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Friday Five: Dating Yourself Edition
Apr. 29th, 2026 08:19 pmI'm not a member of ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thefridayfive, and it is not Friday, but these questions seemed kind of fun.
These questions were written by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nondenomifan.
1. What decade did you attend/are you attending high school or college?
2. What clothing fashion from that time are you glad/do you wish went out of style?
3. Do you still listen to the music from your high school/college years on a regular basis?
4. What hairstyle/hair color did/do you wear during high school/college?
5. What was/is "the cool thing to do" while in high school/college?
thefridayfive, and it is not Friday, but these questions seemed kind of fun.These questions were written by
nondenomifan.1. What decade did you attend/are you attending high school or college?
the one with Y2K in the middle of it
2. What clothing fashion from that time are you glad/do you wish went out of style?
3. Do you still listen to the music from your high school/college years on a regular basis?
I do not regularly listen to music of my own choosing, but if I remembered, I probably would. The best college music was the 80s music that was played at parties/dances.
4. What hairstyle/hair color did/do you wear during high school/college?
My long wavy hair either down, in a braid, or in a ponytail. No styling products except conditioner because I didn't really understand that those were allowed until I was working full-time. In college I experimented with dying a streak blue and then dying it black when that faded to uncomfortable blonde. I liked how shiny the black dye made my hair but otherwise I'm pretty attached to my natural hair.
5. What was/is "the cool thing to do" while in high school/college?
I learned at a high school reunion after we'd all finished college that the "cool thing to do" in high school had been wild parties at the apartment of the kid whose parents had moved back to Florida and left her all by herself. However, when I was in high school, I was completely oblivious to this and thought the cool things to do were stick paper googly eyes on the history teacher's faux marble pillars, write my younger sibling's silly short stories on all the blackboards in the school, and fold the glossy college flyers into unit origami that I returned to the college counselor. Fortunately he was enough of a math nerd to appreciate the transformation.
When my sibling was a phenomenal child fencer, his coaches recommended two excellent pieces of media to us: The Princess Bride movie and The Wizard of Op book. The movie had good fencing in it. The book had nothing to do with anything, it was just great. It's been out of print forever but we checked it out from the library over and over again as kids.
Now that I've got a literate little kid I've been periodically searching for this book online, and my last search was surprising: they're reprinting it!
There's a lot of darkness in this timeline, but this is a bright spot.
Now that I've got a literate little kid I've been periodically searching for this book online, and my last search was surprising: they're reprinting it!
There's a lot of darkness in this timeline, but this is a bright spot.
I know it's not kind to pick on people for spelling errors, but I just received an email from a publishing company rep trying to sell me textbooks for "AP Psychics 1, 2, and C".
I thought AP Precalc was weird enough. I am resisting the urge to reply and ask which colleges give credit for this class.
I thought AP Precalc was weird enough. I am resisting the urge to reply and ask which colleges give credit for this class.
because connections keep communities alive
Sep. 7th, 2024 04:59 pm
Picture by Jess Bailey on Unsplash
Do you get that end-of-summer, back-to-school feeling as an adult? Looking forward to a fresh start, perhaps with some more DW friends?
silviarambles is hosting a friending meme! Back to School Friendzy - 2024
Please remember that friending frenzies work only if you spread the word, so, even if you're not looking for more friends, do pimp the meme in your own journal please!
Thanks!
things that annoy me
Jun. 12th, 2024 03:02 pmPoll #31416 Obnoxious websites
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13
Which is most annoying?
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DoorDash: emailing me endlessly to see if I want to opt out of their annoying Father's Day promotions
2 (15.4%)
LinkedIn: emailing me trying to recruit me to proofread AI attempts at doing math so my students can cheat better
8 (61.5%)
NextDoor: asking every single time I log in if I can please add contact info for my spouse or partner
2 (15.4%)
No, I have a better one! (Explain in comments)
1 (7.7%)
the city we became
May. 12th, 2020 10:46 pmThe other thing I've been doing the last couple days is reading N. K. Jemisin's The City We Became. Apparently it's a NY Times bestseller despite the pandemic. It makes me happy that even in 2020 ( probably spoilers, some current events/politics )
the memory of flesh
Dec. 15th, 2016 07:36 pmI keep accidentally ordering foods and forgetting to ask people to leave out the one small meat part that makes them alterable-to-be-vegetarian on the menu but not actually vegetarian. And then I gamely take a bite because hey, shouldn't waste food. And then I'm reminded again that meat is nowhere near as good as the memory of meat, including the memory expressed in various fake meat products.
Going to need more vital wheat gluten in case of apocalypse -- cannibalism will not be an option.
Strangely I really don't have this problem with fish. Which is funny. I didn't used to even like fish, back when I decided to go vegetarian in 2001.
Going to need more vital wheat gluten in case of apocalypse -- cannibalism will not be an option.
Strangely I really don't have this problem with fish. Which is funny. I didn't used to even like fish, back when I decided to go vegetarian in 2001.
urban skills to admire
Jul. 30th, 2015 04:51 pmSpace your children far enough apart that when you wheel your baby's stroller up to the steps in the subway station, your little daughter is big enough and competent enough to smoothly pick the baby up out of the stroller and confidently carry them up the steps for you while you wrangle the folding stroller up just behind her. Or I guess you could switch it and take the baby while the kid takes the stroller. Top of the steps, unfold the stroller, put the baby back, proceed on your way, without missing a beat.
awkward urban truths
Jul. 9th, 2015 05:30 pmccommack: The PPA works on vampire rules. They only enforce the laws in an area after the district councillor invites them in.deaths in fiction
Jun. 14th, 2015 03:23 pmSo I read World War Z, The Summer Prince, and The Fault in Our Stars in a short period of time. Lots of similarities among them, the kind you probably wouldn't notice if you didn't read them in close succession like that.
And now I'm wondering what it says about me as a person that I was moved but not crushed by the role of death in The Fault in Our Stars, but I was lying awake haunted by its role in The Summer Prince. So much for being unmemorable as cyberpunk, I guess?
Has anybody else read this book?
And now I'm wondering what it says about me as a person that I was moved but not crushed by the role of death in The Fault in Our Stars, but I was lying awake haunted by its role in The Summer Prince. So much for being unmemorable as cyberpunk, I guess?
Has anybody else read this book?
summer reading
Jun. 13th, 2015 05:20 pmIf I keep going through ebooks at this rate, it's going to get pretty expensive pretty fast. Although at present I still haven't quite worked through the backlog of books I impulse-downloaded at Wiscon to make sure I would remember to read them.
Today's book was Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince, which is set in cyberpunk future Brazil and read sort of like it was written for the same prompt as The Hunger Games. ( Vague but might be spoilers ) And nobody is white, and there's a lot more graffiti and capoeira and language and food and color. So really it's not derivative of Hunger Games at all; maybe those themes about stability and equality and change are just the themes that science fiction needs to address right now, techno-future Brazil that is so obviously addressed to today's America. And teenagers are of course destined to save the world, the genre agrees about that one. I enjoyed it a lot, but cyberpunk never quite lingers with me; I'm not sure how much of it I'll remember next week.
The book introduced me to the concept of saudade, which is a particularly Portuguese/Brazilian kind of national longing, or something like that at any rate. I'm probably mangling it. I've previously encountered the Korean concept of han, which is a more Korean type of national sadness/bitterness. (I'm probably mangling that too.) I don't think I've encountered any words for any national sadnesses or longings of my own, but they seem to be a thing outside of mainstream white American culture. Are there others I should know about? Is there some kind of uniquely American sentiment that does fill this role for us somehow? I feel like at the very least there should be something in yiddish about a Jewish kind of sadness, but I don't even know enough to know if there is.
Today's book was Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince, which is set in cyberpunk future Brazil and read sort of like it was written for the same prompt as The Hunger Games. ( Vague but might be spoilers ) And nobody is white, and there's a lot more graffiti and capoeira and language and food and color. So really it's not derivative of Hunger Games at all; maybe those themes about stability and equality and change are just the themes that science fiction needs to address right now, techno-future Brazil that is so obviously addressed to today's America. And teenagers are of course destined to save the world, the genre agrees about that one. I enjoyed it a lot, but cyberpunk never quite lingers with me; I'm not sure how much of it I'll remember next week.
The book introduced me to the concept of saudade, which is a particularly Portuguese/Brazilian kind of national longing, or something like that at any rate. I'm probably mangling it. I've previously encountered the Korean concept of han, which is a more Korean type of national sadness/bitterness. (I'm probably mangling that too.) I don't think I've encountered any words for any national sadnesses or longings of my own, but they seem to be a thing outside of mainstream white American culture. Are there others I should know about? Is there some kind of uniquely American sentiment that does fill this role for us somehow? I feel like at the very least there should be something in yiddish about a Jewish kind of sadness, but I don't even know enough to know if there is.
current DW friending meme
May. 31st, 2015 09:55 am2015 DW friending meme is happening here, hosted by jadelennox.
jadelennox.anybody at Wiscon?
May. 25th, 2015 07:09 amWe're doing a roundsing at Wiscon at 10, probably in the hallway outside the art show unless that ends up being too crowded/annoying.
idle demographic question
May. 16th, 2015 09:40 pmIs Ingress more male-dominated out in the suburbs, or just these specific suburbs?
Poll #16590 Geography poll: please answer even if you have no clue
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27
As seen from Manhattan, the Bronx is:
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North
19 (73.1%)
East
6 (23.1%)
South
0 (0.0%)
West
1 (3.8%)
Northeast
6 (23.1%)
Southwest
0 (0.0%)
Northwest
1 (3.8%)
Southeast
1 (3.8%)
Trick question: everyone knows they are two different names for the same thing (or for parts of the same thing)
1 (3.8%)
None of the above
0 (0.0%)
If you are already in Manhattan, and want to go to Queens, you should go:
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South
1 (3.8%)
East
19 (73.1%)
North
5 (19.2%)
West
0 (0.0%)
Southeast
4 (15.4%)
Northwest
0 (0.0%)
Northeast
6 (23.1%)
Southwest
0 (0.0%)
Trick question: these two are also the same
0 (0.0%)
None of the above
0 (0.0%)
The adjective "boogie-down" is best applied to which of New York's boroughs?
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Manhattan
0 (0.0%)
The Bronx
8 (32.0%)
Brooklyn
5 (20.0%)
Queens
0 (0.0%)
Staten Island
0 (0.0%)
Long Island
0 (0.0%)
Roosevelt Island
0 (0.0%)
Liberty Island
0 (0.0%)
New Jersey
2 (8.0%)
Philadelphia
1 (4.0%)
None of the above
10 (40.0%)
Which of the following are good advice for a skinny eighteen-year-old who's visiting Manhattan so he can play a video game on his phone?
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It's safer in a car.
2 (8.3%)
Stay around Central Park.
3 (12.5%)
Avoid Central Park.
1 (4.2%)
Stay south of Central Park.
7 (29.2%)
Stay north of Central Park.
0 (0.0%)
Stay east of 3rd Avenue.
1 (4.2%)
Don't go too far north of Times Square.
3 (12.5%)
Stay around the Financial District and Battery Park.
1 (4.2%)
Go south to the boogie-down Bronx or north to Queens.
2 (8.3%)
Something else which is not described above.
2 (8.3%)
No advice is needed: anywhere in Manhattan should be fine.
12 (50.0%)
What is your level of familiarity with Manhattan?
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I've lived in Manhattan.
3 (11.5%)
I've seen it on TV or read about it in books.
8 (30.8%)
I've lived in another borough of NYC.
6 (23.1%)
I've lived within commuting distance of Manhattan.
7 (26.9%)
I've lived within two hours' drive of Manhattan.
12 (46.2%)
I've visited Manhattan once or twice.
11 (42.3%)
I've visited another borough of NYC once or twice.
10 (38.5%)
I've lived in New York State.
6 (23.1%)
I've visited New York State.
8 (30.8%)
None of the above.
3 (11.5%)
decaffeinated cocoa powder
Jan. 18th, 2015 05:52 pmIs this a thing? This should totally be a thing. Speaking for my household, we would eat so much more chocolate stuff if this were a thing. And then we would be happier.
A few minutes of internet-searching have turned up a cocoa powder which may or may not have reduced caffeine, a 2013 food science paper about decaffeinating cocoa powder, recommendations for a Hershey's beverage mix they don't make any more, recommendations for other drink mixes like Ovaltine, and lots of horrible people saying to just eat carob or white chocolate.
A few minutes of internet-searching have turned up a cocoa powder which may or may not have reduced caffeine, a 2013 food science paper about decaffeinating cocoa powder, recommendations for a Hershey's beverage mix they don't make any more, recommendations for other drink mixes like Ovaltine, and lots of horrible people saying to just eat carob or white chocolate.
