Attention, internets: I have come into possession of an intriguing bit of trivia, which I shall now share with you.

The palmaris longus is a tendon in the wrist that not everyone has. The internet told me that something like 15% of people lack it. It also told me that some people have it in one wrist, but not the other. (I can't find a source on ( Read more... )

The other day I was looking something up on Wikipedia and came across the page on the Consolation of Philosophy, which I promptly made fun of because I'd never heard of it. This turned out to have been a mistake.

lysimache made horrible appalled faces at me and told me my formal education had been severely deficient; she feels that anyone with a decent ( Read more... )

As no one has offered any opinions on what I should be for Halloween, I thought I would ask a different question. See, I was having this conversation yesterday, and I wondered why more people in fandom do not dress up as their favorite fannish characters for Halloween. lysimache told me that it was because fandom is girls and they don't dress as boys, even ( Read more... )

So I was conversing with lysimache about all those TS stories where we find out who Blair's father is. In these stories, Blair's father is usually a popular character from another show with dark (usu. curly) hair, duh. And, since they usually pick some kind of cop/agent character, that explains why Naomi hates the cops so much, doesn't it? One broke her ( Read more... )

I thought it was time for a poll.

Poll Law and Order

(If you are unfamiliar, I mean this noise. Hope that link works.)

Thank you.

In the previously-mentioned XF story, Mulder, who has swapped places with an AU version of himself, sleeps with AU!Krycek. AU!Krycek is upset about this, as he has cheated on AU!Mulder whom he wuvs so very much, and AU!Mulder is upset with him when he gets back to his proper universe ( Read more... )