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8 Jan 2019 19:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
domarzione* Over on the tumblr, I posted a link to an article that confirms (from Feige's mouth) that pretty much all of the Avengers: Endgame trailers/teasers/clips will be coming from the first fifteen or so minutes of the movie. So in addition to the usual context-free and intentionally-wrong stuff, we're working with nothing. Something to keep in mind as the ramp-up begins.
* Someone gifted something called Dreamwidth Points to me and I keep meaning to say thank you to my anonymous donor, but then forget because I haven't had much else to say to make a post. Also, I had to look up what they were. But! Thank you, Anonymous, for the gift and I shall make use of it now that I know what they do. :)
* Holy carp and other religious fish, my hockey team is in a funk. Eighteen goals in seven periods the Rangers gave up. EIGHTEEN! That is a lot and that's terrible. They're not supposed to be very good, but when they put in effort they can sort of fake mediocre and recently they haven't even managed that.
* I am officially back in school, getting stuff graded and everything. I'm on the bunny hill right now and the semester starts for real in a few weeks, but... school! I am not worried about the material very much, but what has become quickly apparent is that I have a bit of work to do to learn how to be a student in the 21st Century. I finished my first masters in 2001 and I wrote the exams for that longhand. Things have changed a little since then. I am going to finally have to learn Powerpoint and conferencing software and figure out how all of these new research tools work. The first go-round, if I wanted to strip-mine an article for citations, I had to sit there with a pen and paper and transcribe them upon encounter. Now, all I have to do is click. It's a brave new world, I'm telling you.
* Someone gifted something called Dreamwidth Points to me and I keep meaning to say thank you to my anonymous donor, but then forget because I haven't had much else to say to make a post. Also, I had to look up what they were. But! Thank you, Anonymous, for the gift and I shall make use of it now that I know what they do. :)
* Holy carp and other religious fish, my hockey team is in a funk. Eighteen goals in seven periods the Rangers gave up. EIGHTEEN! That is a lot and that's terrible. They're not supposed to be very good, but when they put in effort they can sort of fake mediocre and recently they haven't even managed that.
* I am officially back in school, getting stuff graded and everything. I'm on the bunny hill right now and the semester starts for real in a few weeks, but... school! I am not worried about the material very much, but what has become quickly apparent is that I have a bit of work to do to learn how to be a student in the 21st Century. I finished my first masters in 2001 and I wrote the exams for that longhand. Things have changed a little since then. I am going to finally have to learn Powerpoint and conferencing software and figure out how all of these new research tools work. The first go-round, if I wanted to strip-mine an article for citations, I had to sit there with a pen and paper and transcribe them upon encounter. Now, all I have to do is click. It's a brave new world, I'm telling you.
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Date: 2019-01-10 16:25 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-10 16:29 (UTC)(I am glad your team is back to being excellent and not a one-hit wonder. It's hard not to like them.)