Giving Tuesday
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ysabetwordsmithToday is Giving Tuesday. This holiday is about charity in all its forms. You can give money, time, goods or services, whatever you have to share.
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Jeanie Bottle 881
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Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #786
Dec. 1st, 2025 10:00 pmgws_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
"We usually imprint the inside with the material content, is that--"
"OUTSIDE, please. Stamp it on the outside."
"Outside?
"Yeah, it's for, uhhh, a friend named Baby Seal Leather."
Here's the original! Here's the chaser post!
Recipe: "Cheesy Bacon Potato Soup"
Dec. 1st, 2025 07:53 pmysabetwordsmithI made this today. Now I regret all the leftover mashed potatoes that I've tossed in the past. If you have leftover spuds, this is well worth considering.
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Call for Prompts
Dec. 1st, 2025 05:19 pmysabetwordsmithdialecticdreamer is running a prompt call all month in December! Leave prompts, get ficlets. \o/ MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone!This whole month I hope to fill with prompted stories, to celebrate my lovely readers and surviving the first quarter of the twenty-first century. It’s been jam-packed with crises and chaos, hasn’t it? Time to take a story break… or thirty.
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Birdfeeding
Dec. 1st, 2025 02:17 pmysabetwordsmithToday is cloudy and cold.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a cardinal.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
It's snowing quite briskly now, falling almost straight down, like one of those animated holiday cards. Pretty. I wound up with snow all over my coat.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a mourning dove.
The snow has decreased to a light flurry.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I've seen one female and two male cardinals plus a dark-eyed junco. I also saw the sparrows on the suet feeder. :D Didn't take them long at all to find that this year. Sometimes it takes a week or more.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
There was a mourning dove on the porch when I went out.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a cardinal.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
It's snowing quite briskly now, falling almost straight down, like one of those animated holiday cards. Pretty. I wound up with snow all over my coat.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a mourning dove.
The snow has decreased to a light flurry.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I've seen one female and two male cardinals plus a dark-eyed junco. I also saw the sparrows on the suet feeder. :D Didn't take them long at all to find that this year. Sometimes it takes a week or more.
EDIT 12/1/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
There was a mourning dove on the porch when I went out.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
Prompt Call December (2025)
Dec. 1st, 2025 09:09 amdialecticdreamerThis whole month I hope to fill with prompted stories, to celebrate my lovely readers and surviving the first quarter of the twenty-first century. It’s been jam-packed with crises and chaos, hasn’t it? Time to take a story break… or thirty.
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Grrl Power #1413 – Discombobulate a dragon
Dec. 1st, 2025 11:00 amgrrlpowercomic_feed
The thing I’ve recently discovered about drawing big dragon guys covered in scales is that it rapidly becomes tedious to draw a big dragon guy covered in scales, on account of all the scales. His face doesn’t help either.
I already knew that, academically, but these pages have driven the point home. On top of that, I recently found some time to catch up on some comic reading – I’ve been supporting the Gold Digger “Colorize the first 100 black and white issues” kickstarters, and was reminded that I wasn’t really taking advantage of the medium of comics fully. Good art (or as good as I can manage) is fine, but if good art is all a comic can offer, it’s probably going to be a little boring. I love Joe Madureira’s art, but… I don’t care about the story in Ultimate Avengers at all. Battle Chasers better, but honestly, I think the art actually detracted from the few moments of levity in those books.
The ideal solution, IMO, is something like One Punch Man, equal parts fantastic and goofy art, and never takes itself so seriously that the humor is atonal. Obviously I’m a huge fan of Gold Digger and there are a jillion other examples, mostly in the manga genre.
So today we get… not quite Super Deformed dragon guy. I think proper SD is where the head is at nearly as big as the body. Also, I just like to occasionally take the time for a back and forth panel sequence, where you can see the gears turning in someone’s head, and the page isn’t 85% word bubble. Which I fully admit I am the poster child for that style of comic.
Kobold Sydney vote incentive! Is finally done!
So… you know, check it out. Oh, and as usual, Patreon has a scales only version.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
CodeSOD: Formula Length
Dec. 1st, 2025 06:30 amthe_daily_wtf_feedRemy's Law of Requirements Gathering states "No matter what the requirements document says, what your users really wanted was Excel." This has a corrolary: "Any sufficiently advanced Excel file is indistingushable from software."
Given enough time, any Excel file whipped up by any user can transition from "useful" to "mission critical software" before anyone notices. That's why Nemecsek was tasked with taking a pile of Excel spreadsheets and converting them into "real" software, which could be maintained and supported by software engineers.
Nemecsek writes:
This is just one of the formulas they asked me to work on, and not the longest one.
Nemecsek says this is a "formula", but I suspect it's a VBA macro. In reality, it doesn't matter.
InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).Losses =
calcLossesInPart(InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).RatedFrequency, InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.
InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).RadialPositionToMainDuct, InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.
InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSectionContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSection(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorComposition(0).IsTransposed,
InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSectionContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSection(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorComposition(0).ParallelRadialCount, InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.
InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSectionContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSection(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorComposition(0).
ParallelAxialCount, InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).
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InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSectionContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSection(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorComposition(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductor(0).
DimensionRadialElectric, InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSectionContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartSection(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorComposition(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductor(0).
DimensionAxialElectric + InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).
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InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorComposition(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductor(0).InsulThickness,
getElectricConductivityAtTemperatureT1(InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).
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InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductor(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartConductorRawMaterial(0).MaterialFactor,
InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).
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ReferenceTemperature), LayerNumberRatedVoltage, InitechNeoDTMachineDevice.InitechNeoDTActivePartContainer(0).
InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPartContainer(0).InitechNeoDTActivePartPart(iPart).
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InitechNeoDTActivePart(0).RFactor)
Line breaks added to try and keep horizontal scrolling sane. This arguably hurts readability, in the same way that beating a dead horse arguably hurts the horse.
This may not be the longest one, but it's certainly painful. I do not know exactly what this is doing, and frankly, I do not want to.
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Chapter 101: Strength
Dec. 1st, 2025 12:00 amgunnerkrigg_feedA new chapter is here!
Thank you for reading along.
Thank you for reading along.
Monday Update 12-1-25
Dec. 1st, 2025 02:08 amysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Today's Cooking
Artificial Intelligence
Bingo
History
Birdfeeding
Dreamwidth Points
New Year's Resolutions Check In
News
Moment of Silence: Leslie Fish
Science
Shop for Good Sunday
Wildlife
Vocabulary: Xenoparity
Space Exploration
Safety
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Philosophical Questions: Wants
Poetry Fishbowl Report for November 4, 2025
Unsold Poems for the November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl
Early Humans
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-28-25: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Fall 2025 A-I
Recipe: "Crockpot Smoked Turkey Leg with Beans"
Communities
Climate Change
Holiday Love Meme
Birdfeeding
Today's Cooking
Food
Birdfeeding
Poem: "No Worthless Herbs"
Wildlife
Hard Things
Trauma has 45 comments. Affordable Housing has 74 comments. Robotics has 101 comments.
There will be a Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, December 2 with a theme of "Sentient and Self-Aware Machines." Mark your calendars, and I hope to see you then!
Today is Cyber Monday. See previous holidays:
Small Business Saturday (Alas, our plans were snowed out!)
Shop for Good Sunday
Buy Nothing Day (with links to activities)
Winterfaire 2025 is now open! List a Booth for anything you sell that would make good holiday gifts, or comment with what you're shopping for to crowdsource ideas. There are links to two similar shopping events online. if you know others, please pass the word.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.
The weather has been cold and snowy here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, two female and three male cardinals, a dark-eyed junco, and a mourning dove. I also saw the great horned owl flying out of the ritual meadow.
Today's Cooking
Artificial Intelligence
Bingo
History
Birdfeeding
Dreamwidth Points
New Year's Resolutions Check In
News
Moment of Silence: Leslie Fish
Science
Shop for Good Sunday
Wildlife
Vocabulary: Xenoparity
Space Exploration
Safety
Birdfeeding
Wildlife
Philosophical Questions: Wants
Poetry Fishbowl Report for November 4, 2025
Unsold Poems for the November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl
Early Humans
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 11-28-25: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Fall 2025 A-I
Recipe: "Crockpot Smoked Turkey Leg with Beans"
Communities
Climate Change
Holiday Love Meme
Birdfeeding
Today's Cooking
Food
Birdfeeding
Poem: "No Worthless Herbs"
Wildlife
Hard Things
Trauma has 45 comments. Affordable Housing has 74 comments. Robotics has 101 comments.
There will be a Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, December 2 with a theme of "Sentient and Self-Aware Machines." Mark your calendars, and I hope to see you then!
Today is Cyber Monday. See previous holidays:
Small Business Saturday (Alas, our plans were snowed out!)
Shop for Good Sunday
Buy Nothing Day (with links to activities)
Winterfaire 2025 is now open! List a Booth for anything you sell that would make good holiday gifts, or comment with what you're shopping for to crowdsource ideas. There are links to two similar shopping events online. if you know others, please pass the word.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv and needs $191 to be complete. Maiara and Arthur discuss taking notes.
The weather has been cold and snowy here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, two female and three male cardinals, a dark-eyed junco, and a mourning dove. I also saw the great horned owl flying out of the ritual meadow.
December Monthly Post
Dec. 1st, 2025 01:49 amysabetwordsmith posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
crowdfundingWhat are your planned crowdfunding projects for December? What did you accomplish during November?
There is no Creative Jam in December. The January 2026crowdfunding Creative Jam will run Saturday 17-Sunday 18 with a theme of "Memories." That will be our 150th Creative Jam, wow! I hope everyone shows up for it.
There is no Creative Jam in December. The January 2026
crowdfunding Creative Jam will run Saturday 17-Sunday 18 with a theme of "Memories." That will be our 150th Creative Jam, wow! I hope everyone shows up for it.