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

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10 books is not enough even for the sub-literate.

10 books would not even cover my required language reference books, for $deity's sake.

Owning a lot of books is not automatically hording.

I do try to only buy books when I'm deathly sick of re-reading the old ones for a while. I almost never throw out or give away books. I tend to lose them to iced tea, bathtubs, an annoyed cat, or the occasional forgetting them on a bench somewhere.

Speaking of deathly sick, I just spent 3 days in the hospital with bronchitis. Catching up on this much Open Thread has been fun.

Did I really see a post by JvP that was only two words long up there, or is the prednisone making me hallucinate?

It's really hard to walk around when a) one's right side is congested but one's left is not and b) one's lungs don't want to work. Obviously 'b' has a lot more to do with it, but 'a' is pretty tricky-making.

I think it'd be cool to make a song from all the most common (or funniest) misheard lines.

If you're going to watch Trading Spaces, you really should watch Changing Rooms instead. The designers are much less prone to being slap-worthy.

Although I normally seem to like the British version of various shows better, I have to say that the American What Not To Wear can be pretty funny. But not as funny as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which is the only makeover show I go out of my way to try to watch new episodes of.

Speaking of compulsiveness, my new favoritist show ever is Monk.

Now I'm going to go have some more drugs.

This is the first time I've seen so much dislike of Bimbos, too. The general consensus in my set is it's really quite funny, because we've all met and interacted with people fitting the stereotypes used; it's not as if they don't exist, after all. I don't think anyone I know took it as meaning to be an accurate portrayal of fandom-as-a-whole (if there is such a thing).

And it's certainly less offensive than, say, that Herald article.

Avram, don't I wish that were true. I'll put it on the list next to searching for a Christian who takes Matthew 24:19 literally.

"See? The Bible says rich people have a hard time getting into Heaven," I'll say. "So why don't you donate that money to me? I'm not Christian!"

All I had to do was spend 3 seconds on the web page to know that there isn't enough money on this planet to get me in bed with the course instructor, so why should his students have any better luck?

Lots and lots of good recommendations above, but if I only get to recommend one, I will go with Steve Brust. Start with your choice of Taltos or Jhereg. Because smart-mouthed main characters are loads of fun.

But if I didn't recommend Steve's stuff, I'd recommend the Vorkosigan books. Because smart-mouthed main characters are loads of fun.

Rivka, I know people who go every year and who love it (and who manage to not get roped into working it unless it's local). It's just too many people packed into a space and way, way, way too many events for me to choose from for me.

Yeah, I've got that button somewhere, or did...

Which is mostly because I was on a Worldcon bid. No, I don't know why either.

I hope you can manage this one with fewer duties. You need a break.

Xopher, I'm with you in wondering where anyone was being unreasonable. I was going to comment on it, but you got there first.

Unless T.B. is one of those people who thinks it isn't possible to be too thin. In which case I understand.

I was so traumatized by the first WorldCon I attended that I haven't been to one since.

Okay, I'm being overdramatic. The real reason I haven't gone has principally been that with so many things to do, I end up doing nothing. I didn't even go to ConJose, which was a whopping 5 miles from my apartment, because if I wanted to sit around and smoke and talk to strangers, I could do it for free.

Anyhow... I would actually tend to agree that this may be the year that skipping Worldcon would not suck. There is only so much energy one can expend. But if obligations require you to attend, just make sure you only do the things you really, honestly have to do, and don't get roped into doing other things.

*pauses for laughter*

No, er. Really. It is actually possible to attend a con and not get volunteered.

*pauses for more laughter*

Well. It's possible for me. I stopped volunteering over 5 years ago...

In which time I've attended, er, 3 cons...

Well. Okay. It's possible if you just don't go.

Piscus, at the very least I have personally heard both terms to refer to the same thing.

I wasn't planning on writing the essay in Coulter's style, because I have not a powerful enough microscope to find it.

Xopher, I think that Chick & friends honestly, genuinely believe everything they say. To give them some modicum of credit, I believe they genuinely, honestly believe they have to tell you these things so you don't go to Hell, too; they're loonies, but they're well-meaning loonies.

Jane, when someone like Coulter uses the phrase "natural fibers", what she means is "hemp and unbleached cotton and other hippy fabrics like that".

Because on Coulter's planet, linen, wool, silk, and treated cotton are not natural fibers, and no Democrat would wear any of them.

I'm feeling an essay coming on, and I haven't written a real one in well over a year. It'll be a semi-comedic piece, entitled "Planetary Features of Key Aliens Among Us".

Xopher, I certainly hope you weren't expecting facts from a Chick Tract.

I mean, aside from actual Bible quotes, Chick Tracts are as much fiction as the book I'm editing right now.

I saw news of this elsewhere originally (unusually), with quoted material beginning with "My pretty-girl allies..."

And all I could think was that there's not even any point in reacting to this, because -- not that I ever believed otherwise, you understand -- Ann Coulter is just not living on planet Earth. She is living on some planet in which well-dressed, Christian, patriotic, and (no doubt most importantly) good-looking people are invariably Republicans.

Of course, she's also living on a planet in which being a skeleton with skin, blonde hair, and tits automatically makes you beautiful, and where being beautiful automatically makes you smart. But rather unfortunately, that seems to be something it has in common with this planet.

"Synesthetic" is nice

As a word, perhaps. As a condition, not so much.

hwk: Who cares? Er, I do. When I go to buy a couple new pairs of pants and a new sweater this fall, I'd sort of like it to be in colours that I don't hate and that don't make me look terminally ill.

You can feel free to not care, though. I'll just be over there with the rest of the idiots who don't want to look like 1970s appliances.

Bad year for me to exist, apparently. Red and orange on sallow skin = way to make me look jaundiced, save in very particular shades, most of which don't seem too popular. I'm a little more hopeful about the blue-to-grey range.

The one good thing about being fat is that plus-size clothes almost always come in black regardless of the popularity of other colours. I shall take comfort in knowing that I should have no trouble finding black, which looks good on nearly anyone.

When I was !fat, I could wear hip-huggers, because I have actual hips. Most of the girls I see wearing these now do not have discernible hips, so they look all wrong in them. Therefore, please add me to the chorus of "I'll be glad when they're out". My sympathies to the people who have trouble finding good cut to their height, though. I've had that trouble, too. I am just tall enough that regular sizes are sometimes too short, but not quite tall enough that 'tall' is always a good idea, lest I trip on my pants.

Pink is not the new anything. Pink is just pink. It is a great colour if you are a flower; not so great if you are a person.

Jeremy, you are correct. I usually expand it as "like", not "love", but either way works. And yes, it's of ancient Usenet origins, though I cannot give details. I absorbed it via osmosis.

Jill: The Siamese thing was meant to refer to earlier commentary, shoulda separated it out. I plead early onset of senility. Or possibly just Friday syndrome.

leak. LEAK. The worst thing is, I spotted the typo even as I was pressing 'submit'.

I also almost typed that as 'spooted'. I believe I am somewhat tired.

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