I didn’t go with Chris on that lime… it was a bunch of his high school classmates that get together every so often. I went to the last one and I was the only woman there (it’s usually all the guys no wives or girlfriends) and they were cool about it but I felt like I was invading a bit. I mean I know most of them, but you know… guys being guys together is not the same thing when there’s a woman present. So I came home and he went on his own.
I think I may try out a new cheese recipe today. I need to use that milk before it spoils and today seems as good a day as any as I’m surprisingly not tired from UpMarket. I’m going to try using herbs this time… crossing my fingers I don’t make some horrible type cheese.
I was kind of not understanding Alicia Keys whole no makeup thing so I looked it up and I guess to her she felt very empowered foregoing it, didn’t want to be forced to wear it… I’m still not really getting it. But I just kind of wondered if it would be such a statement if she wasn’t naturally beautiful and youthful. Then again maybe it’s not a statement at all and she’s just doing her thing. I dunno.
I’m reminded of a quote that said something like Women who don’t wear makeup are lazy. I find it funny. Obviously I don’t agree. I’m more confident about not wearing makeup now than when I was younger… but now I actually need it (undereye circles). Life is so damn ironic. But it comes down to the fact that as a woman no matter what you choose to do you’re going to be judged. So while I don’t fully understand her choice/stance/statement, I’m there for it.
I bought three frames from Hobby Lobby for the 45′s. They’re those birth control hating people right… Something so? Anyway my pocket can’t afford to give a shit about their politics with $7.50/frame vs. $25 elsewhere. If it helps I feel a tiny bit guilty about patronizing their store. But nothing compared to how awesome as I’m gonna feel when I get that art up on my wall!
I always post my purchases from UpMarket and these have to be my absolute favourite things I have ever bought.
My friend Kevin, a very talented graphic designer who also does leatherwork under his brand Tribal Skin Leather, had these at his table, and from the minute I saw them I fell in love with them. They’re old 45’s that he spray painted and detailed with is unique style. I’m sure if he was to open an Etsy shop making these he’d do really well.
I can’t wait to get them framed and put them up on the wall. Two of my favourite all time musicians. I couldn’t be happier.
I’m at UpMarket today and it’s been a pretty slow day. You can tell that people are broke from their summer vacations and buying all their school supplies for Monday.
I think I also grossly undersold a necklace because I couldn’t make out the price tag I myself had written. But I had it laying around for a long time so I was glad to get rid of it. I’m sleepy and we have a lime to go to later. Blergh.
Monument Valley honestly kept me from having a panic attack a few weeks ago.
I was on hold with my bank for roughly a half hour because someone had stolen my debit card number and had charged a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff to it. All I could think about while I was on hold was what if my rent check bounces, I can’t afford the late fee I’ll be slapped with and I’m already on bad terms with my super – and I felt that horrible grip around my chest squeezing down and my breathing getting faster.
Normally I can just drink a cold glass of water and sit in front of my ac (to remind myself that no, my throat is not actually closing up, and that yes, I can still successfully get air into my lungs with the help of a fan) but this time neither of those tricks did anything. Well actually that’s not true, they reminded me that I was alone in my apartment, and if couldn’t find a way to calm down, I wouldn’t necessarily be able to get help – which only scared the shit out of me even more.
So I sat in front of my AC and pulled up the brightest, happiest looking app I have on phone, which is Monument Valley, and within ten minutes of building pathways to guide the princess through the castle I was breathing normally. I found myself thinking, look at this bitch, you’re already solving this, this will be cleared up with your bank in the next half hour, and in case your check bounces, you’ll have documentation as to why to show your landlord. On good days, it’s sometimes honestly as simple as helping a tiny me walk through a beautiful castle while solving simple puzzles to remind myself:
Monument Valley is an absolute joy and beauty of a game, and I’m definitely checking out some of the others now.
I absolutely loved Monument Valley, but Two Dots can go to hell. After a certain point, it all becomes about luck (as in, how lucky you get with the dots given to you) rather than skill.
Zen Bound is amazing.
I’m hoping to try a few.
Monument Valley was one of those games I tried to take my time playing because I didn’t want it to end. It is so beautiful and smart and relaxing all at once. Zen Bound is also a really great game.
Your genuine bewilderment and indifference is cracking me up lol. Ppl are indeed complicated… Perhaps you’ll hear his side eventually. Maybe he thought she was too eager to get serious quickly? I’m legit curious about what happened from his point of view now ��
No, he was really the one who was more enthusiastic about it, she was more measured and cautious. I don’t really care to be honest they’re grown people. I get the feeling he got ahead of himself and then started backing out. He could have handled it better though. Going silent on someone is a lame, immature way of dealing with things. It’s not like they were dating. He could have just told her… whatever was going on. But you know men, it’s not like communication is always y’all strong suit.
You unconsciously transmit your energy out to the Universe. Some of your qualities are magnetic and others repellant. You have drawn towards yourself everyone and everything that is in your life.
In regards to the people in our lives, we attract these which represent something about ourselves, be it good or bad, positive or negative. People who do not resonate with our energetic frequency are not attracted to us.
The vibration you emit is made up of your conscious and unconscious energy – some repellent, some magnetic, some neutral. The underlying law is ‘like attracts like’. We attract into our lives people and situations that have similar vibrations to our own.
Negative qualities such as depression, neediness, selfishness, desperation, greediness, unkindness or thoughtlessness transmit on a low frequency. If we have these elements in our personalities we will magnetize someone with similar energy into your life.
Positive qualities such as love, happiness, kindness, delight and generosity transmit on a higher frequency energy and magnetizes people with similar energy into your life.
Look around you and note the characters around you in your life. They are in your life for a reason.
Ohhhh ok. I actually first thought you meant he smashed her and then disappeared �� Good thing I second guessed myself and asked for clarification lol. Hmmm I wonder what made him bolt like that since he started off all enthusiastic? ��
I can only guess. She told she felt he wasn’t over his last relationship. I have no idea. Cause he was the one pushing things. Who understands anybody yes?
Things with my girlfriend and Chris’s friend didn’t work out. He seems to have done a runner on her and now she can’t stop blowing up my phone about it. I forget that other people have his need to incessantly examine and analyze things with their friends. I always keep that shit to myself because I assume it’s annoying. Hey guess what? It’s annoying as FUCK.
I put on a tshirt and a pair of jeans today to go run and errand and I was really surprised to see how small I looked compared to a few weeks ago. I have a waist again!
While I’ve been dissatisfied with my weight for a long time, I had always liked the shape of my body. And these past two years with the 30+ lbs I gained, I no longer looked like me. My proportions were all off and my waist had disappeared. I didn’t recognize or like my body anymore.
I’m getting back my shape now, and hopefully the weight will follow. Now that I have to work in earnest to get back to where I was, I wonder why I was so picky about how I looked before to begin with. I’m never going to have my 19 year old body back, but my 40 year old body was pretty nice and for the most part I quite liked it. I still have a long way to go, but seeing progress is really motivating. I’d forgotten what it was like to look in the mirror and feel good about my reflection. This feels great!
We went to see Kubo and the Two Strings yesterday. I chose it mainly because Gary (@trinilikesalt) recommended it so highly. He was right, it was a really excellent movie, it had me engaged from start to finish. It was also such a beautiful and unusual story, about love and family at the heart of it all. Thanks for the recommendation Gary. I’m taking in Bad Moms next.
We’re not going to bury the lead here: Bob Ross’ hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone — he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter, she says.
“He got this bright idea that he could save money on haircuts. So he let his hair grow, he got a perm, and decided he would never need a haircut again,” Kowalski explains.
Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company’s logo — Ross hated it. “He could never, ever, ever change his hair, and he was so mad about that,” Kowalski says. “He got tired of that curly hair.”
But viewers never got tired of Ross or his show The Joy of Painting. With his soft, hypnotic voice, he’d bring his viewers in close as he created 30-minute masterpieces — distant mountain ranges, seascapes, forest scenes, always with those happy little trees. He’d sling his palette around, blend the titanium white paint, whisper about his life in Alaska, then gently tap his fan brush to create a canvas full of fluffy clouds. With his partly unbuttoned chambray shirt, his halo of tight curls and his soothing demeanor, Ross was a fixture on PBS.
Re-watching the show decades later — it’s now streaming on Netflix — The Joy of Painting still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.
Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go.
The Celestial Fireworks bracelet by ThinkGeek features a portrait of Westerland 2, a cluster of stars in the Carina galaxy located over 20,000 light years away. The LED lights embedded in the bracelet are battery-rechargeable, and can be turned on and off.
Ok but why is there a need for you to play your Indian music and what sounds like daily devotions so loud that I can hear it in my bedroom? It’s 6:45 for fuck’s sake!
Korean designer Jay Lee has created a clever pen, bookmark and other stationery items which resemble real life leaves In forest green, spring green and yellow green, each piece is composed of silicone rubber.
The modern pieces are quirky and beautiful. The concept behind Lee’s piece is conceptually intelligent, as well as beautiful for interior decorating. Find the pens in their Etsy shop.
Many years ago a did a past life regression in which I experienced a life filled with isolation, loneliness and trauma. Now, I’m not sure that I even believed this experience to be true, but it echoed experiences I faced and continue to face in my current life.
I decided (based I think on the work of someone else that I had read) to rewrite the story and end of that life in an effort to heal the trauma. And through meditation and visualization I proceeded to do exactly that. Even though I am a no-bullishit person who cannot lie to myself, re-envisioning that story somehow was able to permanently heal something inside of me.
I’ve been reliving some past issues recently through repeated trauma (read family) and it occurred to me that maybe I could try the same technique. Rewrite the past to change my experience of the present. So far it isn’t working so I’m trying to come up with some other coping mechanisms. Everything is too close right now and I need distance if this is going to work. I wish it were that easy but I’m doubtful that I can learn to associate anything but pain and abandonment with my family in the near future.
I read some cards tonight and they could not have been clearer when referring to the issues I was asking about. The advice was to find my family in the people who truly love and support me already in my life. I already have a chosen family, and I should focus on them rather than what my biological family cannot or will not give me. And also that I should get out of my own damn way where financial success is concerned. Relevant and duly noted. I need to start reading cards again. They have always brought me such tremendous solace. I can feel the witchy energies rising in me as I write about it. They speak to me. I think it’s time to listen.
I think I did something all twisty to my left arm when I was sleeping this morning. I woke up and it was really stiff and hurt all the way up to my shoulder. My arms were already sore from the gym but the left one feels like it’s about to fall off.
Geez I can’t even sleep properly like a normal person.
I have that post saved in my drafts so I can make it one of these days, but I’m scurrrred I’ll want to eat the ENTIRE THING! 😉
The first piece I had was a big old slice and I couldn’t even finish it, it was SO rich. The NICE thing about it is that it keeps really well. I had it in the fridge and it remained nice and moist. I just used some wax paper to cover the exposed parts so they wouldn’t dry out. MAKE IT! You won’t regret it!
I think I got addicted to that chocolate cake I made for Chris’s birthday. We finished it a few days ago but I can’t stop craving more. It really was the best chocolate cake I’ve ever eaten. It’s turned me into a junkie.
It’s our Independence Day today. Some friends invited us to watch the parade from their place. I’ve never watched the stupid parade. I’m in bed doing what people are supposed to do on their day off: nothing.
This is an illustrated guide I made as part of my co-admining work at The Middle Eastern Feminist on Facebook! It will be published there shortly. The technique that is displayed here is a genuine one used in psychology – I forgot the name and couldn’t find it again so if you know about it, feel free to tell me! Some could say: “Yes but you can use that technique for instances of harassment other than Islamophobic attacks!”, and my reply is: Sure! Please do so, it also works for other “types” of harassment of a lone person in a public space!! However I’m focusing on protecting Muslims here, as they have been very specific targets lately, and as a French Middle Eastern woman, I wanted to try and do something to raise awareness on how to help when such things happen before our eyes – that way one cannot say they “didn’t know what to do”! I’d like to insist on two things: 1) Do not, in any way, interact with the attacker. You must absolutely ignore them and focus entirely on the person being attacked! 2) Please make sure to always respect the wishes of the person you’re helping: whether they want you to leave quickly afterwards, or not! If you’re in a hurry escort them to a place where someone else can take over – call one of their friends, or one of yours, of if they want to, the police. It all depends on how they feel!
For my fellow French-speakers: I will translate it in French and post it on my page as soon as I can 🙂
Please don’t hesitate to share this guide as it could push a lot of people to overcome bystander syndrome!!
I was listening to BBC News in the car today and this study apparently confirmed that dogs can understand human language to a certain extent. Something about brain scans and whatever. And the first thought I had was, I wonder if dogs think we’re super stupid because we don’t understand how they speak. And that’s why they have to act out everything to make it obvious to us? So yeah I sat there in the car feeling stupid for not understanding barks.
They opened the first Starbucks in Trinidad yesterday.
I’m neither here nor there on it really. When I’m abroad I usually use them as a place where I can get free wifi while I open google maps to try and figure out where I’m going. I like them but they’re just a coffee shop it’s not Mecca.
If I did more design work it would be a nice place to inhabit. I’d still rather support local businesses but the option is nice. Meh.
Omg y’all. I woke up this morning and I was like, Who sen’ me to go and lift weights and ting in de people an dem gym? Lawd mih arms huttin’ mih!
But then I looked at my body this morning and my stomach’s all tight from doing abs and my waist all pulled in and I felt sexy. Yeaaah. Doh mind de arms dat will pass.
It is with indescribable sadness and blues, but with spiritual gratitude for the life lived that I announce the passing of husband, parent, and universal artist Gene Wilder, at his home in Stamford, Conn. It is almost unbearable for us to contemplate our life without him. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s Disease with which he co-existed for the last three years. The choice to keep this private was his choice, in talking with us and making a decision as a family. We understand for all the emotional and physical challenges this situation presented we have been among the lucky ones — this illness-pirate, unlike in so many cases, never stole his ability to recognize those that were closest to him, nor took command of his central-gentle-life affirming core personality. It took enough, but not that.
The decision to wait until this time to disclose his condition wasn’t vanity, but more so that the countless young children that would smile or call out to him “there’s Willy Wonka,” would not have to be then exposed to an adult referencing illness or trouble and causing delight to travel to worry, disappointment or confusion. He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world.
He continued to enjoy art, music, and kissing with his leading lady of the last twenty-five years, Karen. He danced down a church aisle at a wedding as parent of the groom and ring bearer, held countless afternoon movie western marathons and delighted in the company of beloved ones. He is survived by Karen, Jordan, and the Webbs (Kevin, Gretchen, Tucker, Spencer), along Jordan’s wife, Elizabeth. Gene’s sister Corinne, predeceased him in January of this year.
He was 83 and passed holding our hands with the same tenderness and love he exhibited as long as I can remember. As our hands clutched and he performed one last breath, the music speaker, which was set to random, began to blare out one of his favorites: Ella Fitzgerald. There is a picture of he and Ella meeting at a London Bistro some years ago that are among each of our cherished possessions. She was singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow as he was taken away.
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
I’m really tired… yesterday we did this brunch thing and then went by Chris’s co-worker’s house to help him out and then came home. At 7:30 we made an impromptu decision to go to a concert and were out of the house in 15 minutes. We didn’t get home until after 1. Chris got up at 5 for work. I’m sure he’s ready to die. I just wanna go to the gym and come home and sleep. We are too old to be doing that much shit in one day.
So if I went through all the trouble to type out directions to my place and your response is to tell me to send you my location, does it not occur to you that maybe I spent all that time typing out the directions for a reason? I cannot send you my location. It doesn’t show up in waze. Jesus.
I’d move to my own bed and my own room in a heartbeat! When we had a bigger place, we had a daybed in the study for “guests” but mostly I’d go there when my husband started to snore. I love Harold but I also love my sleep.
Does his snoring wake you up? Chris also snores but I only hear it when I’m awake. And if it’s bothering me I turn him on his side.
Until we got our king bed 3 years ago Chris and I slept in separate rooms. For 16 years! It only works together now because we have room to spread out.
I can understand why sleeping together might be problematic for some couples. We happen to sleep really well together and always have. And we love to cuddle. So the thought of sleeping separately sounds like punishment to me.
Neither of them does anything for me tbh. Very few performers do nowadays… When did my soul go cold? ��
Well as a performer Rihanna doesn’t do much for me… but as a person I feel like I get a much better read on her personality than I do Beyonce. If you look at her instagram and twitter you can very much see her character. But to me Beyonce is a blank slate. I don’t get anything from her.
I went to an Orange Sky concert last night. I’ve written about them many times before, they’re a local band and one of my favourite bands ever. Last night was a 20 year anniversary celebration.
Last night I was my usual animated self. I love their music and I love to dance to it. And as I was doing my thing I realised I had a huge smile on my face. And it occurred to me that dancing is one of the things that brings me the most joy in life. And I don’t do it nearly enough. When I was taking my fan-dancing course the other dancers always commented on how I was always smiling and I told them it was because I was so happy!
Some years ago when I decided to get fit, I ordered a bunch of workout dvd’s and the ones I loved most were the dancing ones, especially hula (omg it’s an insane workout). I think I need to revisit those and look into getting some more. The gym workout has been going great but nothing lifts my spirit like dancing. I feel uplifted just writing about it!
I would be happier with a slightly larger bed tho 😉
What size do you have? We have a queen and I think, given the fact that we’re both really tall, that a king might suit us better. But of course it would still be him taking up a sliver on one side and me all over the rest of it.
I was reading this article yesterday that said that couples would be happier if they slept in separate beds because they would get more sleep. Then they’d be better rested and have a more enjoyable sex life. And I was like, bitch I waited so long to find someone to sleep next to every night there is no way that is gonna make me happier. I swear I almost threw my ipad across the room.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
I wrote it for you. I want you to feel good again. I want you to feel alive.
Can you remember being young enough that you just didn’t care? You didn’t know what other people thought about you. You ran. You played. You were totally you without shame.
I wrote #HowToBeYou so that you could feel that way again. Here is the step by step guide to living without shame. I want that for you. You deserve that.
I’m watching Beyonce’s performance at the VMA’s and I dunno she just does nothing for me. Not her music, not her style, not her choreography. It all falls flat for me. Deep down I feel like she’s contrived. Too controlled. Too calculated. Everything is a projection. I’ve never felt connected to her.
I saw five minutes of Rhianna and I was like yes girl. She’s just her damn self. I feel like if I met her we could lime for a five, and Beyoncé would be across the room being polite to everyone and we’d look at each other and roll our eyes and get back to playing all fours.
‘Caroni River’ (c1870) by Trinidadian artist Michel-Jean Cazabon.
Nowadays Michel-Jean Cazabon (1813-1888) is generally regarded as one of the Caribbean’s first great painters. But in his time he was appreciated more in Europe than in his country.
His scenes of a clean, natural and unspoiled Trinidad show a country as it was before the heavy industrialization of the twentieth century. His work is rich in details and excels in the use of light and shadow.
Meet the artist honoring traditional black hairstyles with incredible braids
Shani Crowe was 12 years old when she conceived the idea for her first art show. She had gotten really good at braiding her own hair, and she wanted to create various braid styles using rainbow-colored hair and wire, then photograph them. Now, 15 years later, her idea has come to fruition with the help of 3Arts, a non-profit organization in Chicago that works to promote local artists.
Crowe’s show Braids, which opened April 8, features 10 black-and-white images of black women with intricate braids that might as well be crowns or some other form of royal headdress. “I really love the idea of making women that I know look regal, as regal as they are in real life,” Crowe told me. She handpicked the models (some of her closest friends), took and edited the photographs, and braided all of the hair. The braid that took longest to complete required 12 hours of work over the course of two days.
I think from now on when I see someone post something about their fucked up abusive relationship or whatever other fuckery they have going on I’m just going to scroll past. Cause when you keep putting your shit out there and everybody’s telling you, hey this shit is fucked up get out, and you keep calling it love, then I have nothing left to say.
Daniel Radcliffe discussing how he has racist friends but won’t end a friendship over their racist beliefs is exactly why we have a hard time trusting white “allies” and why we’re sick and tired of hearing white “allies” talk about how THEY aren’t racist.
Radcliffe’s exact quote is: “And I’m still friends with them because I don’t think that friendship should be drawn along those lines.”
And like… This is exactly what we mean when we talk about how being an ally means you have to actively help dismantle racism, especially within your communities and with other white people. If you’ve ever said “But I’M not racist so what do you want me to do??????” then this shit right here is what the fuck you’re supposed to do.
Pretending like your white friends holding racist beliefs is just some minor thing you disagree with like what toppings go best on pizza or if Coke is better than Pepsi is, to be quite honest, fucking disgusting.
And if you think that severing a friendship over racism is going too far then you perhaps need to re-evaluate how much of an ally you actually are.
It’s a huge goddamn privilege for racism to just be a minor inconvenience to a friendship and I can guarantee that your friends of color are wondering how you can be an ally when you sit there and allow your other friends to actively dehumanize them
What 16 trillion dollar debt? I have no idea how my free stuff is going to appear. I just know I want it.
He’s raising taxes on the rich
He’s planning on stealing more from people… ok that makes sense. Just because *They* are rich doesn’t mean those people deserve to have more of their wealth stolen from them.
Yes because the wealthy billionaires that steal and undervalue labor, and companies that scapegoat paying taxes are really hurting
why even bring up the national debt if you don’t want people to pay taxes
I’m on the phone half asleep, but yeah, Thank you for real
I don’t think OP understands what rich people are. Like they literally won’t even notice the taxes. It will make no impact on the wealthy at all. You could take literally 50% of the income of the top 10% and they would have to make zero changes to their lifestyle.
Money to them is just a high score. They whinge when you take them down a bit but it makes literally no difference because they’re still winning the fucking game.
They do actually 100% deserve to have their money taken. People are starving to death because we think disability payments shouldn’t be enough to live on and minimum wage should be half of what you need to survive so yeah, I think millionaires and billionaires deserve to have a tiny fucking fraction of the money they could never spend in a fucking lifetime so I can fucking EAT AT ALL.
I also don’t think people understand actually how much a billion dollars is. Like. it’s such an enormous number.
We think of numbers that big like a set of stairs, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, ten million, a hundred million, a billion.
With each jump just being another step on the staircase and not realising HOW FUCKING HUGE each step is, and how vast the gap is between each of them.
Aside from the fact that even a million dollars is far more than you need, a billion is disgusting excess. There is no conceivable way one person could justify needing a billion dollars when you know HOW MUCH that is.
To put it in perspective: a million seconds is 11 and a half days a billion seconds is 31 years and 9 months.
Another example would be Warren Buffett: He made $US12.7 billion in 2013. That was his yearly income, not his total worth. Just his income for 2013.
That’s $37 million per day; $1.54 million per hour; $25,694 per minute
How much do you get per hour? Is it enough to live on? the minimum wage in america is $15,080per year That man makes more money per minute just for being alive, even in his sleep than most of you do in an entire year.
also, just using seconds for reference again
15,080 seconds is just over 4 hours. 12.7 billion seconds is 402 years and 4 months.
Can someone please make a staircase graph with dollar amounts?
I have discalcula and have a hard time conceptualizing numbers. I feel like that’s a great analogy and would help me.
Ok so I tried and the number differences broke the weird little graphing thing I was using.
so here we have one thousand (1,000) not showing one million (1,000,000) at one pixel
and one billlion (100,000,000) is the big pilon there.
I added fifty million in to show because that graph goes in increments of 50 million.
So how much is 50 million compared to a million though, it’s only one pixel?
so smol. But still we’re trying to get down to a thousand, (which is ten hundred-dollar-bills.)
So what does a million look like compared to a thousand?
oh. We broke it again. It will only go in 50 thousands. So we got to look at how big 50k is compared to our wad of hunjies.
ok.
This is why i like using the seconds instead of graphs… But I won’t give up here.
the reason it’s so so hard to process is because a BILLION is an enormous number. there comes a point with numbers where we can’t actually process them and its just like…a lot. And more than “a lot” is still “a lot”.
So we need visual representation. Lets use pennies (thanks megapenny)
Imagine a penny. Just one.
Ok, you get a thousand pennies a week, and you end up with 52 thousand in a year. If they were dollars that’s a nice paying wage.
with me?
now this is a thousand pennies.
this is 50 thousand pennies (1 square foot solid of pennies! COOOOL) It’s roughly how many pennies you would have in a year if you got a thousand pennies a week.
This is a million pennies
And this is a billion pennies
(Which is 5 schoolbuss sized blocks of solid pennies.)
that is so many.
.
The problem with numbers is that we see them written like this
1 100 1000 1000000 1000000000
And we kind of subconciously go “well… it’s only increasing a little at a time, like a staircase. When the progression is more like
And so on. which is not a staircase I want to climb because it starts off reasonable and then jumps to building size, then mountain size.
We ‘add a zero’ which is confusing because it’s timesing (x) not adding (+).
to make ten thousand dots, I would copy all the dots in my thousand pile, and paste them ten times. to make a hundred thousand, I would copy all the dots in my ten-thousand-dot pile and paste them ten times. thats what “times by ten” means.
That’s what adding a zero is, it’s multiplying (x) the last number we had by ten. (i also say timesing: as in copy and pasting it ten times) try it with a word document and see how many pages it takes to get you a billion dots, and how many it takes for 15 thousand (minimum wage anual)
hopefully this was at least somewhat useful.
Anyway, the point is that if we imagine them as dollar coins, and one square block is established as good enough to live by a year, there’s no reason one individual deserves 5 bus-worths.
Omg this is excellent! Thank you so much, that does really help! The pennies in particular
Check out this awesome visual representation of how messed up our society is, everyone!
I’ve been getting requests from clients for chokers lately. Apparently this 90’s nightmare of an accessory is back in style.
I can’t wear anything close fitting around my neck so it would never occur to me to design a choker. But more than that I’m just surprised by how influenced people are by trends.
I was hoping I’d seen the last of this awful style two decades ago, but since it’s resuscitated I’ve decided I’m going to ignore it like I did last time, because that’s what it deserves.
You’re totally being the crabby friend even though you set them up together in the first place lol. I am so entertained by this. It needs to be a reality show so I can watch it unfold in real time 😂
Anybody texting me that much is gonna annoy me. And this is like the second time you say you wanna watch me in a reality tv show lol
Tumblr is my happy place, my distraction. I have to keep it that way. I can’t follow anyone that makes it less so. I won’t apologize for being completely selfish in that regard.
What Cat said. I’m here for the chill vibes, sweet tunes, and French dips.
The moment this place becomes unfun, I’m out.
It was pretty unfun for a while when replies disappeared. I’m glad I stuck around
I feel like you should have seen this coming lol. I’m genuinely surprised the date happened so soon though. I thought y’all were having a group meet up first?
Apparently they were too eager. I expected she’d be excited I just wasn’t prepared for things to move so fast so I thought I’d get to ease into it a little. Ugh people in like are so annoying
I took the day off work today. There really wasn’t anything pressing I had to work on anyway.
I’m watching old episodes of America’s Next Top Model and I’m gonna go in the studio and do some calligraphy exercises, maybe some watercolor experiments.
I’m finally using my little secretary desk for something other than somewhere to put stuff that’s not fitting on my workbench. It’s a nice peaceful area in my very chaotic little studio.
I’m still feeling a little mentally traumatized about the accident so I’m trying not to think about it. So I’m thinking of today as a mental health day.
Trumpeter Herb Alpert, known for his unique brand of Latin-tinged jazz pop, and for being a co-founder of A&M Records, a label that released key albums by artists from Cat Stevens to Janet Jackson, is now making his mark on education. The musician’s namesake foundation, co-founded with his wife, singer Lani Hall, is making a $10.1-million donation to Los Angeles City College that will provide all music majors at the school with a tuition-free education.
3 time Olympian Idalys Ortiz from Cuba won silver in the women’s heavy weight Judo 2016
Elaine Thompson from Jamaica won gold in the women’s 100m
Mónica Puig from Puerto Rico won gold in the women’s tennis
Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce from Jamaica won bronze in the women’s 100m
Ismael Borrero from Cuba won gold for the men’s 59kg Greco-Roman wrestling
Kirani James from Grenada won silver in the men’s 400m
Usain Bolt from Jamaica won gold in the men’s 100m
Lázaro Álvarez from Cuba won bronze in the men’s light 60kg boxing
Joahnys Argilagos from Cuba won bronze in the men’s light fly 49kg boxing
Erislandy Savón from Cuba won bronze in the men’s heavy weight 91kg boxing
3x Olympic gold medalist Mijaín López from Cuba won gold for the men’s 130kg Greco-Roman wrestling
Shaunae Miller from the Bahamas won gold in the women’s 400m
Shericka Jackson from jamaica won bronze in the women’s 400m
Denia Caballero from Cuba won bronze in the women’s discus throw
Yasmany Cabrera from Cuba won silver for the men’s 98kg Greco-Roman wrestling
Elaine Thompson from Jamaica won gold in the women’s 200m, that’s 2 golds she’s won this Olympics
Julio César La Cruz from Cuba won gold in the men’s light heavy 81kg boxing
Usain Bolt from Jamaica won gold in the men’s 200m; he takes his 2nd gold home for Jamaica this Olympics
Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Nickel Ashmeade from Jamaica won gold in the men’s 4x100m relay
Veronica Campbell-Brown, Elaine Thompson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Christania Williams from Jamaica won silver in the women’s 4x100m relay
Arlen López from Cuba won gold in the men’s 75kg middleweight boxing
Robeisy Ramirez from Cuba won gold in the men’s 56kg bantamweight boxing
Stephanie Ann McPherson, Anniesha McPhalin-Whilby, Shericka Jackson and Novelene William-Mills from Jamaica won silver in the women’s 4x400m relay
Peter Matthews, Nathon Allen, Fitzroy Dunkley and Javon Francis from Jamaica won silver in the men’s 4x400m relay
Alonzo Russell, Michael Mathieu, Steven Gardiner and Chris Brown from the Bahamas won bronze in the men’s 4x400m relay
Luisito Pie from the Dominican Republic won bronze in the men’s 58k taekwondo
Keshorn Walcott from Trinidad and Tobago won bronze in the men’s javelin throw
Omar McLeod from Jamaica won gold in the men’s 100m hurdles
Shout out to all these great Caribbean athletes who played well for their countries and also the amazing Caribbean athletes that played for other countries. You guys have made us so proud!!!
I heard about this on my way home today. If you have an iphone go update the software IMMEDIATELY.
After I came back from the gym today, I took a nice, long, hot shower. Then I made myself some soup (comfort food for my shitty day). I checked my email and I found an invitation to teach on Skillshare (that was very nice!) and now I’m gonna catch up on tumblr and watch some calligraphy tutorials and just relax.
thanks 🙂 I was a bit shaken up but it really helped that the guy was so nice about it. And the police didn’t act like assholes either (they tend to do that around here)
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