mild rant about english literature teaching
bloke carries the mast of the boat over his shoulders teach goes "JUST LIKE CHRIST ON THE CROSS!", no teach, that's just how you carry a fucking mast, how the fuck else are you going to carry the fucker?
he's out there for three days, teach goes "JUST LIKE CHRIST DID!", no, that's clearly not a direct correlation, this dude is trying to catch a fish and jesus fucked off on a long weekend, that's the full extent of the similarity here
mild rant about english literature teaching
amazon suggested I buy a copy of the old man and the sea and it reminded me how much I fucking hated that section of my english lit class
the book's fine, story of a bloke fighting a fish, kinda wanted the fish to win but whatever, good book
what I hated was the constant "THIS IS A CHRIST ANALOGY"
Someone reminded me of the Channel 4 dating programme Naked Attraction and I really want it to be broadcast in the USA so I can watch the moral outrage they're bound to have over it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Attraction
Also it'll help get rid of the stereotype they have of us being all prim and proper
elon musk
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-hyperloop-tunnel-is-now-just-a-normal-1835024474
Elon Musk's hyperloop project is now literally just a tunnel
His company spent two years and fuck knows how much money developing a tunnel
I can only imagine that the BFR is just a catapult at this point
I came across this, a video about little tiny wireless LEDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsUsByrOveE
I'm thinking that those, combined with an induction loop in a necklace or something, might be useful for cool cyberpunky light up makeup effects
Or hiding wires might just be easier, I don't know, I know bugger all about things you apply to faces
Okay this Huawei thing is really bringing up a few issues around a lot of standards bodies being based in the US
The SD Association is based in California which means that Huawei can't say their products support SD cards
And the Wi-Fi Alliance is based in Texas which means Huawei won't be to certify that their products work with wi-fi
And the Bluetooth SIG is based in Washington, which means they can't use Bluetooth
This is a problem
ukpol
couldn't she have moved it forward to the 31st though?
"May ends on the 31st" would have been a good headline
At least we've still got "June marks end of May"
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
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