I've been working on crocheting a highly textured, multi colored parasol, and I've still got at least another week or so of work to do before I call it good, but tonight it was finally big enough to get loops around the spokes of the umbrella frame.

due to a certain asshole spewing bullshit in spacelazarwolf's notes, I wanna emphasize something:

YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WANT TO LEARN HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

the only thing you need to be Jewish is to be Jewish. a Jew is a Jew.

(this message does not include messianic jews)

People get excited about stuff. There's no moral dimension to "!!!!!EXCITE!!!!!"

What happens inside your head and your pants is, you know, whatever.

The only moral, ethical dimension is how you act, how you treat others.

it's ok to be horny! it's good to be perverted! your sexuality isn't shameful and the things that turn you on are good and should be celebrated!!! even if its weird!!!! especially if it's weird and fucked up!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!

Joining in on the "my house is on a worse road than that" team.

i really wish…i can share the warmth i feel when i’m at synagogue with other people at the least i want non-jews to hear our worship and how beautiful it is i think it would change a lot

The programming on Voyager was so cutting edge when it was built. Learning about it was one of the most exciting days in undergrad.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

prince of egypt is not a christian movie. the exodus is a jewish story. it’s found in other religions, and can even have a heightened level of significance, like for black (specifically african american) christians. but it is a jewish story from jewish scripture written from a jewish perspective about jewish persecution. enjoy it all you want. but don’t go on about how much you love prince of egypt then erase the fundamental jewish spirit of it.

this may or may not be a fantasy writing exercise for me. please reblog

It is in fact very funny that a couple of dudes got so sick of waiting for Animusic 3 that they figured out how Animusic's technique of procedurally animating rigged instrument models based on MIDI input worked, wrote their own software, and started making their own original Animusic-style videos.

Using the bathroom in general is a human right and should be enshrined as such and I'm not joking. Too many groups of people are denied bathroom breaks or the use of bathrooms entirely--disabled people, blue-collar workers, children, homeless people, prisoners, students, the elderly. I'm surely missing other groups. Not using the bathroom when needed can cause serious, long-term damage, not to mention death. Free, clean, accessible bathrooms should be available everywhere. It's fucking cruel to deny someone the use of the bathroom, regardless of the reasoning. I'd rather every student in the world goof off and every homeless person make a mess and every worker "steal company time" than let one person suffer because they're denied the right to fucking pee in peace.

I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.

Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.

I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

i will try very hard to be kind until i die

Today is day one of the omer. There are 48 days until cheesecake all night study day.

I showed this to the rabbi at seder tonight. He laughed.

I am getting a good grade in Jewish community, a thing that it is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

Tonight at the synagogue's seder, we sang Miriam's Song, which of course requires dancing. TH LOVED the longer song, and was grinning from ear to ear.

Also, TH tried to sing Dayenu, but the chorus sounded like "dai dai dai"

Tiny Human was fussing today, until I asked "do you know what day it is?"

"Yah?"

"It's shabbat!"

"Shaaaa!"

So I lit the candles, and as usual I sang Shabbat Shalom while bouncing TH. When the song was over, TH tried to get me to continue. "Shaaaa shohmm! Shaaa shohmm!"

So, from my family to yours, shaa shohm.