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Updates and stuff
Happy pi day! (US version, anyway. And non-military-time ( Read more... ) -
Adventures with cat
... so I've been kind of quiet here lately. This is largely due to a lot of freaking the fuck out ( Read more... ) -
... wow
I was talking elsesite about Duolingo, and lingots. And how I have too many. (I'm 88 short of 4k. That's a lot of lingots ( Read more... ) -
App rec: speak
If you ever find yourself needing a text to speech app on your phone -- like, for example, if you are on the fourth day of a sore throat that feels like you're swallowing razor blades but is not strep and is probably viral and can't be treated but you really shouldn't be speaking -- there is a free, ad-free text to speech app called Speak that is ( Read more... ) -
Question for German speakers
This has been bugging me for a while ( Read more... ) -
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Okay, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/21/world/womens-march-pictures.html?_r=3 is fucking awesome -- women's marches on every continent, including Antarctica ( Read more... ) -
Update, mostly involving me being a dork
a) been kinda off-grid lately -- mostly health stuff (migraines, random heart palpitations that have no apparent cause at least yet but yes I do have a doctor appointment because this is a new thing, and stuff like pain keeping me awake last night until after 6am so I only got three hours sleep and the next day or two are going to suck) -- if I've ( Read more... ) -
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I can't find the code to embed it directly -- YouTube isn't giving me anything codelike to share, just the link itself -- but this video is freaking amazing. It's a place in Mexico that makes thread for knitting/crocheting out of the leaves of a particular plant (and I was vastly amused at their using a big cactus to card the fibers before spinning ( Read more... ) -
Game rec info: what's useful
I want to write up a series of recommendation / information posts about some of the mobile games I am currently playing. What I've thought of so far is something like this ( Read more... )