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Jun. 18th, 2019 11:36 amThree things that I may or may not have opinions about, courtesy of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thedarlingone.
1. Coloring books
I liked them well enough as a kid, but haven't done any in a while. (There's so many other things to do, you know.)
I'm not sure how long a while: I know in 2012 I did a couple things from a book of drawing prompts (you're supposed to draw it directly in the book) at Girl Guides, but that isn't *quite* the same thing. (The other girls in the group wanted to do a group study session for the meeting shortly before their midterms, but my school schedule was offset from theirs and I had no upcoming exams or other large projects. They studied while the Guide leaders and I drew.)
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2. Crockpots
It seems like a bit of a waste of energy to have our crockpot in an unheated part of the house in the non-summer: we could be putting that waste heat towards keeping the house warm. I wonder if we should move it to the main part of the house during those parts of the year: not sure where we would put it, though.
I haven't done much with our crockpot in terms of things that *I* like to eat, but it's been pretty good for everyone else.
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3. Baths
If you're small enough to stretch out and float in your bathtub, then great. Otherwise, not worth the bother.
(...in hindsight, some of the stuff tiny!me did WRT floating in the bathtub was *definitely* self-hypnosis, and probably more load-bearing than I'd realised either at the time or for a long while afterward.)
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If you'd like me to give you your own set of three things to (maybe) have opinions about, just ask!
thedarlingone.1. Coloring books
I liked them well enough as a kid, but haven't done any in a while. (There's so many other things to do, you know.)
I'm not sure how long a while: I know in 2012 I did a couple things from a book of drawing prompts (you're supposed to draw it directly in the book) at Girl Guides, but that isn't *quite* the same thing. (The other girls in the group wanted to do a group study session for the meeting shortly before their midterms, but my school schedule was offset from theirs and I had no upcoming exams or other large projects. They studied while the Guide leaders and I drew.)
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2. Crockpots
It seems like a bit of a waste of energy to have our crockpot in an unheated part of the house in the non-summer: we could be putting that waste heat towards keeping the house warm. I wonder if we should move it to the main part of the house during those parts of the year: not sure where we would put it, though.
I haven't done much with our crockpot in terms of things that *I* like to eat, but it's been pretty good for everyone else.
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3. Baths
If you're small enough to stretch out and float in your bathtub, then great. Otherwise, not worth the bother.
(...in hindsight, some of the stuff tiny!me did WRT floating in the bathtub was *definitely* self-hypnosis, and probably more load-bearing than I'd realised either at the time or for a long while afterward.)
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If you'd like me to give you your own set of three things to (maybe) have opinions about, just ask!
Comment and Link Roundup: April 12, 2019
Apr. 12th, 2019 09:16 pmI think I will try making link roundups part of my backup routine, so every 1 - 2 weeks.
(Although after going through my recent comment logs, I've found that this roundup isn't as overwhelmingly large as I thought. It looks like my comments over the past few weeks were concentrated into a relatively small number of threads, so there aren't *all* that many different links.)
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Comments on my own posts:
[cw: embarrassment squick] The one about Daylight Savings
[cw: death, aging] A thought experiment [four comments]
[arguably cw: amnesia] The tracker for ArchiveTeam's Google+ project is a sight to behold right now
On microtransactions [three comments]
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Comments on other people's posts:
[cw: poverty, arguably disordered eating, kind of discourse-y] [Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2] (OP by![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
shieldfoss; in response to rustingbridges) Food budgets and travelling. [five comments]
[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP byeightiesbf; in response to maryellencarter and sigmaleph) Mental addition. [two comments]
[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP byyesterdaysprint; in response to rustingbridges) Optimal bread buttering. (addendum here) [three comments]
[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP bysigmaleph) Why say "half-elf" when you can say "orf"?
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Links:
Three laugh-rule entries:
[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)
[Slate Star Codex; Wayback] (by Scott Alexander)
[Blogspot; Wayback] (by Chris Witham)
(Although after going through my recent comment logs, I've found that this roundup isn't as overwhelmingly large as I thought. It looks like my comments over the past few weeks were concentrated into a relatively small number of threads, so there aren't *all* that many different links.)
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Comments on my own posts:
[cw: embarrassment squick] The one about Daylight Savings
[cw: death, aging] A thought experiment [four comments]
[arguably cw: amnesia] The tracker for ArchiveTeam's Google+ project is a sight to behold right now
On microtransactions [three comments]
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Comments on other people's posts:
[cw: poverty, arguably disordered eating, kind of discourse-y] [Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2] (OP by
[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by
[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by
[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by
sigmaleph) Why say "half-elf" when you can say "orf"?---
Links:
Three laugh-rule entries:
[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)
The business came of age in an era of excess, but where the culture of Wall Street was reputedly fuelled by drink and drugs, Gross insists he never saw anything troubling at Pimco. Their main high, he says, was sugar — especially M&M’s. “It gave us all the false courage in the world to take on dealers and tell them to go f*** themselves,” Gross recalls wistfully, as he tucks into what looks like an unremarkable tuna melt.
He … what? Their secret weapon was M&M’s? I’m trying to imagine Gross, high as a kite on red M&Ms, calling his coked-up Salomon Bros. salesman and screaming at him over a basis point. Gross, seeing a young protege looking stressed and bleary-eyed midway through a difficult Fed Day, tossing him a bag of candy and saying confidentially “here kid, try some M, only way to survive in this business.” Gross and his crew of traders, celebrating a big year with an all-night party in Vegas featuring fountains of M&Ms. I hope someone does make a movie of his life, just for the M&M scenes.
[Slate Star Codex; Wayback] (by Scott Alexander)
If this doesn’t make a lot of sense to you, you should read this tutorial, in order to recalibrate your ideas of how little sense things can make.
[Blogspot; Wayback] (by Chris Witham)
but truly everything about how she was holding herself suddenly screamed, Bashful!
Or, at the very least, Sunset's posture meekly opened the door, cautiously stuck its head into the room while hiding most of its form behind the door frame, whispered:
Um... I'm bashful, if anyone . . . you know, is interested in that information
paused a moment, added:
Sorry for bothering you
shrunk back a bit at any attention, real or imagined, it had gathered, quickly finished with:
Bye-now
and sprinted away as fast as its figurative legs would take it.
Because posture like that doesn't really scream anything.
