just-add-wolves.bsky.social
Intermittent writer, collector of shiny objects, and digital wanderer.
Random interests from the top of my head: linguistics, fountain pens, subtitled anime from the 90s-early 2000s, YA/NA lit, watching memes mutate in real time, portal fantasy, etc.
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What I could've said: “I stalled out on copying the text of Beowulf by hand in my piss-poor imitation of the original manuscript's hand.” (I did go full patronizing teacher voice.)
But also this utter stranger with zero critical thinking skills claimed to have a """hard""" science master's degree.
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…yes, I'm still annoyed at the jerkwad last week who took me thinking about how I would explain the products of a Gutenberg printing press to a pre-Gutenberg peasant while showing off a modern descendant to mean I thought books hadn't existed before Europe got that form of mass production. 😵💫
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Typed up a little over a page instead of going to bed.
With the clarifications, marginalia, and attributions, it's over 1,000 words (I taught myself to write extra tiny, like 3 mm tall). Still has to be sorted properly and evaluated for usefulness, of course.
Now I'm at page 39 of 56. 🙃
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[version with typo corrected]
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Many years ago at a con, a newly acquired e-friend recognized me and yelled my chosen username from across the dealers' room to get my attention, and the “holy shit, that's referring to me!” realization hit hard enough that I did my own double-take. 😂
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I did get stuck once in the freight elevator at my old site. Fortunately, it was late afternoon and it stopped at the floor with the management office (but wouldn't open the doors).
Just pulled out the work cell, called the head of maintenance to ask for help, and got out in about 30 seconds. 😂
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I do not miss elevator entrapment calls. (Very little I could do except let myself into the room with the layperson controls and hit the recall button and hope. Management had to decide between their elevator company and the fire department.)
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👀 A shitpost that got out of hand, you say…?
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I'm almost tempted to make a depressing game out of asking cishet white dudes several months out from their last training to give me the legal delineation of the term. 🙃
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I had also just finished reading Scalzi's When The Moon Hits Your Eye the night before, and (spoiler warning?)…
…since every moon rock specimen on Earth turns to cheese along with the moon in the novel, I was laughing to myself when I passed a case with a sample of lunar rock.
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It was also fascinating to realize that the kid's concept of the North and South Pole included either a physical marker or some other object visible to the eye, as he was upset that I showed him open ocean in the Arctic Circle rather than land (or an ice sheet).
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It's pretty cool that I could describe Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, get a blank look from the kid, and then the mom pulled up a photo of the sculpture on her phone to show him.
(I did not mention The Gates of Hell, but I was very intrigued by the bronze version in the garden of its home museum.)
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Had a long interlude with a small boy and his mom at an interactive map station where I was looking at some monuments in Paris. So I pointed out not just the Eiffel Tower, but the Champs de Mars, Notre Dame and Ile de la Cité, the Arch of Triumph, the Louvre, les Invalides, and the Rodin Museum.