On Surreal Sunday fallen ginkgo leaves become golden labyrinths. These ephemeral mazes are the creation of Sacramento State University counselor Joanna Hedrick. She’s been creating them every autumn since 2013 as a beautiful gift to students facing their final exams.
“[My art] is about taking something that’s already beautiful and making something unique—something you don’t just pass by,” Hedrick says.
Hedrick’s designs include spirals, concentric circles, and a hornet hive pattern. Each one takes between two to three hours to complete and she tends to make about six per season.
#cat #adorable #(I turned it upside down and studied it for a while) #(trying to find any tells regarding whether the cat was actually upside down or if the image was just rotated) #(the only thing I could really find was that textured surfaces like that are fairly common for ceilings and rare for floors)
“Old friend” either means an elderly dog or an individual of the same gender with whom you have been secretly in love for more than a decade. There are no other possible interpretations.
This is blatant archenemy erasure and I won’t stand for it
Bold of you to assume the archenemy isn’t the individual of the same gender you’ve been secretly in love with for more than a decade
Bold of you to assume the archenemy isn’t an elderly dog
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(rules of thumb: if I describe an *identified* person as ”an old friend” they are in fact a friend I have had for a while) #((I would say the threshold is 3 – 4 years rather than 10)) #((but perhaps that changes with age as you have more time to accumulate 10+-year relationships)) #(if I make a vague reference to ”an old friend I had who [did X]/[told me about Y]/[etc]” they’re probably) #(somebody I’ve since lost contact with) #(or they unapologetically hurt me one too many times and I couldn’t stand to be around them anymore)
I’ll admit, I forgot that was a thing as it was never something I saw as a kid. I don’t think it was ever shown in my country? It was something I only really found out about later on and mostly via pop culture osmosis due to how often it was referenced in US media.
Probably? Not sure if I had any Magic School Bus toys myself, but it was a big enough thing here† around the turn of the millennium that they probably made some.
Yeah, I just checked and there were indeed toys. Here’s a coupleexamples that came up in Google Images.
(I loved Magic School Bus as a kid, so I thought of it immediately.)
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†”Here” being used fairly broadly. I was living in America at the time, but I know I saw Magic School Bus being broadcast on Canadian TV even into the 10′s. (They might still do it for all I know; I don’t have TV service these days.)
I’ll admit, I forgot that was a thing as it was never something I saw as a kid. I don’t think it was ever shown in my country? It was something I only really found out about later on and mostly via pop culture osmosis due to how often it was referenced in US media.
Starting on my final issue for work. Stay tuned for amusing fury.
I was originally planning on not rewriting *any* of the build infrastructure, but it was *so* bad that it was genuinely more efficient to rewrite it instead of hacking what I needed together.
I have no idea how my co-workers tolerated this for literally years.
Remember kids: once you’ve run it twice it’s time to automate running it.
Good advice that I’ve been trying to keep in mind more often.
(I’ve made more habit-cultivation progress for the somewhat-related guideline of “once you’ve accessed a piece of cloud-based information twice, it’s time to make a local copy of it.”)
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^ Today in “old posts that I keep thinking about”, though this one is rather less old than the previous.
This time, the post is brought to you by learning how to convert online MediaWiki-based wikis into sets of linked HTML files. Now I can play Nethack without Internet access and still look things up on the Nethack wiki!
Next I’m going to research cron tasks some more and see if I can figure out how to meta-automate the automated wiki archiver: make it take a fresh copy once a month, zip it, and leave the zip in the appropriate folder. I’m guessing that’s probably a thing I can do with only slightly more Linux know-how than I currently have. Time to go acquire the slightly-more.
(I probably sound like a total noob, but I’m a total noob with a local copy of the Nethack wiki.)
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#(also the Crawl wiki while I was at it) #I probably need some kind of prepping tag #it keeps coming up in ways that don’t *quite* fit into the memory or phone or finance tags #reply via reblog #(more or less) #Nethack #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
