(Recovering) Master Procrastinator

looks better than this

Pointed nose buses are decended from trucks, and have their engines located in the front. This requires the larger nose in order to provide the space for the engine as well as adequate ventilation.

Meanwhile, flat nosed buses are actually descended from city buses (which in turn descend from trolleys), and were domesticated due to their greater maneuverability and capacity.

Contrary to popular belief, flat nosed busses typically do not experience breathing problems. Their engines are located in the back of the bus, with a large breathing vent located in the rear.

Firstly, it turns out England used a different set of measurements until 1826, when they changed to Imperial. However, a mile is the same length in both, so 1.61 km. Then I put this into a calculator:

It says about 16 minutes total. I think we can assume it's measured as she walks and not as the bird flies. I set the walk at beginner because it doesn't seem like Emma walks a ton otherwise.

Now is 16 minutes a long walk or is it justified for her to be bored? I don't know. I get bored taking my dog on a 16 minute walk alone so I usually listen to music or a podcast. Let us consult the masses. Keep in mind that it's not like Emma has anyone at home to really talk to, she's managing her father, not chatting with him. Also, this is the same walk every day, probably along lanes of farmland, so it's not a scenic walk or a hike.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

Prescriptief duidt op een taal die top-down voorschrijft hoe de taal gebruikt hoort te worden. Frans is hier een notoir voorbeeld van in L'Académie Française en hun strijd tegen verengelsing.

Een descriptieve taal werkt bottom-up, de regels (spelling, grammatica) worden bepaald door hoe de sprekers de taal gebruiken. Engels heeft bijvoorbeeld geen equivalent voor het gecentraliseerde L'Académie, maar een set concurrerende woordenboeken die de taal trachten te beschrijven zoals die gebruikt wordt.

Waar val jij persoonlijk op het spectrum van prescriptief naar descriptief? Vind jij dat een taal (vooral) voorgeschreven of beschreven hoort te worden?

- Overwegend prescriptief

- Vooral prescriptief, deels descriptief

- Grofweg 50/50

- Vooral descriptief, deels prescriptief

- Overwegend descriptief

there’s another line that stood out to me in the book, where amnesiac grace initially finds his dead crewmates, and he goes “i hope they weren’t friends of mine!” which imo is a crazy thing to say upon finding two corpses

Gorgeous full color paintings that may or may not have heavy religious imagery

What if Grace and Rocky could HUG

So.