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Movie: La La Land
A jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) and an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) in Los Angeles meet, with lots of dancing, singing, and bright colors. Directed and written by Damien Chazelle. Co-starring: the city of Los Angeles. Now playing in a few cities; a wider release coming Friday December 16th.
Seeking fair-labor, nontoxic bindis that'll stay on forehead for 12 hrs
I'm an Indian-American Hindu woman living in New York City. I've recently started wearing a bindi every day -- the sticker kind, a.k.a. kumkum or kunkma. If I want ethically produced bindis that have nontoxic, long-lasting adhesive (will stay on my face for 12 continuous hours without moving around), what brand should I seek out, and where/how should I buy it?
What makes an airline choose Lorna Doones as a long haul-only snack?
A few years ago, on a plane flight, I looked at the list of free snacks -- potato chips, cookies, etc. Next to one (and only one) item (the Lorna Doone cookies), I saw the annotation: "long haul flights only". What (probably) are their criteria for this choice, and what makes Lorna Doones a good choice for this distinction?
100+ years of Holmes & Watson movies, in one vid
As part of the fanworks exchange "A Holmesian Solstice", fanvidder sanguinity made "Something Good (Will Come From That)" (video, 3min16sec), covering "One hundred years of moving pictures about Holmes and Watson." The fifty-four video sources used include Sherlock Holmes stories from several countries, including India, Russia, China, South Korea. The vidder's commentary discusses noticeable changes in cinematography over the past century, how those changes make Holmes and Watson more or less "shippy", re-gendered and chromatic retellings, and contemporary settings versus the "It's always 1895" conceit.
WisCon 40
May 27-30: WisCon is a feminist scifi/fantasy convention celebrating its 40th year. This year's Guests of Honor are Sofia Samatar, Justine Larbalestier, and Nalo Hopkinson. There are discussion panels, structured activities, parties and events, $1 childcare, a Con Suite with an array of snacks, safer spaces for People of Color and for trans/genderqueer people, and a dedicated Quiet Place where you can catch your breath and decompress. In particular I'm working this year's Saturday night Tiptree Award charity auction - promises to be a fun show.
may God bless the children of Israel and the children of all the nations
Remembering a Great U.S. Judge Doron Weber remembers Federal Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, who died in February after serving 30 years as a judge for the U.S. District Court of Manhattan.
Hindu temple in the Poconos with painted steps
Around 1986, my family visited a Hindu temple or similar religious facility in the Poconos area of Pennsylvania. I remember that the path from the parking lot up the hill to the building was a stairway of huge stone steps, each of which was painted with a different design. Does this temple still exist? Where is it? Online photos of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, the Jain temple Siddhachalam, and Sringeri Sadhana Center don't look like what I remember.
FOSDEM in Brussels
Any of y'all headed to the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting 30-31 January in Brussels, Belgium? I'm going there (and giving a couple of talks), and would enjoy getting to meet other MeFites. The evening of the 29th or sometime on Feb. 1 would also work for me.
I made a political video remix/fanvid using Taylor...
Pipeline: a vid critiquing the tech industry I made a political video remix/fanvid using Taylor Swift's song "Blank Space" to criticize hypocrisy in the tech industry's recruiting narratives. Specifically, I wanted to vivisect the ways the mainstream US software industry tries to attract marginalized people, especially women, into engineering careers, but doesn't take care to keep people who have entered the "pipeline." I montaged visuals from documentaries, movies, TV, comics, coding bootcamp ads, blog posts by tech feminists, and more. I've also posted a detailed making-of essay with links to nearly all of my video and web sources; I used free and open source software. All in all (including learning how to vid), this took about 75 hours to make.
Why use a sentence instead of "anónimamente"?
On New York City building sites, why does the Spanish signage say "No tiene que dar su nombre" instead of using the Spanish adverb for "anonymously"?
Where can I rent a Dahon folding bike in New York City?
I live in New York City, and I'm thinking of buying a folding bike. Where can I rent a Dahon folding bicycle so I can try it out?
"No, yes", "No, totally", and the "no" prefix as conversational element
"At first blush, 'no' does not appear to be the kind of word whose meaning you can monkey with." Kathryn Schulz dissects the use of "no" at the beginning of conversational turns, and discusses how it may be a reaction to the loss of our previous "four-form system of negation and affirmation" that included "yea" and "nay".
Are you tired of the same old dystopias? Why not...
Randomized Dystopia Are you tired of the same old dystopias? Why not write about tyrannies that deny different rights? Try Randomized Dystopia!
Outreachy: Coding, design, documentation, research, marketing internships
Recommend "how I made/fixed this software" podcasts by women
I love programming/sysadmin case studies, I love women's perspectives, and I'm swinging back into listening to podcasts. Help me find more of what I love?
Gadget review in the form of short dystopian scifi
Help me find an online review that someone wrote several years ago, reviewing a data-erasing gadget by writing a piece of dystopian fiction in which the user needs to use the device in a hurry.
Tomorrow Is Waiting
"She also found herself liking Kermit a lot more than she'd expected to. Anji had never really watched the Muppets before; her parents, like most parents she knew, had treated TV as only slightly less corrupting an influence than refined sugar and gendered toys. But The Muppet Show was really funny—strange, and kind of hokey, but charming all the same. She ended up watching way more of it than she needed just for the project. "Tomorrow Is Waiting", a short science fiction story by Holli Mintzer, published in Strange Horizons.
Several types of engineers (and a director of User Experience, and multilingual community advocates, and ...)
Multiple openings for the Wikimedia Foundation mobile team
Product Manager for Mobile at Wikimedia Foundation
Bug Wrangler
Wikipedian in Residence at Consumer Reports
Wikipedian In Residence at OCLC
The Just Ones
I'm seeing a friend in Camus's Les Justes (The Just Ones) on Saturday night. Anyone want to join me? He writes, It's Albert Camus being challenging as hell. Unreasonably passionate characters slamming up against terrorism, morality, violence begetting violence, death... also I'm rocking a pretty ridiculous beard. ... There's a Metro station, or you just do 395 to 110 to Wilson. Tickets.
SOPA/PIPA protest outside NY Senators' offices
A 90-minute protest outside the New York City offices of New York's senators, Charles Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand, organized by the New York Tech Meetup. This event advocates against the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) S.968, the Senate's companion to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) H.R. 3261. Guest speakers to be announced.
Interaction Designer at Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)
What smartphone gives me root, has an OS that'll be around in 2 years, & won't crash too much?
What smartphone should I buy if I want root on my device (without having to jailbreak it), hardware & OS quality (crashing once a month or less), and upgradability?
Software Security Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)
Development and Operations Engineer, Wikipedia
Engineering Outreach (open source)
QA lead and volunteer tester coordinator at Wikimedia Foundation
Data Analytics System Engineers for Wikipedia
Front-end software developer for Wikipedia
WisCon
MeFites going to WisCon: I suggest we meet up during the Strange Horizons tea party, Sunday afternoon. Free light snacks and tea, hobnobbing with authors and editors.
Nerdy standup comedy in Brooklyn
Have you ever thought, "I wish Sumana Harihareswara would do some standup comedy about project management, Linux, relationships, Agile, public transit, science fiction, and These Kids Today"? I'm performing half an hour of geeky standup in the basement of a church in Greenpoint. 8-8:30pm.
Geeky standup comedy
Sumana Harihareswara [that's me, brainwane] is performing half an hour of geeky standup at an Astoria bookstore. 7-7:30pm, Thursday, April 21st. There's a cafe upstairs and lots of bars and restaurants nearby. Admission is free.
Software blogger Joel Spolsky has a new blog,...
Joel on Coal Software blogger Joel Spolsky has a new blog, where he discusses coal mining and its astounding parallels to software development and management. "The other crucial thing about having a schedule is that it forces you to decide what seams you are going to choose, and then it forces you to pick the least safe corridors and cut them rather than slipping into pillar-robbing (a.k.a. slope creep)."
Bad and good experiences with Collabtive
Your experience with Collabtive: I want to know. Should I put up with it for a month and a half, or go with the Bugzilla I already have?
Seeking ANG Newspaper Group fulltext archives
I want to get the full text of several articles I wrote that were published in Bay Area newspapers between 2005 and 2007. What periodicals database should I be hitting? Preferred sources: free or accessible via New York Public Library.
Karnatakan MeFites Meetup
I'm a US resident visiting Mysore for a while, and would like to meet local MeFites. Any date between 23 and 30 November works for me; want to grab some chaat? My Kannada is terrible so I'll be speaking English and nodding.
Noel Coward play + possible socializing before or after
A pal of mine is in the Silver Spring Stage production of Noel Coward's Private Lives and nearly guarantees a good time to any attendee. Cutting British wit, that sort of thing. It's at 8. Wanna grab beverages/food before &/or after? Update: My pal says, "For pregaming, there's a Mexican place also across the street that is ideal - Fajita Coast." So I hereby propose that we meet there at 7pm. I shall be there with a book in any case.
Recommend independent or well-treated Astoria cleaners
Recommend a cleaning person or service in/near Astoria, Queens? If a service, one that treats its workers well.
Web designers: how do you use CSS with :link and :visited ?
Web designers and developers: Mozilla wants to know how you use CSS properties and selector constructs regarding visited links and :link so they can fix a privacy issue. Asking for a friend.