Identifying as female

This week Becky called FredMyer and place an order for pickup.

She sent me to pick up the order.

I arrived and called the required number and said that that I was here to pick up the order for Rebecca Paterson.

The order was rather large so the two male clerks came out with the two carts and proceeded to load the content into the minivan. One of the clerks proceeded to verify the content of order with me via his iPad. Several times he asked: “you’re Rebecca Paterson?” So finally I said: “Yes, I’m just not identifying as female today.” “And given the length of my beard, I don’t identify as female most days.”

The beard

Downstairs stadium

I wonder if I could turn my downstairs den into a dual couch stadium seating area with a wall fan, remove the ceiling fan and add a retractable projector and retractable screen.

This is the idea with the fan, but this one specifically is not sold in the USA.

craft a wall bracket.

I like white on birch.

Stadium seating. Is next.Some examples.

Retractable screens are a dime a dozen. It seems the big question is if I want it to be manual or powered.

https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Pull-Down-Projector-Screen/dp/B07QP14YDD

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-retractable%20projector%20lift.html
https://elitescreens.com/product-category/electric-projection-screens/electric-recessed-in-ceiling-screens/

Capitalization in indigenous writing systems

I was recently visiting a small remote village. There were large sorghum fields all around. This village was notable for some of the environmental literacy which on could find in the area. Particularly the use of capitalization in names. In fact the name of the village had two capital letters.

Village name sign

This sort capitalization pattern of the use of capitalization word medially has seen its objections among onomastists. The suggestion has been that English does not allow for names to contain two capital letters and therefore references materials written in English containing non-English names should normalize capitalization so that only the first letter of names is capitalized. Obviously this is an uninformed but principled position to take. It is a serious matter to regularize a reference resource because it gives a filtered (and biased) view to users.