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The workers outside my window are talking (actually screaming at each other) in Spanish but swearing in English. They must be Firefly fans!

One thing that bothers me about Firefly: for all the Chinese being spoken, where are all the Chinese people? You can give the Niven-ish argument that it's far enough into the future that what we call races now have long since mooshed together and become largely indistinct, but that's clearly not the case here, to look at these guys. There seems to be black folk and white folk and that's about it. I dun geddit? Note I've only watched two episodes and the movie, but still.

I have been annoyed that, in order to use my business From: address, I had to send and receive mail from Apple Mail instead of gmail. This not only split my mail across two applications, but also prevented me from organizing my business mail with gmail's tools and techniques, which I've grown to like very much since I started using it in June.

But a duh-obvious idea appeared on BoingBoing yesterday: set up a rule in Mail to redirect all messages to gmail. This results in identical copies in both applications' databases, so I can use gmail to search, tag, and browse my business and non-business mail together, and then switch to Mail to compose new messages under my business identity. Good stuff.

Please let me know if you want a gmail invite. I've had 100 queued up here for I don't know how long. (Wasn't it only 50, last time I mentioned it? Yow.)

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I've noticed the lack of Asian characters in the world of Firefly too. I expect there's some backstory, like China lost the big war but a lot of their culture seeped into the culture of the West (either before, during, or after). I also don't think it's a coincidence that the only three male African-American characters (Book, the bounty hunter, the operative) have been highly trained bad-asses, highly literate and philosophical, and worked for the Alliance.

Also, both Zoe and Anarra seem to have vaguely Asian features. Or maybe that's my imagination.

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