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a musician who calls themself a geologist because it's too awkward to point out to them at this point that geology means the study of rock as in the stuff the ground is made of, not rock as in the music

why is it always "salt and pepper" and never "pepper and salt"?

we can think of exacty one off the top of our heads (spoilers obviously): 

Final Fantasy VI

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how many stories are there where there's an impending world-ending event, the hero(es) spend half the book/movie/game trying to stop it, fail, and *that isn't the end of the story?*

it's not a thing we've seen very often at all

now that we've gotten paid i'm considering getting a nintendo online subscription... the SNES and NES games are free with that right?

hmm

we ought to clean up i think

apartment is kind of a mess and most of these organizer things we got to Organize Things With are still awaiting Things

I don't think we'll ever understand how people can use android or ios tablets as their main computer and not be constantly frustrated at them

nothing wrong with it if you do, just, how are you not constantly frustrated

well, today is some kind of day, it seems x.x

@peppercorn@snouts.online Hi, could I ask who this is before I accept that follow request? I'm trying to be more particular about who I let follow me on here.

like you can't take an optical photograph of the transistors in a typical CPU, with *any* level of magnification, because they're about an order of magnitude smaller than the light you're using to take that photograph

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do you ever just think about how modern microelectronics is smaller than light

feeling all mad about prices of things now

got to thinking about how good digimon was and then looked and it's so extremely expensive to get the series on dvd....

question to british people: how is "draughts" pronounced? as in the board game that we know over here as checkers

digimon was way better than it had any right to be really and I love it

that series dealt with some _really fucking dark_ topics for a kids' show

random thought: what was darth vader called in the dutch version of star wars? they clearly couldn't call him darth vader

why does the GBA have that distinctive sound when it crashes

@chr can i ask what on earth "spirit phone lyrics" means

food 

this frozen lasagna thing says on it "2x the meat!*"

"*required by the lasagna with meat sauce standard"

why is there a lasagna with meat sauce standard

re: -, family death 

all in all it was probably about the best way to go that there could be, she was already at peace with the idea of dying and we had multiple days to say goodbye... all her friends and family were able to be there by phone if not in person, and people from the assisted living center were apparently talking about how much of a positive influence she was there--enough so that some people who hadn't even been employed there for years came to say goodbye. I guess what i'm saying is, she was a great person and well loved by everyone around her, and she went peacefully without any regrets

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