flowerysong @flowerysong@cybre.space

After exhaustive testing, I've determined that I am composed of 93% bad jokes, 6% really bad jokes, and 1% Foucauldian discourse analysis.

Made joconde and Swiss meringue for the first time for this opera cake.

I listened to music last year. Here's some of it: https://flowerysong.com/posts/2020/01/music-of-the-year-2019/

More words, not necessarily more useful words: https://flowerysong.com/posts/2020/01/my-year-in-books-2019/

In 2019 I read 100,032 pages across 352 books.

My favourite non-rereads were:

Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames (The Band #2)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 by by Jordie Bellaire, Dan Mora, and Raul Angulo

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #3)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #1)

Moshe is being extra cuddly now that it got cold again.

Disney: "We expect Star Wars will make about $165 million in its opening weekend."

Pundits: "You're wrong, it's going to make at least $200 million."

Star Wars: *makes $175 million*

Pundits: "Star Wars box office fails to meet expectations."

Pastitsio!

In less depressing news, pastitsio is delicious and I now own a baking dish that is deep enough to make it properly.

My mother insists that she is morally obligated to invite my sister's asshole husband to her house for Christmas, even though the presence of a gun-carrying Trump supporter makes 9/10 of her actual children feel unsafe and unwelcome at the gathering.

Fuck.

Referring to a small, narrowly-focused company with fewer than thirty employees as a "megacorporation" is not helping your argument, my dude.

I want some pickled herring.

"Consequenceless Debauchery" is the name of my Hatari cover band.

http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-10/01-birthday-pursuit/freeing/

Q: "How does the system know what salt to use for the password?"

A: "It's stored with the password."

Q: "But how does it know to use the salt?"

A: "It's stored with the password."

Q: "But why does it know what salt to use?"

A: "Because it's stored as part of the password."

(this went on for four more rounds before they achieved enlightenment.)