Philippines in the media

By coincidence, I saw two videos today that mentioned the Philippines. I feel a strange jolt of recognition every time I hear my country's name mentioned. It doesn't happen often -- it is very strange that it happened twice today! -- and most of the time it's unflattering, but every time I hear someone on a show say the words "the Philippines", my focus shifts entirely to the next few words.

(It's like being in a crowded room, not really paying attention to your surroundings, and suddenly someone says your name -- that feeling).

Anyway, second instance was in a youtube video, a throwaway line about sending money. And first instance was in Dexter, a throwaway line about the Philippines not having an extradition treaty with the US, which, oops.

( context, some slight politics )

I all but yelled and pointed to my monitor when I heard that line. It was a huge moment of dissonance, and it spoiled the rest of the scene (like a fart in the middle of church service), which is sad, because it had been a pretty dramatic scene until then.

It is disorienting to be reminded that this country I live in, which is very real to me, is only an exotic place to some TV producers many people. Maybe worse: it's just a convenient name.

Knitting by numbers

I just tried to find a knitted representation of prime numbers. Found one, but I think I'll try a different approach. I wont to see if I'll get anything interesting by switching colors and increasing stitches on every prime-numbered row, using only two colors. Still trying to decide what to use -- probably the cheap crochet yarn, as that's the only matching ones I have right now with different solid colors *g*

As a bonus, I found a Fibonacci scarf. Really cool!

Python

Hm, maybe it is time to learn Python.

A day's worth of Twitter ($2.00)

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Total: 2 tweets

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