all links and a rant
there was some women in business conference thing at work this morning, which i knew nothing about until intern-age girls started showing up saying "we're here for the conference?" and of course they don't have a contact name or anyone i can call to ask where they go and what do i do with them, so i call around until someone randomly shows up to get them. they continue to come in waves for about fifteen or twenty minutes, and i keep telling them "someone will come get you, just take a seat". i kinda wish someone would tell me about these things in advance so i don't look like a complete idiot in front of potential interns.
also, i still hate answering the phone.
on the plus side, i wrote almost 2500 words of nanonovel and came thisclose to smut, so i got something out of my day.
the science of being able to lift mewmew mjolnir. possibly handy if you're not an asgardian.
nerdy woman proposes to nerdy partner with help from mass effect designers - they basically made a whole new level in the game so this woman could propose. her partner of course said yes.
the future is accessible by automobile - drawings of fantastical houses and contemporary cars, from a bunch of car ads from 1959.
the story of pows during ww2 who were sent curling stones so they could curl - one of the officers in the pow camp wrote to a curling club in the uk to ask them to send some stones, and eventually they did. the pows flooded the moat at the camp so it would freeze so they could curl.
so you all know the european space agency's philae lander, er, landed on a comet earlier this week, which, wow, go esa! humans landed a thing on a comet! how exciting is that? you wanna hear what the comet sounds like? it kind of sounds like it's purring.
relatedly, here's a gif of the rosetta's flight path and rendezvous with the comet. science is so freakin' cool.
photos of jumping dogs, because why not.
what if africa was never colonized by europeans? the map of the continent would look totally different, and there would be waaaay more countries.
second century roman glass found in fifth century japanese tomb - just in case you were wondering how far roman goods traveled, and if the japanese were trading with the west at all in the fifth century.
it snowed some last night but by the time i got up this morning it was all melted. sigh. i was hoping it would have at least stuck to the grass, but no.
also, i still hate answering the phone.
on the plus side, i wrote almost 2500 words of nanonovel and came thisclose to smut, so i got something out of my day.
the science of being able to lift mewmew mjolnir. possibly handy if you're not an asgardian.
nerdy woman proposes to nerdy partner with help from mass effect designers - they basically made a whole new level in the game so this woman could propose. her partner of course said yes.
the future is accessible by automobile - drawings of fantastical houses and contemporary cars, from a bunch of car ads from 1959.
the story of pows during ww2 who were sent curling stones so they could curl - one of the officers in the pow camp wrote to a curling club in the uk to ask them to send some stones, and eventually they did. the pows flooded the moat at the camp so it would freeze so they could curl.
so you all know the european space agency's philae lander, er, landed on a comet earlier this week, which, wow, go esa! humans landed a thing on a comet! how exciting is that? you wanna hear what the comet sounds like? it kind of sounds like it's purring.
relatedly, here's a gif of the rosetta's flight path and rendezvous with the comet. science is so freakin' cool.
photos of jumping dogs, because why not.
what if africa was never colonized by europeans? the map of the continent would look totally different, and there would be waaaay more countries.
second century roman glass found in fifth century japanese tomb - just in case you were wondering how far roman goods traveled, and if the japanese were trading with the west at all in the fifth century.
it snowed some last night but by the time i got up this morning it was all melted. sigh. i was hoping it would have at least stuck to the grass, but no.