Feb. 1st

[anamuan]

I like the way February 1st looks. except when i think about it means. aesthetics need have nothing to do with rational.
but the weather is absolutely miserable.

iverin: You are about as thug as a two day old kitten
(about everyone's favourite gangsta, Koki)

So there is this wonderful, cracktastic kids fantasy fic by tinyangl. And then there is more in this

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[mycroftnext]

How can you comment while editing? Betaing takes the vast majority of my brainpower.

Two-day-old kittens are cuter, and perhaps less hairy.

I got a skype mic and earpiece for like $8 at radio shack, if that's what you're looking for. Now that I mention it, what do you need the mic for?

I had an omelet for dinner last night. It was delicious, but mom put in too much pepper, but she also made it for me, which more than makes up for a little seasoning issue.

re: noisy snow
It makes it much harder to sneak up on people and assassinate them.

[sillyandmorbid]

we're not talking "crunchy snow"; we're talking the kind of snow that makes noise when it's falling.
incidently, it's also CRAZY SLICK to try and walk on.

[mycroftnext]

Oh. There's actually a word for that kind of snow: grapple. Because it's frozen snow pellets (but not quite hail) so it makes that noise. And yes. UBER slick.

[anamuan]

but 'noisy snow' is so much more fun. we're from south of grapple country.

[mycroftnext]

I disagree. Grapple is much more fun because there's an actual word for it!

South of regional dialect usage of the word "grapple" or south of the grapple weather phenomenon occurring?

[anamuan]

i meant the weather phoenom. but from that was trying to imply that since we don't get weather, we don't have words for it.

[sillyandmorbid]

WOAH. I didn't know there was a word for "noisy snow"! You are, like, vocab goddess. ::bows to your might::

[mycroftnext]

*basks in the glow of her adoring followers*

Teach your sister some manners would you? ;-)

[sillyandmorbid]

ha. ha. you're funny.
Like I can do anything about her manners. hat. hat. hat.<--terry pratchett character reference

[mycroftnext]

! <--Other TP character reference.

[sillyandmorbid]

yayayayayayay lit nerds

[mycroftnext]

indeed!

Oh, and I have a piece of math!nerdliness that I must send you right now. It's from my brother's Calc class. Make note of the proof he makes on his math problem. Then make note of the grade he gets. The bum! :D

[anamuan]

i have impeccable manners. i say this to the both of you, harrumph!

[anamuan]

you've got the harder job during the edit sessions. because you're the one who has to talk me out of my mistakes. though the 're-ordering' questions take more out of me.

...that's a good point. but you do have to admit that he's not really very thug.

i think that skype mic is not quite the quality i need. I need a mic for all the recording i'm being forced to do this term. in particular, the stuff for acustic phonetics. because while i've got my little mp3 player/recorder, the quality is on the shady side of acceptable for sociolx interviews, but. praat needs more from a mic.

i understand that feeling.
i think i'm having this for lunch.dinner.

ilu. that's why my last assissin died. i tell them over and over again, but some people just won't listen.

[mycroftnext]

Datte, you're the one who has to do all the extra writing when I say "add another paragraph" or "this needs more." But I guess that's done after we edit. Still, I don't think I make it easy on you when I keep making you justify why you put in every comma/word/structure/etc.

No. He's not really thug. Even if I were to just see him walking down the street in Japan, I would not be afraid of him. I would perhaps laugh at his hideous hair (behind my hand, discreetly), but I wouldn't think he was going to actually mug me.

Oh, yeah the skype mic totally wouldn't work. The mic that I used to record the song I sent you was $10 at radio shack, and that has really nice quality. If Best Buy has a cheap Radio Shack mic, go for that.
Oh Praat.

Really, what kind of training are these assassins getting? Decent hired help is so difficult to find these days.

[anamuan]

there is that. but it does happen later. I like arguing. since i don't see dante anymore, i have to keep my edge somehow, making up reasons, or at least ellucidating my reasoning (since i don't always just make them up because).

*snicker* in a fist fight, my money's on you.

was the brand radio shack? does it have some kind of product identifying information? I'm not actually sure what electronics place is near here, just that one is so.

it really is. though partypaprika agreed to be my minion a while back and sent me awesome mspaint illustrations. so they're not all useless. just the ones hired to kill people.