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Sep. 2nd, 2026 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angrbodaI read on the news this evening that because some guy with a fragile ego had once again become incredibly offended that he couldn't have everything he pointed at, and had therefore decided to once again rename geographical areas (to the only name he seems to be able to think of), MapQuest had seen a significant uptick in usage since, unlike google and apple, they had refused to kiss that guy's feet.
So I figured I'd have a look and see what it was like.
Looking at the town where I live, the very first thing to leap off the page at me was the label "[Local] church" which was placed at an address some 2-300 meters from the actual church. In some random completely normal house. It is also labeled with an address that does not exist. The house it's pointing at is number 4. There is no number 6.
There's inaccurate, and then there's just plain wrong. This does not really inspire confidence.
So I figured I'd have a look and see what it was like.
Looking at the town where I live, the very first thing to leap off the page at me was the label "[Local] church" which was placed at an address some 2-300 meters from the actual church. In some random completely normal house. It is also labeled with an address that does not exist. The house it's pointing at is number 4. There is no number 6.
There's inaccurate, and then there's just plain wrong. This does not really inspire confidence.
Post and Jam: "The Other Man" by Sloan [2001]
Sep. 1st, 2026 11:42 amdelphiFandom 50 #25
For 2001, we've got a love triangle song that isn't just by some very famous Canadian musicians, but about them too. I don't think it was actually common knowledge when this song first got big, but it was apparently inspired by Sloan co-frontman Chris Murphy's relationship with singer/songwriter Feist, who was herself also dating Andrew Whiteman, guitarist of indie rock music collective Broken Social Scene, at the time.
The Other Man by Sloan
For 2001, we've got a love triangle song that isn't just by some very famous Canadian musicians, but about them too. I don't think it was actually common knowledge when this song first got big, but it was apparently inspired by Sloan co-frontman Chris Murphy's relationship with singer/songwriter Feist, who was herself also dating Andrew Whiteman, guitarist of indie rock music collective Broken Social Scene, at the time.
The Other Man by Sloan
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Aug. 29th, 2026 04:26 pmangrbodaHusband bought us a new thing! The old microwave was one he bought second hand some 20 years ago and it still had a UK plug with an adapter on it. It worked, but the manual had been lost to the mists of time before Husband got it, so there were all these functions and things in it (probably) that we never used because who knows what they even were. It was okay for just heating food or heating up some frozen peas or something like that. And custard. Let's not forget custard. Then the light in it broke, which made custard making an affair that required a carefully placed workshop lamp and an otherwise darkened kitchen so that you could keep an eye on it in there. It was kind of annoying, but Husband was stubborn, because it still worked. It was perfectly usable for what we used it for.
Then he discovered that these days you can get these fancy combinations, and that made him surrender. This thing can do microwave AND convection oven AND air frying. And it's got a manual. We already have an oven, but we didn't have an air fryer and weren't interested in getting one on its own really. It's just another appliance that we might find we didn't really need. But in combination with something else? That's a lot more attractive. Husband tried to use it for cooking frozen chips, which turned out very well but probably should would have benefitted even more from having had a little bit longer. Currently, trying to use it still feels like a bit of a science experiment.
Of course he did set the clock in it, so I expect we'll get a power outage in the next few weeks. Never seemed to fail whenever I set the clock in the old one. Eventually I just stopped bothering.
Other recent news, that car has been removed earlier this week! \o/ Whether it had anything at all to do with our attempts to report it is unknown, or if it was the owner of it actually getting around to removing/rescuing it. Who knows? Who cares? It's gone.
Then he discovered that these days you can get these fancy combinations, and that made him surrender. This thing can do microwave AND convection oven AND air frying. And it's got a manual. We already have an oven, but we didn't have an air fryer and weren't interested in getting one on its own really. It's just another appliance that we might find we didn't really need. But in combination with something else? That's a lot more attractive. Husband tried to use it for cooking frozen chips, which turned out very well but probably should would have benefitted even more from having had a little bit longer. Currently, trying to use it still feels like a bit of a science experiment.
Of course he did set the clock in it, so I expect we'll get a power outage in the next few weeks. Never seemed to fail whenever I set the clock in the old one. Eventually I just stopped bothering.
Other recent news, that car has been removed earlier this week! \o/ Whether it had anything at all to do with our attempts to report it is unknown, or if it was the owner of it actually getting around to removing/rescuing it. Who knows? Who cares? It's gone.