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Someone yesterday kindly informed me that the really good daily thread had moved here so here I am! Hi everyone. In other news for the fourth day in a row, I don’t think I will be able to leave my study or house. Way to many PhD things to do right now.
Hey, you made it! Welcome to the friendly thread!
G’day!
I was gonna reply something like this about your blinds based phd but you’re here now so here it is:
Your comment has got me thinking way to much about the history of Venetian blinds and I do feel there is a procrastination research rabbit hole in the near future for me.
It would be a nice up the sleeve bit of knowledge for the next time some nub like me makes another blinds joke about your phd.
So, the rabbit hole was achieved. Turns out Venetian blinds, like so many Venetian ‘inventions’, were invented elsewhere but perfected and mass distributed in Venice. In the case of the blinds, Venetian merchants found them in Persia and took the design back to Venice. Due to its large maritime trade and fabrication capabilities, they were able to ship the design around the world, where it became especially popular in the early USA. It is actually really common for this to happen in Venice because of the maritime trade; they travelled to parts of the world other Europeans hadn’t. In Venetian history, it is really common to find an idea in other parts of the world and then take the idea back to Venice, where it was changed into a more producible item and sold all over the world through their huge trade output. This is actually how many popular European foods entered into general usage throughout Italy and Europe. The Venetians perfected taking small ideas from around the world and perfecting and, more importantly, commercialising them; Venetian blinds are another example of that. Sorry for the rant, I love Venetian history (obviously).
Wow, thanks for that. When I win a trillion dollars in the international lottery I’d like to be your research patron. That might be one of the most amazing replies I’ve had on social media.
Hello!! It’s a bit more of an echo chamber here and there’s not much activity on the sub itself but lots more of the friendly daily rambling vibe on the old DT. Great to see you here. Good luck with getting through the current research hole! I hope you’re all stocked up on food and drinks.
was too many bad snacks stocked up but hey thinking burns calories right?
Absolutely, the noggin needs fuel as well as dopamine!
How are your comedy adventures with alllll of the cats and Pomeranian going?!
It is about as disastrous and hilarious as you would imagine. Four is too many animals for one person, especially when they all want love and attention.
I still remember some of your photos from when you were abroad and envy the view you had while you were there looking out from the windows.
Good to see you here!
hahah yeah I have to say miss that view of the grand canal from my desk, my view here of my carport really cant compare.
Omg today has been an amazing day for my PhD research. I am in the process of organising all my data from the archive trips last year and really analysing it. Long story short, without doxxing my topic, I think, as of today, I have enough data to prove my research question with very little shadow of a doubt!
The really important question is - has your wonderful floofy cat forgiven you for your extended absence? Pix please!
Yes, he has become very clingy, though. This was yesterday in the study.
Such a handsome lad!
That must be so satisfying! Congratulations! ✨
wonderful 😸
Yayyyy, congrats!!
GAH! I did it! I wrote the 3 Difficult Emails that I’d been procrastinating on for over two weeks. I hate asking people for potential opportunities out of the blue. I still feel like I have little to offer on balance (often feels like social likeability is valued disproportionately higher than skills even for moderately technical roles). So it’s hard to reach out and deal with potential rejection especially when deep down inside it kind of feels like none of this matters anyway.
Maybe 4-5pm wasn’t the best timing, but I felt like I could send em off, shut my laptop and ignore it all until tomorrow morning.
Currently making this extremely easy and banging Chinese recipe: Cumin potatoes inspired by Cumin Lamb from Xi’an Chinese Muslim street food. Only made it once before and I did have baby potatoes at the time, keen to see how this works out with big potatoes I had to cut into thick coins and then quarters.
Edit: look at these delicious potatoes. They are addictive
I drank half a bottle of orange juice and smashed a bunch of dried apricots and pears. Had issues in the toilet of the explosive nature, but I still feel the rumblings within.
Pray for me
This just gave me war flashbacks to the time I ate half a bag of dried apricots in the middle of a work day completely unaware of what they will ruthlessly do to your digestive tract.
That would be the sulfurous preservatives. The bowels of Hell are about to open in your bathroom
(plus the sorbitol in the apricots and pears)
Ah ha! Now I know which chemicals are to blame for my problèmes de toilettes.
Damn them, why are they so delicious 😭
For your next trick, a whole bag of sugar free gummy bears.
Pretty sure that would be lethal. If not to you anyone in the near vicinity.
They call it the A-Bomb for a reason
Sinfully good
Hire car returned, new car purchased and rego transferred.
I’m beat! Car drives like a dream though.Whoo congrats on the new car!
what did you get?
Volvo XC70 wagon. :)
Oh nice, my neighbors have volvos and bloody love them! So much so they brought the exact same car in a different colour.
My mechanic is so good I changed cars for him (albeit when that one was written off). Definitely sticking with Volvos at least until they retire - hopefully won’t be for a while!
Congrats mate.
Thanks!
I turned down the kitten that was up for adoption through a friend of a friend. As cute as it is, after doing some research, I think I’m better off adopting an adult cat. I was worried about single kitten syndrome and all of the work involved in caring for a high energy kitten. Plus I’m about to make a big career change and want to settle with that before I adopt. UGH responsible decision making.
To the downvoter who downvotes this thread every day, you make laugh. 😂
So I’m putting my toys together and the little dog doesn’t like electronics so he jumps on the kid, who of course is on her phone, to get away. Then I hear “oh my god dude. You just wiped your dick across my screen”. 😂 I couldn’t tell her off because I was laughing 😂
lol
Anyone got any of those winning lottery tickets? First day back after holidays and I’m already pining to get out of here…
I’ll take one too if you find someone with a few… I’m not sure what this ‘holiday’ thing IS of which you speak, but it sounds interesting…
Mummy got cleaning toys, kids 😎 a stick vacuum and a spot cleaner. It’s time to play play play.
stick vacuum
What did you get? We went with a Samsung when we moved house last year because we’re now double-story and have to contend with stairs for the first time in decades. Honestly, the stick vac is a game changer, no regrets at all, way better than pushing around the old heavy Dyson.
Just the Aldi version, nothing fancy. It’s just for quick clean ups. I have a proper vacuum for the major clean. That’s a miele and when it dies I’ll replace it with another miele.
I just realised that the other day when I cooked party pies and sausage rolls that I’m pretty sure I accidentally used the grill function of instead of the oven function and they actually turned out really great. I’m going to try again now for lunch, for science.
Science results: SUCCESS! The grill officially heats party pies and sausage rolls better than the oven.
Today’s lunch toastie really hit the spot. Chicken, cheese, onion, sauerkraut and a mix of tomato relish and mayonnaise. On a dark capeseed loaf.
Dear god that sounds so good and much better then the packet of Burger Rings I am having.
Yeah it’s toastie time here too, I was going to make it with some really nice free-range leg ham we have in the fridge, but we also have heaps of roast chicken leftover from yesterday’s dinner, so better use that up first
Sounds delicious!
a toastie sounds delicious
but I can’t cook at the moment 😔
Back from interstate yesterday. Attended a lovely wedding Saturday night and kiddo had an awesome time with his nana and uncle. Flight was amazing too, to my great surprise. But my god flying with a baby even one who is being chill is a whole lot more work than I expected.
My sister and her husband are currently overseas with their 5 month old and omg listening to what they had to prepare for the travel was exhausting to listen too. Never realised before just how much you have to plan when flying with a baby.
Made pizzas yesterday but only had enough toppings the kids like for one pizza for them. Decided on a whim to put some leftover chicken cacciatore on the other one with a sprinkle of cheese. Can 100% recommend!
Pump up the jam, pump it up while your feet are stompin’ and the jam is pumpin’, look at here the crowd is jumpin’.
