Pedro Martinez

This man is beautiful to watch work. And he started this game with five consecutive strikeouts before he gave up a hit. Now Kevin's having a fit at the umpire who's not giving strike calls; the guy after the hit walked. Ahh, fly-ball out, that's at least getting somewhere. No score after two.

What the hell; I'll do this one as a play-by-play and see how that goes, though that means I should probably put in a cut 'cause it'll get long.

( After the second inning of the Sox/Padres game )

On the subject of this username

'Cause some people have asked.

It used to be I would pick mail services by whether or not my handle was available as a username. These days, this is much, much harder to do; 'Darkhawk' is pretty commonly taken most everywhere. When I started up this account, I didn't even bother to check; I used Lilairen instead, which has the important commonality of being an eight-character name. (Yes, oh power-of-two fetishist reading this, that was a major contributing factor. Have a nice smug or something.) (After I started the journal, in a moment of boredom I went and checked; I was right, it's taken.)

Anyway.

Darkhawk as a handle is the given name of one of my personality-facets, the one that gets the most public airtime. I've got a lot of these, surfacing in different situations; I can convey a good bit to people who know me by whether or not I sign off with a particular one of these handles.

Next thread: some time ago, I was code demiurge for a MUSH that silmarian was running. I decided, for lack of a better idea, that I'd take one of my handles as a character name, and I picked the one I call Songdragon. Songdragon wound up as Professor of Music at Hilsar University; her actual given name was Kiralaservissalae Lilairen. So, Professor Lilairen. I think it's which mountain she hatched in or something; I don't know what it means precisely aside from some sort of family name, but I suspect that's because I don't speak dragon.

And I figure that since I don't know anyone else who speaks dragon either, I'm not that bloody likely to have issues using 'lilairen' as my default username when I need one and can't get my name.

So, now y'all know.

On orienting oneself sexually

A while back I made an offhanded comment about having the system of axes I feel adequate to describe sexual orientation requiring eight; I was wrong, it seems to be, after some discussion with Kevin, nine. Either way, I run out of dimensions and start to tesser.

This is still tidier than my set of political axes, which was up well over a dozen last time I looked at it, but I'm not sure where I put my notes. Might even be a text file. One of these days I'm going to learn enough cgi and such to write up one of those stupid "Where do you fit on the political spectrum?" things, only I'll use my spectrum. Getting the results printed out will be a bear.

The thing with orientation systems, I think, that's a major problem, is that there are generally very few options for N/A. (Like the objection to the word "bisexual" on the basis of "more than two sexes available".) I don't think it's possible to assemble a system that deals with all of these sorts of objections, though.

I'm not entirely sure what brought this thing to mind, but I'm going to ramble about it anyway rather than doing play-by-play on two games in a row. (Besides, it's not Pedro pitching, so.)

( Anyway. My so-called system, with noodling. )

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Best description of NASCAR racing I've heard so far, this one from Kevin:

"Guys turning left."