Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

You can try places like Ebay, but as always, buyer beware (and I've heard that things like cameras, specifically, can be iffy on Ebay). On the other hand, if you're looking at used, KEH has a stellar reputation, and usually some of the best prices, too. The condition they list for gear is pretty con...

It appears that they didn't do any better than we're doing at coming up with a good, concise way to refer to that decade. Later, as people have already suggested, "turn of the century" seems to have caught on a bit, but there were other awkward contenders too.

ETA: It might also be interesting to look at feminist themes in books by LDS authors (I just finished the Mistborn series last month so this is still on my mind :P). Whether or not you write a paper on it, I'd be curious about your thoughts of feministic themes regarding Mistborn (or other books by...

Do girls generally think guys are complicated, though? I don't know what girls think, but my impression is that guys think that girls think guys are simple. (I think this also sort of ties into the sitcom stereotype of guys as the bumbling, not-quite-as-smart characters; think Tim Taylor from Home ...

Thanks for checking! I noticed a few weeks ago that it wasn't blocked any more, and for a variety of reasons I think it may have had to do with a robots.txt extension on the site that looked spammy to BYU's network. Speaking of which, what's up with their robots.txt? I hate how they block every sin...

Oh, hey, that reminds me of calcant : the person who pumps the bellows for old-style organs with bellows. (A while back I got to see a great performance on an organ with all-manual linkages and an actual bellows, and afterward got to go back in the organ and pump the bellows myself. It was pretty fu...

Good luck, Uffish! That sounds like a serious regimen. I think it's been mentioned on here before, but Eirene discovered the same thing about SLS, and that has helped her too. She gets them much less often now than she used to. (She actually just uses an SLS-free toothpaste, which you can get a few ...

Thanks! Also, good eye. Mumbai is very nearly as far from Hong Kong as Goa is; Mumbai is 4291 kilometers (2666 miles), while Goa is 4295 kilometers (2669 miles).

I found doctor that took me today! And she gave me prescriptions for drugs! And maybe I won't have to live with this bout of awful cankermouth for another month! I am the giddiest! Congratulations! I'm also curious, because I always thought there was basically no treatment (and I just suffered, tho...

Just curious, most of the people who've said they would approach someone who was crying are women. What would be your reaction if a man were to do the same? (The approaching, that is, not the crying.) Do you think people (whether other men, or women, or teenagers or whatever) would appreciate the ge...

Lavish, also, was never a BYU student. (This was something that, as she points out, even many other writers didn't realize!)

During the day, I would say it would probably take most of your day (8-10 hours). I've only done part of the hike at night before, but I feel like at night you're likely to go slower. Everywhere I look seems to disagree on distance, but I've seen round-trips from the Timpooneke trailhead listed as a...

Does that mean that, in order to have a rotary phone, it has to be leased? Or can it just be owned? I can't imagine my grandma putting up with having to pay so much for a phone. By the way, She has a dark green one that's a wall mounted-one. I love it- because it's green. and old. But mostly becaus...

So I was reading through some of my old favorite questions, and came across this one which references a "random controversy" taking place due to a question about Marshmallow Mateys. I was all, "Oh yeah, I remember that argument happening on the bb... I can't remember what we argued a...

Haha, thanks. But no worries, I'm not planning on unseating Katya. 500+ more answers is a lot!

valuta - from context, money (what I can find online refers to exchange rates, but this is a bit of a different meaning) Source: Starship Troopers (would not recommend), by Robert A. Heinlein, pg. 201: Churchill Road from the Base to the city is lined both sides with enterprises intended to separate...

Portia wrote:Accidentally stumbled on one those unholy Pick-up "Artist" sites, whose vitriolic spew against decent guys is only matched by their unleavened hatred of all women.

You probably already saw this xkcd, but if anyone hasn't, it's great.

That article makes some interesting points, but doesn't even try to address other benefits of reading (which are much more testable, and I feel like probably have been proven? though I guess I'm not totally sure).

Random wrote:One time I was at somebody's house and they had sugar shaker... I was very confused.

I'm not sure what I'd use a sugar shaker for, but a cinnamon-sugar shaker would be the bomb.

I've seen some on the lawn south of the Clyde building before (after a bunch of rain).