Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I check in every six months or so.

That... sounds about accurate for me too.

Thanks! It's been a favorite project of mine.

I'm both surprised and really grateful that that answer got published. So thank you to guppy for saying it, and to the editors for letting her say it on the Board.

(Also, guppy of doom is an amazing nym.)

TBS et al., Hi Yayfulness, I'm right here and you can speak to me directly, thanks. Jesus fucking christ, what is it with you board people pretending like I don't exist and you don't actually know me? I apologize. That was meant to encompass you, Marduk, Arcaiden, Man with a Mustache, and anyone el...

I’d like to apologize, I really would. But so far no one has been able to point to a single specific mistreatment of another person that cannot be explained as a misinterpretation of what I said. As someone with no skin in the game in this particular instance, I think this phrase captures the exact...

Yep. The S comes from both of his grandfathers' names, but it's just a single letter.

"But yayfulness, other white people might have been racist, but I wasn't!" (Not attributing this to you specifically, Vorpal, it's just something I've heard one time too many.) If God can curse Cain and let literal billions of people carry on that curse for the entire duration of human his...

It sucks to wonder if God is racist. You know what sucks even worse than that? To wonder if God is racist against you, personally. The first one is a problem, sure, but it's something you can rationalize away or find an explanation for or even just forget about if you need to. But I don't think you,...

I wrote about 40 answers during alumni week. As of today, exactly ten of them have posted. Weird for me; great for readers who want an alumni week that’s a lot more than one week long.

http://100hourboard.org/questions/91232/ You know, once upon a time I was one of the biggest proponents of making the Board Comment Board happen. I thought that having a semi-Board-affiliated forum would be a really great way to get readers more engaged. And if it were still 2012 or 2013, it probabl...

My middle name is my mom's maiden name. I like it. (My name situation is a bit awkward because my first name is a very common first name and my last name is an uncommon first name that is nonetheless more common as a first name than as a last name.) My wife and I have thought about doing something s...

This reminds me of Simone de Beauvoir as depicted here: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/226

I tried to live by that philosophy on my mission. By doing so, I enabled my abusive companion to manipulate and even physically injure me without ever facing any consequences, and I convinced myself that I was a horrible person and was probably going to go to hell because nothing I did was good enou...

http://100hourboard.org/questions/91023/ You know, I didn't think anything could make me swear off Star Wars, but if Rey and Kylo did get together, I'd probably never watch the sequel trilogy again. I actually thought The Last Jedi handled the issue perfectly. There was obvious potentially-romantic ...

I got the flu this week while recovering from food poisoning, so I might not be dead but I sure do feel like it.

TheBlackSheep wrote:I'm choosing to think of myself as a warrior for surviving as long as I have and not completely alienating people as a result of this disorder.

That’s how I’ve always thought of you. I’m glad you can see yourself that way too.

I'm studying city planning, with a focus on housing policy and affordable housing development. It's not the focus I originally had in mind, but I think I've found the field where I want to make a career. (But then again, that's what I thought a couple years ago, and a couple years before that too, s...

Hi vorpal. I'm in California now, doing my master's degree at Cal Poly. My wife and I have acquired a cat whose life purpose is apparently to eat literally everything. We're about an hour and a half north of the largest of the fires that has made the news lately - it mostly hasn't impacted us, but l...

Depends on my mood. I think in the first person generally, but in the second person when I’m annoyed at myself.

I imagine the two issues are at least partly related. Absence of timely answers to questions + not many questions on the front page = a lot less likely to visit the site and ask more questions. This is an extreme manifestation of an ongoing trend, though. I started tracking the rate of question subm...