Not an expert, but there are different kinds of lace.  I went to some lace-making demonstration in Venice where the lace is made by … pinning some thread onto a board??  Like I said, not an expert.

I'm not at hoarder level when it comes to keeping stuff, but I also have lots of fabric and twice as much yarn kicking around the house that was intended for something and is now, I dunno, for a rainy day.

My love life and social life in general are a spectacular mess right now, but I will share the fact that I got bored and signed up for online dating again on I think Sunday, and it's apparently a desert in my location right now when it comes to adorable nerd boys.  Not that I'm really ready to be dating anyway.

I was just talking about this with some relatives on the weekend, and my auntie told a story about how a book she read included a paragraph that just took random character traits from different profiles, and pretty much everyone found that it described them perfectly.

That sounds really awesome.  Good luck!

I'm trying to get myself to get into better shape and having extremely little success.  Currently I work 50 hours per week, with a 1.5 hour round trip commute per day (I'm aware that others have it much worse).  But anyway I'm always exhausted and am having a really hard time getting motivated to go to the pool, which…

I've decided that "WARNING: contains [whatever]" can accomplish the exact same thing as "TRIGGER WARNING: contains [whatever]," and is somehow way less likely to make me roll my eyes.

@avclub-b0dae075785888267fc19871f3e7dab7:disqus  I'm glad someone else noticed that!

@avclub-87a8152387ccb007cb00a495744d6372:disqus  But sometimes they do get into an accident, so I'm constantly on edge.

I've been a full time glasses-wearer since I was ten (I didn't need to wear them full time initially but my mom forced me to for some reason).  I think I look a thousand times better with glasses on and I also don't have the patience for contacts.  I wash my glasses once every couple of months.  There's no way I could…

Sufferin' succotash!

Wait, a Canadian was partially the inspiration for James Bond?  How have we not taken the credit for this yet, a la Superman?

I will now confess to never having seen a single episode of Doctor Who, so I don't know how The Doctor's being a doctor actually has anything to do with the show (somehow the cultural osmosis hasn't included anything about that).  But I imagine there are some interesting things you could get out of "galactic law." …

For some reason my teacher in grade six read part of A Child Called It to my class, and then ended up stopping because it was "too repetitive."  It wasn't notable to me at the time, but in retrospect it was a very strange choice on her part.

How do you even meet someone on instagram?!?

Our IT department is all off site along with our computing power, the whole thing is over a VPN network.  If I could come up with something work-related that I needed on a different browser, I could probably do it, but as is I might be SOL.

@avclub-f8f8c273f326be25421cc62737d24a9e:disqus  Certainly no one does very well, but his performance is exceptionally bad.  I think the writing of his character is also exceptionally bad (I'm with Patton Oswalt on how we didn't need to see Darth Vader as a little kid/angsty teen).

I took a break from The Thorn Birds (which is meh at the halfway point) to go work in the wilderness, and brought David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity (which someone here was reading a while ago, but I don't remember who at all) with me.  I'm now halfway through it, and only sort of liking it.  I do appreciate…

I stopped caring about the mythology episodes and so in retrospect those big event episodes have a lot less meaning for me.  But I always found it kind of hilarious how M&S would uncover some shocking new detail at great personal cost, and then one episode later would be casually investigating a new regular case. …

I don't care about sports, but I would love to go to an NHL playoff game someday.