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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Many words are just awkward Cronenberg creatures made up of parts of other words, so even if I haven’t heard a word before, it’s often not hard to deduce it’s meaning from context and components.

    In university I learned a bunch of new words though, like inchoate, ameliorate, atavistic and suzerainty.

    And reading old, old newspapers I learned of some great words that we just don’t use anymore, like ultimo. Ultimo means “of last month” and it was used a lot in old papers because news travelled so slowly 200 years ago that often the papers were reporting on something that happened weeks ago. The article would read like “Banker John Stoakes and wife were waylaid and murdered by bushrangers on 17th ultimo, perpetrators known to constables were tracked northeast into dense scrub.”

    It’s a great word, I want to see it come back.


  • I unmatched a woman IRL face-to-face because she told me (in one unbroken monologue) that she slept with a co-worker in Sydney while she was visiting a regional office and that she attends SLAA meetings and that was her first slip in 3 months and that she’s also a psychic medium and she’s building a website to list her mediumship services, and she is obsessed with marvel movies. Then she asked me to go get a coffee with her

    No one part of this is too much of a red flag, but all of it together, and she knows I’m good with tech and can build a website with my eyes closed, I probably would have ended up doing a bunch of web work for free. Plus I really don’t think that medium people are talking with the dead, at best it’s a hallucination or a lie, at worst it’s a trickster entity that should not be interacted with under any circumstance.

    So I just peaced out and I feel like I made a good choice.






  • Wherever possible, stick to the perimeter of the grocery store. Fresh vegetables and fruit, eggs, dried fruits, nuts and oats, frozen vegetables, unprocessed meats if that’s your thing. The closer you get to the middle of the grocery store, the more processed and less healthy the items are. The candy and chips are usually right in the middle of the store. And for God’s sake don’t eat or drink anything from the shampoo and laundry aisle.