One of my 2026 resolutions is to try a total of 52 new food items, and note what I thought about each. (Links and brand names are not provided as a recommendation, but so I can remember what the hell I ate.)
getting a nice review on a very old fic, from someone who’s been assigned the book it’s based on in a class, is equal parts “aw it’s nice that something I wrote a decade ago is still enjoyed” and “I am aging into a pile of dust as we speak”
“Seven years ago, it was my first time visiting Torres del Paine, in the Chilean Patagonia (…) I met Rupestre, a wild female puma that was raising 4 cubs!
We spent many days admiring her and her cubs while they hunted, played, groomed, and simply just being cats: regardless of size, they are always cats.”
Rest in peace, Rupestre Taken in Torres del Paine, Chile Photographed by Lucas Bustamante
At the risk of sounding stupid, I just found out how long the stone age lasted. In my head it’s about as long as other historical time periods, a couple thousand years before ancient egypt, and conceptually looks like a bad car insurance commercial. Nope! Dead wrong! The stone age lasted for 3.4 MILLION YEARS.
Okay wow i would not have guessed millions. Maybe in like the tens of thousands? But definitely would have way undershot.
I told my wife and they said “Yeah, modernity is a recent and strange invention”
Oh yes! Hello I am wife. And these are the oldowan tools:
The first image is my favorite, the iconic oldowan hand axe, but you’ll note there’s a wide range of other tools crafted for everything from crushing nuts and stones, to awls and engraving devices. There is some evidence, albeit hotly debated, that these tools MIGHT have been used in ancient burials. Maybe. This is up for debate because these tools are THREE MILLION YEARS OLD. They pre date homo sapiens and homo erectus. They pre date the ice age. Hell, they pre date the fucking ice caps. We don’t think humans were burying their dead as we understand it today, but maybe?? These were made by homo habilis, or the “handyman”, so named for their invention of tools.
It makes me feel very small to look at these, like looking up at a starry sky.
hate when mummy movies use Imhotep as the big bad. He was an architect. Imagine a mummy movie but the mummy is Frank Llyod Wright. And he was buried at the House On The Rock. Ok nevermind that would be a sick ass movie.
