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Saturday Morning Scraps
◇ I am seriously considering making a fanmix community on Dreamwidth. I've got two friends who expressed interest, which is definitely not nothing! And the username fanmixed is untaken. Fanmix is taken though, and the comm is inactive. Which means. . . it's currently an untaken niche! I want to have two fanmixes ready in the wings to post when I make the comm though, and to come up with a few monthly theme challenges so I'm ready to keep it a bit active to start. So that's on the to-do list now!
◇ I have conquered a terrible word problem.
And by conquered, I mean I dumped the data at someone else's feet and told them to please get the data I needed from it. But the good news is, I have the figures needed for my report on Athen's sociometabolic status quo.
The question, for the curious, was: How do I estimate the tonnes of oil used by Athens. The figures: Greece uses 5.82 million tonnes of oil in transportation, with 5 million tonnes of that used by vehicles on the road. Greece has a motorisation rate of 600 cars per 1000 people in the country overall and 800 cars per 1000 people in Athens. The overall population of Greece is 10 million, and it's 3.6 million people in Athens.
It's been estimated now at 2.4 million tonnes of oil for transportation by vehicles. Hopefully that's close enough.
◇ You know considering the Dutch exist, we really give Brits too hard a time about their food. At least the British know their food is terrible? And they've adopted curry about it. They were like you guys are right, let's eat some of your food, it's better. They also have fish and chips and a few other decent things in there.
The Dutch, however, do not learn.
They're bad at bread. Like at least in California I could get sourdough, right? And baguettes were common. In the Netherlands it is legitimately difficult to find good bread, and most all the shit in their stores is American style puffed up library paste stabaliser and sawdust white bread. How are you guys like this when you're Germanic. Aren't the Germans crazy about bread. Do you take pride in being worse than the Germans? What's going on here. How is your food this bad.
I do not care about food. That is awful enough to complain about really says something.
◇ I finally finished writing and posted When will I stop belonging to this hungry thing inside me? I'll cross-post it soon! I should maybe make a small masterpost for fics. I don't have a lot of them, but it might be nice to have. This is lower priority than getting the fanmix comm stuff done tho.
◇ I have conquered a terrible word problem.
And by conquered, I mean I dumped the data at someone else's feet and told them to please get the data I needed from it. But the good news is, I have the figures needed for my report on Athen's sociometabolic status quo.
The question, for the curious, was: How do I estimate the tonnes of oil used by Athens. The figures: Greece uses 5.82 million tonnes of oil in transportation, with 5 million tonnes of that used by vehicles on the road. Greece has a motorisation rate of 600 cars per 1000 people in the country overall and 800 cars per 1000 people in Athens. The overall population of Greece is 10 million, and it's 3.6 million people in Athens.
It's been estimated now at 2.4 million tonnes of oil for transportation by vehicles. Hopefully that's close enough.
◇ You know considering the Dutch exist, we really give Brits too hard a time about their food. At least the British know their food is terrible? And they've adopted curry about it. They were like you guys are right, let's eat some of your food, it's better. They also have fish and chips and a few other decent things in there.
The Dutch, however, do not learn.
They're bad at bread. Like at least in California I could get sourdough, right? And baguettes were common. In the Netherlands it is legitimately difficult to find good bread, and most all the shit in their stores is American style puffed up library paste stabaliser and sawdust white bread. How are you guys like this when you're Germanic. Aren't the Germans crazy about bread. Do you take pride in being worse than the Germans? What's going on here. How is your food this bad.
I do not care about food. That is awful enough to complain about really says something.
◇ I finally finished writing and posted When will I stop belonging to this hungry thing inside me? I'll cross-post it soon! I should maybe make a small masterpost for fics. I don't have a lot of them, but it might be nice to have. This is lower priority than getting the fanmix comm stuff done tho.
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