Comment and Link Roundup: December 21, 2019

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: what it says on the tin (no pictures)] Recipe: Chocolate Nut Torte

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: venting] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by yvannairie) Understaffing bullshit.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) What to do when a public holiday falls on a Sunday.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by little-brisk) Various ways to back up a Tumblr.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) Mathematical (and other) mnemonics.

[cw: amnesia, arguably unreality] (Note: the Tumblr reverse-post-order glitch continues.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by reasonsmysoniscrying; in response to maryellencarter) Minor precognition, or so your brain insists.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) Stratford-based news broadcasters won't tell you what Justin Bieber is famous *for*, but by God is he from Stratford.

(I've decided that tag rambles are a substantial enough contribution to be worth including.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by minatokun) "Accounting majors, who hurt you?"

(Note: I do not actually *endorse* the claim that people imposing [selection pressure for accounting talent] on my *ancestors* are harming *me* (though I can see why someone might argue it, and certainly it was harming *them*). Personally I've been rather enjoying having won accounting in the lottery of fascinations, *especially* because it is--by the standards of the general population--a fairly rare prize: people keep being appreciative of and impressed by my contributions, and it's nice to feel like a Valued Member of Society.)

((A little while ago I impressed *the Dean of Business* while chatting with her about US-expat-friendly investment strategies, which was quite the ego boost.))


[cw: heteronormativity, amnesia] [Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden] (OP by hebethen) Horrified screaming regarding the view of sexuality a character in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" espouses.

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Links:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by gdgdbaby) Secret Santa compliment meme! Here is my thread.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by bobacupcake; h/t consumptive-sphinx) Art thieves vs Disney.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by Carl Muckenhoupt; h/t prokopetz) I'm told that this game is not for newcomers to the genre, so perhaps I will not actually play it, but there is just something so satisfying about reciting the blurb:

Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.

Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.

But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you.

(As for the experience of attempting to *understand* it, it reminds me rather of reading French. "[???] the card on your head and walk [???] [???] the table. If it doesn't fall, [lose?] $1000."

(When we salvaged our bilingual version of that game, the English and French decks had gotten all jumbled together, and rather than sift them out we just went "what the hell, it'll be educational" and played with a shuffled English/French deck.))


Laugh rule:
[cw: unsanitary, violence] [Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley)

It’s a bit like one of those telly programmes where Gordon Ramsay gets sent to a hotel to shout at everyone for keeping raw chicken in the toilets.

(I think I'm going to have to keep an eye on this guy.)