Pronoun Trouble

For our final project in Social Problems, we have to pick something we think is a social problem, find research on it, then turn our findings into a creative project with accompanying one-page paper.

Luckily, the paper has a very thorough template where pretty much all I'll need to do is write one sentence per prompt and I'll be done; I think I've done okay with picking my problem and doing my research, so now what I need to do is to turn said problem into a creative project.

The problem I've chosen is infosec/(lack of) privacy in the age of Big AI; I think I'm going to make a board game about the dangers of not having secure information?

I'm planning to go very simple: A space-by-space game board (think Candyland), and movement by D6. Part of me really, really wants to go over-the-top and come up with a token system (when you land on a marked space, you draw a card, and based on that card you either pay or receive a Privacy Token; the goal would be to make it to the end of the path with the most tokens, and if you lose all of them, you're out of the game), but that's probably too ambitious for right now.

Honestly, I'll take something closer to a Snakes and Ladders approach, where landing on a marked card has you moving forward or backwards extra spaces depending on whether the space has good or bad infosec practices. I may still need to look up some game theory to figure out how often I should place which spaces, but it's much less than if I go with the cards-and-tokens route. Probably less fun as well, but this isn't exactly the only final project I have to do this semester...

Anyway! Time to come up with a list of good and bad infosec practices and think about where they'd need to appear on a board game!

Contrary to my expectations, I managed to (effectively*) finish my yarn bowl on Wednesday after all!



(Click for a larger version of the photo.)

Here's the yarn bowl and also the fish, in their no-longer-current glory; they're in the "greenware" state in this photo, which means they haven't been fired even once yet. I'm pretty sure they're undergoing their first, or "bisque", firing this weekend, and that I'm going to get to do some glazing on Monday, but I'd need to check the schedule to be sure 😂

In any case, I'm pretty pleased with them so far! I'm looking forward to the fun things I'll get to do with them in the glazing stage 😁

I have been informed that the placement of the crochet hook holes and yarn catching wave on the bowl make it look "distressed", and that "it looks like it was dropped and having a crisis about it." I'm sure it'll appreciate all my hard work in the end, though 😜


* I did end up having to stop by very briefly on Thursday afternoon to touch up the base, but that's nowhere near as much work as I was expecting.

Got to give this in class after all! Sharing it here as well, because why not.

( Persuasive Speech goes here )


( Works Cited )

I may as well share this here.

( Humanitarian Rats )

( Works Cited )

summerwrite, it has begun! \o/... I think.

Finished up with step three of the Snowflake Method; hoping to start step four soon-ish, but also have finals next week and papers to work on.

Speaking of papers! I have two more finished for my Eastern Religions class which I found fun to write.

( Eight Paths to the City )

( Compare and Contrast Hindi, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen Buddhism, OR Three Religious Icons Walk Into a Tea House )

Sadly, I can't actually count either of those towards my word count for this summer, as they were both finished on Wednesday, but at least they're done and in for credit! And I am soooo going to count anything I actually write down for the next Snowflake steps toward my wordcount. (Page-long Summaries should totally count, guys.)

One more thing before I close up shop here - lyzzle, you are requested to report here for a very well done and in-character Percy Jackson and the Olympians friendship fic, featuring Percy and Grover. Especially since you dragged me into the damn fandom in the first place. Now go! *makes shooing motions*

Actually, let's extend that to anyone else who might be familiar with the series. It's a lovely piece of work, so you should go read it! And if you're not familiar with the series, well, I suggest you become familiar. (Greek mythology! Guys, it's Greek mythology, done in a not horrible way! And very cool characters and solid friendships and... just go read it already.)

We're supposed to write a one-page essay on a modern child's hero for Culture and Technology, as inspired by Thomas De Zengotita's Mediated. Except I really hate the book, as every time I read it I feel like the author is trying to force-feed me bullshit, complete with spoon and nose-pinching. (I, in turn, spit it back in his face. Gimme back my strained carrots!) So instead, have an essay on why Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens is -not- actually my hero, and was never really my hero in the first place!

( The Death of a Never Hero )

...I think that may have come off more sourly than I intended it to. Oh, well! Gotta have fun with classwork sometimes, yanno?

I am totally blaming my mood on hormones when I feel better. I swear.

Nathan was being lazy about typing this up, so I volunteered to do it instead and he decided to let me -_-. Still, at least it goes up.

Fandom: Okay, this is a bit tricky. Technically it's an original Cantebury Tale, but it doesn't do anything to the frame, so would it be OrigiFic or what?
Background Info: The teacher who gave us this assignment (our World Lit teacher) is Mr. Hartwig; he also gave us the Right-Brain Dante assignment.
Author: think_tomorrow with a little help from socchan
Title: ( The Scholar's Tale )
Once you're done reading this here, go over to Nathan's journal (he said he would be copy-pasting this there as well) and bug him to write more! Offer up plot bunnies as sacrifices.

Edit: This poem/story/thing is now up in Nathan's journal! Go visit to see *gasp* my actual name!!!!!!111!!1eine!! And to comment.