STYLISH People super into fashion and who are also VERY Smart — why are they so rare??
There was no taste.
I think the decorative plate NOT meant to be used as a serving plate was from early 1990s. Not that old!
Frankly, I’m very surprised toxic art pigments were allowed to be used on decorative plates that could easily be mistaken for a regular plate only like 30 years ago. If it were from 1800s, I could see since people weren’t aware of dangerous elements like that.
There was nothing to distinguish the decorative plate from a regular serving plate.
Apparently, it didn’t occur to the CEO of the plate manufacturing company that it would be DANGEROUS to use toxic art pigments!
It seems like it would be common sense to *NOT* use toxic art pigments in a product for consumers, you know?
Obviously, it would never fly now cuz FTC oversees safety regulations for things like that.
I’m keeping an eye on my body and will DEFINITELY be fking suing if I was poisoned!
Yay, I love it when brilliant Musicians whose music I LOVE kindly offer me their music to own, *without* my even asking! 🎊
Not sure what you meant cuz missing a word?
The toxic element I unknowingly ate was from paint used on a plate, not coffeemaker.
Hmm, am I the kind of girl who would EVER wear a necklace (or any SILVER colored jewelry cuz find gold colored jewelry tacky personally) with my man’s name?
That would be a HELL NO!
Seems very girly 💅🏼🎀 silly to me!
Apparently, this is a thing that some girls & women do?
I DO still have remnants of 🌹🌸 Romantic in me but never did that even in my 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Hyper Romantic 20s days!
I have also NEVER set my computer nor mobile phone’s wallpaper/screensaver with the pic of a romantic partner’s pic — altho one of my ex’s had a pic me of on his.
That was kinda sweet but NOT something *I* would ever do!
Today’s my birthday, it’s the longest birthday I’ve ever had, and one of the longest ones possible. My birthday will last 44 hours for me. I believe it’s possible to have a single calendar day last almost 48 hours.
I woke up in Aotearoa New Zealand, GMT+13, and am traveling to San Francisco GMT-8. Just after I take off from Auckland, the day will start in San Francisco.
I believe to maximize the length of an experienced calendar day you could travel from either Big Diomede Island in Russia to Little Diomede in Alaska, but neither island is inhabited so there’s no regular flights or ferry service. Samoa and American Samoa have the international dateline going between them and there are flights and ferry services between them. And the weather is more pleasant. So if you wanted a 48 hour day, you could start in Samoa, then close to midnight, hop on a plane and fly the few minutes to American Samoa. Geographically a ton of South Pacific islands are west of the international dateline but choose to use a TimeZone and date to the west of it so they can facilitate trade and cultural integration with the rest of Oceania.
Timezones are weird, really weird. Did you know there’s an open source flat file database which encodes all timezones that have ever existed? Including details on all changes to daylight saving time. It’s crazy, it’s own flat file format. The file is maintained and created by ICANN, the same weird international body that manages domain names and ip address allocation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
I find ICANN and its sister organization the IETF fascinating. They’re twin organizations, started as the internet emerged from a US government owned, university run network in to something all the rest of us are using. When ICANN was created, there was worry that the US government shouldn’t own and govern the internet for everybody. Many countries wanted to put internet governance under the UN, but there was a worry that if the UN controlled governance of the internet, then it wouldn’t keep it’s free wheeling ways, and would end up being a much more tightly regulated and censored place than it was through the 90’s or even as it is today.
So a totally new kind of organization was created, a multistakeholder international governmental body. ICANN’s mandate was strictly limited to issuing domain names and allocating IP addresses. The organization’s mandate would not extend to what people did with those domain names and ip addresses. Servers physically existed in sovereign countries, if you moved your data to a new country, then that government was now responsible. The sleight of hand was meant to let technologists play jurisdictional games, which is what made all sorts of things on the internet possible.
What does a multistakeholder governance model look like? Instead of the UN, where only nation states get a seat at the table, or a standards body run as a consortium of businesses where companies get a say in the rules, the ICANN process said that nations, companies, and civil society (NGO’s, social movements, religious institutions, etc…) are all co-equal in running the organization. ICANN is staffed mostly by diplomats. The meetings are held every 6 months in some random place in the world. ICANN collects a tax from domain name registrars, who then sell the ability to register domain names to registries. It’s this super weird, global government, which collects taxes, and has transparent public meetings. It is the opposite of what any conspiracy theorist thinks of when they hear global government. Anybody can show up and get a say, participate, but they keep everybody away by being very very very boring.
ICANN is run by an endless web of committees, it’s sister organization IEFT which defines internet standards is the most boring version of anarchism possible. The IETF moto is “We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.” In IETF meetings, you express your opinion about the discussion through humming! Yes HUMMING! It’s so weird, ICANN is an all encompassing global government which collects taxes (they call them fees) and its sister is this anti-authoritarian anarchist standards body.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282
Honestly, I think both organizations could be a model going forward for how we manage the world beyond and after the dominance of the nation state and corporations. They’re far from perfect, but they do kind of work. Really truly different kinds of was of organizing society. And the internet is as big and complicated thing as we’ve made as humans.
Anyway, all this is a weird round about way of saying, it’s my very very long birthday.
Happy birthday! 🎉🎂🎈Hope you have some yummy cake when you get there. Safe travels!
Now using a stainless steel French Press coffeemaker, which takes care of the glass breaking problem, but it’s not as aesthetically pleasing.
I prefer the design of regular French Press coffeemakers made with glass where you can see the coffee.
Feeling slightly better but still gotta keep eye on my body cuz may/probably have indigested potentially toxic elements — cuz of someone else! 😡
I’m *NOT* feeling physically well today! 😡
Nauseous and other things!
Looking forward to FKING FILING MANY MANY LAWSUITS AGAINST FKING ASSHOLE People+Things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
MANY, MANY FKING LAWSUITS WILL BE FILED AND ASSHOLES WILL LOSE THEIR HOUSES+HOMES!
😡
I have to waste my money & time buying a 3rd French Press coffeemaker cuz someone else broke 2 of them within the past few months! 😡
Thankfully, I did not get hurt by broken glass nor eat tiny pieces of glass!
My favorite phrase is now going to be “You have displayed a degree of moral turpitude that is absolutely unacceptable!” 😅
From an excellent British TV series 🇬🇧”Funny Woman” starring 🇬🇧Gemma Arterton who is brilliant in the role of a naive, very funny, goofy pretty girl who moves to the big city of 🇬🇧London to pursue her dreams and gets into jams.
(Character reminds me of little bit of how I was, haha.)
All around excellent series — casting, story line, wardrobe, music, etc.
I totally agree! Especially if it’s a romantic relationship.
But many people stay in the meh or bad relationship cuz of inertia or fear of being alone.
Very silly and stupid cuz then not available to meet the right person who will make them much happier and grow.
The CEO is a POC woman, which is rare and it’s a public benefit corporation so those are good things, imho. And decentralized.
I had this last night. It’s yummy and tastes like dessert.
Do you eat peanut butter in 🇫🇮Finland?
https://www.sugarlands.com/sugarlands-introduces-peanut-butter-appalachian-sippin-cream/
Alcohol time! 🍹🥃
I WANT MY g-damn MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😡
I just hurt my foot — OUCH — ANOTHER person’s fault! 😡
LOOKING FORWARD TO FKING LEAVING AND NEVER RETURNING!
AND FILING MANY LAWSUITS and RECEIVING MY DAMN MONEY!
😡😡
Of course I still remember the name of the smart & nice person whose cousin is friends with Gwyneth Paltrow since their Spence days!
He was at McKinsey & Company then and kindly did a favor for me.
And one of my Hollywood Industry friends also knows her 2nd Husband, Brad Falchuk.
I think Gwyneth has pretty good taste in men, especially in husbands!
And the Oscar 🏆 winning Actress (for 📽️“Shakespeare In Love”) has impeccable 🇬🇧British accent!
I’d highly recommend seeing Gwyneth play the character Emma Woodhouse, in the 1996 film, one of the many film versions of the book by 🇬🇧Jane Austen.
(Sometimes, I like to play Emma and try to be a matchmaker.)
