mountainkiss: (Default)

[personal profile] mountainkiss 2018-04-28 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
What would you do with your capybara?
Edited 2018-04-28 17:00 (UTC)
danieldwilliam: (Default)

[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2018-04-30 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'll see if I can persuade my brother to adopt one - it's what we did about a dog for the Captain.
ckd: A small blue foam shark sitting on a London Underground map (london)

[personal profile] ckd 2018-04-28 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
11/11 on the map quiz using a combination of geographic knowledge, logic, recognizing a few Cyrillic letters, and lucky guessing informed by the rest of it.

Some were trivially easy (1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11 are all cities I've been to with distinctive geography), some were easy if you know a little Cyrillic (3 and 5 have bodies of water with easy to recognize names), and some were just "what seems most likely" (6 has multiple railway stations and docks with water to the west, 8 had what looks like a line dividing the city into two major sections, 9 has parks and hills).
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)

[personal profile] simont 2018-04-28 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, my key clue for 6 was which side of the map the water was on.

My favourite dead giveaway was the regular polygon appearing in one of them :-)

I only dropped one mark, and it was the one I expected to get wrong – I know little enough about any of the San Foos that I had no hope of distinguishing the right one by any means short of a lucky guess, and I didn't get lucky.
melchar: medieval raccoon girl (Default)

[personal profile] melchar 2018-05-01 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
I missed the first 2 and got the other 9. No knowledge of Cyrillic, 2 for water placement & LA for the LA River & 3 that seemed 'most likely'.

But 11/11 is terrific!
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)

Capybaras

[personal profile] dewline 2018-04-28 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
If I ever get back to Toronto for a visit, the zoo hosting Bonnie and Clyde - and whoever else by now - is on my bucket list, right along with Pinewood Toronto (because Star Trek: Discovery).
skington: (fail)

[personal profile] skington 2018-04-29 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought I recognised the “grade on a curve” story. Sure enough, when I clicked through to the link, it was from 2013, but you'd never have known that from the story. Boing Boing really is quite rubbish these days.