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petronia1) Wow, uh... I was pretty decent when I was 19. 19! This is not as ham-fisted as I assumed it would be. XD;
2) No wonder I kept getting reminded of C/S when I was in Switzerland. Bits (if not all) of my life are actually like this now, which is disturbing because there was never any kind of conscious objective there, and also because I can't remember what I was extrapolating from, other than some obvious RL stuff. Crawford and his Swiss mints... I sat across from the CMO of Ricola at one of the work sessions and he seemed like a really friendly guy, but I didn't get a chance tofangirl their product say hi. Dread the day I meet any executive from Glico.
3) OTOH some of the Gibsonesque branding nonsense is off by current standards. XD This is great for that, actually - was reading it on the plane - it's kind of like Wallpaper* with global FDI hotspots, or the Economist with a seinen manga serial. It's mostly a men's magazine, though... that is I think it was intended as unisex but skewed male. But if I'm to consider myself representative of the target audience it would be women who prefer seinen manga and black/grey leather accessories anyhow. XD; The original series was not precisely a bastion of taste but I've always thought of that as one of the areas the ficcers were charged with filling in, much like the plot holes.
4) Thanks to Libs fandom I have learnt that some stuff I handwaved in these fics actually exists in reality. XD;;; On that note, the Scientific American podcast told me recently that naltrexone may become a viable treatment for fibromyalgia. Learn something every day! Reading back, though, I'm kind of disturbed by how people constantly do drugs in my stories. And still do... this is a real preoccupation of a topic for me, though: obsession, control, altered states, coping mechanisms, coping with coping mechanisms. And then the externalities, the shadow economy as Misha Glenny would have it. There's a moral dimension to being a casual end consumer that I doubt it's possible to justify, and yet.
2) No wonder I kept getting reminded of C/S when I was in Switzerland. Bits (if not all) of my life are actually like this now, which is disturbing because there was never any kind of conscious objective there, and also because I can't remember what I was extrapolating from, other than some obvious RL stuff. Crawford and his Swiss mints... I sat across from the CMO of Ricola at one of the work sessions and he seemed like a really friendly guy, but I didn't get a chance to
3) OTOH some of the Gibsonesque branding nonsense is off by current standards. XD This is great for that, actually - was reading it on the plane - it's kind of like Wallpaper* with global FDI hotspots, or the Economist with a seinen manga serial. It's mostly a men's magazine, though... that is I think it was intended as unisex but skewed male. But if I'm to consider myself representative of the target audience it would be women who prefer seinen manga and black/grey leather accessories anyhow. XD; The original series was not precisely a bastion of taste but I've always thought of that as one of the areas the ficcers were charged with filling in, much like the plot holes.
4) Thanks to Libs fandom I have learnt that some stuff I handwaved in these fics actually exists in reality. XD;;; On that note, the Scientific American podcast told me recently that naltrexone may become a viable treatment for fibromyalgia. Learn something every day! Reading back, though, I'm kind of disturbed by how people constantly do drugs in my stories. And still do... this is a real preoccupation of a topic for me, though: obsession, control, altered states, coping mechanisms, coping with coping mechanisms. And then the externalities, the shadow economy as Misha Glenny would have it. There's a moral dimension to being a casual end consumer that I doubt it's possible to justify, and yet.
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Date: 2009-07-13 05:51 am (UTC)