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  1. Kaymyth
    I just got my Bands of Mourning pre-order shipping notification. It's not due to be delivered until Wednesday.
  2. Kaymyth
    It's not just me! Also, mmmm, broccoli. WorldCon hotel blocks open up in 30. I am staying up to make sure that I snag a room in the cheapest con hotel. (Yeah, I could drive back and forth every day. Downtown. With parking. While trying to cosplay. While I can drive my car in a corset, I don't particularly enjoy doing so.) ...nevermind, it's PM, not AM. Meaning noon tomorrow, not midnight. Gah, staying up late for no reason!
  3. Kaymyth
    Find a comfy chair and hold onto your hat. It's gonna be a wild ride.
  4. Kaymyth
    Right there with ya. Though I imagine it wouldn't be that simple; all copies are probably already checked out. Alas!
  5. Kaymyth
    I...I don't like metric outside the science lab. Fahrenheit degrees are all I know! And I can't wrap my head around trying to measure a person's height in centimeters. *flees from the approaching rain of vegetables*
  6. Kaymyth
    Well, it makes him happy to work on it. He's got a potential equation, he just can't figure out how to solve it. I can't really complain. He puts up with my writing and my cosplay and my con-going. Working on unsolvable math problems is just proof that he's as nerdy as I am, in his own way.
  7. Kaymyth
    Bwahaha! You learn well, my young Padawan. Soon a Jedi will you be.
  8. Kaymyth

    argh NAMING CHARACTERS

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    2. Edgedancer

      Edgedancer

      I know the pain. I kind of managed to find a method that works a bit by making the names very subtle puns/references preferably ones that cross languages. Still not perfect but better.

      Also don't go teasing a story and then say we may not see it here.:ph34r:

    3. Kaymyth

      Kaymyth

      I'm sorry! It's really not going to be possible, though; as this story developed it started delving into some very 18+ themes and admin would rightfully smack me into orbit.

    4. Kaymyth

      Kaymyth

      If it makes you feel any better, though, I've got sequels planned for Swift as Steel.

  9. Kaymyth
    I actually like him; I plan on voting for him in the primaries. But my political leanings are pretty left, which should surprise nobody. Plus, he's one of the few players in the game who has been pretty consistent over the years about resisting being bought by the corporations. The Citizens United decision was the worst thing to happen to the US governmental system in a long, long time. Unfortunately, even choosing not to play has an impact. It actually benefits the political establishment to disenfranchise people who have an interest in changing the system.
  10. Kaymyth
    Our biggest problem, really, is being so entrenched in the two-party system. Unfortunately, changing it would require changing the way our elections work, and the people with the power to do that are the people who are most thoroughly invested in the system remaining the way it is. To that end, it's been in their best interests to make sure the country remains thoroughly polarized, because if conservatives and liberals can be kept distracted by hating on each other all the time, there's not enough energy left over to focus on the real problems with our governmental system.
  11. Kaymyth
    I have no idea, but it's sounding more and more like an oddball anime of some kind.
  12. Kaymyth
    Ooooh! I had tried that once, and saw that it disappeared when I clicked away from the thread. I didn't realize that it came back as soon as you were in a spot where you could create a reply again! Huh. This here forum be smartlike.
  13. Kaymyth
    Ahh, OK, that makes a lot more sense in context now. And now I realize that Twi probably wasn't really looking for me for sewing tips. Pardon me, I'll see myself out... someday I'll figure out how you people manage to quote across threads like that
  14. Kaymyth
    Brandon was here last year for ConQuest, and I actually asked him whether he'd be at WorldCon. He said yes, he always goes when it's in the U.S., and sometimes when it's elsewhere. So it's reasonable to expect that he'll be here. (I intend to get more books signed.) Wait, I can see that Edgedancer quoted you as wanting to ask me about sewing machines, but I can't find the original post to quote! Anyway. Yes, I sew things.
  15. Kaymyth
    Yeah, he's commented that he just needed to get the math behind it figured out. This is also the man who plays around with trying to solve the unsolveable prime calculation. And if he succeeded, he would then have the power to break encryption as we know it, so he's not sure if he'd ever actually tell anyone he'd done it if he did. He has such adorable nerdy ambitions. It's enough for me to forgive him for not being a reader.
  16. Kaymyth
    Part of the problem is that he can't really figure out how to explain it to me. He's been trying to teach himself some sort of modeling software for a couple months now so that he can create models to illustrate what he means, but he's still wrestling with the learning curve.
  17. Kaymyth
    A slice of life of the relationship of nerds: Last night, I was reading in the living room. The rest of the first floor was dark, so I assumed that James had gone upstairs at some point. Until I spotted movement in the kitchen and realized he was downstairs with me. Me: "Have you been in the dark all this time?" James: "Yep!" Me: "Watchya been doing?" James: "Thinking." Me: "About anything good?" James: "Quantum mechanics." Yes. My husband sat on the squishy chair in the library for two hours pondering quantum mechanics. He thinks the current models are all wrong.
  18. Kaymyth
    The Midwest has its own peculiar little culture. People can be more reserved, but in other ways they're also a lot more friendly. Get used to waving at people as you pass them in cars. Even if you don't know them. Small towns do this like woah. I think you'd adjust all right. The nature of your job would allow you to meet a lot of the locals pretty quickly. I'm realizing now that I probably volunteered myself to organize this. Well, y'all will have to have some patience. I can't do it this year! See, this is why it'd be at a con. Lots of people already, semi-controlled environment.
  19. Kaymyth
    Well, I suppose that means they still have a week left to get their act together and offer you the job. Though really, you've also gotten two more interview offers since then, right? That's good! I know the last one didn't go as you would have liked, but still, you're getting them. Just practice more. And write down answers to those questions that throw you the worst so you don't have to fumble through them on the fly.
  20. Kaymyth
    The beauty of all this is if we can somehow put together an annual thing, it'll keep coming around and around. Which means that just 'cause you can't come the first time doesn't mean there won't be more opportunities. This fandom is gonna have a lot of staying power. Brandon will be writing books for at least the next couple decades. Have you heard back from Iowa yet?
  21. Kaymyth
    Yeh. I think I read a question once of someone asking exactly where that threshold lies that had the RAFO. But... (Stormlight Spoilers)
  22. Kaymyth
    D'aww. But yeah, you'd have quite a flight. But if it were at a con, there'd be more stuff to do. Is totally possible. Will just require organization and planning. ...assuming this sort of thing doesn't already spontaneously happen at these sort of events.
  23. Kaymyth
    Snapping still exists, it just...works differently. Prevailing theory is that Harmony just lowered the threshold, but I think Brandon's RAFO'd any questions about the explanation.
  24. Kaymyth
    I...I think I adore your aunt.
  25. Kaymyth
    Back in the days the Buffy fandom was big, posters on the Bronze:Beta message board used to organize annual Posting Board Parties in Los Angeles. This stuff got big enough that actors and writers showed up and hung out with the fans. This is the first time since then that I've delved into a fandom that had the level of cohesiveness and community to actually get something like that started. I see no reason why it couldn't happen; there'd just have to be enough people willing to help organize it.
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