alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

eventually i may do a more proper intro post, but as a placeholder for now:

hi, i’m alyssa, or lyssa, or alice. or a bunch of other names if you know me well.

i don’t know yet what i’ll about yet, but possibly my daily life, or things i read or watch, or write.

@aescling this podcast episode i'm listening to is interviewing somebody who's receiving a fellowship named after walter benjamin

i approve of how often men go for, romantically/sexually, jessica fletcher in murder she wrote.

are you even allowed to be a legendary hero if you never unwittingly murder a close family member

type of woman who gets excited when a tv show uses an actual reserved telephone number in the North American Numbering Plan

now i need to figure what sort of one-shot i wanna run next month >.>

apparently european castles took quite a while into the middle ages to start being a thing. like 9th century.

finally watched princess mononoke
p good movie

columbo the only police show in which innocent people are more likely to lawyer up than guilty people

(obviously, by "important", i mean "funny")

an important thing to know about the ancient romans is that they couldn't fucking count

one could argue that they simply had a different convention by which they counted intervals inclusively (e.g. their 8 day cycle of market days being called "nundinae").

in counterpoint i offer that for the first thirty-six years after Julius Caesar reformed their calendar to have a regular leap day every four years, the priests in charge of the calendar accidentally did it every three years instead.

william shatner really does sound just like the way people parodying him make him sound

reminded that "work-for-hire" in US copyright law is counter-intuitively specific (and sometimes counter-to-some-people's-intuitons-ly broad)

rioplatense spanish is kinda relatively convenient for learning as a native english speaker.

since it saves on having to learn a couple of the not-present-in-english sounds used in many other dialects.

many speakers here don't distinguish /ñ/ from /nj/ (e.g. "cañón" is pronounced as "canion"). and of course, the famous sheísmo/zheísmo means that "ll" and "y" are pronounced with sounds already very familiar to english speakers (the english "sh" for most younger speakers of rioplatense)

little shop of horrors is fun

bridget christie had perhaps the best ever taskmaster task-performing outfit