Couldn't escape if I wanted to.

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• 1969 Russian adaptation of Winnie the Pooh. This is appallingly cute.

• RationalWiki: The Kolbrin Bible, for all your Planet X/Nibiru-induced 2012 Apocalypse needs. So stupid even arkady winced at the mention of it. In less stupid matters, philosophical intuition.

IKEA DEFEATED. The FUCKING BASTARD FUCKER Malm bed has been assembled yet again and bounce-tested by the four-year-old and the teenager. My back hates me so fucking much. I need to learn more languages so I can swear in them. The Ikea empire was founded on the realisation that suburban middle-aged dads are not in fact protected by the provisions of the Geneva Convention.

This week, Freda has been visiting to play with friends for the very first time. Only a couple of meltdowns, as happen with small children — come to E17 and hear a five-year-old child hiding under the bed and throwing a tantrum in English and Russian! I suppose visitors give us incentive to clean the house occasionally.

Work: It's always great when you hit the sort of bug where you look at it and wonder "how did this ever work?" on a Friday afternoon. This week's case? Something that only worked because hash table ordering was implementation-defined such that the app just happened to work on Solaris SPARC64 Sun Java 6 but broke on Linux AMD64 Sun Java 6. The live service has been left working for the weekend entirely because the spit just happens to be holding the toothpicks together.

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[redcountess]

Freda's learning Russian? Or was it her little friend?

[reddragdiva]

Her friend :-)

[ideological_cuddle]

A friend who has two small children is teaching one German and the other Spanish, for to get their brains wired to learn languages easily.

[redcountess]

My friend Rachel and I won at Ikea on Friday, as in we made it very quickly through the showroom thanks to the handy map with the shortcuts on it (we didn't actually need any furniture), even if I did end up spending twice as much as planned (all stuff I needed though, except for maybe Rattus *s*)