Don Edwards

So an even better way to make that determination is to watch via a remote camera while someone else applies said test.

So an even better way to make that determination is to watch via a remote camera while someone else applies said test.

Grrl Power opened with a few pages of current time, and then started on a flashback. Four years and a couple months later - with twice-a-week full-page updates - it finished the first day of the flashback.
I think that may be the slowest one day. (Which must be restricted to comics that have had at least one clearly-identifiable day.)
The slowest month... I dunno. Freefall may be in the running.

Grrl Power opened with a few pages of current time, and then started on a flashback. Four years and a couple months later - with twice-a-week full-page updates - it finished the first day of the flashback.
I think that may be the slowest one day. (Which must be restricted to comics that have had at least one clearly-identifiable day.)
The slowest month... I dunno. Freefall may be in the running.

Your measures are a pair of three-syllable words. Neither of which contains the 'o' sound.

Your lady was wise. Cats have six ends and five of them are sharp.

Which means other people don't know just what to expect of any given fairydoll.
Which is a good thing, in combat.
Imagine: slice a fairydoll in half, it falls in pieces on the ground. Slice another one in half, it falls in pieces on the ground. Slice a third in half, BOOM! you're flat on your ass, stunned, and can't hear very well. You cautiously poke at a fourth fairydoll, and it throws a punch that breaks your sword. Maybe it's time for a different approach?

I could see it making them collapse into abject laughter...

Isn't that the point of a fair amount of fashion?
Along with a few specific items of clothing? I once read that the purpose of a negligee is to be seen for a short time - if it's seen for a long time, it isn't doing its job.

I looked at Scrivener and chose oStorybook. It's written in Java and available for Windows, Linux, and OSX. (When I switched from Windows to Linux as my main OS, I initially just put a symlink in my home directory pointing at the appropriate folder in my old Windows home directory. Didn't even have to copy the files. Everything worked.) It has more features than Scrivener, including built-in timeline tracking. One disadvantage is that the main website for it is in French, and the Google Translate version isn't a really great translation.
Backup is critical - and the biggest threat to your work, the thing you most need backups to protect your work from, is your own fat fingers. Which means you need frequent backups and several of them going back in time. Preferably on an external drive so it also protects you against hardware failures, and/or in the cloud if you're so inclined (I am not, so have no comment on the relative merits of various services). Strongly recommended for this purpose: Linux: BackInTime (it's free) ; Macintosh: Time Machine (you already have it); Windows: Genie Timeline (commercial, there is a free version but I didn't care for the limitations).
I use BackInTime and, for my writing, have it checking for changes every two hours. It keeps every backup for two days, a backup a day for a week, a backup a week for a few months (that actually covers the oldest backup I have), a backup a month for a couple years, and a backup a year for ten years. Other parts of the system are backed up less frequently because they are either less important or less volatile.
Time Machine and BackInTime take advantage of a characteristic of Unix file systems to make every incremental backup look exactly like a full backup - no special software needed, not even a plugin to a file manager - without consuming the requisite space or time. Genie Timeline could do the same thing if it insisted that backups be to an NTFS partition, but it's willing to write to FAT which doesn't have the required characteristic (each directory entry must be a completely unique file - Unix file systems and NTFS allow a single file to have multiple directory entries pointing at it), so it has to track stuff in its own database and use a special Windows Explorer plugin to reconstruct the directory structure on the fly. This means that a Genie Timeline backup is more or less useless on a system that doesn't have the software installed - and getting a new software installation to recognize a pre-existing backup set is a bit of a pain.
 

All the functionality you expect of the OS is there - but typically not in the same place, so it takes some getting used to and learning your way around. But then, so did Windows; it's just that you probably learned that a little bit at a time and now know where things are.
Also there's a lot of other software that is only available for Windows. However there are approximate Linux equivalents for most of it other than games, and a substantial share of them are free. So far I'm only missing a few games and Quicken, and I'm not missing Quicken much because the company can't be bothered to fix existing problems as it's too busy adding new ones.
(There's a Windows emulator, called Wine, that can run a lot of Windows software. But not all of it. Graphic-intensive stuff like commercial games, typically not. Wine is free, and included in many Linux distributions.)
MS Office? Most Linux distributions come with LibreOffice, which replaces Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Visio plus has some other features (and can read/write, at least, Word and Excel files). There are also versions of LibreOffice for Windows and OSX, and of it or some other descendant(s) of OpenOffice for BSD Unix, Android, and iOS (and possibly other OSes).
On the other hand, the OS is frequently MORE capable. For example: due to my particular situation I want my computer to run a wifi hotspot and NOT connect to some other wifi hotspot (my cell phone does that - or uses the cell network, and my computer doesn't see any difference). Windows 8 makes it easy (assuming suitable hardware) to configure things so the wifi adapter divides its time between connecting to another hotspot and being a hotspot - dividing the bandwidth in half for that computer and by four for any other device - but apparently can't be persuaded for the wifi adapter to JUST be a hotspot. With Linux I found a document that told me what setting in what configuration file to change and how to find out what values are supported by the hardware... one value supports dividing the wifi adapter in two like Windows insists on, another is for a dedicated hotspot.

All the functionality you expect of the OS is there - but typically not in the same place, so it takes some getting used to and learning your way around. But then, so did Windows; it's just that you probably learned that a little bit at a time and now know where things are.
Also there's a lot of other software that is only available for Windows. However there are approximate Linux equivalents for most of it other than games, and a substantial share of them are free. So far I'm only missing a few games and Quicken, and I'm not missing Quicken much because the company can't be bothered to fix existing problems as it's too busy adding new ones.
(There's a Windows emulator, called Wine, that can run a lot of Windows software. But not all of it. Graphic-intensive stuff like commercial games, typically not. Wine is free, and included in many Linux distributions.)
MS Office? Most Linux distributions come with LibreOffice, which replaces Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Visio plus has some other features (and can read/write, at least, Word and Excel files). There are also versions of LibreOffice for Windows and OSX, and of it or some other descendant(s) of OpenOffice for BSD Unix, Android, and iOS (and possibly other OSes).
On the other hand, the OS is frequently MORE capable. For example: due to my particular situation I want my computer to run a wifi hotspot and NOT connect to some other wifi hotspot (my cell phone does that - or uses the cell network, and my computer doesn't see any difference). Windows 8 makes it easy (assuming suitable hardware) to configure things so the wifi adapter divides its time between connecting to another hotspot and being a hotspot - dividing the bandwidth in half for that computer and by four for any other device - but apparently can't be persuaded for the wifi adapter to JUST be a hotspot. With Linux I found a document that told me what setting in what configuration file to change and how to find out what values are supported by the hardware... one value supports dividing the wifi adapter in two like Windows insists on, another is for a dedicated hotspot.

What upsets me most about those books and movies is that there is now more than a generation who do not associate the name "Twilight" with the work of Rod Serling.

I read that the law in France at the time said that if a baker ran out of the cheapest bread, he HAD to sell a similar quantity of SOME sort of vaguely bread-like thing, that he actually had on hand, for the same price. So (assuming that is correct) if the peasants had no bread due to a shortage of bread-flour, but there was abundant cake-flour, the peasants would legitimately be eating cake.
On the other hand, if the peasants had no bread because economic conditions were bad enough that they couldn't afford cheap bread...

Let's hope there is at least one other Dunkel household in or very near Moperville.
Preferably several with daughters about the right age.

Let's hope there is at least one other Dunkel household in or very near Moperville.
Preferably several with daughters about the right age.

It would leak.

 
From someone a bit older:
"It seems like only yesterday, perhaps at most the day before,
a child watched a TV set and listened to the Redstones roar.
I watched each second of that flight, and never did I think to leave.
Fifteen minutes, not so long - except when you forget to breathe."
 
 

Of the people I knew who otherwise loved 4E as compared to earlier editions, almost none used the 4E alignment system. 3E's alignment system was much better.
(In 4E-by-the-book it's impossible to be Lawful but not Good, or Chaotic but not Evil. Bugger that.)

Dancing soccer, of course.

That seriously depends on one's relatives.

Dancing soccer, of course.

If the world is rich enough, it effectively becomes a character - or even several characters - that OCs can interact with.
And fanfic can also feed on fanfic.

Dancing soccer, of course.

Dancing soccer, of course.