lost causes
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yamamanama58 days until the vernal equinox
There’s no such thing as a winter wonderland. It’s class 3 killstorm or nothing.
Renée had a skunk stripe of silver in her black hair and put an acute accent over the e in her name in marker.
A few of the objects belonged to the Peabody Essex Museum. Most of them were on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing. One even came from Minnesota.
This one was on loan from the Smithsonian and is a painting of the Empress Cíxǐ (慈禧) by Katherine Carl. Dunno when they’re getting this back. The Mad Genius Club and others are advocating a perpetual shutdown. Anyhoo, I’ll post the pictures from my sketchbook when the government shutdown ends. Yes, that should give me adequate time for decent lighting.
Cíxǐ was herself a painter.
A jade book with a eulogy for the Empress Xiàoxiánchún. There was a listening station where you could hear it in English and Mandarin Chinese but not in Manchu, a language that very few people speak, even during the later days of the Qīng dynasty. Since it’s written vertically, you can see how computers would have problems. At least it’s like Egyptian, where there are plenty of things written in both Manchu and Chinese.
If you think Manchu looks like sideways Arabic, you’re on to something. Writing was introduced to Mongolia by the Uyghurs.
The woman in the green shirt pointed how much longer the Manchu text is compared to the Chinese text.
She says “yeah, English always takes more words.”
Except for Romance languages, I said. I don’t speak French but I’ll point out that the French editions of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn were split into two books for publication. So were the Wheel of Time novels. It looks like Wheel of Time was split in German as well. I looked at the Hungarian page, intuited that “szavak” means “words” and then came to the conclusion that this refers to the English edition because there’s no way a Hungarian version would have the same exact number of words.
There are thirty six fenghuangs on this hat.
A woman pointed out that the flowers have tiny insects hovering above them and so when she walked, it woud look like the insects were moving.
From the back. Someone whose name was possibly Julia said that it looked heavy.
Not that she'd do much walking in these shoes. Manchus, being a horse-riding people, didn't bind their feet.
She said “she got hooked on opium.” The British Empire, back when it was a worldwide power and not just a chunk of Ireland and a few islands on the ass end of nowhere, was pretty much a glorified narcostate. They’re like 1980 Bolivia in that regard, except cocaine is a lot healthier.
⅔ of all drug overdose death is caused by some sort of opioid or opiate. No idea how many of the 15000 cocaine-related deaths are from speedballs, in which you mix cocaine and heroin. they negate each other but that just makes it easier to overdose. 10000 are methamphetamine deaths.
The British and French looted the Summer Palace and destroyed the Old Summer Palace. Cíxǐ had it rebuilt with money that was going to be used for the navy, it was destroyed again by the Eight Nation Alliance, and then rebuilt two years later.
the greatest irony of the post-colonial world is how resistant to change it is.
ha, found this one on Wikipedia. The dragon is the symbol of the Emperor and the fenghuang is the symbol of the Empress.
here’s a map of the Forbidden City.
A case for cosmetics.
A wine container.
Parrot.
This made the woman in the green shirt feel underdressed. Well, one of the robes made her feel that way.
Duck
寿 (longevity) shows up a lot. So does 囍 (double prosperity).
box of combs.
A collection of paintings depicting virtuous empresses of the Táng dynasty and earlier periods of Chinese history, covered in stamps of emperors and empresses who say "Behold! I had access to this." The stamps are the woman in green's favorite aspect of the paintings.
Someone asked about it and she said it's like when someone in Renaissance Italy paints a picture of the Roman empire.
This one is the Empress Rèn (reigned from 315 to 338) of the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
It's painted using western perspective techniques. The exhibition refers to the Beijing court as cosmopolitan.
Some things I couldn’t find decent pictures of, like a curio cabinet, court necklace with a long piece hangs down the back to counterbalance the weight of the beads. Doesn’t help that when i do a location search, I can go seven days before Instagram is like “yeah, nope, not going any further.” This happens in Safari and in Firefox so I can only assume it's their fault.
At the end of the exhibit was a scroll where you could write your thoughts. Someone said "an empress has more power than a first lady." Someone said "it's odd that the USA, the world's old constitutional democracy, has yet to elect a woman president." and a response was "there's still misogyny in the country" and I'm like "women are 'too emotional' to rule, although we have a president who acts like a four year old." Someone said women in power are most times relegated to the background."
Most people commented about how dark it was but otherwise liked it and one person said the air quality is better than it is in Beijing.
Meanwhile, the women's march is wracked by scandals because if there's one thing the Republicans are good at, it's grifting, but if there's another thing they're good at, it's manufacturing scandals. I didn't go because of the weather and because I had a pass for the PEM. Maybe should have went as a fuck you to Tim Pool. Women's rights are going down the shitter.
I hope that Brett Kavanaugh gets leukemia and chokes on our memory.
Meet MiRo, a biomimetic robot. He can echolocate, avoid falling off of things, and respond to being petted. If you press the button, he sounds a bit like a cross between a Tusken Raider and a dog.
because it’s Salem, there was a woman wearing a witch hat.
There’s a prosthetic leg for runners that is modeled after a cheetah’s hind leg and it’s funny because cheetahs are the opposite of humans. We can run, not very swiftly, but for much longer distances than most other animals and we’re smart enough to realize that these hunts will go even faster if we just chuck a rock or a sharpened stick at them.” Cheetahs are like “hide in the grass until the prey notices and hope that you’re close enough that it’s too late.”
There's a backpack modeled after a pangolin but I think of an isopod.
Someone wrote this:
всем добра
позитива
улыбок
Хорошего частоешя
здоровья
Успехов
Along with some flowers.
That should be accurate.
I wrote it down in Latin, picking the closest thing I could find to its Russian equivalent, which is good for things like б and ok for things like д but not for things like ж or ю or ѯ, not that ѯ is used for anything.
Someone else wrote "eat the capitalists."
For whatever reason, they didn't have cookies. The salt and cracked pepper chips and the Asian salad with Chinese noodles, napa cabbage, jicama, broccoli, red bell peppers, scallions, roasted soy tofu, and ginger ponzu dressing was perfectly good.
I saw someone who looks like a Dravidian Leah with shorter hair.
Meanwhile, Nello was in the news for not allowing single women to eat at its bar.
burning question: how is Nello, of all the restaurants in the world, most of which are not extortion rackets, still open?
There’s no such thing as a winter wonderland. It’s class 3 killstorm or nothing.
Renée had a skunk stripe of silver in her black hair and put an acute accent over the e in her name in marker.
A few of the objects belonged to the Peabody Essex Museum. Most of them were on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing. One even came from Minnesota.
This one was on loan from the Smithsonian and is a painting of the Empress Cíxǐ (慈禧) by Katherine Carl. Dunno when they’re getting this back. The Mad Genius Club and others are advocating a perpetual shutdown. Anyhoo, I’ll post the pictures from my sketchbook when the government shutdown ends. Yes, that should give me adequate time for decent lighting.
Cíxǐ was herself a painter.
A jade book with a eulogy for the Empress Xiàoxiánchún. There was a listening station where you could hear it in English and Mandarin Chinese but not in Manchu, a language that very few people speak, even during the later days of the Qīng dynasty. Since it’s written vertically, you can see how computers would have problems. At least it’s like Egyptian, where there are plenty of things written in both Manchu and Chinese.
If you think Manchu looks like sideways Arabic, you’re on to something. Writing was introduced to Mongolia by the Uyghurs.
The woman in the green shirt pointed how much longer the Manchu text is compared to the Chinese text.
She says “yeah, English always takes more words.”
Except for Romance languages, I said. I don’t speak French but I’ll point out that the French editions of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn were split into two books for publication. So were the Wheel of Time novels. It looks like Wheel of Time was split in German as well. I looked at the Hungarian page, intuited that “szavak” means “words” and then came to the conclusion that this refers to the English edition because there’s no way a Hungarian version would have the same exact number of words.
There are thirty six fenghuangs on this hat.
A woman pointed out that the flowers have tiny insects hovering above them and so when she walked, it woud look like the insects were moving.
From the back. Someone whose name was possibly Julia said that it looked heavy.
Not that she'd do much walking in these shoes. Manchus, being a horse-riding people, didn't bind their feet.
She said “she got hooked on opium.” The British Empire, back when it was a worldwide power and not just a chunk of Ireland and a few islands on the ass end of nowhere, was pretty much a glorified narcostate. They’re like 1980 Bolivia in that regard, except cocaine is a lot healthier.
⅔ of all drug overdose death is caused by some sort of opioid or opiate. No idea how many of the 15000 cocaine-related deaths are from speedballs, in which you mix cocaine and heroin. they negate each other but that just makes it easier to overdose. 10000 are methamphetamine deaths.
The British and French looted the Summer Palace and destroyed the Old Summer Palace. Cíxǐ had it rebuilt with money that was going to be used for the navy, it was destroyed again by the Eight Nation Alliance, and then rebuilt two years later.
the greatest irony of the post-colonial world is how resistant to change it is.
ha, found this one on Wikipedia. The dragon is the symbol of the Emperor and the fenghuang is the symbol of the Empress.
here’s a map of the Forbidden City.
A case for cosmetics.
A wine container.
Parrot.
This made the woman in the green shirt feel underdressed. Well, one of the robes made her feel that way.
Duck
寿 (longevity) shows up a lot. So does 囍 (double prosperity).
box of combs.
A collection of paintings depicting virtuous empresses of the Táng dynasty and earlier periods of Chinese history, covered in stamps of emperors and empresses who say "Behold! I had access to this." The stamps are the woman in green's favorite aspect of the paintings.
Someone asked about it and she said it's like when someone in Renaissance Italy paints a picture of the Roman empire.
This one is the Empress Rèn (reigned from 315 to 338) of the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
It's painted using western perspective techniques. The exhibition refers to the Beijing court as cosmopolitan.
Some things I couldn’t find decent pictures of, like a curio cabinet, court necklace with a long piece hangs down the back to counterbalance the weight of the beads. Doesn’t help that when i do a location search, I can go seven days before Instagram is like “yeah, nope, not going any further.” This happens in Safari and in Firefox so I can only assume it's their fault.
At the end of the exhibit was a scroll where you could write your thoughts. Someone said "an empress has more power than a first lady." Someone said "it's odd that the USA, the world's old constitutional democracy, has yet to elect a woman president." and a response was "there's still misogyny in the country" and I'm like "women are 'too emotional' to rule, although we have a president who acts like a four year old." Someone said women in power are most times relegated to the background."
Most people commented about how dark it was but otherwise liked it and one person said the air quality is better than it is in Beijing.
Meanwhile, the women's march is wracked by scandals because if there's one thing the Republicans are good at, it's grifting, but if there's another thing they're good at, it's manufacturing scandals. I didn't go because of the weather and because I had a pass for the PEM. Maybe should have went as a fuck you to Tim Pool. Women's rights are going down the shitter.
I hope that Brett Kavanaugh gets leukemia and chokes on our memory.
Meet MiRo, a biomimetic robot. He can echolocate, avoid falling off of things, and respond to being petted. If you press the button, he sounds a bit like a cross between a Tusken Raider and a dog.
because it’s Salem, there was a woman wearing a witch hat.
There’s a prosthetic leg for runners that is modeled after a cheetah’s hind leg and it’s funny because cheetahs are the opposite of humans. We can run, not very swiftly, but for much longer distances than most other animals and we’re smart enough to realize that these hunts will go even faster if we just chuck a rock or a sharpened stick at them.” Cheetahs are like “hide in the grass until the prey notices and hope that you’re close enough that it’s too late.”
There's a backpack modeled after a pangolin but I think of an isopod.
Someone wrote this:
всем добра
позитива
улыбок
Хорошего частоешя
здоровья
Успехов
Along with some flowers.
That should be accurate.
I wrote it down in Latin, picking the closest thing I could find to its Russian equivalent, which is good for things like б and ok for things like д but not for things like ж or ю or ѯ, not that ѯ is used for anything.
Someone else wrote "eat the capitalists."
For whatever reason, they didn't have cookies. The salt and cracked pepper chips and the Asian salad with Chinese noodles, napa cabbage, jicama, broccoli, red bell peppers, scallions, roasted soy tofu, and ginger ponzu dressing was perfectly good.
I saw someone who looks like a Dravidian Leah with shorter hair.
Meanwhile, Nello was in the news for not allowing single women to eat at its bar.
burning question: how is Nello, of all the restaurants in the world, most of which are not extortion rackets, still open?
