genesplicer
Some Signs, a Few Portents, Mostly Misdirection
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This was my first CD. Back in the day, I saved my pennies to buy a CD player. The prices had recently dropped, and were now down somewhere around $300. (At a time when minimum wage was $3.35/hr. It took a lot of saving.) I bought the player, only to realize that I had spent pretty much all my money and had nothing left to buy any CDs to play on it. The shop manager seemed to notice the dilemma and offered me a free CD from the rack, and I instantly grabbed Oxygene. I had several Jarre records, but not this one. It's been more than 40 years, and I still have the CD. I ended up buying a lot of CDs from that shop...
Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene, 1977
Cover by Michel Granger
AI still has a long way to go. Study the umbrella and the dog's face if you wonder why I say this...
hey have you seen a small cut of lightweight lime green cotton anywhere? It was in this drawer and I don't remember moving it, but I emptied the drawer 3 times and I looked in between all the folds and it has vanished and I'm very confused.
I don't need it for anything, I just want to move it to a box with similar fabrics.
Basically, DOGE will try to cut anything that does not have a positive impact on somebody's profit margin.
There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance
Excuse me while I get sad .
Interfaces in Aliens, 1986.
Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
As someone who teaches human reproduction every year, I can't imagine teaching this shit instead. Abstinence-based sex ed is not sex ed. It is exactly the opposite.
I'm forecasting a bumper baby crop in FL
Yep, that's pretty much it.
Vote November 5th
When I was in high school, back in the late 1970's, my friends and I would take the bus home each day. We were the typical D&D nerds, with all that and the late 70's implies. We would mess around on the bus, having fun and causing irritation to the rich kids who couldn't drive to school because they were either too young or had their license revoked (There were a surprising number of the latter. )
After we messed around enough, the richies would chide us for acting oddly. They would call us names. So we ran with it. A sample:
My friends and I up to our usual nonsense. Rich kid points at me accusingly: "You're strange!"
Me, pointing to my friend: "No, I'm Weird. He's Strange!"
My friend pointing to his brother: "Yes! I'm Strange, and this is my brother Maladjusted!"
There were up to a dozen of us, all sporting odd monikers, just to further annoy the straights. We'd all introduce ourselves, and bring the level of irritation to a crescendo. It was great fun.
They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?
It turns out that a lot of people don't like to read because they were never properly taught how, and more importantly, WHY to read. For them, reading was a way to find the answer. "Why did David fear the old man? (Page 43)" They never went beyond this, so why bother reading if you are not trying to answer a question for the teacher? They never experienced the joy of reading, of reading for its own sake, of reading just to find new ideas.
Sadly, for many people, thinking is the same way. (And there is a BIG overlap in the middle of the Venn Diagram between peple who don't read and people who don't think.)
I was 36. I'd been married for 9 1/2 years at that point.
More than double that...
Reblog if you’re 30 or older
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
We need a Pokémon/Star Wars crossover. I'm just not sure which side most of them would be on.
i'm bored someone start an argument
Welcome to the 13th Amendment...
#"Alakazam The Great" and "Speed Racer"
disclaimer: these are results from google. there were loads so i just picked at random from "most watched anime" lists
please reblog and put your answers in the tags <3
What if it turns out that you CAN take it with you? Those Egyptian pharaohs are still going to be living like kings, and the rest of us will be like "Well, shit!"
The situation: it's late, I'm tired, but I need to shower. There is a huge selection of hair care products on the bar above the shower door.
The bad news: I just decide to grab anything that says "shampoo". I mean, it's all pretty much the same, right?
The good news: the shampoo smells terrible, but apparently, I'll be free of fleas and ticks for 4 to 6 weeks.
Do they have a matching bra? You know, for the boooo-bies?
Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.
More... https://imgur.com/gallery/100MhvX
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
I was 45 when it was founded...
Reblog if you’re 30 or older
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
Brilliant subplot. I'm sure Tolkien intended this, but left it out, due to length constraints.
I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
First piercing was on my left lobe, first wedding anniversary, 1990. It was in a little jewelry shop on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. Second piercing was in 1994 at a Claire's in the Mall of America. The right ear I got double pierced about a year ago at the tattoo parlor I regularly visit.
If it is a busy day, with lots of pen work, I may use them all. I default to the fountain pen, because it forces me to write deliberately. It's how I'm working to improve my penmanship. I'm often teased because I end up with 6 to 8 pens in my pocket on a normal day.
i'm curious
you can check which movie it was here!
pls reblog and put in the tags which movie it was :)
"Waiting behind some kid with the croup to get their antibiotics..."
Some ancient, eldritch, pissed-off god: "Fuck this one place in particular!"
