So women shouldn't be in combat because they might get raped? By that logic women shouldn't ever be anywhere near men, they should stay locked in a closet somewhere with a loaded gun quaking in fear. Yes, women on the front lines will have to deal with sexual advances from the soldiers near them, and with the idea of…

j'adore. Make one immediately!

Happy to help! Yeah, Klein Blue was neat. There's a few other trademarked color names. It's interesting, this trend towards standardization of colors by mechanical means - the RGB codes for the colors. Computers have revolutionized more than just communications. I wonder if there are colors computers can't replicate,…

Personal soapbox: This is yet another reason we need women in the US combat forces. If our male soldiers need to deal with women who are enemy combatants, they need to know from the start, from basic training. They need to wrap their minds around the idea that gender is not a reliable indicator of ability to inflict…

Except when you do come across as formidable and a threat, nobody talks to you. "How to get what you want" might override "how to be who you want".

Did you look up the definition of the colour Isabelline? It's ... interesting. :)

Nah. I love a good funeral. :)

My favorite words:

The G.R.R.M. rule of thumb: if the character is sweet and innocent and lovely and cheerful, they're dead (to break your heart). If the character is evil, malicious, twisted and nasty, they're dead (getting their comeuppance). If the character started out evil and nasty and twisted but has since learned a major moral…

That top blue there is really a lavender or a dark periwinkle. And the bottom blue is cerulean.

I have a beaded bracelet made entirely of what I thought were white and clear beads. Some of the clear faceted beads, once in the fluorescent light at work, turn a pretty sea-green. Not quite what I had expected when I put it on...

This falls under the same category as parents letting their kids drink in the house: fine if it's done by mature adults who have a firm grasp of the situation and are limiting the activities to, say, a small glass of wine or half a beer with Sunday dinner once the kids are past puberty; not so cool when the parents…

Meh. In their quest for perfection, most of the photographers manage to loose the things that make the originals great. Weirdly, the ones towards the end, where they go over the top and involve fluorescent colors (which I hate) come the closest to feeling like real art to me.

@niki - there's a video for speeding I've been trying to find on youtube, described it below. Do you know the ones I'm talking about?

Yes indeedy. I was trying to find the old PSA's for speeding and driving on country roads. They had scenes where the camera view was point of view of someone who'd been thrown from a car, and all you could hear was the sound of a baby crying, or the bystander rushing over with a shocked look on her face while she…

I've never smoked pot or even eaten a pot brownie, but I love reading these. Forewarned and forearmed, etc. When I turn 75 (or 80) I'm going to start (this gives me something to look forward to), so this could help me get past the nursing home nazis.

lungs, nice.

And then there's the Aussie way:

@comma: Oh sweet baby cthulhu, give us some WARNING before you make my stomach flip like that! That freaked me right the hell out. OO

Ditto comma_rogue. :)