A weta.

Their scientific name means ‘terrible cricket’ for the same reason dinosaur means ‘terrible lizard’: they’re big. Unlike the ones wikipedia shows you, mine was only palm-sized. They’re basically harmless, so I scooped him up and deposited him outside.

I’ve used it successfully to memorise phone numbers, shopping lists, etc.

What if they rap it?

Look for a Youtube video on the memory palace technique. It’s a method for indexing information in mental images to help recall. It’s simple and makes it much easier to commit things to memory.

At work, yes. They made room for the handicap stall by narrowing the other stall to the point where my shoulders brush the walls. Too f’ing awkward.

I’m not American, so probably not until he escalates his messing with other countries to the bombs and guns stage.

Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don’t do anything - you just have them.

So really I think it’s just me.

I’d say it’s proper cooking if you’re making decisions about what goes into it. Heating up beans and bread? Not cooking. Heating up beans and bread, adding some thyme and black pepper to the beans in the process? Cooking. Very simple cooking, but cooking all the same.