Technological advancements that changed the course of World War II
The history and development of modern forensics and crime scene investigation
An actual textbook for med students on how to determine cause of death, with many gory pictures
The Ravensbruck concentration camp
World War II in North Africa
Isn’t it cool?
So, one of the ways computers define colors is with “hexadecimal” (six-number) codes. Some thoughtful person realized that the time (in an hours:minutes:seconds format) is also six numbers, and created this website, which displays whichever hexadecimal color the current time corresponds to. As I’m writing this, in my time zone, it’s almost 7:15PM, and that apparently corresponds to this dark purple:
So I’m looking at this thing, and it occurs to me– it won’t go through every color, because the minutes and seconds only go up to 59, and the hours only go up to 23, instead of 0-99 for each of them. Plus, some hexadecimal colors have letters in them, A through F.
How many colors does the clock show? Half of them? A quarter? And which colors are they? Most of the ones I’ve seen are dark purple, blue and green, but is that true overall or just at the times I’ve checked it?
Part of me wants to figure this out.
This is what happens when your parents are teachers.
OK I’m going to do this:
So, one of my college roommates often brought food from home, including venison (hunted by her father). She used to marinate it and it was really good, and ever since I left college, I’ve been idly thinking, “When will I get to have venison again?”
The weird thought:
If Sparkly and I move to [the East Coast] like we’re planning to, my chances of eating venison again outside an expensive restaurant will go down significantly, won’t they?
I’m not actually sad/disappointed about this. Regional differences are just weird to think about.
I did a lot of cooking today, and it went really well. Sorry for the boring posts lately. It’s been a busy couple of days.
Today Sparkly had an important mock trial-type thing, and Numbers Guy and I were spectators. Ey was disappointed with parts of it, but I think ey did about as well as possible considering the limitations of the information that came with the case.
The popularity of the Hamilton musical is so awesome, first of all because Hamilton was an interesting person, second of all because Connections Between Things. People I follow on Tumblr who used to have nothing in common are now all in the Hamilton fandom and reblogging each other’s posts. There are even people I follow on WordPress talking about Hamilton. I love it.
And I’ve mostly restrained myself from going “YOU’RE listening to Hamilton TOO? OMG!” at people. (Mostly.)
So FYI this is a post about self harm, but it’s not graphic or anything.
I have fictional postnominal letters now. For what seemed like a really quick & simple piece of volunteer work at the time. I seriously did not expect this.
(the main character of The Thirteenth Child, Across the Great Barrier and The Far West by Patricia C. Wrede)
An incomplete list:
The shame that she has to deal with, because of the belief that people like her are doomed to make things go wrong
Her struggles with education– how she tries everything and fails at everything, because she doesn’t know how to refuse or how to ask for help
How she can’t make decisions on the spot and she knows it, and insists on taking time to think things over even when other people want her to make up her mind
Some Open Space 