Lists, Lists, Lists (v. 2015)
Things to do:
1. Check the original Lists thread.
2. Find out what it’s all about and how to do it.
3. Return here.
4. Make lists.
Date: February 16, 2015
Categories: Nonrandom Craziness, Things We like
Thursday, 18 April 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Things to do:
1. Check the original Lists thread.
2. Find out what it’s all about and how to do it.
3. Return here.
4. Make lists.
Date: February 16, 2015
Categories: Nonrandom Craziness, Things We like
My life for the next week:
1. Don Juan
2. Schumann scherzo
3. Prokofiev classical symphony
4. Mozart 39
5. Brahms 4
6. Heldenleben solo
7. Brahms 1 solo
8. Scheherazade
9. romantic concerto (Brahms)
10. Mozart 5
11. Haydn lark
Good things about interning at a large company:
1. Structured internship program
2. Better location and easier commute
3. More connections for the future
Good things about interning at a startup:
1. Much higher pay
2. Cooler project
3. More direct access to more powerful people within the company
(This is my way of announcing that I have two job offers and I don’t know what to do, considering I didn’t even expect one.)
How did you like the feel of the place at both companies? Liking your coworkers is very important.
I’ve never set foot inside either company — I’ve only had phone interviews with either. I guess the startup people seemed friendlier/more chill? It’s hard to tell just from on the phone…
Can you visit either one or ask for a tour?
(SFTDP) Personally, based on those qualities, I’d go with the startup. A cool project is essential, high pay is great (especially when you’re starting out, since your future pay will be based on what you’ve earned before), and you have a slight leaning towards the people as friendlier/more chill. Plus, while a structured internship program can be good, a more unstructured program could be an advantage for a highly motivated young person, since you can steer it somewhat more closely by your interests and what you want to learn. Within a small startup, you can end up in roles that aren’t typical for an intern at a larger company and maybe even have some serious responsibility.
Congrats on the two offers, by the way!
Things I could do with math:
Create a math blog
write articles
learn more math
make math jewelry?
write a math poem
I have a friend who uses his math skills to make elaborate puzzles.
1. water bottle
2. light
3. a small notebook: lined, gold embossed, bookmark ribbon
4. 1/8th an idea (see: notebook)
5. watercolors
6. tissues
7. a faux leather wallet with a half-correct name
8. pens
9. knife
10. two tarot decks: one dark, one light
11. necklace
1. a hooded scarf, blue and green
2. water bottle
3. admission ticket: David Bowie Is, the Museum of Modern Art
4. tissues
5. a 4-sided die
6. headphones (broken)
7. key
8. water bottle
9. a light shaped like a jewel
10. e-reader
11. a flyer for The Music Box Theater
1. the sea
2. summer
3. a friend who moved halfway across the globe
4. a friend who I talk to every day
5. the sound of rain on a lake
6. the sun
7. Ireland
8. doing things
9. doing nothing
10. a friend who left and may not be a friend anymore
11. grass
1. Summerland
2. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
3. The Wind Singer
4. The Name of the Wind
5. The Lies of Locke Lamora
6. Clariel
7. His Majesty’s Dragon
8. Assassin’s Apprentice
9. The Arrival
10. Seraphina
11. The Amulet of Samarkand
1. Overhead-projection alarm clock
2. Penguin-shaped bedroom humidifier
3. Strap-mounted headlamp
4. Hand-cranked apple peeler-corer-slicer
5. Side-cutting geared can opener
6. Airtight plastic lids for resealing cans of cat food
7. “Furminator” cat brush
8. Precut write-on tabs for hanging file folders
9. Home seltzer maker
10. Clamp-style cedar trouser hangers
(Category: small gadgets that make my life much nicer.)
1) Mathematics
2) Dance
3) Stories
4) Judaism
5) Spanish things/Latin@ related things
6) Cultures
7) Architecture
8) Cities
9) Art
10) Museums
11) Books
12) Discovery
13) Science
Good things:
1. Different colors of highlighters
2. Purim costume planning
3. Taylor Swift’s entire back-catalogue
4. My stuffed manatee
5. Eddie Redmayne
6. Citrus-scented shampoo
7. Photos of my dream school
8. Free rice pudding at work
1. cake
2. seawater
3. pills
4. pride
5. dust
6. hair
7. cranberry juice
8. toothpaste
9. bugs
10. laughter
11. pigeon eggs
1. dragon
2. the moon
3. hot air balloons
4. flowers
5. NaNoWriMo
6. butterflies and child
7. dragonfly
8. poem
9. shamrocks
10. penguins in suits
11. Warriors
1. a character
2. an offer
3. a book cover
4. a watercolor
5. a mermaid
6. two dragons
7. a calendar
8. a sword
9. a giant space squid
10. a story
11. a list
1. Rosemary and Rue
2. The Hunter’s Moon
3. Ancillary Justice
4. Reckless
5. Digger
6. Vorkosigan Saga
7. Rail Sea Rail C
8. The Lies of Locke Lamora
9. Feed
10. The Left Hand of Darkness
11. Warm Bodies
1. The Knight of Staves
2. The Queen of Staves
3. The Two of Cups
4. The Hierophant
5. The Two of Swords (reversed)
6. The Four of Coins (reversed)
7. The Fool
8. The Magician
9. The Sun
10. The Eight of Swords
11. The Three of Cups
1. the cave
2. the treehouse
3. the barrier
4. the wyrmslaying
5. the gun
6. the smile
7. the treehouse, again
8. the door
9. the slowing
10. the fall
11. the whale
1. things on my headboard
2. things in my purse
3. things that I miss
4. stories I have read in the last year
5. things I have swallowed
6. things on my walls
7. things on my computer desktop
8. stories that others have recommended to me
9. my tarot reading at that moment
10. things I dreamed as a child
11. titles
that’s the end!
1. my clarinet
2. poetry
3. playing the piano
4. studying but not for class
5. essays about things I genuinely have interest in
6. music theory
7. cuddling
8. kisses
9. laughter
10. friends
11. comfortable armchairs
12. sunshine
13. being able to see the blue sky
1. “A Study in Emerald,” Neil Gaiman
2. “They’re Made out of Meat,” Terry Bisson
3. “We Haven’t Got There Yet,” Harry Turtledove
4. “Once and Future,” Terry Pratchett
5. “All Seated on the Ground,” Connie Willis
6. “Oakland Dragon Blues,” Peter S. Beagle
7. “Story of Your Life,” Ted Chiang
8. “Nad and Dan adn Quaffy,” Diana Wynne Jones
9. “The Ghosts of Christmas,” Paul Cornell
10. “Fire Watch,” Connie Willis
11. “A Kiss With Teeth,” Max Gladstone
12. “As Good As New,” Charlie Jane Anders
13. “Bluebeard’s Wife,” T. Kingfisher
14. “The Care & Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn,” Diana Peterfreund
15. “The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging,” Harry Turtledove
16. “Wikihistory,” Desmond Warzel
17. “The Index,” J.G. Ballard
18. “This Will Keep You Out of Trouble,” Joanna Russ
19. “The Boys Are Back in Town,” Douglas Smith
20. “Other Kingdom,” E.M. Forster
21. “In the House of the Seven Librarians,” Ellen Klages
22. “The Smile on the Face,” Nalo Hopkinson
Possible side effects of reading Homestuck:
1) Never getting enough sleep again.
2) Never being able to look at a simple deck of cards the same way ever again.
3) Improved vocabulary.
4) Stargazing.
5) Interesting dreams.
At least these are the ones which I have encountered.
Don’t forget not being able to look at the zodiac the same way again.
Well, I guess that’s covered under stargazing, but still.
Oh, yes, there’s that, too.
For when I get a TARDIS, an ongoing list:
– one or more of the Thames frost-fairs
– a play at the (old) Globe
– a medieval mystery play
– London on V-E Day
– the 1863 Salon des Refusés
– I am going to kiss Aldus Manutius on the mouth, as an expression of my undying gratitude for the semicolon.
– Orson Welles’ Voodoo Macbeth
– Ken Branagh’s Macbeth, tbh.
– probably more plays? but I can’t think of any others right at this moment
There has never been a DW companion who was as prepared as I am, and I slightly resent them all for it. I’m not the only person who has one of these lists, yeah?
Good ideas, all of them. I’d like to go to those times and places, too.
Additionally:
– Find out what dinosaurs really looked like.
– Obtain pet falcon-sized pterosaur.
– Visit ancient South America and see the GIANT GROUND SLOTHS.
– The funeral procession of Khufu.
– Learn to read Etruscan and Linear A from the sources. Also, Knossos.
– Hatshepsut’s expedition to Punt.
– The funeral of Tutankhamen.
– I really want to see the Library Of Alexandria before it was destroyed. I might want to copy information from the scrolls, but I don’t know if that would change history too much.
– Walk through the streets of Pompeii and Herculaneum before their destruction. (At least a few years before to be safe.)
– Sail with Lief Erikson.
– See the Maya city-states when all of the buildings were stuccoed and painted.
– Visit the Inca empire and find out how to use a kuipu.
– Obtain pet Moa.
– Learn rongorongo and watch the construction of the Moai.
– See Zheng He’s treasure fleet.
– Obtain pet thylacine.
– Watch the Wright Brothers make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.
– Set up invisible cameras at the North Pole and on the summit of Mount McKinley to find out the truth about Frederick Cook’s claims once and for all. (I probably can’t show the pictures to anyone but dang I would like to.)
– Run around Edwardian England hanging with polar explorers and finding out who did the Piltdown Man hoax.
– I guess I would really want to go on the Titanic just to explore the ship and see what it was like, maybe just during the Channel crossing and getting off in Southampton, but it would be REALLY hard to resist the temptation to warn the crew and change history.
– I would love to somehow secretly send ROVs down to the Titanic wreck at some or several points between 1912 and 1985 to chart the deterioration, even if I couldn’t show the photos to anyone.
– Set up an invisible camera on the summit of Mount Everest on June 7, 1924 and find out if George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made it to the summit.
– In 1933 there was a party in New York at Amelia Earhart’s home attended by Earhart, Richard Byrd, Auguste Piccard, Charles Lindbergh, William Beebe and Roy Chapman Andrews. I would go and bring an autograph book.
– Determine the crash site of Amelia Earhart.
– 1939 World’s Fair.
– Watch Sputnik 1 at dusk in the October Sky.
– Watch Yuri Gagarin’s launch from Baikonur. (And be ready to time-warp out if the KGB try to grab me.)
– Determine how Michael Rockefeller died.
– Get Stan Lee to autograph a copy of Amazing Fantasy 15.
– 1964 World’s Fair.
– Create form of excuse or forged ID allowing me to watch the moon landings from inside of Mission Control.
– Find out if DB Cooper survived the jump.
– See Star Wars on its opening weekend.
– Witness eruption of Mount St. Helens from the safety of Vancouver or Seattle.
– Watch the launch of STS-1 from Banana River.
– Bring a c. 1999 computer to the present and CD-ROMs for all of the games I played as a little kid and could never win and find out what happens when you win them.
Create excuse or forged ID? I would go to the moon itself and watch the landing firsthand! (This TARDIS has a functioning Chameleon Circuit, right? Or you could just take the Doctor’s one, hotwire the fragment links and supersede the the binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary binary…)
Eh, fair, but I think we’re just sticking to time travel on the surface of earth. (I don’t think Kai’s a Doctor Who fan, and for myself the only reason I specified TARDIS instead of time machine generally is because… well, honestly because I don’t think most time machines can move you very much spatially, and I don’t have time for that.)
Anyway personally I think being inside mission control would be like, a whole ‘nother category of incredible, being surrounded by people who were watching it happen for the first time. I think I’d enjoy that way more than I’d enjoy being on the moon myself.
I guess so. It would be amazing to see the lunar module land on the surface of the moon, and watch Neil Armstrong make his way out onto the surface, though. It would also be cool just to step out on the surface of the moon (without a spacesuit too, because the TARDIS supposedly protects/envelopes you within feet from the door – see http : //smg . photobucket . com/user / spdk1 / media /drwho/Amy _ Space . png . html?t=1273389828 for evidence)
I think I would be too afraid of getting seen or leaving footprints that might get seen, because of how badly that would change history. But I would watch from the surface if I knew I wouldn’t be detected or leave any trace.
I’m not really a fan, but I definitely have speculated on my preferred time travel destinations no matter what the means of conveyance is (I do agree with Doc Brown that a DeLorean undeniably has style.)
Well, if we’re going the Doctor Who route, you could just use the psychic paper to get into Mission Control.
Top Five Things Cartoons Have Taught Me Never To Say:
5) “No one (human) could have survived that!” (They did and they may not be.)
4) “… and what are the odds of THAT happening?” (Pretty dang good, actually.)
3) “I wish every day was Christmas.” (Or some other holiday.) (No you don’t, you don’t want to relive the same day over and over again.)
2) “At least it’s not raining.” (It is now!)
1) “What’s the worst that could happen?” (You’d be surprised.)
Weird things I have called my guinea pigs (in no particular order):
-Little fluff man
-little-pig-little-pig (said really fast)
-small men
-Weird mouse
-Fluff potato
-Pig of Guinea
-Fluff bro
-guinea dudes
-Canadian lions
-The Small Fluffs
(to be continued)
“Canadian lions” is gloriously weird. Where did it come from?
Yeah, that one’s my favorite too! Though I also like “The Small Fluffs”
Long story short, I was declared to be “a Canadian lion tamer” a few years back. It was then decided that it was the lions that were Canadian (as opposed to the tamer) and the closest thing to lions that I’d ever tamed was the guinea pigs. Plus Floyd’s fur looks kinda like a mane if I fluff it up.
nice things
— tea, sweet and stewed (PG Tips in the morning, Twinings peppermint at night)
— scarves
— fingerless gloves
— orange marmalade
— bagels
— getting excited about writing projects again
— I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
— The Now Show
— clean sheets
— sharing a sense of humor with people
— finding presents you know people will love
— pears
— graphic novels
— stop-motion animation
— inter-library loan
— indie bookstores
Five things I’ve learned:
– Whole-wheat bread is better if you make it with 50% white flour (unbleached is fine).
– Everything, no matter how silly or ugly or uncomfortable, eventually comes back into fashion.
– You can always find work cleaning up someone else’s messes.
– Presidents come and go, but their Supreme Court appointments hang around for generations.
– Don’t read the comments section.
P.S. As a corollary to item 2, my wife tells me that things come back into fashion with subtle changes that make it impossible to wear your old ones.
I often read the comments first to see if the main post is worth a look.
Ugh. Toxic.
I’ll bet you’ve learned some useful things, Lady B. Why don’t you post a list?
classes for next semester
— Greek 102
— philosophy 101
— freshman lit seminar
— geology (+lab)
— adolescent literature
assignments to do before the end of the semester, in roughly chronological order
— finish Paradise Lost
— read Milton criticism
— write wellness paper
— read texts for kidlit paper and take notes
— outline history paper
— write history paper
— outline kidlit paper
— write kidlit paper
— studying for exams (lit and greek) happens? at some point?
(note: the thing is that almost none of this is genuinely difficult–that is, it’s all fairly hard but i’m completely capable of all of it and i’ll probably enjoy at least the kidlit paper. it’s just i’m so tired and annoyed that i want to stop working and lie down forever.)
plans for tomorrow*
— christmas cookies (spice cookies, and maybe some shortbread)
— blackadder goes forth
— lunch with J, possibly (fingers crossed!)
— burn CD for J, definitely
— start list of books I want to read next year
— draft outlines for Important Projects~~
— Christmas Eve service