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On 7/29/2016 at 3:38 PM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

It happened on Facebook. :P

Well, yes, *I* can see it.  But nobody else on the Shard can see the proof of your adorableness. :P

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1 minute ago, Kaymyth said:

Well, yes, *I* can see it.  But nobody else on the Shard can see the proof of your adorableness. :P

If someone I know wants to see what I look like, I'd be happy to PM them proof that I am not a lizard person. :P 

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1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

If someone I know wants to see what I look like, I'd be happy to PM them proof that I am not a lizard person. :P 

What's wrong with being a lizard person? :P

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5 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

If someone I know wants to see what I look like, I'd be happy to PM them proof that I am not a lizard person. :P 

Well I am curious XD Which of course doesn't mean you need to satisfy my curiosity as I may be a very patient serial killer or something, but  am still curious.

Also don't lizard people have very convincing skin suits or holograms or something?

Posted
4 hours ago, Sunbird said:

What's wrong with being a lizard person? :P

Refers Sunbird to the Great Lizard Uprising of 2352. We must stop it before it even occurs.

I killed some aliens then came home and played Halo

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1 hour ago, Mashadar Mistborn said:

I placed 2nd on Hellenic History and Greek Life and Literature for Latin 5+ and 4th in Roman Life at JCL Nationals. SO HAPPY!

Also, I went from level 6 to level 17 on Pokemon Go.

How did you go up 9 levels quickly?? 

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2 hours ago, Mashadar Mistborn said:

I placed 2nd on Hellenic History and Greek Life and Literature for Latin 5+ and 4th in Roman Life at JCL Nationals. SO HAPPY!

Also, I went from level 6 to level 17 on Pokemon Go.

1 hour ago, Delightful said:

How did you go up 9 levels quickly?? 

Priorities first :P

@Mashadar Mistborn congratulations!

 

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On 7/30/2016 at 3:24 AM, MrMistborn said:

Just got the text from Dymocks today, MY COPY OF CURSED CHILD HAS ARRIVED AND I CAN PICK IT UP TOMORROW ANY TIME PAST 10AM I AM GOING TO CRY WHEN I HOLD It IN MY HANDS

I was under the weird assumption that it wasn't going to be released until September, so I only ordered it today.

But when I get it, I will cry. I'm the guy who read the Harry Potter series 29 times.

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On 1 August 2016 at 10:09 AM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I'm about halfway through The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite and am loving every minute. :wub: 

Book movie show?

Posted
On 1 August 2016 at 10:09 AM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I'm about halfway through The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite and am loving every minute. :wub: 

Book movie show?

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Heh. @Briar King That looks like a good-sized snake. Did it survive the encounter with your cat? (Also, roughly where do you live? I'm curious about what kinds of snakes might be found in your area.)

Pleasant things in my life today: I got to roast marshmallows over a campfire and make s'mores with a bunch of friends tonight.

While I was sitting around the campfire, I saw a White-faced Ibis fly by overhead. @Kestrel especially will probably be interested in this. :)

It's finally my turn on the hold list for a Kindle copy of League of Dragons, the final book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series!

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To be specific I live in Lake Charles , Louisiana. It's about 30ish miles from TX line and 35-40 miles north of Gulf. Great city.

its a King snake and everyone lived unbitten. Non poisinious. 

Many types of deadly ones here. Copperheads, Cottonmouths, CORAL.... Yikes

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Posted
12 minutes ago, Briar King said:

To be specific I live in Lake Charles , Louisiana. It's about 30ish miles from TX line and 35-40 miles north of Gulf. Great city.

its a King snake and everyone lived unbitten. Non poisinious. 

Many types of deadly ones here. Copperheads, Cottonmouths, CORAL.... Yikes

I lived in central Virginia (two different neighborhoods in the Richmond area) for 12 years, so we had some of the same snakes there. Black rat snakes were the most common, plus the occasional copperhead and cottonmouth (or water moccasin if you prefer that name). All the venomous ones in our area were pit vipers with the triangular heads, heat pits in their faces, and slit pupils, and once I knew that I always took a good close look at any snake I came across to figure out how careful I needed to be around it. Lots of times I'd pick up the nonvenomous ones if they were small enough. My mom has several closeup photos of me holding tiny snakes, and whenever she shows them to people they're like, "What?? You let your daughter just pick up snakes??" And then I just chuckle as I imagine how they'd react to a photo of me holding a 4-inch-long praying mantis. (We have several of those, too.)

My mom found a garter snake while mowing our lawn once. She caught him and stuck him in a terrarium just long enough to show the rest of the family and keep him out of the way of the lawnmower until she was done, and he was probably the biggest snake I've ever seen in the wild.

One summer we found a nest of baby copperheads in our flower bed, and after we knew they were there my mom made me and my brother promise not to go outside without solid, close-toed shoes. That same summer, we went swimming in the neighborhood pool the last day it was open, and right at closing time, after everyone had just gotten out of the water, a smallish snake slithered out of the bushes and into the pool. One of the lifeguards got a net and fished it out, and a crowd of kids huddled around the net to peer down at the snake. And it chose that moment to find a small hole in the net, squeeze through it, and plop onto the pavement in the middle of the circle of kids.

You can probably guess what happened next. Utter. Chaos. All the kids scattered, and the lifeguard flipped out too and ended up beating the snake to death with the rim of the net. Looking back on it now, several years later, I feel bad that the snake got killed, but I can't help but laugh at the memory of a dozen barefoot kids running screaming in every direction.

Posted
2 hours ago, Morzathoth said:

I dont see why people are scared of snakes, snakes are adorable.

I agree.  So are bats.  I see them wheeling around outside sometimes at dusk, and cannot resist the urge to shout them encouragement in devouring the mosquito scourge.

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