Thank you for being so cool

[cornerofmadness]

One of my students tells me on the way out. Are you buttering me up already? It's only day 3. Then again compared to the other two biology profs I know you had, yes yes I AM cool. In this same class we were talking about radium and I went off on a radium girls tangent and how their medical records were doctored to make it look like they were loose girls with syphilis vs taking accountability for what these companies did and how things like the FDA came from these cases and the story of Eben Byers, the rich dude who was drinking so much radithor health drinks his jaw fell off.

Don't google this. Five seconds later they're all around one one laptop, stunned.

You googled it.

THIS CANT BE REAL!! Yes, sorry radium jaw is real. And that's what runaway predatory capitalism looks like.


But also WHY the fuck was the heater on today? Yes it was 57 this morning but I didn't think (nor does anyone think) that our building has sensors that should kick on the heater. It was 87 went I got there. I bitched. By noon the a/c was back on. WTF.


Today I stumbled onto the beginnings of a charity event with the Amazing Digital Circus crew playing Peak. Okay I still don't get the whole watch people play games thing but the charity was a good one (money to help immigrants fight back against what happens after ICE) so I donated and listened for a while.


What I Just Finished Reading:

What Can't be Said - a Sebastian St. Cyr book I called it but loved it




What I am Currently Reading:

Atlas of Unknowable Things - this is strange, good but weird

Solid Gold Murder - the one in my writerly ways this sunday. It's a little better AND the dumb ass thing I was talking about has come back and hit her in the ass so huzzah



What I Plan to Read Next:
The Secret of the Orange Blossom Cake - I bumped this to here5

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Awwww it's so nice when a student says something like that isn't it. I had such a cute experience of that once, I've never forgotten it.

[falkner]

I feel like I'm going to have "radium jaw" nightmares without even having to look up any other detail...

> I still don't get the whole watch people play games thing
For some people it's like watching sports (entertainment and also getting the chance to experience a game you don't have the money/hardware/ability to play yourself), and in the past years a lot of play-throughs done in real time are also meant to be sort of a "background noise" to keep you company. I think of it as akin to keeping the radio on all day.

[spikedluv]

What a nice comment!

You always tell them not to google it and they ALWAYS google it! I'm not gonna google it.

[suzume]

Freaky stuff! (I had heard of the radium-knocked-off jaw guy before)

[cornerofmadness]

It's rough stuff but as we lose more and more protections I think younger people need to see what happens without them

[cornerofmadness]

it was.

One day they shall heed me (not), you should see the reactions when I tell them not to google penis fracture

[cornerofmadness]

Ha, if you're squeamish, don't google it.

That's a good analogy. I don't much care for sports either. I suppose if the people's interplay was more entertaining I might have listened longer (as if I didn't listen for nearly 2 hours) I did use to listen to critical role until their games went from 2 hours to over 4 and I noped out

[cornerofmadness]

These are the moments you hope to always remember

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I have read some Sebastian St. Cyr and liked them!

[cornerofmadness]

They get better too once they move past all the angst about that actress kate and turn Hero into a real character

[the_siobhan]

I did and you made the right choice.

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah, I'm medical and not squeamish so if I'm giving warnings, it is definitely proceed with caution

[kitarella_imagines]

This must have been 20 years ago, I think me and my colleague will always remember 💓

[suzume]

I agree.