I hate this timeline
I go back and forth with humanity, man. I see people make art and sing and help each other and I’m like “awwww, humans are sweet.”
And then I see shit like this and I’m like “BURN US TO THE GROUND. ALL OF US RIGHT NOW.”
Both of these videos are so disgusting.
This is beautiful.
I’m not a poetry person, but this is striking.
I’ve never heard any other poetry from Andrea Gibson, but this one will stick with me.
Edit from July 14th: I just found out that Andrea died today. Rest in peace.
Oh look, it’s a bunch of stuff nobody cares about!
THREE THINGS! Because lists are my jam, yo.
Item 1: I watched this video on Holt’s The Planets a while ago but was reminded of it again the other day when my mom and I were talking about…one of the movements? I can’t remember. Something about The Planets. Anyway.
Also, I’m an idiot. I always wondered why the movements were in the order they were (Mars is first and Mercury is third), but it makes sense now after watching this: he did it based on the order of the zodiac signs and their ruling planets instead of the order from the sun (ignoring, of course, the signs ruled by the moon and the sun and bringing in the modern rulers of Aquarius and Pisces – Uranus and Neptune, respectively).
Item 2: It’s the Fourth of July today, so this video must be rewatched, as per tradition:
Praise Reekris.
Item 3: It’s the Fourth of July today, so Twitter is rife with related tweets, such as this one:
DONE!
That’s FOUR TIMES NOW
FOUR TIMES this silly series about talking planets has made me cry.
I’m totally not obsessed at all, I promise.
Their animation of the collision between Theia and Proto-Earth was very well done. Very emotional.
Edit: Theia arc! Watch it, nerds.
More Anosmia Stuff Sorry Not Sorry
Here’s another congenital anosmic giving his perspective on smell (or lack thereof).
I know nobody else cares, BUT I DO
The Bow: List Edition
Super boring to everyone who’s not up here, but:
ITEM ONE: they’ve finally fixed the path that got washed away in The Great 2024 Calgary Water Main Break last June.
The geese are mad because that was a prime “eat ALL the grass” spot.
ITEM TWO: we just got hella rain (Friday and Saturday were the rainiest days Calgary’s seen since the 2013 flood) and the Bow is really muddy and fast right now. Ignore my terrible camera skills.
END!
The Electric Blues
So apparently Benson Boone is getting lambasted for his new album, which makes me think that no one listened to this track, because it’s fucking fire:
It’s got an old school feel to it. I really like it.
That is all.
Today’s Blog Post Brought to You By: Doomscrolling!
That’s like all I did today, haha.
Anyway.
Informative, but depressing.
I can see people being critical of the lack of numbers/values/scale, but like they say in the video, they’re trying to make it something that anyone can understand from a purely visual standpoint. It’s something to get a conversation started, and even if that starting point is, “well, how legitimate is this? There isn’t even a scale or any indication of how different the light red is from the darker red,” then that’s still getting people talking. “Sparking conversation” as they say in the vid.
(Also, they do offer a scaled version of each display; click the “bars with scale” display option for a given location).
Here’s Calgary:
This is actually one of the least extreme ones. Look at Tucson:
Yikes.
OH MY GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I have discovered the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) and I am IN LOVE
They have a section on the history of the SI.
A VIDEO on the SI.
SI PROMOTION MATERIAL SLFJSLAFJLGHALFK
Some people have heroin. I have the SI units.
Spaceballs 2
The only sequel I am in full support of, honestly, because it was prophesized.
Criss Cross Be a Boss
It’s Britain, but it’s still interesting!
(I just realized that sounded like the biggest insult to Brits, haha, sorry!)
This Again?
We are once again in a “Claudia Gets Accused of Cheating” phase on the Garmin Connect app. So to reiterate it one more time:
I do not fake my walking/running data. Every step, every mile, every route is 100% real and done by me. I’m not on Garmin Connect to compete with anyone (I do join challenges, but I truly do not care where I place in them; I sign up for the badges but that’s usually the last thought I give them). I’m on there because it records my data in case I lose my other backups. I have literally no reason to fake my data.
Also (and I’ve mentioned this before as well): do you know how hard it would be to fake this? Not only would I have to find somebody or something I could attach my Garmin to to get the miles done for me, but they’d have to be somebody/something that did this consistently and consistently enough for it to look “real” AND they’d have to have been doing it since like 2018 (or whenever I got my first Garmin, I can’t remember). They’d also have to travel to Moscow when I’m in Moscow in order to show up at the right location, haha.
It’s to the point where faking the data would be as much (or more) work than just doing the distance.
AND ANOTHER THING: my Garmin isn’t the only thing I use to track this stuff. I use the iTreadmill app on my iPod, too.
The only person I would be cheating if I were to do so is myself, and I want to continue to proudly say that all my mileage is 100% real and 100% mine.
This is the only thing in this universe that I’m good at. SO SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET ME HAVE THIS.
I don’t even KNEEEEEEE
This is mesmerizing.
(Side note: do you ever just forget how to spell a word you KNOW how to spell? I tried like six different spellings of “mesmerizing” – a word I definitely know how to spell – before I got there. The hell.)
(Side note #2: title reference)
Relentlessly Mammalian
(Blame my husband for the title.)
TWO THINGS TODAY:
One: we’re in a little mini heatwave up here and it was supposed to get up to like 86 or something today. So I decided to do my first night run of the year last night. I think the last time I did a night run was around Halloween last year, so it’s been a while. I like not having to put on sunscreen and being able to run down the middle of the road without much threat of cars, but I’m also more limited route-wise (I am NOT doing the creepy Bowness Park nonsense this year, sorryz) and I do just like being out during the day. Also, the nights are relatively warm if it’s hot enough for me to be night running.
Two: My mom, Nate, and I watched Captain America: Brave New World last night. It’s pretty sad that everyone seems conditioned to hate everything Marvel has put out since Endgame; I thought this one was pretty solid. It definitely had one of the best post-Endgame action sequences with the battle over Celestial Island:
Really good choreography in my opinion. Love the shots at 1:26, 2:11, 2:46, and 3:31.
DONE!
Sickness
Please watch this.
Dianna has been sick for so long; I’m glad it sounds like she’s slowly getting better. And I’m glad her inclusion of Tobias in this video has brought attention to his situation as well (here’s his GoFundMe, which is also linked in the video description).
It can be really hard to do so at times (and even in the best of times it’s easy to forget), but try to appreciate what you’ve got, especially if you’re in good health. It can all be taken away so quickly.
Dots
Super interesting. I also love his voice.
A Music Blog!
It’s not like I have one of those every other day, huh??
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Anyway.
Music #1: I had the “Mr. Booze” song from Family Guy stuck in my head all afternoon. Whether you like Family Guy or not, you have to give Seth MacFarlane credit for how good he is at finding catchy songs and having them sung very well.
Music #2: Again, even though it’s not an original, Peter singing the entirety of the “Shipoopi” song from The Music Man as a touchdown celebration is pretty great, too.
(Now I want to watch The Music Man)
Music #3: While on my walk this morning, I had my “favorites” playlist on shuffle and this song came up. I hadn’t listened to it in a long time and I forgot how beautifully heartbreaking it is.
Music #4: I absolutely love this song. I would have lost my mind if I had been at this thing.
END!
Nostalgic Item!
Heyooooooooo so this is totally random, but here is a little music box that I’ve had since I was a kid:
It’s pretty old and beat up now and half the sticker on the back is torn off, but I was able to Google it and found out that it’s an Otagiri music box from the 1970s. While it looks like there are quite a few near-new versions of this out there that you can buy from eBay, Etsy, etc., I wanted to put a recording of mine up here just in case it ever breaks. Plus, it’s super cute. And don’t we always want a super cute topic for a blog post?
Anyway.
You can hear how old it is, hahaha.
Trumpster Dumpster vs. Canada
This is a really good overview of the Canadian attitudes and thoughts on the upcoming election, the influence of Trump, and the thoughts about America in general. Please watch it, my American friends, so you get an idea of what’s going on up north.
It really has been a huge, palpable surge of patriotism over the past few months. Canada is very different than the US when it comes to overt, visible displays of patriotism. But there is a lot of blatant national pride right now. Flags everywhere, the “elbows up” thing, etc. It’s really, really interesting.
Pepper is a Weird Girl
I love her, hahaha.
Lalalalala
Oooh, I like this. This sounds really good on the Sennheisers.
Edit: apparently some people hate it because it “ruins the simplicity of the original version.” Are they aware that part of the purpose of a remix is to give a song a different vibe?
Don’t like it, don’t listen. More for me, haha.
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