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nnozomi ([personal profile] nnozomi) wrote in [community profile] guardian_learning2025-06-09 06:11 pm

第四年第一百五十一天

部首
几, table
几, table; 几, how many; 凡, ordinary; 凤, phoenix; 凭, basis pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=16

语法
Chapter 25 quiz: More comparatives
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
提前, in advance; 提问, to question pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

Guardian:
一心只想过平凡又安稳的生活, all he wanted was an ordinary stable life
我跟你不一样, I'm not like you
他们个个儿都得提前退休了, they'd all have to resign in advance

Me:
你有看过几条凤?
你这么说,好像我是被疑者,别提问我了。
File 770 ([syndicated profile] file770_feed) wrote2025-06-09 08:37 pm

2024 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees

Posted by Mike Glyer

The 2024 Shirley Jackson Award nominees have been released. The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. The 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented in-person on Saturday, July 19 at … Continue reading
File 770 ([syndicated profile] file770_feed) wrote2025-06-09 05:53 pm

2025 Ignyte Awards Shortlist

Posted by Mike Glyer

The Ignyte Awards Committee today announced the 2025 Ignyte Awards shortlist. The Awards “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscape of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts … Continue reading
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-09 02:01 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Fantasy AGE 2E



The 2023 Second Edition corebook, TECHNOFANTASY, and more

Bundle of Holding: Fantasy AGE 2E
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-09 12:40 pm
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Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale



No rules, no bureaucracy, just some randos messing around with the past, present, and future.

Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-09 10:21 am

Clarke Award Finalists 2000

2000: The theft of an Enigma Machine comes too late to play a significant role in World War Two, Sellafield highlight British dedication to nuclear saafety, and the Conservatives, informed polling has them 2% ahead of Labour, discover that they are actually trailing by 13%.

Poll #33234 Clarke Award Finalists 2000
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42


Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

View Answers

Distraction by Bruce Sterling
10 (23.8%)

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
32 (76.2%)

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
32 (76.2%)

Silver Screen by Justina Robson
8 (19.0%)

The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
4 (9.5%)

Time by Stephen Baxter
8 (19.0%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Time by Stephen Baxter
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lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2025-06-09 06:11 am

2025.06.09

Lojo Russo Pop-Up Concert
The Warehouse at Wonderwoman
3715 Minnehaha Ave
Monday, June 9 between 7p and 9p.
Hope you can make!
https://facebook.com/events/s/pop-up-lojo/715128571213095/

Trump news at a glance: California’s Newsom compares Trump to a ‘dictator’ over national guard deployment
The governor is in a showdown with the president over the policing of protests in LA and Paramount – key US politics stories from Sunday 8 June at a glance
Guardian staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/trump-administration-news-updates-today

A free flat for a fortnight: the German city offering perks to fight depopulation
Eisenhüttenstadt, once a socialist vision but now at risk of becoming a ghost town, seeks to ditch its far-right image
Deborah Cole in Eisenhüttenstadt
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/09/a-free-flat-for-a-fortnight-the-german-city-offering-perks-to-fight-depopulation

Toxic truth? The cookware craze redefining ‘ceramic’ and ‘nontoxic’
Designer brands such as Always Pan and Caraway are booming – but safety experts are raising questions
Tom Perkins
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/09/ceramic-nontoxic-cookware

Inside one of the world's most advanced supercomputers
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0lgb2xd/inside-one-of-the-world-s-most-advanced-supercomputers

Will the Trump-Musk rift really change anything?
Jan-Werner Müller
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/musk-trump-rift-change

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl
Editorial
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/08/the-guardian-view-on-coming-out-tales-from-a-boys-own-story-to-what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl

Who drank all the matcha? How tourism drained a Japanese town
Marina Wang
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250606-matcha-how-tourism-drained-a-japanese-town

From Tabasco sauce to Taiwanese Tex-Mex: Felicity Cloake's American odyssey
Laura Hall
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250606-felicity-cloakes-american-food-odyssey
File 770 ([syndicated profile] file770_feed) wrote2025-06-09 03:44 am

Tony Awards 2025 Winners

Posted by Mike Glyer

Works of genre interest dominated tonight’s Tony Awards 2025 ceremony. Maybe Happy Ending led with six awards including Best Musical. Maybe Happy Ending follows two life-like helper-bots, Oliver and Claire, who discover each other in Seoul in the late 21st … Continue reading
File 770 ([syndicated profile] file770_feed) wrote2025-06-09 01:02 am

Pixel Scroll 6/8/25 When They Scroll Low, We Scroll Pixels

Posted by Mike Glyer

(1) EDITORS TO AVOID. Cedar Sanderson tells freelance editors “How Not to Drum Up Business” at Mad Genius Club. This was a new one on me. I have a reviewer who seems to think that if they leave a review … Continue reading
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kevin_standlee ([personal profile] kevin_standlee) wrote2025-06-08 05:21 pm

Too Darn Hot

It's just as well that I have to start work Monday morning at just after 3 AM PT due to some technical issues that I need to supervise for the Day Jobbe, because it's apt to be tolerably cool then and I should then be able to bail out by Noon or so.

Kayla went out to breakfast this morning at 6:30 AM and did some errands, getting back home by about 9 AM before the full heat of the day hit. Then we spent the next few hours working on Westercon site selection issues. I am in overall charge of the two Westercon Business functions for BayCon 2025/Westercon 77, while Martin Pyne is chair of the Business Meeting and Kayla Allen is head of Site Selection. I expect that Kayla will have something more to write about this on Monday.

I think it peaked at 36°C, which, being just below body temperature, is where things are getting dangerous. The swamp cooler can help, but it's still not much fun.

Now to see if I can get to sleep in this afternoon heat, as my bedroom is on the west side of the house so gets the afternoon sun. I keep a piece of insulation in the window to try and keep it dark and to reduce the amount of heat. I also fill the tank on the swamp cooler and point it into the bedroom when I go to bed under these conditions. Then, after sundown (I hate daylight savings time) and when things have cooled somewhat, if I wake up (likely), I can open the windows and get some cross-ventilation going.
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nnozomi ([personal profile] nnozomi) wrote in [community profile] guardian_learning2025-06-08 08:23 pm

第四年第一百五十天

部首

内, inside; 册, book; 再, again; 最, most
pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=13

军, army; 农, agriculture; 冠, hat/crown; 冤, injustice/grievance
pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=14
冫parts 1-4
冬, winter; 冰, ice; 冲, to collide with/against; 决, to decide; 况, situation; 冷, cold; 冻, to freeze; 净, clean; 准, allow/standard; 凉, cool; 减, to decrease; 凑, to gather together
pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=15

语法
Chapter 22 quiz: 把 sentences
Chapter 23 quiz: Passive voice
Chapter 24 quiz: Comparatives
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138651142/quizzes.php

词汇
所, 场所, place; 所长, superintendent
台, platform; 电视台, TV station; 电台, radio station; 舞台, stage
谈, talk; 谈话, conversation; 谈判, negotiation
汤, soup
糖, sugar
特色, characteristic
pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

玩玩
Two oddities from my usual people today: Zhou Shen singing around the middle of his range, which we don’t get to hear so often, in 不群, and Jiang Dunhao’s gorgeous, disturbing 我有一个朋友.

大家过得怎么样?我有点头疼。没办法啊,一起加油吧~
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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2025-06-08 07:23 pm

boring knee update

My right knee is healing, and stretching worked significantly better than yesterday. I even did a few carefully selected PT exercises this afternoon.

I can do more things standing up, and walking around the apartment is easier. However, I seem to have been leaning too much on the other leg, because my left knee started to hurt earlier. Not badly, but enough that I am putting the cane aside for the moment.

update Monday, 6/9: my knees feel mostly OK today. I am still being careful about walking a lot or standing too long. I just got the mail, figuring the two steps down to the mailboxes would be a useful check of how I'm doing. It was doable, but did hurt a little; I'm glad I decided not to go out. (The sidewalk is down another half dozen stairs, which are a bit more difficult than the ones inside, but the main thing is that this way I only had to climb back up two stairs.)

I heard from the GI doctor's office this morning, and have an appointment Friday at 10:30, which will be telemedicine. I hope my knees will be feeling a lot better by then, but if she had wanted to see me in person, I would have called a lyft and taken the quad cane with me just in case.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-08 07:06 pm

Timing

I swung by Old Goat Books to pick up a book I ordered, which meant I was in the right place at the right time hear the confused customer next to me ask "What's speculative fiction?" Which, after I explained what it meant, was followed by the question. "Do you know anything about Andre Norton?"

It was only with great effort that I resisted shouting "BEHOLD! I AM Marshall McLuhan" before helping.
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-06-08 11:57 pm
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vital functions is struggling with time management and up way past curfew

Reading. FINISHED:

  • Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson. I can see why people like her! I have also remembered why I wound up unsubscribing from her blog. Very interesting proof of concept in re audiobooks, though.
  • Prophet, Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché. Very enjoyable reread in which many things landed differently, in service of...
  • a word you've never understood, [personal profile] rydra_wong. EXACTLY the post-canon follow-up I wanted but would have absolutely failed to articulate. Have already tried to lure one more person into reading the book so I can then make them go read the fic. Now I just selfishly want Even More Of It.
  • Pain is really strange, Steve Haines. Reread for the purpose of making notes, this time. Sparked at least one useful thought. Following up references is a work in progress.
  • How to cook... Desserts, Leiths Cookery School. Read all the way through for the purposes of EYB indexing first pass! Go me.

STARTED:

  • Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. Borrowed from library on a whim for low-brain non-fiction.

Writing. First pass through indexing a cookbook on EYB!

Some Actual Notes re pain for The Book, including (and I am very proud of myself for this) actually writing down my questions alongside the bare "here's what it contained".

Watching. Murderbot S01E01. I am dubious but expecting to keep watching. If you encourage me I might say more when it is not past curfew.

Cooking. ... apparently I have not managed Much Of Note this week.

Eating. POTATOES at the ALLOTMENT courtesy of ALLOTMENT FRIENDS. Also finished my choi sum and had my first AMAZING broad beans and nibbled kohlrabi speculatively, all on Tuesday.

Today I have nibbled: a cherry; the first few redcurrants; a pod's worth of Kelvedon Wonder peas; half a tiny tomato.

Making & mending. Made some progress on A's left glove. Realised, belatedly, that I'd done the same thing with picking up stitches unevenly along the two sides of the palm. Ripped back most of the way to where I started from and Sulked. BUT HEY I've remembered the pattern and where I'd stowed all the bits for it!

Growing. See Eating for my biggest excitements. Sugar Magnolia (purple sugar-snap pea) now setting pods; my main intention with it this year (given that I planted a whole packet of seeds and have wound up with ...fewer plants than that) is just to get myself sorted with a significantly larger number of seeds for next year, but hey, maybe they'll all be super productive and I'll actually get to eat some too.

Stockings now at the plot to go onto the cherry tomorrow, hopefully.

Tomatoes planted out when tiny not doing so great (i.e. have mostly disappeared). Tomatoes planted out when larger Actually Flowering. Desperately need to stake the lot of them.

Tiny single solitary surviving oca has started to Go.

V grumpy about how poorly the squash I got started A While Ago have coped with getting put outside given that they are in biodegradable fibre pots so I'm not even disturbing their roots. Getting the rest of them in the ground AND THEN SOWING MORE very much also high on tomorrow's priority list. (And the beans, augh.)

Observing. Met a neighbour!

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Stepnix ([personal profile] stepnix) wrote2025-06-08 02:07 pm
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proto-ttrpgs

Jon Peterson continues to be an extremely worthwhile read. currently in the section of Playing at the World 2e that describes the development of "character" as RPGs understand it. Apparently there were hacks of Diplomacy that used a map of Middle-Earth instead of Real-World-Earth, and put the players in charge of Lord of the Rings nations... and in the positions of LotR characters. We know these guys. They're in the books.

This is, if I were to describe art in terms of its component parts instead of as a social phenomenon, sufficient for a role-playing game in my mind. The game gives you a role to play, fulfilling that role is playing that game. LotR Hack Diplomacy is missing several components that are essential to the TTRPG experience for a lot of people (it's PvP, the GM handles paperwork instead of being a narrator, you're not creating your own character, there's no principle of "anything can be attempted") but I'm not a lot of people, and for me it's good enough to count.

has anyone created a dungeon crawler version of diplomacy. hold on lemme look this up

File 770 ([syndicated profile] file770_feed) wrote2025-06-08 06:21 pm

Don Glut, Sheldon Mayer Receive 2025 Bill Finger Award

Posted by Mike Glyer

Don Glut and Sheldon Mayer are the recipients of the 2025 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by a blue-ribbon committee chaired by writer-historian Mark Evanier, was announced June 8. “As usual, the judges … Continue reading
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Joseph Teller ([personal profile] joseph_teller) wrote2025-06-08 01:44 pm
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