowded and not nearly enough time. Also it was 83F/23C, and humid. So instead, I chose to walk up the pier and check out the boats. This was after checking out the smorgasbord and open air market of vendors in Bowling Green aka Immigrants Park. They had all sorts of foods on display, only one that was clearly gluten-free, and a lot of expensive cut crystals and stones. I just grabbed a bunch of maps from the tourist information booth, high tailed it back upstairs, deposited them in my back pack, then went back downstairs for my walk up the pier. Breaking Bad (my boss) was out of the office today, as was practically everyone else - so no one noticed, not that they would anyhow. And I did manage to make it back by 1:15 pm, Chilled Matcha Latte in tote.

I managed to make it all the way up to Pier 16, where the Seaport Boat Museum was located.

This was after I wandered about on a wooden deck with plenty of grass, overlooking the harbor and the city.
( Deck and tall buildings )

And took a picture of one of the tall boats from the deck:

( tall clipper ship )

Then wandered a bit further up the roof top deck to take a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge, and a few smaller boats.

( Brooklyn Bridge and smaller boats )

Here's a picture of another tall boat, and the mall at Pier 17 behind it:

Here's a broader picture of the big tall boat and the museum:

I told threemeninaboat a while back that the Tall Clipper Ship gave cruises, but in reality its part of the Seaport Boat Museum. NYC is basically a huge city on a bunch of islands, surrounded by bridges, tunnels, rivers, bays, ocean and boats. It's one of the things I love most about NYC. There's always the slight scent of ocean in the air or water.
And being near the sea is oddly freeing in a way. Perhaps because I've always loved the water? I find it calming.

It was a calming walk - and by the time I returned to my work place, I was sweating and more than ready for air conditioning - because it was also just a touch balmy.

rocky41_7 posting in

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Today I finished the latest book in the Baru Cormorant series (fourth book remains to-be-released), The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. Y'all, Baru is so back.

! Spoilers for books 1 & 2 below !

If you've looked at other reviews for the series, you may have seen book 2, The Monster Baru Cormorant, referred to as the series' "sophomore slump." I disagree, but I understand where the feeling comes from. The Monster feels like a prelude, a setting of the board, for The Tyrant. The Monster puts all the pieces in place for the cascade of schemes and plays that come in The Tyrant. They almost feel like one book split into two (which is fair—taken together, they represent about a thousand pages and would make for one mammoth novel).

If you felt like Baru was too passive in The Monster and that there wasn't enough scheming going on, I can happily report those things are wholly rectified in The Tyrant. Having located the infamous and quasi-mythological Cancrioth at the end of The Monster, Baru wastes no time in whipping into full savant plotting mode.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33349 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 9

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I could use some help.
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Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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⌈ Secret Post #6762 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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So, I am looking for a fanvid made for festivids for “Snow White: a Tale of Terror” called “Bare your Teeth” using Lady Gaga’s teeth by vidder e- transitions back in 2010.

I seem to remember having accessed it either through YouTube or Vimeo at some point but all of the old links I have found link to a download on the vidder’s personal website, which no longer exists.

I’m hoping for a link or if someone had downloaded it at some point and still has it, I would be forever grateful.

lannamichaels

Fun with idolatry and "I'm doing Avoda Zara" jokes! The perek ended yesterday but RL is being busy.

The absolute requisite note on Avoda Zara is one that gets stressed constantly, which is that this is referring specifically to the religious groups amongst whom the tanaim and amoraim were living, and only them. Among the reasons the commentators have said this for a long time is 1) actual real differences between the avoda zarah described in the mishna/gemara and the goysche practices they lived amongst, combined with 2) because if they kept to all of this, there would be many practical problems, because they were a lot more interconnected by that time and working in specific professions, and 3) the outside world thinks it gets a say in Jewish religious texts and would be violently offended if this refers to them.

But definitely there were times when dealing with Artscroll commentary when I had to snap and actually look up when the Meiri lived, and it's like, ah, 13th century France, I understand completely.

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oriolegirl

No webinar today. Late last night, I was thinking about getting up in the morning and sitting on chat for three hours and couldn't stand the thought. So I decided to take a mental health day. I almost always set an alarm, even on days I plan to sleep in, but although I thought about it last night, I apparently didn't actually do it. I woke up about 10 minutes before the webinar. Ahahaha.

Of course, now my entire day is fucked up. I live with a carefully balanced schedule of vitamins and supplements, meds, and meals. Super duper multivitamins and iron have to be taken at least 2 hours apart from the (3x/day) calcium chews, and need to be taken with food. I woke up so late that there was no breakfast which meant having to rearrange things so I could still take my vitamins and iron with lunch and get the breakfast calcium chew in with a snack, which I had after coming back from a haircut and long walk.

The temperature is rather nice and there's a lovely cool breeze. Alas, it's so effing humid that my clothes were sticking to me and I had to take a quick cold shower when I got home. *sigh*

There's a new edited volume just out about women in quantum physics. One of the essays is about someone I came across in Seaborg's journals. My copy arrived today, so I'm hoping to read that this evening.

cosmolinguist

"I wasn't expecting you to know the words to a song that I don't at Goths on a Field!" D just said.

I wasn't either. I'm here because I love doing anything with him and I didn't want to be away from him all weekend (especially after I was away the precious two days!). But I don't like camping and I don't like a lot of goth music.

But this evening has been a lot of folk and vaudeville kind of things. The song I knew, sung so amazingly by The Midsommars, I know as "Magpie" from the amazing Unthanks album Mount the Air.

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musesfool

Two guys came and measured the space for my new dishwasher and it will apparently fit, but there are as always several - okay, 2 - unexpected wrinkles: 1. the current machine is hardwired into the electric, but the new dishwasher needs a plug, so the installers are going to have to build an outlet? These 2 guys didn't seem to think it was a big deal but it is another $75, which at this point is whatever, fine. Secondly, they were concerned that the installation might damage the drain pipe under my sink, and I was like, can we wrap it in something to protect it from being dinged? and they were like, "Eh, maybe, but if it breaks you're responsible for fixing it." Which, thanks. I suppose I can get under there and wrap a towel around it if necessary.

So we'll see how this goes on Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't complete wreck my kitchen!

Speaking of wrecking my kitchen, my current HGTV viewing is "Help! I wrecked my house!" which I'm enjoying, but oh my god, the sheer hubris of some of these mediocre white men, who think they can demo a kitchen or a bathroom down to the studs and then figure out how to put in a new one, and then have to call Jasmine because of course they can't. I don't understand these people, tbh. There is nothing wrong with asking a trained professional to come in and do that kind of work, especially if you're not particularly handy. (And even you are handy in the "can change a washer in the faucet" variety, what makes you think you can install a shower from the ground up??? WTF?) On the other hand, I am really sympathetic to the folks who did hire a contractor who turned out to be shady and didn't do the work properly and stiffed them of their money to boot!

In other news, I am now on vacation and very excited about it! Except shit, I forgot to set up my out of office message. I will have to log back in and do that.

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Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Find the River - REM

troyswann

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lannamichaels

So I hated the first part of episode 10, and liked the last ~8 minutes, those were great, truly great. But I really didn't need what came before that; I liked how Murderbot slipped away at the end of the first novella. Oh well.

In general, overall, I really enjoyed Murderbot The Television Show, although there were parts of it I had to skip or not watch. They did a really good job at translating a novella into a tv show; the changes were understandable and made sense for the medium, even when they were ones I disliked. The show fleshed out the characters very well, and they had just so so so so much fun with the in-universe tv shows.

If this show has one thesis, it is Murderbot = Gurathin, and with my complaints about the first part of episode 10, I did like how it went so, are you not convinced that Murderbot = Gurathin yet? Here, let me show it to you again.

Anyway, I assume five seconds after the end of ep10, ART says hello. (okay that's probably not ART. But it would make sense to begin s2 immediately after s1 ends)

oursin

This time it was online, in Teams, and worked a bit better than some Team events I've attended, or maybe I'm just getting used to it.

A few hiccups with slides and screen sharing, but not as many as there might have been.

Possibly we would rather attend a conference not in our south-facing sitting-room on a day like today....

But even so it was on the whole a good conference, even if some of the interdisciplinarity didn't entirely resonate with me.

And That There Dr oursin was rather embarrassingly activating the raised hand icon after not quite every panel, but all but one. And, oddly enough, given that that was not particularly the focus of the conference, all of my questions/comments/remarks were in the general area of medical/psychiatric history, which I wouldn't particularly have anticipated.

james

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badfalcon

SINNER V ALCARAZ WIMBLEDON FINAL
I AM SO FUCKING EXCITE!

Current Mood: excited

conuly

Adrian Tchaikovsky is amazingly hit-or-miss for me, but this looks like it's coming up "hit". The sapient arthropods are a swarm of bees. If there are any spiders, I haven't met them yet!

minoanmiss

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oursin

Happy birthday,

emperorzombie!

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dialecticdreamer - Breaking News (part 1 of 1, complete)
shadowkat - Boat Walk
rocky41_7 in fffriday - Book review: "The Tyrant Baru Cormorant"
adafrog in fandom_checkin - Daily Check In.
helloladies in ladybusiness - Sidetracks - July 11, 2025
case in fandomsecrets - [ SECRET POST #6762 ]
prozacpark in vidding - Looking for a festivids fan video from 2010
lannamichaels - [Daf Yomi] Maseches Avoda Zara, perek 1 - Lifnei Eideihen
oriolegirl - So...
cosmolinguist - Ah, but we respect the old ways
quillpunk in booknook - [Sign-Up Post] October Review-a-Thon 2025
musesfool - the read on the speed-meter says
troyswann - Emergence Magazine: Deep Time Diligence
lannamichaels - Murderbot TV, season the first
oursin - That There Dr Oursin was at a conference again
james - Phones
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Breaking News (part 1 of 1, complete)

Boat Walk

Book review: "The Tyrant Baru Cormorant"

Daily Check In.

Sidetracks - July 11, 2025

[ SECRET POST #6762 ]

Looking for a festivids fan video from 2010

[Daf Yomi] Maseches Avoda Zara, perek 1 - Lifnei Eideihen

So...

Ah, but we respect the old ways

[Sign-Up Post] October Review-a-Thon 2025

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Emergence Magazine: Deep Time Diligence

Murderbot TV, season the first

That There Dr Oursin was at a conference again

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