Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 7

Jul. 22nd, 2025 07:33 pm
purplecat: Romana 1 from Doctor Who (Who:Romana 1)
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Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Watching the Rabbits and Bees

Jul. 19th, 2025 07:35 pm
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I finished reading Watership Down to Erica, reading to her over video call in the evenings while she was on her trip. Great book, I'm very glad that I got around to reading it. It is simultaneously:
  • A fantasy story where the main fantastical conceit is "what if rabbits had mythology?"
  • A war story centering around the Battle of Arnhem with the twist that the protagonists are rabbits.
  • A Tolkein-esque story told in the style of something translated from another language, pieced together and recorded from an oral tradition. (And that in large part as an extremely elaborate setup for a climactic bit where one of the protagonists gets the last-minute "you could give up and join me" speech from the big bad and rejects the offer in a way that otherwise would not be getting past the censors in a book intended for children.)
  • A book where prose description of flowers is a surprisingly high percentage by volume.
Definitely understand why it's a classic.

On a possibly-related (but definitely a pretty big jump of a tangent) note, one of the thing that's been bouncing around in my head is some of the discourse around wild-animal welfare, centering around this recent post arguing against beekeeping and responses like this. It's interesting, but personally I think that post has intuitions that are wildly off from mine. Bees' lives seem like they'd be full of stimuli that would be particularly pleasant and non-aversive for bees. They routinely store surpluses, which gives them flexibility about when they gather food. Kept bees lose some of that surplus, but seem to gain quite a lot in exchange for that, and compared to most domesticated animals they're uniquely able to just leave if conditions are bad. There was also some discussion arguing the post was emblematic of the pitfalls of negative utilitarianism. Seems like there are a lot of contexts where it's easy to add (or multiply) up pains and sorrows and decide it would be preferable to succumb to the call of the void. I was also reminded of this good but really odd sci-fi short story, which took me a while to re-find based on my vague recollection and I link to without further context.

Also, it is really pleasant to stop and watch bees harvest. I've definitely spent a lot of time doing that this year.

Random Castle

Jul. 18th, 2025 05:29 pm
purplecat: A ruined keep. (General:Castle)
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High ruined castle walls with windows set in them and a turret at one corner.  Low walls where once were rooms below.
Harlech

Costume Bracket: Round 4, Post 6

Jul. 15th, 2025 06:27 pm
purplecat: The Tardis against a sunset (or possibly sunrise) (Doctor Who)
[personal profile] purplecat
Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Ninth Doctor Icons

Jul. 14th, 2025 07:34 pm
purplecat: The Ninth Doctor with decorative effect with the number 9 (Who:Nine)
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The Tardis with the ninth doctor leaning against it in the botton corner. The Ninth Doctor, side view, greyish background. The Ninth's Doctor's face with a dalek behind him. THe Ninth Doctor grinning The Ninth Doctor.


Snagging is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved.

Canyon Week

Jul. 13th, 2025 09:15 pm
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Erica is away with Julie's parents this week, on a road-trip to the Grand Canyon.

On Thursday, I had a birthday dinner with Julie at Bogie's Place which is a tiny steakhouse tucked between jm Curley and The Wig Shop in downtown Boston.

I went to a concert with Julie on Friday at Sonia , one of the music venues at the Middle East in Central Square. Hadn't been there before, though I'd been to some of their other stages. Was EDM, the headliner was Shingo Nakamura, the openers were a B2B (collab set) with Cloudcage and rshand, followed by OTR. Been a while since I caught live music, and also a long while since I was out late in Central. Lively place, was a good time.

I watched a bunch of the runs from SGDQ this week, but I still feel like I want to catch some of the replays. Not as much stood out to me this year of the things I caught. The Super Metroid race is still always a good time.

Yesterday, managed to get out to Ingress coffee get-together in Arlington for the first time in a while. Saturday evening, we had dinner at Black Ruby, which was pretty cool. This evening, I got together with gaming group at Xave's to play more of The Far Roofs.

Random favorite thing from the last few weeks: This video titled What is PLUS times PLUS? about the Lambda Calculus. The visualization for that used in the video (Tromp's Lambda Diagrams) are a really striking way to look at that mathematical system. I was familiar with the concepts in the video before, but it's still a mind-blowing foundational piece of computer science that all you need to do literally any computation is just the simplest sort of function definition and function application, nothing more, that's it.

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