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  1. Posted

    12 hours ago, Stormtalon42 said:

    I'm betting that one Sidney Scoville would love to be able to abs-orb her powers like that....

    *pulls out Looney's list and adds a couple of tick marks*

    10 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Fortunately, Elliot is too noble to do that without feeling guilty about it.

    Elliot is so much of a boyscout he wouldn't be able to even *think* about doing it without huge pangs of guilt.  No way would he be able to get so far as actually *doing* anything.

    I do suspect that, now that he has a willing and enthusiastic partner, Elliot will discover that he does not actually fail at perversion.  However, he will likely still feel constrained, for the reasons Nanase explained to Sarah, when he's in male form and Ashley is in female form, or vice versa if Tedd and the TFG get involved....

  5. Posted

    Flurries this morning, heavy enough to reduce visibility.  There was still some snow lying in the shade of my building when I came home in the early evening, and a few little pockets of blowing snow flurries during the drive.  Going back out now, to come home late, so no idea what to expect weather-wise.

  9. Posted

    Ah, yes, Undisciplined didn't sell very well and would have been forgotten completely, until Doctor Who and NCIS both used "Calibrated" as incidental music within a couple of weeks of each other.  Suddenly sales went through the roof!
     

    Kindergarten Immortals, who play a mix of old-time folk and death metal on toy instruments and found objects.

     

  10. Posted

    Well, we either need a good number of people wanting to play here, or in the chat room (which also needs a big enough chat room), or both.  Shall we do a roll call of anyone who wants to play?  Say whether you'd be interested in chat or message board versions or both.

    demonhunter

    wolfb

    Aura Guardian

    Infinite Remnant

    Anyone else?

  16. Posted

    I'm happy about how happy something made me!

    I think I've mentioned that our local public library is closed for renovations.  For the next year and a half, they'll be moving 40% of the collection to a temporary location, which will be opening in one week.  Anything not in their top 40% (or checked out when the main place closed last week) will be in storage, completely inaccessible, and we'll have to request stuff through interlibrary loan to get any of that material.

    The temporary location happens to be directly across the street from our animal hospital.  Pretty cool, to get to have the official public library close enough to walk to on half a lunch break!  They're still putting the place together, and I went and peeped through the windows at lunch today.  There were shelves, some full and some empty, chairs, computers, check-out stations, most of the necessaries were in place.  I could even see stairs leading down to a basement area, which were prettied up and not blocked off, making me think there's more library down there, too.

    As I stepped away from the window to walk on to Subway, I realized I was grinning from ear to ear!  I'm feeling so excited that we're getting a new library to explore right across the street!  Books and movies and programs and magazines....it doesn't matter that it's less than half what we already had access to every day anyway, and what will be there is the same old stuff.  It's still so cool!

    I'm happy that I still feel that child's excitement at the thought of what can't help but feel at least a little like having my very own special library, moved there just for me.  That I can't wait to explore the new space, discover where everything is, stumble across new stories I haven't read before.  I can't wait to see what sort of children's area they come up with, what sort of displays, how they'll work around having so much smaller a space.  Maybe sneak over there at lunch when I'm not tied up in surgery, and just sit and read.

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  17. Posted

    This thread is for sharing your favorite quotes!  Just a reminder, as in the previous forum's version of this, please don't type up transcripts of entire scenes.

     

    "You know when, sometimes, you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later, they're as dull as a brick?  Then there's other people, and you meet them and you think, "Not bad, they're okay."  And then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality is written all over it.  And they just turn into something so beautiful.  Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met."   -Amy Pond, Doctor Who, "The Girl Who Waited"

     

    "It's hard to talk about the importance of an imaginary hero.  But heroes are important: Heroes tell us something about ourselves.  History tells us who we used to be, documentaries tell us who we are now; but heroes tell us who we want to be.  And a lot of our heroes depress me.

    But when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun -- they gave him a screwdriver to fix things.  They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an x-wing fighter -- they gave him a box from which you can call for help.  And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat ray -- they gave him an extra heart.  They gave him two hearts!  And that's an extraordinary thing.

    There will never come a time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor."   -Steven Moffat

  19. Posted

    I have no idea of my tolerance because I can't stand the taste of alcohol and thus don't drink.  It would be a great scam if it ween't true, because almost every time I tell people this, someone insists that they know of something that there's no way I'd be able to taste the alcohol, and/or that it's so great I won't mind, and a fair few offer to get me some to try.  Thanks to the fact that my area's Regional Gathering has an event called Pretentious Drinking, I have had the chance to try a sip of quite a variety of alcoholic beverages, and every single one tastes like cough medicine to me.  They're disgusting and I just can't manage more than a little sip, before making the exact same face cats make when they smell alcohol.

    I tried starting with watered wine, but that either has so little flavor to it that there's no point, or it passes the threshold for cat-face.  The only thing I ever tried that was anywhere close to acceptable was a mead at a RenFaire, but I've tried other meads since then with no luck.

    At this point, I'm happy to just be a non-drinker -- I've seen how much other people spend on booze, and I've seen the stupid things people do when drunk.  I grew up in a university town, and after every weekend there were blurbs in the paper about kids falling off balconies, getting hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, passing out at frat parties with tragic results, stepping out in front of cars, or whatever else.  I can have fun without alcohol, so why bother?

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  21. Posted

    I suspect my doc would consider that a *big* plus!  He once offered to put me on an anti-seizure medication, with no history of seizures, just to see if I'd get the weight-loss side effect.  Which was actually quite gratifying because at least he actually sees hyperadiposism (I just made that term up but I'm sure I'm not the first) as a medical condition and not a moral failing!

  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Just as long as Vegemite does not go out of production

    Vegemite is one of those foods that I really must try some time, just because I've heard such strong opinions on it through the years, good and bad.  Sure, those that find it disgusting have been more vocal and/or more numerous, but I'd still like to decide for myself!

  23. Posted

    Wish I could just jaunt over and check them over for you.  There's so many different things that it could be, the only way you're likely to know (assuming no necropsy) is if some of the survivors start showing signs of sequellae to infection.  For example, if, when they start walking, one or more of them is very wobbly with a tremor, cerebellar hypoplasia, then we'd strongly suspect momma-cat caught panleukopenia while pregnant.

    I'm sorry for your loss, and wish I could do something to help.