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Time Lapses of Kyrgyzstan.
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Time Lapses of Kyrgyzstan.
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Feb. 11th, 2018
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remember in school when we had to put these orange covers over the keyboards when practicing our typing skills so we wouldn’t be able to peek at where the letters are?
no… what the hell kinda school did u go to? prison??
no we had homemade fabric covers that went over both the keyboard AND our hands so that we couldn’t see either one.
That was my second typing class, in high school, though. Prior to that, typing class was in a room full of typewriters and we were prohibited from looking at our hands because the teacher stood at the front of the class and made us all stare at her, and we all had to type in unison as she called out letters, and she could hear if anyone typed at a different time because of how fucking loud mechanical typewriters are.
There were also paper barricades that went down the middle zig-zagging between the keys so you couldn’t strike the middle ones with the wrong hand.
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xelamanrique318:
kindergarten2002:
remember in school when we had to put these orange covers over the keyboards when practicing our typing skills so we wouldn’t be able to peek at where the letters are?
no… what the hell kinda school did u go to? prison??
no we had homemade fabric covers that went over both the keyboard AND our hands so that we couldn’t see either one.
That was my second typing class, in high school, though. Prior to that, typing class was in a room full of typewriters and we were prohibited from looking at our hands because the teacher stood at the front of the class and made us all stare at her, and we all had to type in unison as she called out letters, and she could hear if anyone typed at a different time because of how fucking loud mechanical typewriters are.
There were also paper barricades that went down the middle zig-zagging between the keys so you couldn’t strike the middle ones with the wrong hand.
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on the one hand using duolingo’s desktop site made me install a russian font on my keyboard so now i can hilariously forget to switch back and type total gibberish sometimes.
on the other hand, when you use the app to do stuff, it awards you points and things in the online store. and when you use the desktop site it does not award you any points.
so they’ve literally incentivized using the app, which has no access to any explanatory grammatical notes. if i want to win the “game” parts of the whole thing, I have to use the app on my phone. but i can’t actually study at all.
I don’t understand DuoLingo at all.
Also, a cellphone keyboard has software keys, so they display what they are. My physical keyboard has Latin letters physically stamped on it, so when I switch to a Russian setting, I’m just randomly typing and hoping I find the letters. I have a little diagram I drew by hand of where the keys are, but it’s really hard to match up. No, I’m not going to hand-paint Cyrillic characters onto the keys of my thousand-dollar laptop.
But in short: if you actually want to learn anything, you have to use the desktop site (not that the grammar notes are actually very… useful? They seem to be sort of peripheral to the goings-on, at best, and include a lot of examples that… aren’t the weirdly repetitive examples that make up the entirety of the lessons. As if they were written by a totally different person at a different time.
I don’t know! But it seems a shame, and also a very strange decision all around.
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on the one hand using duolingo’s desktop site made me install a russian font on my keyboard so now i can hilariously forget to switch back and type total gibberish sometimes.
on the other hand, when you use the app to do stuff, it awards you points and things in the online store. and when you use the desktop site it does not award you any points.
so they’ve literally incentivized using the app, which has no access to any explanatory grammatical notes. if i want to win the “game” parts of the whole thing, I have to use the app on my phone. but i can’t actually study at all.
I don’t understand DuoLingo at all.
Also, a cellphone keyboard has software keys, so they display what they are. My physical keyboard has Latin letters physically stamped on it, so when I switch to a Russian setting, I’m just randomly typing and hoping I find the letters. I have a little diagram I drew by hand of where the keys are, but it’s really hard to match up. No, I’m not going to hand-paint Cyrillic characters onto the keys of my thousand-dollar laptop.
But in short: if you actually want to learn anything, you have to use the desktop site (not that the grammar notes are actually very… useful? They seem to be sort of peripheral to the goings-on, at best, and include a lot of examples that… aren’t the weirdly repetitive examples that make up the entirety of the lessons. As if they were written by a totally different person at a different time.
I don’t know! But it seems a shame, and also a very strange decision all around.
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oh no it’s like… it’s like inflation, or something
all this time I just wanted to get my shit together enough to start a project, and finally I did, the Fuck Winter quilt, I got a bunch of that going and it’s on its way and that’s keen
and now I’m like, ok, I can get that into a Momentum, and since it takes a ton of handwork I can package some of that up and take it with me on various long car trips coming up and so on, so I can work on it– little bits at work, bigger bits in their own project bag and so on, and I can make progress and then have an endpoint where I’ll bind the whole thing by machine, ok cool.
So now that I’ve got that I also want a garment project. I have all this stuff that’s shit I meant to make into things I can wear and now I want to start one.
No, girl! Just work on the one thing! Why start new shit?
Well, because I have all this stuff and want to get more of it into do-able condition, that’s why!
But. Man I’m just– you give your weasel brain one fucking thing and it just means it wants more, y’know?? Anyway.
At first, logic brain was like “hand-sewing the seams to piece this shit is dumb, that won’t show on the surface at all” and then monkey brain was like “hand-sewing short seams is satisfying as fuck” and then logic brain noticed “hand-sewn seams look different even from the front and it’s kind of distinctive” and I mean nobody’s going to care, the embroidery is clearly mostly by machine, but on the other hand, I mean, why the fuck not have a hand-pieced quilt if it’s satisfying. Yeah it’s extravagantly time-consuming but really the time-consuming part is preparing, matching, ironing the little pieces, and the hand-sewing is basically unnoticeable as time expenditures go in all that, so I might as well.
Also I’ve just volunteered to make doll clothes for Farmbaby’s new doll from Christmas, which is a, uh… Wellie Wisher. What? Oh, American Girl makes them. Ohhh of course, they have one that has the same actual name as Farmbaby. That’s. Sort of self-explanatory. Now I just need to find out what size those are. I’m not going to Get Into Doll Clothes, I just know that it would be a really good way to use up tiny cuts of fabric and garments I can’t really refashion or donate.
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oh no it’s like… it’s like inflation, or something
all this time I just wanted to get my shit together enough to start a project, and finally I did, the Fuck Winter quilt, I got a bunch of that going and it’s on its way and that’s keen
and now I’m like, ok, I can get that into a Momentum, and since it takes a ton of handwork I can package some of that up and take it with me on various long car trips coming up and so on, so I can work on it– little bits at work, bigger bits in their own project bag and so on, and I can make progress and then have an endpoint where I’ll bind the whole thing by machine, ok cool.
So now that I’ve got that I also want a garment project. I have all this stuff that’s shit I meant to make into things I can wear and now I want to start one.
No, girl! Just work on the one thing! Why start new shit?
Well, because I have all this stuff and want to get more of it into do-able condition, that’s why!
But. Man I’m just– you give your weasel brain one fucking thing and it just means it wants more, y’know?? Anyway.
At first, logic brain was like “hand-sewing the seams to piece this shit is dumb, that won’t show on the surface at all” and then monkey brain was like “hand-sewing short seams is satisfying as fuck” and then logic brain noticed “hand-sewn seams look different even from the front and it’s kind of distinctive” and I mean nobody’s going to care, the embroidery is clearly mostly by machine, but on the other hand, I mean, why the fuck not have a hand-pieced quilt if it’s satisfying. Yeah it’s extravagantly time-consuming but really the time-consuming part is preparing, matching, ironing the little pieces, and the hand-sewing is basically unnoticeable as time expenditures go in all that, so I might as well.
Also I’ve just volunteered to make doll clothes for Farmbaby’s new doll from Christmas, which is a, uh… Wellie Wisher. What? Oh, American Girl makes them. Ohhh of course, they have one that has the same actual name as Farmbaby. That’s. Sort of self-explanatory. Now I just need to find out what size those are. I’m not going to Get Into Doll Clothes, I just know that it would be a really good way to use up tiny cuts of fabric and garments I can’t really refashion or donate.
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Guinevere - William de Leftwich Dodge
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Guinevere - William de Leftwich Dodge
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Rendering the last of the leaf lard from the freezer in the crock pot. I dunno, is the heat up too high? I’m also roasting the last loin roast from that quarter hog mumble-too-long ago. Spring freezer cleanout! (at Buffalo, New York)
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Rendering the last of the leaf lard from the freezer in the crock pot. I dunno, is the heat up too high? I’m also roasting the last loin roast from that quarter hog mumble-too-long ago. Spring freezer cleanout! (at Buffalo, New York)
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So I think I’ve maybe finally perfected the Southern Comfort Manhattan but my total inability to ever follow a recipe or write things down may have bitten me in the ass.
BUT.
It’s POSSIBLE that I made this round of Manhattans by the following method.
1 pint jar filled to the 4 oz mark with Southern Comfort. (I always intend to measure.)
Then I didn’t pick the jar up to look, I just poured in some Carpano Antica. (It’s really pretentious sweet vermouth but I noticed it called out by name in all these hipster cocktails I was drinking and oh, it turns out sweet vermouth doesn’t have to be a thing you endure? Oh. It’s very bitter.) I probably added about half an ounce.
I put in probably half an ounce of triple sec to make up the volume, since normally I use more sweet vermouth than that and didn’t want a short/strong drink.
Then I put in about a quarter-ounce of some homemade curucao that I made last week, which is basically overproof vodka (distilled from honey though) with orange zest and a little sugar added, to bring it back up to strength since triple sec is very weak.
But then I thought it might be too strong, so I added a dollop of simple syrup. Like, a quarter-ounce at most. I have a little syrup jar I keep it in and I just blooped it in.
Then I added a tiny bit of Bitter Truth Creole Bitters before realizing that wasn’t the one I’d meant to add, and I went and got the Aromatic Bitters instead (which have a hint of clove that I like). My favorite bitters are Fee Brothers but I used up my bottle and haven’t replaced it and figured I really ought to use up some of these Bitter Truth ones I’ve got kicking around. (They came in a little travel set. Who travels with cocktail bitters? I mean that’s actually kind of a good idea, but. Anyway.)
And then I put maraschino cherries in, and I added a teaspoonful of the juice from the jar to each glass, mostly because the jar was nearly empty and I feel weird throwing out the syrup even though it’s sort of gross. But I grew up with that being an important component of Manhattans, and I like them. (Dad used to put extra cherries in his Manhattans to let us kids eat when he was done drinking them, because we liked them and so did he. He’d wind up with four or five in there. He also used to make his Manhattans “backwards”, with twice as much vermouth as whiskey, which tastes absolutely horrible but was very popular as a thing to do in the 60s.)
Anyway this is a great Manhattan.
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So I think I’ve maybe finally perfected the Southern Comfort Manhattan but my total inability to ever follow a recipe or write things down may have bitten me in the ass.
BUT.
It’s POSSIBLE that I made this round of Manhattans by the following method.
1 pint jar filled to the 4 oz mark with Southern Comfort. (I always intend to measure.)
Then I didn’t pick the jar up to look, I just poured in some Carpano Antica. (It’s really pretentious sweet vermouth but I noticed it called out by name in all these hipster cocktails I was drinking and oh, it turns out sweet vermouth doesn’t have to be a thing you endure? Oh. It’s very bitter.) I probably added about half an ounce.
I put in probably half an ounce of triple sec to make up the volume, since normally I use more sweet vermouth than that and didn’t want a short/strong drink.
Then I put in about a quarter-ounce of some homemade curucao that I made last week, which is basically overproof vodka (distilled from honey though) with orange zest and a little sugar added, to bring it back up to strength since triple sec is very weak.
But then I thought it might be too strong, so I added a dollop of simple syrup. Like, a quarter-ounce at most. I have a little syrup jar I keep it in and I just blooped it in.
Then I added a tiny bit of Bitter Truth Creole Bitters before realizing that wasn’t the one I’d meant to add, and I went and got the Aromatic Bitters instead (which have a hint of clove that I like). My favorite bitters are Fee Brothers but I used up my bottle and haven’t replaced it and figured I really ought to use up some of these Bitter Truth ones I’ve got kicking around. (They came in a little travel set. Who travels with cocktail bitters? I mean that’s actually kind of a good idea, but. Anyway.)
And then I put maraschino cherries in, and I added a teaspoonful of the juice from the jar to each glass, mostly because the jar was nearly empty and I feel weird throwing out the syrup even though it’s sort of gross. But I grew up with that being an important component of Manhattans, and I like them. (Dad used to put extra cherries in his Manhattans to let us kids eat when he was done drinking them, because we liked them and so did he. He’d wind up with four or five in there. He also used to make his Manhattans “backwards”, with twice as much vermouth as whiskey, which tastes absolutely horrible but was very popular as a thing to do in the 60s.)
Anyway this is a great Manhattan.
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banshees: markv5: Мама
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banshees:
markv5:
Мама спит, она устала… Ну, и мы играть не стали!
the fact that the translated version had a shitton of exclamation points not contained in the original made me doubt.frescpeg so
Sphinx cats are super cute and naked but fake Translate screenshots don’t help us out much in this world.
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banshees:
markv5:
Мама спит, она устала… Ну, и мы играть не стали!
the fact that the translated version had a shitton of exclamation points not contained in the original made me doubt.frescpeg so
Sphinx cats are super cute and naked but fake Translate screenshots don’t help us out much in this world.
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