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This week, through Saturday, Canine Companions has a live puppy stream going at http://canine.org/puppy/ ... 7-week lab puppies are impossibly cute. Jussayin'.

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Still sick, but feeling vaguely human again. I had stopped using the cpap while I was having sinus pressure and blockage, Friday through Sunday, but I definitely sleep better with it going, so last night I went back to it.

I dreamed of a MMORPG boss encounter (that doesn't actually exist) ... it was designed for two people, in that there were two stations with dials that had to be set and then levers pulled, but I was soloing it, so running back and forth. Occasionally the boss would pop in and radiate green, but as long as you were far enough away you wouldn't take damage. So you had to stand towards the outside edge of each lever station, so that when the boss popped up next to you there'd be enough room to run to the other end of the stage -- if he appeared in the middle of the room you had to hope you had good healing. Then once the levers were all set you could actually damage the boss, which was easy because I was overleveled for the encounter, and at the end you got a piece of a particular set of wicked-looking studded leather armor. The armor level was low for my character but there was a game mechanic where you could combine ugly-but-good armor with pretty-but-flimsy armor to get the stats of one and the look of the other. So I was farming the encounter for the armor set so that I could combine and also dye it all black.

The mmo dreams I have aren't exactly either Guild Wars or WOW or anything else I've played, but a sort of hybrid; location names are often a stolen mishmash, e.g. I'll map-jump from Lion's Arch to Orgrimmar to Cantha to Ironforge. It's kind of fascinating.
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https://themighty.com/2020/07/anticipatory-fear-disability-covid-19/

Our brains aren’t really built for extended periods of upheaval and uncertainty. I’ve seen people mention “COVID brain” — the dip in higher-level thinking because the brain is focusing on staying alive, the brain fog that comes with prolonged stress, the shattered feeling of having too many worries — basically, the effect of a worldwide pandemic on everyone’s mental health.

And all I can think is “welcome to my life.” Because for me as a disabled person, this is nothing new.


(read more...)
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Tumblr link on autism and samefooding: https://autism-asks.tumblr.com/post/171393403900/why-do-autistic-people-tend-to-samefood-is-it

:looks at that post:

:looks at own preferences:

huh.

I wonder if there's a music equivalent, because I will happily listen to a particular playlist over and over and over. I remember one time, probably in junior high, when I was playing a cd on repeat, and my sister was like "...but you've already listened to that" at the beginning of the second time through...

FOP tidbit

Jun. 28th, 2018 09:32 pm
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Huh:

I came across an article from 2011 describing FOP in clinical terms but pretty depth-ful.

Apparently clinodactyly, aka a curved finger (usually, and in my case, the pinky curving in towards the ring finger) is a thing that happens frequently. Not a diagnostic thing the way "fop toes" are, because there are plenty of people with clinodactyly that don't have fop, but I guess a lot of fop people have it too?

I mean, I sort of guessed the nodules on my fingers were fop related, because that's not much of a jump -- condition that creates bone, bone lumps, probably related -- but it's kind of cool to know that it's a Thing. Not just me.

(Insert the The More You Know rainbow-farting unicorn pic)
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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.

Sometimes the world sucks, but sometimes there's stuff like this.
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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). The video shows the whole process: harvest, prep, fiber extraction, prep, spinning, and knitting/crocheting. Audio is in Spanish with English subtitles.

ETA embed:

mroww

Jul. 25th, 2016 07:16 pm
ysobel: Pink bunny (bunny comics), drawing a bunny (art)
...this may be of interest to some of you! (usual kickstarter caveat applies, in that the product isn't guaranteed despite being funded, but.)

Lazy-Ass Cats: A Coloring Book for Adults - http://kck.st/2aa2Yk1 -- 22 days left
ysobel: (easily distracted)
I have lost most of this afternoon / evening to a (NSFW) series of blog posts mocking Cosmo.

I am not sorry.

At all.
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Via [personal profile] vass, Mortifying things we used to believe.

I may or may not identify with some of these... :D

(I also used to think that people were silly for paying off credit cards, when all you had to do was get a second one and pay for A with B and pay for B with A and just keep bouncing them back and forth forever. Which is not quite as amusing as some.)

*wheeze*

Mar. 4th, 2013 07:44 pm
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...I disagree with the pronunciation of "wat", but otherwise this is awesome.

plannings

Dec. 13th, 2012 07:05 pm
ysobel: (yarn)
I can has a christmas tree! \o/ Wanted a real one. Got one that's a bit taller than person height but not much (it was classed as 5-6' and I am a horrible judge of exact heights) and nice and full and pretty.

There is a slight problem, though, that my collection of ornaments, almost all of which were acquired pre-pet, are, er, not the best to use given the current pet situation. (The cat would be okay as long as I kept the bottom foot or so free of possibly-breakable ornaments, but with a dog that has a very enthusiastic tail? yeahhhh not so much.)

On the other hand, I have plenty of yarn that's in reds and greens and whites. And I have a crochet hook. The obvious solution? Crochet myself some ornaments.

However, Firefox does not like me having fifty skajillion tabs open, so ... here, have a list!

links )
ysobel: (yarn)
...to the interests of any yarncrafters with cats. NOT THAT I KNOW ANY OF THOSE, ahem.

http://www.knitprincess.com/?p=1329
ysobel: (sugar high)
I can has BIRTHDAY!



...or, you know, bitrdhay. Whatever. :D

(No, that's not my cake; I stole it shamefully from Cake Wrecks. After spending half an hour going through old posts and giggling hysterically at all the various, and varied, (myjiant)birthday cakes.)

(and hey, at least it didn't come paired with this sign)

<3 to you all, and thanks for the birthday wishes!
ysobel: A kitten on a piano keyboard (music)
First choir rehearsal today -- we're singing at the convocation tomorrow, fuckknowswhy. National anthem (in 8-part harmony and with Proper Vowels or we shall be beaten about the head with our conductor's baton) and the university alma mater song thing that I have never before heard and probably never will again.

One of the people there had on this shirt.

description )

WANT.

Also, this one. And this and this and this and this. (And these even though I do NOT need more journaly type things.)
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If you are a language person, go read this, post and comments.

Paashaasschaamhaarverzamelaarsmaand ftw.

Also, I want an excuse to use Världsherraväldeövertagande as a tag >_>
ysobel: (batman)
Whee, I can has guest article at How To Cope With Pain Blog :D

(I am big dork. Hence the icon \o/)
ysobel: (learning german)
Amusement of the day: browsing TVTropes and having one of the banner ads be for a book by [livejournal.com profile] suricattus. (I usually have banner-ad blindness, but some part of my brain /did/ see that ad and recognize it [the cover art and book name in combination] and bring it to conscious attention.)

Said TVT browsing also led me to http://sswftapa.blogspot.com/2007/01/lord-of-errors-or-who-really-killed.html, which is hilarious and painful. ("... the very last bastions of the mighty woodland reaches of the Elder Days, where the Firstborn One mooed while the race of Men were still asleep")

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a translator of books. I still want that, but I don't know that I'll ever have a good enough knowledge of another language to do it /right/.

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