Wands and wand care

While the selection of a wand as a proper magical tool is a matter of the combined expertise of the Master Wandmaker and the predilictions of the tool itself, there remains a broad differential between selecting the nearest possible approximation of an authentic wand for costuming purposes and merely choosing the cheapest or most asthetically interesting replica available.  A proper wand must be...

oh not much just messin' around on my NEW COMPUTER; 9 review

... a bit...er, tinier and the keyboard, while full-sized, takes a little getting used to, it's Wi-Fi ready, has a ton of harddrive space, and now I can indulge in my two internet predilictions without fear of being looked over my shoulder (for the record, it's ficwriting and yuri-- fortunately these two things tend to coincide more often than you'd think)! So what better way to inaugurate this new ...

Ian Cockburn's Interminable Edinburgh Fringe 2009 Review

.... With cunning use of the audience as props and bassoon solo.   11. FLANDERS AND SWANN: A BRAND GNEW AFTERGNOON (Musical comedy duo tribute act, Pleasance) For those unaware of my predilictions, Flanders and Swann are my songwriting heroes, whom I believe to be much misunderstood.   I applaud, I sing along, I beam, and…. I leave feeling somehow disappointed. How to explain this?...

Very small, very grudgy.

... time talking to a counselor about why she needs to be abused to enjoy sex. It is usually tied into some deeper self-esteem issues or abusive childhood experiences when we setup sexual predilictions." But the ball really gets rolling when squidb0i gets a case of the vapors over the aforementioned girl referring to her boyfriend as being "timid". "How about 'not broken', or 'not ...

Comics for June 24, 2009

... a disco outfit, and while it could be explained as millennial retro kitsch, PAD firmly keeps the story set in the late 1970s. The big plot twist gag is particularly weak, unfortunately, even for PAD's predilictions. Gurihiru's art has a sort of Totally Spies meets Naruto look to it. Mildly recommended. $2.99 X-Factor #45: Marvel - And back to the Shatterstar side of the plot, and even after ...

QualiaSoup

... a very important and very simple concept: openmindedness and critical thinking. This might be something I like more than others. I enjoy reading about logical fallacies and human psychological predilictions towards certain types of flawed thinking. Stuff like the Lake Woebegone Effect and The Planning Fallacy (warning: very wordy). In this clip, he uses human beings' well-established ...

Hellfire Club Investitute; Emma, Manuel, Adrienne, Doug, Shaw (part 2)

...they would be quite concerned to hear of your indiscretion with their daughter. Though the young woman wishes to remain discreet about her personal involvement, I would feel obligated to go public with your predilictions if I felt it necessary to keep something like this from happening again to another girl, since we both know this is not the first instance of this happening. I will, however, keep...

... the shrinkwrapping machine on a little pallet truck and automatically shrinkwrap the whole thing in plastic, much like a modern mummy. (I highly recommend buying an industrial shrinkwrapping machine, especially if you share the predilictions of Mr D .) In the entire three months of the job, we found a total of one (1) 100W lightbulb in a 60W lightbulb box. Dave, who found it, held it aloft ...

.... The guy is an iconic human trainer for dogs, thru helping humans adapt to the thinking life of dogs.He uses a kind of applied behavioural analysis based on simple assumptions about Dog's lives, predilictions and capacities. Dogs are pack animals, very social in specific ways. They always need to know their position in the pack, and it's up to the leader to assert these positional facts to all ...

So, yeah, about that feminism thing

So I have a personal page , and then an even more personal page , and then (what I hope to eventually be) a science blog . And given my feminist predilictions, I figured that this would be a better outlet for that kind of thing than my sciencey-blog. Though, being a rational person, no doubt Muse in Vivo will be plenty feminist. (Not quite so much as Twisty , but then again I don't have access...