2015-12-04

xiphias: (swordfish)
2015-12-04 01:19 pm

Sometimes you feel like an idiot for not figuring out something you should have known all along.

Why didn't I realize that, if your hatchet or machete becomes dull from use, you put the edge back with a FILE, not a STONE? I've never been able to resharpen them. And now, it took me all of ten minutes to sharpen two hatchets and a machete, not to knife-sharpness, but to, y'know, hatchet-sharpness. A stone is to get things to knife-sharpness or better. When you're just going to use it to whack wood and stuff, you don't need it THAT sharp. You need it file-sharp.

I feel like I should have figured this out, or at least been told, some time in my childhood.

I feel like I probably WAS told this sometime in my childhood, and just wasn't paying attention.
xiphias: (swordfish)
2015-12-04 04:08 pm

The Universe is like a Hot Pocket.

The Universe is like a Hot Pocket. Some of it is hot enough to be plasma, some of it is only a few degrees above absolute zero, and most of it is dark matter that we simply can't comprehend.
xiphias: (swordfish)
2015-12-04 06:56 pm

A rebranding I support, with respect to Princess Leia.

The official name of the metal bikini outfit is Slave Leia™.

Emily L. Hauser of The Week and Donna Dickens of Hitfix and Buzzfeed refer to it instead as Hutt Slayer Leia.

I support this, and will henceforth be using this terminology.