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vassBooks
Started reading Casey Johnston's LIFTOFF!, and think I'd like it better if the ratio of programme and explanations of the programme to trying to convince the reader (who has already bought the book) of the merits of the programme were more favourable. Also the "Women! Scared lifting weights will make you 'too bulky'? It won't, and here's why..." bit is laid on about as thick as I was worried it would be in A Physical Education. Which is not a criticism of the book (the start of this paragraph was, but this part isn't) because there are always more of today's lucky 10K who need to know that, and the fact that I personally a) am not a woman, and b) already had that information, and c) am running more T than E these days (which is true of some women too) is not the book's fault.
Started listening to the audiobook of S.A. Chakraborty's City of Brass for car reading. It reads far more YA than I was expecting, and also I'm having the problem I sometimes have with audiobooks where my auditory processing is insufficient to the task: I keep missing bits. (With podcasts, and audiobooks I own in mp3 form that I can import into my podcast app, I can just press a button on my steering wheel and jump back 10 seconds. But alas, this is a library book, and the library's app maps that button to "jump back to the start of the chapter", which won't work for "I missed the start of the last sentence." Even while not driving and with the app open in front of me, the shorter "jump back" button on that app is 30 seconds, not 10.
(Even with the ability to jump back ten seconds I have been known to have to jump back five times in a row because I kept getting distracted or forgetting to listen at the same place four times in a row.)
Fashion
For absolutely no reason, spent a day in a research spiral on r/malefashionadvice and updating my measurements, after which I went looking for new pants and couldn't find anything suitable except a pair of jeans the same colour and general style as the one I wear most days.
Links
Food
Realised that I can make a protein shake the night before and leave it, in its shaker, in the fridge.
Started reading Casey Johnston's LIFTOFF!, and think I'd like it better if the ratio of programme and explanations of the programme to trying to convince the reader (who has already bought the book) of the merits of the programme were more favourable. Also the "Women! Scared lifting weights will make you 'too bulky'? It won't, and here's why..." bit is laid on about as thick as I was worried it would be in A Physical Education. Which is not a criticism of the book (the start of this paragraph was, but this part isn't) because there are always more of today's lucky 10K who need to know that, and the fact that I personally a) am not a woman, and b) already had that information, and c) am running more T than E these days (which is true of some women too) is not the book's fault.
Started listening to the audiobook of S.A. Chakraborty's City of Brass for car reading. It reads far more YA than I was expecting, and also I'm having the problem I sometimes have with audiobooks where my auditory processing is insufficient to the task: I keep missing bits. (With podcasts, and audiobooks I own in mp3 form that I can import into my podcast app, I can just press a button on my steering wheel and jump back 10 seconds. But alas, this is a library book, and the library's app maps that button to "jump back to the start of the chapter", which won't work for "I missed the start of the last sentence." Even while not driving and with the app open in front of me, the shorter "jump back" button on that app is 30 seconds, not 10.
(Even with the ability to jump back ten seconds I have been known to have to jump back five times in a row because I kept getting distracted or forgetting to listen at the same place four times in a row.)
Fashion
For absolutely no reason, spent a day in a research spiral on r/malefashionadvice and updating my measurements, after which I went looking for new pants and couldn't find anything suitable except a pair of jeans the same colour and general style as the one I wear most days.
Links
- Australians: prepare for your phone to do something extremely obnoxious at 2pm AEST on Monday the 27th of July
- If you haven't already seen this article about Arabic fonts: it's really good.
- Remember Softbank? One of my microfandoms got some new canon
- Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
- The Frogs Are Calling You
Food
Realised that I can make a protein shake the night before and leave it, in its shaker, in the fridge.
Things
Jul. 9th, 2026 01:45 pmvassBooks
Finished listening to the audiobook of Monkey King (abridged, Monkey-centric, version of Journey to the West translated by Julia Lovell, narrated by Kevin Shen.) It was very fun.
Tech
Dug out the soldering iron etc that I bought years ago with the annual intention of learning electronics this year. Now to check whether they work and haven't become damaged over two moves and mumble years of storage.
Finished listening to the audiobook of Monkey King (abridged, Monkey-centric, version of Journey to the West translated by Julia Lovell, narrated by Kevin Shen.) It was very fun.
Tech
Dug out the soldering iron etc that I bought years ago with the annual intention of learning electronics this year. Now to check whether they work and haven't become damaged over two moves and mumble years of storage.
