gremlins

[melannen]

In memory of Erwin Schrödinger & for the unofficial last day of Agnostica, My Cat Hates You.

Yeah, I'm back around. Still haven't caught up from LJ for the week that I was in the wilds of Ohio, though. Particurly, I haven't narcissistically read every single yuletide recs post in hopes that somebody mentioned my story. (Which, by the way, was Earthsea fandom: Calving, and wasn't nearly as good as the story that was written for me, which was Riddle of Stars fic: Unanswered Riddles, by Rhiannon Shaw. Usually when people say "I am not worthy" it's meant as humorous exaggeration, but it this case it was literally true.) And then there's a whole bunch more fic to read and maybe even review. And *then* I might have time to do a proper New Year's update.

Or then, not. I'm taking a winter term class, 4 hours a day, on GIS. Plus substitute teaching still. Of course, after two days of class we still haven't done any actual GIS work, because the lab's software liscense expired on Jan 1st and they haven't figured out how to reinstall it yet. Yay! Ooh, and I actually used YSI for a legitimate purpose today. Okay, no, it was to share illegal copies of protected intellectual property, but it was real class readings and not fannish silliness, so it counts.

And speaking of that, I have another public-transit related ethical dilemma to throw to your collective wisdom:
[Poll #645707]
There ought to be a community just for ethics polls. I would use it all the time. After all, who better to trust your integrity to than a bunch of random semi-strangers on the internet?

I am eating a leftover cheese ball for dinner & then I need to get a job for tomorrow and do homework. When there are two boxes of new (okay, fourth-hand hand-me-down) sci-fi novels sitting *right in front of me.* ETA: If you're interested, here's the contents of the two boxes. Yes, I cataloged instead of doing my reading. Bad me.

Comments

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

It's totally okay. In fact, I've seen a couple places in which certain outlets are marked with little signs (and some that aren't, but are in such a conspicuous spot as to demand that the public use them).

Fourth-hand hand-me-downs are still, to use an expression that makes brains quite sad, "new to you."

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a different from a nice, well-placed outlet in a library or coffee shop; and the one in the badly-lit side corridor that leads to the freight elevator and the janitor's closet, or the one that's under the table with the magazines on it that has a lamp plugged into the top outlet. Although I've never seen one that's actually labelled; that's reassuring.

New to me is great! But 30-year-old withdrawn library books that have been owned by at least three of my uncles probably shouldn't be labelled 'new' without a disclaimer of some kind. *g*

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

My general policy (despite the fact I rarely need to plug much in, in public), is that it's okay, as long as the outlet is not obviously for use by staff only.

And a book can totally be labelled "new with asterix" at least until the first non-familial ownership!

(possibly a repost; LJ is being mean, at the moment)

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

A Note To The Internet At Large: That cheese ball? Was in her pocket when she visited me. Two days ago. /end public notice


(I don't know if it's *quite* the same, but I used electrical outlets in airports all the time without giving it a second (or even a first) thought, back when I frequented airports.)

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

This is totally the icon I meant to use with that. Feh.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Hey, it was sealed in a perfectly good empty butter tub! As food-like items from my pockets go, that's practically five-star!

(And I am obviously a better person than you, then. q-:)

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase Homer Simpson:

"Mmmm... pocket-cheese... (gurgling sounds)"

<.< (runs away)

[rhi]

I'm very, very glad you enjoyed Unanswered Riddles -- I really could not have asked for better prompts, and greatly appreciated the flexibility you left me by asking for any character out of the world. So, thank *you* for a lovely burst of inspiration, and if you want to know more about why I wrote that in particular, I'd love to discuss it. If not, that's fine, too. Thank you again!

Rhi