Tips for a reducing your environmental footprint whilst attending a con.
to the links and back
Gosh, it’s been a few weeks since the last linkspam! We’ve just been really tired. And busy.
(Maybe don’t get your hopes up too high for a linkspam next Friday — Liz is usually the one to hit post, because she’s most likely to be at a computer, and she’s leaving work early for Continuum set-up.)
Our links today may not be fresh, but they are juicy!
bogans on a boat
Good news! Some convicts in 1829 hijacked a boat bound for Tasmania, jumped on it, and sailed off, becoming Historical Bogans Off the Coast of Japan.
We have been referring to this discovery as ‘a literal present for Steph from the past’.
Catastrophising for nerds
I’m an anxious person, and in any situation, my brain will always leap to the worst case scenario. Even in situations, eg fandom, where the stakes are extremely low, if there are even any stakes at all.
So here are some things which I am worried about in the world of nerd-dom!
Smashing avocado
The avocado discourse has reached America — that is to say, an Australian property mogul said that if Australian millennials were more like him, inheriting $34,000 instead of frittering their earned income away on smashed avocado on toast at $19 a pop, we’d all be able to afford houses.
Naturally, Americans assumed it was about them.
I have no time for this nonsense, but I do have time for smashed avocado. So I took a tour of brunch menus, comparing and contrasting their avo offerings — and I found them distressingly limited. Has the smashed avocado had its day? Are we all buying houses now?
Feijoa party
Or, Liz encounters a fruit that millions of people already knew about. (And loves it.)
I knew she was the linkspam
We are going old-school today – in song, but not in links
Fresh takes on classic food
This post was born when I looked at the Iced Vo-Vo I was about to eat and thought, “You know what would make this biscuit better? If it was larger, and less dry, and had more jam. Or if it was a cake.”
Then I googled “iced vo-vo cake” and the rest is history.
[book review] Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
There’s a popular myth that octopi are literally aliens. The truth is actually more interesting: they are tremendously intelligent — comparable to a human toddler or a very smart dog — but their “mind” is spread throughout their body, with neurons in their eight arms.
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith looks at the evolution of cephalopods, their capacity for intelligence, the future of the species, and the big philosophical question: what is it like to be a cephalopod?
But even though this book was totes #onbrand and highly relevant to my interests, I found myself … skimming.
Continue reading “[book review] Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life”
forward facing whiteness
Aren’t you tired of this already? I’m tired of this.
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