all bigbang and links, all the time

[tsuki_no_bara]

happy birthday donutsweeper! these doughnuts are for you. :D

dancing boys: *offer trays of cakey and yeasty goodness*

pretend they're dancing with them. :D

now that bigbang reveals have been, er, revealed, i can share my summary!

One day Jensen's daughter finds a shoebox in the back of a closet, a box full of photos and other mementos from his wild New

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[bleodswean]

*bounces* I can't wait to read your Big Bang! Where are these posted??? Good for you!

Linkage!

[tsuki_no_bara]

it will post here! i don't know when, tho. the schedule hasn't gone up. but trust me, you'll know. :D

[donutsweeper]

Thank you!!!!

I've seen the name thing before, it's really interesting to do if you have a less popular name because sometimes what is obviously a name for the other sex (and not a name that's switched with time) pops up. It's a bit flawed a way to do it since it's based on Social Security numbers and those weren't really give out until post WWII or later so the info for 1890s and early 1900s is skewed but the trends you can still see is interesting. (And the number one girl's name for a LOT of the decades is Mary, thanks totally uncreative parents (7 decades of Mary and 2 of Jennifer as the most popular, wow. Boys are a bit more interesting- 4 decades of John, 2 James and 3 of Michael)

I love that someone seriously looked at that Captain American money figures. There's still a lot up in the air, I guess (was he declared MIA or dead being the big one). Sadly, with NYC prices being what they are, 3.5 million or so would get him a decent place and furnish it and set him up with the things he'd need but not much more.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i tried the name my mom goes by (rather than the one on her birth certificate) and it gave me nothing. i didn't think it was that uncommon a name but maybe it was for the year she was born. i wonder how different the results would be if they took data from the uk or canada or australia.

if the army eventually declared steve dead/killed in action, he probably wouldn't be owed a couple million bucks in back pay. but they might've said he was mia, because technically he was. i mean, they couldn't find him, so doesn't that count as missing? :D i love that someone figured out how much he'd be owed too. it's such a ridiculous thing but someone was curious enough (or bothered enough) to work it out.

[ephemera]

hurray for lady at writing group! How cool is that! (I'm really looking forward to reading this)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i sent her the draft! now i'm just waiting for her to tell me whether or not it's wildly inaccurate, and if it is, how do i fix it.

[halfshellvenus]

Ooh, the rain-activated art idea is really neat! Too bad it doesn't last longer. It's perfect for the rainy cities in the Pac NW.

Our son's handwriting... grrr. He has made no effort to progress beyond 2nd-grade skill levels in printing. We joke that his SAT results took so long to come back because someone had to decipher his handwriting on the essay test. But persuading him that illegible handwriting will make people doubt his abilities? We have made no impression there so far. :(

[tsuki_no_bara]

seattle seemed like the perfect place for rain-activated tentacles. now they can spread to other pacific nw cities. :D tentacle bus stop art for all!

i think the fact that so many people text/type/email/etc for so many things (rather than writing them down) means that no one cares about handwriting. which will come back to bite historians in the ass in, like, a hundred years or so, when no one knows how to decipher centuries-old script any more. i don't know if your kid's illegible handwriting will hurt him as much as it might have a couple decades ago, tho.

[dear_tiger]

First of all, SEA CREATURES :D

I tried the name thing, and my boy names were all very ordinary: Jimmy, Eddie, Jeffrey, and Harvey twice. My girl name today would've been Quinn. (Like the dude from Homeland??) Which, I started by being indignant that it isn't even a name, WTF. But then I warmed up to it. In 1890, I would've been Leah, which is nice, too.

[tsuki_no_bara]

SEA CREATURES. they're waiting for you to come back!

i wonder how much different the name thing is for other countries. i mean, you weren't named in the us, y'know? quinn is so a girl's name, tho. i don't know how common is it, but it does exist. so :p i always think of leah as a reasonably popular name for nice jewish girls like thirty years ago. but it is a nice name.

[dear_tiger]

I WANT TO GO BACK TO WHERE THE SEA CREATURES ARE!

Actually, American names are incredibly varied, compared to Russia. Sometimes I look at the names of all Mexican immigrants at the hospital and wonder if it's the same there as well. Russian names is this very, very small pool. It undergoes some changes, but nowhere near as much as American names. I think in the later decade there has been an influx of foreign name, which introduced some variety. But if I think about it, I get a feeling there's, like, 50 girl's names, and about as many boy's names.

The Homeland Quinn was the guy's last name. But I've never seen it as an actual name!