If anyone else is looking to do firework noise exposure ahead of July 4th for the US, or other noisy holidays, this one seems pretty nice! It has a bunch of the whistles, and deeper pops & bangs than the last couple we’ve used.
Have a picture of Emma sleeping in my lap with no concerns even though we went up in volume a bit today!
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#interesting ideas #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I think we need some new traditions for New Years’, now that we’re all online and watching midnight slowly roll across our friends from one side of the world to the other in a big wave. The countdown is all well and good, of course. I’ll never turn down an excuse for a kiss! But something new and supplemental, to help bind together far-flung families and friends.
Daylight savings gives us that saturnalia-type party where you can do whatever you want in the hour that’s about to be overwritten. Is there something useful we could borrow from that? Some ritual that only makes sense while the world is mid-stride between one year and the next, some kind of magic that can leak in through the gap between them.
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#interesting ideas #(I can’t say I’ve ever heard the saturnalia thing myself) #(not even back when I was routinely awake at that time of day) #New Years #signal boosts #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one
while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!
other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:
learn the names/species of local plants, bugs, and birds where you live (iNaturalist or Merlin the bird app help with this)
learn the rules to 10 new card games
steal the colored paint cards from hardware store paint aisles and use them to make art
try out every different apple variety you can find and rank them
similarly LOTS of people in the notes doing soup quests, and a few cheese quests also
similarly lots of people reading/watching certain amounts of media over the year, and tracking/rating it
track the number of cats/dogs/etc you see over the year
there’s plenty more in there too :)
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#New Years #that one post with the thing #interesting ideas #food #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Saw your garland post and I wanted to share a two budget Christmas decor ideas I did this year!
1 . Break down cardboard boxes and wrap them with gift wrap, ribbons, bows. Punch a hole in each edge and put some yarn through to hang it by and put them on the walls.
2. If you have extra picture frames or thrift some, put wrapping paper in the frame as the background and glue paper snowflakes to it as the focal point.
I’m not great at decorating but really wanted to try to make things special this year, and these two budget options helped me fill the walls of my living room for less than $5.
This is extremely cute, and a great use of gift wrap! I’m answering publicly so people can use the idea if it appeals to them.
I personally cannot stand things that are gift wrapped but don’t have actual presents in them, so I would have to…I dunno, wrap books or art prints for myself or something. I am like a toddler in this way. You know those little dollar store tiny presents wrapped in metallic foil that just have a styrofoam block inside?? They make me furious. At least be candy in there or something
Anyway this is adorable.
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#Christmas #interesting ideas #love the decor fandom #domesticity #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
i used to do this thing when people would angrily disagree with me in a forum thread where i would immediately pretend to launch a text-based rpg called TOWER OF THE WIZARD and provide them with settings and scenarios and prompt action inputs from them and for some reason they would start playing it every time
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oh man i had a notion ages ago to start doing like an october-ish Event of getting a bunch of people together to get flu shots and donuts (or something else tasty idk) and I forgot about it til today
I think if getting yearly vaccines was more of a fun social event it’d be a lot easier to do it promptly
and it’s like– if you have a reaction and the vaccine(s) end up making you feel sick the next couple days, well, at least you just got some fun social in right beforehand!
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#happy General-Population Flu Shot Availability Day to all the Ontarians out there #(in theory anyway: I haven’t received a notification from the pharmacy where I’m on a waiting list) #(they *did* let me get the new COVID XBB shot about a week and a half ago though) #interesting ideas #vaccines #illness tw? #food mention
So IDK if people will understand this concept but I made “corner pins”
Basically they are tiny pins with TWO posts on them, and you use them to hold up mementos like instax/photos/tickets etc without having to puncture them, and without having to pinch them with the metal or the push pin edge etc. You can simply rest the corner of the item between the posts gently!
These are the cute ribbon/bow ones, I also made some others that i think would be really cool on your mementos ToT
Let me know what you think about this concept?? I don’t know how to market it but i really thought it was a nice idea T_T. You can find them in my store here
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it works excellently, i highly recommend it. buy a fresh pack of dessicant sachets from Amazon or somewhere and use double sided tape or blutack or whatever to stick them to the inside of the respirator in a place that’s out of the way of your mouth so they don’t bug you. carry extra packets if you go somewhere so you can swap them out if they get saturated. respiration volume and therefore mask wetness is usually roughly correlated to body size, small people usually will go through packets more slowly but that’s not a hard n fast rule. you can dry out wet packets in the oven and reuse them indefinitely if you want to.
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#oh huh #interesting ideas #(I *could* do with some of that lately) #(and I already own a bunch of desiccant packets for putting up dehydrated food) #transhumanism #illness tw?
The squirrels, unfortunately, are dumb as all shit and will absolutely eat a rock on the off chance it might be a strawberry. the same rock. three times a week. and never complain about thier geological misfortune to other squirrels so THOSE squirrels come over and eat rocks too.
So the Berry Zone will require psychological warfare, physical fortifications and regular dog patrols if I’m going to be able to forage fruits like a marmoset as my heart desires.
Come on, give them some credit. Their level of intelligence is irrelevant. Squirrels are made for gnawing through hard things, they’re not gonna be scared of some rock just because it might be an actual rock.
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#gardening #food #interesting ideas #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
One big problem with mystery shows, as compared with (well-signposted) mystery novels, is that they don’t give the viewers time to think things through before the parlor room scene. There’s no clear narrative break-point where the viewer knows they have all needed evidence to solve the mystery and can stop to think; even if the detective comments that they know who did it, what are you going to do, pause 3/5 of the way through the episode to comb over all the clues and discuss the mystery with your friends and so forth? That’s impossible during the initial serialized release (since TVs don’t allow one to pause), and impractical when watching via stream or disk (since it requires groups of people to take the generally-unnatural action of staying paused in the middle of an episode for an extended timespan, and that’s if they know where to pause at all).
Fortunately, there happens to exist an already-developed TV structure perfect for avoiding this problem: the structure of the 1966-1968 Batman series. Each two-episode story (which was the show’s default length, albeit with occasional exceptions (always in the longer direction, not shorter)) ends its first episode with Batman and Robin in some sort of death-trap, and its second episode starts with them escaping the trap and ends with them beating the story’s villain(s).
I’d really like to see a mystery show based on a similar structure. The default story length is two episodes. The first episode of each story ends with a dramatic reveal after which, by one contrivance or another, the audience is clearly told that the case is now solvable. The second episode then starts with the protagonists responding to the big reveal, and ends with the parlor room scene. Live viewers get a week to think through and discuss the solution between the episodes’ releases, and after-the-fact viewers get the advantage of a clear narrative break-point at which to coordinate their pausing-and-thinking, for an overall-improved mystery-solving experience relative to the current one-episode-per-story status quo.
(For bonus quality-of-life, make sure each episode is free to stream at least until the release of its associated parlor-room-scene episode, such that live viewers are on equal footing with archival viewers in terms of being able to rewatch pre-reveal episodes and refresh their memory about all the clues.)
maryellencarter replied: The 1970s Ellery Queen TV show had a point just before the last commercial break where Ellery would turn to the viewer, recap the case, and mention that it was now solvable. At original broadcast it would only have given you a few minutes to think things over, but it was sort of a thought in the same direction.
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Brinens and Things 