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.

i appreciate the countries named after the equator for making it easier to know what hemisphere they and other countries are in

i have finally reached the "i harvested more berries than i can immediately replant" with sitrus berries in my platinum playthru

lum berries are still a long ways away tho

@aescling as the local sonic fan is this post accurate? https://beyond-a-name.tumblr.com/post/775709990730317824/sonic-never-had-top-surgery-he-just-ran-fast

upset at this eggheads episode for describing the sword of damocles as being from Greek mythology. that's a probably made-up story about an actual historical dude

hace frío

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou i had no idea there were procyonid monkeys (yes i know not actually a monkey but)

i do in most contexts consider whales and dolphins to be fish. for analogous reasons to considering strawberries fruits.

seals and manatees and such are iffy, while otters are definitely not fish.
some marine invertebrates are also kinda fishy but not really fully so. cephalopods, marine crustaceans, etc.

me acuerdo de un podcast que escuché de un filólogo español quien dijo que en el desarrollo histórico de los idiomas romances había una fuerte preferencia para las palabras y frases más largas. un ejemplo que él dio es la preposición castellana "desde". viene de la frase latina "de ex de" y no tiene mucha diferencia de significado de "de" solo.

el castellano suele ser menos conciso que el inglés con palabras más largas y muchas veces con más palabras. pero una excepción importante es la frase "¿qué sé yo?" que tiene una brevedad hermosa y un pop que falta su traducción inglesa "what do i know?"

now we have a kettle with an adjustable temperature for mate we drink it much more often :)
we're thinking of getting a new bigger mate (the container)

para mí toda pokémon es femenina
no importa lo que dice el símbolo planetario

i'm reading the 4e gurps basic set for funzies.
and i was talking to my wife about the appearance advantages and zie pointed out that you could buff an NPC by making them ace

bret devereaux should write a post about non-counterfactual non-fictional history again soon imo