![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fred_mousethestory inside is doing July signups. I'm not taking on any extra commitments, not even suggested reading, at the moment, but I have very much enjoyed the suggestions I have had from this group. If you have a TBR list you can share, you too can have this excitement in your life!
It works on a buddy system - they pick three books from your list for you to read, you pick three books from their list for them to read. Sign ups close on the 1st July.
nineveh_ukvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
Second-to-last vigilantes chit-chat on ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
bnha_fans, as the current season approaches the end!
Commented on common_nature, booknook, anime_manga, ffxv.
Promoted finalfantasy in a comment.
Signal boosts:
everykindofcraft, a new comm for all kinds of craft and already decently active!senzenwomen, "Histories of women in and around Japan, 1868-1945"ffxv :)squidgestatus, SquidgeWorld is having their summer fundraiser!umadoshiscruloose to get one at all, given that initial price and given that they have a respirator setup that works well for them. But then a few weeks later, the price dropped to $549(/$649 for the kit with extra stuff, which is what we opted for, as well as a few extra filters etc. in the name of minimizing future need to deal with shipping), so we got to say "Well, that's still really spendy, but it's also now not completely outrageous to get two." (And then we wound up having to contact the company because of shipping/import charge shenanigans, but those were on the courier's side, not Microclimate's, and the person scruloose dealt with was great, so it's all good.)
fred_mousein the paper I'm reading right now, I found the sentence
"All these models end up being specific cases of a generalized stochastic differential equation."
and actually laughed out loud (it helps that I'm working from home today; specifically from bed, so that maybe my lower back will stop hating me. I can read just as well in bed, having spent a lot of the last year training to read from the laptop in exactly this position :) And thus laughing is not disruptive)
Why did I laugh? As I explained to artisanat, that is the first jargon filled sentence where I've understood every word and what it means. And then I was asked for examples of words I don't know, which at this point I can think of 'constructivist framework' and 'epistemological' (I'm starting to get a feel for the latter; the former I have zero idea)
ETA: the next sentence read
"We cannot provide a detailed account of these models since they require a certain level of mathematical expertise."
nineveh_ukfred_mouseBetween one thing and another, I haven't been keeping up on dreamwidth. I'm spending the next hour or so attempting to clear out - there were 317 tabs open in the dreamwidth window when I started; it will be interesting to see where I get to. So many posts from mid-May I was going to reply to; giving myself permission to abandon. And then I'm going to do the same thing with the backlog of my inbox.
And how do I get to 317 tabs? By every day or two scanning my reading list, and opening everything longer than a paragraph that I expect to want to read. This means I can get 'caught up' over breakfast, even if not everything gets read!
awanderingcoyotefred_mouseOur Thursday night dinner has standardised to 'that's not miso soup'. It starts with homemade vegetable stock paste, hot water, and miso. And then we add an assortment of things, typically fish balls, diced tofu, soy beans, lotus root, chopped mushrooms. Sometimes we get fancy, and there is roasted and shredded nori, but often that is beyond me (Thursdays are a little bit 'mouse should minimise kitchen based risk behaviours', such that the nori might rather go up in flames; cutting the tofu is sometimes high risk, but some of that is because the knife is weirdly weighted and will end up blade up if you put it down wrong). Sometimes I remember that I'm supposed to put the broccoli stems in, or the kai-lan, or some other brassica that has miraculously appeared in the fridge.
For reasons that have to do with having dealt with three teenagers, fish balls are rationed; currently it is four per person.
For weeks, I've been singing 'and FOUR fish balls', always in the same tune, with the knowledge that I know what the tune is, but not remembering the context. Last week, I suddenly worked it out--it's from Tommy, to the line "(sure played) a mean pin ball". Mind, that's not going to stop me doing it, I'm even more amused at myself now I have the context.
vriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
Vigilantes chit-chat on bnha_fans.
Commented on summerofthe69.
Commented on newcomers.
Commented on common_nature.
Promoted ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenance, style_system in various comments.
Signal boost:
Via dw_community_promo, massive blast from the past but someone started a monkeyisland community :D
Sign-ups are open for the 7TH ROUND of comment_bingo! :D "the goal is to have more fun and have an excuse to leave feedback! It is a Bingo community that involves commenting on other people's works based on the prompts provided, rather than creating your own."
sakana17umadoshiscruloose's and my anniversary (year 22 is a go!), so last night we ordered Chinese roast duck and crispy pork belly and had half of it, with the rest set for supper tonight. Sous vide reheating works so well. This future is a complete nightmare in so many ways, but we sure do have cool kitchen technology. (Kitchen technology that spies on you, talks to the internet, and/or demands proof of your humanity is excluded from this praise.)scruloose and I saw ep. 2x02 of Kingdom [disambiguation: the historical Korean zombie show] and, for a change of pace, got back to watching the original Leverage.wildpear -and-family's place and watch TV on Sunday nights. We got through a couple of shows that way, and started in on Leverage, which I'd seen up to about halfway (?) through season 4 and then somehow wandered off from despite loving it, and otherwise only saw a couple of later episodes, including the series finale; Ginny had seen and adored the entire thing, and I think Kas was in the same camp as scruloose and wildpear and her then-partner and hadn't seen it.wildpear's kidling, Pumpkin, was old enough by then to want in on what we were watching, so they sat in for TV night, just in time for "The Grave Danger Job", which freaked them out really, really badly (fair! That episode is brutal!). My mental timeline here is very fuzzy on how long that was before covid arrived, but it wasn't too big a gap, and all in all, that was the end of our group watch. And I still basically hadn't seen past somewhere in season 4 (plus the finale). I watched the first few episodes of season 1 of Leverage: Redemption when that came out, and with that, too, I wandered off and kept meaning to get back to it.scruloose and I took the DVDs off the shelf and got back to it. We have now seen "The Boiler Room Job" (which I'm confident I'd seen before, but I wonder if I'll know for sure when I hit new-to-me episodes?). Hopefully this time I'll actually see it all through properly. In theory, at some point we'll get to have cognitive dissonance over Noah Wyle, which will be funny since Leverage: Redemption was where we first saw him but now my association with him is 95% The Pitt.vriddyunsent_letters_exchange:fangfrenzyficexchange :Dfred_mouse - Signal boostnineveh_uk - Fic: Third Lifetime (The Princess Royal)vriddy - Community Thursdayumadoshi - Initial Air3 usage report!fred_mouse - Things that make me laughsakana17 - Become a Farmer (a transcription practice)nineveh_uk - It's hard to remember the Alamo if you don't know what happened there in the first placefred_mouse - (no subject)awanderingcoyote - (no subject)fred_mouse - Accidental filkvriddy - Community Thursdaysakana17 - Picspam: variaumadoshi - Weekly proof of life: mostly media, including a review of my history with Leveragevriddy - Pinch hits revealed!branchandroot
