rjs' profile
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May 20, 2001
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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
I use Favorites as a way to highlight interesting posts and comments. Earlier highlights are below.
2016 | Understanding the Trump e-mail thing (and some interesting bits about how DNS works) | Attracting butterflies | Dealing with allergens | Celebrating the Rocket Girls | Going to print | Explaining 'Lost' | Peeing and pooping while homeless | Listening in
2015 | Being grateful | Making babies | Accessing health data | Awkward | Having a smartphone while being poor | Making the best use of iceberg lettuce | Being colourblind | Living with raccoons | Yelling at raccoons | Living with falcons | Reliving memories | Waking up snails [MeFi] | Being nice | Being Wiccans | Evading robot cheetahs | Being dead in Japan | Paying royalty | Being unhelpful | Smelling baby shit
2014 | Tasting coffee | Living in a small town | Enjoying superhero movies | Saying no to street fundraisers | Taking pictures | Checking on microscopes | Impregnating pigs | Watching trains | Campaigning for Scottish independence (or against) | Being bisexual | Doing science | Owning a car | Talking about the war | Fighting imaginary monsters | Encounters with philosophy papers | Rebeccapurple | Reading YA | Tabling at comics events | Tipping at strip clubs | Offering ducklings a lift | Relieving gas pain | Why Eminem is good | Why theology is fun | How (not) to do PR
2013 | What privacy means | Nativity scene | What went wrong with Healthcare.gov | Watching Lou Rawls (and Stevie Wonder) | What is appropriation? | Being there | The way to end it all | Exorcism discussions | Advocacy walks | Making movies | Dealing with bullying | Religion in Canadian law | Cow-tipping: busted | White men get better grades | Voting in Australia | Meta-Marinich | Publish this paper | What white blood cells do | A dirty little secret of market research | The meaning of trans* | Bear community | Understanding theory | Gas-lit wasp | Filibuster! | The wall | Sex and money | Modern times | All the things matter | Saying the thing that matters | Being poor | Sleeping with the fishes | Digging ditches | Saving turtles | Big data | Recidivism | Life expectancy | Tumblr art | How sinkholes work | Nonconformity | Stop giving credence to the comparing mind | Credit reporting | Richard's scoliosis | Why the Thames barrier was built | Pens and pencils in space | Remembering Aaron Swartz (1) | Remembering Aaron Swartz (2) | Remembering Aaron Swartz (3) | Computer market | Dubious research | Prescribing opiates
2012 | You may not be the product | Ravens and wolves | Gun control | High school shooting | MeFi history | Typewriters | Falling | Witnessing a fall | Remembering Dave Brubeck | Baptisms | Women in games | Starship Troopers | Parents | Marriage and the Ikea kitchen | Trainspotting | Culture clash | Remembrance day | Carl Sagan was cool | Puerto Rico vote | All that jazz | Wal-Mart | Not running the NYC marathon | Toddlers are assholes | Best hurricane ever | Changing traffic lights | Victims | Viruses and DNA | Bad jobs | Survival | Parenting roles | Jeopardy | Mothers and babies | Preventing Hepatitis C | Delusions | Electronic voting | Shoes | Scottish independence (Y/N) | Evolution | ESC | Aliens! | Latino politics | Taking responsibility | Being a camgirl | Marshmallows for breakfast | Shadows | Watching monkeys | Improvisation | Different worlds | Care | Schools and money
OTHER STUFF | You don't have to listen | You can see what isn't there | You don't have to stop talking yet
I use Favorites as a way to highlight interesting posts and comments. Earlier highlights are below.
2016 | Understanding the Trump e-mail thing (and some interesting bits about how DNS works) | Attracting butterflies | Dealing with allergens | Celebrating the Rocket Girls | Going to print | Explaining 'Lost' | Peeing and pooping while homeless | Listening in
2015 | Being grateful | Making babies | Accessing health data | Awkward | Having a smartphone while being poor | Making the best use of iceberg lettuce | Being colourblind | Living with raccoons | Yelling at raccoons | Living with falcons | Reliving memories | Waking up snails [MeFi] | Being nice | Being Wiccans | Evading robot cheetahs | Being dead in Japan | Paying royalty | Being unhelpful | Smelling baby shit
2014 | Tasting coffee | Living in a small town | Enjoying superhero movies | Saying no to street fundraisers | Taking pictures | Checking on microscopes | Impregnating pigs | Watching trains | Campaigning for Scottish independence (or against) | Being bisexual | Doing science | Owning a car | Talking about the war | Fighting imaginary monsters | Encounters with philosophy papers | Rebeccapurple | Reading YA | Tabling at comics events | Tipping at strip clubs | Offering ducklings a lift | Relieving gas pain | Why Eminem is good | Why theology is fun | How (not) to do PR
2013 | What privacy means | Nativity scene | What went wrong with Healthcare.gov | Watching Lou Rawls (and Stevie Wonder) | What is appropriation? | Being there | The way to end it all | Exorcism discussions | Advocacy walks | Making movies | Dealing with bullying | Religion in Canadian law | Cow-tipping: busted | White men get better grades | Voting in Australia | Meta-Marinich | Publish this paper | What white blood cells do | A dirty little secret of market research | The meaning of trans* | Bear community | Understanding theory | Gas-lit wasp | Filibuster! | The wall | Sex and money | Modern times | All the things matter | Saying the thing that matters | Being poor | Sleeping with the fishes | Digging ditches | Saving turtles | Big data | Recidivism | Life expectancy | Tumblr art | How sinkholes work | Nonconformity | Stop giving credence to the comparing mind | Credit reporting | Richard's scoliosis | Why the Thames barrier was built | Pens and pencils in space | Remembering Aaron Swartz (1) | Remembering Aaron Swartz (2) | Remembering Aaron Swartz (3) | Computer market | Dubious research | Prescribing opiates
2012 | You may not be the product | Ravens and wolves | Gun control | High school shooting | MeFi history | Typewriters | Falling | Witnessing a fall | Remembering Dave Brubeck | Baptisms | Women in games | Starship Troopers | Parents | Marriage and the Ikea kitchen | Trainspotting | Culture clash | Remembrance day | Carl Sagan was cool | Puerto Rico vote | All that jazz | Wal-Mart | Not running the NYC marathon | Toddlers are assholes | Best hurricane ever | Changing traffic lights | Victims | Viruses and DNA | Bad jobs | Survival | Parenting roles | Jeopardy | Mothers and babies | Preventing Hepatitis C | Delusions | Electronic voting | Shoes | Scottish independence (Y/N) | Evolution | ESC | Aliens! | Latino politics | Taking responsibility | Being a camgirl | Marshmallows for breakfast | Shadows | Watching monkeys | Improvisation | Different worlds | Care | Schools and money
OTHER STUFF | You don't have to listen | You can see what isn't there | You don't have to stop talking yet