Sort-of-tagged by @maryellencarter.
the last movie you watched: I don’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised if I haven’t watched a movie beginning-to-end since seeing Mockingjay Pt 2† in a theatre. I’m not really big on video.
(Which is also why I haven’t done the favourite-movies-as-gifs meme @agapi42 tagged me in. Sorry, Agapi: I do appreciate that you thought of me, but I don’t think I’m the right person to do that meme.)
Edit: wait, hang on, I saw The Force Awakens (I think shortly after it came out on DVD), and that would have been more recent than Mockingjay. So that puts a new cap on how long ago the most recent movie could have been.
the last tv series you watched: There is…a distinct possibility that I have not sought out any TV since Daily Planet ended. Again, not big on video. Mom has been watching The Worst Witch and Merlin, usually while I am in the room.
the last webseries you watched: I know I watched Red vs Blue a few years back (think I got partway through S12). Neither my sense of the boundaries of “webseries” nor my sense of what time things happened is good enough to say if there were any more recent than that.
the last comedy special you watched: I agree with maryellencarter, re: what does this even mean.
Hmm…*googles “comedy special”*
This appears to mean a recorded stand-up act, especially but not necessarily on Netflix. It has been so long since I watched stand-up that I really couldn’t say who it was, let alone which specific act.
the last podcast you listened to: Talk the Talk, as is traditional on the ride over to an exam. (I had my accounting midterm today.) The episode in question was apparently locked behind a Patreon paywall some time after I downloaded it, but it’s about Chinese puns and censorship.
the last game you played:
Video game: Flight Rising. My familiar fund is coming along nicely, though gems per se are a bit hard to come by at the moment what with the new Starmap gene.
Board game: Wormhole, a locally-designed trivia game (mostly history and geography, with the occasional science question) my parents found at Value Village (thrift store chain, pretty much the Canadian version of Goodwill). I later saw it at a board-game store for 90% off, so I guess it wasn’t too popular. (And indeed, nothing relevant comes up when I google it.) It’s okay as trivia games go, though the difficulty level of the questions feels pretty variable (and they aren’t divided into distinct difficulty levels).
App game: I don’t play these much at the moment. Whenever Pokemon Go sends me a “we miss you, here’s some free stuff to entice you back” code I pop in, redeem it, and then immediately leave, so technically Pokemon Go. (I figure there’s a good chance I’ll start playing again at some point, and I might as well acquire a stockpile of double-XP items and egg incubators for if/when that happens.) Actually *playing* might have also been Pokemon Go, or it might have been sudoku.
the last book you read: Hmm. My reading has mostly not been in book form lately. Probably Welcome to Floating Point. (That’s just the first one, not the whole trilogy: I haven’t finished the rest yet.) The author’s habit of using “spoke” rather than “said” as the default speech marker is a little irritating, but I liked it otherwise.
Alternately, if you want something more traditionally published and/or costing money: Pyramid of Peril. (Though, in fairness re: costing money, the audiobook is now free. But I already owned the ebook, and I prefer text to audiobooks anyway.)
the last comic book you read: I don’t read comic books myself.
the last webcomic you read: I think XKCD was more recent than Parhelion.
the last song you listened to: “Tried”, by Assemblage 23.
the last musical you listened to: I don’t really do these either. By default, then, “Once More, With Feeling”: the only musical whose soundtrack I own.
the last thing you searched online: Online, I’m not sure. I looked up kewra on Wikipedia this afternoon, but it wasn’t online because I didn’t have Wi-Fi. (Well, come to think of it I didn’t actually *check* if the Indian food store had public Wi-Fi, but I doubt they did.)
the last outfit you left the house in: A green Girl Scout camp T-shirt (Girl *Scout*, not Girl Guide: that’s how old this shirt is), brown leggings, plain white socks from the big pack I bought in Florida upon finding the socks I’d brought weren’t enough for all the walking around Disney I was doing, hiking boots, utility belt††, one-litre water bottle on shoulder strap.
(I don’t especially *like* camping, but I tend to wind up with Camper Aesthetic anyway, as a side effect of prepper tendencies. I never leave the house *intending* to spend the night in the woods, but I also never leave the house without enough gear that I *could*, if necessary, do so. Also, hiking boots are comfortable.)
(For the record, it has never yet been necessary. I have still never used my foil blanket. But if I ever need it, there it will be.)
the last completely unnecessary thing you purchased: I was going to say McDonalds food, but it was a post-exam treat, which disqualifies it by the rules maryellencarter’s answer uses.
Mind you, I normally go to Tim Hortons–which is noticeably cheaper than McDonalds–for my post-exam treat, so arguably the *additional* $5 vs getting a Timmies bagel *was* completely unnecessary. (But I had a coupon for a free medium fry and drink with purchase, and it had been a long time–actually, hang on, I can literally look that up: it’d been a little over two years–since I bought any McDonalds, so I decided to go for it this time.)
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†Fun prosopagnosia fact: Katniss Everdeen looks a lot like I would without glasses, but Jennifer Lawrence looks nothing like me.
††Maybe I should make an updated list of utility-belt contents: I keep finding myself wanting to link to it and only having the 2012 version available.
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#when Mom asks me what I want for my birthday/Hanukkah and I’ve run out of ideas #I look at the camping section of Amazon and see if I can find any Useful Thing inspiration there #pretty sure that’s how I found the solar-powered phone charger #(which I don’t own yet but I expect I’ll get it for my birthday) #oh look an original post #meme #adventures in University Land #food #(ever since the Pillowfort thing I’ve been noticing just how often my posts link to previous posts on my Tumblr) #(almost any post where I contribute significantly #–rather than just ”hey here’s a neat thing”– #is part of a broader context of my other writings) #(and many of said writings are comments) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
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