Zack M. Davis [Mon, 9 Dec 2024 02:37:51 +0000 (18:37 -0800)]
drafting "Virginia Prince and the Hazards"
(This is for a school presentation; I don't know if it's really worth
repurposing for the blog, but it felt right to compose in the blog
repository, not least because I don't do non-blog "word processing"
these days.)
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 1 Mar 2024 03:57:03 +0000 (19:57 -0800)]
memoir: pt. 4 at the line
The "maybe I should have just learned to persuade people" anecdote
gets cut because the relevant authorities have ruled that that
conversation was protected by privacy norms.
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:00:13 +0000 (10:00 -0800)]
pt. 4 edits from an incomplete day
Was having trouble concentrating yesterday, and then a medical
emergency came up. Concentration deficit is probably related to me
being sick of this, definitely need to shove it out the door this
week.
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:54:16 +0000 (19:54 -0800)]
poke at pt. 4 prep, incl. #drama strategy opening statement
I'm not happy with my motivation this week—it looks like I'm going to
miss the framerule for publishing on Saturday! I don't want to rush
it—I want to be absolutely comfortable that what I'm doing is
rock-solid. Still disappointing. (And then I'll catch up with
everything I've been putting off in March?)
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:55:06 +0000 (17:55 -0800)]
memoir: pt. 3 final FINAL for real FINAL revisions.docx
I was feeling anxious about publishing after my walk with Anna this
morning, so I did another read-through, and I feel a lot better
now. Perhaps it's not so much that the changes I made are necessary
and the post would be bad without them, but I needed a recent final
readthrough in my head in order to feel confident that pulling the
trigger is the right choice.
I don't want to pull the trigger now because it's nighttime and I
don't want to be wired checking for comments, but I'm ready for the
morning.
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 21 Dec 2023 23:50:29 +0000 (15:50 -0800)]
memoir: retitle pt. 5
"Zevi's Choice" was never a good title. This one alludes to a
well-known meme, while reflecting the despair of the "Death With
Dignity" era (and my personal despair in the "Challenges" era).
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 21 Dec 2023 23:27:47 +0000 (15:27 -0800)]
enable table-of-contents Markdown extension
I don't want to render the ToC because it's a hideous <ul> in the
absence of more specific CSS (which would not be a good use of my time
today), but at least this gets me autogenerated IDs on the h3s?—which
are nice.
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:58:31 +0000 (21:58 -0800)]
memoir: pt. 3 section headers
If both Said (private correspondence) and Ray
(https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ZjXtjRQaD2b4PAser/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning/comment/Lmhum2tXLXzmbKvm5)
agree that I need section headers, then I probably need section
headers.
I was feeling reluctant about it, but after doing it, I agree that
this is a lot better.
I have mixed feelings about giving the "Why are you a boy?" anecdote
the prominence of its own section. (I wanted it to be subtle
foreshadowing, but if it gets its own section, then it's blantant
foreshadowing, which I choose to lampshade with a Suspiciously
Specific Denial.)
I'm not sure where the defaults were inherited from, but <h2> was too
big and <h3> was too small, so I edit the CSS to make <h3> bigger.
(Ideally, the titles would be anchor links ... do I need to write a
Pelican patch or plugin for that?)
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:22:12 +0000 (22:22 -0800)]
correct year of autogenderphilia reply
I was confused why this apparently didn't publish—that is, why it
didn't appear at the newest post after `git push`ing. This is what I
get for letting it rot in drafts for decades of ever (two years).
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:22:16 +0000 (22:22 -0800)]
check in
(Re the blogroll drop: why do Blogger blogs get deleted sometimes? If
you made a sexology blog good enough that I wanted to blogroll it, why
wouldn't you just leave it up? Or was this Google being evil?)
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 14 Dec 2023 02:20:46 +0000 (18:20 -0800)]
memoir: revise childhood transition section with more quotes
I suspect coach might condemn the word choices as cowardice (I'm
making these edits in response to feedback from someone on the other
side the issue), but the fact that I'm including more quotes (which
are realistic even if—if—they're hypothetical) just seems like a
Pareto improvement no matter what words I write around them.
(People on the other side will see nothing wrong with the quotes and
be glad that I'm citing evidence instead of confabulating assumptions
about events where I wasn't present; people who see things my way will
look at the dialogue and cry, "This is grooming!")
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:24:56 +0000 (17:24 -0800)]
tie off "Hrunkner Unnerby"
I knew I wanted a post commemerating my connection to this B plot
thread, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to say about it besides a mere
summary. I'm on deadline; I suppose this will do.
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:58:05 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
pull the trigger on "Beyond the Binary"
This one has been sitting in the `drafts` directory for decades of
ever, but it's good—classic TSbUUT content! I just sanded off some
italics that were jutting out.
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:13:29 +0000 (19:13 -0800)]
memoir pt. 5 edits: tie off Xu reply; trim Scott vs. Vassarites intro
A while back, coach took issue with my "raw factional conflict"
characterization, arguing instead that Scott was just saying what
everyone else was too polite to, that Jessica is nuts.
I don't care that much about defending my view here, which suggests
saving wordcount by cutting that graf-and-a-half and transitioning
directly to my defense that being a Vassarite didn't harm me (which I
do care about and is worth the wordcount).