hello I am not here hardly

I've pretty much let this online identity fade away, and for sort of random reasons, when I do use it, I have been checking my tumblr more than Dreamwidth & LJ.

Well, I do use the name, I just have been too busy for the journal/reading journals.

I wonder about people like bluefall, kali, and the poster who played as Cissie Jones-King. We knew pieces of each other once, but now we have moved on, and in other names will know each other not.

Really, this became a big comics-fandom-observing blog for me, and not only do I have little patience for all that now, but I've been busy with other things.

I did actually see the entire season of Doctor Who this year, out of order & sometimes well after broadcast, but within a year of its broadcast for the first time. That was neat.

I have a new notebook computer that apparently I took for granted--it now reboots itself when I leave it to sleep--less often while I am working on it.

I kind of miss reading some of the people on my flist, but I don't really miss fandom and its ranting so much.

Read some stuff on s_d today, kind of liked some of it, skipped a lot.

Have I mentioned this video here? I guess not. I just want to leave you with something cool.

GIANT SPOILERS FOR DOCTOR WHO I AM NOT EVEN JOKING.

brief foray into crank politics

You know, I think calling the money we get from the government for the safety net 'benefits' is unhelpful, maybe misleading. Does that say 'bare minimum to live on' to you? Because that's all it's meant to be, enough to survive on. If they called it 'minimum survival money' and then talked about cutting it by a third to pay criminal fines, there'd be a whole different debate.

I know a lot of people who object to paying anyone "bare minimum to live on" unless they are one's employee and it's meant to be an "incentive" to keep coming in to work. I recently learned this is the stuff of the extinct "Whig" political theory, from a party that died when the franchise expanded. Apparently I'm surrounded by crypto-Whigs.

Me, I think we should co-opt that American right-wing line about running the government like a business. Let's run the state like a business in which we are all partners. Elect a board that'll pay higher dividends!