Kaymyth

Hey, now. There's enough squee for everyone here!

It's rural Iowa. You don't get much lower cost of living than that.

Eeeeee! EDIT: Man, that really is way up in the middle of nowhere, isn't it?

I think Wayne might've hit the nail on the head - VenDell seems to have a love of being melodramatic. At the very least, Wayne has his number and is likely to annoy the living bleep out of keep a close eye on him.

Well, except how do we know it's at random? It isn't, necessarily. It's built into the person's spiritweb, which is a totally different thing than random. It's a function of their soul. It may well be that some powers suit a wider range of people than others. And...eh. It's not really worth getting excited about. Just something I remembered reading. Hang onto your hats, kids, because I'm about to do The Thing That Must Not Be Done. I...am gonna cite the MAG. Now, hold your horses! Don't pick up those torches and pitchforks yet! Just sit back with a refreshing beverage of your choice and hear me out. Then you can chase me out of town with torches and pitchforks. The particular thing is in the section on steel - a liner note from Brandon himself: Now, obviously this doesn't give us any usable specifics, but it tells us that Brandon has thought about the balances involved in Steelrunning. It may be powerful, but it's also dangerous for the practitioner. I think it lends at least a little bit of credence to the idea that Paalm got away with some of her stunts by being considerably more resilient than a human. A miscalculation and a few broken bones might inconvenience her, but those same injuries on a human would cripple or kill. Of course, this doesn't even begin to solve the Lockpicking At Speed problem, or the How The Rusted Heck Do You Get A Gun To Fire That Fast problem.

Fun fact: we were totally going to have this as our wedding first dance, but we never got around to putting the music stick in. It's probably just as well. I love my husband dearly, but the man cannot dance.

... I could probably get you into a training class at Redacted, Inc. They're always pushing the Employee Referral thingie.

ThirdGen made more or less that same joke to me some weeks back. If he hadn't been sitting on the other side of the office at the time, I might've smacked him. Still, upvote for you. ...yes?

It...it wouldn't be the first time I rescued a young adult from the clutches of insane parents. (There are jobs to be had around here. Maybe not library jobs, but tide-me-over-until-i-get-the-real-thing jobs.)

Bands of Mourning spoilers: Something else occurred to me today, but I'm gonna need to wait until I can get home to look up the necessary backup.

If it helps, I'm pretty carp at drawing, which is pretty awful when I'm trying to sketch out costume ideas. I could probably manage Wayne stick figures that didn't look too bad, but anything more complicated than that is complete pants.

There is also an entire archive of answers to questions that he's already been asked, along with a master list of questions people want to see asked. Just take a look at the "Links" drop-down from the top of the page. The interview database is searchable, so you can enter key words for the sorts of things you want to know and pull a list of results.

I, for one, would be very wary if some watery tart started throwing baked goods at me.

Natural waist is the smallest point of the waist. A lot of people, when they hear the word "waist" think of a point closer down towards the hips. My hair isn't quite that long. Yet. And blowing raspberries at Twi's parents is the hallmark of a mom. Who knew?

I...cannot argue with this logic. You know, I might just be able to pull off the Leia buns, given a metric ton of hairspray. Hmmm. Maybe I'll try it. We're both taking the 28th off, so I should have ample time to fiddle about and test it. On a tangent: gorram it, Firefox, why does YouTube keep crashing you?!

Hmm. I probably can. My hair is down to my natural waist. But GETTING it up like that....there's the trick. pphtbbtthht on them. (See how mature I am? Yeah, that's right, Shard. THIS is the woman you declared your mom.)

Disclaimer: I am a music nerd. I took a great deal of classwork in the field when I was shooting towards a music performance degree. I wound up getting my B.A. in elementary education, but the musical knowledge has stuck with me. Some general notes on orchestration (I only just discovered this thread, and my husband is currently playing a noisy video game, so I haven't actually listened to the thing yet): Eb clarinet is usually either a sopranino clarinet or an alto clarinet. Contrabass clarinet is also in Eb, but it's huuuuuge. Bb applies to the standard (soprano) and bass clarinets. You also have a lot of oddball-keyed clarinets; the most commonly used is A, which is similar to the standard Bb in pitch and timre. Its existence is mostly due to the classical age writing music for orchestras that had a lot of sharps. Natural key signatures of sharps combined with instruments pitched to the flat side of things makes for horrendously evil key signatures and double sharps and nigh-Lovecraftian musical notation. Same sort of deal with the C trumpet; it's just easier to handle a high-sharps key signature. Basically, when you have an instrument that's pitched with flats "built into it", you have to add extra sharps to the instrument's music in order to balance them out. So if you have a Bb trumpet, that's an instrument with two flats built into it. If the concert-pitched instruments (that's the C instruments to the laymen) are playing in the key of C, no sharps or flats, then the transposed parts for the trumpet will be in the key of D. That's two sharps to cancel out the two flats built into the instrument. On the flip side, an A clarinet will have three sharps built into it, so a piece in the key of C would have to be transposed into Eb for it to balance out correctly. Why are instruments pitched this way at all? It comes down to playability. By pitching the different instruments, you get a standardization of fingerings within the different families. Saxophones flip back and forth between Bb and Eb, but on all different types of sax (sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass) the fingerings for different notes are exactly the same. Oh, and play a G on a saxophone? It's pretty much identical to how you finger one on a flute, in spite of the fact that the instruments look wildly different. This standardization makes it very, very easy to learn to play new instruments in the same family. I'm not familiar with Musescore; I use Finale for my writing. It's a nice program. You can have the score switch back and forth between concert pitch and natural pitch. It's a heck of a lot easier to enter parts when you don't have to try and transpose them in your head. Changing the pitch of a timpani mid-performance is doable, but it depends heavily on the level of the orchestra. It's not something I'd expect a high school player to be able to do, but a good college player could probably do it, and a professional orchestra member expects this sort of thing as a matter of course.

...you're right. Dangit, Duralumin, messing it up for everybody. Though Chromium might affect other things, too. Basically, the Spiritual metals are just weird. But Steel is still a physical metal; pewter, tin, iron - none of these have shown any evidence of messing with things other than the Feruchemist. The idea that steel could speed up things you're touching just doesn't seem to fit the pattern. I've always found it curious how out of all the metals, only pewter and tin do basically the same thing in Allomancy and Feruchemy. None of the rest of them even come close. Also, something that occurred to me this morning: We have that WoB that states atium alloys all have temporal effects. In the Ars Arcanum, Feruchemy (the magic melding Ruin and Preservation) is described as "shuttling attributes through time". Dangit, Ruin, for a dude who can't see into the future worth squat, you sure do mess with time a lot.

You will do better - you just need to get out of the toxic environment that keeps eroding your self-esteem.

That's right! I'll get you next time, Gadget! next year! (Wait'll you actually get to read the fanfiction. It's a novel length monstrosity with a complete cast of original characters. I'm a crazy person.) For...being nice and stuff. Nice enough that I don't really mind that you stole my Ookla name. Mostly.

Start by narrowing down the major carriers that are available to you. Go to their websites, compare their plans; check pricing tiers, search about for reviews as to their service and whether they sneak throttling in on your data. Look at their coverage maps, but also know that those are not the end-all be-all of what they cover; the networks will piggyback off of each other. Domestic roaming charges pretty much don't exist anymore, but "borrowed" signals are usually worse than the home network signal.

Daaaaaang. No wonder you have the post count of a veteran! (I'm probably going to change my profile pic system soonish. I'm liable to start spending a LOT of time writing, and I'd rather be me-pony most of the time.) For beating me to the best Ookla name.

For being relatively new, but suddenly being everywhere. (Come on, somebody come up with something other than the forum mom thing. That's been done, like, 3 times in this thread! )