Brinens and Things

(part 1; part 2)

After looking over the results of the scheduling survey, I've decided to hold further rewatches on Mondays at 01:30 UTC.

(Some relevant translations:
Eastern Canada/US: Sundays at 9:30 PM
Central Australia: Mondays at 11 AM)

To simplify matters slightly (or at least spread out the complexity more evenly), we will *not* be observing Daylight Savings Time. This way each person is running no more than one correction layer on their timezone-conversion mental widget at any given time: otherwise you get weird shit like [double-DST in Australia, which doesn't even kick in all at once]. The converted times given above are valid for this week: please keep an eye out for timekeeping changes in your area, and adjust accordingly.

In other simplification news, a stream of the episode will be available via Twitch. (After an hour of troubleshooting I couldn't even get Discord to successfully *launch* on Windows, let alone get screen-sharing to work. Meanwhile, Twitch took maybe 10 - 15 minutes and didn't require switching operating systems.) Please continue to use the Discord for chatting, *not* the Twitch chat.

This week, we will be starting over at "Rose" to give other people a chance to join in. Future rewatches will proceed at the pace of one episode per week (even when that means watching half of a two-parter); additional rewatches (such as to catch up on one you missed) may be possible upon request.

Hope to see you there!

Comments on my own posts:

An experiment

---

Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) AO3-tag icons.

[cw: death] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) New term of the day: "bus test".

---

Links:

[New York Times; Wayback] (by Amelia Nierenberg; h/t Matt Levine) Life (in this case, a tomato plant) finds a way.

[Youtube] Good Eats is back, and still great. (Note: this video kicked me out for geo-locking reasons *mid-watch*. I simply turned on a U.S. proxy and went right back, and was able to finish the episode. I look forward to the arrival of other episodes on video-distribution methods I have access to: my TV package† does not include Food Network.)

Laugh-rule entries:
[Youtube] (h/t recommended-videos sidebar on previous entry) Alton Brown sporks (so to speak) weird kitchen gadgets.

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

Also, I cannot, for the life of me, understand what all those leather straps are supposed to be – and I suspect that no suggestion I make will be sufficiently ‘PG’ for this setting!

---

†Rogers is so desperate for TV subscribers that they offered us a TV/Internet bundle for $20 *less* than we were already paying them for Internet alone, hoping that we'll get attached and keep it when the promotion wears off two years later. We do not plan to keep it post-promotion, but for −$20/month we'll take it.