A rolling site redesign starts now and will probably be finished in a few weeks or months. Rather than paralyzing myself with the prospect of completely re-doing the design, I decided to reconfigure it to bring it in line with what I want. This DOES actually mean that I will have to completely re-do the site, but feels less intimidating for some reason. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the updated index page!
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It's Thursday. Excited for today's update.
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A letter will be on its way to you tomorrow! (Today is a holiday here.)
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in today's beautiful delights, my letter to you was returned because i got flagged to pay tariffs. lol. so it's a bit delayed because i had to mail it out again -- hope it clears customs this time 😩
emilynhoward
2 months ago
Oh no!! I don't even...tariffs on a letter? Wth I will keep my fingers crossed.
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skep
2 months ago
Maybe if we tax the import of knowledge heavily enough we'll be incentivized to start producing it ourselves
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skep
2 months ago
This makes me realize: was I dinosaur poser as a kid? I claimed to love dinosaurs and I had all the books and stuff, but I never read them and the only fact I could recite was that brontosaurus and apatasaurus were the same dinosaur.
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hastiesthandiwork
2 months ago
this mfer thinks brontosaurus and apatosaurus are the same dinosaur smdh man pick up a book
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pixelglade
2 months ago
My favorite dinosaur as a kid was Allosaurus, because it was like the underdog that was like a velociraptor and t-rex combined and I drew dinosaurs on everything (even the school white board one time when people were doodling).
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pixelglade
2 months ago
Okay maybe "underappreciated" is a better term than underdog, but it felt like an underdog to me.
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emilynhoward
2 months ago
@skep While you may have been a poser dinosaur kid, I will point out that the information about dinosaurs for kids in the 80s and 90s was not great. A dinosaur book that I've had since I was 4 or 5 had a WOOLY MAMMOTH pictured among dinosaurs.
emilynhoward
2 months ago
@oopsiedoodle I recently learned about one of the most beautiful dinosaur fossils to exist, which is of an ankylosaur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealopelta#/media/File:Nodosaur.jpg We actually know what color its skin was. ;.;
emilynhoward
2 months ago
@pixelglade Yeah it kind of baffles me why the Allosaurus got completely overlooked in Jurassic Park. They knew that Velociraptors were only 3 feet tall and decided to make them scientifically innacurate anyway, while the right sized dinosaur for the Clever Girl job is one of the longest-known dinosaurs.
Letter received!!
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skep
3 months ago
Had you signed it you might have noticed I just scribbled "Mike is butts" over and over for eight pages
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I really relate to your reflections on making peace with the level of social interaction and general effort you put in. Over the years, I stopped a lot of things that have interfered with my well being: staying up late, drinking caffeine, drinking or using weed, social media, socializing more than once/week, watching TV & movies and reading fiction. To others this may seem like sacrifices but to me they are FREEDOM.
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maxcrunch
3 months ago
Love to hear it! especially if you have friends who feel that you're less fun because of it. sometimes it's hard to get past that, because you feel like you're disappointing them! but at the end of the day we all have to live our own truth to find that freedom!
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emilynhoward
3 months ago
I added my last few filled Field Notes notebooks for 2025. I already have 5 to add for 2026 but will probably wait until my website redesign to add that page.
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ratlands
3 months ago
Wow, this whole list was so cool to scroll through. I had no idea Field Notes had so many different designs, and it was interesting to see how you used them all too
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emilynhoward
3 months ago
@ratlands Thanks so much! Field Notes has their standard brown kraft paper books, but they come out with 4 quarterly designs every year, plus a half dozen or so collaborations with other orgs and artists. The variety in the covers is one of the things that motivates me to keep writing!
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emilynhoward
3 months ago
@hastiesthandiwork I am not kidding or exaggerating when I say that Field Notes enthusiasts call "beating a notebook to shit" a "patina." In fact, "nice patina" is a frequent compliment. So let 'er rip, I guess.
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hastiesthandiwork
3 months ago
okay i will beat it to shit and make my own field notes section to document it also hi friend how are you i owe you a letter im sorryyyyyyy
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maxcrunch
3 months ago
spending my life waiting for USPS to come out with a field notes stamp journal that is on theme for what I'd be using it for
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sneekrealm
3 months ago
not quite a fieldnoteshead myself (least for now), but i have this cheap generic pocketsize (top)spiralbound notebook - something very nice about carrying somethin like that in yer pocket, and have had one fav music artist sign in it hehe
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sneekrealm
3 months ago
(keeping my work schedule in my lil pocketbook, and letting it whisk up some of my Stray Thoughts, instead of letting my phone do both of those - feels good)
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emilynhoward
3 months ago
@sneekrealm Using my phone less was definitely one of my motivations for starting a pocket notebook habit. Once I unlock the phone all bets are off as to whether I'll actually remember why I opened it or just get sucked into whatever's on the screen. Notebooks can't do that.
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emilynhoward
3 months ago
My redesign is still a ways off, but there are some things that I want to remove or reconfigure as part of that process. My Steven Universe Future page is now is own Neocities site: https://suf.yorniq.xyz/.
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emilynhoward
3 months ago
I promise that at least a good portion of the broken links are intentional.
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Quiet and cool, love it.
Aw, but I wanted a big reveal! Tell you what, I'm going to unfollow you for a few months and check back in around October so it looks like a single dramatic change.
@p7uen Thank you!
@skep See you in the fall! No guarantees it will be finished, though.