Brinens and Things

It is no longer "masking outdoors in order to filter out the pollen" season, and is now instead "masking outdoors in order to insulate your face" season.

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.)

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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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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by tentacion1999: I suspect it was actually stolen from some non-Tumblrite, but I was unable to track down who) Shadows cast by the sun shining directly downward (not *necessarily* at the equator).

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by argumate) Matt Levine is in Hell and we are all just watching; recounting the story of my own brushes with cryptocurrency.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by transgenderer) Terra Ignota characters and the workings of Ada Palmer's mind.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by feotakahari) Concerning and/or intriguing ideas for pizza toppings.

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[cw: bugs (with pictures)] [ScienceNews; Wayback] (by Betsy Mason) The sensorium of jumping spiders.

[Forbes; Wayback] (by Ethan Siegel) There are two subtly different kinds of shoelace knot, and one of them is much more prone to coming loose than the other. Turns out I have been using the wrong one: I'll have to try another practice hike now that I know, although I'm pretty sure *some* of my issues are in fact from the shoelaces getting old and stretched-out.



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[fairly mild cw: corporate bullshit] The awkward transitional period of history we are currently living through

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[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by mindstalk) Dragonfruit reviews.

[Reddit; Wayback] (OP by /u/purakau) How to access the ArchiveTeam scrape of Tumblr.

[arguably cw: discourse, depression] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by transgenderer; partly in response to sigmaleph and maryellencarter) Do subtitles interfere with grasping the visual elements of a show? It's complicated. [two comments]

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[arguably cw: apocalypse, poverty] Shining a light on the availability of energy efficiency [three comments, not counting the postscripts]

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by ms-demeanor) Discord is going downhill, like so many instant-messengers before it.

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[cw: apocalypse, drugs, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges; partially in response to cthulhubert and alarajrogers) Gold and disaster-hedging. [four comments]

[cw: amnesia, (fairly mild) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by the fittingly-named existentialterror) qntm's fiction is very good at being the kind of thing that it is, and that is the best that can be said about it. (Read his time-travel meta, though.)

[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by eightyonekilograms) Audio-processing while exercising.

[Blogspot; Wayback] (OP by Michael Mock) Unpacking the references in tea names.

[cw: scrupulosity] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by cthulhuraejepsen) A possible ending to A Common Sense Guide to Doing the Most Good.

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