AKICIML: What's a good place to send my ponytail? I just had it cut off. No dye, but some gray hair (I found one place online that said "no more than 5% gray", and I'm pretty sure I have more than that).
There's been a sudden storm of them on a bunch of older threads. Help! Moderator!
By the by, Xopher, I should let you know that I'm going to be making "Black Hole Brownies of Death" to take to my cousin-in-law's place in Austin this Thursday. They've been very popular every time I've made them.
Jörg@91: phrases involving motion to somewhere generally take the accusative, not the dative or ablative, so "in porcum". I don't think "tuum" is necessary.
Fragano@943: "Magistrum", please. (Actually, there was an old episode in which the Master used the alias "Mr. Magister".)
Haven't got to see it yet, alas. (Katie wasn't in the mood tonight, and she's going to be busy tomorrow night...I got her to promise to watch it on Tuesday.)
Normally I wouldn't post just to say that but the sheer novelty of being in the single digits (let alone #2) on a new open thread was irresistable.
Here's an amusing little link I just randomly came across: http://www.sonokids.org/wikifun/. It's inspired by a Japanese performance art café; you type in a search term, and it returns the Wikipedia article...that the previous person searched for. The next person gets the result of your search.
Terry Karney@130: Cite on the Bulwer-Lytton? Paul Clifford starts off "It was a dark and stormy night" but immediately and totally diverges from Snoopy's writings. Is the stuff about "a shot rang out" and so forth from other Bulwer-Lytton novels? If so, which ones?
Serge@447: What about Naomi Novik's books, which mixes Hornblower stories with dragons? Any romance in those?
Mm, no...not so's you'd notice. The dominant relationship there is between Laurence and Temeraire, but for obvious reasons it's a deep loving friendship rather than a romance.
I also am a non-writer. (My book ambitions [or at least pipe dreams] involve proofreading.) But writing as a process interests me, and I tend to find writers to be interesting people. Besides, I read everything on Making Light except the "Salwar Kameez" thread.
Link to what looks like a commercial website, vapid one-line comment, old inactive thread...all the classic signs are there.
DDB@362: I agree that your voice is high-pitched for a man, and especially a man your size. Wouldn't surprise me if your singing voice were tenor, but I'm no expert on the subject.
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Yeah, I was afraid of that -- first time I posted, I got an error message. The message said "correct the error in the form and press 'post' again" so I pressed "post" again.
I used to find that if I lay on my back and did my best to breathe through my nose as much as I could, eventually the airflow from the CPAP machine would dry up the mucus and allow me to breathe through my nose. Sometimes this would take a long time, but only once did I ever get to the point of giving up and sleeping without the machine. More recently I have actually switched to a mask that covers my mouth.
I used to find that if I lay on my back and did my best to breathe through my nose as much as I could, eventually the airflow from the CPAP machine would dry up the mucus and allow me to breathe through my nose. Sometimes this would take a long time, but only once did I ever get to the point of giving up and sleeping without the machine. More recently I have actually switched to a mask that covers my mouth.
I grew up in the '70s with California plates being gold letters on blue background (rather than blue letters on gold background as Linkmeister said originally). Gold letters on black background is older; sometime in the mid-'80s they switched to midnight blue on white.
Serge@187: Unpack, please? You mean you're equally fast at both, equally slow...?
@214: She didn't actually hit me (and indeed was obviously joking when she said it).
David Harmon@157: No "almost" about that for me -- my parents took me to a child psychologist at Mills College because they were concerned at how late I was at starting to talk. I did start talking, but the psychologist noticed that I was reading. (I am not otherwise on the autism spectrum, though.)
Earlier this year I ran into D. Potter at an Oakland Trader Joe's. Tolkien came up in the conversation and I mentioned having read The Lord of the Rings at a very young age. She said something like, "Are you one of these people who started reading at the age of three? If so, I'm going to have to hit you." Rather than answer out loud, I started shuffling away, mock-cringing.
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