Udder Randomness

[DollyKim]

I have a family history of dyslexias and other brain miswiring, I got a good dose of not doing things in proper order and not realizing if I missed a step so I know where you're coming from. It also means you're smarter than the average bear because your brain has to think differently, it's where innovation comes from.

We need more dyslexia awareness and education in the general public.

[Vetinari]

Multiple G&Ts, Neverland/Zagreus on in the background and despair at the awful mess one of my lecturer's has made of Metallurgy in this course - I'm more scared of what he'll believe is a correct answer than my own ability to remember any of it - I know what I've been taught, and it directly contradicts most of what he's said here... Hmm... I think I trust the world's expert on Steel more than this twat!

But Paul McGann's voice makes everything better...

[DollyKim]

And they never let him sing in public, the shower, or anywhere near E space again... http://youtu.be/7rUCT2GrYq0 Natch, he does fine but he's still the least musical McGann. There's more from that show

[KatyaR]

Sitting here manning the phone at the office and perusing my YouTube viewing history. Crazy stuff, from lightning strikes to clips from the Sing Off to jeans repair to MLP songs. (Barely have even watched the series, but I love At the Gala and Winter Wrap-up to an immoderate degree )
Sadly, a lot of cool things in the list are now marked as not available.

[Vetinari]

Teehee! Ok his singing voice isn't the best - but gah, his speaking voice! There's a reason he does so many voiceovers for documentaries

[Kae915]

I'm having one of "those" days where even though my day was fine, nothing else in my life feels ok =__= bleh

[knittnkitten]

I'm back from a trip to tenneesee. so nice to be home in my own bed. time to fuss over my plants.

[Evelien]

I'm so happy I was born where I was born . I looooove riding my bike, it gives me freedom. I'm 30 but why the heck would I get an expensive driver's license when I can go anywhere on my bike..? ^^

Europe and the UK are fantastic for bike riders.

US....not so much.

Where I live, I am 10 miles to the nearest town. Summer has started and it is (I am going to use Celsius degrees for Evelien's sake here) 26.5 degrees in the day. By the time you get home from shopping by bike, milk would be sour, butter would be soft and ice cream would be melted. By the end of next month it will be 37.7 degrees in the day. At some point we will have weeks long where it never gets below 43.3 degrees in the day. This will not stop until close to the end of October, when it will begin to rain. We can get as much as 5 cm of rain in an hour. Then will come winter. This winter was grand, we got almost no snow. Last winter we got a meter of snow. This year instead of snow we got ice storms, again we were lucky we kept power, but one year we got an ice storm that put a 3 cm of ice on the road that lasted two weeks. Have you ever ridden a bike on ice?

And I live in a state where the winter is generally very mild. Where I grew up, farther north, there was about 1/3 of a meter of snow on the ground all winter long and outside of the main roads the streets were icy all winter long.

Also, car drivers are very careless around bike riders. They pay no attention to them and many people are hurt every year because they were riding bikes and a car driver "didn't see them."

This is why in the US we "can't go everywhere on a bike."

I completely understand. The Netherlands are very bike-minded. Next to every road there's a special path for bikes.

But, we too have a lot of snow, ice and rain. Perhaps not as much as you, but enough to bother bicycle riders during Autumn and Winter. Heck, even though we're at the end of May now and we should be at 20 degrees (Celsius again, sorry) right now, we're at 10. This Spring is weird. It's raining every day as if it's not Spring at all . Meh.

[Vetinari]

UK and bikes really depends on the city/area - even Cambridge, supposedly a bike place was really really not designed for traffic and bikes to coexist... I've seen a few incidents at one particular junction that really empasize this unfortunately. On certain streets there's not really enough room to have large vehicles on the road, (like say buses) and pedestrians on the pavement! The mirrors jut out onto the pavement area at just about head height... Though I suppose that is a peculiarity of being a medieval town, with street widths built as such! I'm not sure I'd dare try cycling in London though! The main roads in the big city are just that much more crowded, and that much faster!

My random thing - Loved Loved Loved the latest Bowie documentary; Five Years. So much footage that I'd never seen in full before! But I disliked their decision to make everything grainy so it all blended nicely - even footage that I've managed to find in relatively good nick!

[knittnkitten]

Lati Blue bodies have dainty little wrists and ankles that are absolutely insane to string up. arg, its been so long since I strung that thing I forgot it was a mess