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

Emily @ 23

It's a good reminder that paranoia and caution are a better way to save yourself and other people.

Caution, yes. Paranoia, no.

Caution and preparedness is what can help to give you at least a chance when horrors like this occurs.

Paranoia is frequently the thing that sets horrors like this in motion.

I want a T-shirt reading “Editing! Gerunds! Death!â€

I know I'd buy one.

I am hoping to someday find Walter Lang's 1928 silent film version of Alice Through the Looking Glass which I remember watching as a Super 8 film as a kid.

For the playlist:

Richard Shindell's "Money for Floods"

Kate,

I recently had a grammar book recommended to me, and have actually been enjoying it: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.

Kayjayoh #99: Funny kind of matryoshka cars you've got there.

<flicks rubberband at Fragano>

Fragano Ledgister @ #82

Kayjayoh #73: 'I can tell because my car was parking in my landlord's car'. I'd love to know how you did that

Reaction #1: Huh?

<pause...>

Reaction #2: ROFL

Ok, how about I rephrase that: My car had my landlord's car parked in.

:)

In the Google streets image of my apartment building, I can see my parked car. The thing is, it is parked in such a way that I can tell that I had simply stopped and was running inside to grab something quickly before running off. (I can tell because my car is parking in my landlord's car, which I only do for temporary stops.)

Somehow the nature of the "I was almost right there" moment in the photo fascinates me, in a way that just seeing my car parked in its normal spot would not have.

It reminded me of the video by The Vacationeers.

I've eaten & relished many delicacies & would be willing to try beefamato & natto

Maybe combine them into beefanatto?

Michael Weholt @862

Wait'll you hear what the Obama campaign did to its press contingent to keep their noses out of it. LOL!

Do tell!

Juli Thompson and Magenta Griffith

I was helping with stickering and sorting name badges and stuff tonight. Whenever I ran across one belonging to someone I know (or even "know") I kind of smiled.

IM IN UR CON, STICKERIN UR BADGES

Juli Thompson @310 and Magenta Griffith @216

Excellent. (I live in town, so I'll be there the whole weekend and then some.)

As I mentioned to some other folk, definitely take a bit of time on Saturday morning to leave the hotel and head about one block south, as the Dane County Farmers Market will be in full swing until 2.

I'll not be at Denvention (though I am really hoping to make it to Anticipation next year). However, will any other Fluorospherians be at WisCon next week?

On the train two days ago, I overheard a cool 71 y/o woman enthusing about Amsterdam to an 18 y/o boy with whom she had struck up a conversation. I was entertaining myself by listening in and the overall conversation was pretty cool, but I totally thought of Abi when she talked about how easy it was to get around the city.

When I was substitute teaching, most of the teachers went by Ms. but I stubbornly insisted on being a Miss. I like Miss, at the moment.

I think it is a little funny how few people in the US probably even realize where the Mrs (missus) came from. After all, no one goes by Mistress anymore, and it has taken a decidedly scandalous tone.

I sometime joke with soon-to-be married friends that they might consider "Goody" or "Goodwife", which is completely silly in this day and age.

I am very fond of my initials and of the look of my signature. However, I've never particularly cared for the sound of my last name, especially in combination with my first. There was a brief while that I contemplated just changing it myself, but I couldn't think of anything that would keep my initials the same, sound good, and not annoy my grandmother. Plus, it seemed like a lot of work.

However, I think that if I ever get married, I may take my husbands name *if* I like it more than my current one. It would be a good excuse to make that change. I won't change it if it makes my current name seem delightful in comparison.

Dena, I am sorry for your loss.

Diatryma @ 185

I already know I have the English and Not English slots in my brain-- I respond to all non-English as Spanish-- but let's see how entertaining I can be, shall we?

I already know I do that. I took Spanish for four years in high school and one semester in college, but let it get very rusty after that. Recently, I spent several years substitute teaching in the local school district, and would often find myself in ESL or bilingual classes. The bilingual was english/spanish but the ESL could be a mix.

As I said to the kids, solamente hablo un poquito español, but usually I would know enough Spanish and they would know enough English that we could get by. However, this would fall apart a bit when I would have ESL kids that were not Hispanic...Hmong, for example. My urge would still be to address them in Spanish, and I had to remind myself that they probably knew less Spanish than they did English.

#14: Magenta, if you think all of Iowa is flat (and, yeah, sure,
most of it is), you’ve missed the Quad-Cities on the eastern border--
where the Mississippi runs west and it looks like Iowa took a bite out
of Illinois. We’ve got some serious hills, valleys, and bluffs around
here.

"I've never had a way with women, but the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could."

--Dar Williams.

Does anyone have recommendations for a good domain registrar? The registrars that spring to mind are mostly ones that I know by their bad reputations, like Verisign. It's been a hella long time since I needed to register a domain, and now I suddenly need to get two of them.

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