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2023.03.08 01:42 - Dari / The Santa Clause
Today I managed to break back into my deviantart, wikipedia, and three old email accounts. Pretty happy about that. I don't know why my wikipedia watchlist includes Dari (the language) and "The Santa Clause". And I'm a little sad I can't easily swap youtube handles the way livejournal used to let you swap usernames on two accounts owned by the same person. But no can do. 

Also at the end of the culmination of the blood pilgrimage arc last night Ben sent me a message: "That was amazing; I got a little teary eyed." I was so fucking happy to see that. I don't even think the pilgrimage was the best thing I'd done so far; the Robots of Tronno arc was better. And before that I thought I'd done a good job with the Malachai and Feywild arcs. 

And I think my dental hygienist might be a conspiracist theorist (Today: "Did Will Smith ACTUALLY slap Chris Rock?" and "Microwaves suck all the nutrients out of food"), but I'm not gonna be arguing with the person who has their sharp metal tools in my mouth. 


duinemerwen: (Default)
2022.04.08 02:19
 I sure wish I'd picked a username that was easy to pronounce. Fewer vowels. Chunkier syllables. Abbreviatable. Could've picked Pethron or Mitheryn or Athanwen or Asthiril or some other terrible combination of elvish words mashed together. Duinhareth's starting to sound pretty good. If only I'd thought ahead to the day that I might have ever wanted to play video games online and actually talk to the other players. What a fool I was! 

At least I didn't end up with one of them usernames that end with "-iel" but things could still have been so much better! 
duinemerwen: (Default)
2017.01.04 01:45 - Hello world!
I made a dreamwidth account. It's been a long time coming. I will keep crossposting to livejournal as semisilence. Despite what the footer might say comments are not disabled on livejournal.

Now excuse me while I have an existential crisis about my future work/life balance while getting as drunk as possible on my last bottle of cider and playing video games.
duinemerwen: (draco malfoy wishes you a happy holiday)
2016.11.02 21:21 - The last few days
Pictures from the Weekend


After getting the oldest cache in Toronto


wilket creek


wilket creek


engineer two-year-old at the aga khan museum

Later that week
- Tokyomilk Bulletproof arrived. Love it. Smells like very smooth rubber, dark wood, and leather. Later, a bit of tea when the rubber subsides, and coconut, though not so much as other people seem to detect. Maybe the coconut is just part of what smooths out the scent.
- made assignments for Sami
- went to an "informal get-to-know-you" with a director at a firm. Turned out to kinda be an interview. FML.
- the shibari in The Weeknd's Earned It video is definitely fake
- quietly freaking out about what to do after graduating
- creeped on my own facebook page. Man, things have changed. I used to post more frequently on FB, to a larger audience. Now it's just LJ to a few people. I seemed happier than I actually was, for sure. I probably was less happy then.
- occasionally contemplate moving from LJ to, like, Wordpress, but... it's good enough for GRRM so it's good enough for me. GRRM also writes with DOS though. This is not a great comparison.
- at least switch usernames or something
- well, I definitely wish I saved my old CSS files to see how that's changed.
duinemerwen: (Ampersand)
Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.

If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit... the least you can do is try to forgive them.
-- Saga

Well, this morning I dreamed that I was told to get dressed to go to a restaurant decorated in the baroque style. He told me not to worry about the bill and ordered some succulent lobster dumplings with salmon roe, mysterious cooked beast, orgy, etc. The bill was $800, no drinks. The dude escaped through the bathroom window because he was jealous of our dining companions and didn't expect the bill to be so high. A silver fox and an older woman I'd seen before at the sauna with silver hair and flawless skin picked up the bill. I found him outside and broke up with him on the spot. Then I walked home in the snow - in open-toed heels - wondering if I should take him back, because maybe it would be worth it.

So I went back the next day and talked to Mystery Man about PAYING ONE'S BILLS, and he promised not to climb out bathroom windows anymore. But somehow at that point... the urge to get back together had totally evaporated. And I woke up.

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Six years later, I've just figured out that you can give security settings to uploaded photos. And albums. Sometimes separately. Herp.


Andrea did tell me that all cats are insane in their own way.
duinemerwen: (draco malfoy wishes you a happy holiday)
2015.06.27 16:02 - Formatting test post
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duinemerwen: (Ampersand)
2015.05.12 22:26 - this is a post
I'm considering renaming this journal or switching to dreamwidth since I only use semisilence on LJ. After all I've been casually squatting on a kickass DW username for years.

--

Anyways today on Pharmacy I saw a really cool jungle gym thing at Wishing Well Woods (Pharmacy/Sheppard).

Inside, if you can see it, is a lattice of rope. Imagine calculating the forces on that thing! 3D trusses, man. Considering friction most of the joints are probably fixed in place but STILL INTERESTING.

This is my favourite cache of the day. Lovely bug-free tree, classic hiding place.

I would have gone 9 for 9 if I'd read the instructions on the last cache. Alas.
duinemerwen: (Ampersand)
2015.01.30 12:51 - soh cah toa
One of the classes I'm taking is cross-listed between planning and engineering. As far as I can tell, planning is more about being broad-minded and considering options and stakeholders and the future, and engineering is - similar to planning, but with the albatross of technical education hanging around one's neck and steering one towards what's most likely to be technically feasible. Having read planning reports at BA, it does seem a lot of content is there to satisfy city bylaws for bike parking and stuff. You can't really affect walkability at the consulting level. At the municipal level, city planners are definitely more suited to deal with stakeholders and the vision of what a city should be.

Anyways, about the trig - in the tutorial, the prof was discussing rolling resistance, air resistance, and gravity as forces that impede the motion of a transit vehicle. Gravity, in particular, seemed to give the planning students some difficulty.



In this picture, gravity (mg) is resolved into acceleration and normal force. We didn't touch the normal force. But we took, like, fifteen minutes to derive the downhill force. Including five minutes discussing "soh cah toa". Some planning students haven't seen a theta since grade 12 :P

I wrote this post because soh cah toa is soft.

When my mom taught me trig I got yelled at until I'd memorized all the trig ratios for 0, 30, 45, 60, and 90 in all four quadrants. This is stuff one should just visualize and know because it's so basic. Like times tables. Learn it once. Know it. Love it. Never soh cah toa. Soh cah toa takes at least five seconds to spell out in your head and figure out what each acronym means.

When the prof was planning this course (speaking of planning, he's cross listed between engineering and planning, has PhD in electrical engineering, and is pretty much a great guy except for / including when he rags on Mississauga), there are two types of questions - the shared type, for which planning and engineering students are both deemed competent enough to solve, and the type where you pick either the planning or the engineering question, so that planners don't knock themselves out trying to integrate and the engineers can avoid writing more than 300 words at a time.

Good course.

Guy throwing concrete buckets onto a roof:


Concrete buckets are heavy. Setting up an actual concrete pumping system is expensive. So when labour is cheap, one transports concrete by throwing it on the roof.

The range of an excavator:


Also Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014 is open again! I've been voting since 2007. This was also my #1 source for wallpapers for years. Vote! 
duinemerwen: (technobabble)
2012.06.22 22:15 - The 500 post milestone
I just got out of one of the best Fridays in recent memory. Spent time chilling with a few guys in the pulley lab, asking questions to a worn eraser with "Yes" on one side and "No" on the other. 

(Conclusion: One of us will meet our ends at the end of an average-height man with a monocle.)

Then went to build the bloody boat with my group, which rapidly degenerated into a game of Texas hold'em with rainbow coloured popsicle sticks, and several rounds of drunken Big Two. We made a lot of progress on the boat too. Although I've never been brozoned so fast in my life.

("You're going to see whom after this meeting? Oh, are they cute?" "... Yes.")

The final leg of the journey was spent bumming nachos off 1957, bothering 221, and basking in contentment. 

Anyways in celebration of two and a half years and 500 posts, I'm going to restore my old posts to their former public status, ending an era of retroactive self-censorship. Originally I was also planning on performing some analysis on post subject, anger of content, and the like, but meh. No point looking too far backwards.

Cheerio.
duinemerwen: (amok time)
2012.06.20 01:43 - unreliable narrator
still nothing to see here )
duinemerwen: (hip late night)
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