That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home

I end up paddling around in all the social media pools, but nothing measures up to my Usenet/DW combo for satisfaction and conversation. Google disappointed me by being more evil than I thought about safety and pseudonymity; Facebook started off evil, and I tolerated it until I didn't any more (I still have work accounts there: one for my day job and one for the blog, but I completely deleted my personal account); Diaspora looks fine so far, but it doesn't give me anything I can't get here, so for the 11th year in a row (I started this journal on Livejournal a little over 10 years ago), this will be my main place to do my connecting thing.

I still miss Usenet. I'm down to really only reading three groups, and two of them get fewer than 50 posts a week most weeks. The other is too busy to completely keep up with, but the (absolutely necessary for me) robust killfile I have in there makes it easier.

I guess it's good that there's not more for me to keep up with, since school starts in a couple weeks, but I still kind of wish there were.

Learning stuff

On my kitchen table right now, because I haven't set up my school desk yet, are the following books:

Our Bodies, Ourselves (for Women's Studies: Women and their bodies)
A couple of ethics textbooks
A book and workbook for grammar
ASL book and DVD
Book on teaching oneself Dutch
Beginning Braille for adults

( Cut for lengthy rambling about school )

Ask the hivemind

I'm looking for videos in two of my three new languages: ASL and Dutch. Any pointers to videos that would be good for a person new to the language? (I'm not talking about instructional videos, but more like films, shows, or other videos that are done in ASL or Dutch with no English involved.)

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Just found out all my comments have been going into the spam folder. Likely I accidentally made that happen (the "junk" button is next to the "delete" button and I occasionally use the buttons instead of my trusty keyboard shortcuts). I'm catching up pretty quickly, but I wanted y'all to know I haven't been ignoring you on purpose.

Learning notes

These will be cut-tagged, in case you don't want to wade through all the burbling I intend to do about all the new stuff I'm learning.

( ASL )

( Dutch )

( Grammar )