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@justice-turtle, saw this and thought of you.

(Sorry about cutting the leftmost bit off. This was on a high shelf (meaning I couldn’t see what I was doing and have a decent camera angle at the same time) and I was in a bit of a hurry.)

(For the curious, this rock is part of a geology exhibit at the Ecotarium museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. I went there in late November while visiting relatives over Thanksgiving weekend.)

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#it’s pretty and local #this took me significantly more than five minutes here in Tuesday #though most of trouble was digging through your blog trying to figure out whether your location was public knowledge #(I couldn’t remember whether you’d limited it to friends-locked posts) #(in which case I ought to maintain the secret) #(but no I found some public posts mentioning it) #oh look an original post #geology #(bonus fun fact: Worcester is pronounced approximately ‘WUH-ster’) #(like ‘Worcestershire sauce’ but without the ‘-shire’) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Happy Valentine’s Day from an aromantic asexual

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Okay, fodder finally sold (I had to drop most of them to 29k and wait an additional half-hour, but eventually they went), spent all my treasure on gene scrolls, time to go to bed.

I think tomorrow I might go through my alert history, auction listings, and hoard and count up how many genes I’ll have flipped by the time I’m done. I haven’t directly kept track of scroll-flipping profits because it’d slow me down too much, so number-of-scrolls is the best I can do.

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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #this concludes your dragon-capitalism liveblogging for tonight #oh look an original post

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There’s roughly two pages of adults before mine. The treasure marketplace resets its stock in fifteen minutes, which means the gene pickings are slim for a while afterward. Usual computer-shutting-off time is only twenty minutes later.

*fidgets*

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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #I may end up staying up a little late wrapping everything up #oh look an original post #(I’m *pretty* sure it’s in fifteen minutes?) #(I have trouble keeping straight whether ‘odd-numbered hours’ is FR time or mine) #(pretty sure it’s mine)

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Okay, here goes. 66 adult fodder, 29,995 treasure each. (There are so few dragons between 29,500 and 30,000 that selling them for a non-round number looks like it’ll actually be practical.) Pre-named, for your convenience!

For combo bonus points, I intend to immediately re-invest all the money into gene scrolls while Lightning still has dominance.

(I don’t especially enjoy participating in heated dom battles, but standing aside and selling popcorn while other people duke it out is great.)

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#Flight Rising #I made a spreadsheet #(because of course I did) #to calculate the profits of various types of gene scroll #there’s columns for both absolute profit and profit as a percentage of the cost of the scroll #I’ve been working with absolute profit throughout the week because I had enough seed money to afford to do that #but now I’m putting all my treasure into stockpiling the higher-percentage scrolls #oh look an original post

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“And if you, gentle reader, have never seen a nervous rocket mechanic, complete with monkey suit, being buzzed by nine thousand demented bats and trying to beat them off with a shovel, there is something missing from your experience.”

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#out of context quotes robnost style #it is rare that I see something and think ‘…I’m going to blog this.’ #but this was one of those occasions #oh look an original post

Tag 12 followers you’d like to get to know better…

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(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.

I tag: @justice-turtle, @ellaenchanting, @arbitrarilychosen, @cosmic-llin, @cakehorse, and it’s not letting me tag @depizan for some reason. [insert standard disclaimers about lack of pressure for those I tagged and ability to use me as an excuse for those I didn’t]

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#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

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(somewhat related to this thread:)

I think I may have just figured out why I hate “The Little Drummer Boy”. (I mean, more than most Christmas songs.)

My mom’s been rewatching The West Wing lately. I was mostly drowning it out on my headphones, as there’s rather a lot of awkwardness in The West Wing for my liking, but when they started playing “The Little Drummer Boy” I didn’t think I could safely drown it out. So, I ended up watching the final bit, and I was like ‘…hang on, wait a minute’.

I asked Mom when she first started watching The West Wing.

“I think I saw this episode when it originally aired.”

The episode was set in the then-present day of Christmas 1999. I was six years old the first time I saw this episode, with several re-runs over the next few years. Tiny Brin at her most relevantly psychologically vulnerable, hearing “The Little Drummer Boy” played over a funeral. Hello, Pavlov, my old friend.

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Happy New Year, everyone!

As is our tradition, my family gathered in the living room to eat hors d’oeuvres and chocolates while we watched the Times Square feed on TV. A couple minutes after midnight, we had the annual realisation that none of us know the words to “Auld Lang Syne” past the first verse and so can’t sing very much of it ourselves, the annual hasty scramble to find a recorded version to play instead, and the annual reminder that we don’t speak Scottish and the reason we can never remember the other lyrics is because we can’t understand them.

Ah, tradition.

(On the other hand, “getting out a smartphone and bringing up an ‘Auld Lang Syne’ video on the Youtube app” is absolutely the right way to ring in a mid-2010′s year. It felt very Correct.)

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#oh look an original post #New Years #proud citizen of The Future #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now

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I’m back from my meetup with @sinesalvatorem! I am neither kidnapped nor dead in a ditch! (Can’t make any promises about mind-controlled: it could just be really subtle.)

I had a good time, and I think she did too. There was the occasional awkward cultural issue, but I suppose it’s to be expected. We talked a bunch and ate Chinese food and talked some more.

A lot of the conversation was about differences in Canada vs America vs [Redacted], and that was interesting, but it was very neat the way we also had shared cultural referents from being in the same Internet social group. I’m used to having to either explain a bunch of backstory or be very vague when talking offline about stuff I read on the Internet, but with her I could just say “You know Ozy’s blog post, the one that starts with them talking about how they took the Wizard’s Oath as a kid” and yes, she knows. (For those of you I know from other Internet social groups who are wondering what I’m referring to, here’s a link to satisfy your curiosity.) It was nice to experience that.

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#oh look an original post #I might go back to that Chinese place later #I’d never been there before but the fried rice was very tasty

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