drwordperson.bsky.social
Linguist of various dead languages (Ancient Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin...) Besides that, I enjoy lutes, plants, and rocks.
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Their Paris and Bessie lace up boots are my daily non-hiking-boot shoes for exactly the same reasons. And I have feet that are very, very hard to fit.
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In the newer She-Ra, both Light Hope (ancient hologram generated by a computer system) and Swift Wind (talking horse) get a lot of screen time. There's also Emily the bot, and Hordak the main antagonist.
Most of the main cast are human/animal hybrids, don't know if that counts.
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Oh NO.
I had a friend I'd play video games with whose kid would unplug the cables at the back of the computer...but this is some next level achievement.
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Alternate idea: hang two giant googly eyes on the front grill.
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I think you should get one if those person-sized metal dinosaur yard sculptures and put it in the front passenger seat. Drive around with the top down. Give the dino a cowboy hat for extra style.
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What is happening? I have had a hell day and domehow I have been out of the loop, apparently.
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Do you know Cities: Skylines and Rimworld? Chill city builder and base builder games (Rimworld definitely has a nothing bad happens setting which I use for peaceful muffalo ranching).
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I don't know if that was an actual suggestion or not, but the most effective way I've found to deal with harassers is to make it just a little too annoying for them to continue. (Hat tip to the guy where every time he'd complain I wasn't wearing revealing enough clothes, I 'd laugh in his face.)
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(2) You know what he looks like, you know what his car looks like. Can you, by neighborhood agreement, play the same annoying song loudly whenever there's a sighting? Like, rickroll him or something. This suggestion brought to you by neighborhood bluejays, which use the same technique against hawks.
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(1) Is your US rep Lloyd Doggett? Sometimes I've called his office to voice my opinion about policy issues that were affecting me and his staff has actually given me a caseworker/info for other agencies/some other form of concrete help.
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I have not been able to forget that scene.
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Depending on how aggressively you want to investigate, you could try taping some light-blocking material around the light-emitting sides of the lamp to see if the "shadow" really is one, or whether it *is* lit, but more dimly than the surrounding area-- that would support the diffuser hypothesis
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Is there a lens or anything inside the lamp which might be causing the light to deflect or refract?
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Could the shadow come not from light directly emitted by the lamp, but reflected off a wall or other surface?
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Interestingly enough, my father and mother would come to medical procedures with me, both of them, at least whenever my father could take off the time from work (which he usually could.)
I think they both always worried and wanted to look out for me as best they could.
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She recommends: Gärten der Welt for any age, Tierpark for a zoo, an exhibit at the Gropius Bau called Bau Bau.
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I have put out a call to a friend who (a) lives in Berlin and (b) has kids, so I'll see if she has any kid-friendly recommendations to pass along.
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In the past I enjoyed the Käthe Kollwitz Museum (my favorite visual artist, hands down), Charlottenburg and Pottsdam for swanky palaces, the botanical garden out in Dahlem, the chill suburb-y park out at Rüdesheimer Platz. Plus walking around the parliament buildings, etc.
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Museum for Naturkunde is outstanding for dinosaurs and minerals, and not overwhelmingly large (buy tickets online in advance bc the ticket line was viscous), this particular flea open-air flea market (berlinertroedelmarkt.com/en/), Amrit Indian restaurant near Pottsdamer Platz for sit-down food.
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My significant other and his family are German, can confirm on the honesty policy. I am from the South and it has been an...adjustment 😂
Any other places you want recommendations for? I live here currently and I've been around.
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Also, I am kind of a local: if you want a fun thing for kids the nearby town of Emmendingen has lots of child-sized snail statues and other kid stuff.
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When I was in Freiburg city center a random dude came up to me and the person I was visiting and offered us free ice cream. He'd gotten it for a friend who was lactose intolerant and couldn't eat it.
As he was walking away he said "Not all Germans are rude!!!"
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To be fair the weird antique mall is usually my first choice, and I generally have as good/better luck there than with regular furniture stores (I am on the short/small side and new furniture is generally too big for me).
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While talking to them, and then walking away without looking back at them.
Most birds are prey animals and direct, sustained eye contact can come across as threatening.
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My neighborhood crows loved peanuts in shell, and frozen corn. I initially befriended them with bread, but once they realized that peanuts were available, they started ignoring bread gifts.
Also, I wouldn't throw the food at them-- I'd make a big show of leaving it on the ground....
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Wait wait wait.
You have merch?
You're in the EU???
Please post a link to your shop because I just arrived here and I have, like, nothing.
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Musician. Utterly trivial.
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Slinkies.
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...okay, but, this rather strengthens my point, doesn't it? I mean, what side dishes do YOU bring to a barbecue???
Besides, I believe in the powers of selective breeding to eventually produce theropod-sized corn cobs.
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Corn on the cob.
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There's a song for that feeling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Qz...
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I have since moved to a different area and my knowledge has basically been reset to zero.
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At one point I was able, with my backyard garden, to completely replace all of my family's vegetable needs for about 6 months of the year.
But:
I am descended from four generations of vegetable farmers in this area!
This was half the back yard, and not pretty!
I had $$$$ for compost!
etc.
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<3 <3 <3
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I want this book...
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I would so watch that!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkKe...
Important relationship talk.
lyricstranslate.com/en/funny-van... (can run it through Google Translate)
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-mi...
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal...
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Glottal stop (a consonant formed just by shutting your vocal chords) plus the same vowel as in "but."
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The thing that is usually written uh-uh?
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No, she just starred in a 1930s noir. Despite the appearance of innocence (signified by the teddy bear), she drags the male lead into a morally grey underworld (signified by the stripes on the chair) which brings about his destruction (the shadows behind the chair).
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There was a pretty cool antique store in the downtown area
Cripple Creek Steakhouse was also good IIRC
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Do you like Julio's chips????
THEIR RESTAURANT IS IN DEL RIO!!!
See alsl: literally every other taco place
Mangonadas
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One time I was out in the city center when I came down with a bladder infection! A very bad one!
I managed to walk as far as the train station, and then it was taxi time to the hospital...no I was NOT going to wait for the bus or walk those extra few blocks. NO.