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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • That’s all true, but not using the arms as a counterbalance is going to reduce the amount of force you can put through the leg. There’s also a huge energy expense from putting the center of mass not directly on top of the foot when acceleration slows down, instead of using the body as a spring to bounce on the ground the muscles are used to avoid falling forward.


  • Just for funsies Caesar is also the ancestor of Tzar and Keizer which covers a lot of European country words for emperor. Emperor coming from Imperium, also Latin but Roman empire actually used Augustus (like English augment meaning elevated as in the citizen of the empire that was elevated). Eastern Roman empire (commonly referred to as Byzantine) used Basileus which survives as basilica and basil the herb.












  • When I was 10y old I got to cut a thingy for my younger sister to choose. A third had sprinkles so I cut just that third of. My mom implied I was gaming the system but I said my sister is free to choose the bigger one if she wanted.

    It was a gambit but I got 2x bigger piece.