Posts by Amy Gale
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Another true story: someone once wrote to me and asked whether I had a glass eye. Based on the "more flattering" photo, too.
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There is a great zombie segment in the special features section of the Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog DVD.
(Presumably online too, but I couldn't say where.)
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Sacha, I didn't mean to come across as picking on you - I just picked your quote because it provided good context.
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Funny that, Amy - I was about to name-check you and your awesome recipe data-base, one of the earliest practical applications of the internet.
True story: my first week in grad school, I was approached by a postdoc who asked if I was "the Amy Gale with the recipes".
It's like World Famous In New Zealand, only different.
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Also on Usenet for as long as I can remember: our own Judi and Jolisa. Jen I don't explicitly remember from Usenet, but she was certainly well tied in to the internet in general. Another NZ Usenetter was Jenny George - I don't recall seeing her around here but she could well be pseudonymized.
[Check out all the Js!]
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Russell says "They all have their own stories to tell of our early internet". Later internet, far more women's voices.
Well, for one data point, if Nat was somewhere in the early/mid 90s then often I was there too. Sometimes working directly on the same thing (visiting govt departments to web-evangelize, doing demos at the science museum). Sometimes working separately on parallel projects (web authoring, Project Gutenberg, FAQ-keeping, Usenet-posting). And, yeah, sometimes I was cooking kick-ass meat pies.
But perhaps I'm being factored out as a groupie?
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My upside down doll was like Cinderella - it turned from a poorly dressed girl with plaits into a princess-type girl with an up-do. No color change or anything - it was clearly meant to be "the same" person. (My mum made it for me. Yay mum.)
I'm not sure how old I was when I found out golliwogs were actually supposed to represent people. Pretty old, though. It made sense to me to interpret them as a fantasy species. After all, nobody actually looks like that.
With no evidence whatsoever, I feel inclined to believe that this is/was actually pretty common in kids who saw golliwogs in Enid Blyton books (or even in their own toy boxes) but did not grow up in a time where that style of racist representation was common in other media. Without that context, you're not necessarily going to make the connection at all.
Meaning what? I dunno. That parents should make a point of explaining context to old-enough children?
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Normal people don't do that kind of crap and so don't know of the other meanings.
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Brilliant. Mind you, that might fly in NZ, but try handing them round to your American friends with a straight face
Dahling, that would be part of the fun.
Anyway, why shouldn't we go tramping at weekends? The Canadians get to go cottaging...
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Ironically, while I was gone I was going around town with a camera offering people Eskimo lollies, to see if any would be offended enough not to eat them.
When I share them here I end up introducing them with something along the lines of "these are called Eskimos but I suppose they really shouldn't be". Perhaps there should be a national competition to come up with a new name for the shape in return for a lifetime supply.
How about "trampers"? (All wrapped up in their sleeping bags.)