Observations, found prose, and other miscellany, sporadically delivered for your edification. Comments welcome!
Go snort a mummy
The idle rich used to crowd into stuffy Victorian backrooms and risk catching typhus just so they could hear some quasi-celebrity from the field of phrenology or social Darwinism give a lecture. Now they can stay home and do it via podcasts and it’s worse, actually
Phases of water, ranked:
1. Liquid. GOAT
2. Ice 1(h). Goes great with #1
3. Vapor. Feels nice sometimes
4. Ice VII. hydrogen bonds form two interpenetrating lattices.
5. Ice II. rhombohedral crystalline form with highly ordered structure
6. Ice I(c). wishes it was Ice I(h)
Liveblogging this siege rn
This rules, I love defending the city of Troy. The only thing that could make this better is if we had a huge…OH HECK YEAH NEVER MIND they just gave us one
And off you go
This is the entirety of the plot of Sega Genesis game “Bad Omen” and it is the best plot I have ever seen in any video game
Debate settled
Sci-fi is when elves come from outer space, and fantasy is when elves come from the woods (the woods was the outer space of medieval Europe)
girlboss fight
Me (after hearing that women like men who show vulnerability): Hey did you know that while I’m charging up my huge laser attack you’re free to beat on my glowing weak point, and the laser isn’t even that hard to dodge
Oh COME ON now
They’ll shoot you finger-lickin’ dead
If you know 1 of KFC’s 11 herbs and spices it’s nothing special.
2, they take note.
3, the threats begin.
5, targeted by death squads.
But at 6, they start to fear you.
8, respect you.
10, and you will rule them.
Learn all 11, and you will learn why they were right to fear
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
THEY HAD “CONSPIRASEA” ALL TEED UP AND THEY WHIFFED COMPLETELY
Alternative theories
You: Obviously the Dyatlov expedition was killed by an avalanche. “Driven into a atavistic panic by a Kármán vortex street?” How could a bunch of fluid moving around make you go insane?
The Kármán vortex street:
