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Cake day: October 1st, 2024

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  • hits different live

    I guess I don’t appreciate things well, bc I didn’t really feel much from seeing the Pantheon or even the Sistine Chapel. But what I REALLY loved seeing live was just the downtown area in Rome between Piazza Venezia, the Spanish Steps, and the bridge to Castel Sant’Angelo. So amazing to wander around these 1800s/1900s buildings making up a bustling modern city and every single block has a church, a plaza, and some ruins. My favorite was the ruins of the Largo di Torre Argentina which I believe was where Julius Caesar got stabbed, and which houses a cat sanctuary. There was a newsstand nearby and a grocer, so I could get a comic book and a snack and sit on a bench looking down on it. Eventually a cat would saunter up and be like: what.





  • Yeah, same. the article has another picture of Siberian uncle with it strapped to his back and enemy arrows sticking out while he’s shooting, and it says:

    The researchers also reconstructed the large shield. It was originally made from plates of animal bone, probably from a type of elk called an Altai wapiti (Cervus canadensis sibiricus), that seem to have been glued onto a leather base.

    A couple other thoughts:

    • at night, if you lean it up against a tree I bet you have half-decent rain protection.
    • in battle I wonder if you could plant them in the ground for protective cover.
    • in emergency, maybe you could use it as a sled to drag things behind you?