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And five things make a post, right?
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It doesn't seem to be one of those memes that everybody on LJ is talking about, but Hobbitbabe picked great topics for me. I suspect I could have made them converge if I kept at it long enough, but I'm posting now because I'm running out of notebook space.
>do you want five things to elaborate on? if so, i propose tea, children's fiction, failure analysis, gadgets, and winter weather.

When I have company for tea, I bring out the petit point tea set that used to belong to my horrible grandmother. ( Read more... )

I love children's books. In my extreme youth, my reading was completely uncritical. I didn't care that books were full of moral advocacy--if I liked the characters enough, I could swallow anything whole. Now that I'm in a position of introducing books to little girls I love, I worry about moral advocacy being in a direction I approve of. ( The horse-obsessed 5 year old loves a textbook example of didactic literature. )

I really want to go on ( tl;dnw )

I began to study formal failure analysis about ten years ago, in the context of a profound, systemic, industrial failure. ( Read more... )

My favorite gadgets tend to be simple or non-electric, and those are rapidly falling out of the category called "gadget." Sometimes I think, "Wow that's clever!" But it's easy for that scale of gadget to fade into the background. ( examples )


I am thoroughly tired of winter weather. ( Read more... )