Tell Me a Story is an American psychological thriller television anthology series created by Kevin Williamson for CBS All Access. Based on the Spanish television series Cuéntame un cuento, it depicts iconic fairy tales reimagined as modern-day thrillers. Each season features a mostly different cast ensemble, with Danielle Campbell and Paul Wesley appearing in both seasons of the series.
Watch on Paramount+:
https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/tell-me-a-story/
My ma sometimes tells me about herbs and I have no idea how to translate them into English typically. This is to provide a quick guide in case I am asked again in the future.
Also called yangmei, (Chinese: 杨梅; pinyin: yángméi; Cantonese: yeung4 mui4; Shanghainese: [ɦiɐ̃².mɛ⁴]), yamamomo (Japanese: ヤマモモ) Chinese bayberry or Chinese strawberry and often mistranslated from Chinese as arbutus. It is a subtropical tree grown for its fruit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrica_rubra
Commonly called Chinese mustard, Indian mustard, leaf mustard, vegetable mustard, it is a species of mustard plant. In Chinese it is called 芥菜 (jiècài). One variation of it is called snow mustard (雪里红）.
I have a sweet tooth but I am not very well-acquainted with the names of things. Here I keep track of all the delicious sweets out there in a list that I can refer to. This is delicious research. Now someone has to make all of it for me or I have to go places to try them all!
Boston Cream doughnut
(バルサック戦記 -片翼のリクと白銀のルーク)
(Old title: 片翼のリク ‐退魔師の一族だけど、魔王軍に就職しました‐)
Author: 寺町 朱穂
Synopsis:
Riku Barusak is a character that was originally supposed to become a harem member of the main character in the world of a certain harem game. But ten years before the start of the game, instead of following the course of events that was meant to happen, despite her innate superious physical strength, she ended up thrown away by her family because of her lack of talent as an spiritualist. At that moment, destiny strayed from its defined path; the gears of fate had broken.
Abandoned, the only ones that extended a hand to her were the demons, the greatest enemies of the human race. Serving under them as a disciplined guard dog, she became a weapon of human slaughter, becoming the fiend that shouldn´t have ever existed.
These are just a collection of websites on instructions of how to build things.
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| Graph depicting how to do square root of 20 with Babylonian method. |
Everyone knows how to add, subtract, multiply and divide with pencil and paper; but do you know how to find square roots without a calculator? (Incidentally, I highly recommend reading The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov, a short story about a future in which humans are so reliant on computers that they have forgotten how to do arithmetic.)
The swarm.
A unitary force of countless entities.
Nightmarish creatures from the darkest depths.
All working towards a greater purpose.
Simply fulfilling their role in a complex system.
Abducted from the world I know I am now forced to become a part of this.
Forced to help these horrors to increase their power.
However, they are not mindless killers.
There might be a way for me.
I could influence them from the inside.
To prevent that anyone has to die.
To protect the ones I love.
Maybe I can adjust.
If not for the eggs.
Keep Breathing follows lung cancer survivor Eury as she returns to her sleepy hometown, dreading coming home to her parents and the complicated past that still haunts her. Even with every amenity afforded to her by modern society, Eury has a hard time staying alive. But when the townspeople are driven insane and begin attacking one another at random, Eury is cut off from everything and everyone she holds dear, and left with a dwindling supply of oxygen.
Hardships and heartaches, bloodshed and violence, once she’s through it all, will Eury be able to Keep Breathing?
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/40182/only-villains-do-that
Summary
While waiting on an Akihabara train platform one day, ordinary high schooler Yoshi Shinonome was suddenly plucked from his normal life in Japan and whisked away by a beautiful goddess to Ephemera, a world of magic and adventure, to serve as her Hero and drive back the evil Dark Lord.
This is not his story.
Standing nearby at the moment Yoshi was isekai'd was a man named Seiji - a rude, cranky, misanthropic musician who was not at all pleased to find himself also snatched up and transported to Ephemera by the goddess's wicked sister, Virya. According to this self-proclaimed Goddess of Evil, the whole fantasy adventure thing was a game she and her sister played to stave off the boredom of immortality, and since the good goddess, Sanora, had picked her Hero...well, Virya needed a Dark Lord.
A grown man with his own career and ambitions, Seiji has no interest in playing. Unfortunately for him, the call to adventure was not a request. Now, he must conquer Ephemera and defeat the Hero...or Virya promises to make him beg for the release of death before granting it. Playing along for his own survival, Seiji nonetheless is under no illusions who his true enemy is, and it's not the naive young would-be Hero from his own world.
Placed in an impossible position, Seiji must make enough progress toward world domination to keep his sadistic patron goddess off his back, but not so much that he can't strike an accord with the forces of Good and convince the Hero Yoshi that it's the goddesses who are their mutual enemy. Forced to embrace Evil without being too evil, Seiji walks the razor's edge, building his forces and biding his time till he can get revenge on the goddesses and be free of them, his only certainty that he will not be getting out of this with his hands clean.
A Dark Lord's gotta do what a Dark Lord's gotta do.
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| Burning flame captured several days ago. |
While observing a pot of boiling cream of wheat, I had to keep stirring it to cook it evenly. The pot slowly started spinning on the countertop. I thought to myself: How about a pot that you can put on a stove which automatically rotates clockwise or counterclockwise based on internal sensors that determine which part of it is the least cooked? In other words, it tries to maintain constant temperature for each portion of the food.
Self-conforming cup lids. Putting on plastic lids on top of paper cups sometimes is difficult when the paper cups deform. Can we have a material (not plastic) that conform to the shape of the top of a paper cup even if it deforms a little bit?
Sometimes, I wake up with curious questions. I am not Googling the answers yet until I think about it myself and hypothesize explanations. Here are some:
1. Why does water left overnight taste flat in the morning? However, this doesn't happen with spring water.
2. Why is coffee made at a hotter temperature than tea?
3. What is a way for colorblind people to tell traffic lights apart? Why can't we change the colors of traffic lights?
4. How many books can an average bookshelf hold?
5. How many different ways are there to make light?
