tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:43:12 +0000to be frank, I'm reluctant, to be prudent and reserved."I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)Blogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-6050579590661286479Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:50:00 +00002011-10-08T20:20:04.412+08:00<atom:summary>This is probably the most ignorantly compiled and misogynistic "social justice" list I have ever seen, relying on either completely groundless assertion or misusing statistics to make its point. I have never been this livid about anything, and this includes the cancellation of Doctor Who Confidential and those frequent Forum letters that exhibit an utter lack of ability to reason. Now, the list</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-is-probably-most-ignorantly.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (rollsofrice)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-346099269192433959</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-17T17:13:21.185+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>"Why do we routinely ascribe the phrase 'acting like an animal' to describe abhorrent, criminal behaviour? There is no evidence that animals commit sexual violence, let alone rape their young ones. Animals usually never kill members of their own species. They kill other animals for food. There is no evidence of any other criminal activity such as fraud, cheating, murder, torture, rioting and </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-do-we-routinely-ascribe-phrase.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (rollsofrice)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-672769475224474267</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-16T16:20:51.741+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>field notes: writing to remember Pen and paper have always been an integral part of writing for me- there's just too much to be distracted by on a word processing program: it's either the temptation of the Internet, its unwieldy tentacles of information and frivolity beckoning to you; your inbox, RSS feed and Facebook all piping up cries of 'check me!' (although the latter often has little of </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/08/field-notes-writing-to-remember-pen-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GMy2C3m_v3c/TkkvIapEzII/AAAAAAAAAMs/8q8m9EayQis/s72-c/fieldnotes.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-2006967938686241508</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-30T21:19:09.319+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Things That Make Me HappyPeople who actually remember my birthday without Facebook (or, people who forget, but who bother enough after finding out to say happy birthday at all): I deactivated the option for displaying your birthday so I wouldn't have to deal with composing awkward replies to birthday wishes to people I didn't really know/ knew for about one hour of real time1. Granted, I posted a</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/07/things-that-make-me-happy-people-who.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-4111170864564407209</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-29T11:24:49.828+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-must-do-away-with-absolutely.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-6210770087180546633</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-13T21:16:42.541+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>A Few Quick ThingsMy sister has kindly informed me of the existence of the Fuck Yeah English Major Armadillo meme. My life is complete- it's like someone other than me finally understands the importance of putting apostrophes in the right place, using semicolons correctly, and spelling everything out in full when you text.Newest obsession: Threadless t-shirts. I own three (Italyc, Spacebar, and </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/03/few-quick-things-my-sister-has-kindly.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-346832637376464050</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-22T22:44:38.678+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>A Primer to EverythingSurely time must pass differentlynow—we've crossed the border, ourvery first line; you've asked and I'veanswered—but here, now, stubbornclockwork keeps the same time. Onthe Trans-Siberian rail one keeps Moscowtime even crossing time zones. In Antarcticasome expeditions keep home time, handsand faces the same but missing theirpeople. In these strange lands thebody and the </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/01/primer-to-everything-surely-time-must.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-2857567658017621255</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-16T21:28:30.428+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Five Fictional Characters I Loved in 2010 Oskar Schell (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran-Foer)Implausibly brilliant and yet immeasurably endearing, 9-year-old Oskar Schell is one of the first-person narrators I can actually stand-- Safran-Foer (of whom I am an unapologetic stan; haters to the left) writes him with such brio that you occasionally forget how overused the 'genius</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2011/01/five-fictional-characters-i-loved-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GiDtKREG6r0/TTK1B3K30PI/AAAAAAAAAME/Y9RB63PCUMk/s72-c/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-16%2Bat%2BPM%2B05.05.31.png" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-5441176719221581847</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-01T08:56:55.335+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Back from Turkey! Some photographs, just so I can clear out my Drafts folder and get on with the post I really want to do: squeeing over the Doctor Who Christmas special. Turkey was average by any standards: war memorial museums, mosques, and churches. Everywhere you go there'd be a bunch of blue glass eyes staring out at you-- what they call the 'evil eye', which apparently gives you protection </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/12/back-from-turkey-some-photographs-just.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5123/5302720187_a5b450aab8_t.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-3436940281222006742</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-17T10:55:55.941+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Just came back from South Korea; am going to Turkey until the 27th.</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/12/just-came-back-from-south-korea-am.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-1960419136082685388</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-08T23:06:32.244+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Bowties Are Cool: Intellect and Romance Over Brute Force and CynicismAnother One of Those Posts in which I Attempt to Convince Everyone to Watch SomethingThis is from an email I sent to a friend, attempting to convince her of Doctor Who's awesomeness.Doctor Who is a science fiction show about a ~technically alien Time Lord called the Doctor who can travel through time in his TARDIS, a time </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/12/bowties-are-cool-intellect-and-romance.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GiDtKREG6r0/TP8t5eNsAJI/AAAAAAAAALw/a8yu9ezN8Vs/s72-c/mattsmith_dw.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-2722406918650989375</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-08T10:32:05.721+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>It's time for more of my ranting about the improper use of the English language! Since the SATs are now over (for this year, at least), there is nothing stopping me from writing a thousand-word rant on people who put apostrophes in the wrong place, or people who say sub-tle instead of suttle, or people who dance about merrily writing "poetry" or "novels" and saying that grammar doesn't matter. </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-time-for-more-of-my-ranting-about.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-5959356265016921571</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-29T12:48:30.911+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>IDIOTS WITH DSLRs EVERYWHERE </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/11/idiots-with-dslrs-everywhere.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-2946882086248670280</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-27T17:33:48.769+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Lessons in Characterization: A Comparative Study (and a slightly less pretentious subtitle!) Misfits vs. GleeNow that the holidays have officially begun, I can once again spend time on long-winded pretentious posts-slash-diatribes that I will be completely embarrassed to re-read-- hooray! Today Glee is on the guillotine for the crime of substandard characterization; in addition I'll be taking the</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/11/lessons-in-characterization-comparative.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-8139976048443707789</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-11T11:47:34.803+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>To the Makers of the Official SAT Study Guide:I'm afraid I cannot take you seriously for giving a sample essay (which is apparently one from a previous year, written by a real student) a 5 out of 6 despite persistent errors in spelling-- the kid actually misspelt 'deceived', 'unveiled', and 'shielded' ('decieved'; 'unvailed'; 'sheilded')-- ,the terrible misuse of words ('gorilla' for 'guerilla'. </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/11/to-makers-of-official-sat-study-guide.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-3644268614313890459</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-07T16:14:48.966+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Things That Really Annoy Me"Biasness" is not the noun form of "bias". "Bias" is a noun. On a related note, not all words can be turned into nouns by adding "-ness": the noun form of "passive" is "passivity", not "passiveness". WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUST GET IT RIGHT, DAMNIT? This isn't hard. Articles: use them correctly. Proper nouns-- like Photoshop and National Geographic and Tumblr-- do not need a </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/11/things-that-really-annoy-me-biasness-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-3489891394533939877</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-03T10:12:23.630+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>i open at the closeI open at the close.Breathing hard and fast, he stared down at it. Now that he wanted time to move as slowly as possible, it seemed to have sped up, and understanding was coming so fast it seemed to have bypassed thought. This was the close. This was the moment.He pressed the golden metal to his lips and whispered, “I am about to die.”100% cotton, because I despise dry-fit </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-open-at-close-image-on-shirts-front-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GiDtKREG6r0/TNC92JXzZOI/AAAAAAAAALo/cIpxDd4mFBg/s72-c/hptshirtfront.jpg" height="72" width="72" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-138351613886385666</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-03T20:22:33.821+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>A Few Things About Harry PotterBecause I've only just finished the series-- both book and movie-- and I am suitably impressed.JK Rowling definitely has a knack for naming; she makes the most ridiculous names sound almost reasonable. I especially liked Dolores Umbridge: misspelled dolorous, plus letter-swapped umbrage? Not very subtle, but nice. Lupin, though, was a bit obvious; added to the </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/11/few-things-about-because-ive-only-just.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-5302885905103561499</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-09T12:29:15.856+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>It appears that my appetite for slash fanfiction has finally eliminated my het bias and, in its place, created an incredibly strong slash bias. Way to go, self. It was probably Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier & Clay that got me noticing this: of the two protagonists, one is queer and the other straight (and yes, the book is actually about so much more than this), and of course</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/10/it-appears-that-my-appetite-for-slash.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-5374545012378212824</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-10T21:56:03.973+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>So, it's Friday night and I've just watched fourteen of the Alex Reads Twilight videos. Clearly I have my priorities straight.In other news, the poem I sent in ages ago to Foyle Young Poets has apparently won me a commendation. Unfortunately the prize ceremony is in London, and- you know, just in case that isn't enough- it's on the 7th of October, when I have my Chinese exams.</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-its-friday-night-and-ive-just.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-7574762659207959811</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-31T22:56:45.301+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>I would update but I'm busy writing Inception fic. Really, I would.</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-would-update-but-im-busy-writing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-2150227347809080397</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-23T20:42:28.649+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>SleepwalkingWhen night spread, an atmospheric oil spill,you threw off your bedclothes and began to walk,eyes glazed—misted as though by teargas plumes.Shuffling most silently in pyjamasnot born for perambulations in darkness.We were most afraid,fearing your peculiar nightblindness and empty eyes.As you passed, stumbling through to some unseeable embrace, we werestanding in the familiar doorway, </atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/06/sleepwalking-when-night-spread.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-8553408199195614942</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-21T22:18:23.126+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>Nathan Fillion: never not awesome.Tell me again why Firefly was cancelled with a leading man/ space captain like that?</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/06/nathan-fillion-never-not-awesome.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-3496977631732105396</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-17T10:41:36.507+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary /><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14559205.post-4788453250105509727</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-15T23:12:27.515+08:00</atom:updated><title /><atom:summary>I hate it when people, put commas in the middle of sentences they don't need to be in.</atom:summary><link>http://eenymeenymineymo.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-hate-it-when-people-put-commas-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Ruth)</author></item></channel></rss>