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22:12 / 16.06.06

Hello all,

I was accepted a while back but have been lurking and getting a feel for this board.

I live in Indiana, home of the 500 (blech). The 500 is a great metaphor for life--whomever goes around and around the fastest wins!

I work in environmental activism, hold a BA in Theatre, and am sort of a professional student.

Writing is where it's at for me. I also am deeply grateful for my yoga practice.

Am also drawn to coffee, books, gardening, and shiny things. Like a magpie.

23:00 / 16.06.06

A magpie is shiny?

23:42 / 16.06.06

Only if you cover it in aluminum foil.

00:03 / 17.06.06

But dont they explode in the microwave like that?

00:12 / 17.06.06

This is where the poking of the holes for venting becomes paramount.

00:17 / 17.06.06

In the magpie?

00:20 / 17.06.06

Why would you microwave a magpie, you sicko? Four and twenty blackbirds makes perfect sense but one magpie would make a sorrowful curry.

00:23 / 17.06.06

Oh sure if you;re making a large pie, you need all of those birds. But if you making small tarts... I need magpie.

00:33 / 17.06.06

Small tarts? Now you're casting aspersions.

00:35 / 17.06.06

Rightright.

Damn, I always forget.

Shiny side in or out?

00:51 / 17.06.06

hey all,

i have been on barbelith for a few years, but have been mostly a lurker.

my life revolves around music, DJing, politics (i too work in environmental activism), reading and good conversation.

i have also never eaten magpie.

00:56 / 17.06.06

I would expect nothing less of a fine upstanding environmentalist. Welcome to the House of Fun.

01:33 / 24.06.06

Hello everyone!

My name's Jim. My username's Jim too. I'm not very good at coming up with usernames, so I delegated to my parents.

I'm a medical student at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and frankly sometimes I get tired of talking about medicine. Thus, here I am, and I'll probably immerse myself in the Headshop, once people get used to me.

I'm mostly enjoying Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell's "The Claim of Reason" at the moment, in an attempt to get my head around the idea of 'knowing the Other.'

From the medical side, I'm interested in paediatrics, and in particular childhood development, and how this is affected by culture, families, individual personality and the increasingly ubiquitous abuse. I hope to do a PhD on this in a few years... First things first though, eh?

By way of a brief précis of my preferences, as seems traditional on this here interwebbernet, here are some favourites:

Colour: Blue
Country: Italy
Website: www.nicecuptofteandasitdown.com
Direction: anti-clockwise

I'm looking forward to joining this merry band of men, thanks for letting me in,

Jim

01:45 / 24.06.06

err... that's

www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

Go on, visit. They're lovely people.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

02:07 / 24.06.06

Hiya Jim - I don't feel qualified to say welcome as I've been away from the 'lith for a couple of years.

But welcome anyway!

04:14 / 24.06.06

I love nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

I can't believe I've mananged to remain ignorant of its existence up to this point!

10:26 / 24.06.06

I'm not even sure how I came upon it in the first place... It was a good few years ago, back in the heady days of fresherdom... Nevertheless, a nice cup of tea and a sit down (the site and the concept) has got me through many hard times...

Has anyone ever explored tea on Barbelith? Tea is very important, historically, politically, economically, and of course, for getting me out of bed in the morning... This is a digression that I will happily shift to a more appropriate place. Where?

10:50 / 24.06.06

Has anyone ever explored tea on Barbelith?

Ta-dahhhh! A thead that's heavy on the lovely-tasting, getting-you-out-of-bed-in-the-morning aspect of tea, also on its powerful crumpet-enhancing properties, mmmaybe not so much on all the historical importance stuff, though feel free to change that. I think we’ve got a coffee thread somewhere, too. And a general all-purpose breakfast thread. Oh, there’s something for everyone on barbelith.

15:28 / 27.06.06

Um, hi there! I've been lurking around the site for months and finally got up the courage to apply for membership. I'm not good at these introduction things, but I'm a 17 year old girl living in the Southern United States, and the internet is my best friend. My life is about books and music, though not in the artsy, coffee shop way. I'll read anything printed in English or French, and listen to any music from any country in any style. I love to write, and I'm currently trying to get a collection of short stories finished and published. I'm a senior in highschool dating a sophmore, and I love video games, movies, and musicals. I collect first edition books and I'm against organized religion. I go to Halo and Quake parties with "the guys", and I want to become a computer engineer/writer. I love tea and I refuse to drink it cold, the way it's "supposed" to be drunk down here. My parents think I need therapy, and my friends think I need to grow up. My boyfriend thinks I'm funny, and I think I'm just a little messed up. Not much else to say I guess, so I'm off to the movie forums to talk Pirates of the Caribbean.

22:46 / 27.06.06

Jello-
Apparently after passing my blood test, colonoscopy, cardiogram and brain scan, someone screwed up and let me into the Barbelith Underground. I hope this now makes me a suitable candidate for alien extraction, as I can't bare the lack of pain anymore.

I don't plan on doing anymore than I have to and it will be minimal at best. So till I piss myself off again, so long everyone. I'm off to see the wizard.

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23:07 / 27.06.06

Hello there! I'm Dan, and I'm here to be unabashedly narcissistic for a moment.

I'm 19 and American. I play guitar, and listen to jazz, folk, and rock. I enjoy music theory a bit too much. I like to read; on several occasions, I've read 600+ pages in one sitting. I go to college near Boston and major in, of course, music and English.

What else...I don't watch much TV aside from sports (soccer and baseball, primarily). I think alcohol smells nauseating, so I'm the only college kid I know that doesn't drink. I used to play video games, but now I mostly just read about them and keep up on the industry. I have the palate of an eight-year-old; I could survive on cheeseburgers, pizza, and spaghetti for the rest of my life.

Looking forward to getting to know the community here -- it looks like a fun place.

02:10 / 28.06.06

Hi all
I'm currently living in Australia and working for a University, whilst secretly longing to be a writer. Unfortunately between work, sleeping and lurking on Barbelith - coupled with a complete lack of discipline, being a lazy feline and all - I don't get as much writing done as I'd like.
nicecupofteaandasitdown.com is very wonderful and has made me realise how much I miss Jaffa Cakes...

07:49 / 28.06.06

Helloooo...

Thanks for inviting me on, I've never done discussion forums before,(the rush!), but I shall endeavour to match the intelligence, wit, erudition etc etc shown here:-)

queen amygdala is a 31 year old (ouch) transgirly from Grimsby, England, loving Bagua & Xingyi Kungfu, Chaos/Thelemic magick and fetish clubbing, and eager to expand and share my experience in all these fields. Before rushing on to create threads, I wanted to ask about resurrecting really old ones. I’ve searched on topics that I would like to contribute to, but is it OK to haul up threads that seem to have died years ago, or should I start a new one, referring to it. After typing that, the answer appears more obvious, but I’d appreciate being led by the hand initially! Thanks in advance,
queen a*

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:53 / 28.06.06

It's generally actively encouraged, although in some cases a thread may be so rotted by the end that it makes more sense to acknowledge its existence, link to it but start afresh...

16:59 / 28.06.06

hello cleveland. I'm new here, so I thought I'd do the decent British thing, and introduce myself. I'm futilitarian, not my real name, obviously. I'm older than you think I probably am, and fundamentally a procrastinator. I play guitar and shout at the rest of the band in redrighthand, a band you probably haven't heard/of as our CD failed to come out when the guy from the label said it would. TWO @%*£ing years late and counting, people! um...I read a lot, the usual...Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Spare, Palahniuk, Gibson, Dick blah blah blah. music, also. like it. especially the itchy, creepy, uncomfortable type. comics, like those too. so. yup. thats me....in a nutshell. I'm much more interesting than that makes me sound, but I'll tell you more later....

Jake, Colossus of Clout

17:53 / 28.06.06

Welcome, everyone!

Danb- Another baseball fan! Rock! Tell me you're a Sox fan, being in Boston and all...

16:27 / 29.06.06

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure how to introduce myself. I speak English, French and Japanese, and I graduated twice - once in Biology (concentration in Genetics), and the other in Computer Science. I'm from Montreal, a photographer, a writer (cheap plug -
http://www.findmycountry.ca), and a Canadian Muslim (born and raised). I do web design to make my cash, and I loved Barbelith's design - definitely one of the nicest on the web. (I think that we are too obsessed with 3 colour schemes in web design but that is just me I guess).

I have been reading a lot of the threads here and thought it was a refreshing change of pace from all the chest-beating and rampant fanboyism that I see on forums across the Internet. The stupidity has become so ingrained that it has spread everywhere, be it Photography forums and their camera fanboys ("You bought a FM-10?! That isn't really a Nikon, you aren't one of us!"), or game websites and their fanboys ("How dare you boycott the Sony PS3 over the Sony rootkit! Are you stupid? They are different companies!!! You should really change your mind, PS3 is the r0xx0rs!").

Yoroshiku

23:53 / 02.07.06

Hello everyone

I'm a graphic designer, currently living in Paris (well, currently for five years now...).
Before that, I was in London, where I had the opportunity to (briefly) meet Mr Coates during, err, a uk bloggers meeting. Photos were published on idiote.org, but I abandoned the domain name to start themittensbrigade.org a few months after moving to France.

From time to time, I chase aphids off my oleander, Lazare.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

02:42 / 03.07.06

Welcome, Mr Gehemm.

To the best of my knowledge, we've never had an oleander aphid chaser on the board before. I expect you'll regale us with tales of derring do, and the like.

16:41 / 04.07.06

Hi Barbelith!

Another noob here, looking forward to getting in amongst it after a fair while lurking and reading and going "Yes, but -" and "Ah! Oh, okay" and "Hmm, I see" to myself, which was starting to make the cats look at me funny.

Random factoids about me - I read too much, mostly SF/Fantasy; somewhat of a neophile (shiny gadgets make me squeak with geeker joy); interested in science at the Discovery Channel/New Scientist level of understanding; roleplayer; gamer; fascinated by human interactions and what makes people tick (and what they tell themselves about same); pro-Gaiman, mildly anti-Mieville; DBA by trade and inclination, and prone to rambling thoughts about the place, role and usage of data in the modern age; almost uncontrollably prone to unfettered usage of smilies, which I will attempt to curb in these hallowed halls. I like Dorothy L Sayers, Big Brother (although I'm a bit ashamed and rather conflicted about it), Babylon 5, Lost, scented candles, grape flavour, lounge pants, Bach and cold weather.

Um.

I also go on a bit, sorry.

/wave

18:26 / 04.07.06

Grape flavoured what, Peek? Would you eat anything that had grape flavour? I'm intrigued, as I can't think of anything that has grape flavour, other than grapes.

Welcome to Barbelith! Bach rocks!

18:58 / 04.07.06

Hi everyone! I'm Quantum, and I saw a badger! Squee me!

20:09 / 04.07.06

I only see dead badgers, roadside, which makes me sad and un-squee-like... what's the sad noise?

With regard to grape flavour - it's that "American" Concorde grape flavour which I thought for years was entirely artificial but have recently learned is actually how Concorde grapes taste. Imagine that. And pretty much any legally obtainable (and almost certainly junk food) item with that flavour is ok in my book. Also lipsalve. Heh. I'm just sad (or possibly grateful) that such items are hard to find in the UK. Although my local supermarket have now started carrying Welch's grape juice, which provides my fix, and may signal the beginning of the slippery slope....

Peek, dreaming of juice with soda and lots of ice...

20:28 / 04.07.06

I only see dead badgers, roadside, which makes me sad and un-squee-like... what's the sad noise?

"I see dead badgers..."

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

20:38 / 04.07.06

Peek - the flavour of Welch's purple grape juice is akin to angels with hangovers pissing on your tongue.

Which means I agree; it's truly splendiferous.

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