felila.bsky.social
Zen student, editor, somewhat abled. Lives in Honolulu and serves two rambunctious black cats.
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I have odd-shaped feet and find buying shoes difficult. But there's one local shop that sells SAS shoes and they fit. I constantly wear a pair of SAS slip-ons that look much like the Danskos. If you cannot find what you want, try SAS. They seem to specialize in a wider range of sizes than usual.
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I met Kit Kerr, SFF author, in SF, back in the 60s. I wanted a cat, she had a kitten.
We have stayed friends for almost sixty years.
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I want to post this on my Facebook but I cannot find an URL to cut and paste.
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2) I think I spent two hours on that paper, instead of the six or seven I used to spend. I did find some mistakes, but the text was mostly good English and the argument and data made sense. I don't see anything wrong with doing this.
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1 ) I used to edit PRC scientific papers. Much of the English was terrible and it took a long time (and cost my clients a lot) to edit them. I suggested to one client that she write in Mandarin and have the paper translated. She used DeepL, vetted the result, and sent it to me for a final pass.
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I had to have ankle surgery (I think that was it) and I didn't have the time or money to get my hair cut. So I just shaved it off. Plus: could clean my head with a washcloth. Con: everyone I encountered thought I was a cancer patient and treated me with exagerrated concern. Which I didn't deserve.
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She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.
May you locate the ten thousand mothers that brought you into being and keep you going, no matter who and where you are. May you be the mother of uncounted possibilities and loves.
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Pope Ovum V
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Makes me glad to be a Buddhist. We sit on floor cushions (or chairs, if we're disabled). We do a few full prostations as part of the service, but I can't, so I just bow.
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They are useful for translation. As a first pass, with a native speaker vetting the result. (Because they can throw in some clunkers.) I believe that there are other tasks (narrowly defined) that can use LLM help. Always as a first pass, to save time.
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In the 1960s, Portland: egg fu young at Hung Far Low restaurant. My friends and I found the name of the restaurant utterly hilarious.
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We grow cacao here too... but not enough. We will all miss our chocolate.
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Before I turn on tracked changes for my main client, I do one editing pass just fixing formatting, punctuation, obvious typos, and anything else that my client would ignore as trivial. *Then* I turn on tracked changes and do the real editing. He's OK with that.
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But it allows it.
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We need to move on from first-past-the-post voting (which results in two parties) and use ranked choice voting.
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Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers, and the Daily Show. My FB, Mastodon, and Bluesky feeds. I'm marinating in left/progressive messaging. It's there.
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Silas Marner is one of the worst of Eliot's books. It's a set-up for a big baggy novel and then it just stops. It's only well-known because it's short enough to assign in a high school English class.
Try Middlemarch. Long but worth it.
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Red lentils!
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Dave's Killer Bread. 5 grams of fiber per slice. Also oatmeal and popcorn. And cooked corn. And carrots. Yes, and beans.
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Stop gerrymandering. Stop first-past-the-post voting, use ranked choice.
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2/ Bujold as well. Penric tries to do the right thing; his gods are real. The Lakewalkers in the Sharing Knife series try to do the right thing, even though their world has no gods. (But knifemakers meditate before bonding a knife, so I do wonder how they meditate.)
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1/ Sarah Monette/Katherine Addison. The world of the Goblin Emperor. Maia is a beleaguered emperor trying to do the right thing... and has a mystical experience when meditating before his coronation. Celehar is a traumatized cleric who also tries to do the right thing.
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I live in Honolulu. I called Ed Case's office. I'm pissed off. I thought I lived in a reliably blue state.
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I called Ed Case's office. I'm a Hawaiian citizen, Honolulu resident. I'm furious.
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End first-past-the-post. Ranked choice voting. End gerrymandering.
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Lookism. I am old and fat. Does this make me someone to be derided for not meeting Hollywood standards?
Judge folks by their characters. I think someone famous said that :)
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3) Police accident reports here used to use the Honolulu direction terms (car going mauka on Pi'ikoi Street), which drove insurance adjusters nuts. So now police have to use NSEW, which confuses us local folks.
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2) There are four directions: mauka (landward), makai (seaward), ewa, and Diamond Head. At least for Honolulu. Directions will differ wherever you are. Mauka and makai are constant, others aren't.
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1) Ewa, in the Hawaiian language, is a direction. At least in Honolulu. Ewa is to the northeast of central Honolulu, so when you go that way, you are going ewa. Diamond Head is to the southwest, so that's going Diamond Head.
Ewa is pronounced Eva :)
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The Elon post on X is a fake. Not that it doesn't express his state of mind :/
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My version of 365 (several years old) doesn't show that screen. It keeps suggesting that I use copilot and I shut off the reminder.
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Mass transit here sucks. I cannot use it, too much standing and walking. I'm old, poor, disabled, and just don't get out much. Supermarket and doctor appointments, that's all. Friends usually drive me to the Zen temple.
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I don't drive much. I don't think Honolulu does license plate readers. The gestapo is much more likely to attack me via phone and desktop.
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Aargh. I didn't know that. My old ICE car isn't connected, but my Android is. I would love to find some apps that would kill ads and trackers.
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I access FB on my desktop only. I didn't want to put FB on my phone, because I didn't want to be tracked.
I've also installed Privacy Badger. Look it up.
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Termination Shock goes on too long but it does have a satisfying ending.