We're going on an adventure!

My 40th birthday is in a week (well, 8 days, but who's counting) and it would do this old internet lady proud if you consider reading my webcomic: dandyrobotcomic.com

Here's a link to a primer I made a bit back to give you a good introduction on what to expect from my work.

The Dandy Robot is currently in chapter 8 with about 370+ pages loaded, so it's got stuff for you to chew on.

I also have an ongoing fancomic I'm making on the side based on the Tuesday Trilogy game series (Manual Samuel, Helheim Hassle, and The Holy Gosh Darn, mostly the last one.) If you're interested in those games or maybe just enjoy stories about Gods, angels, and the Grim Reaper getting into shenanigans.

It is that time once again...

Hello, everyone! I hope your summer is treating you well! June has arrived once more, which means it’s time for another round of appreciating the women of Paranatural. If you weren’t here when we did this last year, worry not– I have a refresher here for everyone who would like to participate.

Summer Ladies is an event celebrating the women of Paranatural who are often overshadowed in the fandom. Between June 15th and June 28th a day will be dedicated to one of the many wonderful ladies in the comic: you are encouraged to make something, anything- fanart, fanfic, fun little crafts, mood boards- whatever strikes your fancy! Just so long as you’re using the gal of the day as your muse. You can feel free to do this free-style or you can follow along with the prompts that will be posted alongside the calendar in the next day or two. This event is open to everybody who wants to make something! Just so long as you have fun with it =) 

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

Our address system kinda reflexts the fact that 1) cities in Colombia (just like a lot of latin america) tend to be a lot more gridlike than cities in the US, and 2) We very rarely do street names here, and stick almost exclusively to street numbers.

(Neither of these two things are like. big innovations ofc, I know grid-like city layouts and numbered streets also exist in the US, but they're not anywhere as universal as they are here)

Streets are numbered in a standardized way, where the basic concept is that streets going west-east are called "calles" while streets going north-south are called "carreras", and both calles and carreras are numbered sequentially starting at one edge of the city (ofc there are some special terms for diagonals or types of streets that can't be approximated neatly as cardinal directions, but that's the basic concept). So if you see something like "calle 42" you know it's the 42nd west-east street, or if you see "carrera 15" it's the 15th north-south street.

An address includes three numbers, with one being the street it's on, the next being the street it intersects before reaching the address, and the other being the distance from the intersection. So on an address like "Calle 54 #93-42", it tells you: 1) You're on the 54th west-east street.

2) You need to find where it intersects with the 93rd north-south street.

3) The building you're looking for is roughly 42 meters away from this intersection along the Calle 54.

But the number for distance from the intersection isn't actually a precise measurement: The numbers are fudged a bit to make it so that all odd-numbered buildings are on one side of the street, while all even-numbered buildings are on the other, so if you care to take that into account (which I usually don't) it can even tell you that information.

So it's a system where the address itself gives you the geographical location of the building using a cartesian grid. And if you compare it to the address of your current location, it allows you to immediately conclude things such as its cardinal directions relative to you, and roughly how many blocks away it is in each direction. Which in turn makes it like. Almost trivially easy to find an address even without any directions, even when visiting an unfamiliar city for the first time.

On the island part of Venice, Italy, addresses are given by sestiere (i.e. historic neighbourhood), not by street, and are numbered in concentric circles starting from an arbitrary point in each sestiere. So for example someone's address can be "San Marco 3998", and that gives you precisely no information except the neighbourhood it's in. You can add the name of the specific street (e.g. San Marco 3998, salizada del Teatro), but it's not required. Add to this that Google maps in Venice is famously dogshit and sometimes tries to send you directly into a canal, and I genuinely have no idea how deliveries are ever done.

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shout out to the folks on discord and on here who decoded the show's language/lines so that I can absolutely lose my mind over gurathin logging in under his own fucking ID so he can type in

TURBO h a c k i n g POWER

and not only download a whole secunit sans 148 episodes of sanctuary moon but also erase the company copy lmao

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