So I apparently have an NIH.gov e-mail address now, which is pretty cool in that Status Rat Race kind of way. Y'all can prolly go ahead and spam it if you want, Julie.Miyamoto@nih.gov or Julie_Miyamoto@nih.gov or several miscellaneous iterations thereof that go to the same place =p It's not like I really care--it apparently got a bundle of spam ( Read more... )

Oh, look--I got into the Neohomes 2.0 Beta. Wow, it's like a flat, isometric dollhouse ( Read more... )

##start random shit post##

stolen from Doonesbury:"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so." -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, on torture
I'm almost feeling better but not really. After that twelve-hour shift ( Read more... )

I put the character timeline semi-live. Suggestions go here, though I don't really expect any since I've now posted the single most popular character I have =p

As I told them both, terrymouse comes up on a search for kiken's name, which is a lot of the reason I'm only referring to off-shoot character origins in vague terms [I don't want Sonya coming up in a ( Read more... )

Theory: Spidey 3 is the best Spidey! =D ( Read more... )

Uh-oh! Just checked the new Betas, and it looks like Neopets is getting YouTube! =p [although, they're going to severely police the content, unlike YouTube ( Read more... )

My happiest day was when I discovered a naming convention for my medieval realms. It was so simple but unintuitive. Even happier was when I figured out the name of the realms as a whole [like "Middle Earth" or "Narnia"], because it was even less intuitive but still fit the naming convention ( Read more... )

(I guess I didn't know ( Read more... )

Surprisingly, I joined the holiday scavengers for Boxing Day and came up with a shit ton of alkaline batteries for "fitty cent" each [per four pack]. Unsurprisingly, the four packs sold out much faster than the two packs for the same price, though I really had to hunt to find the AAAs I need for Black-Hayate [yes, even though I have rechargeables ( Read more... )

I started a list of name meanings, then found someone beat me to it [albeit messily so], though I found this bit when searching for which characters actually comprise "Hiro":Oka's given name is Masayori, but was shortened to Masi in elementary school ( Read more... )