and when that star goes by, i hold it in my hands and cry

[muladhara]

All right, I jumped on the meme wagon, and if you want to give me a topic (or many) for that December post meme thing, my entry for that is here.

If you want to get your revenge for when I asked you a difficult or awkward question, go ahead and do it. You can also ask me ridiculous shit if you like. I don't care, I want to see if I can do this thing.

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Talking of which, I nicked a meme from halley:

Here's how it works: I must list seven habits/quirks/facts about myself and tag seven people to do the same.
I don't have enough friends to tag and anyway I stopped doing that years ago. So! Here are seven facts about me:

1. I like walking into rooms like I own the place. Since my self-esteem is in my boots on any given day, I find this secretly hilarious.

2. I think space is vast and amazing and gloriously wonderful, but the sheer number of miles and scales scares the shit out of me.

3. I get very indignant about people mocking the Welsh/Welsh language more often than you might think (and I am SO FED UP of the dumb Welsh guy trope that it is not true). I'm half Welsh, so I think I'm allowed.

4. Related: Rhod Gilbert is probably my favourite comedian right now.

5. Also related: I have a crush on Gareth Thomas, and I can't understand why. (He's an ex-rugby player, for context, also wikipedia-ing, should you wish to look him up).

6. I want to play Dragon Age: Inquisition SO BADLY that I am contemplating putting it on the credit card (which I shouldn't do because I owe monies for other things including the aforementioned card). I am not even THAT into DA.

7. There is at least one person on tumblr who I desperately want to be friends with, and I look at their blog, but I don't actually follow them because I think they are Too Awesome for me.

Oh wow that was seven. Unless 4 & 5 don't count, but I don't see where in the rules it says I can't say this stuff.

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I think I should make a "fun with technology" tag or something. Because today I learnt what to do when one hooks up one's laptop to the TV via the HDMI cable. Or, rather, I spent a lot of time clicking, swearing, and wondering where the hell my mouse pointer went to (never the screen I wanted it to be on, that's where).

I couldn't get the TV screen to show an analogous resolution to the laptop screen, so I had to click and hope for the best. It took me ten minutes or more to work out that I had to switch the laptop screen off so that things would display on the TV. Maybe another five to realise I had to go into the sound settings and switch it to audio out on there so that it came not from the bowels of my laptop, but the speakers on the TV. (I assumed that because the Xbox immediately outputs everything via the HDMI cable that maybe that was how it worked. But the Xbox doesn't have speakers, does it?)

Anyway, eventually I worked it out OK and I didn't even have to go on the internet for a solution! (I did momentarily lament not having beccatoria's phone number to wail to her about it, but she would've been at work at the time so not a good idea, obviously).

I'm vastly regretting telling mum I could link this thing to the TV because boy that was painful and took forever.

Comments

[halley]

2, agreed. I can't even explain it but this picture of the largest known plants/stars sizes makes me so nervous.

Welsh language sounds so pretty and complicated for me and my silly american tongue lol.

[muladhara]

Oh god I retweeted that the other day I hope you didn't see it ¬_¬ (sorry if you did)

But yeah, I know what you mean. The size of Jupiter freaks me out, so seeing it piddlingly small in comparison to those stars blows my mind.

I'm sure you could learn to speak it, though :) (and not that I'm saying you should, though). I love the sound of it - sometimes I put S4C (which is Wales' Welsh only channel) on just to listen to it. And it's not as complicated as it sounds (apart from one or two sounds, but let's not get into a convo on linguistics right now unless you want to).

[halley]

I'm terrible with checking twitter so I didn't see it haha.

Ah, I remember tiny me looking at a diorama of the solar system and thinking Jupiter was SO big, but yeah, it just keeps getting worse. It is mind blowing.

:"D Anything is possible with enough dedication and interest, but those are two things I struggle with lol. I like linguistics, I think it runs in the family. I'm still studying Japanese and I'm taking french next year ;;A;; it's hard though.

[muladhara]

*phew*

*nods* It gets worse when you start converting light years to actual distances which. Let's not do that!

Lol, yeah, I know what you mean. I love languages (as you may have noticed), but I get easily distracted from competently learning any because I find a new one I'm interested in, and off I go. Ahhh, I hope you have better luck with Japanese than I did (I can speak it a bit, understand some, but reading is a disaster). If you want someone to practice French with, let me know! I could use the revision myself, so it'd help both of us. Of course, that's only if you want to :)

[halley]

Thanks. Ah, when it comes to japanese I'm actually better at reading and speaking than understanding it (when it's spoken to me) which is ridiculous because that would lead to a lot of one sided conversations lol.

I'd love to practice french with you if I end up actually learning anything useful in class :"D

[muladhara]

As a friend once said to me, listening to a language being spoken is ridiculously difficult (we were mutually grumbling about French). I later came to realise that this applies to your own native tongue as well (there's plenty of examples - I mean, look how many lyrics get misheard in English songs, for example). Anyway, you should've seen the amount of grimacing I did when I watched the Seven Samurai - I was trying to listen for words I knew, but the actors all spoke so damn fast, I couldn't keep up (I swear anime VAs talk a lot slower).

Awesome! I hope you do end up learning useful things! :)