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Aug. 15th, 2002
Films and things...
Aug. 15th, 2002 09:19 amFine evening catching up with a good friend last night and fine entertainment too; once again I bowed to the cinema wisdom and watched a film I'd heard of but considered purely kids' stuff. The film in question being The Iron Giant a wonderful tale of, erm, an Iron Giant a young kid and the terrors of 50's America. The animation was simply wonderful, the story and characters were real enough that it swept you in and it kept a good pace throughout. How the animators can give so much expression to to a (basically) faceless lump of metal was wonderful. You do need a shred of a kid inside you to appreciate some of it, but it's another film that got me there and I ended up trying my eye a little after it, sucker for heartstring moments in movies that I am. So order watch or borrow it, it's an excellent film :)
Creativity and the inner voice, part 1
Aug. 15th, 2002 09:47 amMy creative spark has been simmering in the fireplace lately and I've been yearning for it to flare up and burn again, which it has refused to, which is frustrating because lately I've had the increasing urge to create something or write anything and give life to something from my imagination but ideas have sat squat in my mind and sulked, prose has felt forced and stories just haven't been coming out.
My main problem, well speaking creativity wise at least, is I tend to get inspiration or ideas at the most awkward moments, usually when I'm walking, driving or just away from anything else; then a shred of a line of a poem will pop into my mind and unless I can hold onto it it'll wriggle away and swim off down whichever stream of thought is currently taking me over the rapids. After a talk with a friend yesterday I'm considering getting myself a little digital tape recorder so I can at least capture these moments somehow and then produce something from them, something wonderful as they often say in 2010.
The other problem is that it's all in the moment and feeling, at that particular second the idea strikes a small wheel starts driving the thought and I need to jump on almost immediately and start writing or creating or I've lost it, feelings drive these thoughts more than anything since I've generally found when I'm either depressed or happy they tend to come along more often, usually in the mind of whichever emotion is currently hogging my mindset, which is fair enough really.
But sitting as I am in a kind of Beta-neutral emotion for the past week or so it's all not popping out, I can feel this raging wall of creativity bouncing around inside me waiting for something to be made, a thread to come unstitched or a word to trigger a ravenging ramble of something or other... hmmm, note to self, deconstruction and inner thought is creativity of investigation of the self, ergo, you have by wondering about creativity and your lack thereof, created something.
Well, that'll work for a start until I can think of a way to describe the sensation of neutrality.
Gear change and back to work.
My main problem, well speaking creativity wise at least, is I tend to get inspiration or ideas at the most awkward moments, usually when I'm walking, driving or just away from anything else; then a shred of a line of a poem will pop into my mind and unless I can hold onto it it'll wriggle away and swim off down whichever stream of thought is currently taking me over the rapids. After a talk with a friend yesterday I'm considering getting myself a little digital tape recorder so I can at least capture these moments somehow and then produce something from them, something wonderful as they often say in 2010.
The other problem is that it's all in the moment and feeling, at that particular second the idea strikes a small wheel starts driving the thought and I need to jump on almost immediately and start writing or creating or I've lost it, feelings drive these thoughts more than anything since I've generally found when I'm either depressed or happy they tend to come along more often, usually in the mind of whichever emotion is currently hogging my mindset, which is fair enough really.
But sitting as I am in a kind of Beta-neutral emotion for the past week or so it's all not popping out, I can feel this raging wall of creativity bouncing around inside me waiting for something to be made, a thread to come unstitched or a word to trigger a ravenging ramble of something or other... hmmm, note to self, deconstruction and inner thought is creativity of investigation of the self, ergo, you have by wondering about creativity and your lack thereof, created something.
Well, that'll work for a start until I can think of a way to describe the sensation of neutrality.
Gear change and back to work.
Profanity in a digital world
Aug. 15th, 2002 10:18 amI'm not one for profanity, I am as likely to say 'Oh pigeons' if I hit my foot as anything else and I (hopefully) keep my casual swearing to a minimum. Now this is largely personal choice and (I believe) politeness as who am I to use words that are commonly accepted to be vulgar or rude, and manners again (I believe) are important and something that this world is sadly lacking these days... anyway, to my point, and by jingo I have one for once.
On Monday our wonderful sysadmins upgraded our mail server, no big deal there you might think, but with this they updated (I presume) the word block list. This is a system for scanning emails that arrive for profanity or words that are offensive etc etc. Now an email arrived this morning from a friend and it was flagged as 'offensive' I looked at it for several moments and couldn't for the life of me find any word that anyone would consider rude; but then memories clicked and my eyes alighted on the word 'nip', which can be of course considered a derogitory term for anyone of Japanese origin; but it is far more common in British parlance to be used as a term for a short quick movement action, or something similar. "I'll just nip outside." for example. Our wonderous mail server has again been reset to American slang terms - which means emailing someone to ask if they want a cigarette is going to be causing problems again.
But this brought back memories of a chat system I used to use eons ago called WBS (Web Broadcasting System) a wonderful place for online RP-related chat and all sorts of other things. Now on this chat system, somehow, someone found out that the word 'pati' was blocked, and the combined efforts of just about everyone I knew on the server failed to establish why, how or what exactly this word was slang for and in what language. To this day it remains a mystery to me, and likely everyone else that used WBS...
So, in a challenge to the world in general, what vulgar term and in what language (presumably, since it's likely not English) is 'pati' considered a vulgar word?
Theres a drink in it for anyone who knows - and two if you can quote source on why and where it is...
On Monday our wonderful sysadmins upgraded our mail server, no big deal there you might think, but with this they updated (I presume) the word block list. This is a system for scanning emails that arrive for profanity or words that are offensive etc etc. Now an email arrived this morning from a friend and it was flagged as 'offensive' I looked at it for several moments and couldn't for the life of me find any word that anyone would consider rude; but then memories clicked and my eyes alighted on the word 'nip', which can be of course considered a derogitory term for anyone of Japanese origin; but it is far more common in British parlance to be used as a term for a short quick movement action, or something similar. "I'll just nip outside." for example. Our wonderous mail server has again been reset to American slang terms - which means emailing someone to ask if they want a cigarette is going to be causing problems again.
But this brought back memories of a chat system I used to use eons ago called WBS (Web Broadcasting System) a wonderful place for online RP-related chat and all sorts of other things. Now on this chat system, somehow, someone found out that the word 'pati' was blocked, and the combined efforts of just about everyone I knew on the server failed to establish why, how or what exactly this word was slang for and in what language. To this day it remains a mystery to me, and likely everyone else that used WBS...
So, in a challenge to the world in general, what vulgar term and in what language (presumably, since it's likely not English) is 'pati' considered a vulgar word?
Theres a drink in it for anyone who knows - and two if you can quote source on why and where it is...