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  1. Kaymyth
    ...and thus the joke was lost to the wilds.
  2. Kaymyth
    You so need to read a few Dresden Files novels. Murphy is the perfect example of being tiny and adorable and completely rusting terrifying when pissed off. Seconding what other people say about looking vastly different as you grow up. It's true. I keep my high school yearbooks carefully hidden away so nobody is tempted to look through them and see how ridiculously goofy-looking I was as a teenager. Or. OR. Go to Google, right now, and Google up Charlize Theron's yearbook picture. She was cute and adorkable, and now she's absolutely stunning. (As for shape, well, I'm no natural hourglass figure myself. Very straight waist, even when I'm skinny, which I'm totally not right now. That doesn't stop me from rocking a look and making my attracted-to-females friends drool at me.)
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    See? The new decorating ideas are coming already!
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    Friends of mine had their house broken into a couple years back. Their front door was kicked in, some things in their living room rummaged through. However - nothing was taken. Nothing. Including the bit of cash that had been left on a bookcase in plain sight. You see, these friends are amongst my pagan circle. And their living room is chock-full of pagany things. A painting of the Greek goddess Eris on the wall, various other god statues around, some other weird art in various places. Bookcases stuffed full of weird occult tomes. A stuffed, lifelike raven clinging to the chandelier. We think the thieves broke in, started poking around, and then started noticing what they were surrounded by, and decided to run far, far away.
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    I'm right there with ya, buddy. Steak is best when it is still tempted to moo at you. Unfortunately, trying to convince restaurants of this is very difficult. They seem to think that cute ginger women couldn't possibly want their steak anything near the way I like it, so the best I ever seem to get it is a tiny bit of pink in the middle. It's quite distressing. Because humans have this innate desire to witness musclebound people fighting each other, and gladiatorial combat to the death isn't legal anymore.
  6. Kaymyth
    Yes. See above. He was 16. Honestly, he lasted a good year longer than any of us expected him to; he had a stroke in late 2015 that hit him pretty hard, but he stuck around and kept going. It does make me worry, though, cause Leia turns 15 in a little over a month, so she's getting up there in years, too. But...she doesn't seem to be aging as quickly as Obi did. So she's probably good for a while yet.
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    Seconding this. The Random thread (and the General board itself) are just a microcosm of the Shard population as a whole. There are fiercely active regulars on the various theory boards who never poke their noses down here. Likewise, the RP and SE boards tend to have a lot of activity. I am hopelessly behind on the Mistborn boards. There's just too much! There are also strong surges whenever a new book or novella is published for the corresponding series board and the general Cosmere Theories board. It'll be a bit quiet through much of the year, but once the new Stormlight book is published activity will spike and we'll get an influx of new Sharders.
  8. Kaymyth
    Found out last night via Facebook that the family dog died. Rest in peace, Obi-Wan. You were a good dog. A terrible Jedi, but a good dog.
  9. Kaymyth
    Sort of the opposite of Clark's Law. "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
  10. Kaymyth
    Yes. Also, Missouri has Cuba, New London, Versallies, Venice, Lebanon, Nevada, Florida, and Savannah. There's even a Houston, which is the county seat of Texas County. I grew up in Memphis, MO. It's in Scotland County, just 20 miles down the highway from Lancaster.
  11. Kaymyth
    It really does depend on the cat. I've met cats who disdain humans. I've had a cat who could sense when I was experiencing menstrual cramps and would turn herself into a purring kittycat heating pad to make me feel better. (She was not a lap cat any other time.) I have even met a cat who hated all humans with a fiery burning passion, save her one chosen human, who would hiss at and attempt to bite anyone who got too near who wasn't the Chosen One. ...until the day I wandered in with a bamboo flute and started playing and she decided that my offering was worthy enough for her to rub up against my ankles and purr. (You should have seen the Chosen One's wife. She had to pick her jaw up off the floor.) The point is, cats are very much individual personalities and it's disingenuous to try to throw them all in a box together.
  12. Kaymyth
    This is a big part of it. Plus, there's the formalwear aspect, which is not as easily genderswappable. Men's dress pants always have pockets. Women's dress pants? Not so much. And dresses/skirts with pockets are like unicorns. I actually do have to wear a belt with most pants because I'm not shaped like clothing designers think women ought to be shaped. I have a flat butt and a high waist, so finding jeans that fit me properly is hard. Finding jeans that fit that don't require a belt to stay in place is impossible. Men's jeans have the problem of fitting a bit too high for comfort; hip-huggers are what fit me best, but trying to find those outside the junior's section is a hunt in and of itself.
  13. Kaymyth
    The excuse they like to use is, "Oh, pockets would ruin the lines of the clothing. Women don't want that." YES WE DO JUST ASK US I needed new shorts last year. I walked straight past the ladies' section and went for the men's cargo shorts. POCKETS GALORE Sigh. Men have it so easy.
  14. Kaymyth
    My husband is 6'2". On occasion, he forgets that I am only 5'6" and will put something in a place that I cannot reach.
  15. Kaymyth
    The fact that women's clothing designers have decided as a collective that we don't deserve pockets.
  16. Kaymyth
    Nah. I'm not a lawyer.
  17. Kaymyth
    Well, this week is not off to an auspicious start. Got an email from a company today, asking if we could let their client do <Thing That Is Illegal>. No. No, we cannot. Because it is, as it happens, illegal. And I said so in about as many words with a (very thin) veneer of politeness. Seriously, this is so mind-bogglingly stupid I can't even think up a good Redacted, Inc metaphor story to explain it. You'll just have to trust me when I say that just the fact that this person asking me to do the thing gave me a momentary overwhelming desire to smack them with a cricket bat.
  18. Kaymyth
    Step One: Do the thing. Step Two: Confirm the thing. Step Three: Repeat the thing. Step Four: Other people repeat the thing. Step Five: Party! Clearly, we have completed Step One and are working on Step Two.
  19. Kaymyth
    You direly overestimate the baking skills of people like me. See, cooking is easy. You can add a dash of this and that and fudge your measurements and it's fine. But baking? Baking is science for hungry people. And if you get just the tiniest detail off, it ruins everything forever. Also, I have learned that the only way for me to successfully bake things is to offer the oven a blood sacrifice in the form of burning myself.
  20. Kaymyth
    OK, the last time political talk hit this thread, it was a hot mess (and I say this being fully aware that I was one of the perpetrators). This looks to me like a powderkeg waiting for a match to be struck. I'm hiding the posts in question, not because of agreeing or disagreeing with the content, but because the subject matter is still bitterly divisive and the course of conversation is almost certainly going to go pear-shaped.
  21. Kaymyth
    Harvard scientists managed to smoosh hydrogen down into what they believe is a solid, metallic form. They're going to leave it smooshed between diamond tips, run some lasers through it, and see if it breaks. If it doesn't, they'll release the pressure and test to see whether it will remain in metallic form even after the pressure is released. If it does, this is going to mean major advances in superconducting technology.
  22. Kaymyth
    I love this con. I mean, it's the one that I've dedicated a good chunk of my time and energy, so it's a pretty good thing. It is also overwhelming, cause it'll be a lot of work, but that's a lot of the reason why they're going to ease me into it. 2018, I will be a vice chair, shadowing the co-chairs and learning the ropes. Then I'll run the show in 2019. After that...I dunno. Maybe I'll go into a rotation pool of potential chairs or something. It's a good system, and keeps any one person from dealing with the burden of chairing the con every single year.
  23. Kaymyth
    Honestly, Facebook knows...a lot more than it ought to. It's connected me to people that I knew but should have had no way to know that I knew, unless it somehow traced me to my own Livejournal account. Which I never deliberately gave it the tools to do.
  24. Kaymyth
    Heh. Once the con was on my radar, I got asked if I'd be willing to work as staff in 2016. I did, and was the con liason for our artist GoH that year. This year they have me running GoH liasons. It's like they think I'm a responsible adult or something.
  25. Kaymyth
    It's Kansas City's literary sci-fi/fantasy con. I attended in 2015 cause Brandon was a Guest of Honor. Next thing I knew, they'd recruited me onto staff.
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