perfectly logical explanation

I have always been fascinated by the Winchester House — but never heard this perfectly logical explanation for it. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mystery-house/ — @johannadc

Historian Mary Jo Ignoffo…believes that what drove Sarah Winchester to build was her desire to be an architect.

Sarah Winchester lived at a time when it was highly unusual for women to be architects. She wasn’t licensed, so her own home was the perfect place—and the only place—where she could practice architecture.

Whatever her motivations were, Sarah Winchester built a house with more than 150 rooms, 2000 doors, 47 fireplaces, 40 bedrooms, 40 staircases, 17 chimneys, 13 bathrooms, six kitchens, three elevators, two basements, and one shower. She spent nearly all of her life being an architect.

@johannadc Interesting idea! I’ve toured it a few times – it IS fascinating – but of course they play up the sensational take on it.

I’ve taken to automatically spelling my name when I give it to someone

eighteenbelow:

sinnathedisturbedweirdo:

zonkos-jokeshop:

totally-not-anne-frank:

ugh-trxye:

profeziafenice7547-marty:

I’ve given up trying to correct people.

Honestly mine isnt even hard but people are dumb

Seriously how hard is it to spell Laurel?! It’s literally Lauren with an L

BOTH oh my god just sound it out it’s not that hard people see more than 6 letters in my last name and freak out like it’s yiddish or something

I don’t know how many people think my name is Sanna or Stina when it is Sinna

I no longer correct people unless their error would create problems in the future (such as something tied to ID or legally/medically important).  I just go with whatever they call me or however they spell it, because 99% of people who don’t know me well get it wrong.

I’ve taken to automatically spelling my name when I give it to someone who might need to write it down. I actually have to stop myself sometimes.  It still doesn’t always work.

Reading up on the Paris catacombs. How did Hugo manage not to include these

This Creepily Beautiful Chapel in Czermna, Poland, Is Constructed Out of Thousands of Human Bones

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eighteenbelow:DC, I don’t know whether to laugh at you or cry.

eighteenbelow:

DC, I don’t know whether to laugh at you or cry.  But please get help for your ’90s addiction, because you’re only hurting yourself.

I don’t have a problem with a return to the 90s per se. I just wish they were interested in bringing back the GOOD parts of the 90s instead of the stuff I rolled my eyes at the first time around.

“We’ll turn you from other craft stores.”

ashamanhannigan:

kelsonv:

Little-known fact: in the First Age, Mazrim Taim sought power by running a craft store, rather than becoming head of the Asha’man.

Where did you think they got their supplies for making sword and dragon pins?

On a more serious note, I’m currently reading A Memory of Light, the long-awaited final volume of The Wheel of Time. I’m about 80 pages into “The Last Battle.” This chapter isn’t just longer than a Robert Jordan prologue, it’s longer than some novels I’ve read.

“We’ll turn you from other craft stores.”

I love it! I’d been trying to think of a punchline that had something to do with that, but just couldn’t come up with anything good.

Also, seeing “ ishamael likes this” on this post made my day.

OK, back to reading…

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Now that I think about it, it would make perfect sense if in the DCU, Vandal Savage *was* Rasputin.

gorogues:

In this Elseworlds, Len has no reason for wearing the visor, but does so anyway.  Also he wears an apron and Vandal Savage looks like Rasputin.

Now that I think about it, it would make perfect sense if in the DCU, Vandal Savage *was* Rasputin.  He usually prefers being the power behind the throne, after all.

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