I've done this several times, on my PC as well as on fresh restores I've done on other people's computers with a Windows disc. As long as the product key matches the edition I'm installing, I just start the activation process, call the automated 1-800 number, tell them the eighty five bazillion digits on the screen,…

I was on a criminal trial in the mid 00s. Based solely on the legal definition of possession, we voted guilty, but nobody was particularly happy about it. Yeah, the guy had a prior felony, which meant he was no angel, and he was dumb enough to be within reach of a firearm, but he basically got busted for "porching…

I made the mistake of eating a restaurant meal while strapped into a corset - we went out for dinner in New Orleans before going out to a bar. I had to excuse myself after a few hours and go back to the hotel room to take it off, and I hadn't laced it all that tightly, but with the addition of several ounces of K Paul…

There's a fine line that can be easily crossed here. I've met people who are very obviously using variations of these techniques, and I feel like I'm being interviewed by a talk show host.

Because art exactly mimics life and never takes any liberties with appearances.

No cheese without milk. mmmm, cheese. You can skip dairy if you want. More cheese for me! Winnimere cheese made with the high-fat winter milk of cows in Vermont, washed in beer and banded in spruce... aged gouda reserve with the little salty crusty chunks... pungent buffalo mozzarella cut up with tomatoes and basil…

I added a pack of those to my Amazon wishlist to try soon. Thanks!

I added a pack of those to my Amazon wishlist to try soon. Thanks!

Breville One Touch Tea Maker: http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-tea-maker-…

Breville One Touch Tea Maker: http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-tea-maker-…

Why is Dragon Age Inquisition $40 for the media versions and still $60 for the download? *mutter*

Why is Dragon Age Inquisition $40 for the media versions and still $60 for the download? *mutter*

When I was ~6 years old in the early 80s, we had a Tandy that could only run programs if you typed in upwards of tens of thousands of lines of code from a very large book. I taught myself some functional BASICA that way, and wrote stupid little text-based RPGs. Twenty years later, I often joked that if I had stuck…

Yeah, I can't wear a lot of fitted shirts because if they fit my shoulders or my chest, I get a tent's worth of material in the lower half. Can't really wear skirts either because I have proportionately short legs and they're not very flattering. Curse you, puberty, for striking so soon! If you had waited just another…

Yeah, I'm shaped somewhere between an H and a pear - wide shoulders/chest, big ass/thighs, and a really long waist that does not nip in very much. I do have boobs, but not nearly as large as LB clothing assumes for someone with my ribcage. I pretty much live in mesh gym shorts, yoga pants, v-neck t-shirts, and the…

I am also (almost) 5'9 and a size 16, and I sure as hell don't look like that - I did some googling and she's definitely cushier than the ad makes you think, which means they Photoshopped every roll, sag, and bulge that comes with being this size. (And there is no diss involved here; it's just typical advertising…

I often credit my exposure to some pretty dark, dystopian, adult-themed science fiction and fantasy from literally the moment I could comprehend television and books as having a significant impact on my being an atheist, specifically because I was taught to understand the difference between fiction and reality. As far…

My mother was not an atheist (even now I think she's largely agnostic), and her *intent* was to let me decide for myself what I wanted to believe, since she'd endured a lot of crap from her mother as a teenager. When I was three or four years old, I distinctly remember her telling me that the Bible was "just a story"…

I've met a couple of B-list actors, most notably Black Jesus from Madonna's "Like A Prayer" video and Mr. Clamp from Gremlins 2.

I dated a guy like that. He was the product of physical abuse and swore he'd never lay a hand on another human being in violence, and as far as I know he never has... but he committed a great deal of psychological abuse thinly disguised as "honesty."

At 38 I've only had 4, and three of them were in my 30s. It gets better!

I boinked a guy who did the same. Big furry dude, shaved pubes. I begged him not to do it before the second time we met - told him it's his junk and he can do with it as he pleases, but I much preferred him furry, and would appreciate it if he could hold off til after we met. Sadly, he did it anyway.

Retail Girl note: I hate Brother's inkjet printers, but their laser printers have always been really solid, and because they separate the toner from the drum, the toner is almost half the cost of everyone else's (speaking strictly about retail prices here). The drum does eventually need to be replaced, but my…

Retail Girl note: I hate Brother's inkjet printers, but their laser printers have always been really solid, and…