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

You know, reading these comments, you'd think that there was an age at which blue jeans and t-shirts or button downs were no longer acceptable daily wear.

Fortunately, in my infinite wisdom, I have chosen to deny the existence of the blue-jean-event horizon.

I will admit to having dropped quite a bit of money in the Gap the other day buying tank tops in strange and bizarre colors because I was tired of wearing black band tshirt and blue summer camp tshirts all the time. (Well, they were on sale, so I figured it was a good way to try new colors. Unfortunately, the learning experience seems to be that I actually can wear melon and other orangey-pink colors without wanting to shoot myself.)

My favorite NYC song is "Bleeker and Broadway" by Eddie From Ohio (a sadly less-well-known-than-they-should-be folkie group).

Oh the ground makes a sound
In central New York
Like it just might suddenly ope'
A hunk of metal in the air
Touching down
Among the skyscrapers
Who'd have thought
That metal could fly?

Well, if I hadn't finished dealing with movers just today and weren't planning on throwing my "leaving the East Coast" party next weekend, I'd offer to come help, but instead I will send all of my left-over "good moving karma" your way.

(Given how smoothly things have been going the last week or so, I should have plenty to spare. May all of your books arrive intact!)

I've gotten the plagiarism speech every year I was in school, starting from the first year I had to write a paper with sources other than my classroom notes (which was probably 8th grade or so [age 13]). I refuse to believe that any self-respecting school system doesn't include the same sorts of warnings about it.

Now, it'd be one thing if what they're calling "plagiarism" is "I had person X read over my papers and help me with the spelling and grammar and we talked over the ideas when I was writing it", but I suspect it's more of the "I pulled parts (or all) of my essay from some other source with no credit." I've actually been called up to hearings on the first sort of case -- I was helping someone else write a paper in a class I'd already taken, basically letting them bounce ideas off me and then helping them edit. Fortunately, since we'd chosen to take our ideas in very different directions, the profs decided that it wasn't plagiarism, but we still got very stiff lectures about how narrowly we missed being expelled.

There is a grey area, but I doubt this guy falls into it.

Dan, your Byronic good looks are sort of irrelevant to me -- you're married. (Although there is something to be said for having decorative friends.) And yes, you are interesting to talk to, but the bag was a big "give this person a chance" marker. After that you earned it on your own.

Theresa -- where did you expect people to wear them?

I was at Balticon last weekend and struck up a friendship with someone based at least partly on the fact that he had a Making Light bag with him (hi, Dan!).

Also, I saw a large number of the ML T-shirts on various people.

I wonder if we've got enough Making Light readers to justify starting a meetup... (I'm mostly kidding here.)

Theresa, I thought you'd like to know that as of this morning, Googling for "hugged it like a brother" brings up nothing other than Making Light references.

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