The Book of Blah

They once forgot to pay me for 8 extra hours that they needed me to work on Thanksgiving weekend. They simply needed me to be present for 8 hours in order to quickly fix any problems that happened during their busiest weekend, and no such problems ended up happening.

When they saw the mistake and paid me for it, the gross pay for that day was $420 (base of $35 x 8 hours x 1.5 for overtime).

The first thing I noticed was how that compared to what I got paid at my warehouse job before I became a programmer. When I started the job at the warehouse, I got paid $10 an hour. For a full time week, I got paid $400.

I got paid more for that one day of doing practically nothing as a programmer than I did busting my ass at the warehouse for a whole week.

The differences in colors, facial features that like you can watch it a 100xs but see something different.

What got my little rant going was when Bingmei passes Bingge and he trips. It is the smallest little movement a blink if you miss it- but it is the most human someone could move. It makes it feel unintentional. It makes it feel like a mistake. Like he was a person- not lines and a deliberate action on the animator.

I was so endeared and it made the stark difference of Bingge who when he was in frame always seemed like you couldn’t tell how washed out and color less he was bc the rest of the frame didn’t draw your eye to him- you focused on the world around him- until Bingmei comes in- trips and you are suddenly locked in aware Bingge who was small deliberate movements- was now the only still, black and white thing on screen.

It is so small but it makes my brain EXPLODE with gittery glee and euphoria I get when I watch animations I love.

宋朝 - 裤子 - 裈, 袴 (1/2) Song Dynasty - Pants (1/2)

Pants were a popular garment to wear during the Song Dynasty, both as inner and outer wear for men and women. From artefacts currently discovered, there were 3 main types of pants:

1) Inner pants (close-crotched) (裈 (读鲲))

worn against the body

2 styles found: a) Half-pants (犊鼻裈/Dubikun) b) Full pants

can be worn by men and women

2) Outer pants (mostly open-crotched)（袴 (读库)）

worn layered over the inner pants

open-crotched version did not expose private area due to large amount of fabric and the way it draped around the hips

can be multi-layered for colder weather

can be worn by men and women

some even have foot straps (吊敦裤/Diaodunku)

Demo of how to wear open-crotch pants (1st part of video):

宋朝 - 裤子 - 裆 (2/2)

Song Dynasty - Pants (2/2)

3) Decorative outer pants （裆 (读当))

first appearance around late Northern Song

large slits along the outside (from waist to bottom of pant leg)

very loose and flowy, allowing the pant legs to open while walking to reveal the pants worn underneath

worn as a decorative piece

so far no male version of this has been unearthed

I was recently introduced to hanfu through a c-drama, and I'm really curious about it, so I'm glad I found your blog!

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The name for that style of pants is (unfortunately) just "pants" (裤/ku in Chinese, which literally translates to pants).

I searched around for patterns and pieced one together (luckily it doesn't seem too complicated :D). You'll have to play around with the measurements so they fit you best, these were based on a video of someone who made this for a client (I'll link the video as a source but it's all in Chinese).

Here's some screenshots of videos demo-ing it (also linked in sources). The most important take-away I got is to make sure the width of the pant legs is enough to wrap ALL the way around your body and overlap in the back so your butt doesn't show xD

The earliest artefacts for this style of pants is the Han Dynasty (202 BC-9 AD, 25–220 AD), but it was also discovered in tombs of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), which had more samples and were better preserved (I heard in one Song tomb they found 24 pairs of pants, 15 of which were this style O.O). So all of these were made using the Song Dynasty version, but they look basically the same and were also worn as under garments.

Sources: Sewing patterns https://www.sohu.com/a/406159256_620719

Sewing full process (with measurements) 慕少蓉 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sg4y1v7jZ/

Demonstration: Xiaohongshu 曾嚼子 Video

Xiaohongshu 宾义儿 Video

The "secret" to starbucks drinks is in their own branding of syrups, sauces, and toppings. Hell, you can make the frappuccinos at home fairly easily and the only "secret" stuff is the frappuccino base, which is a simple sugar syrup with xanthan gum for thickening. The frappuccino coffee mixture is basically an instant coffee mix.

It's good to have all of this in one post as a reference! The cold foam is probably not on the app specifically, and I can understand wanting to make that at home. But for normal recipes, the app has it all. Here's for hot chocolate.

This isn't any kind of ad for it, but rather if you want to know what's in any drink this is how! There are copycat recipes for the sauces, and espresso machines can be fairly cheap. The standard syrups you find in the store should be a good sub for the syrups in store.

For standard Vanilla Sweet Cream for cold foam (we make it in a 2L pitcher):

1 L Heavy Cream

350 mL Vanilla Syrup

650 mL 2% Milk

To make it into a cold foam, add 2 pumps of whatever syrup you would like (for salted caramel foam it's 2 pumps caramel syrup, 2 packets of salt like thise you get at sit down restaurants), and 100 mL of vanilla sweet cream to a blender and blend on low for about 15 seconds (if you have a blender with a disc blade, that works best for this) until it thickens. A mixer would also work well, mix until soft peaks form.

The chocolate foam has 2 scoops (size of teaspoons) of chocolate malt powder.

Vanilla sweet cream foam is just the sweet cream mixture above foamed up.

Cinnamon cold foam has cinnamon dolce syrup.

Matcha foam is 2 tsp scoops of matcha.

Pumpkin foam is made with pumpkin sauce.

“Howl” by Florence and the machine. A song I associate very strongly with Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu

do not repost!!

Indeed, it’s wrong to keep you near me / One could call me cruel and deceiving / But in your sacred air I am full of light / Your loving arms are the true delight / To which I’m lost / … / You’ve come to love / What you always will fear

- Persephone by Tamino

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