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Falling for Autumn
This Switzerland tourism ad campaign is laser-targeted at me, personally. Maybe I do need Swiss autumn!
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Is my blue your blue?
This website attempts to ascertain your personal blue-green boundary by making you look at slight variations on the same greeny-bluey blue-green until you have the chromatic equivalent of semantic satiation and categorize them as either blue or green. It told me that my boundary is located hue 175, which is apparently bluer than 65% of the population.
My blue does not include Travis Kelce's eyes, which I have always held to be very obviously green. I may have even jested about the failing New York Times when they off-handedly referred to them as blue in their profile of the Eanes brothers. They possibly actually attempted some fact-checking, though, because it transpires that Donna Kelce is convinced that her son's eyes are blue.
This revelation caused enough of a kerfuffle that it worked its way back to the New Heights team and they addressed it in this week's No Dumb Questions segment. Jason agrees with me that they're green. Travis sided with all factions by saying that they change colors, but what he put on his (presumably now current) driver's license is green. Vindication!
My blue does not include Travis Kelce's eyes, which I have always held to be very obviously green. I may have even jested about the failing New York Times when they off-handedly referred to them as blue in their profile of the Eanes brothers. They possibly actually attempted some fact-checking, though, because it transpires that Donna Kelce is convinced that her son's eyes are blue.
This revelation caused enough of a kerfuffle that it worked its way back to the New Heights team and they addressed it in this week's No Dumb Questions segment. Jason agrees with me that they're green. Travis sided with all factions by saying that they change colors, but what he put on his (presumably now current) driver's license is green. Vindication!
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Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto
I’m really enjoying this new NFL RPF fic! It’s so sweet and fun and more than a little saucy, and the Travis Kelce characterization is on point. Definitely going to subscribe to the author, someone named Taylor Swift? She really knows her stuff. Can’t wait to see what she writes next!
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“the only life I am sure of is the life of the Imagination”
Enormously sad to see that A.S. Byatt has died.
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I see skies of blue
If anyone wants a BlueSky invite code, I have three to give away!
Or if you want to follow me there, I have an account, although it's fairly quiet at the moment.
Or if you want to follow me there, I have an account, although it's fairly quiet at the moment.
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Vid Rec: Me and the Devil, Folk of the Air, Jude/Cardan
Some straight-up fae magic here by hurleybird. The actual sources are the Netflix series Cursed and the CW series Legacies, but the edit is astonishing.
Makes me want to reread the Folk of the Air books again.
Makes me want to reread the Folk of the Air books again.
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Math with Whit and Brady
In response to a prompt from ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
Royals, someone posed the following question:
IfWhitMerrifield can paint a house in 3 hours & Bsinger51 can paint the same house in 5 hours, how long does it take for them to paint it together?
WhitMerrifield: 5 hours. I make Brady paint the house while I crack a beer and watch.
Bsinger51: You don't even drink beer.
Too cute.
If
Too cute.
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I said, "I will write to them" — but they didn't believe me!
There’s new canon in the 3,750-year-old fandom I wrote for a few Yuletides ago.
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canonical coffeeshop AUs
It's probably just as well that I don't live in Japan or I would be far too tempted to scoop up all of this adorable Café Inui merch. How can you say no to delicious probability 100%?
Meanwhile, Peter Moylan is serving the rest of the Royals coffee drinks out of his locker, including a signature drink involving espresso and chocolate milk over ice that he calls a "Sledge-iatto". Yum.
Meanwhile, Peter Moylan is serving the rest of the Royals coffee drinks out of his locker, including a signature drink involving espresso and chocolate milk over ice that he calls a "Sledge-iatto". Yum.
TODD BONZALEZ
Struggling to come up with a name for an original character? Why not use one of these fine suggestions from the 1995 Super Famicom game Fighting Baseball? They are incredible. Like, literally incredible.
the warmer the coffee, the softer the hands
This video where Vikings defensive end Brian Robison goes around asking his teammates who on the team would make the best hand model is incredible. The Vikings may be struggling on the field, but their locker room game is still on point.
Edit: Replaced link to video with HD version. Thanks, NFLVideoConverterBot!
Edit: Replaced link to video with HD version. Thanks, NFLVideoConverterBot!
I Constantly Thank God for Escobar
There's just nothing fair about this incredible 6-3 double play from last night. Carlos Gomez had just broken up Ian Kennedy's no-hitter with a leadoff single in the bottom of the sixth. Marwin Gonzalez followed it up with a bloop that by rights should have fallen for a hit in an awkward spot in shallow center. Instead, Alcides Escobar raced out, made a sliding over-the-shoulder catch, popped back up to his feet and doubled Gomez off with a long throw to first. There's a reason they call him El Mago.
Once more, with Statcast.
Once more, with Statcast.
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if you start me up I'll never stop
Longtime readers with good memories will remember my debilitating obsession with a photograph of Bill Gates from his high school yearbook. Well, he's just painstakingly recreated it for a reddit AMA verification photo and it is amazing.
( start button )
( start button )
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it's here!
The baseball season officially begins when Salvy posts his first video of Cain on Instagram.
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baseball withdrawal
I went downstairs and found my mom using the YouTube app on the bluray player to watch compilations of Salvador Pérez's Instagram videos.
The last I knew, she had no idea that there was a YouTube app on there or how to do anything with it.
The last I knew, she had no idea that there was a YouTube app on there or how to do anything with it.
Curtis Granderson : Lucas Duda :: Salvador Pérez : Lorenzo Cain
Met's Lucas Duda is an Instagram Star, Whether He Likes It or Not
Apparently, documenting your teammates against their will on Instagram is A Thing, and I love it. Is this not a form of fanwork? Who says that pros can't be fans of their fellow pros?
Apparently, documenting your teammates against their will on Instagram is A Thing, and I love it. Is this not a form of fanwork? Who says that pros can't be fans of their fellow pros?
auspices
Yesterday's Royals game was a bit alarming, I'll admit. With two more games to be played in Toronto, things could have gotten very messy very quickly. Which they did…for the Blue Jays.
I wound up deeply pitying the Blue Jays pitchers, who included two old men, a rookie, and a position player, the last of which is apparently a first in the history of postseason baseball, all desperately attempting to keep something in reserve for tomorrow without actually letting the game continue until tomorrow, and giving up 14 runs in the process. Ultimately, the Royals did not actually need to run the score up that much, as they also held the Blue Jays to two runs, but it was fun to take the wind from beneath their wings.
This piece about Chris Young, posted before the game started, is easily the finest piece of humorous sports writing I have read this year. I love watching him pitch.
I wound up deeply pitying the Blue Jays pitchers, who included two old men, a rookie, and a position player, the last of which is apparently a first in the history of postseason baseball, all desperately attempting to keep something in reserve for tomorrow without actually letting the game continue until tomorrow, and giving up 14 runs in the process. Ultimately, the Royals did not actually need to run the score up that much, as they also held the Blue Jays to two runs, but it was fun to take the wind from beneath their wings.
This piece about Chris Young, posted before the game started, is easily the finest piece of humorous sports writing I have read this year. I love watching him pitch.
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Rose Wilder Lane ebooks
I haven't actually read any of these yet, but I thought I'd link them for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coercedbynutmeg and anyone else who might be interested in Rose Wilder Lane's writing outside the Little House books.
I am so close to getting my hands on a copy of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography! Only sixteen people ahead of me!
These books are all available to download or read online at any time:
The Making of Herbert Hoover (1919) is the solution to the mystery of why Rose Wilder Lane's papers are held in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
Charlie Chaplin's Own Story: Being a Faithful Recital of a Romantic Career, Beginning with Early Recollections of Boyhood in London and Closing with the Signing of His Latest Motion-Picture Contract (1916) is another, earlier biography, with an amazingly entertaining subtitle.
Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that Goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch With Humanity (1917), likewise.
Diverging Roads (1919) is the only novel in the selection of public domain titles. It seems to be about a girl trying to make her fortune in telegraph operation.
These books are not exactly free, but you can check out ebooks from Open Library, or at least add your name to the waiting list, which is still pretty great:
Young Pioneers (originally titled Let the Hurricane Roar, 1932) is a novelized version of some of the same material that would later become On the Banks of Plum Creek. Under the original title the names of the characters were actually Charles and Caroline, but they were later changed to David and Molly; I'm not sure if any other changes were made at that time.
Free Land (1938) followed on the success of Let the Hurricane Roar but seems to be a less optimistic take on the same material.
Old Home Town (1935) is a collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post which seem, from the introduction, to be aiming towards a sort of portrait of small-town life. Actual story titles: Old Maid, Hired Girl, Immoral Woman, Long Skirts, Traveling Man, Thankless Child, Nice Old Lady. I am not making these up.
coercedbynutmeg and anyone else who might be interested in Rose Wilder Lane's writing outside the Little House books.I am so close to getting my hands on a copy of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography! Only sixteen people ahead of me!
These books are all available to download or read online at any time:
The Making of Herbert Hoover (1919) is the solution to the mystery of why Rose Wilder Lane's papers are held in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
Charlie Chaplin's Own Story: Being a Faithful Recital of a Romantic Career, Beginning with Early Recollections of Boyhood in London and Closing with the Signing of His Latest Motion-Picture Contract (1916) is another, earlier biography, with an amazingly entertaining subtitle.
Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that Goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch With Humanity (1917), likewise.
Diverging Roads (1919) is the only novel in the selection of public domain titles. It seems to be about a girl trying to make her fortune in telegraph operation.
These books are not exactly free, but you can check out ebooks from Open Library, or at least add your name to the waiting list, which is still pretty great:
Young Pioneers (originally titled Let the Hurricane Roar, 1932) is a novelized version of some of the same material that would later become On the Banks of Plum Creek. Under the original title the names of the characters were actually Charles and Caroline, but they were later changed to David and Molly; I'm not sure if any other changes were made at that time.
Free Land (1938) followed on the success of Let the Hurricane Roar but seems to be a less optimistic take on the same material.
Old Home Town (1935) is a collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post which seem, from the introduction, to be aiming towards a sort of portrait of small-town life. Actual story titles: Old Maid, Hired Girl, Immoral Woman, Long Skirts, Traveling Man, Thankless Child, Nice Old Lady. I am not making these up.
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speaking of Jane Austen
My Austen-loving former teachers on Facebook shared some positive reviews of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: a Musical, which has Jane herself a character, revising her manuscript of First Impressions into its published form.
Although I am thousands of miles from being able to check out the show itself, they have a large selection of demo recordings on their Soundcloud page that I've been really enjoying. My favorites are Not Romantic (Charlotte Lucas's song), Miss Bennet (the Lizzie vs. Lady Catherine showdown) and When I Fall in Love.
Although I am thousands of miles from being able to check out the show itself, they have a large selection of demo recordings on their Soundcloud page that I've been really enjoying. My favorites are Not Romantic (Charlotte Lucas's song), Miss Bennet (the Lizzie vs. Lady Catherine showdown) and When I Fall in Love.