Things I have learned today.

[featherynscale]

1. When the top entry on your friends list is a photograph of some sort of Anton Lavey goat orgy, it takes much longer for your open browser window to close than at any other time.

2. According to the NIH's body mass index calculator, I'm not obese. In fact, I'm awfully close to what they think is a 'normal healthy weight'. This comes as something of a shock.

3. Pepsi product websites are practically useless. I'm looking for a very critical piece of information: Where can I buy Starbucks DoubleShots in the sugar-free version? (I'm not usually a supporter of Star-"taste the charcoal, not the bean*"-Bucks, but this is pretty tasty, and in any case, it seems to be the only sugar-free iced coffee product in the world. kittenpants claims to have bought a brand called Havana at a truck stop somewhere, but this legendary brand has proved as elusive as Bigfoot, grey aliens, or compassionate conservativism.) Can I find this important info on the Starbucks iced coffees website? No, I cannot. I can, however, click on a lot of unlabeled photo-elements within a scene to be taken to things like a screen where I can virtually grab a glass, fill it with ice, and presumably pour iced coffee into it. Very helpful, that is.

4. The Long John Silver's near my office is closing at the end of this month. I have a strong desire to go there for one last serving of cheap, greasy, batter-covered fish and chips rolled in extra salt (and perhaps some heavy metals or radioactive materials) before they close. But I probably won't.

* I believe that this description of the Starbucks roast process should be credited to diermuid.

Comments

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

So, is there a history to Baphomet wearing The Doctor's scarf, or was it just an image from a short, inspired bit of whimsy?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You win the prize. I have been waiting for someone to ask me that for years, I tell you, years.

triadruid made the icon for me a really long time ago -- there was some sort of meme going round about 'look at my interests list and make me an icon based on something on it'. He did not find this to be challenging enough, so he picked two sort of at random, which were, I think, doctor who scarves and ritual magic. For some reason, this meant to him that the Baphomet should be wearing the scarf. I thought it was wildly funny, and I kept waiting for someone to ask me what it was, or why it was, or where it came from, or whatnot. But nobody ever did, until just now.

You've made my day.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been wondering since I saw it, but I waited to see if I had something that made sense first.

And I love that concept for a Icon Making Challenge, but maybe with 'fandoms' instead of 'interests', because I don't keep my interests updated.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You should start one. I always enjoy making new icons.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

That was a totally fun, totally time-consuming meme, if I recall correctly. And just in time for summer. Shweet.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of this, and I realized I might as well ask this too:

Where'd the name come from? It seems less like random words strung together, like kittenpants does, mostly because of the 'N' and odd mix of adjective and noun.

It's a long and random road...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It was initially the name of a dragon-based character I was gonna play in some Rifts campaign I never actually started. I rolled up the thing and got draconic heritage and flight:winged, with feather wings. Which is, on the face of it, pretty stupid, but hey, it's a random-roll system (at least the way I play it, it is).

Anyway, so I named it Featherynscale, which is not feathery + scale, it's more like feather-yn-scale, like Guns-N-Roses. Except more, er, Welsh.

Anyway. I never used the character. But the name stuck with me, because it reminded me of Quetzalcoatl. And Quetzalcoatl is neither snake nor bird, but something of both. And I started to think of the whole concept, by extension, as neither angel nor demon, but something of both. And I'm a not-this/not-that sort of person, so eventually I adopted the name for myself.

On the plus side, it's never already taken on a site.

Re: It's a long and random road...

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And my brain can finally relax trying to pronounce it as Feathery 'N Scale.

(Also, knowing the history, nice choice!)

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

1. The sound you don't hear is the sound of a dozen people simultaneously pulling up your flist, looking for the satanic goat orgy pic.

2. Er, you'd be better off getting a more professional calculation. The BMI calculator is notoriously bad at accounting body fat percentage properly.

3. Havana Cappuccino is a product of the North American Beverage Company

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

1. Rawk. For those looking for satanic goat orgy pictures, I recommend clicking over to jackbabalon23. He's also got a lot of racy pulp fiction covers up today.

2. I probably would be, but it was really only a passing fancy. adammaker posted his, and I wanted to compare. It's not all that important to me, just briefly astonishing.

3. Yay! I'll pop over and see if they can help.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Doom. Their 'diet' iced coffee is sweetened with Splenda, but also with sugar.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Yes, but did you look at the numbers? There's less than 5g of sugar in the entire bottle (which really is two servings, I couldn't drink it all in one go). And it is sucrose, and not HFCS. So, 2g of carbs in one serving = still better than most "diet" foods!

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

I mean, these South beach Diet bars have 7 g of sugar per bar.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, and I feel totally betrayed by that, too.

Escaping sugar is difficult

[crookedface.livejournal.com]

And the blood-sugar dance the Diabetes monster forces on me has me in severe need of sugar at times. I get to jonesin' for a fix of blood sugar just like a junkie joneses for Horse--and a dose of sugar stops the shakes soonest.

By the way, I'll suggest when you've landed at a weight you like, you dig up info from diabetic sites on diet. It's a good way to eat deliberately and lose or maintain weight--when I stick closest to my diet plan is when I feel best and drop weight; when I'm working and only trying to keep blood sugar viable is when I do worst.

Food & Weight

[starrthinks.livejournal.com]

I'm not shocked in the least that you are right at what you should weigh. I don't see you as overweight at all! :)

Long Johns... mmmm tasty transfats! Stay away, you'll feel better for it.