Posts by Emma Hart

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  • Hard News: Grateful for 'Rain',

    Shakespeare, Tennyson, Masefield, Wordsworth, Dryden, and so on. It was known locally as "Poets' Corner". It was not, shall we say, a very poetical area.

    We also have this area in Chch, just south of the central city. It's hard industrial.

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  • Hard News: About a Cat,

    I used to have a pair of Siamese cats, but given that I moved away to university, they really became my parents.

    Teehee.

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  • Southerly: January 2008 Will be a Bad…,

    PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO HAVE CHILDREN!!

    People like him should be required to have children.

    I'm also an Aquarius. I shall await the midgets eagerly.

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  • Hard News: About a Cat,

    We have a cat who, every time we go away, kills a rat and leaves it on the front lawn for the cat-sitter. These are the only occasions on which we've ever seen rats here.

    Jeeves, OTOH, doesn't notice we're gone, as long as he's got his Barbie dolls.

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  • Hard News: Rockin',

    My fav pic of the quake has to be the library. I hate shelf-tidying at the best of times, but this looks like a serious bitch.

    OMG

    My Inner Librarian is going crazy. Must... alphabetise...

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  • Hard News: Rockin',

    I also have a Big New Thing coming up in 08, but I can't tell you about that yet.

    Tease.

    Thanks for the opportunity, it's been choice.

    I wrote a blog post last Nov. when System went live, and looking back at it, I was both wrong and right. I was wrong in my prediction that System would struggle to stay civil and erudite, and I was right about how bloody addictive it would prove to be.

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  • Hard News: Random,

    Personally, I like "I can has Heisenburger?" but that's a level of geekery well beyond that which is socially acceptable.

    Not here it isn't!

    Indeed. The Physics Dept at Canterbury had one of those big maps with 'you are here' written on it. Someone with a vivid had written 'you may be here - Heisenberg' next to it.

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  • Speaker: Insert Token Here,

    Shaping experiences and traits, in my opinion, are many. Gender is just one of them. It may, in some people, not be a very big one, but it's still there. For me, it's more about the nuance and the shading that makes a person.

    That, I think, we can entirely agree on. Which would be a nice place to let it go.

    Steven, one of my best online friends, and one of the most original and amusing writers over at the Web, is dyslexic. I have huge admiration for the way she copes. I don't think letting people know is exploiting it, it just saves everyone some unnecessary aggravation. But yes, the more people you get the chance to listen to, the more you discover new ways to be discriminated against.

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  • Speaker: Insert Token Here,

    And I'll direct you all the way back to page 2, where Stephen Judd said:

    Something that really pisses me off about popular reporting is the way that minor differences between groups get turned into enormous dichotomies between individuals. They always seem to say if you are a man, you will feel A, if you are a woman, B; whereas the truth is that slightly more men are a bit more A.

    So, yes, that would all be applicable if we were talking, in generalisations, about large groups of people, but we were talking about just me. And broad trends don't actually predict the behaviour of individuals very well, especially if you ignore everything about that individual in favour of looking at their tickboxes.

    And those same brain chemistry and physiology studies appear to indicate that, generally, comparing averages, lesbian and bisexual women fall in between the averages for straight women and the averages for men. So even just looking at the broad strokes, saying that if I'd been born male I'd have completely different view is... well, I'm going to say 'a big call'.

    My daughter actually IS hearing-impaired. It's my opinion having watched her growing up, her struggles, the way she deals with her disability and the way other people react to her, that her deafness is going to be a bigger factor in shaping her experience than her gender, and that she may often find that she has more in common with a Deaf male than a Hearing female.

    part of who you are is the lucky dip which is your gender at birth

    Part, yes. I don't think it's completely unreasonable for me to say, how much differs from person to person.

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  • Speaker: Insert Token Here,

    Ooo, I do usually remember marrying people. This could give my Civil Union some serious legal issues...

    Oh, and Deborah, my daughter was feeling pretty stink. And then this big box of Christmas presents arrived from friends up north, and she lit up like a kleig.

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