It’s time to walk around in circles and eat
Pipie, kids. Hop to it.Happy Pi Day!!
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#Pi Day #to celebrate I will go integrate sinusoid functions
Because computers.
So, I’ve been testing alternatives to Google Reader.
NewsBlur is slow, annoying, and only lets you have twelve feeds before it wants to charge you money.
Feedly is supposedly the best alternative out there, but you have to install it on every browser where you want to use it. Who does that anymore?
Chrome apparently has a feed-reader app but again, a) you have to install it, b) you’re SOL if you use anything other than Chrome anywhere (I use Chrome at home and Firefox at work, don’t even start on me, NOTHING I USE FOR WORK WORKS WITH CHROME) and c) who wants to use a drop down feed reader?
I was going to try Waurb, but they don’t apparently have an option to log in without using Facebook, and I don’t actually want my feed reader and my social media forcibly linked.
Taptu apparently can’t find two thirds of my feeds.
Netvibes has a similar issue, but it only seems to struggle with Tumblr (don’t we all) and it’s marginally easier to re-add feeds once you get it set up. Plus they have an auto-detect if you enter a website URL, for those of us with tiny monkey brains who don’t know what to do with XML.
Netvibes seems to be the closest thing to a Reader clone that doesn’t restrict your reading or move so slowly it’s pointless to use, but you have to backflip around their site for a while before you can actually make use of it. I’m pretty sure at one point I pulled my patented “Do magic to make it work” move.
(Go to “Manage Dashboards”, create a new dashboard, delete the one they created for you and filled with irrelevant feeds, then save changes, return to the regular page, delete all the widgets they put in you NEW dashboard, switch it from widget to list view, and then Add Content to add what you actually want. You can import from a Google Reader export file, but you will need to check each feed individually and re-add the ones it can’t find.)
I’m still having some trouble getting Netvibes to pick up my subscription to the Hawkeye (Comics) tag on AO3, plus it keeps insisting that something which was posted yesterday was posted half an hour ago, but there are always little bugs to iron out and it’s picking up the other AO3 tags. At the moment I’m running it side by side with Google Reader, and we’ll see if it keeps up.
Reblogging for sophia_sol and anyone else who’s interested in Google Reader substitutes.
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#PSA #Google Reader #why are you doing this to us Google #(guess I’ll try Netvibes) #(I’ve long since given up on using RSS feeds for Tumblr anyway)
Adorable Boo Cosplay!
im going to cry
WEESRJKLSERKJEKJRKJDRGKJDR
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This is officially the cutest thing ever.
gonna do this with any kids i have. bring them to cons and teach them to walk up to the scariest people there and say “kitty!”
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#Monsters Inc #cosplay #awesome
BISCUIT CANS ARE TERRIFYING
just laughed for a solid five minutes
True Fucking Story
I jump EVERY time I open one of these. Scary shit.
legit shrieked IRL last time I used one
what’s a biscuit can
This is why I hate when Mom insists on stocking up on Pillsbury croissants in America just because they’re a little cheaper. It’s not worth it.
(In Canada, croissant cans look identical (except for the whole bilingual thing), but they don’t open the moment you pull back the paper enough. You have to whack the crap out of them to get them to open, which means you know exactly which points in time it might happen and can mentally prepare yourself.)
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#the more you know #(the following category tags were added retroactively:) #our home and cherished land #home of the brave
Wicked Girls, Seanan McGuire
Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,
Susan and Lucy, we’re calling your names,
All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain
And chose to go back on the shelf.
Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree
You have to break rules if you want to break free.
So do as you like — we’re determined to be
Wicked girls saving ourselves.
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#Seanan McGuire #music #I wouldn’t call it *full* lyrics #she sings it a little differently every time #this isn’t the version I usually hear #but it’s good too
nonicakesss:
I am so glad someone made this cuz I’ve always wondered how the movement of the solar system might look as a whole….
BUT LOOK HOW EPIC THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS GUYS
PEOPLE DON’T BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY WE’RE NEVER IN THE SAME PLACE ONCE.
I WASN’T FUCKING KIDDING.
…
Dairine’s frame of reference suddenly became huger than the whole Earth and the space that contained it, so that her planet seemed only one moving, whirling point plunging along its path through a terrible complexity of forces, among which gravity was a puny local thing and not to be regarded. …Earth spins at seventeen thousand miles an hour, plows along its orbital path at a hundred seventy-five thousand; and the Sun takes it and the whole Solar System off toward the constellation Hercules at a hundred fifteen thousand miles an hour. Then the Sun’s motion as one of innumerable stars in the Sagittarius Arm of the Galaxy sweeps it along at some two million miles an hour, and all the while relationships between individual stars, and those of stars to their planets, shift and change.
It all meant that any one person standing still on any planet was in fact traveling a crazed, corkscrewing path through space, at high speed: and the disorientation and sickness [of personal worldgating travel] were apparently the cause of suddenly, and for the first time, going in a straight line, in a universe where space itself and everything in it is curved….
(High Wizardry, 1990)
Oh right, it’s that thing that people were tearing apart recently.
It is pretty, I must admit.
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#space #lying bastards #the more you know
God dammit Tumblr
kingsgrave replied to your post:
And this is why you rock, kind Sir!I do my best, miss!
scifigrl47 replied to your post:
You are full of untruths! I do not use Missing E, and I am able to comment, as I am doing so now! I think that you have to be following someone for a certain amount of time before the bubble shows up. 8)…even if I am apparently a liar :D
I never got the bubbles AT ALL until I downloaded Missing E, though.
TUMBLR WHY U SO CONFUSING.
I’ve never used any of the “fix Tumblr” extensions and I get the bubbles apparently randomly, on some posts but not others. I believe the official explanation is you have to have been following the OP (not just a reblogger) for two weeks, and you still only get it on certain types of post? Or something like that?
TUMBLR!!!! *Barrowman fistshake*
As I understand it, replies go like this:
If the blogger has “from people following you for two weeks” turned on, you can reply to non-reblogs after two weeks.
If they have “from people you follow” turned on, you can reply to non-reblogs if you both follow each other.
If they have neither turned on (which they may or may not have done on purpose), you cannot reply at all.
(Said buttons are located under Settings, specifically the [insert your blog’s title here] tab on the left sidebar.)
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#the more you know #reply via reblog #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Tumblr: a User’s Guide
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#when I saw just the GIFs I thought of a claw machine rather than a museum heist #but there is a whole other level of appreciation if you watch it with Mission Impossible music playing in your head
{{art by Judith Ann Braun; OP by @iu2}}
