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Welcome to a denizen's entertainment -- Blogging, Reviews, and Creations From a Trio of Very Strange Women

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Sunday Story Ratings #10: Dragon's Treasure
Dragon's Treasure by Elizabeth A. Lynn Originally published 2003; this edition 2004 Publisher: Tor   MA15+ (V, S, L, D, N) Some strong violence Sexual references / A sex scene Coarse language Mild drug use Some nudity   Representations Gender: Easy Bechdel pass. Although only one of the major viewpoint characters is a woman, her scenes frequently feature conversation with other women about matters of daily life. Sexism is primarily displayed by characters we are not intended to...
posted 1 week ago House AshFeather books, frivolity, fun, reading, sunday story ratings
Low Power Ham Radio, PSK31, and Making your Watts Count
Yesterday I had a wonderful contact of firsts. It was: My first contact outside the US My first contact with Canada My first contact on 20 meters My first contact on PSK31 Until later that day, my only radio is my beloved Yaesu FT-817ND. It's a low power rig that is intended for backpacking purposes, featuring a maximum output of 5 watts and an internal battery. It's an adorable little rig, but the total output wattage is tiny compared to typical Ham Radio rigs.  Let's compare my FT-817...
posted 3 weeks ago QRP, radio
How does Drupal 7 Work? Part 4: Modules and Menus
Click here to read Part 1. Click here to read Part 2. Click here to read Part 3. Understanding how Drupal gets from a page URL to page content is a complex topic involving many moving parts. In previous parts we've covered how Drupal initializes itself, we haven't discussed how a requested URL is routed within the CMS to the code that produces the web page. Handling this is the beating heart of Drupal -- the Menu System. Before we get to that, however, we need discussed modules. We glossed over...
posted 5 weeks ago drupal, hacking, tech
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Sunday Story Ratings #09: Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks Originally published 1998; this edition 1999 Publisher: Vintage (first published by Hutchinson)   R18+ (V, S, D, N) Some violence Sex scenes (including sexual violence) Frequent drug use Nudity   Representations Gender: Bechdel technical pass. The lead female protagonist has a conversation with her flatmate / landlady at the beginning. Otherwise, all conversations between women either concern men or are not directly depicted in favour of...
posted 5 weeks ago House AshFeather books, frivolity, fun, reading, sunday story ratings
Requiring desperation, creating desperation
  Edit: I've been informed the specific incident in the link is an urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp - I really should have checked the date, as is good practice in general. However, that article served only as my prompt; the conditions and treatment of unemployed people I wrote about is true and drawn from my personal experience. Original post continues unaltered.   According to an article in the (UK) Telegraph, a woman in Germany faces the loss of...
posted 6 weeks ago House AshFeather dance monkey, humanism
How does Drupal 7 Work, Part 3: drupal_bootstrap()
Click here to read Part 1. Click here to read Part 2. When looking at Drupal code, it can be hard to know where to start. Dive into any of the directories in a standard installation, and you'll find file after file of PHP code. In the root directory alone, you'll find five files! Where do we start? Determining this is quite simpler than it seems; all you have to do is look at the URL of any Drupal site.  http://example.com/node/1234 The above is a typical URL for a Drupal site. Most Drupal...
posted 6 weeks ago drupal, tech
Till Never Do Us Part
The story begins with Kylie and Sarah (who appear to be identical twins) moving a box from a garage to the living wrong, and Kylie dropping it. Sarah: "Lift with your legs, not your back. You're not as strong as you used to be." Kylie immediately gets beet red angry for a second, when her demeanor changes, and a tear begins to form. She balls up a fist, fights to holds it back and storms off. Sarah just shakes her head and heads into the house. "She'll be back." She fingers a wedding ring...
posted 7 weeks ago