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May he never paint your living room with kitten innards.

Every time I see someone reference mooncakes, I spend a few moments thinking they're talking about moonpies (because they actually sell the latter where I'm at in a notable amount of locations, i.e. basically everywhere they sell food) and being remarkably confused. They're... not wholly dissimilar (they're both pastries with a soft inside!), but they are very different.

Though considering the wikipedia page on both of them has a link at the top to the other, I'm apparently not the only one that gets the two mixed up.

E: Better part of a week, but whatever.

In today's episode of "Simple Obvious Shit I Should Have Tried Years Ago", we have diced gala apple with honey and cinnamon.

Verdict: It's pretty good, but I'm having trouble even telling the honey is there... might not have used enough, or it could just be 'cause the honey's somewhat old and has started to crystalize, dunno. Pretty sure it'd be just as good without, so... yeah. Next time, I think I just try dousing it in cinnamon, maybe figure out how to do some sort of cinnamon glaze or something. Any case, it's a nice noontime snack.

For what it's worth, glitch hop (glitch in general, really) type stuff kicked off back in the late 90s. Newer production definitely pushes it to new levels, if just by dint of better tools, but it's not actually that new, heh.

What's wild is that style of music's closer to a half century old than not, at this point. Young by the standards of jazz or actually old junk or whatev', but it's old enough to drink in most countries :V

Warm drinks when it's warm often makes the externals feel cooler by comparison, so, like, it makes sense? I've done hot chocolate or tea in (florida) summer before and it's either true or a pretty effective placebo.

First person to recommend that to me (and give that explanation on the effect) was an EMT that was around at the time... not a very trustworthy one, but *shrugs*

Though yeah, I haven't done much hot drinks over the last... while. Ever since I cut out caffeine like a decade and a half ago. I used to be a tea fiend, but all the stuff I was drinking was caffeinated and, welp.

I mean, McCarthy's not in control of basically anything at this point and hasn't been since he made a joke of the speaker position in order to get elected to it, so I guess that's technically correct :V

Close! The more direct translation is apparently Bulgasari, so it's like one letter off and that one letter is basically just an upside down b.

Fun note, though, that IP was probably talking about: The director of the movie had actually been kidnapped and forced to make movies for NK. That one was his last before he and his wife managed to escape the country.

Unrelated to the latest bit of corporate malfeasance, it's kinda' weird when spam stuff just... misses. Really hard.

I've been getting text messages about a recall notice on "my" ford fusion, but, like. There's two car titles in my name right now, and neither of them are a ford. I've driven a ford before, but it was a model from the 90s and, well. Recall notices are kinda' over for it, nevermind it got totaled when someone was borrowing it somewhere around a decade ago.

Like, I get they make their margin by just shotgunning crap all over the place and reeling any whatever poor blighter bites (either directly by fooling them or selling on the information they can get off the call when it's answered), but... c'mon. Aim a little better. Don't send phishing crap about ford vehicles to someone that doesn't own a ford. Even a little diligence, y'know?