The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Kayjayoh:

A discussion i used to have with friends back in high school when we were feeling philosophical: "What color is your orange?"

By this we mean that, two people looking at an orange both agree that it is orange. Those two people also look at a traffic cone and a safety vest and agree that they are orange. The color wave length that reaches both sets of eyes is named orange. But does orange look the same to both people? Maybe what you see as orange looks like my purple. And what you see as purple looks like my turquoise. The wavelengths of light are given agreed upon names, but maybe the subjective experience of what that looks like are different.

We loved this conversation, because there was no way to prove or disprove it. It went well after ingesting large qualities of sugar and caffiene after a late pep band rehearsal.

On the one hand, Yay! More webcomics to read! On the other had, Oh no! Now I'll never get any work done.

Thanks for the recommendations.

Carrie S. @ #250

my RPG dice, small ones which I keep in my purse in case of a sudden roleplaying emergency.

Now that is the best jump kit ever.

Craig R.

Sabra sounds amazing! I have a friend who regularly visits Isreal. I'll have to ask him about it.

I like my alcohol to taste less like alcohol. I usually drink a nice yeasty wheat beer (Spotted Cow, Crop Circle Wheat) which is easy when you live in Wisconsin. I als like a semi-sweet white wine like a Riesling.

When it comes to hard liquor, I don't care for three of the big standards: vodka, gin, or whiskey. I do like tequilla and brandy (brandy being another Wisconsin tradition) and I'm quite fond of a number of sweet liqueurs like amaretto and Frangelico. Sadly, most of the sweet liqueur drinks also involve adding vodka, which I dislike.

My standard evening out drink usually requires giving the bartender instructions, since everyone these days seems to think an Alexander is an ice cream drink: 1 part Brandy (or Amaretto), 1 part creme de cacao, and 1 part heavy cream shaken with ice and strained into a cocktail glass.

Just reading this thread has gotten me mouth-wateringly hungry.

Reading this, I am so glad that I was in middle and high school long before the age of MySpace.

They just want us all to decide that this is a normal, and sensible thing to do anyway.

Exactly. This is exactly what is going on.

("If they really want to fly, then they'll bunny hop to the metal detector...")

And maybe the hokey-pokey through the metal detectors, since that is what it is all about, after all.

Engineering paper? Not using it unless I have to. That is poorly designed.

This gave me the best chuckle I have had all morning. Thank you.

So basically, engineering paper needs to be re-engineered?

This is most excellent. I wonder if anyone will have their nose out of joint because of it like Scott @ 5's co-worker did.

Ye gods, I love this place. 200 comments of varying degrees of brilliance.

Are you running for your schoolboards, making your arguments there? Are you working in the political off-seasons with your local progressive community to see what you can do to improve things for the next election cycle? Are you letting your local elected officials know that there *is* a progressive element in your community and that you'd like to be paid attention to? I dunno, what?

Yes! Yes! Yes! We *all* need to be doing these things.

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