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    Hello

    Sunbird replied to Kinetic's topic in Introduce Yourself!

    Welcome! Have your first upvote. I think you will find that this is a very friendly corner of the Internet. Here's a tip to stay on everybody's good side: if you want to talk about a spoilery part of one of Brandon's books, put it under spoiler tags and mention outside the tags which book the spoiler is for. You can make spoiler tags with the following BBCode once you remove the * within the square brackets: [*spoiler]Giant plot twist here![/spoiler*] And it will look like this: I hope you enjoy your stay!!
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    So I read Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 1, and although I enjoyed it and plan to try to get my hands on Vol. 2 to read, one thing really bugged me: whoever was writing the dialogue obviously doesn't know how to use the pronouns "thou" and "thee." Verbs were often conjugated wrong when used with "thou," and several times "thee" was used as the subject of a sentence. (I just took an Early Modern English class last semester, so this stuff is fresh in my mind.)
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    City mayor
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    Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
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    People who miss deadlines by a full month and then spring a project on you three days before it's due and expect you to drop everything and work on their problem when they know exactly how busy and exhausted you are. Completely unprofessional and inconsiderate.
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    Sunbird begins beaming as soon as she hears Les Mis music and immediately launches into a warbling rendition of "Bring Him Home."
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    I like xkcd, but don't really follow it actively. I do, however, follow Darths and Droids pretty religiously, and I've been debating starting Order of the Stick. I used to read Looking for Group but kind of lost interest after a while.
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    I learned about the genetics of this in a biology class a few years ago. IIRC, there are two alleles (genes) that determine whether your hair is curly, wavy, or straight. If you get two "curly" alleles, your hair is curly. If you get two "straight" alleles, your hair is straight. If you get one of each, you get the intermediate "wavy" hair.
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    Storm it, I'm out of upvotes and I haven't even upvoted anything today! I can't wait to see where this goes. (I just listened to "Hamilton" for the first time recently.)
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    Granted, you now have a tadpole that will never die as your pet. However, your bane is that this tadpole only feeds on human flesh, so you have to rob fresh graves to feed it. I wish that whenever I wanted to buy or pay for something, I could reach into my pocket and pull out the exact right amount of cash and change.
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    After seeing this, I got curious and googled "Is left-handedness genetic" and came upon a Wikipedia page about handedness... Apparently there is a genetic component, but it's not easily explained or predicted, and there are several other theories about factors that contribute to which hand is your dominant one. (Position of the fetus in the womb, exposure to certain hormones during pregnancy, and what hemisphere of your brain handles which tasks are among them.) /end tangent Anyway, I think Renarin's left-handedness is definitely plausible.
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    Oh yes, I love those books! I recommend them to pretty much anyone who says they like Shakespeare. Since the anniversary of Shakespeare's death was recently, GoodReads had a Shakespeare week with some goodies from authors who write Shakespeare-related stuff, including one from Ian Doescher. It's pretty funny.
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    I approve! (But I'm out of upvotes for today.) I finished Captain's Fury and read like all of Princeps' Fury in one day--finished it while I was on an airplane out to Ohio to visit my parents for two weeks. Now I'm anxiously waiting for First Lord's Fury to become available at the library, but in the meantime I started reading Blood of Tyrants, the next book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series. I haven't gotten very far because I've been spending all day birdwatching for the past four days.
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    I haven't seen it, but that's because I have a similar attitude toward it based on what I have heard/read from other people either in person or on the Internet. (Kind of like how I detest Fifty Shades of Grey without having read it thanks to the fact that its pornographic and sexually abusive nature is common knowledge these days.) Religion is too close to people's hearts for it to be something you can innocently and inoffensively make that kind of jokes about. But I think LDS church officials have made the best out of it by stationing missionaries outside the theaters where the musical is shown to talk about the real Book of Mormon to people as they come out.
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    I know he was mentioned in the earlier books; I'm just having a hard time recalling whether it was by name. I am having a great time reading Captain's Fury. My Kindle's progress bar says I'm 73% done. (I just got to chapter 43.) I've highlighted some funny quotes:
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    Granted. You don't need to sleep anymore, but you are forced to eat three times as much as normal in order to keep your brain functioning nonstop. I wish for the ability to pull fictional characters out of their books into the real world.
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    Sunbird looks up from her book long enough to interject, "I think the question is, which is worse: Sodium bookies that are Sadeas/Odium, or Sodium bookies that are made from sodium metal? A Sadeas/Odium bookie may be made of evil, but a sodium metal bookie will explode in your mouth and probably blow your head off."
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    I've watched all the seasons of Buffy and Angel, and I started liking Buffy less right about at the start of season 4. Although I will admit the first season or so of Angel was kinda mediocre, I really liked the last season. Speaking of which, I still need to find a way to read the rest of the graphic-novel continuation of the story...
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    So, the month of May has officially started! I will be out of state beginning this Tuesday, May 3, and returning the morning of May 17 (also a Tuesday), so if the meeting ends up happening between those dates I won't be able to make it, but I could make it if it happens on the 17th or after.
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    Wonderful! I can clean mud off my boots without scratching the leather now. I offer a jar of pickle juice. No pickles, just the juice. Great for repelling unwanted cats.
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    I suffer from RBTAAE: Recommending Brandon To Anyone And Everyone.
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    Watercolor baffles me so completely that I am amazed that anybody can create art with it, let alone art as beautiful as yours, Sheep! Love that shot of Kaladin leaping into the arena to kick some chull. And the Kaladin character design from Tumblr! XD I cannot stop laughing, especially at the comment about his boots.
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    Watch Legend of Korra. And read the graphic novels that cover events between the end of TLA and LoK. (First set is The Promise.) When I was in elementary school, our music teacher taught us a song with all the states and their capitals that went in order of when each state became a state. So Delaware was first and Hawaii was last, and there were hand motions to go along. For example, since Massachusetts became a state immediately after Connecticut, while we were singing "Hartford, Connecticut," we would make a pretend teacup and saucer with our hands in preparation for "Boston, Massachusetts"--which you have to say in a hoity-toity British accent as you sip your "tea" because Boston Tea Party.
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