(12 is kind of a lot, let’s halve it. (Has anyone ever made a meme where the number of followers you were supposed to tag scales with the number of followers you have?))
Tagged by: @sinesalvatorem (who is still the very first option in the drop-down list Tumblr provides when I press the at key, for reasons I’m not clear on)
Name: Brin
Sign: I was removed under Scorpio. If I had been born, I would have almost certainly been a Sagittarius. (Watching all the astrology posts that go around Tumblr, Sagittarius is a less awful fit than Scorpio, but they are both remarkably terrible for something that’s supposed to be carefully generic.)
Height: 5′3″ (unless you ask my brain’s internal body map, which never updated after my final growth spurt and insists I’m somewhere around 5′1″)
Average hours of sleep: ~9
Lucky number: *shrug*
Last thing I googled: I’m not sure which one was the most recent. It might have been “for what he thought was h2o was h2so4″, because I was trying to remember how the rhyme goes. (Turns out there’s a bunch of different versions. This one seems closest to what I was thinking of, only without the cat.)
Number of blankets I sleep with: On my bed, I keep a light blanket, a medium blanket, a weighted blanket, and a duvet, which I mix and match depending on the temperature and location in my circadian cycle. (People tend to be coldest a couple hours before awakening for the day, and I sometimes wake up then, pull another blanket over me, and go back to sleep.) Last night, I used the weighted blanket and the medium blanket, and didn’t add another one during the night.
Favorite fictional characters: Well, I do own a Constable Odo T-shirt.
Favorite book: Not sure
What are you wearing right now: Black sweatpants, a baggy black sweatshirt my uncle gave me with “United States Army” written on it (I never wear it in public, but it makes for good house clothes), and I was wearing a dark blue hoodie with “Guides Canada” on it (as shown here), but I’ve warmed up enough that I think I’ll take it off now.
When did I start this blog: August 29th, 2011.
Amount of followers: 137, though that’s including the spambots.
What do I post mostly: Things that amused me, neat facts, replies to other people’s stuff.
Do I run any more blogs: I used to run ds9rewatch, but I haven’t been active there lately.
Most active follower: @justice-turtle, who is good at reassuring me that someone is paying attention. *hugs*
What made me get a Tumblr: Following my fourth Tumblr via RSS. RSS Tumblr feeds (at least at that time) didn’t work very well: there was a delay of sometimes multiple days, and often the posts would arrive in scrambled order. I decided I would probably be better off with a proper dashboard.
(I’ve since unfollowed two of those Tumblrs and one was deleted, making @doctorwho the only Tumblr I have followed continuously for my entire time here.)
Why did I get this URL: It was a pre-established username.
#yes I am very fond of that hoodie #I’m a little worried about what will happen when it wears out #it seems to have been discontinued and I can’t find any evidence on the Internet that it ever even existed #let alone where to find a secondhand one #depizan #meme #oh look an original post
(2/2) I start off by checking in manually every so often, and if I find myself checking frequently enough (and don’t have any particular desire to save their posts for when I feel like reading them specifically), I eventually figure I might as well just follow them. Your process was a little bit accelerated because I responded to your post asking for new people to talk to, which prompted the same “well, if I’m going to do that, I’ve clearly reached the point where I should follow them” reaction.
Interesting, and good to know.
What first brought this blog to your notice?
Your interactions with other rationalist-sphere people that I already followed. Probably Alison was the plurality of it, but she was definitely not the only contributor.
Ok.
(That was what I assumed, but it doesn’t have good implications for future expansion unless I’ve already hit a critical mass)
Why does it have bad implications? Is the implication that pretty much everyone who was going to encounter your posts already has?
If so, bear in mind that not all blogs are firmly associated with a single community. I count about half a dozen recognisable blogospheres represented among my <150 followers. I’ve definitely ended up introducing things and people to spheres that wouldn’t have encountered them otherwise, even when I wasn’t intentionally trying to spread the word. I doubt I’m the only one, either.
(2/2) I start off by checking in manually every so often, and if I find myself checking frequently enough (and don’t have any particular desire to save their posts for when I feel like reading them specifically), I eventually figure I might as well just follow them. Your process was a little bit accelerated because I responded to your post asking for new people to talk to, which prompted the same “well, if I’m going to do that, I’ve clearly reached the point where I should follow them” reaction.
Interesting, and good to know.
What first brought this blog to your notice?
Your interactions with other rationalist-sphere people that I already followed. Probably Alison was the plurality of it, but she was definitely not the only contributor.
There’s an issue affecting rendering images in the dashboard for a small number of users. Should be resolved shortly.
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #that might explain those absences that were supposed to be pictures of moths #but the moths have loaded now #(I recommend following @support if you haven’t already) #(it helps shorten those moments like ‘wtf what is this new airplane button for’)
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything on Jan. 23 where people, well, asked him anything.
Kelly answered a range of questions from whether the crew members play space pranks on one another (“Occasionally…” Kelly said without elaboration.) to whether Kelly’s recovery plan will be different than normal (“I think my rehab plan is the same as if I were here for 6 months, but I’m not positive.”).
To start off, here are a few quick facts we learned about Kelly during the AMA:
The advice he would’ve given himself before going into space on day 1 would be to pack lighter.
His favorite David Bowie song is “Modern Love,” and his favorite non-space related movie is “The Godfather.“
He uses a Nikon D4 when taking pictures (camera settings and lenses vary).
He thought it was cool to watch the movie “Gravity” while he was on the space station, because that’s where the movie took place.
Once he lands, Kelly will miss the challenge of being aboard the space station the most.
Here are a few fun questions that astronaut Scott Kelly answered:
What’s the creepiest thing you’ve encountered while on the job?
Could a rogue spaceship sneak up on the space station?
We finally got an answer for one thing so many of you have been curious about…why does Scott Kelly always fold his arms?
When astronauts go up to space, they experience something very few others have and see Earth from a very unique perspective. What’s one thing Kelly will do differently once he returns home?
Kelly also told one user something unusual about being in space that people normally don’t think about: feet calluses.
Another user wanted to know what the largest societal misconception about space/space travel is. According to Kelly, it has nothing to do with science.
To read the entire Reddit AMA with Kelly, visit his IAmA thread.
Kelly’s #YearInSpace ends Mar. 2. Follow him until the end of the journey (and beyond) on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
I think my favorite part of Commander Kelly’s AMA was realizing that NASA had to ship up the printed Reddit logo for his AMA verification on one of its cargo flights.
It currently costs about $10,000 to send a pound of cargo to low-Earth orbit. There’s about 100 sheets of paper in a pound, so that was a $100 sheet of paper. Maybe the most expensive single Reddit logo on or off this planet.
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#space #the brightest star in our sky #the more you know #long post
I, a cold and callous millennial, have no interest in face to face conversations, because i am constantl jacked into the information supersoupway, i ride the pale lightning, my body is a conduit for an unending stream of html
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #my past self has good taste
Yep! Due to generally low levels of exposure to American media, plus ADHDish issues that prevent me from focusing on a film unless I’m watching it with someone, I had not seen any of the Star Wars movies until yesterday.
However, yesterday, @rusalkii and I scheduled some time together (because we are girlfriends) and watched A New Hope (because we are nerds) and bitched about it the whole time (because we are Jews).
*late Star Wars watching fistbump*
I watched it for the first time about a month ago. It didn’t live up to the hype, but really, nothing could.
(I did find out that Toy Story (and especially its spinoff series, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) contains even more Star Wars references than I thought it did. Clearly, then, I did level up in cultural literacy, which is the primary thing I wanted out of watching A New Hope, so in that respect it succeeded.)
(Personally, I only bitch about videos the whole time if I’m re-watching them or if I actually hate them. If I don’t hate it and haven’t seen it before, I stay quiet while the video’s on. After all, if I talk during the video, I’ll miss even more of it than I normally would.)
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#reply via reblog #Star Wars #I have an unfortunate tendency to treat TV and movies like audioplays with a *bit* of visual enhancement #I’ll get the broad outline of the visuals and miss most of the details #ask me how many times someone I was watching with said ‘Oh my god the look on his face!’ while I was completely ignoring the guy’s face #(if you ask me I can’t actually answer because I have long since lost count) #(relatedly I would never have guessed that people hate on Keanu Reeves if I hadn’t been told) #(I can fairly often tell when someone is a *bad* actor) #(but the difference between a good actor and an aggressively mediocre one is pretty much all in things I don’t notice anyway)
