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I wish I could say I was surprised, but given how long she had stopped breathing on her own, and how long it took to get her heart started again, I knew we were sorta hoping against hope. I mean, someone did manual CPR on her for 15 minutes while that plane landed. It's honestly kind of amazing they managed to get a pulse back. And I'm glad they pulled her back long enough for her family to get a proper chance to say goodbye. Still, I would like a comforting lap to curl up in now.

He's going to lick their tin-laced walls until they come tumbling down! I'd say it probably does help quite a bit, and I'd further posit that the limitations are imposed more by the accuracy of the weapon itself rather than physical abilities that could be enhanced by pewter. It's not going to do you a whole lot of good with a revolver, but put a Tineye with a high-accuracy rifle into a sniper position, and somebody's going to have a bad day.

2016 needs to go storm right the hell off now.

Carrie Fisher passed away this morning.

Also, Jyn's father was the bad guy in Doctor Strange.

Or you found the broken fang of the rare Giant Ice Viper.

Facts about RAFOs: 1. Sometimes they are about major spoilers on things he doesn't want to reveal yet. 2. Sometimes they are about things he hasn't actually decided yet. 3. Sometimes he trolls us.

Hee. I've said this before around the board, I think, but I generally view Jak as a sort of Buffalo Bill-type figure. The following is completely my own headcanon, and may or may not have any actual bearing on Brandon's actual intent: Jak is, at heart, a showman. He runs around and he does stuff, but he makes bank on embellishing the heck out of his doings and publishing those stories in both the broadsheets and with Handerwym's annotated collections. He covers multiple angles there; the broadsheets for the people who are gullible and believe the adventures, the collections for the more sophisticated folk who know he's full of ash and get a kick out of the humor mocking him. In public, he's always in character. If you were to meet the man, he would immediately fall into his character persona and proceed to dazzle and/or annoy you. Because to Jak, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who know who he is, and those who haven't discovered him yet. Either way, it serves him to feed into his story persona and ultimately sell more stories. But he's very self-aware; he knows he's completely full of dren, and he truly enjoys playing the part. And all the while, he's watching and waiting for the next hook to turn into a story.

Well, given that Brandon's postscript note for the story in Arcanum Unbounded flat-out states that his purpose in writing the story was to give us more information about modern-day koloss, some of the information must be accurate. The trick is in sifting the truth from the adventure-laden hyperbole. I generally consider the details of how koloss reproduce and pass on their spikes to be solid information. The cultural tidbits may be a bit more uncertain, but I think that it's mostly true.

Hair experiment results: disappointing. I think maybe the color came out a bit more vibrant than usual, but that was about it. Ah, well. At least I don't have strawberry blonde roots anymore!

Nah, you'll be carrying everyone else's New Year's gift. Rinovirus: the gift that keeps on giving!

This is a lovely idea - for the Dragonsteel site. I'm not entirely sure that it's appropriate for the Shard to try to lever in on that. While our admins have an excellent working relationship with all of Team Sanderson, this really feels to me like the sort of thing that would be overstepping our bounds (though obviously the admins would know more about the details on that side than I do). Plus there's Craftsy Games, which handles the Mistborn RPG, and they're yet another company that has their own website, and may not like the idea of someone else's app snaking into their site. Plus I am definitely on Team Let's Keep Chaos's Plate Of Stressful Things To A Minimum.

Friday, coming out of work, there was a Pikachu hanging around outside the building in all its festive-hatted glory. Perfect! I thought. Finally! A Pikachu of my very own! So I pulled up my last Ultra Ball, fed the 'mon a razzberry, and threw. I hit! And then it escaped and fled the scene. I was heartbroken. And then I caught my first Ditto, so I was a little less heartbroken, but still sad. But today, after going out with friends for our traditional Pagan Christmas lunch at a Chinese buffet, a few of us went out to the Nelson-Atkins sculpture park to go catch some beasties and spin some Pokestops. We had completed our circuit, when what do I spy on the radar? Why, a Pikachu! And it was right over there! This time, I caught the little beggar. That's right, Pikachu! YOU ARE MINE! ...I think I understand how Team Rocket feels.

Well, the problem with that is that if your hair isn't already a pretty light color, you'd need to lighten it for the MP to actually show up. Because it's a temporary vegetable-based dye, it won't lighten your hair on its own. If you want bright, jewel-tone colors, you have to start with bleaching, I'm afraid.

This is true. It's an intersection of Jewish and American cultures, but it works equally well for Pagans. It is temporary on the skin. However, on hair, it's much more permanent. It's what I typically use to rig the game in the eternal genetic cage match between blonde and ginger in my DNA. Manic Panic is a type of vegetable dye that typically washes out in a few weeks. However, I've heard anecdotal evidence that it can bind more tightly to hair when used in conjunction with henna. So I'm testing it to see. There are a number of potential outcomes. 1) Nothing abnormal happens, I just wind up with re-hennaed roots. 2) The Manic Panic color only takes on my roots. They are an inch long, so this could be an extremely interesting outcome. 3) The Manic Panic takes on all of my hair, but in different shades between roots and the rest of my hair. 4) The Manic Panic takes everywhere. Options 2, 3, & 4 also have suboptions between the bright red being temporary and washing out to my regular henna color, or being permanent and not washing out at all. I'm performing SCIENCE! on my hair!

We had Christmas Lunch with friends, in our ongoing tradition of Pagans pretending to be Jewish and going to a Chinese buffet on Christmas. And then some of us went Pokehunting at the Nelson-Atkins sculpture park. I finally caught a rustbegotten Pikachu. Also, guys. GUYS. I dumped half a can of crimson Manic Panic into my henna. I have absolutely no idea what color(s) my hair is going to be when I go to bed tonight!

....no. (Seriously, dude, these mod spikes itch how do you stand it why do you think I want more of them?) I'll take one of each, please.

Yeah. Latest update I've seen is that she's in stable condition, but still in the ICU.

And that is the story of the Seon that got so depressed that it stopped glowing and turned grey and opaque such that you couldn't see its aon anymore. It was named Eey. And that's how Eeyore got his name.

Whoa. That's the first hint we've seen that Coinshots might be able to pull off this trick at all. (I've seen debate as to whether only Leechers can do it because of the difference between Pushing/Pulling.)

Southwest is Best Airline. Their fares are usually the lowest, AND they give you free checked bags. (The trick is that their tickets are never on the big search sites. The only way to see Southwest's fares is to go to their website.)

The world now has an ebola vaccine. Score another one for Science!

Heh. James and I did gifts tonight. Technically, we should've done them last night because Yule, but were were busy with going to the niece's birthday party. So we opened them a day late. ZOMG HE GOT ME HEATED SLIPPERS My feetsies are so warm! I have happy toasty toes!

@bleeder, I would just like to take a moment to say that the pun in your signature is absolutely irredeemable. Well done, sir. Well done.

See Hyperbole and a Half - "Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving" This applies equally well to packing and long distance visits.