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Untitled 29 Jul 2013 | 12:29 am
I'd really like to find a study about the way people eat foods like M&M's, Smarties (UK version), or Reese's Pieces. Why separate the colors when there's no difference in flavor? But many people do; t...
From my bookshelf: 6 Jun 2013 | 11:51 pm
I'm bored so here are some thoughts on some books I've been reading recently: The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell aka John Hembry I’ve been reading this series off and on for a few years. Campbell/Hembr...
Untitled 5 Jun 2013 | 08:03 am
I wish I could hear accents the way other people do. My ear just acclimatises but does it in a really weird inconsistent way. It wasn't always like this. When I was a teenager, I could identify wha...
Untitled 29 May 2013 | 09:07 am
Sometimes I read articles about transgendered children like the one floating around on Yahoo recently and wonder just what my gender would have been if that kind of thinking had been the norm when I w...
Untitled 17 May 2013 | 03:22 am
I went to a midnight showing of Star Trek and it was so disappointing. There were barely twenty people in the theatre. What’s the point of a midnight showing if you’re not going to have a crowd of exc...
Untitled 12 May 2013 | 07:14 am
Okay, wow, so Orphan Black only made it... what five episodes? ...before it jumped the shark. Seriously, WTF. I think I'm done; even the I'm-too-lazy-to-change-the-channel post-Doctor Who time-slot ca...
This should go in pengke_writing but it's not... 8 May 2013 | 12:55 am
Sometimes I worry that people are going to be horribly disappointed with the sequel to A Building of Bridges, that there are expectations for the content that just aren't going to happen. It's an odd ...
Untitled 1 May 2013 | 08:49 am
I should probably preface this thing by saying that I don’t really like sex scenes. They do nothing for me but I can’t really ignore them because they take up a lot of space in the stories I love. W...
An Introduction, of sorts... 21 Apr 2013 | 06:08 am
Hi, new people! My name’s Alanna. Welcome to my livejournal. If you read through the older posts, you’ll find references to and posts by other people but they’re not around right now. I have anoth...
Untitled 14 Apr 2013 | 07:21 am
The scene today... [Toy section of Walmart] Random Woman 1 (staring at the Lord of the Rings Legos): Those things disgust me. Random Woman 2: Really? Why? Random Woman 1: Lord of the Rings is just...
