alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

i may have posted about this before but it's just such an amazing, wonderful thing.

i love the ubiquity and cheapness of bakeries here

you can get a kilo of french bread for the equivalent of like 3 US dollars. also there's bakeries every couple blocks

the number of games that nintendo will sell you with "hentai" in the title is surprising to me

a notable shared trait between @aescling and @wallhackio is that they both really respond to manners in which i address them

@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.