Finally saw Black Panther

It was nice, and interesting, to see a technologically superior country run by black people. But there were too many chase scenes, explosions, silly fights, generally the stuff I've come to refer to as Adult Nickelodeon Fun Times. Also, while it had some fearsome female warriors and an unrealistically awesome female engineer, it barely passed the Bechdel test, and the one time there was real female-on-male fighting it had to be four women against the one man. It was mostly a movie about dudes with big egos, running countries and tribes and things.

That said, the soundtrack and the score are likely both awesome, and I intend to explore that.

Also, that tree full of black kitties!

Language evolving over time

Lately at work people have been trying to use "blocklist" and allow-list" rather than "blacklist" and "whitelist", when referring to exception cases, to get away from a "white is good, black is bad" metaphor that may have its roots in racism (though, as far as I know, nobody knows if it does have roots in racism). I actually like "blocklist", but "allow list" doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely... I might prefer a simple "passlist" or "yeslist".

I've noticed myself picking up the term "heavy lift" when referring to something that's going to be difficult: as in, finding a custom sofa to fit this particular space is going to be a heavy lift.

What else is creeping into people's lexicons this year?