Month: August 2020

Leather slides on asphalt.

Bone fairies live in reflective lakes and ponds.

When kids get loose teeth, they show the mirror, and that’s how the Tooth Fairy knows to come get it.

When you lean over a reflective lake, the Bone Fairy is looking up through your reflection, and she’s considering whether or not to get you.

Teeth fairies live in mirrors.

If you only empathize with people you agree with, you’re not really empathic. It’s like doing research and only taking the evidence that supports your preexisting beliefs.

I just bought a Unicomp buckling spring keyboard, and it is fantastic. The feel of the keys is beyond anything I’ve ever used. The clicking is perfect.

I do admit that if I was in a shared office and my office mate had one of these, I might contemplate murder. But I’m not and don’t. Social distancing ftw!

Maybe the best keyboard I’ve ever used. The form factor is a little weird. It’s thicker than I’m used to, and the buttons aren’t quite as wide as I’d like. The pressing of the buttons is top notch, though. If in a few million key presses it’s still working well, it will be exceptional.

Exactly the right amount of clicking. Exactly the right feel of resistance.

Two thumbs up.

Mala fide intent. I like that. Used like bona fide, only for hostility.

I think I’m overwatering my garlic.

There was a marked difference in the rhetoric coming out of NKorea before Kim Jong Un disappeared for a month and after. Before, he was rattling sabers and threatening SKorea. There were missile and rocket tests.

Then he disappeared, and all that stopped. Now he’s touring flood zones.

I think something happened there, and I’m not sure what. The official story is Covid 19, and Kim went into seclusion to avoid it. But NKorea is right next to China, and China has a habit of disappearing people for a while. Fan Bingbing was one of the more famous cases. She disappeared, reappeared, and confessed to tax fruad. What happened while she was gone? Hard to say. Was Kim disappeared by Chinese powers? Hard to say.

Well, easy to say, but there’s no evidence one way or the other. He could have just avoided Covid.

But it is quite odd how the rhetoric changed. I wonder what the Chinese calculus on that was: not even about what they did, but how Bejing saw Kim’s words, actions, and interactions with the US and SKorea.

Again, there is no evidence one way or the other. It’s just odd.

How is there an east and west Antarctica? It’s all north! If you’re in the middle of Antarctica and going in any direction, you’re going north!

And if you’re talking about relative to anyplace else, it’s all south.

You know what’s east of Antarctica? More Antarctica.

Yeah, I get what they mean, but what they mean doesn’t make any sense.

Oh. Someone left Kudos on the Nine, and Raksha_the_Demon left some on Sauron Explains It All.

I really do appreciate kudos. Every time I get one I open the fic and read for a while. Both of those are pretty blocked, but I poke a bit, see if anything dislodges.