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May. 3rd, 2026 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_dailey-- This week was uneventful, having been taken up with medical and dental appointments, both for spouse and for me. I love uneventful! I hope everything remains that way.
-- Little Norway Park, a well-used and well-loved recreational and green space at the west end of Queen's Quay, is under threat from the unspeakable Doug Ford, who thinks (if one can use that word in this context) that the Island and lakefront neighbourhoods are essentially vacant lots to be expropriated for the expansion of the airport. Every time we turn around in this town, we see another example of Ford's perfidy. The words "unacceptable and untenable" seem too mild to describe what's happening. The city is supposedly exploring its legal options, but things don't look good.
-- My pal K. has offered to introduce me to "pasture eggs," which are evidently dramatically different in taste and nutrients from free-range, free-run, and organic eggs. So I'll be subwaying over to her place tomorrow to collect some samples, along with a special super-duper kefir. Will report back.
-- I'm rereading Diane Duane's Spock's World. I remember really liking this book when it was first published. I'm still impressed by the author's prose style and the scope of her imagination with respect to cosmology and physics. Her original characters are believable and interesting, and it's still gratifying to see T'Pau given her rightful status in the story. This time around, though, the major canon characters don't ring as true to me.
Sarek has been softened and smoothed considerably in comparison with the character portrayed in canon (even allowing for character growth and the passage of time). And much of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's dialogue sounds like it's being read from a page rather than spoken aloud in conversation.
But the most serious mischaracterization is T'Pring's, which is especially farfetched and non-nuanced. T'Pring's motivation is the furthest thing from "flawlessly logical," as Spock describes it once again. Her reasoning is so obviously skewed and senseless that she probably ought to have been given immediate psychological help rather than populist and eventually political backing. As a consequence, it's hard to believe that either her plot or the author's could have developed and unfolded in the way it did. (I'm skipping the Vulcan history parts altogether this time around, though I may go back and reread them after I've finished the present-day story.)
-- Little Norway Park, a well-used and well-loved recreational and green space at the west end of Queen's Quay, is under threat from the unspeakable Doug Ford, who thinks (if one can use that word in this context) that the Island and lakefront neighbourhoods are essentially vacant lots to be expropriated for the expansion of the airport. Every time we turn around in this town, we see another example of Ford's perfidy. The words "unacceptable and untenable" seem too mild to describe what's happening. The city is supposedly exploring its legal options, but things don't look good.
-- My pal K. has offered to introduce me to "pasture eggs," which are evidently dramatically different in taste and nutrients from free-range, free-run, and organic eggs. So I'll be subwaying over to her place tomorrow to collect some samples, along with a special super-duper kefir. Will report back.
-- I'm rereading Diane Duane's Spock's World. I remember really liking this book when it was first published. I'm still impressed by the author's prose style and the scope of her imagination with respect to cosmology and physics. Her original characters are believable and interesting, and it's still gratifying to see T'Pau given her rightful status in the story. This time around, though, the major canon characters don't ring as true to me.
Sarek has been softened and smoothed considerably in comparison with the character portrayed in canon (even allowing for character growth and the passage of time). And much of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's dialogue sounds like it's being read from a page rather than spoken aloud in conversation.
But the most serious mischaracterization is T'Pring's, which is especially farfetched and non-nuanced. T'Pring's motivation is the furthest thing from "flawlessly logical," as Spock describes it once again. Her reasoning is so obviously skewed and senseless that she probably ought to have been given immediate psychological help rather than populist and eventually political backing. As a consequence, it's hard to believe that either her plot or the author's could have developed and unfolded in the way it did. (I'm skipping the Vulcan history parts altogether this time around, though I may go back and reread them after I've finished the present-day story.)
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Date: 2026-05-03 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-03 06:09 pm (UTC)I bought coconut kefir by accident once and it was delicious! Your comment reminds me that I should try it again. I find all kefirs are pretty rich. I thin them down a bit with mineral water and ice.
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Date: 2026-05-03 09:27 pm (UTC)I thought coconut kefir was delicious at first but drinking it day after day was far too much for me, I just started feeling very sick. That's a good idea about thinning it down with water!