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[Jan. 26th, 2010|09:20 am] |
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Catherine Valente just posted the best explanation of why FIAWOL is true on her LJ. You fans on my f-list, go and read:) |
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| Just finished reading Mary Gentle's "Ancient Light" |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|12:45 am] |
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The sequel to her "Golden Witchbreed" which I very much enjoyed. And now I want to play ochmir. I'm glad somebody did some testing at least for the two hand version, but wish I had the skills to make a wooden board with proper markers, because playing it using card stock seems somehow improper.Thinking about it what I really need are pieces, as cloth board doesn't seem to carry the same distaste for me. |
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[Jan. 21st, 2010|12:33 pm] |
meme I got from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gonzo21
Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then put this in your own journal, if you're up for the challenge. |
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| Thought for the day |
[Jan. 20th, 2010|03:32 pm] |
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All it takes to make me throw away a book in disgust is blatant rescinding of the second law of thermodynamics and misnaming of major Norse mythical feature within 10 pages, both by a character who is supposedly an educated and intelligent(probably genius level) human being. |
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| Also, forgot to mention |
[Jan. 16th, 2010|01:11 pm] |
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Passed my Advanced Student exam in Aikido last Thursday:) |
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| American Fan Incoming! |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|12:21 am] |
Hi guys, Janni Shea, an American fan and a charming lady is going to land in Israel for a visit on the end of the month. She asked me to pass on 2 questions:
1)Are any of you fen willing to let her sleep on your couch, and if so for how long?
2)She's arriving from London, so if there is anything people want her to bring that won't get her into problems with Customs and/or Security guys, feel free to say so.
Her email is alycon4x at yahoo dot com, and she'll be happy to hear from you directly:)
ETA: She'll be landing on 30/12 night(too late to come to nightface's filk, alas) and flying back on 10/1. |
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| memo to self |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|10:28 am] |
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clarity tea too soon after coffee= counter productive on epic levels. |
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| Palimpsest |
[Dec. 9th, 2009|08:04 pm] |
How do you describe a book that is a wonder?How to describe something that is a legend, and a poem, and commentary on language and cities all in one and do it justice?I don't know.The best that I can come up with is:
"In the pages of the Etymologiae of St. Isidore, somewhere between the entry on ants and the chimera's entry there is, or at least should be, an entry about a city. That city is called Palimpsest and it resides in the land between the realm of Morpheus and the waking realm. A city beautiful and terrifying, a city out of the old legends and the new ones, a city scraped and rewritten for so many times few remember the original words, maybe only the city itself. How do you get to that city, you ask? But you can't-you do not bear its mark on your skin. How do you get that mark? Sleep with the right(or wrong) person, someone already allowed entrance, and you will find it on your skin, a street map describing part of the city. But even those marked are allowed only at night, during their sleep, and only to those parts the skins of their lovers describe. Is there a way to get there fully, to live there? Now, that would be telling." |
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| הכנת קפה פילטר |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|05:31 pm] |
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טוב, אז נמאס לי לאסוף גרגירים מבין השיניים ולשרוף את הקפה שלי. החלטתי לעבור לקפה פילטר. הבעיה היחידה היא שאני מנסה כבר שבועיים למצוא את הקונוסים הפושטים מהפלסטיק שמחזיקים את הנייר פילטר וכל חנות שאני בודק בה לא יודעים אפילו איפה לקנות. ניסית את הסופר(יש נייר פילטר, אין קונוסים) וכל חנות בסביבה שאני עובר בה ועלולה במקרה להיות קשורה. אני על סף יאוש- מישהו מכם יודע איפה יש כאלה? |
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| פוסטולדת |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|06:04 pm] |
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שלום לכולכם, מה נשמע?רציתי רק להודיע שביום שישי ה27 לחודש אני עושה את מסיבת היומולדת שלי, אלא אם כן מרפי יחליט לערוך התערבות אכזרית יותר מהרגיל.ועכשיו לפרטים:
מה יהיה? משחקי לוח, אנשים, חטיפים ו(בתקווה)מצב רוח טוב.איפה יהיה?אצל שירי, בדרך השלום 47(כי אצלי אין מקום).מתי יהיה?משבע וחצי עד שנחליט לבעוט את האחרון מכם החוצה או שהוא יעזוב מרצונו החופשי.מה להביא? משחקים מדליקים, שתיה אלכוהולית, אם אתם רוצים אותה,הרבה מצב רוח טוב וסיבולת גבוהה לחנונים:)
אז מי מגיע?
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| FirstWorldcon day report |
[Aug. 7th, 2009|09:21 pm] |
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So yesterday was great. It started for me at 1pm with sushi and kibitzing on the japanese live battleship game, which I need to get the rules to and introduce into Bigor, and then continues in a fun panel about "what the hell *is* consciousness" led by Peter Watts, that got to the firm conclusion "we don't have a clue!", then I went to the filk Trivia and learned all kinds of fun facts(there is a book with filk in it from the 1940's!Seanan MGuire has been bitten by a Komodo Dragon!). Then to a panel about the singularity that contained Peter Watts and several other folks, including a lady who has been doing science journalism for Rei Kurzweil for the last five years, and that panel has gotten to the conclusion we've probably undergone at least one incremental singularity and the hell they know what'll happen in a Vinge type singularity.At last I got to filking and it was nice and wild, me and adrianna_r began pretty quiet but then the woman beside us sang something inspired by a visit to Israel(which caused everybody to know we were from Israel) so we sang them Dana's Catapult Song which, after we explained it a bit, evoked gales of laughter, and somehow led, by way of The Boogie Knights' "On Top of The Wall", to a filk about lutefisk to Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham".
All in all much fun was had and much thought provoked.I'll tell you about today when I have a bit more time. |
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[Aug. 5th, 2009|07:53 am] |
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To all people iterested: Yanshuf Books will be having a sale on the 14/8, selling lots of books at 10NIS a piece. I won't be able to enjoy it but I hope some of you will |
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| Kyoto- an antirecommendation |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|11:41 am] |
So yesterday I was at adrianna_r's going away party in Kyoto restaurant. The company and food were great, and I truly enjoyed myself. We then continued to a close gelateria, since Max Brenner hadn't enough space for 15 people, naturally, and ate ice cream and talked for two more hours, or thereabout. I hope great fun was had by all, I surely had some:)
Now to the anti-recommendation: I was looking forward to eating at Kyoto, having read some good reviews about the place, unfortunately I was very much disappointed. The food was good, if a bit overpriced, but the service well and truly sucked. It sucked so much that it was collectively decided, at my suggestion, to leave the waitresses a tip of exactly 0.5 NIS for the whole table, so they'd understand how badly they fucked up. If anybody on my f-list considers going there- don't do that to yourself. |
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| David Eddings is dead |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|07:58 pm] |
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And I'm sad. Yes, the guy wasn't close to Nobel Prize material, he wrote tropes, but he wrote them well and his books were so readable that they're probably still the most reread books I own. I think this obituary on the net says almost everything I want to say except, maybe, the awkward words of a teenage boy who liked the books so much that when Eddings released the Rivan Codex(his book about writing the books with all kinds of world details) he bought it without a moment's hesitation. There was a time these books were the only things keeping me sane in the children's insane asylum that some call "school". |
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