Cecily Carver

I hate the new Alexa voice. This woman has no gravitas

Facing the Music Pennies from Heaven (1981)

The movie Pennies from Heaven (1981) really got under my skin, so I wrote about it.

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Anyway I guess that experience is scalable now

I remember an ex boyfriend used to tell me about times at academic conferences when some of the men, including distinguished scholars, would split off and talk privately, with a frisson of transgression, about whether it was possible for women to truly be philosophers

YouTube video by Canadian Food Focus Growing Lentils

The motherland youtu.be/Mi_Ys_DaYpw?...

RBC Bank has a cross-border account that might be useful for you if you need to move money between countries a lot.

You never see a symphony audience happier than when they're playing The Planets (Holst)

Had two drinks and paid for a Bloomberg subscription

Playing the piano tonight for strangers for the first time in a very long time

The appearance of Tim Horton's in the USA is inexplicable. "Canadiana" is literally the only selling point.

Not bad

Okay, watching the Maria Callas Angelina Jolie movie

Saw the newer pictures and okay, fine, yeah

An image of a quantum computer. It has long cascading silver cables with gold bands.

A sequined dress with silver and gold sections and gold bands, chosen to resemble the computer.

Come on he's not THAT handsome, you are all just bored

One nice thing about being a Canadian living in the USA: I don't have to do Thanksgiving

I've been thinking for a while about how the concept of a woman's future is not emotionally compelling to people like this the way a man's future is (they pity the promising man whose life is ruined — and are unmoved by the woman who drops out). A childless woman is assumed to have no future.

Possible to be a hetero woman without five layers of performativity

Not really digging All Fours

Came of age in the "lady" era, now in the "girlie" era, did/perpetrated the "dame" thing, resentful of all of them now

Poster for My Night at Maud’s

Now playing (09:50 AM PST):
"My Night at Maud’s" (1969)
By Éric Rohmer
Runtime: 110 min.

Came across your information and was really impressed by your background. I think you would be an amazing fit for several roles here at

Went to see The Tale of Tzar Saltan. Ridiculous, enchanting

I like the way you think

Berlin evening walk. Constantly smelling something lovely in the air and sometimes it's a flower and sometimes it's a woman

People sure do love telling women that they are wrong to value their own autonomy

Two branches of AI fiction:
1. What if there was a woman who existed only to serve you
2. What if there was a God

I have a friend who once described his pride in his handwriting as "an interesting way to be vain." We are always in search of interesting ways to be vain. Btw I am left-handed

Sad thinking about how joyful the iPod was as a device and concept. Guess it was inevitable we would arrive here

The subset of humanity that enjoys hydraulic press videos is overrepresented at tech companies. I have always found them disturbing