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kaberett) wrote2025-06-24 10:45 pm
I was trivially able to dig out an example of a documented 5:1 female:male ratio.
Why yes I am rereading The Way Out (previous commentary) for the purposes of making notes on content and structure.
marthawells) wrote2025-06-24 11:46 amalias_sqbr) wrote2025-06-24 05:36 pmysobel) wrote2025-06-23 06:58 pmkaberett) wrote2025-06-22 07:22 pm... is a placeholder because I am doing so badly at routines in general and bedtime routines in particular, still, augh.
Reading. Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. Not entirely sold on the way anecdotes were strung together, and definitely dubious about the broader social history, but a pleasantly undemanding diversion in a week where I really needed that and for bonus points it finally explained The Thing About Blackwing Pencils to me.
Watching. One more episode of Farscape (S02E02 Vitas Mortis), while bleaching A.
Cooking. Mostly Pasta With Things. (Things have included "kohlrabi and misc other greens from the allotment" and "psuedo puttanesca".)
Eating. STRAWBERRIES. Have also nibbled, from the allotment: peas! broad beans! aforementioned kohlrabi! cherries! the first raspberries! redcurrants! jostaberries!
Exploring. ... bits of a field? OH and I bimbled down to the post office and, en route, checked how the local quince tree is doing. (FRUITING.)
Creating. Painted A colours!
Growing. Iiii just about made it to the allotment to water things on, like, Tuesday, but I have otherwise been... struggling.
... the ginger at home continues to go zoom, though! And I really really need to pot it on, eesh.
Observing. BAT.
kaberett) wrote2025-06-20 11:40 pmI went "HOLD ON I HAVEN'T POSTED--" at 00:01 last night, when I had already been in bed but failing to sleep for about twenty minutes, and so I will tell you that part of the reason that I did not manage to actually post, actually yesterday, is that my reward for having finally e-mailed the headache clinic and said "so yeah I took my loading doses in mid-April, sorry I didn't manage to e-mail at the time, executive dysfunction has been eating my entire brain"...
... was of course a response like "well ideally your follow-up appointment would have been last week but, okay, fine, how about Monday? :|"
"... oh and by the way you know those questionnaires we want you to submit a minimum of a week in advance? yeah if you could get those done too--"
-- which: ENTIRE brain.
(I managed to confirm the Monday appointment. I did not manage to get the headache diary and questionnaires done.)
kaberett) wrote2025-06-19 11:01 pmI have managed all of my physio once and only once this week. I have not yet got on the mat at all. I have been spending a lot of time asleep, which probably shouldn't surprise me, and a fair amount migrainey, which does (unpleasantly). Have this evening at least managed to send the email to the headache clinic that's been due since April, and consequently may or may not actually get an appointment in time to get a prescription in time to not need to reload the f2f galcanezumab again.
(Have also been really struggling with actually opening notebook since the last trip up north, which is helping precisely nothing. Maybe acknowledging that here will make it a little less scary to go back to, at least.)
jesse_the_k) wrote2025-06-19 04:06 pmI always enjoy the wide variety of postcards which appear regularly from fflo. Tuesday, fflo posted about the "Best Wrong Answers" to LearnedLeague. These are a series of punchline-worthy responses to Jeopardy!-style questions. For example:
In photography, the overall brightness of an image is determined by the "exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor (or the film) to light. This third factor is known as what?
- REMEMBERING TO TAKE THE LENS CAP OFF
Even though I got online before the WWW, I’d never heard of LearnedLeague, which is a very dedicated group of trivia fiends. Here’s what I found:
Like any tight-knit community, there’s a ton of jargon. Participants are called LLamas (the double L matching Learned League). Membership is by invite only, though there is some public content at
LearnedLeague.com
Some of the world-readable "Best Worst Answer" tallies follow the URL pattern
https://learnedleague.com/hist/awards/100.php
Where 100 references the season—I had some fun plugging in random numbers.
From season 97:
A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986) continue the story first told by author Madeleine L'Engle in what 1962 novel?
- 3 REASONS TO HAVE HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE
Public, unofficial Learned League groups on Reddit and Facebook. More fun to be had from grazing the #BestWrongAnswers tag on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bestwronganswers
azurelunatic) wrote2025-06-18 09:31 pmthe_comfortable_courtesan!!!vass) wrote2025-06-19 01:01 pmjesse_the_k) wrote2025-06-18 12:58 pmI’m up near Rhinelander staying on Flannery Lake. I’ll be reveling in 15:45 hours of daylight on the summer solstice. Today there’s zero wind, while the second-growth white, yellow, and red pine trees are pumping out their jizz with enthusiasm. The lime-yellow grains appear darker as they overlay almost every square inch of the water, with wild swirls and eddies that extend many feet off shore until eventually the black surface reflects many puffy cumulus clouds in a light blue sky.
Lovely to look at, but not so great to breathe. At least we're not bedeviled by wildfire smoke.
( click for pic )
kaberett) wrote2025-06-17 11:47 pmThe watch tells me I achieved +102 "body battery" points, which I am amused to see.
But I have also visited the allotment (on my way back from physio) and have eaten: raspberries, a strawberry, a cherry, redcurrants, jostaberries, peas, broad beans, kohlrabi. V pleased.
jesse_the_k) wrote2025-06-17 10:33 amI’ve been a Karine Polwart fan for decades, which led me to her recent collaboration with Julie Fowlis and Mary Chapin Carpenter. "Looking for the Thread" mixes Scots Gaelic and US country and a little bit of rock’n’roll.
I was moved by this farewell from the POV of a dying satellite—can you tell me if this matches an actual satellite that circled our planet?
Or on SoundCloud or on Spotify.
jadelennox) wrote2025-06-16 10:11 pmmy friend just said "ACAB includes Odo" and she's right.
marthawells) wrote2025-06-16 01:49 pmmarthawells) wrote2025-06-16 08:42 am