Dear Fine and Noble Employees of the USPS,

If you're reading this, then I suspect you may be concerned about a fine, powdery substance emitting from this package.  I'm very sorry about that as I tried very hard to seal it properly before mailing.  It's homemade hot chocolate mix and does not contain anthrax or any other nefarious and/or illegal ( Read more... )

Most of the conversations in this thread are more straightforward and serious, but this was great ( Read more... )

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I posted the below as a response to seanan_mcguire's recent post about "fake geek girl" gatekeeping, and I wanted to post it here for posterity.

I have.... a memory issue. When I was a small child, around five or so, I had a very few books to read. My family didn't do libraries, so what I had was what I had. I was in the habit of reading ( Read more... )

Hey veterinary friends... Passing along a question from a friend from elseNet. She's getting conflicting adivce from her vet and pharmacist.

"My own discontent: I'm getting some really conflicting advice between my vet and my pharmacist (and the prescription documentation). Maybe someone will know more about this.

In short: my very old cat ( Read more... )

Shots were fired at the Detroit fireworks. We're okay but the first incident happened fairly close to us. Being caught in a human stampede isn't as much fun as it looks in the movies.

Off to go see a man about some ink.

I got a new cell phone last week (Samsung Galaxy SIII) and decided to take it to the Detroit Zoo to see how good its camera is.

So how good is it?( Read more... )

If I'm really into a book, I can knock off a hundred and fifteen pages in about an hour and a half.

The Great Gatsby took four days ( Read more... )

Jane Eyre

I knew next to nothing about Jane Eyre going into it.  I knew it was a romance, I knew it was written by one of the Bronte sisters, and I knew it was generally loved by the sort of girl who starts planning her wedding before losing her baby teeth.  I was kind of dreading it, to be honest.  I cringed when I saw that it was over 500 e- ( Read more... )