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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Fun vaguely related fact: the 1800s are often hailed as the century of steamships, but in reality steamships had pretty short range and required frequent re-coaling in order to get anywhere and back. The coaling stations around the world were mostly stocked by sailing ships since there was no way to economically transport coal by using vessels that burned coal for their propulsion. So it’s more accurate to say that the worldwide transportation revolution of the 1800s was a steam/wind power hybrid.






  • I’ve only been hit on once by gay men and it was a case of mistaken identity. It was at a halloween party in 2004 and I was dressed as an Abu Ghraib detainee from Iraq, mostly naked wearing just a black hood, a dog collar and leash around my neck, and skin colored underwear with a stuffed dog attached as if it was biting my crotch. Nobody really got the costume - they just assumed it was some sort of fetish thing.







  • I remember one apartment a friend of mine lived in. It comprised the back third of a one-story house. It had a fairly normal sort of living room, bedroom and bathroom, but the kitchen had been made out of the original hallway leading to the back of the house, with all the appliances and countertops lined up on one side with barely a foot and a half between them and the wall. The fridge and oven doors could not be fully opened.