Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.
You are a GENIUS and these all look incredible! Do you have filling recipies?
You all made my day. Hag sameach. Recipes,such as they are, are now up on my blog. Use any filling you love! More coming soon. Hopefully red bean paste is next …
Hey gang, I’ve been a little too busy to keep up with posting on Tumblr, but I’m still consistently posting on Instagram if you’d like to follow TO on there.
So I have a friend that used to be in the tumblers troupe at the renfaire as a contortionist
We were chatting online and she told me to tell you all this story.
I love Kat dearly
but she forgets that she’s stupid strong and hypermobile
so one day she throws her back out
bad enough that she needed painkillers and couldn’t stand upright
“But also I needed Tampons and like. A Burrito, real bad.”
she’s flat on her back in her apartment when she decides this
and, in an
impeccable
leap of reasoning, decides
“I can’t roll my back forward to sit/stand up like normal.
But I can ARCH my back just fine.
SO
I’m going to do that and get on my hands and feet in a stomach-in-the-air this-shit-belongs-in-a-horror-movie-type pose,
And amble on down to the 7-11”
“And get me that Burrito”
It is,
for context,
after midnight in July during a wildfire so it’s hot as satan’s own asshole and the moon is red and shit’s already generally cursed.
Imagineyou are some poor sap working nights at the world’s deadest 7-11, and you hear the door jangle but you don’t see anyone’s head over the counters.
Whatever.
Except you keep hearing noises like there’s someone in the next aisle over.
Fucking around in the burrito section
It’s also worth mentioning that Kat
1. sings whatever earworm is currently running through her head when she’s not paying attention
2. sounds EXACTLY like some kind of creepy child from a horror movie when doing so
tonight’s song is something from veggietales.
DUDE ACTUALLY STANDS HIS GROUND
and/or is really fucking high and isn’t sure if he’s tripping balls or notanyway
Kat goes up to pay for her burrito and tampons
She realizes the counter presents something of a challenge, and then demonstrates for me on her kitchen table at 4AM during a different july wildfire,
exactly
how she used the shelves to climb up the counter
like one of the boston robotics beasties
dude stares at her for like, five minutes and says.
“Register’s broke.”
“Oh No!” Says Kat. “Just Take ‘em.” “Really? I can leave cash-you don’t have to give me change I don’t want you to get in trouble with your manager.” “…Nah.” “Oh! OK! Thank you!” “Yeah ok bye.”
Shortly after she arrived back at the apartment, she got a text on her phone from the campus security about "A Suspicious Individual” at tle 7-11.
Etd’s valentines/early birthday gift to me was a robot vacuum so that my allergies would stop going haywire every time I vacuumed the house, which we need to do every day cause dust mites are my worst allergy, and we live in a very old, very dusty house which is just Super let me tell you.
We’re sentimental fools so we named her Oppy.
So far she’s attempted to climb the couch when it got in her way, got stuck in a loop making circles around the coffee table and given us a terrifying display of strength by shunting the butcher’s block containing all my cast iron across the kitchen floor like it was nothing.
Amazing. What a time to be alive.
My not-a-roomba just texted me good night.
I can’t.
I require pictures of your New Robot Daughter.
She sleepin.
And no we didn’t give her the night light it was already there. But did we intentionally choose to plug her in next to the night light?
Yes. Yes we did.
I just got something similar myself, I can’t wait to see how it works.
This is so cute! And now you have a “pet” that won’t mess on the rug. Rather the opposite.
Listen, okay, listen. It wiggles when it’s re-docking to charge. It wiggles and then it makes a happy little beep.
And texts you when it gets stuck under the bed cause it found that one sock you thought the washing machine ate and now it can’t get out. It also picked up an alarming amount of dust. 30 minutes into its first cleaning session it started beeping sadly and texting ETD’s phone like “please, clean my brush” and the fecking dust filter was FULL.
I have a god damn Dyson (it was a gift, but lemme they are not worth their price tag) that is supposed to pick up everything, it’s supposed to be the best one you can buy for allergy sufferers, and it does not have shit on this little robot.
I thought the rug in the office was sun faded. Nah. Turns out just super fucking dusty. She left a clear trail mark in her wake. She also missed quite a bit of the rug too tbh, but I think that’s because her laser sensors were picking up on all the hanging wires from my desk, which I think she interpreted as “obstacles” and avoided, so yea. I need to organize my space better for her to get through.
Y’know, not cause it’ll make my life easier (which it will). But because it’ll make the robot’s life easier.
Cause that’s where I’m at with my life right now lmao
Out of…curiosity…what brand is Oppy? I can’t quite read the label. (I think it says “Neato,” which would be the best pun ever.)
It is Neato! From Neato Robotics. I think it’s the D5 model? I know there’s newer ones available already but this one seems pretty fricken top notch tbh.
