Oh! I'm going to have a free sxsw badge and one free day, so I've been waiting for the schedule to go up so I can see what I might check out. Yay!

My sister and I have both had the experience of being hit on by a high school kid when we were in our 20's, but always when we were with our parents somewhere. I always thought it was hilarious.

That's really messed up. Did she think you'd skipped a grade or two, so you were younger than the average junior?

My sister would routinely get mistaken for being 12 or 13 when she was in college. Free sample people would occasionally refuse to give her one because she didn't have a parent present. Getting mistaken for a teenager is especially weird when it's in combination with someone hitting on you at a bar, though. "No…

Ours didn't go so well…the best looking lawn/hill was the one where they hold graduation ceremonies, and apparently they don't remove all the spikes from the lawn that they use to create tents/stages, etc. When you hit one of those while on the slip and slide it's worse than rug burn.

A friend was asked to advise the transition team on cyber policy, and had a lot of back and forth trying to decide whether to do it or not. They found Trump reprehensible, but pretty much none of his horrible things he wants to do relate to cyber so there actually was the (slim, probably) chance that they could get…

What I'm sick of is having the bad things about a person being the only part that we're willing to focus on or talk about. With certain celebrities (especially female ones, as far as I can tell) any mention of them on this site is immediately met with shouts about the worst things they've ever done, rather than a…

No, I'm pretty sure I didn't say that. I said that she should be called to task for the bad things she does, but that there are other things she does that I agree with, and those should be encouraged. People don't always have to be all bad or all good - there are grey areas, and you can work with people even if you…

I cheered my mom up about turning 64 by making a big deal about it being her Beatles birthday, so that's now become a thing with her and her younger siblings as they hit that milestone. Afterwards, I looked it up, and it appears that I am definitely not the first person to have that idea.

Normally I really don't care about my age, but someone asked my husband how old he was going to be, because he'd said his birthday was that week, and when he answered I thought, "No! That can't be right! Because then I'd be…." Somehow 34 really snuck up on me.

He specifically said that her views on that subject were "undeniably shitty". But, while we should call people to task for the bad things they do, we should also encourage the good things. If we only focus on the negative aspects of people who could be allies on other fronts, then we're definitely going to lose…

I didn't get that sense from the show - any specifics you're thinking of?

I thought that part was particularly nice. He's so cheerfully saying, "oh, this? that's the white supremacist symbol I decided to wear today. Isn't it fun?", and then *pow*!

The info you get (and Sarah Winchester theories) vary wildly depending on your tourguide. I went a couple different times with visiting relatives, and it seems like each guide had a slightly different preferred story.

An excellent poem, to be sure. And, it's not like I thought we lived in a utopia or something, but I had thought we were (slowly, but surely) getting better, and this extreme pendulum swing back to the right took me by surprise.

I like to read, and I was a good student, so I got good grades in English class, but most of my English teachers didn't like me very much. In retrospect I think that the ones who didn't like me were annoyed that I'd challenge them if I didn't buy into an argument they were making. But, I had the best grades in my…

I understand that part of it was that I was a little sheltered, but it's depressing to see how much bolder these assholes are getting, since they now feel that it's ok to be openly bigoted.

My husband can wax nostalgic about how nice it was online before Wargames happened and every kid asked for a modem for Christmas.

Sure! I love a good epic :)

When I was a kid and I first learned about the Holocaust, it blew my mind. The whole notion that someone could've hated me, personally, for no reason, to the point that they'd want to slaughter me like an animal, within my grandparents' lifetime - I just couldn't process it. I read tons of WWII historical fiction,…