From ef08809f6f46e9d78480de0cdaceb9c3747a187c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:25:05 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] redact a location from "Joined" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit so like, there's _also_ a _far_ more "incriminating" link to my real-name blog (!) still in there, but I almost think the æsthetic of my ostensible pseudonymity is better satisfied by leaving it in, as if it were just something Saotome-Westlake happened to stumble across on the web and remember enough to link. Remember that story about how the key to breaking the Enigma was that it never mapped a letter to itself? Let's be smarter than that, sort of --- content/2016/joined.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/2016/joined.md b/content/2016/joined.md index 7e892c0..ac534b0 100644 --- a/content/2016/joined.md +++ b/content/2016/joined.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ During the next few days, I watched ["Soldiers of the Empire"](http://memory-alp (I couldn't find the liquid eyeliner myself and had to ask a store employee. She asked if there was any particular brand I wanted. "No," I said, just a eyelash hair too forcefully, "this isn't my usual area of expertise.") -So I got up early the morning of Sunday the eleventh, shaved, applied the makeup in my _inexpert_-would-almost-be-too-charitable way (smear on foundation, haphazardly dab eyeliner on sides of face to make Trill spots, waveringly bring lipstick to lips), put on a bra and my foam breastforms under the cheapo uniform top, and used [my PADD](http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/galaxy-s7-features-and-specs/) to [summon a taxi](https://www.uber.com/) to Burlingame for the convention. +So I got up early the morning of Sunday the eleventh, shaved, applied the makeup in my _inexpert_-would-almost-be-too-charitable way (smear on foundation, haphazardly dab eyeliner on sides of face to make Trill spots, waveringly bring lipstick to lips), put on a bra and my foam breastforms under the cheapo uniform top, and used [my PADD](http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/galaxy-s7-features-and-specs/) to [summon a taxi](https://www.uber.com/) to the convention. I arrived way too early for check-in, and walked up the road (wearing my black jacket over my uniform top) to the Mariott, which, unlike the Hyatt, has an outpost of the raktajino hegemon, and ordered a breakfast sandwich and the [vanilla sweet-cream iced raktajino specialty medicinal](https://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/vanilla-sweet-cream-cold-brew). I gave my name as _Jadzia_, but the barista wrote _Jetsy_ on the cup. (Maybe my voice was a little shaky, but _maybe_ she needed to recalibrate her [universal translator](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/11/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/).) -- 2.17.1