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"I once also said in a discussion in a friend's LJ that it seemed to me that all fantasy was moral fiction, that is, fiction the point of which is to discuss morality. I've been meaning to get back to this topic for, uh, years now, I think. :) "

"Fantasy (including the super hero genre) is the genre of moral hypotheses and arguments. It does for questions of values what hard SF does for hypotheses of fact. We respond to fantasy to the extent it makes good moral arguments -- that is, both is logically effective in making its case and well rhetorically formed, such that the moral dimension is readily apprehended and it's message lucid." -- siderea, 2006-11-30

Hmm. Average spam influx for February so far: 12.3 spam messages per hour. So a smidgen more than one every five minutes. Okay, it could be worse: telemarketers calling that frequently would definitely be a bigger PITA. Still, it vexeþ me.

I'm pretty sure CRM114 will do something I want, but I haven't had the free time and the required attention span to figure it out at the same time yet: I want a third class of messages that the mailfilter script will sort into, for messages that are possibly-interesting bulk mail, or not-usually-interesting-but-not-actually-spam from enrities I have an established relationship with. I could write a Procmail rule for each as I notice it, but being able to just dump examples into the mailfilter training script and say, "system, you figure it out," would be a lot more convenient. Though if I never get around to combing through the mailfilter code to figure out where/how to insert that, I might as well start sorting things like magazine columns I may or may not get around to reading depending on time and mood into their own "don't clutter up my main mailbox" folder in Procmail anyhow. [Oh, not the most readable sentence there -- maybe I'd better take something for this headache after all.]

In other news, the heat is still working, I actually made it to (about half of) 3LF rehearsal last night, other drivers can be Really Annoyingly Stupid (all the more so in large groups), the weather forecast on the radio wasn't quite right, those were the biggest damned snowflakes this morning that I've seen in a long time, and I'm terribly, terribly behind on my LJ reading and commenting again.

Hmm. Watch the latest episode of Heroes that I taped on Monday, or check my friendspage ... Oh, that's right, I've got an errand to run. Whoops.

And I still need to come up with a not-scary, not-overwhelming "quick intro to Unix/Linux, vi and/or Pico, a shell (probably tcsh just because that's what I use), and gcc/g++" for my brother, whose experience so far is in Windows. Not sure whether it'll be quicker to review a bunch of sites Google finds and try to pick a few docs that I approve of, or just fire up vi and start typing.