Kaymyth

No, no! Wayne needs to use his numbers-to-food Soulcasting to find the magic combination of numbers that produce cupcakes. I mean, obviously.

T + K + Geekosity = wavefunction ( madness + cos(arbitraryridiculousness) * Fibonacci + 42) - hubris Yeah, it's not usually gender-neutral, unless used in the plural, and even then not always. English? Difficult for non-native speakers? Surely you jest!

Pickle magic is the best magic. Well, almost. If he could only put that to work on cupcakes...

Part of the problem is that there are so many people trying to get library jobs. It's not as bad as it was, say, 8 years ago, but there's still a lot of competition out there. Just keep plugging. I know you're tired, and I know you're frustrated. Just take a deep breath, polish your stuff, and move forward. Worrying about the stuff behind you is just going to distract you. I...I am not actually all that fond of tacos. (I blame elementary school lunches. I broke one of my last baby teeth in half on a taco shell in 6th. It was a traumatic experience.)

I'm an INFP and I'm not even sure that I can answer that question. Mostly I think a lot, with a goodly amount of daydreaming to make up stories. I think about people and the way they interact, what drives them to do what they do. I can be on one side of an argument and still get the other point of view and why people who disagree think what they do. Because so much of my thought processes are internalized, I also tend to make some really weird correlative leaps from the point of view of people who aren't in my brain. "Speaking of <thing>, <starts talking about other thing that is outwardly unrelated but connected through two other jumps>."

This actually makes me happy. I don't like the idea that every cool/interesting thing about a character has to be attributed to a power. It's far more interesting when they're just things that make them people.

I am a woman, not a fellow. But...eh, it's not that I'm bored, it's just all normal everday stuff. No diversions of nerdery to keep my brain fresh, and the entire office seems to be less weird. Hmm. There's a thought. Ponder the scientific ramifications of the nerd-interaction between me and T. Our dynamic clearly sends out waves of geekification to the whole floor, causing ripple effects. There must be an equation in here somewhere.... Precisely. You're not here!

While I do hope that he's been enjoying his vacation, I'm kind of looking forward to ThirdGen coming back to work. Because it has been super-mundane around here without him to pester incessantly IM-chat with.

Heh. I wasn't allowed to get the "fun" cereal as a kid. It was Cheerios or Rice Krispies or something else without a crapton of sugar, and woe betide me if I agitated for the sugarbombs.

Yep! Ahh, the movies of my teenagerhood. (Well, almost anyway. I believe that it came out the year I turned 12.)

To be honest, I doubt he's around here much, if at all; he's awfully busy. Peter Ahlstrom is, though, and I imagine that every once in a while he stumbles across something particularly hilarious and passes it on to Brandon.

Eeeee! *rushes to go read* Awww, yeah.

I've always found most levels of nihilistic thought to be a bit dull. Does nothing we do matter in the bigger picture? Meh, whatevs. I like my life, and I'm going to live my life, and I am going to enjoy the everloving frell out of my life because angsting about the ultimate cosmic whatevers sounds dreadfully upsetting. Just shout, "42!" and move on. This. Cracked. Me. Up. Kemetic pagan, by the way. Worship (ish, in my case) of the ancient Egyptian gods. All that plus a heaping helping of Unitarian Universalism - "Everyone's got a handle on some piece of it, just follow Wheaton's Law and you'll be fine." Or to put it in terms that totally pin my age up on the board, here are the highest words of wisdom from the two most profound philosphers of our day: "Be excellent to each other." "Party on, dudes!"

The horseshoes work because they're hitting the ground before the Mistborn Pushes on them. You have to have something greater than your own mass to Push against in order to go up; it would never work if they were just hovering mid-air.

I think the Savant damage was on a different level from Hemalurgy, and granting Mistborn powers is already an established ability of Preservation. But the sheer number of cracks in Marsh's spiritweb from having so many spikes...eesh. It's possible that it's something that he could have tried, but wasn't sure if he could succeed without killing him.

I sincerely doubt that Harmony would ever deliberately do such a thing. In fact, I personally believe that the only reason Marsh is still running around like that is because Harmony couldn't figure out how to fix the hemalurgic damage.

Almost certainly not. If all that's holding up the coin is the Lurcher's Pull, then what's holding up the Lurcher? There would literally be nothing counteracting gravity to keep the Lurcher in the air. S'he'd fall straight down, albeit with a coin snugged tightly to his/her foot.

...might be. But I wouldn't make any bets either way.

Now, the alternative, take the opposite power - if you're trying to crack a safe on a time budget, a Slider would be plenty useful. Speed up time and give your safe expert plenty of extra time to decode the lock.

I believe that was the same conversation that MeLaan accused Wayne of conning everybody about his apparent wisdom, so I'd take all of it with a grain of salt. Wayne-thought theory is a strange, new discipline of science that nobody's quite got a handle on yet.

No. No, I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

A coworker was just having a texting conversation with her brother. She provided him with some information, and he asked, "How do you spell that?" How do you spell the thing she just texted to you. TEXTED. Can I be done with today? Both my brain and my faith in the general intelligence of humanity hurt.

That does make me feel a little better about my initial knee-jerk reaction of, "aah, they're all Shardmetal spikes!" Then I looked at my post and thought I didn't have the evidence to back it up.

Ooooh, I missed that one. Though we didn't get a specific date on the episode, I don't think that even the Norse who made it to N.A. ever came across corn.

Yay, fire! I light my torch and go exploring the ancient tomb!