in the spring twilight
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yamamanamaYayy, first perfect day of 2015. We might not see another day like this for a long time.
So, primary feathers allow birds to achieve vertical lift, while secondary feathers allow them to glide horizontally.
We actually reunited some raccoon babies with their mommy, and we just need to find a place for them. You can't just plop them down anywhere, because there's disease spread and raccoon territoriality to deal with.
Oil spills, it seems, mess with birds' reproductive hormones, and renders them effectively sterile.
I told Jacob about how I sarcastically asked where Portugal was located because someone thought it was in the South Pacific. I feel like indicating sarcasm defeats sarcasm's purpose. If I were to say that the Sad Puppies 4 nominees will all be well-plotted pieces of non-claptrap that never make me want to retch, I shouldn't have to say I'm being sarcastic. In all seriousness, I think that Sad Puppies 4 will drop any pretense of populism and nominate an entire slate of garbage from the Mad Genius Club clique.
Someone was talking about John and John. Or maybe they were Joe and Joe. Not a good name for twins, unless they seek a career in stage magic.
We have a new volunteer and her name is Emma, of all things. There are worse things to name your kids than Emma. You could be Rory or Cedar or something. I mean, yeah, Emma is common as fuck, but it's a nice name. It's definitely experienced a resurgence.
Emma said she's pretty much the same as previous Wildlife Center Emma because they're both partially Hungarian and Polish (this Emma is Russian as well), although I'm going to consider this Emma to be an intermediate state between Artist Emma and Intern Emma. She likes animals and she's an idealist and she wears glasses but they're not Cyril Figgis glasses and she likes to sculpt and does a bit of drawing.
Ugh, this is going to get really confusing* really fast. Just wait until Emma gets back from Cyprus and hopefully doesn't flake on the mural. Thankfully, the Emma who interned during the winter is in South Africa and will be going back to Oregon, because I think if all three of them were in the same location, it would cause a dimensional collapse and I am not ok with that.
This Emma gets east and west mixed up.
*Nina thought this Emma was my singer/artist friend Emma.
Emma's been to Costa Rica, which is really awesome. We're talking about how she wants to travel again and I want to travel somewhere and how I'm wistful because it's too late to see Sana'a now. Also, if you look up Sanaa without an apostrophe on Google Image Search you get some glass buildings that obviously aren't in Yemen, and something about Disney World resorts with African cuisine because maybe Walt Disney sold his sense of where everything is relative to each other.
I said that even though I've never traveled, I've had the fortune to meet people from all over the world, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Russia, The Philippines, Ukraine, Vietnam, Germany, Lithuania, Cornwall, Ireland, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Laos, Cape Verde.
I suggested that Sam sold any knowledge of where he came from to become a guitar god. I also wondered what Alex sold to become a one-man gamelan ensemble. He probably can't identify himself in mirrors. If you ask me, Alex should give up his name and perhaps even his entire identity. I was referencing Iron Council, in which this would be easier to phrase in a genderless language like Hungarian or spoken Chinese, but a character named Qurabin forgets their sex in exchange for other forms of knowledge.
But seriously, my rancor towards Alex goes as far as "if he were to have a Star Wars marathon, he should go all the way and include the Holiday Special and the two Ewok movies" and no further. I'm not sure what Alex thinks of Star Wars, although I do know that Emma did something called Tangled Up In C3PO and I'm sucking at typing even though it's only 8:10 PM and I am not OK with that.
While setting up a laundry line outside, I said I'm never going to win any contests for knot-tying. Emma had to go on a quest for scissors. She said "if I had" and she said "pocket knife" and I said "some kind of sixth sense for scissor detection. Like a video game, where objects you can use appear distinctly from everything else." Unless you're talking about the locket in King's Quest V. I hope it hasn't fallen over yet.
There was snow there. It's weird to touch snow when it's 70° F.
She mentioned a spider in the bathroom that didn't have any markings but it had weird fangs or something. Once I saw a spider with bright green fangs.
I totally agree with Emma in that western Europe shouldn't have been in Africa in the first place but my gripe is that they did everything in their power to make things worse upon their leaving. Nigeria's current problems really come down to "Hausa pastoralists are being forced to move southwards into Igbo territory by the encroaching Sahara."
She's a total pacifist and the only way anyone would get her to go to war was if they dragged her there themselves.
I sometimes agree with Apollinaire that open war between the Saudis and Iranians would be a cleansing, sending all the fundamentalist and authoritarian factions through the meat grinder, leaving the middle east for the democracy activists.
but unfortunately in real life, world war I just led to resentment and world war II and the holocaust, and in real life, the democracy activists are the first to die.
I think that a lot of places would have their economies collapse if the perpetual wars were to end. They need the wars to sustain themselves. Others need to provide arms to sustain themselves.
I say the Houthis should be content with their ass end of nowhere corner of Yemen, but no, they apparently need Aden too, and spoiler alert, Aden doesn't want them and neither does Taiz.
We had to splint a woodcock's wing, because his coracoid bone and his furcula, which Courtney says is a fun word to say.
She says that Słończewski sounds familiar.
I know Słońce means sun in Polish and I know this because of King Roger. I was going to tell her about that in more detail but I really had to leave.
I would say something about the Hugo Awards fiasco but I haven't read any of the nominees and that's mostly because I'm the patron saint of being late to the party. I can't say god because I know there are people out there who haven't seen Star Wars or played Sonic the Hedgehog. Also, I'm already a drawing people on the T god and I'm pretty sure I sold my ability to get noticed online to achieve that.
I'm glad that it's bringing to light just how shitty a person Vox Day is. I'm not at all glad Brad Torgersen continues to turn a blind eye to Vox Day's actions.
I want to read Station Eleven now. I want to read the Cloud Roads because Martha Wells comes off as not very fond of the Sad Puppies. In real life, I have a backlog. I tell myself I'll finish the Well of Echoes before Valentine's Day, and then I'll tell myself I'll finish it before the Vernal Equinox and now I'm telling myself I'll finish it when Emma gets back to Boston and in May I'll be telling myself I'll finish it when Emma and I finish the mural.
I'm pretty sure both T.L. Knighton and Mekadave made it their missions in life to destroy me and I'm not sure what Mekadave means by "WILL be sorry" and I'm not really in the mood to know. Honestly, I'm surprised some sockpuppet hasn't said anything completely and utterly insensitive yet so Knighton and Mekadave will have the excuse they need.
I think the reason I thought Steadfast Mind was weak by Atlas Lab's lofty standards is because I had the weight of a star in my heart when they played it. You know how much a star weighs? On the order of 10^30 kg. If you're using the short scale, that's a nonillion. If you're using the long scale, it's a quintillion.
Amy quoted this: "Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did."
Hey, check this out. "7 billion people experienced this day in a different way."
If you want to stare at a blank page, you might like this.
Oh, here's some music. Emma (Swedish, not Hungarian) likes it and it has ukuleles so it's awesome.
If you ever wanted to hear a 28 minute Radiohead song.
Reminds me of this composition made from samples of Mahler symphonies Fennesz did.
I'm not tired or lovesick or anything and I'm still doing things like attaching the html to the words and not the link.
Burning Question: what would you say if I told you that someone was pretending to be me and saying misogynist things so Shadowdancer Duskstar could quote them and make me look bad? Because I'd say that's fairly classic Shadowdancer.
So, primary feathers allow birds to achieve vertical lift, while secondary feathers allow them to glide horizontally.
We actually reunited some raccoon babies with their mommy, and we just need to find a place for them. You can't just plop them down anywhere, because there's disease spread and raccoon territoriality to deal with.
Oil spills, it seems, mess with birds' reproductive hormones, and renders them effectively sterile.
I told Jacob about how I sarcastically asked where Portugal was located because someone thought it was in the South Pacific. I feel like indicating sarcasm defeats sarcasm's purpose. If I were to say that the Sad Puppies 4 nominees will all be well-plotted pieces of non-claptrap that never make me want to retch, I shouldn't have to say I'm being sarcastic. In all seriousness, I think that Sad Puppies 4 will drop any pretense of populism and nominate an entire slate of garbage from the Mad Genius Club clique.
Someone was talking about John and John. Or maybe they were Joe and Joe. Not a good name for twins, unless they seek a career in stage magic.
We have a new volunteer and her name is Emma, of all things. There are worse things to name your kids than Emma. You could be Rory or Cedar or something. I mean, yeah, Emma is common as fuck, but it's a nice name. It's definitely experienced a resurgence.
Emma said she's pretty much the same as previous Wildlife Center Emma because they're both partially Hungarian and Polish (this Emma is Russian as well), although I'm going to consider this Emma to be an intermediate state between Artist Emma and Intern Emma. She likes animals and she's an idealist and she wears glasses but they're not Cyril Figgis glasses and she likes to sculpt and does a bit of drawing.
Ugh, this is going to get really confusing* really fast. Just wait until Emma gets back from Cyprus and hopefully doesn't flake on the mural. Thankfully, the Emma who interned during the winter is in South Africa and will be going back to Oregon, because I think if all three of them were in the same location, it would cause a dimensional collapse and I am not ok with that.
This Emma gets east and west mixed up.
*Nina thought this Emma was my singer/artist friend Emma.
Emma's been to Costa Rica, which is really awesome. We're talking about how she wants to travel again and I want to travel somewhere and how I'm wistful because it's too late to see Sana'a now. Also, if you look up Sanaa without an apostrophe on Google Image Search you get some glass buildings that obviously aren't in Yemen, and something about Disney World resorts with African cuisine because maybe Walt Disney sold his sense of where everything is relative to each other.
I said that even though I've never traveled, I've had the fortune to meet people from all over the world, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Russia, The Philippines, Ukraine, Vietnam, Germany, Lithuania, Cornwall, Ireland, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Laos, Cape Verde.
I suggested that Sam sold any knowledge of where he came from to become a guitar god. I also wondered what Alex sold to become a one-man gamelan ensemble. He probably can't identify himself in mirrors. If you ask me, Alex should give up his name and perhaps even his entire identity. I was referencing Iron Council, in which this would be easier to phrase in a genderless language like Hungarian or spoken Chinese, but a character named Qurabin forgets their sex in exchange for other forms of knowledge.
But seriously, my rancor towards Alex goes as far as "if he were to have a Star Wars marathon, he should go all the way and include the Holiday Special and the two Ewok movies" and no further. I'm not sure what Alex thinks of Star Wars, although I do know that Emma did something called Tangled Up In C3PO and I'm sucking at typing even though it's only 8:10 PM and I am not OK with that.
While setting up a laundry line outside, I said I'm never going to win any contests for knot-tying. Emma had to go on a quest for scissors. She said "if I had" and she said "pocket knife" and I said "some kind of sixth sense for scissor detection. Like a video game, where objects you can use appear distinctly from everything else." Unless you're talking about the locket in King's Quest V. I hope it hasn't fallen over yet.
There was snow there. It's weird to touch snow when it's 70° F.
She mentioned a spider in the bathroom that didn't have any markings but it had weird fangs or something. Once I saw a spider with bright green fangs.
I totally agree with Emma in that western Europe shouldn't have been in Africa in the first place but my gripe is that they did everything in their power to make things worse upon their leaving. Nigeria's current problems really come down to "Hausa pastoralists are being forced to move southwards into Igbo territory by the encroaching Sahara."
She's a total pacifist and the only way anyone would get her to go to war was if they dragged her there themselves.
I sometimes agree with Apollinaire that open war between the Saudis and Iranians would be a cleansing, sending all the fundamentalist and authoritarian factions through the meat grinder, leaving the middle east for the democracy activists.
but unfortunately in real life, world war I just led to resentment and world war II and the holocaust, and in real life, the democracy activists are the first to die.
I think that a lot of places would have their economies collapse if the perpetual wars were to end. They need the wars to sustain themselves. Others need to provide arms to sustain themselves.
I say the Houthis should be content with their ass end of nowhere corner of Yemen, but no, they apparently need Aden too, and spoiler alert, Aden doesn't want them and neither does Taiz.
We had to splint a woodcock's wing, because his coracoid bone and his furcula, which Courtney says is a fun word to say.
She says that Słończewski sounds familiar.
I know Słońce means sun in Polish and I know this because of King Roger. I was going to tell her about that in more detail but I really had to leave.
I would say something about the Hugo Awards fiasco but I haven't read any of the nominees and that's mostly because I'm the patron saint of being late to the party. I can't say god because I know there are people out there who haven't seen Star Wars or played Sonic the Hedgehog. Also, I'm already a drawing people on the T god and I'm pretty sure I sold my ability to get noticed online to achieve that.
I'm glad that it's bringing to light just how shitty a person Vox Day is. I'm not at all glad Brad Torgersen continues to turn a blind eye to Vox Day's actions.
I want to read Station Eleven now. I want to read the Cloud Roads because Martha Wells comes off as not very fond of the Sad Puppies. In real life, I have a backlog. I tell myself I'll finish the Well of Echoes before Valentine's Day, and then I'll tell myself I'll finish it before the Vernal Equinox and now I'm telling myself I'll finish it when Emma gets back to Boston and in May I'll be telling myself I'll finish it when Emma and I finish the mural.
I'm pretty sure both T.L. Knighton and Mekadave made it their missions in life to destroy me and I'm not sure what Mekadave means by "WILL be sorry" and I'm not really in the mood to know. Honestly, I'm surprised some sockpuppet hasn't said anything completely and utterly insensitive yet so Knighton and Mekadave will have the excuse they need.
I think the reason I thought Steadfast Mind was weak by Atlas Lab's lofty standards is because I had the weight of a star in my heart when they played it. You know how much a star weighs? On the order of 10^30 kg. If you're using the short scale, that's a nonillion. If you're using the long scale, it's a quintillion.
Amy quoted this: "Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did."
Hey, check this out. "7 billion people experienced this day in a different way."
If you want to stare at a blank page, you might like this.
Oh, here's some music. Emma (Swedish, not Hungarian) likes it and it has ukuleles so it's awesome.
If you ever wanted to hear a 28 minute Radiohead song.
Reminds me of this composition made from samples of Mahler symphonies Fennesz did.
I'm not tired or lovesick or anything and I'm still doing things like attaching the html to the words and not the link.
Burning Question: what would you say if I told you that someone was pretending to be me and saying misogynist things so Shadowdancer Duskstar could quote them and make me look bad? Because I'd say that's fairly classic Shadowdancer.
