Over the past week or so, this country has had extremely low humidity (~<15%) combined with medium-and-over eastern winds.

Over the past few days we've had increasingly worsening wildfires, building up to - as of yesterday - burnt homes and requests for foreign aid. And getting this country to request aid is... something ( Read more... )

Apparently the kid didn't yet have an "Are we happy, or beyond despair?" dance number? Well, he does now.

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As one may have realized from my silence on the matter, the S2 finale of Killjoys did not improve my overall opinion on S2. TL;DR, the show did not go anywhere good in S2 and managed to lose a fair bit of what Made its S1. I haven't broken up with this show, but wow did I lose much of my enthusiasm ( Read more... )

RAIN. Rain in AUGUST.

What are we now, Europe?

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Stuff on this list was tested for ( Read more... )

Protocol as it appears below is optimized for my weather (>30C and 60-80% humidity all daylight hours; if you're fit and not prone to sweating you'll sweat enough for sweat-hives, otherwise you're at constant heat-shock risk) and my skin (sensitive, thin, dry). Notes on adapting the protocol for other conditions are included ( Read more... )

What went in the blender this morning, because I need the goddamned calories and also hit just-this-side of clinical hyperthermia within an hour of getting up:

3 shots chilled espresso
3 shots milk
1 small cup crushed ice
1 huge scoop salted caramel ice cream

Fits perfectly into one big ice coffee glass.

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Anyone (baseline knowledgeable of the local music scene) who claims Israel doesn't have a proper pop scene is just racist.

Proof:

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So Thu,
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tl;dr the Show is in its element.

Awesome:
+ The first 5min. Someone was having fun with the action sequence. (Probably a lot of someones.) Getting a thing to be the sleek and this coherent is difficult even when it doesn't have as many threads.
+ Root's characterization-via-battle-choreography in the subway scene. Holy shit that was awesome.
+ ( Read more... )