a random assortment
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asakiyumebest pasta
My favorite shape of pasta is long fusilli.
One supermarket I go to has it (the one with the Lenten ideas, actually), but the near supermarket doesn't. I bought lots of packages last time I was at the one supermarket, and last night we had some. I love-love-love the feel in my mouth.
Do you have a favorite shape of pasta?
Knife throwee or lion's mouth?
A cafe in a nearby town has old board games for patrons to play. We didn't play any, but one that I noticed was called something like "Which would you rather?" where I guess you must have to choose between various alternatives. The one featured on the box was, "Which would you rather be, the person in the circus that the knife thrower throws knives at, or the one who puts their head in the lion's mouth?"
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wakanomori and I chose opposite, but we both had good reasons. How about you?Owl in Love
I'm reading this fun YA book that was first published in 1993. It's told by 14-year-old Owl, who is a girl by day and an owl by night. Her narrative voice is fabulous, like when she describes her human parents, who are hedge witches.
My parents are very, very honest. The would never sell a charm, no, not even the merest good-luck piece, if they did not believe it gave good value for money. On the other hand, they are both blessed with an optimistic and uncritical nature, so they are able to offer quite a large line of goods with a clear conscience.
Letter L
My keyboard isn't responding well to my attempt to press the L key. I keep on having to go back and type it harder.
Balance
Did you know it's harder to balance on one foot if you have your eyes closed? It is.
... I think that'll do for now.... I'll be back; I have to go pick up a pizza.
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Date: 2016-03-02 08:28 am (UTC)This is something that suddenly became very important once humans began to fly. Our sense of balance is optimized for moving around on solid surfaces and it's quite poor at coping with constant random acceleration as you might experience if you were flying a plane. Many early pilots were astonished to find that they might enter a cloud upright, but then exit upside down (or more likely in an inverted spiral), once they had lost their visual cues. This led to the development of instrument flying and training pilots to trust their instruments over what their bodies were telling them.
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Date: 2016-03-02 02:52 pm (UTC)I literally thought you were spinning off into Story here--it was only at the next sentence that I realized you were talking about Real Life. That's fascinating! I had no idea.