Interests Meme!
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.
snapesbabe assigned me:
acpathntdwatgodw
Which was dealt with here, so I let her have another one, and she chose:
cokehead hobbit bassists
I have watched most of Lost. I think it's... OK, but don't rate it as high as my flatmates do. I want it to be a lot less, well, boring than it actually is. But the best part of it, that is going to be sadly missing the best part: the cute little drug addled hoodie wearing Mank that is Charlie. He was just so cute, first season in particular. With his little addiction and his little Claire!crush and his hoodie. The actual term came from barrysarll, I believe.
crazy turtle ladies
What are they? Well, they're ladies, who are kind of crazy about turtles. I don't know that many, to be honest, but the one I know best, I'm inordinately fond of.
fully fashioned nylons
Honestly, I'm quite depressed I have to explain my love of authentic retro stockings to anyone. I mean look at them. Look. They're also supremely comfortable. I can't wear tights anyway - they never seem to fit my full leg length, they're too tight around the belly, which gives them this weird crotch slinging three inches below where it should. Not to mention the horrible rubbing. So stockings are the way I go :nothing like a healthy breeze around your privates, I always say. And fully-fashioned are the most comfortable of them all. No elastic means people like me with thunder thighs and turned ankles don't have to suffer that awful "blood cutting off above the knee" sensation, and nylon feels amazing against shaved legs. It's just a shame they ladder so easily.
BTW, I prefer the Manhattan Heel.
morphometrics
SB will be disappointed to hear that this does not involve Tony Hart in any way. Morphometrics (the measurement of shape) is the basic technique behind my PhD. I take lots and lots of measurements from and photos of lots and lots of bones, and I use such methods as Principle Components Analysis; Principle Coordinates Analysis, Reduced Major Axis Regression, or landmark analysis to extract something interesting and meaningful out of the piles of raw numbers. Essentially, it turns shape data into analysable statistics.
oh will
Yes, this is Turner. Of course, the correct presentation should be "oh, Will." It's spoken (by me, or by rowanberries, or by anyone else who feels the sentiment) every time Will does something noble and heroic, heartbreaking, or completely stupid, which just makes him all the more loveable. You know when the bar has him cornered, turned into a frog (with a nice hat), thinking Domino Harvey is Elizabeth having lost her memory, or when Josh Lyman, Chris Chappelle and Coyote all have him talking about sword fighting in an unintentional (on HIS part) phallic way, all the while Raven is playing with his cape? Or when he tries to attack Miss Julia Fruitnugget, thinking she's a Kraken, or when he sees Elizabeth kissing Jack, and vows to bring him back for her benefit?
He's my reactionary hero archetype and I heart him.
order of the stick
The Order of the Stick is a webcomic by Rich Burlew, which focuses on a party of adventures having an adventure that looks very very similar to a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It breaks the fourth wall in a very special way - the characters rarely reference being webcomic characters, but are instead very very aware of being role playing characters:or rather, their universe operates in exactly the same way as a D&D campaign, and they know this. Despite the stick figure characters, the art is surprisingly sophisticated, and the strips are consistently laugh-out-loud as well as being awesome adventure storytelling. I would have apped one (guess which) to one of my games long ago, if Rich wasn't one of those authors who guards his intellectual property fiercely: he won't even allow people to use his art as LJ icons. Milliways already has a dodgy history regarding webcomics, and when someone's giving you something for free, you're under more obligation to be a respectable fan.
You know, unless you're a Something*Positive fan. Then every bit of entitlement is deserved.
web-footed tuna poodles
This is sort of but not quite related to Welsh Cave Cats, in that it's a sort of LERN (The London Evolutionary Research Network) in-joke, the difference is, that Welsh Cave Cats are an animal that someone was convinced exists that we're fairly certain don't, the web-footed tuna poodle was a breed of dog someone was convinced doesn't exist. "They're supposed to be these poodles," he said, "that are bred in Spain, or maybe Portugal to corral tuna. And they have webbed feet to swim with. Isn't that ridiculous?". And after a long argument, someone actually Googled, found the Portugese Water Dog, and mocking commenced. I even met one when I was staying in Utah that summer.
I like this meme too much.
snapesbabe assigned me:
acpathntdwatgodw
Which was dealt with here, so I let her have another one, and she chose:
cokehead hobbit bassists
I have watched most of Lost. I think it's... OK, but don't rate it as high as my flatmates do. I want it to be a lot less, well, boring than it actually is. But the best part of it, that is going to be sadly missing the best part: the cute little drug addled hoodie wearing Mank that is Charlie. He was just so cute, first season in particular. With his little addiction and his little Claire!crush and his hoodie. The actual term came from barrysarll, I believe.
crazy turtle ladies
What are they? Well, they're ladies, who are kind of crazy about turtles. I don't know that many, to be honest, but the one I know best, I'm inordinately fond of.
fully fashioned nylons
Honestly, I'm quite depressed I have to explain my love of authentic retro stockings to anyone. I mean look at them. Look. They're also supremely comfortable. I can't wear tights anyway - they never seem to fit my full leg length, they're too tight around the belly, which gives them this weird crotch slinging three inches below where it should. Not to mention the horrible rubbing. So stockings are the way I go :nothing like a healthy breeze around your privates, I always say. And fully-fashioned are the most comfortable of them all. No elastic means people like me with thunder thighs and turned ankles don't have to suffer that awful "blood cutting off above the knee" sensation, and nylon feels amazing against shaved legs. It's just a shame they ladder so easily.
BTW, I prefer the Manhattan Heel.
morphometrics
SB will be disappointed to hear that this does not involve Tony Hart in any way. Morphometrics (the measurement of shape) is the basic technique behind my PhD. I take lots and lots of measurements from and photos of lots and lots of bones, and I use such methods as Principle Components Analysis; Principle Coordinates Analysis, Reduced Major Axis Regression, or landmark analysis to extract something interesting and meaningful out of the piles of raw numbers. Essentially, it turns shape data into analysable statistics.
oh will
Yes, this is Turner. Of course, the correct presentation should be "oh, Will." It's spoken (by me, or by rowanberries, or by anyone else who feels the sentiment) every time Will does something noble and heroic, heartbreaking, or completely stupid, which just makes him all the more loveable. You know when the bar has him cornered, turned into a frog (with a nice hat), thinking Domino Harvey is Elizabeth having lost her memory, or when Josh Lyman, Chris Chappelle and Coyote all have him talking about sword fighting in an unintentional (on HIS part) phallic way, all the while Raven is playing with his cape? Or when he tries to attack Miss Julia Fruitnugget, thinking she's a Kraken, or when he sees Elizabeth kissing Jack, and vows to bring him back for her benefit?
He's my reactionary hero archetype and I heart him.
order of the stick
The Order of the Stick is a webcomic by Rich Burlew, which focuses on a party of adventures having an adventure that looks very very similar to a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It breaks the fourth wall in a very special way - the characters rarely reference being webcomic characters, but are instead very very aware of being role playing characters:or rather, their universe operates in exactly the same way as a D&D campaign, and they know this. Despite the stick figure characters, the art is surprisingly sophisticated, and the strips are consistently laugh-out-loud as well as being awesome adventure storytelling. I would have apped one (guess which) to one of my games long ago, if Rich wasn't one of those authors who guards his intellectual property fiercely: he won't even allow people to use his art as LJ icons. Milliways already has a dodgy history regarding webcomics, and when someone's giving you something for free, you're under more obligation to be a respectable fan.
You know, unless you're a Something*Positive fan. Then every bit of entitlement is deserved.
web-footed tuna poodles
This is sort of but not quite related to Welsh Cave Cats, in that it's a sort of LERN (The London Evolutionary Research Network) in-joke, the difference is, that Welsh Cave Cats are an animal that someone was convinced exists that we're fairly certain don't, the web-footed tuna poodle was a breed of dog someone was convinced doesn't exist. "They're supposed to be these poodles," he said, "that are bred in Spain, or maybe Portugal to corral tuna. And they have webbed feet to swim with. Isn't that ridiculous?". And after a long argument, someone actually Googled, found the Portugese Water Dog, and mocking commenced. I even met one when I was staying in Utah that summer.
I like this meme too much.