http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/23/susan-cain-molly-crabapple-rsa/
Good TED talk there, about introverts and extroverts.
Learnt a new word there, ambivert (someone who is right in the middle, not an introvert nor an extrovert).

Some more things to hear:

Dumb Ways to Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&;v=IJNR2EpS0jw
(I have to cross post with Facebook because some [Viking]s and [Avaz]s aren't on Facebook)

I'm a little late on all things news, but this was lol :D

http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-users-joke-muslimrage-newsweek-cover-144552171.html

If you want some more #MuslimRage, find it all here:
And https://twitter.com/search?q=%23muslimrage

"Nothing better than a full English breakfast buffet... And you can't eat anything. #MuslimRage"
"I lost my cousin in town before but I couldn't scream his name because it was Osama #muslimrage "
"You lose your nephew at the airport but you can't yell his name because it's JIHAD. that is #muslimrage "

Radiolab is wonderful.

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/nov/06/blanc/

End of message.

What makes you feel beautiful? (Or handsome. sexy. Attractive in some way.)
I don't mean necessarily what makes you look good, I mean what gives you a boost of confidence, that feeling of being attractive. It can be anything you do or others do, or a particular time or situation, or anything at all.


-Plucking my eyebrows.
-When the wind twirls my skirts and hair.
-I feel pretty when I wake up in the morning (without the alarm), being a mess of hair and sheets in bed, all groggy about what time it is and squinting because I don't have my glasses on.
-Wearing certain shoes.

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Oct 1st

My dear Lyell

Thank you for the most interesting correspondence. What a wonderful case that of Bedford. I thought the problem sufficiently perplexing before, but now it beats anything I ever heard of. Far from being able to give any hypothesis for any part, I cannot get the facts into my mind.— What a capital observer & reasoner Mr Jamieson is. The only way that I can reconcile my memory of Lochaber with the state of the Welch valleys, is by imagining a great barrier, formed by a terminal moraine, at the mouth of the Spean, which the river had to cut slowly through, as it drained the lowest Lake, after Glacial period.— This would, I can suppose, account for the sloping terraces along the Spean. I further presume that sharp transverse moraines would not be formed under the waters of the Lake, where the glacier came out of L. Treig and abutted against opposite side of valley.— A nice mess I made of Glen Roy! I have no spare copy of my Welch paper; it would do you no good to lend it, I suppose.— I thought that there must have been floating ice on Moel Tryfane.— I think it cannot be disputed that the last event in N. Wales was Land Glaciers.— I could not decide where action of Land Glaciers ceased & marine glacial action commenced at the mouths of the valleys.—

What a wonderful case the Bedford case.— Does not the N. American view of warmer or more equable period after great Glacial period become much more probable in Europe?—

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything so farewell & in a sweet frame of mind, I am | Ever yours | C. Darwin

http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-3272

<3

Hey English language! I realised that if we are going to get to a future with sentient objects (like robots or something), we're going to need a lot more pronouns.
I, you, he, she, we, you and they all refer to persons, human beings, we only have it that refers to objects. We need a word for first object singular and plural, second object singular and plural and third object plural.

*is writing a novel about robots for NaNoWriMo and the mess with pronouns is driving her crazy*

I couldn't resist. I love you PhotoShop.

"There are no Waffle Houses in New York or New Jersey." So that's why those places are constantly in red alert! :O And for a reason: how can they not have a Waffle House? Next you're going to tell me that they don't have Chick-fil-a either.
http://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-sandy-waffle-house-index-points-relief-eastern-172335063--abc-news-topstories.html

Hey you guys who like Steampunky things, have you looked at this?
http://tackorama.net/Fonts/steampunk/1.htm

I haven't poked around at the other sections than the fonts, so who knows what all is there.

English language, this word you have concocted is useless and you should be ashamed of yourself for creating it.

Discursive
1. passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
2. proceeding by reasoning or argument rather than intuition.

Those definitions are radically different from each other and will change the tone or meaning of the entire sentence! Without much of a cue in context to tell me which one is the correct definition to apply! WTF?

"Post-modern form of critique assumes that the social order is a discursive act." Do you mean it is digressive and rambling, or that it proceeds by reasoning? The context of the text around this paragraph is dense and not immensely helpful in figuring out what the point is exactly, but I've always been under the impression that modern form of critique would suggest that the social order proceeds by reasoning or argument (since modernism was really into all that), so do I then assume that posmodern of the same would be aimless and rambling? But then the next time discursive appears in the text it says "if beauty is a discursive practice, then existing norms/images are always legitimately subject to interpretation and critique." Which kinda suggests they want you to read it the second way...

Note, this is a rant, I don't actually want help trying to figure out this stupid text, I've disagreed with it since the start, and while it's been pretty cool as an incubator of thoughts, I'm really not into it at all. It's some old book on Google Books.

I'd like to point out that usually I love these words that mean its opposite at the same time, like 'cleave'. 'Cleave' is such a wonderful word. :3

So we had one day proper snow like January, next day was like March with stupidly icy and wet roads of death, and now it's all gone and we are back to November. And I had this flash of a vision of a wonderful future: what if that was as much winter as we get this year? :O That it was a fast-forward version of the season and now we are in it for the long haul with rain, wind and glorious miserableness; a true English winter...! If only! I know what I'm praying for now :3

In other news, I had breakfast and forgot that we're about to have dinner in half an hour >.<;; Need to do some Samoan stomach rolls or bust out the old sister missionary "can eat three meals in three hours" moves or something... (Dinner is really important to my mum so it can't be skipped without getting into a massive domestic... :/ )


Feels like time is slipping away from me (in many ways this is a great thing: go go away, year!) but I can't tell what it is that I'm doing with my waking hours.

We are having a white Halloween. What is up with that?? Although I fully realise that this is completely my fault, I haven't been praying that it wouldn't snow. But I didn't realise I would have to start doing that so early o.O It has never snowed before my birthday. So I hereby declare the beginning of Christmas, and all other holidays cancelled.

And yet: finished my route on time like a boss today :B

http://news.sky.com/story/1004857/disney-buys-lucasfilm-and-plans-new-star-wars
What what what? :O

The yew tree


Demetri

^{http://www.demetrimartin.com/}


Funny thing. I thought of this hilarious visual gag at work today, and then listened to some RadioLab where they played some of Demetri's stand up stuff, and I was like "amg, even his name is spelled perfectly for this silly idea I had earlier today! :O The universe is clearly into this joke!"

http://www.worldometers.info/
This has made me think of a lot of things, given some perspective.
I realise it's probably done on statistics and stuff, but when I see the number of suicides this year go up by one, I can't help but grieve for that one person who was so alone at this very moment, so much in pain that they did that - and I sat here watching.

Remember Planet Money's Fake Presidential Candidate that I talked about some time ago? He's alive now :D
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/17/163104599/planet-moneys-fake-presidential-candidate

"Don't vote with your wallet. Vote with sound economic principles. Vote for Planet Money's fake presidential candidate!"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/copyright-and-campaign-misinformation-new-study-affirms-less-copyright
New Study Affirms Less Copyright Restrictions Benefit the Economy, Amid Renewed Calls for SOPA 2.0

"And, of course, now zombies are popular, the fanbase is snowballing with people latching onto popular mainstream shows like The Walking Dead. It’s going to continue to get more popular for a while as more of these shows and products release… right up until Stephenie Meyer releases Twilight of the Dead with glittery zombies and we all get put off."

XD

I'm back from my USA conquest campaign. I conquered four states (Indiana, Georgia, Utah and Washington) and one heart. That last one was an accident >_>

The short version is that I got engaged. To a young man I met in Georgia. It's pretty much one of those soulmate things. Like it almost got to this http://xkcd.com/310/ basically.

The long version is that Viking put me on a Greyhound headed south and 9 hours later at 2 am I fell off the bus at a truck stop in Dalton GA. Then I went to Waffle House with my friend and her friend. The next morning my friend went to work and her friend came over to keep me company. We had plans to go see an art thing and get hot dogs and stuff like that in case it got really awkward. It didn't. Instead we sat in my friend's house all day and just talked. For hours. And we did that again the next day. And I told him how awful it is that I like spending time with him better than I like spending time with my boyfriend. And on the evening of that day we got engaged. And then I changed my travel plans and stayed in Georgia for a week and told my friends in Provo that I wasn't coming to house with them after all, and only went to the mission reunion and General Conference in Utah.

Overall the entire trip went really well (really well) and everything was hurrah, except that on the flight home my suitcase didn't make the last connection, so it stayed in Amsterdam when I went to Finland. But they'll bring it to my house today some time. Which will be nice, because toothbrush >_>

Just like we learn from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Everything happens.

Homes:
Hamina, Finland
Coventry, England
Sundsvall, Sweden
Calhoun, GA, USA

>.< I did not need another home. Especially one that is uninhabitable for the most part of the year due to the heat.
But I'm glad nonetheless. :3