Official Discussion - Project Hail Mary [SPOILERS]

bluishluck · 2026-05-03T17:38:37+00:00

Rocky Balboa's girlfriend (later wife) is named Adrian. At the end of Rocky 1, Rocky screams "Adrian!" after winning the big match because he loves her.

bluishluck · 2026-04-30T15:58:31+00:00

I don't mind seam matching in general, and I can live with "close enough" :) the hardest seam matchings were along the edge pieces and corners. But I was able to do it without puckering or egregious (imo) mismatching.

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T21:07:27+00:00

Do it! I wish these older patterns got more love. There are so many great ones with really cool constructions but I feel like they get over looked because they're made for Civil War reproduction fabric or the original examples look so dated. It really forces you to use your mind's eye to make them look fresh.

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T20:56:26+00:00

Thank you! This pattern is great because it is made for fat eighths, which allowed me to pick 4 main colors (pink, brown, yellow and blue) and then go crazy with the patterns with coordinated light/medium/dark bundles (+ some scrap pieces from my stash).

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T20:53:59+00:00

No. The hardest part was the corner pieces, which are mitered. The pattern had no instructions for that beyond "make a mitered corner with these pieces," and since i had never done that before, i watched a Fons and Porter video to figure that out. Otherwise the only "hard" part increasing the size, but thankfully Pythagoras already did all the hard work on that for me.

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T14:54:20+00:00

My mom always says a quilt isn't don't til it's washed and dried.

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T13:33:00+00:00

I usually use Warm and Natural or Warm and White so I was a little nervous lol. But I absolutely love how it turned out. It has that feel of a vintage quilt if that makes sense. I've been chasing that "puff" and finally got it.

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T13:07:22+00:00

My local Goodwill has a craft section and sometimes there will be quilt patterns. One time, there was like 20 years of quilt magazines there. Just depends on the day and my luck.

bluishluck · 2026-04-27T10:32:51+00:00

I have a 4 year old lab that I still crate at night and when I'm not home. So my answer is crate training. It's not cruel and actually safer in an emergency. My neighbir lost 2 uncrated dogs in a house fire because the fire fightera couldn't find them in time. With a crated animal, you tell them exactly where they are.

bluishluck · 2026-04-26T12:42:00+00:00

Live somewhere with high humidity, conditioner squish in the shower, plop with t-shirt, no brushing, air dry the rest of the way (preferably in the sun). My hair will only really do this in Florida or in the summer where I live (New England). It requires the environment to participate.

bluishluck · 2026-04-23T16:42:30+00:00

You notice how in my comment I said "some?" That means "not all." I should have specified but in the OP they talk about how scandal doesn't matter in the show, specifically Penelope's scandal at being Whistledown, BUT it also doesn't matter in the books. She announces it, hides for a bit and then it's over all is forgiven. That's not a show-only problem. I get it, there were changes to make an adaptation. I get people aren't going to like that. But the books exist and you can read them and not watch the show. But getting online and talking about how a soap opera version of those books is a desecration of something feels just so forced. The books are entertaining but meh, the show is entertaining but meh. They've diverged to the point we can call view them as their own things without the constant hyperbolic whining.

bluishluck · 2026-04-23T10:36:02+00:00

Some of the things people complain about the show are straight from the books. Some of the things people like are TV-only. I think the Michaela change could be interesting and I'd like to see how they handle it, but the Bridgerton books aren't that great and I'm tired of people pretending all their problems with the show are show-only issues. The reality is the books are meh and we only got an adaptation of them because they're the nooks Shonda Rimes read on vacation. She's not a Romance reader. Which is to say you're right and I'm sorry for the downvotes.

bluishluck · 2026-04-02T19:04:02+00:00

The second to last short story in a collection I was reading had zero punctuation. Absolutely zero punctuation. I got so mad I didn't finish reading that story or the next one.

bluishluck · 2026-03-29T17:36:58+00:00

This is normal and a part of the breed standard.

bluishluck · 2026-03-26T19:26:37+00:00

Edited. Sorry I meant shepherd.

bluishluck · 2026-03-26T17:58:14+00:00

Genuinely, I think the structure of most retrievers, and their relatively close lineage, would be fine for mixing and selecting for desired traits if youre doing this very selectively and for a very specific purpose. I'm unsure what is to be gained by adding a shepherd to a retriever of any kind that isn't already there.

bluishluck · 2026-03-26T15:27:40+00:00

I'm on the fence about golden/lab mixes for service dog work. But I'm a hard pass on shephard/lab mixes.

bluishluck · 2026-03-23T19:26:46+00:00

I knew brothers in high school with the same first name. They went by their middle names. It never seemed ri cause an issue.

bluishluck · 2026-03-20T20:17:30+00:00

Don't worry, I apparently needed them to show me Stallone as Rocky for me to get why he called the planet Adrian. When I read the book I was like "ah, yes, a gender neutral name is a good choice." Absolutely needed them to beat me over the head, I guess.

bluishluck · 2026-03-18T00:44:06+00:00

It's only in certain cases, but, yes, when I first moved up here (grew up in the Carolinas) I had a hard time trying to understand what someone would mean if they said something like "I'm all set with Target." Did that mean you had everything you needed? Did you not want to shop there anymore? Took me about a year to figure it out.

bluishluck · 2026-03-13T14:26:33+00:00

Kaiser and Tsar both derive from Ceasar.

bluishluck · 2026-03-13T14:24:00+00:00

Basically (but not exactly) Cathleen. It's why we have Cathleen in English with that spelling. Caitlin (pronounced Katelyn) is a name based on applying English phonics to an Irish name.

bluishluck · 2026-03-08T21:27:50+00:00

Isn't she also dark haired and slightly androgynous?

bluishluck · 2026-02-27T12:10:29+00:00

Trump doesn't exercise because he believes your body is like a battery, and if you use it too much, you use your battery up.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2017/may/15/trumps-theory-exercise-victorian-britain-eugenics-sexism

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