{"id":3549,"date":"2009-08-27T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2009-08-27T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:30:43","slug":"thursday-various-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My sister is getting married in a couple of months &#8212; a little less than, actually &#8212; and I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s taking her fianc\u00c3\u00a9 Brian&#8217;s last name. Apparently, however, 50% of Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/index.php\/site\/clearly_the_culture_war_is_not_over\/#When:20:29:00Z\">think she should be legally required<\/a> to do so. I&#8217;m curious as to what these people think the legal repercussions for <i>not<\/i> taking your husband&#8217;s name should be. Thirty years hard labor? My future wife needn&#8217;t worry. I ask only a dowry of ten cows and three oxen from her village patriarch. Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/3559136051\">as I noted yesterday<\/a>, my last name is frequently misspelled and -pronounced. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magicdistrict.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/30\/describing-characters-of-color-pt-2\/\">N. K. Jemisin on describing characters of color<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Because so much of fantasy takes place in settings that in no way resemble the real world, featuring species that in no way resemble human, fantasy writers often have trouble dealing with regular people. This is something that, I think, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as much of a problem for mainstream writers, because they can simply describe the world around them and come up with a reasonably accurate representation of humanity. They can also fall back on the plethora of real-world terms used to describe human beings, racially and otherwise. But using these terms makes no sense if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with a world that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t share our political\/cultural context. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t call someone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153African American\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if your world has no Africa, no America, and has never gone through a colonial phase in which people of disparate cultures were forcibly brought together, thus necessitating the term in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Got $8,000? Why not buy your own <a href=\"http:\/\/spacefellowship.com\/2009\/08\/01\/interorbital-syatems-tubesat-personal-satellite-kit\/\">Personal Satellite Kit<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>On the other hand, if you have eight <i>million<\/i> dollars, maybe you want to bid on your very own <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090813\/sc_afp\/usauctionpaleontology\">rare T-Rex skeleton<\/a>. (Maybe you could get an Ankylosaurus skeleton and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/08\/dinotails\/\">make them fight<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, if you&#8217;re going to complain about your job on Facebook, at the very least <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/2009\/08\/09\/note-friend-boss-fb-bitch-job\/\">make sure your boss isn&#8217;t one of your friends<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister is getting married in a couple of months &#8212; a little less than, actually &#8212; and I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s taking her fianc\u00c3\u00a9 Brian&#8217;s last name. Apparently, however, 50% of Americans think she should be legally required to do so. I&#8217;m curious as to what these people think the legal repercussions for not &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3549\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,28,6,31,38,39,52,12],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-personal","tag-politics","tag-sci-fi","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}