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Commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
I wonder if it would be possible to create a good single story or novel that included all of them....
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Things like this could be useful for people with hand deformities or other disabilities. Just because you and I can crack an egg easily doesn't mean everyone can....
Commented on Invasive Slugs Run Amok in Canada (Relatively Speaking)
Save your beer and get some chickens. They LOVE slugs, and will do very, very thorough patrols to make sure they get them all. Just keep an eye on them if you have ripening veg, so they don't eat that...
Commented on How-to make yourself look like Sailor Moon
I subscribe to her channel and I don't even wear makeup. I find her tutorials weirdly compelling and interesting, and listening to her talk is like giving my brain a massage - she has an incredibly soothing voice and a...
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Sounds like the guy in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKCdexz5RQ8...
Commented on The Nerdy Dozens
Yo mama's so fat, scientist track her position by observing anomalies in Pluto's orbit....
Commented on Psychologists answer the question "What's the one nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself?"
@DAY VEXX Next question-- "If they can't get their own blinkers off, how can they manage yours?" The fact is, everyone has something like this that they never seem to get past. That doesn't stop that person from being able...
Commented on Doctor Who Exit Interview: David Tennant + Russell T. Davies, with Richard Metzger (BB Video)
Jelly baby?...
Commented on Somali Pirate talks about how to negotiate ransom, when to kill captives.
@ERNNUNOS "Y'know, there are hundreds of millions of desperately poor people who don't take up kidnapping and murder. Poverty certainly makes the option more attractive than it otherwise might be, but there's still a choice. A choice the majority of...
Commented on The Valley
Actually, Susannah, I'd have to agree with Tori about it being the makeup that breaks her out. I've heard from several sources that the other, er, substance is actually very good for skin (lots of natural acids and enzymes, apparently)....
Commented on Default state of the human brain
Probably also explains some of the benefits of meditation and sitting zazen. Lots of network-friendly time....
Commented on Charlie Stross's autobiography
I was fascinated to learn that Mr. Stross was the original causal force behind robots.txt files....
Commented on Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet
Palin - our first VP candidate that couldn't pass a Turing test....
Commented on One-ton manta cyclonic feeding frenzy
@OLDMANFURY I got to thinking about how we would respond to the same behavior, and now I have this image stuck in my head of a bunch of mantas in water bubbles coming up on land at night holding bacon-attracting...
Commented on You get better results asking for stuff when you talk to the right ear
Okay, that's weird. I just realize that I almost always hold a phone handset to my right ear*, but hook my headset over my left. Huh. Wonder what that's all about. *Except for my office phone, which sits to my...
Commented on BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video - Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen
@valuedrug The credits say the music is: Grid83 Conspiracy by The Noizemakerz via podsafeaudio.com...
Commented on Zombie haiku contest winner!
But hand me a bone, and I'll suck it....
Commented on Debt-collectors and credit card companies: the psychologists of predatory lending
I have to second Tenlow's response re: credit cards being the emergency fund. For most of my life, I've made well below the poverty rate, and am only now getting myself into a position to be able to build an...
Commented on NYPD directive on the legality of public photography to print and carry
Anonymous: That said I no longer take photographs of Bridges or any peice of major infrastructure. Its not worth being detained again. Well, you see, that's how our on-staff terrorists win....
Commented on White Mischief steampunk variety night returns to London, May 23
Gah! Steampunk! Wharrgarbl!!! There. That's out of the way. *wanders off whistling, stage left*...
Commented on Prison officer surprised he was fired after zapping children with 50,000-volt stun gun
@JINGLEFRITZ I'm sure there is a resistance joke in here somewhere Perhaps... "Stop resisting! Stop resisting!"...
Commented on Associated Press threatens AP affiliate over YouTube channel
What an AP copyright takedown notice might look like: http://digg.com/d1BlpR...
Commented on Unicorn Chaser beverage from ThinkGeek!
@eeyorex Thanks, man. Now I have to face the rest of my life with the concept of Goatse Juice in my brain and NO Unicorn Chaser to wash it away with scrubbing sparkles. What kind of monster are you!!!...
Commented on Biography of the last Chinese eunuch
@strevalex Poor dad...didn't expect that Chairman Mao... Well, to be fair, nobody expects the Chinese Inquisition. (sorry, it had to be done)...
Commented on How Obama's sentence-structure works
@IGPAJO Isn't diagramming sentences a form of torture. LOL, I was such a total nerd as a kid that when I got bored in grade school and high school (which was usually about 15 minutes into any given class, after...
Commented on HOWTO Launder precious heavy metal t-shirts
@STUPIDJERK *sniff* *sniff* Urmmm...that's not gore....
Commented on US Airways bumps Flight 1549 survivors up to super-elite status for a year
Ethics aside, I think bitching about this is highly unwise, since if they succeed, it might give airlines a financial incentive for passengers NOT to survive the next crash....
Commented on Your brain on fiction: we simulate action we read in narrative
This explains why I always get hungry for whatever food the characters are eating. It's like a demented drinking game - whenever a character eats or drinks something, my brain says, "Eat!" In a book with a lot of meal...
Commented on The delightful Mardi Gras King Cake
@Noen Oh noes!! I swallowed baby jebus! That's okay. He'll miraculously reappear in a few days......
Commented on Drew Friedman: Obama portrait for The New Yorker
This has a whole new layer of meaning after listening to his inaugural address......

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rose bush commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
while i think this is one hell of a piece, i must disagree with @the other michael. one could assume the characters you list to be female but in all reality if one asked mr gauld (and mr gauld was being honest) he would most likely say MOST of them were male in his mind. all that aside, i sure would love to own one even if in MY mind, it's a bit misogynistic....
the Other michael commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
I said that those characters were "potentially female". The vast majority of them would also fall under the "potentially male" list. The point was that the "potentially female" list is a lot larger than 3 or 4 characters. Authorial intentionality has no business anywhere but in the author's own house and dinner parties....
Gloria commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
How does one man's work leave "no room" for reimagining epics with more female protagonists/characters? Ooh, yeah. That's right. You can still "reimagine epics" yourself, without Mr. Gauld's blessing! Have fun. @rose bush: Not withstanding the fact that I don't see why it's wrong to acknowledge that traditionally, yes, most epics -- most literature, I'd timidly say -- are almost-all-male casts, having a cast of mostly male characters is not necessarily misogynistic. Please, please do not dilute the word by falsely equating a non-instance of a woman as *hate* for a woman....
Xopher commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
Thank you, Gloria. I agree 100%. I think 'androcentric' is a good word here. And an exception to the rule, I'm led to understand, is the Finnish epics. In them, the hero is great, but his mother is often all-powerful, and rescues him from dire fates with goddesslike abilities. I haven't read them myself, but I'm told that in particular Lemminkäinen's mother is incredibly powerful...after he's been killed and dismembered, she reassembles his body and brings him back to life, much as Isis does for Osiris in Egyptian mythology. She's wayyy smarter than him, in short....
Jerril commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
I'm curious about duck eggs. Other than the size difference, is there a difference with baking (anything else you have to adjust other than the number of eggs)? With the egg as the centerpiece of the dish (whether the humble boiled egg or something more involved)?...

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