Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
The stuff about me and my life. The “diary” side of blogging.
From a friend on Facebook: “Drive-in movie theaters need to come back.”
Social distancing while still participating in a social activity, watching first-run films on a big screen, theaters and studios still able to function during pandemics…. Doesn’t seem like a horrid idea.
📚 fifteen of 2020: *batteries not included by Wayland Drew ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I had vague memories of the film, but as it turns out, very vague: other than the tiny flying saucers, none of this was familiar. A pleasant enough bit of fluff to distract myself with, but not much more.
📚 fourteen of 2020: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A direct prequel to the Picard series, detailing the struggles, triumphs, and travesties of the Romulan relief effort. Also the most politically & socially currently relevant Trek novel I’ve ever read. 🖖
📚 thirteen of 2020: Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee
Good grand scope space opera, with neat questions on consciousness and the psychology of AI as used in ships of war. Figured out many of the reveals quickly, but still quite good.
Wishing a good #InternationalWomensDay to all women: family, friends, acquaintances, and those not known to me; cis, trans, or enby, however you present, openly or closeted; whatever your history and however you choose to live your life. May you be healthy, safe, and valued.
CDC reccommends washing your hands for 20 seconds. You know what takes roughly 20 seconds to say?
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.”
You’re not required to hum the theme afterwards, but who’s gonna stop you, honestly.
— Monica Marier on Facebook
Earlier today, I made this joke on Twitter:
Hand sanitizer is sold out everywhere. So is isopropyl alcohol and aloe vera gel.
Anybody know the correct ratio for vodka and personal lubricant?
And while that didn’t come even close to going viral (two replies and three hearts), so I know I’m not to blame, I was amused to see this article this afternoon:
As hand sanitizer disappears from the shelves across the U.S. while the coronavirus spreads, the social media team for Tito’s Vodka has been spending much of its time explaining to fans that hand sanitizer made with their product would not be effective for preventing COVID-19.
“As soon as we saw the incorrect articles and social posts, we wanted to set the record straight,” a Tito’s spokesperson told The Dallas Morning News. “While it would be good for business for our fans to use massive quantities of Tito’s for hand sanitizer, it would be a shame to waste the good stuff, especially if it doesn’t sanitize (which it doesn’t, per the CDC).”
📚 twelve of 2020: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee
Really enjoyed this collection. Hopeful themes, and music winds its way through nearly every story in neat ways.
Happy Leap Day!
We went out to Elizabeth Warren’s rally at the Seattle Center Armory tonight. Warren was great. So glad we went out and got to see her. She’s really does come across just as good as you’d hope she would: incredibly intelligent, passionate, articulate, engaged, warm, and through everything, energetic and having fun.
She went through about a fifteen minute stump speech, then took five questions from pre-selected attendees, and spent about 30 minutes total answering them. Her answers were incredible—both because she gave good answers to the questions, and also because she very deftly was able to use each of them as launching points for touching on other focus points and areas of her campaign, but always coming back to the original question and never giving the impression that the question didn’t actually matter. I didn’t record the stump speech, but did record the Q&A; I’ve got it going up to YouTube now and will add it to this post later…but rather than bother with my amateur, from-the-crowd video, here’s King 5’s video of the full thing (Warren starts speaking at about 25 minutes in):
So, yes. Warren is my preferred candidate. I absolutely believe that she has a plan for everything, and knows exactly how to get about getting it done.
Once again, very glad we got to go.
Now, though, we’re exhausted.