I'm trying, I swear

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

IT WAS ON THE DESKTOP. THIS IS WHAT I SENT.

It doesn't fit my apartment's colour scheme, but I still think it's amazing.

No one: 

Shrimp: Who are you? Who, who, who, who? 🦐🦐🦐🦐

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

The co-pilot was a local and knew all the local airstrips

...including the decommissioned 10,000 foot military runway they ultimately chose as their destination

...but because it had been decommissioned, was now utilized by a local go-kart club for racing

...which, on that day, was indeed having a great time racing go-karts on the old runway

...and because there was no way to alert the people on the ground and the plane’s approach was utterly silent (NO ENGINES) with kids in go-karts were whizzing around on the runway, the final approach was, shall we say, alarming

...until a parent looked up and noticed a giant fucking airplane getting bigger and bigger

OH GOD HE’S LANDING HERE

Thus within seconds the whole area was cleared by frantic parents

Plane lands perfectly, but without power they had to drop the gear via gravity and the nose wheel failed to lock into place

Front gear collapses

Plane screeches to a halt, and because they landed at a go-kart event pretty much every dad has a fire extinguisher, so they manage to extinguish the small fire caused by friction

The only minor injuries were due to passengers jumping from the emergency exit slides, which dangled off the ground due to elevated tail height