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Del taco is phenomenal, A+ choice. May I recommend their chicken tacos? The sauce is bomb

I’d love to try one, but they seem to be in very out of the way places, at least for me :D The nearest one is in Oklahoma, and having checked my normal vacation spots there aren’t any near anything I regularly visit. I’m going to have to go on like...a quest. 

katestamps on this post about Del Taco and stock

Also possibly Books a million (BAMM) or Barnes and Noble (BKS). They’re both pretty inexpensive but also B&N was sold to a hedge fund in 2019 which means it might be on a “someone wants to play the short game” list.

Oooh, interesting, I wasn’t aware B&N had gone hedge fund. I’ll have to look into that. 

greenapple2004 on this post about Del Taco and stock

What service do you use for your investing? I have a chunk of change I've been trying to figure out what to do with, so this seems like a good time to dabble with some of it...

I just use Robin Hood. It’s got a clean interface, it does the things I want it to do relatively easily, and there’s a surprising amount of research available within the app/site itself. Its search/filter function is a bit garbage, it’s just not very robust, but usually if you can find one stock in the “genre” you’re looking for, you can find it tagged in a list of other similar stocks. I use the web version more than the app, but that’s just personal preference. 

I do usually go outside of RobinHood for some research -- it’s especially bad at sorting/filtering cap size -- but for just plain buying and selling it’s perfectly adequate. Also, they pay 0.3% on any cash you stash with them that isn’t actively invested, which outside of CDs is a pretty decent going rate right now (Betterment only pays 0.3% and even my high-yield savings account drops to 0.25% after the first thousand). 

toast-the-unknowing on this post about Del Taco and stock

my most stocks-obsessed friend has owned Del Taco stock for years purely because she likes it...I am hoping this pans out for her

I want to know where the YOI high-tops came from so I can get my own! :-D

levynite replied to your photoset “Yesterday afternoon I met up with a dear local friend and we went out...”

WHERE DID THEY GET THOSE SHOES

knottahooker replied to your photoset “Yesterday afternoon I met up with a dear local friend and we went out...”

YURI ON ICE HIGH TOPS I NEED THEM

A gratifying response to her shoes! :D I believe she got them on a trip to Japan, so they may only be available there. I’ll check with her and find out :D 

srprincess replied to your photoset “Yesterday afternoon I met up with a dear local friend and we went out...”

You did get to go to scoops! Shame they didn't have the cigar flavor, still wondering how that actually tastes. I would tried the blueberry balsamic too, sounds interesting. And dulce de leche had to be good...I might have an ice cream fixation this summer (or always)

The dulce de leche was suuuuper buttery, it was great. A really nice compliment to the brown bread, which had a bit of a burnt-sugar bite to it. 

memprime replied to your photoset “Yesterday afternoon I met up with a dear local friend and we went out...”

I kept reading Downtown Disney as Downton Disney and my brain kind of short circuited.

AHAHAHA, now I’m picturing Mickey drinking tea with the Dowager Duchess. 

chironsgate replied to your photoset “Yesterday afternoon I met up with a dear local friend and we went out...”

Love, trust, and pixy dust. That's how we get it done in the house of mouse.

niennanir replied to your photoset “Yesterday afternoon I met up with a dear local friend and we went out...”

It's not powdered sugar, it's pixy dust

I’m beginning to wonder, honestly.

Holy crap, as someone who works to put on this kind of conference, this is *huge.* They're scrapping probably a year of work already done and have to do it all over again before the meeting. Mad respect to them!

Well, I would imagine a portion of it is that they probably got offered a better rate in Chicago. I’m sure the convention center and hotels they’re working with in Chicago are willing to put in a little extra effort to land the convention, especially if they do a good job and can get repeat business. So probably they’re getting a better rate and a helping hand. But yeah, it’s still a lot of upheaval! 

hellenhighwater replied to your quote “I write today to announce that the Association of American Law Schools...”

This actually puts me in range for it. Thanks, Texas! I get to benefit from your douchebaggery!

Texas in the summer seems like such an odd place and time to host a convention full of people who are going to have to wear business casual anyway. Like, it’s not exactly easy to get to, the Austin airport is LAUGHABLY inadequate for the city it has become, and going outside is like walking around on Satan’s own testicles. Chicago’s not exactly pleasant in the summer but it’s arguably more accessible and at least it won’t be like holding a convention inside the sun itself.  

greenapple2004 replied to your post “Answers About Anaheim”

If you have a bit of a group with you, and some sort of vehicle (Lyft would suffice), I highly recommend Ma's Islamic Chinese restaurant, which is off in the warehouse district of Anaheim. Superb.

Ooooh, that sounds really cool. And it’s not actually all THAT far away -- a lyft wouldn’t even be that expensive. 

alliterativeaurantia replied to your post “yee-jun replied to your post “dame-of-dames replied to your post ...”

You might know if you didn't have a missing tooth. Just a random tooth that was in your mouth. (bonus points: your friend across the room is missing a tooth)

It’s a point, if my friend and I both grabbed our jaws at the same time, them because they were suddenly missing a tooth, me because I suddenly had one, that would be pretty freaky. 

drgaellon replied to your quote “There have been moments, particularly during Spider-Man: Homecoming...”

I feel like much of RDJ's (or at least YOUR RDJ) life consists of people demanding hugs then sending him away...

Well, he looks like he gives really good hugs. Like you know how I want to wordlessly high-five Chris Evans and then run away? Ditto that with RDJ but with hugs. 

windcalling replied to your post “justalurkr replied to your post “thassalia replied to your post “Okay,...”

what does 'torpedoing' mean?

Having hired such companies to transcribe interviews, I'm super curious which one you work for. I've been extremely impressed with the quality (especially at the price) of the ones I've seen, but if folks like you are the ones on the flipside, that makes more sense.

If you’ve had really good quality, you’ve probably provided really good audio, and thank you on behalf of my colleagues for that :D Transcribers do their best but a lot depends on how good the audio is. I had one file where the woman said “There, it’s recording,” in a crystal clear voice, then said “I’ll put it here where it will pick up our voices best” and the rest of the file was just MWAH MWAH MWAH MWAH because she put it up high, where the mic only picked up their voices bouncing off the ceiling. At least that’s my theory. 

The transcription sites, all of which seem fairly similar, tend to have really strong, concise style guides, which also helps, and they source their graders from their transcriptionists -- so the graders are super familiar with the style, they can tell a transcriptionist exactly what they did wrong, and since it’s not that hard to fall below an acceptable metric, people proof really carefully. 

As someone who upgraded from a plastic folding table in an office recently, IKEA makes a line of desks that are similarly shaped and pleasantly deep. :-) 

Oh nice! I was looking at Ikea but it’s hard to tell on their website how deep their desks are. I’d probably even just stick with the folding table except that it’s a static-creating MACHINE and also it’s sagging -- the surface is super uneven because the plastic has warped. It was actually the first furniture I bought when I moved to Chicago, so at least I’ve definitely gotten my money’s worth. 

voyageboots replied to your photo “I decided I needed a home office in the Speakeasy, so I installed one....”

omg are we seeing where the magic happens!? Behind the scenes fic set tour!

Well, about to be, anyway :D It must be working okay, I managed to finish the novel on it this morning. 

wandererriha replied to your photo “I decided I needed a home office in the Speakeasy, so I installed one....”

Maybe a desk blotter and some fountain pens. ;}

I thought about a blotter or some fabric to cover it, but I tend to rest nearly my entire upper body on the desk when I type, so I think it’d just stick to my elbows or something :D 

ceastman73 replied to your post “iamasolarchicken replied to your post “soleriane replied to your...”

Bother. This probably means I should take my non-fanfic original fic down off of AO3 if I want to respect their terms. (Which I do. I support AO3 and its mission. I'm just sorry that they've narrowed it.)

I don’t really know that they have, narrowed it I mean -- I think this was probably in place from pretty early on. That was the decision they had to make, both to be a nonprofit and to foster fanfic in specific, as opposed to like, WattPad that hosts anything. I can see why they’d make the decision to make it broad-within-a-definition -- all fanworks, but only fanworks. 

I don’t think you need to take it down, really. The sense seems to be that nothing is specifically taken down once it’s posted unless there’s egregious misuse or someone complains -- what concerns me is less whether they’d care and more whether my prominent position in fandom would make it awkward for me OR for them, especially since I’d be using them for a specific purpose not really intended by the site. I’d rather get the gentle no or go forward with their blessing than be halfway through the process and bring a wankstorm down, either because they had to remove it or because people THINK they should and they don’t. 

janedrewfinally replied to your photo “I decided I needed a home office in the Speakeasy, so I installed one....”

Errrr....I tried to send you a package about a month or six weeks ago- did anything ever turn up?

Well, so far the plot has moved along pretty steadily, although the chapters are super long. I think the endgame is still "power of love heals all," but at least there's more of an acknolwedgement of how everyone is a mess in the meantime. Plus the author is doing a solid job with the female characters, which is something that counts for a lot in my book.

I think having more than two characters really helps.  Hux and Kylo Ren are both noticeably more in character for the most part and seem to be moving towards more interesting character development.  While I don’t agree with all their characterization choices for other characters, they definitely are pretty solid over all. 

My biggest disappointment at this point is No OT3 but Finn and Rey are cute together at least.

Assuming it's the fic I'm thinking of, you may enjoy part 3 more. I certainly did.

I just got there and I AM liking it more, for the most part, aside from a few complaints that are at least NEW ones and thus far not quite so oft-repeated.  There’s at least the glimmer of potential for actual interesting character development.

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Let me tell you about a thing... a few years ago, my former Tokyopop editor, Lillian, told me that she and some friends were starting a publishing group called Chromatic Press. Before I even knew anything about it, I wanted in.

I’ve known Lillian for years now, and I trusted her to be part of group that wants to publish quality content, commits to their ideas, and cares about their creators (and they do!!!). And when she said that Chromatic’s goal is to create content geared toward young women, that was just a (fantastic) bonus.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with the staff on Chromatic’s Sparkler magazine so far, and I’m looking forward to working on Dead Endings volume 2!