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I think the goose game is so successful because it captures a fundamental human desire to be absolutely but harmlessly bastardous

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Tchaikovsky was inspired to create the piece, ‘Swan Lake’ after watching the film, ‘Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)’. Close friends of Tchaikovsky reported him saying it was, “one of the most emotionally thrilling and aesthetically divine” films he’d ever seen.

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what a breakthrough

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I have become known at my library as the dude who knows how to deal with computers.  I’m not in IT, and I don’t know shit about hardware, but I’m pretty good at figuring out what is causing an error, or how to perform a task in a specific program.  

I have also joked repeatedly that all I really need to do is stand near one of the student computers in the library and it’ll start working again.  I’ve no idea why, but for some reason errors that happen repeatedly just go away whenever I come to look at the computer.

Last week, I helped a student who was having issues with his laptop.  Multiple programs had frozen, but he hadn’t saved his paper, and luckily I was able to get it working long enough for him to save three straight days of work that he otherwise would’ve lost.  It’s worth noting that I spent most of the time I was trying to fix it whispering, “C’mon, baby, work with me” at his computer, because… just because, okay.  It’s what I do, it works, don’t question it.

Anyway, I was around late at work last night, waiting for my ride, when the student worker came back to my office and said there was a small group of students looking for me, and could I give them a hand even though I was off the clock?

Sure, why not.

I came out to find a group of six students, including the guy I helped last week, at a table clustered around one laptop.  I rolled up, said, “Hey, what can I help you with?”, and the guy said, “Can you just hang out here for a second?”

Sure, my dude.  I’m off the clock, I’m listening to a podcast, I can chill at a table with your group until my ride shows up, if you want.

So I spend some time flipping through my phone, only half paying attention, figuring they’re finishing something up and they’ll ask their question as soon as they’re done.  But after a minute, the guy says, “It worked!” and there was a chorus of excitement from the rest of the group. They all thanked me, and excused themselves to go back to class.

Turns out they had a group presentation, and the laptop they were trying to present from had froze up on them.  Not knowing what to do, this guy apparently told his group there was a computer wizard in the library, and that merely being in my presence might be enough to fix it.  To be fair, he… was not wrong.

I just find it delightful that this has become such A Thing that students are now seeking me out.  Not to ask a question, or get some help, but just to stand near their device and share my mythical computer-fixing aura. It’s like being a terribly benign cryptid.

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some of you have never spent 100 years frozen in an iceberg while the world you were responsible for protecting fell to war and it shows

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I have lost count of the number of times I have demonstrated the woodcock walk to park guests and coworkers

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miles “who’s morales” morales’s biggest weakness is the cover story

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Amazing photo of totality in Oregon by photographer Jasman Lion Mander.

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C R I M E S

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goodnight to sexy evil people only

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Me: Alright, new playthrough, new choices, new me

*makes same decisions, romances the same character, receives same outcomes*

Me:

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If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse.” Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to continue living in peace and safety.

And I have no qualms telling you, that is the wrong choice, and you have been brainwashed by this destructive, exploitative system.

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Domesticated Birds: Java Sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora)

The Java Sparrow or Java Finch, is a domesticated finch species that has been a popular cage bird in Asia for centuries, first in Ming Dynasty China and then in Japan from the 17th century, frequently appearing in Japanese paintings and prints. They can exhibit many different color mutations such as pied, fawn, dilute, white, and opal isabel. Their average lifespan in captivity is 6-8 years.

The Java sparrow is considered by a number of countries to be an agricultural pest with respect to rice cultivation. For this reason it is Illegal to keep them in the state of California and they cannot be imported to the United States, although a large captive population has been established since the 1900′s. Due to an ongoing loss of natural habitat, and hunting and trapping for the illegal pet  their numbers have decreased in their native range. 

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