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ETA: This is the cutest thing I've seen in a while. Indiana Bones!
If you happen to be feeling complacent about your fitness, you might want to check out this woman doing a pull-up. Sigh.
I don't read a lot of short stories, but I will always find time for Ursula Vernon. So here is an awesome little tale about a witch and a dying possum.
Well, that's a surprise. All National Park Service-related statutes (including statutes administered by NPS, such as NHPA) have been reorganized and compiled into one, presumably more-orderly, title: Title 54 of the US Code. It is going to take me FOREVER to mentally replace 16 USC §470 et seq. with 54 USC §300101. You can find the compilation here.
This website has interesting essays/guidance on fashion.
Goats wearing coats.
The best part of this video is the judge rewarding the ball boys.
Noted for later:
Report on sex trafficking in North Dakotan oil fields.
The National Magazine Award finalists for 2014. You might find some names you recognize in there, like Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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So apparently my climbing gym, for the last six months, has marked each route with both a single color tape and by using only a single color of hold. My partner and I never noticed the use of a single color of hold, and now suddenly they've taken the tape away except at the beginning and end of the route. It's quite disconcerting, especially when a grey/black route is next to a blue route, and I have no idea what a colorblind climber is supposed to do. It does make you think more, though, which is always good.
However we have been climbing pretty strongly, and in fact yesterday I climbed two 5.11bs! (To be fair, I think the gym is using vanity ratings, because I'm not stronger than I was ten years ago, when I was only occasionally able to climb a 5.11a. So I only take partial credit.)
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I'm feeling kinda down, between serenada's news and the growing realization that I need to start job-hunting again. Also after two years of not getting sick (other than the vertigo, argh), I have come down with a cold and I'm just grumping around the house and drinking lots of tea. What a waste of a long weekend!
So I shall attempt to write some fiction. We'll see how that goes...
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
If you happen to be feeling complacent about your fitness, you might want to check out this woman doing a pull-up. Sigh.
I don't read a lot of short stories, but I will always find time for Ursula Vernon. So here is an awesome little tale about a witch and a dying possum.
Well, that's a surprise. All National Park Service-related statutes (including statutes administered by NPS, such as NHPA) have been reorganized and compiled into one, presumably more-orderly, title: Title 54 of the US Code. It is going to take me FOREVER to mentally replace 16 USC §470 et seq. with 54 USC §300101. You can find the compilation here.
This website has interesting essays/guidance on fashion.
Goats wearing coats.
The best part of this video is the judge rewarding the ball boys.
Noted for later:
Report on sex trafficking in North Dakotan oil fields.
The National Magazine Award finalists for 2014. You might find some names you recognize in there, like Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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So apparently my climbing gym, for the last six months, has marked each route with both a single color tape and by using only a single color of hold. My partner and I never noticed the use of a single color of hold, and now suddenly they've taken the tape away except at the beginning and end of the route. It's quite disconcerting, especially when a grey/black route is next to a blue route, and I have no idea what a colorblind climber is supposed to do. It does make you think more, though, which is always good.
However we have been climbing pretty strongly, and in fact yesterday I climbed two 5.11bs! (To be fair, I think the gym is using vanity ratings, because I'm not stronger than I was ten years ago, when I was only occasionally able to climb a 5.11a. So I only take partial credit.)
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I'm feeling kinda down, between serenada's news and the growing realization that I need to start job-hunting again. Also after two years of not getting sick (other than the vertigo, argh), I have come down with a cold and I'm just grumping around the house and drinking lots of tea. What a waste of a long weekend!
So I shall attempt to write some fiction. We'll see how that goes...
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.