Want to play with LEGO, but don’t have any LEGO, or maybe just have motor problems that make it difficult to play with? Do you use Google Chrome?
WELP: http://www.buildwithchrome.com/builder
Oh hey. This is just like the Lego Builder you can download except in-browser (and therefore better).
Sweet.
Something else for people in the area that aren’t directly involved:
Remember the wind has been really bad so if you can see smoke or if there’s ash in the air there is a risk that there could be embers blowing over to you so try to keep your windows closed.
Again with the ash and smoke affecting the air quality so if you have any respiratory illnesses please take really good care of yourself!! Wear masks outside if you have to.
If any of your friends or family or colleagues are in the evacuation zone and you are in a safe zone with a fairly large house, I highly encourage you to invite them to stay with you for the time being. I can tell you from experience that evac centers can get pretty crowded and these fires are only spreading out more. There are only so many firefighters in this city.
Even if you don’t think you’re at risk as long as the weather is dry and the wind is strong there could be more fires and as we’ve seen today they can spread so quickly.
For all I know a fire could break out down the street later tonight and I will have to evacuate. Please be aware of everything above about evacuation that is all so important.
GUYS OKAY I’M GOING TO SHARE MY STORY BECAUSE THIS IS HOW SCARY IT IS FOR CALIFORNIANS RIGHT NOW: So people always ask you the first thing you’d grab if your house was on fire. I woke up this morning to the feeling of my phone vibrating and for the people who know me it’s just impossible to wake me up,so I turn off my phone and try to go back to sleep. Then came the sounds of helicopters that never seem to end and the sound of my house phone ringing incessantly. So I groan and look outside my window and there’s a fucking gray raging storm of smoke right next to my place. Then comes the slap of panic. The dogs. They were already sleeping on my bed and I was home alone, I grabbed the first bag I could find (superman backback from childhood) and put my teddy bear inside of it then grabbed my small heavy dogs under each arm and put my phone under my ear and talked to my dad who had been calling a trillion times. I started walking outside and started coughing, the smoke was so thick outside I started gagging, ash was rolling by on the ground, and there was an eerie orange glow cast over my surroundings. I start walking towards the front of my apartment complex to be picked up by my dad and realized that my dogs were just too heavy for me. I could hear the fire alarms honking and looked at the advancing wall of smoke that looked like a falling skyscraper of grey and I started hyperventilating, knowing that I wasn’t strong enough to carry my puppies to safety was terrifying. The fire was that close. Thank goodness my dad had arrived soon and helped me out, I was on the side walk trying to go inch by inch forwards but could barely contain my wriggling scared dogs. Apparently my pops had ran more than a couple red lights and drove over a couple curbs trying to get to me and a cop car was following him but my dad pointed a finger out the window at where he was going and the cop immediately understood and let him be. My family is safe and we were able to grab more belongings but my home was literally two buildings away from being burnt to the ground. Please pray/support all of the other Californians who have or might be losing their homes.
that stun gun is a toy.
do not purchase this.
in fact, the only thing worth anything in this set is the sabre pepper spray. a buzz from the stun gun would feel like a prank buzzer thing
and thing of it is companies know that the other two are useless, they use predatory selling tactics to sell their shitty, ain’t gonna work stun to scared women
yeah, I try and tell ppl. about those cat keychains all the time, they are garbage, you’re better off w. a kubotan and/or a pocket knife, IF you know what you’re doing with one, but a lot of places ban those/they’re viewed as way more “aggressive,” bc scared women defending themselves are still meant to be a certain nonlethal kind of passive.
[these] are good stun guns, and I used to carry SABRE brand gel pepper spray, but it does require ID + iirc to be over a certain age to buy that in some states.
Reblogging because I’ve seen this a lot on my dash today with people saying they want this or they bought it. Just don’t, guys, they’re trying to sell self defence products that don’t work and they know they don’t work. What’s going to happen if you really need that stun gun? They don’t care about that, they just want your money. My friend has all three of these and I can tell you the stun gun literally is weaker than a prank buzzer and the cat thing might as well be a child’s toy, they are a joke if you actually need to defend yourself.
They are really cute and all but please be careful of scams if you’re buying something to protect yourselves with, friends <3
老师 - lăoshī means “Teacher”
May I say something? Since I have a Chinese culture blog here…..:)
老师 (Lǎo Shī)
师 derives from Tang dynasty scholar 韩愈 Han Yu’s article 《师说》”My Thought of Shi”. It says “师者，传道授业解惑也” “The person of ’师’ needs to propagate the doctrine and their ways to resolve doubts” (You can read the full article here with English translation). The article shows what are need to be a teacher and what kind of people is deserved to be called teacher in Chinese culture.
For some skills like martial arts, cooking, folk arts etc. we use 师父/师傅 (Shī Fu) which means “the teacher who is like my father” because these skills need to be taught one on one. It can also be used as a polite word for people who have skills and you don’t have those skills under the moment, like a master of martial arts, a monk, a chef, a carpenter, a taxi driver etc.
先生(xiān shēng)
In 《论语》”Analects” of Warring States period, the word means “father and brothers”. “有酒食，先生馔。”注解说：“先生，父兄也”。
Later in 《战国策》”Zhan Guo Ce” it means “elders who are very educated”. “先生坐，何至于此。”
So 先生 was used to refer “teacher” in China for a long time because they’re mostly the elders who are considered the most educated. From the “Book of Rites” (Han Dynasty) “从于先生，不越礼而与人言。”注：“先生，老人教学者。” to the early 20th century’s 教书先生. Female teachers were also called 先生 like Li Qingzhao.
In the later 20th it gradually became a polite word for male adults. It still suggests “The one who is educated” but not necessarily “an elder” but you respect them like an elder. Translate it into English, it’s kinda like “Mr./Sir” - 王先生 Mr. Wang. 这位先生 You sir/ this gentleman. But it’s also used to refer someone’s husband. 您先生 Your husband (polite) 我先生 my husband. Since then, using “先生” to refer teacher was gradually disappeared.
Your Chinese teacher might have told you 先生 means “Mr.”. That’s it. But the meaning and history behind every Chinese word may have some differences from the English translation.
on the bright side i found the voice that @dril tweets were obviously meant to be heard in
When people change their avatars they don’t understand how much of an effect that has on how I see your posts and your interactions with me. You are your profile picture, I mean Tumblr is even designed to make it look look like all the posts are speech bubbles coming from your avatar.
Therefore, you! Yes, you! You are definitely Richard Armitage.
And you there, you’re Batman.
And that person over there is a pair of talking boobs. For some reason. Look, I don’t make the rules.
