About a week in from stopping smoking and my throat has cleared completely and quite suddenly, too. Startled myself at how loud I was when telling Alexa to do stuff.
What made me happy today?
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Lol, that post was my 1000th, so it got me the "Addicted" trophy. That's exactly the problem!
It's my birthday! I turn 36 today.
Happy birthday! Welcome to my advanced old age. Hope you like it.
A happy ending of sorts for one thread of my cover art snafu previously detailed in the Unhappy thread: I talked to some folks over on an indie authors Discord server while looking for people who could identify other AI hallmarks to bolster my case and met someone who offers free replacement art for people scammed by AI
Huge weight off my shoulders there, because I really wasn’t looking forward to searching for artists in my budget all over again after this whole ordeal.
We’ll be starting work after the New Year, and I’m very excited to see what comes of this generous offer!
Huge weight off my shoulders there, because I really wasn’t looking forward to searching for artists in my budget all over again after this whole ordeal.
We’ll be starting work after the New Year, and I’m very excited to see what comes of this generous offer!
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That sounds like a great idea
I loved the discussions I had with the right people. There are absolutely the wank stains who like to bluster, but the people who actually enjoyed the reading and wanted to go deeper into it with me were some of the best classes I had. Only class I struggled with literature wise was my Shakespeare one, but only because the professor expected everyone to be almost PhD level of writer for our papers, and we were baby undergrads.
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My happy thing for today is I got a lot of stuff done in the kitchen. Finally got the depression shrine washed and now the dishes are drying. Made a few snacks, and I'm trying out some of those "Souper Cubes" for some meal prepping. Now I'm going to journal and then read a bit.
Today I'm happy to celebrate the cloud. I can't stand cloud based applications. That doesn't change the fact we are far safer because of it.
It was on this day in 1836 that the US Patent Office burned. As with the destruction of the library at Alexandria, humanity suffered an intellectual loss we have yet, 189 years later, fully recovered.
Today we are blessed with the advantage of technology. The cloud keeps our great repositories of knowledge and culture secure from harm through the magic of offsite backups and geologically diverse hosting. No longer can our wealth of knowledge disappear in a cloud of smoke.
TikTok is safe.
It was on this day in 1836 that the US Patent Office burned. As with the destruction of the library at Alexandria, humanity suffered an intellectual loss we have yet, 189 years later, fully recovered.
Today we are blessed with the advantage of technology. The cloud keeps our great repositories of knowledge and culture secure from harm through the magic of offsite backups and geologically diverse hosting. No longer can our wealth of knowledge disappear in a cloud of smoke.
TikTok is safe.
@TrevorD and @Louanne Learning, I posted that Philosophy paper in the Showcase! Go ahead and read.
Here's a good one, a little bit obvious once you see it. Being of shallow perception, I never had.
Museum and muse have the same ancient greek etymology. Museum can be interpreted as "shrine of the muse."
One week, terribly long ago, my Mom took me to the Texas Museum of Natural History. Each day we explored one floor. Back at home there would be books and flash cards about the subject matter we saw that day.
A shrine of the muse, indeed, tour conducted by a guardian angel.
Museum and muse have the same ancient greek etymology. Museum can be interpreted as "shrine of the muse."
One week, terribly long ago, my Mom took me to the Texas Museum of Natural History. Each day we explored one floor. Back at home there would be books and flash cards about the subject matter we saw that day.
A shrine of the muse, indeed, tour conducted by a guardian angel.
Some theorize the exact opposite, that our iteration of civilization will be the first to leave no cultural artifacts because their media are ephemeral.
Very true. In fact, in ancient Greek, the word for "museum" is mouseion (Μουσεῖον), the same word used to this day in Hebrew.
The Mouseion of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Μουσεῖον τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας; Latin: Musaeum Alexandrinum), which arguably included the Library of Alexandria, was an institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter and his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Originally, the word mouseion meant any place that was dedicated to the Muses, often related to the study of music or poetry, but later associated with sites of learning such as Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
Glad you had such a good time.
When I started thinking about my trips abroad (to England and to Italy), one of the first things I looked up were some museums and art galleries to visit. They're always full of interesting things to see.
I want a dudeum.
I read that as duodenum. I sincerely apologize, both to you and to hard working jejunums everywhere.
The jejunum is the part of the intestines fed by the duodenum, apparently named for the mouth-full profanities the jejunum is said to mumble while being forced to feast on the duodenum's scat. I didn't mean to trivialize the plight of the jejunum.
We can be so cruel to ourselves.
More jalapeños? Sure, don't mind if I do, and please 'scuse the gut rumbles.
This. This made me happy today.
In general, I laughed more today than I have in a while. I stopped at the store after work to get some stuff for the work Christmas party tomorrow, and on my way to the check-out, this tiny girl kept putting the wet floor sign in front of her mom's cart and giggling whenever she got caught.
There's hope for civilisation yet.
