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]

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!)