Welcome to Krilltopia!!! Land of krill ๐ฆ
Actually spent all day outside so I have nothing fun to post. But I did find an old drawing I made in high school that I think is worth documenting. I used to make little drawings like this all the time with just a mouse. I still do every once and a while. Trackpad is even worse obviously but I still got it.
I'm finally completely over this stomach bug and I know it because after many days of thinking I'm better and then not being, I'm officially craving sugar. The past few days I have had some normal foods and have only been able to eat half as much as I used to. I also have had headaches and I felt fine until I ever had to do something. So hopefully all that is gone too. Another weird symptom is that I cant stop listening to Beauty School Dropout from Grease........
I have added a lot of tiny details to this site and I'm looking for more weird coding embeds and other fun coding things to add to break the consistency of Blogger. That's why I had to go with the same simple template I used years ago when I used the site for the first time. I found this out when I opened blogger only to find that I had a blog (called like "Gwen's English Blog") where I had posted a bad essay on something for school. I didn't read it because I knew it would just be embarrassing.
Anyways coding embeds. My Photo Diary page is going to be soooo cool the second I can put my photos in. That was the original point of my Neocities but it failed in that regard. That combined with actually coding every single thing while being such a visualizer wasn't working for me. Blogger holds your hand much more while still giving you the freedom to do a photo carousel (which I did btw, and I have a few sample pictures of cute weird Pinterest toys) and most other extra goals I have been forcing it to do.
I loooove w3 schools, they really make understanding html and css and even a little javascript pretty easy for me, an art student. They also have so much more that I haven't even touched. Even if you just come to them to copy and paste something, they will be there when you break it later to explain what it should look like. They're not going to have all the customizable stuff I really want to implement but often that is because I am dreaming too big.
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12/29/2024
I got straight back on Rimworld the moment I woke up after a long night of it plus some Antiques Roadshow. I am doing a run where I only recruit female colonists which hasn't been very hard. Today I found out they all hate Truman bc she is ugly.... eesh. Here's the colony:
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This is an old piece from my old website that I liked writing because it came from me actually stumbling upon this weird little museum that I loved, the National Lighthouse Museum. I am not entirely sure of the original date but my guess is May 29, the day after I went to the museum. Maybe I will rewrite it someday bc it is currently just a bunch of facts. Enjoy!
I went to the National Lighthouse Museum recently, its on Staten Island, right next to the ferry. It's a very cheap museum and its located in the old location of the old Lighthouse hub, more on it later, so it's a beautiful walk. When you get there they have this centerpiece called the "Room of Lights" or something similar. It shows a little video about lighthouses which gives you enough background to feel like you know what's going on, who a lighthouse keeper is etc. The outside of the room is covered in miniature lighthouses that the people who work there find significant.
What I wanted to do here is write everything I learned about lighthouses at the museum. First, understanding the purpose of the lighthouse and how it works is important. In order to reduce deaths from shipwrecks and aide navigation around shores, the invention of a tall tower with a bright light is not a crazy idea. We've been doing this since, according to the museum, at least Ancient Egypt and Rome. The Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria are both famous, archaic lighthouses, which I hope I impressed the tour guide by knowing them (which comes from Civ ofc). The American Lighthouse came into being shortly after America did. Most of the original states have beaches that threatened the boats that much of the population relied on.
To have a functioning lighthouse, there are many important parts. Starting with the building itself, the exterior shape and iconic stripes, differ on each and every lighthouse. This is the daymark. This worked the way the lighthouse's iconic bean of light works, but with even more accurate navigation. Using a light list, a navigator can tell from the lighthouse whey they are in the world. The light is still incredibly important. American lighthouses ordered their lights from France, specifically Fresnel lamps. These lamps used prisms to create their beacons. Those who worked at light houses, the keepers, checked on the lamps every few hours to ensure they were clean, if too much soot accumulated, the beam would be less effective, increasing the likelihood of a disaster. Keepers were mostly men, they has a strict uniform and many rules. Upon their death, sometimes their wives would inherit the position. To embody the seriousness of the role, women keepers sometimes assigned themselves a uniform. Keeps also suffered from loneliness and were required to keep up the lighthouse entirely by themselves.
The United States organized their domain into regions which resulted in an unorganized system. In 1874, the regions merged and the hub of for lighthouse administration was on Staten Island, where the museum is now housed. This was where Fresnel lamps were inspected and where supplies like oil were shipped out. The lighthouse society (USLHS) worked with the life saving service (USLSS) to create efficient lighthouses. The life saving service joins with revenue cutter service to create the coast guard and in 1966 they move to Governors Island.
These lighthouses were originally fueled withe different fuels like cabbage or sperm whale oil. In the 1880s, lighthouses started experimenting with electricity. The first electric lighthouse was the Statue of Liberty!!!!! Eventually all American lighthouses were electric, except for the Sandy Hook lighthouse which remains gas lit to honor it's title as the oldest American lighthouse, at least standing today. The United States' expansions added more coasts. The west coast opened their first lighthouse on Alcatraz.
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| The room i watched the video in at the museum |
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| The actual museum |
