andrewducker

That snow thing is stunning.

It is rather gorgeous. I'd love to see it in real life!

What, that doesn't count as via me? *grin*

Also, I'm trying to find that bookmarklet you linked to that converted any webpage aritcle to an e-reader style format in your browser. D'you remember how long ago that was or what it was called?

There's a few of them about. The one at the top here works well:
http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

Nah, it was one that pulled the page into pages the height of your screen that you flicked through like it was a kindle, except it _wasn't_ any of the epub readers I've found because they seem to be add-ons and extensions and this was just a bookmarklet.

http://www.magicscroll.net/ScrollTheWeb.html ?

Oh Good Lord No. I saw it via _loads_ of my Facebook friends :->

(Actually, you were the first person I saw it via, when you originally posted it. But when the person it's linking to _is_ the person I see it via I tend not to say ViaWhoever as well. Hence Bart's various posts not getting a Via. I think about this too much, clearly.)

Fair enough, heh, though it does sort of lessen the usefulness of the tag from a vanity search pov.

This is true!

I shall try to remember for next time you get published :->

Found it! It's MagicScroll, which _does_ have a bookmarklet apparently even though it seemed to me to just be an extension.

Jinx!

When I was a kid, I spent a few years with the bizarre (but apparently common among intelligent children) belief that because I was smart, I shouldn't have to do the hard work to prove I was smart; I'd done enough that it could be taken for granted. There were a few assignments I simply didn't do because I knew I'd ace them or found them boring or both, so why bother? In my defense they were usually things that involve rote memorization and little else, and since I demonstrated constantly that I could regurgitate facts it seemed pointless, but looking back the hubris of it flabbergasts me.

One of my brothers flunked his final year of high school after taking that approach since about the last year of primary school. By the time he realised he’d actually missed some necessary knowledge or some useful techniques it was too late to learn them before the exams.

lol, that is so me too.

I was far too conscientious to simply not do things; but I coasted on my smarts and crucially never learned how to learn hard things. Which is a skill I'd like to have, but still don't.

BPA poisoning sucks.

Is it something you've encountered first or second hand? I don't know much about it.

Yes.
My reproductive system is a horror show.
One incidence is that I had multiple documented ovarian cysts but I don't have polycystic ovarian syndrome so no one could figure out why these huge cysts would grow and burst on my ovaries (it really, really hurts). One of the ultrasounds counted 9 on the right and 4 on the left. This went on for years.
I did a bunch of research and decided to give up all canned foods and throw out all of my old plastics due to the published BPA research.
Within a month my cysts had cleared up.
I went from having constant growth and burstings to... 3... and eventually none.
My last ultrasound confirmed that I have no more cysts.

Wow. Well spotted there! You must be unusually sensitive, but tracking it down can't have been easy.

Last Thursday night I drove whilst it was snowing - it seemed heavy, though I don't think it was actually such a heavy fall.

It was several years since I had driven in a snow-storm, and I had forgotten how hypnotic falling snow is in the beam of the headlights: like one of those illustrations of speeding through the universe, passing stars and galaxies.

Absolutely stunning.

I had wondered how to photograph it (I had a camera with me).

Now I know.