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Speaking of building, I never really got why a lot of LEGO fans are so obsessed with modular builds, but somehow my recent adventures with LEGO Friends have taught me why it's so important/fun. It allows for building in a way that really is 100% removed from reality, moving rooms and spaces up and down by shifting a few panels around.
So, I'm hoping that this new LEGO F.R.I.E.N.D.S. set (not to be confused with my precious LEGO Friends) could teach me a few things about production design because it looks exactly like a TV set. I mean, at some point I may return to making stop-motion videos and if I were going to work on a small scale, this would be the perfect set to learn how to make spaces look cool, lively, and lived in.
The new LEGO Friends Summer Heart Boxes do not come with a stand. This bothers me more than it should, even though they come with an alternate play accessory instead.
I remember somebody mentioning about Mia's new 2019 orange hair and man, they were not wrong about the shade. It's practically day-glo.
I can make a post quoting all your posts. Or I can even temporarily take control of your accounts to repost your stuff in the order you've posted it so far...?
<_<
...I guess the latter.
But for some reason I don't see those checkboxes in the interface here. I'll have to look into this.
Now we have lrdgck asking me whether to move a mysterious "these posts" in this thread. lol
I considered the "spark joy" Kondo-ist approach, but how happy something makes you it doesn't actually address what you're trying to achieve with an overhaul. In my case, that's an update, which means ridding myself of things that make me happy and comfortable but are also essentially the polo version of that time everybody wore weird tie-dye patterns.
This morning, I started using a super-acidic face wash and by George it stings. I'd go back to my old one which does not but when I watched the finale of Twenty Twelve, Ian's temporary assistant guy said something akin to "If you want good skin you've got to work for it" and now I'm freaked out enough to consider getting separate day and night moisturizers.
On unrelated news, some vandal(s) broke open one of those lockers with boards in them that serve as switches for the neighbor's phone/internet lines, taking the boards with them. I guess that's going to put a damper on any plan of getting a non-wireless connection. Also I have to wonder who buys these things.
It's pretty humid here, so you can get away with skipping it for most of the year (I do not <_<) but I know if it's dry (hot or cold) you should try to do it once a day.
Lately (well, really the past few years) I've been on the verge of two very separate skill-trees, both of which would require a lot of effort put in.
Expert Doll Atelier
Conditions
Master LEGO Builder
Conditions... uh this one feels more obvious. Get lots of LEGOs and learn to build at architect levels, then maybe try my hand at stop motion stuff.
I don't think I could keep up with both of these hobbies whilst also keeping up with all my other forms of not doing anything productive. The former I'm more familiar with, but the latter I've done a lot more of lately because of LEGO Friends, and I really can't decide.
I wonder if I should start a sustainability/environmental-issues thread.
Poland:
* Pope John Paul II memes
* cannot into space
Florida:
* alligator memes
* can into space
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-ix-crew-found-angry-alligator-in-earth-orbit
The weather here in south Florida has just been a little windier and rainier than usual. And I'm not just understating.
Meanwhile the northern Bahamas, like Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands, were hit very hard and severely flooded, as the storm had strengthened to a category 5 hurricane (sustained wind speeds of 157+ mph, or 252+ km/h) then basically stalled over them (at one point moving at one mile per hour).
As the vice mayor of a city here in south Florida put it: "It could have been us but not for the grace of God." And a number of people here are now busy helping with or donating to relief efforts in the Bahamas, while most things resume or have resumed normal operations starting today or tomorrow.
The hurricane's path has since shifted northward and is expected to basically throw wind and rain around with the storm's center riding just offshore of or along the east coast of the southeastern United States. When it left the Bahamas it was a category 2 hurricane (sustained wind speeds of 96 to 110 mph, or 154-177 km/h).
Yeah I think that'd be fun. Recently I've become convinced that nuclear is best over renewables in terms of high-scale energy production and I'd like to see if I could be persuaded away that notion.
I feel like maybe it's because I spend a bit more time watching European media than I used to but it bothers me that Florida doesn't have a stereotype that corresponds to the whole chav* dynamic, or even that one with the guys who may-or-may-not-be criminal enterprise members who wear polo shirts and gold chains.
*I feel like at some point somebody told me chav was now an insult but how else are you supposed to refer to that very specific subculture than by it's name?
I wonder if that wouldn't be just urban African-American culture. Chavs and similar groups had periods of fascination with it, its fashion, gangsta rap, etc.
The obvious catch being that African-Americans are just an ethnic grouping, which includes both the good and the bad specimens. Chavs are by definition louts, boors, and lowlifes. I can imagine a stereotypical jive-speaking black guy in a hoodie who is also very polite and kind, but for a chav this would be a contradiction.
So, youth street gangs?
(Assuming I understand the word chav properly. Or anything else I speak of here. I can't really claim first-hand experience.)
Oh wow, that whole concept really passed me by.
Yeah but I guess "chav" as a whole is specific to being seen as an outgroup that can only actually exist as a subgroup (in this case, race).
Unrelatedly, there's been a lot of stuff about deepfakes lately everywhere I look, but I'm going to be of the opinion that deepfakes won't actually matter unless something actually happens with them, in which case the stuff about deepfakes will go from stuff your 'cool' friend forwards you in e-mails to show you they are cool and in the know to the harpy shriek of CNN's fancy new topic of the week.
Which is to say, I guess, that I have already mentally moved the goalposts and determined that at no point will I ever actually care about deepfakes.
I did not know UPS could mean things not United Postal Service, though really it should have been obvious.
It took a while before I found a tutorial (linked here) that didn't make me quit in frustration early on.
Speaking of programming, I got around to begin learning Qt, it took an annoying amount of troubleshooting to make it work (again) and I don't think I got it quite right but at least it seems functional.
No link.
I don't think I'll pursue programming any further. I'd say it's a part of my teenage years, but also in this world of intense options it's good to narrow things down even if it's for vaguely bad reasons.
A memo where Boris Johnson called David Cameron a 'girly swot' came out the day before he had to meet openly-gay Irish PM Leo Varadkar. I am not placing any value judgements on this, but I find it intensely hilarious.
I also wish I learned to work with electronics.
Whoops, I meant that the guide (Learn Python the Hard Way, which I recommend against) was linked here on IJBM.
Despite how useful and often fun it is and me not finding it difficult, it was never something I wanted to dedicate my life to and pursued other things instead, leaving it as a minor hobby. It's only fairly recently that I've accepted how rewarding it would have been if I had focused on it from the get-go and am trying to make up for it. That and an increasing interest in theoretical computer science.
Maybe it was an omen that programming was the only uni course I aced.
Electronics would've been useful too, but I don't think I'd ever get over how easy it is to damage expensive stuff or how black-boxy everything is.
But my mid-life crisis is likely going to be about how I didn't become a mathematician.
You know when you're reading an article and then a word-a-day calendar word appears and it feels like it's because the journalists want you to know this isn't a millennial cesspool like Vox or BuzzFeed.
Yeah I'd have loved to look into working on machinery, and I have a feeling that a big part of not being afraid of screwing up is looking into the box a few times and realizing it's not easy to screw up. Or, at least, feeling like you've "realized" this obvious lie, which is good enough.
Relatedly I think I should at least be able to fix my own car before I'm 30 (I have no idea how to yet but I have six years!).