my new years meme

In 2008, reverancepavane resolves to...

Become a better posthumanism.
Find a better paranoia.
Get back in contact with some old humans.
Put fifty albedo anthropomorphics a month into my savings account.
Admit my true feelings to traeemery.
Cut down to ten girl genius a day.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

I'm not sure I can morally support any type of "-ism," so I'll just have to become a better posthuman instead. Unfortunately I don't quite have the nanotech and biotech base to implement The Eternal Masquerade or I'd be there already. And most of my friends will agree that my current selections of paranoia would be hard to improve on (although I did stop collecting it after The Crash). Save the Albedo universe? I just want to know what happens next. Although I must write that review of Albedo:Platinum Catalyst sometime. I think it artfully misses the entire point of telling stories at times of war, but probably makes a dandy set of wargame rules – if you make the assumption that the soldiers in the Albedo universe have actually managed to learn the intricacies of warfare in one minor war and decided that the US Combat Model is the best thing since sliced carrots (something which numerous Kangaroo exercises have disillusioned me that there is any truth in that statement). traemery: I'm evil. And proud of it. And only ten Girl Genius in a day!! I suppose I'll have to abandon my Time Viewer™ experiments then. And I was looking forward to seeing what was going to happen after [CENSORED BY THE TIME PATROL].

wattleseed icecream

Trundled down to Port Adelaide to see Port Celtica, a free Celtic-based music and arts festival. Although it was really a celebration of Irish and Scottish heritage (with a little Welsh thrown in). Very little continental Celt culture (such as the Bretons and Gallacians), and whilst many performers were proud of their heritage they lacked an understanding of the historical migrations of the peoples historians have identified as "The Celts." Anyway we were there as part of Adrienne's Rent-A-Crowd to hear the music. And yes, Spiral Dance played a few songs (and were the first group to get us people dancing), which did encourage other people to dance when Victorian group Claymore closed the show with lots of energy. Other highlights during the show were local group Akoustic Odyssey (who are doing a gig at the SA Folk centre on the 20th) and a talented singer/violin duo whose name and CD escaped me (I was distracted [1] on only got the "please don't fall in the water announcement"). Anyway, almost all the groups will be performing tomorrow if anyone wants to catch them again, and if you are interested in such things it may be well worth your time and effort to make the trip (and you are an Adelaidean). I particularly recommend the lineup after 5pm (Spiral and Claymore), although if you arrive too late you may miss the point were Adrienne snaps and finally slaughters members of the local dance group that stole her dances and are passing them off as not only their own but also as "traditional Pictish/Celtic dances." I always say if you are going to perpetrate a fraud of this type, that it is best to do so when the original choreographer isn't sitting in the audience watching. [1] I discovered that a vendor was selling icecream with natural Australian flavouring and I'm a wattleseed junkie. Enough said.