Daily Happiness
Jan. 20th, 2026 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torachan1. Got my hair cut this morning. Carla wanted to get hers trimmed before her trip (she's going to Wisconsin for a week tomorrow for her aunt's 80th birthday) so it was the both of us and we decided to pop over to Universal Studios for lunch afterwards. The crowds were so low! If we'd stayed to go on any rides, almost everything was like 20 minutes or less, even the massively popular ones. As it was, we just had a nice lunch, spotted some characters, and came home.
2. Because of the haircut appointment, which was awkwardly timed for late morning, I just made today a WFH day. Did some stuff in the morning before we went, and then had a meeting later in the afternoon. I didn't really have a whole lot on the agenda for today anyway, so it worked out well.
3. Shake Shack is apparently having a Korean inspired menu right now, so we got the burgers with Korean BBQ sauce. They were so good! There's also a chicken sandwich and fries with kimchi powder and dipping sauce, and even a caramel gochujang shake, so if they've still got this stuff on the menu when Carla gets back from her trip, we're planning to try some of those as well. Actually now that I think of it, there's one near work, so I might just go over there for lunch one day...
4. Warming bed + stretching = best combo.
2. Because of the haircut appointment, which was awkwardly timed for late morning, I just made today a WFH day. Did some stuff in the morning before we went, and then had a meeting later in the afternoon. I didn't really have a whole lot on the agenda for today anyway, so it worked out well.
3. Shake Shack is apparently having a Korean inspired menu right now, so we got the burgers with Korean BBQ sauce. They were so good! There's also a chicken sandwich and fries with kimchi powder and dipping sauce, and even a caramel gochujang shake, so if they've still got this stuff on the menu when Carla gets back from her trip, we're planning to try some of those as well. Actually now that I think of it, there's one near work, so I might just go over there for lunch one day...
4. Warming bed + stretching = best combo.
AI时代 | age of AI
Jan. 20th, 2026 09:47 pmstarandreaMy workplace requires the use of LLM as AI, so I pay particular attention to how it comes up in my hobbies. Every day is a chance to learn more than I knew before.
Will AI replace Chinese teachers | Chinese podcast #184, by Dashu Mandarin 大叔中文
Ben: I don't think I'll be replaced by AI; I'll be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI.
Richard: You'll be replaced by PeiPei.
PeiPei: Follow me!
Richard: If you can't beat them, join them, right?
Ben: 我是觉得呃我不会被AI取代但是我会被会AI的。
Richard: 你会被珮珮取代。
PeiPei: 跟着我干吧！
Richard: 对打不过就加入是吧？
Will AI replace Chinese teachers | Chinese podcast #184, by Dashu Mandarin 大叔中文
Ben: I don't think I'll be replaced by AI; I'll be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI.
Richard: You'll be replaced by PeiPei.
PeiPei: Follow me!
Richard: If you can't beat them, join them, right?
Ben: 我是觉得呃我不会被AI取代但是我会被会AI的。
Richard: 你会被珮珮取代。
PeiPei: 跟着我干吧！
Richard: 对打不过就加入是吧？
New Vid: Gimme Sympathy (Heated Rivalry)
Jan. 20th, 2026 10:15 pm
booked
Jan. 20th, 2026 08:13 pmchazzbannerAfternoon book group, dry pavement (highway): back by 3:30!
This was the first time ever that none of us liked the book, a Pulitzer Prize winning biography.
Next month we'll read a novel, and not the one set in a dystopia, thank you. :-)
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This was the first time ever that none of us liked the book, a Pulitzer Prize winning biography.
Next month we'll read a novel, and not the one set in a dystopia, thank you. :-)
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, January 20
Jan. 20th, 2026 06:48 pmrahirah posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
su_herald
Cordy: My first big connection to Hollywood and you practically throw her out of the office. Haven’t you ever heard of networking?
Wesley: Cordelia.
Cordy: No! He can fight off Donkey-Demons, who rip peoples - guts out, but he can’t help one defenseless actress from a psycho? What is your thing?
Wesley: He likes her. He’s afraid of getting close.
Cordy: Cause of his curse? You’d have to get awfully close to her for that to kick in. And in the mean time you could be helping me.
Wesley: The person who needs help here – is Ms Lowell.
Cordy: Right. He could be helping us both! Think of the Karma!
Wesley: Cordelia.
Cordy: No! He can fight off Donkey-Demons, who rip peoples - guts out, but he can’t help one defenseless actress from a psycho? What is your thing?
Wesley: He likes her. He’s afraid of getting close.
Cordy: Cause of his curse? You’d have to get awfully close to her for that to kick in. And in the mean time you could be helping me.
Wesley: The person who needs help here – is Ms Lowell.
Cordy: Right. He could be helping us both! Think of the Karma!
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Doing just fine.
Jan. 20th, 2026 08:15 pmhannah
It's been well below freezing all day, and the only time I've spent outdoors was the pair of bike rides to and from the gig location, which itself is barely a 20 block ride. It was more than enough for my fingers and ears to get uncomfortably chilled, though I take it as a point of pride that continuing to mask up means my nose and mouth are just fine. I'm still thinking often on how safe I am for this cold snap - a safe place to sleep, hot water, layers to bundle up. Mostly, the tiredness comes from having rearranged a fairly sizable home library's substantial fiction section, up and down a stepladder, picking up armfuls of books over and over, and it's not digging a ditch, but between hours of that and the cold, I'm feeling pretty wiped.
I think next time I go, I'll bring a canned coffee with me. See about heading this off ahead of time.
I think next time I go, I'll bring a canned coffee with me. See about heading this off ahead of time.
Daily Check-In
Jan. 20th, 2026 05:59 pmstarwatcher posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, January 20, to midnight on Wednesday, January 21. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #34103 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 17
How are you doing?
I am OK.
11 (64.7%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
6 (35.3%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
5 (29.4%)
One other person.
8 (47.1%)
More than one other person.
4 (23.5%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Here at the end of the lonely world
Jan. 20th, 2026 07:47 pmmusesfool
The conference was interesting, if maybe 1 panel too long (it ended at 4:55 pm, but the last panel was...not great, imo), though the lunch options were, to me, appalling. (Many people ate and enjoyed the sandwiches but there was not one that I would eat. I made do with salad, chips, and cookies.) My boss and I both felt validated by some things being mentioned that we already do and some that we are planning to do (if the new board chair approves), so that part was good too.
It was hard to get up (it was hard to sleep, knowing I had to get up 90 minutes earlier than usual), but I did it. I also saw two fun signs on the way: "Lube Entrance" and "You can ship anything." Asdevildoll said when I told her, I'll take AO3 tags for $200, Alex. *g*
Now I'm going to try to stay awake for another hour and then go to bed because I am le tired.
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It was hard to get up (it was hard to sleep, knowing I had to get up 90 minutes earlier than usual), but I did it. I also saw two fun signs on the way: "Lube Entrance" and "You can ship anything." As
devildoll said when I told her, I'll take AO3 tags for $200, Alex. *g*Now I'm going to try to stay awake for another hour and then go to bed because I am le tired.
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2026 Universal Studios Trip #2 (1/20/26)
Jan. 20th, 2026 04:00 pmtorachanUniversal Studios has short hours during the off season, making it inconvenient to go for dinner on weeknights, but today we had an opportunity to go for lunch since we were sort of partway there.
The park wasn't crowded at all, but all the good parking was taken, so we had to park at the ET parking structure, which is at the far end of CityWalk, but at least that meant we got a nice walk to and from the park as well as inside.
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The park wasn't crowded at all, but all the good parking was taken, so we had to park at the ET parking structure, which is at the far end of CityWalk, but at least that meant we got a nice walk to and from the park as well as inside.
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第五年第十一天
Jan. 21st, 2026 08:34 amnnozomi posting in guardian_learning部首
心 part 21
愿, to wish; 慌, to panic; 慢, slow ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=61
语法
2.19 (part 1) Result complements 完，会，懂，住
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-2-grammar
词汇
程序, program; 工程, engineering/project ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
Guardian:
你真的愿意帮助我们, are you really willing to help us?
你听我把话说完, wait until I'm finished talking
龙城大学生物工程系的教授, a professor in the bioengineering department at Dragon City University
Me:
慢慢来，别急。
你听不懂的话，我就再说一遍。
心 part 21
愿, to wish; 慌, to panic; 慢, slow ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=61
语法
2.19 (part 1) Result complements 完，会，懂，住
https://www.digmandarin.com/hsk-2-grammar
词汇
程序, program; 工程, engineering/project ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/
Guardian:
你真的愿意帮助我们, are you really willing to help us?
你听我把话说完, wait until I'm finished talking
龙城大学生物工程系的教授, a professor in the bioengineering department at Dragon City University
Me:
慢慢来，别急。
你听不懂的话，我就再说一遍。
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Jan. 20th, 2026 01:49 pmolivermoss* More straight hockey content creators liking Heated Rivalry and not being weird about it. This time it's Eck. Two guys write for the channel. One really preferred the Skip content, but interestingly the other was more into Hollanov. It's only ten minutes, but it doesn't say anything revolutionary. it's interesting that it's happened again.
* The Sens' Heated Rivalry jerseys sold out in about an hour. The sales benefit Ottawa Pride Hockey.
Importantly, this is the logo for the Ottawa Pride Jerseys:
Perfection.
* I haven't watched the whole thing, this goes on the pile with some other interviews to watch when I have time, but Linus Ullmark has addressed the batshit rumors about his brief leave of absence in this interview. I've only seen a clip, but he talks about why so many players seen closed off in interviews, don't talk about their lives, and seem to not have personalities. There has been a lot of talk about how it's a real thing in hockey culture that players are closed off, never give real answers and seem to be robots all running on the same software.
That this is a real thing/problem is hockey has been something hockey fans have been trying to explain to parts of HR fandom. There is a certain Kraken who still gets dunked on by Canadian sports media for a single comment taken out of context back in 2014, he later wound up being trained by Sid himself in No-Speak, the art of saying literally nothing ever in front of media.
Anyway, I am still new to hockey but it must be frustrating to see a lot of new people come in with very strong assumptions about what is and isn't accurate in the GCU books. Hockey isn't a monolith, there are exceptions. Joey, for example, is very open about parts of his life and does chat with fans. But also, hockey players being media trained into being politeness bots who say nothing is also a big part of the scene.
* The Sens' Heated Rivalry jerseys sold out in about an hour. The sales benefit Ottawa Pride Hockey.
Importantly, this is the logo for the Ottawa Pride Jerseys:
Perfection.
* I haven't watched the whole thing, this goes on the pile with some other interviews to watch when I have time, but Linus Ullmark has addressed the batshit rumors about his brief leave of absence in this interview. I've only seen a clip, but he talks about why so many players seen closed off in interviews, don't talk about their lives, and seem to not have personalities. There has been a lot of talk about how it's a real thing in hockey culture that players are closed off, never give real answers and seem to be robots all running on the same software.
That this is a real thing/problem is hockey has been something hockey fans have been trying to explain to parts of HR fandom. There is a certain Kraken who still gets dunked on by Canadian sports media for a single comment taken out of context back in 2014, he later wound up being trained by Sid himself in No-Speak, the art of saying literally nothing ever in front of media.
Anyway, I am still new to hockey but it must be frustrating to see a lot of new people come in with very strong assumptions about what is and isn't accurate in the GCU books. Hockey isn't a monolith, there are exceptions. Joey, for example, is very open about parts of his life and does chat with fans. But also, hockey players being media trained into being politeness bots who say nothing is also a big part of the scene.
Attended online conference today
Jan. 20th, 2026 07:25 pmoursinAt which I was able to make a couple of minor contributions.
Reason why serving soldiers a very small statistical minority in divorce statistics pre-1914 (post then increased massively....): there were huge restrictions on how many could marry 'on the strength' so there were fairly few actually married in the first place. Mi knowinz on this partly from Victorian fiction (I think it features in one of Charlotte Yonge's) but mostly from Being A Historian who had to do with the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Also able to make some comments apropos of preserving archives of relevant organisations and the problems of digital records.
A lot of oh dear less change than one would like to imagine took place over time in matters of divorce, family disruption, domestic abuse, gendered assumptions, etc etc: but also, a sense that, in fact Back in The Past when women may not have had much agency, they were nevertheless using what they could get, e.g. separation law, protection orders, and various legal intricacies.
Also wondered how far they were able to manipulate (or the law was actually based on) certain patriarchal assumptions, which is what I found when reviewing book by one of the major contributors - i.e. that deserting husbands were falling down on doing patriarchy like they should, bad boy, no more right of coverture if your wife goes through a fairly cheap and simple legal procedure, post-1857.
Also there was a lot of archive love going on!
TV Tuesday: Well, I Didn't Know That
Jan. 20th, 2026 11:42 amyourlibrarian posting in tv_talk
Do you watch educational TV shows or documentaries? What makes these shows watchable or interesting to you? Are there particular ones that spoke to you?