cool!

Zooniverse, the citizen science (history, musicology, etc.) portal that hosts crowd-sourced research projects, sends its members beta notifications of upcoming projects. Because researchers can build projects themselves using the portal, they need to be tested to see how they hold up when people are let loose on them, to see if the instructions and process make sense. I tend to get these notifications every week or two, and if a project seems interesting, go poke at it for a while.

I got notified of one today that fills my need to read other people's mail. It's a ton of postcards from the Edwardian era, and you get an image of both sides of the card. I've only done a couple, and there seem to be two parts to the project, one focusing on the cards themselves and how far people send them (within the town? across the country?), and another one focusing on the people writing and sending, but I haven't tried that part yet so I don't know what they're looking for.

All this to say that the second card I read charmed me by being addressed to a Mr Albert Newell, Violinist. However, the writer was sidestepping an apology for creating some sort of uncomfortable situation between the recipient and another person, who'd evidently had a falling-out.

edit: In this one (click the "2" underneath or go to the Imgur version I uploaded), "P.C." seems to be "Post Card," but I have no idea what "O. B." is, especially given that "Shrimps" are offered as a substitute.

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And because this DW/LJ has unexpectedly turned into All Video Games All The Time, here's a link to a funny article where someone decides to see what a video game character is up to when you send him home.

In Fallout 4, one of the companions is Dogmeat, a German shepherd (Alsatian, I think, if you're a Brit?). If you tell him to go home, he will run off and, some time later, end up back at your home base. This guy followed him.

To reassure you, because the Fallout 4 wasteland is a harsh one, Dogmeat is an unkillable character--if his hit points get low enough, he sits down and whines (in a really upsetting way, IMHO!) until they go back up again or you shoot him up with a stimpack.

Also, I find one of the funniest parts of the game is how Brotherhood pilots crash vertibirds ALL THE TIME.

Things Toby has said while playing Witcher Iii

You can't spell Pirate without Irate!

Really Geralt? Really? You deserve to have hit your head.

(Geralt ignites a torch with magic) Ladies love it!

(upon improving armor pants with glyphs that increase his fire magic) Pants on FUCKING FIRE is what Geralt's doing!



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