Yarp. I'll have what she's having.

*poychase*

Somehow I missed this, and I love it.

Oh man, this looks awesome. If you're looking for more in the same category (while, probably, also being a bit easier to read), a couple years ago I really enjoyed — well, you know: it's harrowing as fuck, but, that's what happens when you sail a pirate ship to Hoth in the 19th century — "Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship." It's a several-similar-histories-in-one-anthology book about various attempts to get across the top of the world; find the northwest passage; find the magnetic pole; find a bunch of previously-lost missions before survivors are dead, etc.. (Plus, just a week or two ago, we randomly unearthed one of the missing most-famous ships from this book. History is all around us. Etc..)

If you're looking for something else, farther afield, in that same category — namely: "god humans will just not take a hint about their impossible old-timey conquests against nature; and yet, eventually, it worked" — I'd suggest reading-and-then-deciding-to-skim-because-jesus-christ-david-get-an-editor "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914." Spoiler alert: That particular task turns out to be about as difficult as climbing a mile of greased rope. ...and, also, really deadly, for many people involved, for various reasons inherent to the aforenamed category. We figured out how to do the thing, eventually, but... god damn.

You would probably also enjoy "The Measure of All Things," because that book contains all of these same qualities (except widespread death, I guess), and yet — unlike 'Panama' — in the end, this time, the French actually finish the damn thing! Zing-bang! Wocka-wocka-wocka! Stereotypical jokemaking! Anyway, 'Measure' is about the guys responsible for the metric system — so, not much ice-sailing, but — another arduous, old-timey, staggering task.

'Resolute' is a quick read; 'Measure' is a bit denser, f'ya ask me; 'Panama' is like an old man's version of Goblet of Fire, but with only about an Azkaban's-worth of good reading in there, in my opinion. (You'll 'feel it' when it drags, and realize when to move forward a bit. You'll be 15% more confused this way, but 40% happier. It's worth it.)

(PS: On the previous point: It occurs to me that my attitude probably borders on heresy for certain other readers in the world. Welp: Hi, I'm Teague. I read a lot of books. I have just as much authority as any other reader — and with that authority, I give anybody on Earth permission, for the rest of their lives, to just drop (or skip-ahead in) whatever book they're reading, whenever it becomes a slog. Your overall reading habit is much more important than your finishing this book; never make yourself hate the time you spend reading, due to some misplaced sense of completionism. Unless you are studying for something — or you're Abbie, and this is your job, somehow, impossibly — just... always read stuff you enjoy. There will always be something else to go and immediately enjoy reading. You're allowed to stop hanging-out with a book in the same way (and for many of the same reasons) you might stop hanging-out with a person; and anyway, you can give the relationship another try, later, if you wanna re-test old waters. Life is too short to turn 'reading experiences' into 'obligations-to-self' — at least, in my book.)

(Puns. End on puns. Nobody likes it when you do that, which makes it good for them. Puns build character, right?)

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*checks Wiki*

Hm.

Looks like season four is new; seasons one-through-three are old.

TIL.

(BDA: Yeah, I wasn't perfectly clear, and I was speaking in absolutes when I should have been more circumspect. Spec-hits definitely can be located on the bottom half of the lens area, generally... but, if so [and even in your screengrab], it doesn't center itself within the wall of the iris [like in the poster]; it centers on the edge of the lens, between the iris and the eyeball. Broadly speaking, 'reflecty stuff' trends toward the middle of the eye.)

(For the same reason most of the store trends toward 'the middle' of a big convex wide-angle mirror, actually.)

Certainly not. (There are actually mechanisms to be spotted during the routine, he said, trying to avoid spoilers.)

He is good, though. Really good. There's a shitload of skill on that stage.

Yo, you think it's embarrassing having other people hear the shit I* said? Try having the voice that said that shit.

It can be the stuff of nightmares listening back to some of these episodes, man.

*shudder*

Ugh. Never do a podcast before your pre-frontal cortex has finished cookin,' okay? Good lord. Blanket mea culpa.

Anyway. I'm quite sorry for many comments, in general... but, specifically in y'all's cases, I'm actually not sorry, because these anecdotes are funny and y'all should know better by now than to trust us in front of strangers.

(Also, Jdubs: I had to disassemble the island in the kitchen a couple months ago [which you had a hand in building, or at least witnessed the building of, or something], 'cuz we finally moved out of that apartment and it was never meant to be an actually-permanent fixture. Anyway. I thought of you when it was breaking in half. )

* I don't know whether the Fincher thing was a quote from me**, but I'm only able to speak for my own shame.

** ...but, I mean: yeah, probably.

I've got that album on repeat right now.

Both posts.

Both of them.

Both are so good.

I can't believe this thing just flared up, got that intense, and, now, is just... slowly going away.

Life is weird.

So, are you roughly 'normal,' at this point, in terms of your overall well-being, or is it still a big daily challenge?