A key concept in Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact is the idea of the Conservation of Magical Energy. In the story Daring Do and Twilight Sparkle reason that the inexplicable artifact is inexplicable because it is absorbing enormous amounts of magic, apparently without doing anything. It isn’t actually written anywhere that magic works this way, but readers intuitively pick up that it

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Thanks to everyone who criticized my post on covid-19. I still think the analysis I made was well-justified, but it certainly wasn't clear, and didn't adequately deal with death rates.

I was rewriting the article to be more balanced and less conclusive when I was flummoxed by something no one pointed out, which should have been obvious from the beginning: The number of positive cases and deaths is already greater than predicted by the models.

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How much water does it take to make one pound of beef, including the water required to grow the food to feed the cow?

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First of all, for the casual passerby, this is me talking about the season five finale. Not reviewing, not summarizing, just giving voice to my thoughts. I'll put some spoiler lines to avoid anyone reading further, assuming they clicked this expecting not to see spoilers somehow.

Okay, beyond here you're on your own.

I am not certain what to make of this.

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*sigh*
Yay ... another day at school, another excuse to cry.
So ... I suppose you want a LONG blog after about a million short ones.
So here we go. My day today

2 AM:
I'm pretty sure someone in the house is trying to kill me, I woke up this morning with my earphones tied around my neck as If I was being strangled. And yet I have no recollection of listening to music the night before. Got up, drank water, realised what time it was and sanely fired up my laptop.

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You know how the game works. You bowl your ball towards ten pins set up in a triangle, with the aim of knocking down as many as possible. Simple. But the fundamental simplicity does not mean there is little to it, and like all the best games, fanatics have spent years analyzing every detail to determine the best strategy. This is an excellent one to study with the language of physics.

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It is often said that every equation put into a popular science book will halve its sales. It is known that this is not true. But it's such a fun anecdote to put in the introduction, so we all keep repeating it.

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Honestly, I was going to hold off on a second post this week until Thursday (I’m blitzing through edits on Jungle right now) but this post had already been on my mind, and then a discussion yesterday online regarding MacMillan’s continued crusade against libraries basically poured gasoline over the spark and, well … Here we are.

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The Clockwork Muse: The predictability of artistic change

Colin Martindale, Harper Collins, 1990 (on Amazon)

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In an episode which saw the return of Zecora, as well as Davenport, Mr Breezy and others, the character I was waiting to show up in It Isn't the Mane Thing About You was Zephyr Breeze. Where is a Mane Therapy graduate when you need him?

Instead let’s talk about the physics of ponytails.

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So, I just finished a bunch of state testing, but it's not over yet. On Monday and Tuesday I have math testing. And the after that I've got like 7 EOCs. And I have to do well in-order to get good classes next year, or to even pass. And I don't want to fail and go to summer school.

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I think I accidentally toned down Applejack's strength in my XCOM 2 story. I realized, that if she has, at least, 1000 apple trees in her orchard, and she bucks, what, half of those trees, I think in reality she would've severed the Sectoid's leg clean off when she kicked it. Just thought I'd share that.

Have you ever watched Equestria Girls Shorts, The Finals Countdown? When I watched it, I felt that it was mainly about integrating math into each Equestria Girl's hobbies and talents. This is integration. The reason why Twilight used integration is, just using the original style of studying math was boring and not fun. However, when Twilight integrated math and each talents and hobbies together, the Equestria Girls seemed to enjoy.

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Hello again readers! I hope you’re well and healthy. Me? A little funky. Really tired. No other symptoms that—to my knowledge—line up with Covid-19, but I’m considering if I feel funky tomorrow calling and scheduling a test anyway, just to be on the save side. And if it isn’t going to bankrupt my bank account.

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Update 4/10/2020: Yesterday was the first day in which deaths surpassed 2,000.

Update 4/7/2020: The US reported 1700 deaths over the past 24 hours.

Update 4/2/2020: The US hit 1000+ plus deaths today. We're on course to pass the lower end of my prediction for April 11 by April 4.

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Cute fluffy thing.

Cute fluffy thing not in original timeline.

Timeline A is the past

Timeline B is future

Timeline A happens in current timeline, Smallight does not have similar reactions to the future.

Timeline B is stable through time mess

Timeline C happens= B+A

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If you put your mind to it, you can do anything. You can be a fucking table, for all I care. I dedicate this to Silver Chord, but it goes for everyone.

With the recent occurrence of the thirteenth Doctor’s accidental kidnapping of her companions bringing up some conversations on how almost all of the companions had been kidnapped to some degree, I thought I would make a little graph of how much each of the companions had to be kidnapped before they chose to keep traveling with the Doctor. Companions to the left were less kidnapped than companions to the right.

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