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(no subject) [Jun. 9th, 2012|11:03 pm]
aliaras
Dear the AO3: why do you not come through for me today? I would like to remind you that homosexuality doesn't work that way across all cultures/times, and also that people can be bisexual. Also, that sentences don't work that way either.

I really, really, really *want* to find the good Assassin's Creed fic, but it's not coming up for me.
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(no subject) [Apr. 26th, 2012|02:31 pm]
aliaras
I've also been bragging on the other social networking sites but: I finished my thesis, guys. I have a hat. It's gold and shiny and laurels. I feel stupid-good about myself.
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(no subject) [Feb. 16th, 2012|07:28 pm]
aliaras
GUYS, I AM RELIVING MY PAST AS A FAIRLY LOUDMOUTHED JACK/SAM SHIPPER.

THIS INVOLVES LOOKING AT MY OLD FIC.

HOW DID ANYONE EVEN READ THIS JFC.

...that is all.
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Google...plus? [Jan. 23rd, 2012|04:22 pm]
aliaras
Hay guys. So, google+ seems to have updated their names policy to include persistent online names. So I signed right up here: aliaras on G+. Y'all should friend me.

Well, at least, I think I did. I had to put in a thing to remove the last name (I've been aliaras for years, guys. That's the extent of my internets name). So we'll see how that goes!
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Doctor Who! [Jun. 23rd, 2011|12:57 pm]
aliaras
So I am watching Doctor Who right now. I like it! It's good! I've seen everything up to about halfway through new-season 5, and kind of avoiding spoilers.

Spoilers up through 5x07Collapse )

I originally posted this on dreamwidth. If you'd like, you can comment there. To read the comments on that post, click here.
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Helloooooooo Dreamwidth! [Jun. 14th, 2011|10:27 am]
aliaras
So I've decided to start using this. Some of the cool kids are doing it, and it strikes me that I can just crosspost everything. I will still check my LJ flist (probably, tbh, more than my DW one) and read and comment there, but posts and commenting will also be available over here. Comments and crossposting will happen on LJ from here until the heat death of the universe. Or LJ, whichever comes first.

Some occasional entries will happen just for testing of security, as I do use public/flocked/private entry options for various good reasons.

ETA: Testing completed. Various access lists work, and so does crosspost deletion. Good job, Dreamwidth people.

I originally posted this on dreamwidth. If you'd like, you can comment there. To read the comments on that post, click here.
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today in finals week [May. 16th, 2011|07:09 am]
aliaras
Postering. First time I've had to do this academically, it's a lot like kindergarten in some ways. There are gluesticks.

My poster is just on big white thick paper. I got it from the bookstore. My poster will also look fucking *excellent*, and I didn't have to figure out that poster TeX class. You know why? Art skillz. Getting to apply them to physics is kind of neat. I have a table up here, 2'x4', covered in poster with beautiful, pristine bits of presentation on it. I'm currently putting my TeXed explanation of things onto black construction paper backings, then those will go on the poster paper. Then I have to do a title.

It's so nice to be back to this. Cut, squint, adjust the ruler. Cut again. It's not brain work, which is good, it's 7:08am and I'm nearing the 24 hour mark of awake. Also, I can watch TV while doing this successfully. Dr. Who, you're addictive. David Tennant/10, you're possibly my new favorite person ever.
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The internet is pissing me off again [Apr. 18th, 2011|12:34 am]
aliaras
This time, it's the moralizing about food.

Yes, I get that some food choices are bad for you. But that does not mean that you get to look down on people who make those choices, as poor deluded sheep or somehow lesser or whatever. This includes, but is not totally limited to, the judgements thrown at fat people -- there's a lot of shit thrown at people who eat processed food, pre-prepared food, out of season food, and now apparently everyone who likes sweet things.

I appreciate that doing research is good and science and yadda yadda but science is value-judgement free, and all this other shit is bonus from everyone else.
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overdue for a 3am rant [Feb. 17th, 2011|02:56 am]
aliaras
You guys, I am sick of seeing "natural talent" waved around as if it's the only damn thing that guarantees you success in a field.

Inasmuch as I believe in natural talent, it's only that it gives you a bit of a leg up over the next guy, but if he takes an extra year of classes he'll end up kicking your ass anyways. So much of being good is practice, and so much of practice is caring enough *to* practice. People ask me, how do you draw so well? I've been drawing shit on every surface since the third grade, is how. I've taken a number of art classes. You could do this too, if you had done that -- but you didn't, because you didn't really care about being able to draw, just like I don't really care about being able to write music (I keep *meaning* to take that theory class). Whatever, there's other equally cool stuff to do with my life.

If you have talent, it makes your first encounter with something easy. That makes you more likely to like it -- after all, it brought you easy success! But at some point it'll get hard for you too, and then you find out how much you really like it when you're up until 5am with all the rest of the guys who didn't have that talent. Which is why I'm sick of it being like some magical thing when I'm good at something, especially if that's art or physics. I PRACTICED, okay. And so can you.

This rant brought to you by reddit, which is insisting that teachers who are good at their job just have some magical gift, what can you do. LEARN TO TEACH, is what you can do.
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Why you should (and should not) hate the TSA right now. [Nov. 22nd, 2010|06:35 pm]
aliaras
So. The TSA. They are doing some nasty shit right now. Almost the entire internet has an opinion; almost the entire internet thinks they're evil.

And they are. But not for some of the reasons people are saying. And some of the protest ideas are pretty wrong too. At this point, I'm tired of explaining to everyone why some of these arguments are bullshit, so I'm just going to put it all in one place here.So you can enjoy your friendslist in peaceCollapse )
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