Brinens and Things

Comments on my own posts:

Tips on Offline-First Smartphones, 2023 Edition [one comment on Dreamwidth, one comment on Tumblr]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by nuclearspaceheater) General life improvements of weightlifting.


[cw: illness, (fairly mild) venting] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by mindstalk) The spirit (and not just the letter) of mask rules.


[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by unprettyextra; in response to etirabys) How to help archive Imgur. (Though Imgur has since started its deletions, the archiving project continues.)


[cw: embarrassment squick, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by hjartasalt; in response to nuclearspaceheater) American hegemony and (sort-of)-multi-currency cash registers.


[cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by sigmaleph) How to (maybe) know your sleep latency.

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Links:

[arguably cw: amnesia] [Baturin; Wayback] (by Daniil Baturin) A review of a Windows-ripoff Linux distro from 2003.


Laugh-rule entries:
[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

This is the third part of the second part of our three(ish) part look at the governing structures of the Greek polis (I, IIa, IIb). At some point I promise I will write a series whose organization does not look like a parody of itself.

[Mastodon; Wayback] (h/t Seebs)

(here's the alt text on that image in case you want to stick it into Google Traduction:

ARRÊTEZ L'ANGLAIS – L'ANGLAIS N'EST PAS CENSÉE ÊTRE UNE LANGUE INTERNATIONALE – DES ANNÉES D’ANGLAIS et pourtant AUCUN INTERÊT parce qu’on peut regarder la version du film doublée par Kev Adams – Tu veux dire des trucs en anglais pour rigoler? On a un outil pour Ça, Ça s'appelle «GOOGLE TRADUCTION» – «Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Will, will Will will Will Will's will? All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life» – Indistinguable d'un AVC REGARDE ce que les Anglais te demande de Respecter, avec tous les cours & voyages linguistiques qu’on fait pour les comprendre (Ce sont de VRAIS mots anglais, parlé par de VRAIS Anglais): Embezzling ????? gobbledygook ??????? discombobulated ????????????????? «The bamboozled children skedaddled»
Ils se sont foutus de notre gueule putaingue

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Crow)

In promoting her new book, the author also made a few choice memes. I can’t think of any other way to describe them.



They immediately without context are my kind of humour. Clickhole could post this and I’d send it to all my friends. Levelling is, as a reminder, a sometimes used term to describe killing god. These stock photos are very persuasive in getting me to love god, I’ll admit. I’ll say the unlevel memes are also quite tumblr ‘I dreamed of this meme and now it is real’ style.

[Know Your Meme; Wayback]






[cw: illness] [Armbrust; Wayback] Review of a terrible surgical mask.

"And look at the stare in his eyes. I mean, the woman is intense, but this dude, like something's going on there, man. It's the face of someone actually receiving the coronavirus into their body."

[AO3; Wayback] (by seasparks) I don't go here, I was just wiki-walking, but:

seasons of crappy Netflix that were deemed sufficiently bad to allow Canadian access to them

1. What’s the last thing you got in the mail?

For somewhat loose but reasonable definitions of "I" and "mail" (I combined orders with Mom to get free shipping, and it came to the door), a set of resistance bands. I am taking up arm workouts in the hopes of (1) unlocking the ability to apply for jobs involving manual labour and (2) hauling my own softener-salt bags. (cultural-context note: softener-salt bags weigh 40 pounds, and--even after you've managed to get them home--using them involves carrying them down to the basement and dumping their contents into the top of a ~four-foot bin)

(Come to think of it, given the link in the post a couple days ago, (3) [being able to loosen the weight limits on my evacuation kit enough to include a tent] may also come in handy.)


2. What’s the last thing you sent in the mail?

I sold an old textbook on eBay.


3. How many unread emails are in your inbox right now?

Nothing in my main inbox is marked unread at the moment; 21 need to be dealt with in some way. For Brin the numbers are 1 and 8 respectively. (Some of them will be very easy to deal with, I just haven't done a basic-level cleaning in a couple days.)

[...]

Okay, knocked them down to 14 and 4.


4. What is your most recent text message about?

At time of writing: warning Dad that dinner was running late and I would not be at the pickup point for 9 o'clock as originally planned.

(After drafting this, I had an exchange acknowledging that my work schedule this week is the same as last week.)


5. Do you have a favorite postage stamp design?

Not particularly.

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(This post brought to you by watching the CinemaSins sporkings of the Maze Runner movies. I've been finding that CinemaSins are pretty good for jogging, because they come with subtitles so you don't have to be able to clearly hear what he's saying over the sound of the treadmill. I do wish, though, that he'd consistently subtitle what the characters are saying and not just what he's saying: occasionally he does, but mostly he doesn't. Fairly often he reacts to something and I didn't catch the thing he's reacting to.)

I have taken up jogging! After 6.5 weeks, I am 5.5 weeks into the Couch to 5k program (there were a couple evenings where I was too busy).

I am not actually aiming for the ability to run 5k right now: I'm doing the running segments at 3.5mph (look, my treadmill is in imperial, okay?) rather than the theoretical running speed of 6.2mph. Once I've acquired the stamina to maintain 3.5mph for 30 minutes straight, I'll try picking up some speed. I read a post that recommended going for stamina first and working on speed later, and it does seem to be keeping me from getting overwhelmed.

I'm definitely improving: I really don't think my body as it was two months ago could have handled jogging for 8 minutes straight (let alone doing it again 5 minutes later). Sometimes I jog part of the way to work if I'm running a little late, and that's definitely gotten easier.

I wasn't thinking of racing when I decided to start--I primarily wanted the lifespan-extension and immune benefits, plus you never know when having some running skill might come in handy--but Mom encouraged me to go look into what races are available and what the requirements are. It looks like pretty much all the races around here are in agreement that you must maintain a minimum average speed of 3.75mph, and the big race is in October each year. By October, I might very well be capable of doing it. Maybe I will.