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interesting eco sim kickstarter

If you play computer games, you might want to check out the eco sim about restoring lakes and rivers to try to save the world. It is both fun and educational, at least based on the demo. It's on the last day of its kickstarter and isn't yet fully funded. Help fund it!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eatcreatesleep/among-ripples-shallow-waters-restore-the-world

You need to watch these videos of critters crossing a log

Video 1

Video 2

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Welp, neither of the two places I interviewed said yes (although one said if they get permission to open another req they'll offer it to me).

I'm still working retail. When I should be socially isolating.

Contacted the place that was interested in me helping put together their qe practice and do ux in whatever spare time I have available to see if they still want me.

Getting a job is _so hard_. I was really hoping I'd be able to post that I got a job. :(

Interacting with critters

As some of you may already know, I learned to read cat body language long before human body language. In part, I suspect it's just simpler than humans, as other than hiding sickness and injury, cats don't tend to hide their emotions.

At this point in my life, I have a pretty good sense of how to interact with most animals. This has sometimes earned me the nickname druid, as well as reflecting my most commonly played RPG character class.

There was a friendly pup on the train home this evening, which caused me to reflect on the various things I have picked up along the way around relating to critters of various sorts. I'm most comfortable with cats, then dogs, and then it varies.

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There you go! Many tips. I'm sure that I know more, but these are the ones I'm most able to express verbally.

Go play in dialectdreamer's prompt call!

It's about fairy tales.

Go wild with non-european fairy tales, different takes on traditional tales, or anything (non-sexual) you can think of.

Things I recommend

I am really enjoying a few things lately, and wanted to share.

Afro-Celt Sound System is making my insufficient sleep more tolerable during my temp job. I had three songs from them iomy phone, and was like 'oh, right, this is excellent music!'

Polychrome Heroics has been a fun discovery, especially

dialecticdreamer's Finn Family and Gentle Soul series. Not only are they good stories in themselves, but they show people working through things both realistically and fairly healthily. The entire polychrome world also usually has useful links after the stories/poems. I'm really very fond of the series/world.

Ethics and UX in three parts on Medium

First part: https://medium.com/@suzannehillman/digital-ethics-whose-responsibility-is-it-1-3-4a82d1b01e2c

Help board my friend's cat while she's homeless

I know I've been quiet. Still job hunting. Still posting sometimes on medium.

But my childhood friend needs help caring for her cat until she has a stable living situation. If anyone who reads this can help (or wants more info), please see https://www.gofundme.com/save-the-moon-or-luna-kitty

Thank you.

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Useful Medium post on surviving the political climate for those often stuck in 'but this shouldn't be happening!' mode: https://medium.com/@robin.chancer/how-to-stay-sane-if-trump-is-driving-you-insane-advice-from-a-therapist-42e982195e22

Crossposts: http://wispfox.livejournal.com/991451.html

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I think I have managed to cause LJ to send me email when LJ people I want to follow who aren't on DW post to LJ, so the fact that I can't read my friends list shouldn't be as bad.

I liked LJ and my account there. Much sadness.

Crossposts: http://wispfox.livejournal.com/991186.html

I've been having a lot of trouble reading LJ

So I'm going to start posting to Dreamwidth and having it cross-post to LJ.

I'm going to try to keep reading LJ, but it turns out I can only read while logged in on my computer in FF. My phone's browsers don't load anything, and neither does Chrome on my computer.

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politics

three part post about moral modes

This and the two parts that file are well worth a read: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1272731.html

secret lives of mountain lions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4iUhD2618

Birds, like humans, feel the need to get louder than their surroundings

http://www.yourwildcity.com/comic/city-songs/

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places.arisia

Do you want to be a panelist at Arisia?

Have you wondered how that happens?

For more information about how to indicate interest in being a panelist, go here:
http://www.arisia.org/ProgramParticipation

Or, to suggest a panel:
http://www.arisia.org/brainstorm

Lots of panels need more variety in their panelists, whether more women, more people of color, or other under-represented groups. So please, if you're interested, go say so. :)

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Ok, maybe it wasn't the planaria's fault

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Bad planaria! Stop eating my shrimps!

Evidently planaria will kill and eat shrimps in a shrimp-only tank. Who knew!

At least now I know why my adult shrimps were dying...

I kill you with de-wormer! Hopefully! Will see if any wander past in the morning, and add a tiny bit more if not.

My betta loved the ones large enough for me to grab and dangle off my finger for her, though. It's _really weird_ being the target of a betta's attack (sort of; she was in fact attacking the planaria attached to my finger).

Poor shrimps.

Growf

A) my laptop's network is very flaky. Sometimes connecting fine, sometimes connected but convinced that the router isn't, sometimes just plain dropping the connection. B) it is out of warrantee, c) my desktop keeps kernel panicking.

My laptop is currently backing up. I'm hoping the usb wireless card from my mac laptop will work with my current laptop. I'm hoping i can remove the files i want from my desktop machine and downgrade it to the os that used to work (windows 7).

In the meantime... I would really like to have a job already!

Grrr.

Oh. And the wireless printer went insane the last time i reset the router.

Useful Chrome exentions

http://www.libraryextension.com/?platform=hootsuite - checks if a book you are thinking about buying is available at the library you specify.

https://www.one-tab.com/ - click a button and it collects all open tabs (except ones that are pinned) into a website-like list. Saves memory and makes it less overwhelming to look at one's browser.

OK, weather, you are absurd.

I was just barefoot in my backyard. In February.

I was just _weeding_ in my backyard. Did I mention February?

Wtf.