In the middle of the desert you can say anything you want
The “sweater curse” or “curse of the love sweater” is a term used by knitters to describe the belief that if a knitter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter.[1] In an alternative formulation, the relationship will end before the sweater is even completed.[2] The belief is widely discussed in knitting publications, and some knitters claim to have experienced it
Also confirmation bias, statistics, + timing
Excellent system of Direct directives, indirect directives, and context-dependent directives. Plus the site itself looks pretty interesting.
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to make the page editable is really nice
In 1953, Los Angeles county building inspectors were baffled as how to
classify Van Meter’s innovation. They ultimately decided
it was a wooden **“fence”.[1] No further
regulatory action was taken for over twenty years and the building
department left him alone, along with his “folk art” innovation,
until 1977. In that year the city fire department declared his
creation “an illegally stacked lumber pile."
He was instructed to tear it down. Van Meter, using some imagination,
convinced the Cultural Heritage Commission and
the city of Los Angeles to designate his
creation a Historic Cultural **Monument.[6] It was
declared then as HCM Monument No. 184 in 1978.[7] This designation
protected Van Meter’s pile of pallets until he died or moved.[2]
Later, then-commissioner Robert W. Winter said “maybe we
were drunk” when the pile was designated
a monument for Van Meter’s lifetime.[8]
Winter said it was the funniest thing they ever did.[7]
A white elephant is a possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. The term derives from the story that the kings of Siam, now Thailand, were accustomed to make a present of one of these animals to courtiers who had rendered themselves obnoxious, in order to ruin the recipient by the cost of its maintenance. In modern usage, it is an object, building project, scheme, business venture, facility, etc., considered expensive but without use or value.
A site of a camgirl from Reddit
Over time I’ve been saving some of my favorite articles from those inevitable Wikipedia doom spirals. Here’s a list of odd, interesting, unusual, or curious links straight from my juicy bookmarks folder!
Also https://aellagirl.com/2016/08/21/421/
I lived in a house of accepting camgirls.
Really cute software that automatically locks/unlocks the screen when you (=USB device) cross a certain distance
Discovered part of this by myself while playing with the Genius keyboard, but still excellent writeup.
Really nice read about analyzing a dongle.pcap with wireshark.