My Commonplace Book

Phew. This one took, uh… a bit longer than expected due to other projects both irl and art-wise, but it’s finally here. The long-awaited domestic animal infographic! Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough space to cover every single domestic animal (I’m so sorry, reindeer and koi, my beloveds) but I tried to include as many of the “major ones” as possible.

I made this chart in response to a lot of the misunderstandings I hear concerning domestic animals, so I hope it’s helpful!

Further information I didn’t have any room to add or expand on:

if your dog is a girl you name it bella

if your dog is a boy you name it loki

Boy beagle: Copper

Your coworkers absolutely WILL work with weird. If you're even halfway competent, they will accommodate weird. No seriously--because if you're really competent, your coworkers will put up with raging assholes and miserable bitches because the bosses will love them enough to keep them no matter how terrible they are to work with, so in comparison? Weird but competent is nothing. We would pick you any day over the Queen Bee who you can't even say "good morning" to because implying anything about the goodness or badness of the day was fighting words.

If masking in public all the time is exhausting, don't go into sales and try to avoid customer service.

But if you like logic puzzles or how weird facts tie in together, try database management.

Databases are all logic puzzles, and if you can figure out the combo of filters, data points, and data limits to get the report upper management needs, THEY WILL LOVE YOU.

If you combine that with a basic project management program like Smartsheet, and start making the excel grid turn pretty colors when linked to a report, THEY WILL REALLY LOVE YOU. I've done in an hour what has taken my VP 3 days to do manually in the past. SHE LOVES ME.

Ralph Stanley sang “O Death” on that soundtrack. (He also has recorded his own version of Constant Sorrow.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHB40N3ejc

Back about 10 years ago, he and his grandsons were touring and had a show at a local winery. Great concert, and I got drunk off of cheap, good wine. Got so drunk that I bought a banjo his band was selling at the merch table, and got Dr Ralph Stanley himself to sign it.

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Sunmao (Chinese 🇨🇳: 榫卯, pinyin: sǔn mǎo), also known as Chinese joinery, or Mortise and tenon joint structure, is an ancient Chinese wooden architecture employing Chinese woodworking/carpentry and joinery methods that uses primarily wood, bricks, and tiles as the main building materials, with the wooden frame structure as the main structure, and columns, beams, and purlins as the main components.

“Sun” refers to “Suntou” (榫头, or 笋头, tenon), which is a wooden component that is designed for insertion, typically with a protruding or projecting part, and “Mao” comes from “Maoyan” (卯眼, or 卯口, or 榫眼, mortise), which is a wooden component that is designed for receiving a corresponding projection, typically with a hole or recessed cut. The joints between the various components are joined and connected by mortise and tenon, and fit together to form a flexible frame.

Sunmao is the most common structuring approach in ancient Chinese architecture and furniture. Sunmao structures, as a part of the “Chinese traditional architectural craftsmanship for timber-framed structures”, is a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed in 2009 on the UN Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

“The Neolithic period (6000 — 2000 b.c.e.) marks the true emergence of the wooden frames so characteristic of Chinese architecture. As early as seven thousand years ago, Neolithic peoples knew how to use mortise and tenon — a method of joinery that employs notches and inserts — to build wood-beamed houses. (The world’s oldest examples are at the Hemudu site in Zhejiang.) By the end of the era these techniques were well developed, and such homes were made in circular, square, or oblong shapes, depending on their function.” - Chinese Architecture – The Origins of Chinese Architecture (English ed.). Yale University Press. pp. 5–15.