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  2. ↪ Kyle Mahan: That is brilliant and also it reminded me that I was supposed add a grated carrot to the dinner I just made :D

    @kyle_wm mmm, grated carrot! The best thing about this rule is that it applies to almost any cake recipe. For “x cake”, 1/2 sugar, double x for deliciousness.

  3. ↪ Capybaringkindness: @BarnabyWalters Yeah, I've been testing this out - French duolingo is also ok with "his dress" etc.

    @crispindgwalker oh cool! Just worked through the “Family” skill and it included non-marital nouns like partnership/relationship, as well as depicting a gay couple in the photo accompanying “der Partner”. I’m impressed! A big improvement over the generic traditional het white family depicted in every school language textbook ever.

  5. Barnaby’s carrot cake recipe:

    1. Search the web for “carrot cake recipe” (such as this one)
    2. Halve the amount of sugar, double the amount of carrots

    It will probably taste awesome.

  8. Today the office dog insists on playing catch with a tiny piece of paper, which goes something like this:

    HEY HEY HEY HERE IS A SMALL SCRAP OF PAPER MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO THROW IT FOR ME HMM YES PAPER

    AH HA YES THANK YOU FOR THROWING THE PAPER I WILL NOW EXCITEDLY FETCH IT AS IF IT WAS THE FINEST OF TREASURE

    EXCELLENT I HAVE DISCOVERED THE PAPER AND WILL NOW BRING IT BACK FOR THE HUMAN TO THROW AGAIN

    HUMAN HERE IS THE

    …

    OH APPARENTLY I ATE IT SORRY I WILL FIND ANOTHER

  9. ↪ @sweden / Sofia: Tomorrow is Trettondag Jul (epiphany), which is one of the Christian holidays we’re “celebrating” in Sweden.

    @sweden it’s called þrettándinn here in Iceland, and celebrated with bonfires and fireworks regardless of religion. Not a public holiday here though :)

  10. ↪ Amy Guy: People posting pseudo-legalese 'facebook does not have permission to use my images' messages... The poor things, if only they knew.

    @rhario I’ve often wondered how those things start. Are they the products of typical Facebook-overearnestness, or someone just joking around?

  11. Travelling around Europe always leaves me with intense motivation to learn languages. Currently riding the wave by getting back onto icelandiconline.is (low priority but I’m immersed every day) and starting German on Duolinguo (higher priority but no immersion at the moment).

  12. My 2hr Norwegian airlines connection from LGW to CPH showed a bunch of short films instead of a long movie. Amongst them was the single best piece of animation I’ve ever seen: Rabbit and Deer:

    Everything about this is perfectly executed — the story, the animation, the art styles. It almost makes me want to start animating again, except that it’d take years to make something half as good.

    Unfortunately, I didn’t hear the soundtrack on the plane because the armrest headphone jack didn’t work. At the time I was listening to “The Blackleg Miner” by Appletwig Songbook (here’s a different version), which created this bizzare mental association between an old miners song and this piece of animation.

  13. Shapeways, one of the most prominent places to order 3D printed goods, has a “My Little Pony” section in the top level navigation (note especially how visually distinct the nav item is made). As far as I can tell it’s not directly sponsored by Hasbro.

    Pretty sure none of the “3D printing is the future” visionaries saw that one coming.

  15. About to go to a French/Breton solstice dance wearing a huge knitted rat. So much for all those people who said I needed to “drink alcohol” to “lower my inhibitions”

  17. I love the way browser’s consoles allow us to do maths and simple programming directly alongside mathematical webpages. This can be so much better though — the computation and experimentation should happen interactively in the webpage itself