alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

(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

annoyed at the incorrect word-separating lines on 34 across. Ph.D. is not three words!

my wife, after i suggested a light-hearted one-shot premise: are you just doing pom poko

nobody else cares about spring-heeled jack

this children's history book written by an austrian guy in like a month or two during the 1930s has a surprisingly good stance on the colonization of the Americas (i.e. is clear that it was very bad)

i should totally run bunnies again sometime