Postersā Anxiety
Yesterday I had a post on Bluesky get a minimum number of likes (it was a Seinfeld quote, I didnāt even make it up) and I absolutely hated seeing my real full name and face on other peopleās timelines. Bluesky is this weird mix of old and current internet and itās not unsual to see people with their actual name on their account, but they tend to fall more into the shop-owner or news-poster variety. Iām more of what weād call a mediocre shitposter.
Anyway, way back in the before times (as Iāve š mentioned š before š) I used to go by āstumblepeachā and so I decided what I needed was an annoymous Bluesky handle. I didnāt want to go back to stumblepeach ācause when you google it, itās been claimed by some other folks, both on Tumblr and elsewhere. I wanted something new and fresh and just mine.
So I decided to switch over to ādrivenbycheeseā which is the tagline for this site, and felt appropriate. I rolled over to porkbun and bought the cheapest domain I could - 99 cents later and I now apparently own drivenbycheese.click š.
The process for switching your handle on bluesky is super automatic so anyone that follows me wouldnāt notice a difference anyway, but I just wanted to log the origin for posterity.
Getting to Know Me
Saw this list on Bluesky, thought it would be fun to answer:
- Favourite scent: Clean laundry
- Something you collect: Tamagotchi
- Dream Date: Staying in with my husband and ordering pizza
- Favourite Mythical creature: Unicorn
- Fun fact about yourself: I was the 4,897 person on Twitter. The Prime Ministerās account followed me for a bit
- Fun fact about not yourself: Babies are born with all their teeth. A baby skull is literally full of teeth. Wait did you say fun or horrifying?
- An unforgettable experience youāve had: I was an extra on the movie White Chicks
- Your mundane super power: Remebering quotes from TV
- Dumbest way youāve been injured: Running on a cobbelstone street, twisted my ankle, tore ligaments
- Deep sea vs. Deep space: Neither, both are terrifying
- Love Language: Thatās a stupid book that Iāve never read
- Tattoos/piercings: No tattoos, three piercings in each ear and a cartiledge piercing in my left ear that has since closed over; belly button pierced too.
- A food Iām good at making: Lasagna, my lasagna is legend
- Song/Album I love: Boxer, by the National
- Something very stupid Iāve done: Spend time filling this out when I should be working
IMG_0001 šŗ
Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in āSend to YouTubeā button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.
Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
IMG_0001 via beSpacific and Wired
The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years
A great idea for a list: The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years. Includes caesar salad, the last word cocktail, Marcella Hazenās tomato sauce, Julia Childās beef bourg, no-knead bread, and Kenjiās reverse-sear steak. Whatās missing?
Murdoch Mysteries
Iāve decided that my new thing is going to be watching Murdoch Mysteries. Thereās just so much of it. 18 seasons - so far! Itās filmed in Toronto, and all around Ontario. Apparently former PM Stephen Harper had a walk-on role?
In the first episode āMiss Toronto Electric and Lightā is murdered by electricity. Irony!
Yannick Bisson (Murdoch) has a real John Reardon (Hudson) quality that gives me high hopes for this as a very Canadian sort of āwhy do they continue to go there!ā murder mystery show. Like, why do people keep going to the Hudson and Rex version of St. Johnās? It is so small and there is literally a murder a week now. They used to do more kidnappings but lately itās all just murder. Murdoch is murder right off the bat!
Wish me luck in my new journey to become an afficianado of Canadian crime shows.
Watching old Antiqueās Road Show Episodes andā¦
The most bizarre thing I think Iāve seen so far popped up. A giant cradle for your cranky wife!
I found this great write up about it on Tumblr:
The Hen-Pecked Clubās Peace Box, a āpatent cure for a cross wifeā. The Hen-Pecked club was an organisation which encouraged men to do more household tasks to take some of the pressure off their wives. The āPeace Boxā, also known as āthe wife tamerā, was invented by a club member called Harry Tap in 1862. If a wife was nagging her husband too much, the husband could put her inside the box, which could be rocked like a childās cot in order to send the wife to sleep. While she was sleeping the husband would perform all the chores then release his wife who would hopefully have calmed down.
ā Write up via Victoria Fan Guide on Tumblr, and look at Fiona Bruce inside it in this old article about the Roadshow episode.