Dr. Word Person

Grocery baked goods reading "Cheesy & Brownie"

I am...baffled.

@mishellbaker.bsky.social Would you be interested in seeing some baffling "American" food I found in Germany? Idk if your current symptoms make the very idea of food something terrible but if so I don't want to make anything worse!

I can, but: bureaucracy.

I am a Mycenologist, but I work on linguistics rather than nautical archeology, and my reference library is getting moved, so...I unfortunately can't be of help! I'll let you know if I come across anything.

Given the teacher, I don't think so! I think he really did take things at face value.

Profiles in courage!

*the Romance languages, god.

The student? He wanted swear words and I have never seen anyone so disappointed in my life.

In my high school Latin class, one of the students asked the teacher about vulgar Latin. The teacher was pleased the student was taking such an intellectual interest in the course, and came back with pages and pages of resources about Latin on its way to becoming a Romance language.

I'm going to watch the video, but I do have to ask-- did you try Big Peach?

I have a book launch today, and because I like making lists of books and talking about other people's books, here are some OTHER book launches now and coming up!

Threading~

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Oh! Germany.

You...probably don't have non-Amazon recommendations for Europe?

Oh my god there's a tourist map?????? I am so happy!

Heidelberg is not far at all and I have people there I've been meaning to visit!!! Road trip...

Where is this? (I love to do history of science tourism. One time I visited Göttingen and I went nuts.)

November 1st is a holiday worth celebrating. Discount candy day!

Check your DMs!

Okay I'm writing a short story.

Okay but does it definitively settle the starfish question? Are we sure there's not like a Maedhros Prime walking around somewhere?

On a similar vein, can elves get splinters? What if they get hit with shrapnel. Arrowheads???

Elf tattoos. Is it possible?

Amputations. How does that work. Can they regrow limbs?

Wait wait. Are elves like starfish? If you cut an elf in two and throw it into the sea, do you get TWO elves????????

I once was flown in to another city for a job talk and the hotel was in a complete food desert. No hotels in walking distance, no delivery in range with food I could eat.

They had not provided me with a rental car.

I did not eat. What the hell.

What is the dish in the lower right corner?

The Thing (roadside attraction) - Wikipedia

Okay but have you seen the THING?

(I have not seen the THING? But I have driven along I-10, and seen ten million giant billboards for the THING?)

The best Linux distribution is the one all of your friends use! So then they can help you and you can all share tips, etc.

(I use Ubuntu but this is my main loyalty to that distro in particular.)

What if you have a large number of possible comp titles, all of which only feel like they have maybe 20% similarity to your book?

Blue Willow Bookshop! Every time I go, the booksellers manage to send me out the door with a huge stack of books I never would have picked out for myself, but which somehow all turn out to be my new favorite thing!

Bumping my database of intersex ownvoices books + a bonus list of ALL books by Black intersex authors, for #IntersexAWarenessWeek!

I love Milo! What a sweetie.

(This is Germany.)