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Thursday, November 27th, 2025 11:01 am
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 09:01 am
With many Kpop songs, there are shortened versions of the choreography called challenge dances. For the recent Stray Kids song "Do it," there are many videos of pairs of the group doing the challenge dance. Lots of them. A vague expression from my youth, n taken (some letter I don't remember) at a time = possible combinations. I thought "I don't need to find a math book in the house, the web will tell me how to do it." That is true, but it's also true that the web will just calculate it for you.
https://www.thecalculator.co/math/Combination-Calculator-387.html
The answer in this case is 28 possible duos. Have they made videos of all possible combinations? I'd watch them all.
There are usually videos of lots of other people performing the dance, sometimes including streets full of fans (I've mentioned that before). And if it's popular enough, dance teachers will break it down in slow motion
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZjyBCoTm4vc?si=P4xQIIQmCCdC_j3X
There's a move that I love to watch and am afraid to try, for fear of falling, but I'll be will a friend later today and maybe she'll be nice enough to hold my hand to keep me from falling.
https://www.thecalculator.co/math/Combination-Calculator-387.html
The answer in this case is 28 possible duos. Have they made videos of all possible combinations? I'd watch them all.
There are usually videos of lots of other people performing the dance, sometimes including streets full of fans (I've mentioned that before). And if it's popular enough, dance teachers will break it down in slow motion
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZjyBCoTm4vc?si=P4xQIIQmCCdC_j3X
There's a move that I love to watch and am afraid to try, for fear of falling, but I'll be will a friend later today and maybe she'll be nice enough to hold my hand to keep me from falling.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 08:28 pm
she's a smart* cookie
*not actually smart
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 02:33 pm
Some of this is left from the final October farmers' market, but there is always one a couple of days before Thanksgiving. I have stocked up.
Winter squashes (4 kinds that will stay on the counter, 5 if you count the sugar pumpkins on the porch. 6 if you count the decorative one that is just sitting around being decorative)
apples, only a couple of varieties
red onions, yellow onions (stored in the metal-lined drawer, on brown paper)
garlic (ditto)
3 kinds of white potatoes, two kinds of sweet potatoes (in paper bags, will be in the fridge)
2 sizes of orange carrots, from two different farms. I didn't buy rainbow ones. (fridge)
daikon and watermelon radish, soon to be quick-pickled
1 golden beet (fridge)
3 kinds of lettuce (fridge)
3 kinds of cabbage (fridge)
broccoli (fridge)
Chinese spinach (fridge)
tatsoi (fridge)
alligator kale (fridge)
scallions (will be used in the Korean noodle salad for Thursday)
1 tiny tomato that was greenish when I bought it in October and is dark red now.
fresh ginger (to be grated into cranberry sauce. I have a package of Ocean Spray cranberries. Still MA, not from my farmers market)
I have some California celery hearts that I bought at Trader Joe's, ready to be chopped fine for nut loaf.
A lot of things make me burp. Bell peppers disagree with me more but wouldn't seriously harm me. Eating meat would presumably make me barf after 50+ years without. Otherwise, I have nothing like food allergies. I live in the opposite of a food desert and I have money to use to obtain the blessings of the land. I am very lucky, and very thankful.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 10:03 am
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Monday, November 24th, 2025 03:51 pm
I want a widget that doesn't exist so I might be stuck designing it for 3D printing. I have never done this before. For design software, I gather both Onshape and TinkerCAD are available for free. Anybody with experience have opinions which I should start with? I have never used any CAD program before, but am not new to drafting. OTOH my drafting experience was all about 40 years ago. Open to other suggestions available for the Mac for free.
Also, I don't have my own 3D printer, so I'll be availing myself of various public-access options. But this means the iterative design feedback loop will be irritatingly protracted. Also I might have to pay money for each go round, so I'd like to minimize that. Also I am still disabled and not able to spend a lot of time in a makerspace. But I am a complete n00b to 3D printing and have zero idea what I'm doing. Does anybody have any recommendations for good educational references online about how to design for 3D printing so your widget is more likely to come out right the first or at least third time? By which I mean both print right and also function like you wanted – I know basically nothing about working with the material(s) and how they behave and what the various options are, while the widget I want to make will be functional not ornamental and have like tolerances and affordances and stuff. So finding a way to get those clues without hands-on experience, or at least minimizing the hands-on experience would be superb.
Also, I don't have my own 3D printer, so I'll be availing myself of various public-access options. But this means the iterative design feedback loop will be irritatingly protracted. Also I might have to pay money for each go round, so I'd like to minimize that. Also I am still disabled and not able to spend a lot of time in a makerspace. But I am a complete n00b to 3D printing and have zero idea what I'm doing. Does anybody have any recommendations for good educational references online about how to design for 3D printing so your widget is more likely to come out right the first or at least third time? By which I mean both print right and also function like you wanted – I know basically nothing about working with the material(s) and how they behave and what the various options are, while the widget I want to make will be functional not ornamental and have like tolerances and affordances and stuff. So finding a way to get those clues without hands-on experience, or at least minimizing the hands-on experience would be superb.
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Monday, November 24th, 2025 01:18 pm
I think I have arranged to transfer the inherited IRA money from my mother's account at BNY to a new account in my name at Fidelity. It's at Fidelity because they were willing and able to do this, rather than telling me that I would have to go somewhere else to get a medallion signature.
A couple of weeks ago Adrian's advisor at Fidelity said that they could provide the medallion signature, and would do it for free because she has an account there. When she called this morning to make an appointment, they told her that they couldn't do that for her partner, but if I created an account today to transfer the money into, I could go there tomorrow and get the medallion signature. So, I called Fidelity to set up the account.
That went more smoothly than I expected. Someone walked me through the process of creating the new account, and setting up the transfer. He said the Fidelity back office people will take care of moving the money, and he didn't think I would need the medallion signature, meaning I don't need to go to their office. The website said the "estimated completion date" was Dec. 16, and the man I was talking to said it would probably be sooner than that.
I want this to be done before the end of the year, so I can take the 2025 required minimum distribution.
I am hopeful that this will work, even if they call me and tell ne to come in and get the medallion signature guarantee.
A couple of weeks ago Adrian's advisor at Fidelity said that they could provide the medallion signature, and would do it for free because she has an account there. When she called this morning to make an appointment, they told her that they couldn't do that for her partner, but if I created an account today to transfer the money into, I could go there tomorrow and get the medallion signature. So, I called Fidelity to set up the account.
That went more smoothly than I expected. Someone walked me through the process of creating the new account, and setting up the transfer. He said the Fidelity back office people will take care of moving the money, and he didn't think I would need the medallion signature, meaning I don't need to go to their office. The website said the "estimated completion date" was Dec. 16, and the man I was talking to said it would probably be sooner than that.
I want this to be done before the end of the year, so I can take the 2025 required minimum distribution.
I am hopeful that this will work, even if they call me and tell ne to come in and get the medallion signature guarantee.
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Monday, November 24th, 2025 08:06 am
Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 09:08 pm
I've mentioned here before that one of my big projects this year is my involvement with The Vertigo Project, which now has a webpage so the rest of you can see what we've been doing. Earlier today I facilitated the first creative therapy-style writing workshop through that group, and it was really lovely--and is just the tip of the iceberg on what this group is doing.
Specifically, you can now read all the new work they've commissioned from me! Friends, it's a lot. It's journaling prompts for people who would like to use writing to process some of their own vertigo experiences. But also it's the following stories and poems:
Advice for Wormhole Travelers (story), safe conduct through strange new worlds
Club Planet Vertigo (poem), this is not the dance I wanted to do
Greetings from Innerspace (poem), my orbits are eccentric
The Nature of Nemesis (poem), me and Clark Kent know what's what
On the Way Down (poem), falling hard
Preparation (poem), sometimes we're just literal, okay
She Wavers But She Does Not Weaken (story), when the waves hit you even on dry land, it's good to have someone who's willing to swim against the current for you
The Torn Map (story), rewriting the pieces of the former world into something new
The main page also has links to some of the other aspects of the project, which includes a nonfiction book, dance, puppetry, a podcast with a physical therapist, and more. Please feel welcome to explore it all.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 09:56 pm
Angel worries too much
Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 04:49 pm
Happy Fibonacci day! (1123)
Senator Mazie Hirono and Rep Dave Min both tweeted about yesterday's observance of National Kimchi Day. There are more than 366 kinds of food in the US. Who decides which ones get a day? I didn't notice this until today, so this afternoon I belatedly melted cheese on a corn tortilla and topped it with kimchi. This is America. I can do that. All components were already in my fridge, bought at my local Stop & Shop. I don't remember where the tortillas came from, but the other two were made in Vermont.
Senator Mazie Hirono and Rep Dave Min both tweeted about yesterday's observance of National Kimchi Day. There are more than 366 kinds of food in the US. Who decides which ones get a day? I didn't notice this until today, so this afternoon I belatedly melted cheese on a corn tortilla and topped it with kimchi. This is America. I can do that. All components were already in my fridge, bought at my local Stop & Shop. I don't remember where the tortillas came from, but the other two were made in Vermont.
Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 04:48 pm
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 08:00 am
From August 24th onward, I have taken the 9:15 #62 bus inbound every Sunday.
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2025/08/24/
Today I am doing a different activity and the 10:05 would work better. If I don't go for the 9:15, would the driver miss me? (it's always the same driver. I know his shift well enough that I could correctly predict he'd be driving the outbound bus from Alewife at 3:43 last Sunday).
Now that I've typed it out, it makes the choice more obvious, especially since going later might mean less black ice on the sidewalk.
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2025/08/24/
Today I am doing a different activity and the 10:05 would work better. If I don't go for the 9:15, would the driver miss me? (it's always the same driver. I know his shift well enough that I could correctly predict he'd be driving the outbound bus from Alewife at 3:43 last Sunday).
Now that I've typed it out, it makes the choice more obvious, especially since going later might mean less black ice on the sidewalk.
Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 05:16 am
Saw this, blew my mind, thought I'd share. Behold, Lençóis Maranhenses:
2025 Oct 28: PBS Terra [pbsterra on YT]: It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes
When I heard in the video how big it was, I turned on satellite view in Google Maps and popped "Lençóis Maranhenses" into the search bar:
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2025 Oct 28: PBS Terra [pbsterra on YT]: It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes
When I heard in the video how big it was, I turned on satellite view in Google Maps and popped "Lençóis Maranhenses" into the search bar:
( Image below cut. Content advisory: trypophobes avoid )
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