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[2003-05-18 07:43:51 +0000 UTC]
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# Statistics
Favourites: 54; Deviations: 82; Watchers: 39
Watching: 52; Pageviews: 33120; Comments Made: 3931; Friends: 52
# Interests
Favorite movies: Porco Rosso, The Martian, Pacific Rim, Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery ServiceFavorite books: Anything by Carl Sagan, The Expanse (series), world history, Sumerian history, American history
Favorite writers: Kahlil Gibran, James S.A. Corey, Mary Doria Russell, Carl Sagan
Favorite games: D&D, Ultimate Werewolf, Betrayal at House on the Hill
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Charcoal, Paper, Manga Studio (Clip Studio), Copic, pencils, chalk
Other Interests: Running, drawing, reading, painting, resistance training, SCUBA diving
# Comments
Comments: 185
Hey there! I’d like to invite you to join ‘s contest. Read more about it here: [link] . Thanks and have an awesome day! (:
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Thank you for the llama, a smelly, spitting animal is JUST WHAT MY PAGE NEEDED. 
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HEY ASSBITER.
THREE WEEKS IS A LONG TIME AND THAT'S A LOT OF TIME TO NOT BE HERE FOR THREE WEEKS WHICH IS A VERY LONG TIME A VERYVERYVERYVERYVERY LONG TIME TO NOT BE HERE AND BE SOMEWHERE ELSE INSTEAD THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN YOU MADE THAT DECISION NOT TO BE HERE FOR THREE WEEKS.
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O_o I only bite the very finest of asses, sir.
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I'm digging that... whatever's going on with your icon there, though!
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I'm seriously going to sue.
Don't make me sue you, too.
I got dirt on you, Andy, don't forget.
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o_o ... and why is my icon of Lady GaGa and why does my signature say such things about sand and kisses? I am confused. I've been hax0red.
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Ahhh.. okay.. o_o .. I get it..
Hahaaa.. what a funny joke. o_O I'm just doubled over with laughter. Good lord, try to take this place seriously, and they do this kinda tomfoolery shenanaginizing nonsense. >_> I'm being a miser, I know, but this is pissant idiocy, I've never been a fan.
I could sue. My avatar was a religious symbol, and they're censoring my freedom of religious expression with Lady GaGa. I'mma sue. I'm Hebrew, I can do that.
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XD HAR HAR HAR HAR HARRR...
I love April 1st.
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NO HATE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE MUHCMUCHMUCH'ERLY MORE HATE-ABLE AND THEREFORE HATING YOU IS PURE
LIKE SNOW
and really good blow
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YEAH? Well I hate you for your tactical and correct use of the apostrophe and the hyphon. o_o
Suuuuuuck iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
o-o *sips tea*
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o_o ~puffs passionflower joint~
... what kinda tea? o.o I'm really into rooibus at the moment, and this great masala chai blend. Works well with a little added Irish Breakfast or a healthy pinch of Assam --
WAIT
BUT I AM STILL HATING YOU
though my grammar is flattered
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HA. My tea this morning is rooibos jasmine. o-o
It's steeping so I don't know how it tastes yet. It's very red. If it's decent I may mix it with chamomile? I loves me some chamomile.
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No reason why not. Rooibos has such a mild, earthy tone, it can easily mix with just about anything. I love it by itself, too. Tell me you're not using tea bags... evil cotton swabs in your hot water, don't fall for it.
Anyways, tell me how your tea tastes. Once I'm out of jail in a few weeks I'll give you a couple great tea-infused recipes. Fish steamed in rooibos is really wonderful.
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I use bags. o_O Yep. Got boxes of 'em.
Never was too interested in getting a tea ball as an infuser, you reckon it's alot better?
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Tea balls are great, but inconvenient because of how little you can put into it at a time. No, I boil my tea, first off, in the true Indian style, heavy soup pot and a stove. Just put the tea material into the boiling water (for some things like masala chai, I like to put the mix into the water when it's cold, then bring up to a boil on the stove to cook the spices), take it off the heat and let sit and steep till the desired potency is achieved. I go by a five minute ritual, usually, except in the case of rooibos where I like around ten minutes. Then just strain into a thermos or directly into a mug, using a simple sieve that you'll feel comfortable enough with not to burn yourself to death.
BAGS ARE EVIL
COTTON SWABS IN YOUR WATER EWWWWW
Oh, and by the way, a bourbon-water ratio (about 1:2 respectively), brought up to a roaring boil, makes an EXCELLENT base for rooibus to steep. Contrary to popular opinion, the alcohol does not entirely boil off into nothingness, but it's severely reduced in content at the boiling stage.
Take a look here:
[link]
Really great site where you can buy bulk leaf, for cut-throat prices and the best quality around. Their masala chai blend is to die for, I can't stop raving about it, it's perfect in all ways and I'm a stickler for a good masala blend. Also, their spices are fresh, beautifully handled and excellent quality. Shipping is minimal if you get enough stuff together in one shipment. I can't stress enough how cheap their teas are - it's about a third of the price compared to typical store-bought tea-in-cotton-evil. AND some of these teas could have been sitting on the shelves for YEARS before you come around to it. Much better to get quality direct.
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o_o -_- o_o Well I don't have a stove to boil tea upon at work sooo... I reckon I'll stick with cotton swabs in my water.
I boil the water in my handy-dandy electric teapot at a temperature depending on the variety of tea and then I dump the boiling water into a teacup with a cotton swab filled with whatever combination of tea I want to drink, then I let it steep (5 min for black, 3 for green, 7 for herbal or white) then I drink it. o-o
I got my big box o' loose leaf tea from adagio.com. This website you link is pretty cool! Good variety of teas and very good prices! Weirdly good prices...
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Why not just put the leaves directly into the electric kettle? o_o
AND YES. Their prices are awesome! And believe me, I've ordered a number of things from them, it's all extremely good quality stuff. The teas aren't sun-burnt or discolored, everything has the impression of being stored in proper ambient temperatures to avoid that nasty oil situation on some of the darker pekoes. Dude, seriously. o_o My source rocks, I promise you, it's totally worth it.
But now wait, see, this is where we had a bit of a misunderstanding. While I still don't like the cotton bags you fill yourself, they are INFINITELY better than the store-bought cotton-swab bags already pre-prepared. See, you didn't tell me you filled your own bags. That's a little different. I'm talking about those nasty... been-on-the-shelf-17-years tea bags ala Lipton. ANYWAYS. Still think you should just put the leaves directly into the kettle, then fashion a sort of sieve/spout at the pouring tip to filter out the material. That way you can even reboil the same leaves later on - just keep 'em in the pot, re-fill when you want and off you go. Saves money, stays true to the tradition of tea.
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I'd planned on putting the leaves directly into the kettle when I bought it! I had!
But then I read the instruction manual, because this thing was expensive and I didn't want to screw it up, and in big bold letters it cried, "DO NOT PUT TEA DIRECTLY INTO THE KETTLE!"
That made me sad. o_o
Anyway, I'm right there with you on tea bags you buy in the store. I used to like some of them, like the black Lipton accented with spearmint or orange and the like but after making my own it just all tastes bland and blase. I tried three different varieties of pre-bagged chai and it was all horribly bad compared to the stuff I was given to drink by an Iraqi.
Do you have a pot you keep specifically for tea?
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You know, that makes no sense. o_o Why can't you put it directly in the kettle? Are they worried about the oils...? In which case, that depends on the kettle. How can tea oils cause any more damage than raging/boiling water could? I can understand it iff'in you don't wash out the pot after using it, or if you just leave the tea to settle in there. That could cause problems with the kettle... Huh. I really don't know. Maybe it's a matter of something more complex than my little mind can fathom, but after a second's distracted research on google I found two comments saying not to stew tea directly in the kettle, without any explanation for why. I detest being told what to do, especially if it's something that's terribly counter-intuitive, without the blush of a reason or explanation why.
ANYWAYS. Good. Pre-bagged tea is evil. And masala chai should be made with real spices, whole spices. That link I sent you - they have a great blend, I've mentioned it before. What's awesome is that the spices are whole, visible, and fresh in the mix itself, and the spices are packaged with the tea, so they've had a chance to infuse the tea leaves themselves. I do, however, prefer a couple more black peppercorns in my brew, but that's just me; I also prefer to boil the tea in an equal water-milk base. I'd prefer to do it with all milk, but 98% water/American milk doesn't taste good enough for that. And it also boils over like the dickens if you're not hawkishly paying attention to it.
I use the same pot I use to brew coffee on the stove. I don't bother with fancy coffee pots - coffee here in the States isn't really coffee in my opinion, so I just toss the Folgers garbage straight into the boiling water and let it steep. Tastes fine, easier, and cheaper to make. That same pot is what I use to brew tea in, in a very similar fashion. I have one massive thermos for coffee and a smaller one for tea, simply because I'll drink about 12-15 mugs of coffee through the day, about 3-6 of tea (one or two thermoses full, respectively).
That's why I'm permanently hopped up on caffeine. Think of AA meetings - lots of coffee there, and it works. That's why my reply is as long as it is, too. And why I can't seem to stop typing, because I'm enjoying the tap-click-clackity-clack sounds I'm making at the moment. Tap-click-clackity-clack, tap-click-clackity-clack. I'mma lose my mind any day now, you'll see.
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Mmmmmyes. o_o
Any day now... Certainly hasn't happened yet, multiple times...
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o_o Just trying to get it right this time around.
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Well you know what they say; fifth try's the charm!
What're you getting about lately, anyway?
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I'm in hiding. o.o Taking care of court issues, staying off the radar otherwise. I'm looking to buy a small plot of land out here in jabib'ville, put a modest little trailer on it, and write. Writing has become my only focus in life at the moment, the only one I've ever wanted, so it's about time to just hunker down and focus on that and that alone. Very alone. So staying away from civilization is kinda integral to the plan.
You? Still working for the murder machines?
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Oh indeed; still working for the murder machines.
I reckon being away from people can be useful for a writer. I read once that for creativity to thrive you must ignore everyone. Unfortunately for the author I was forced to ignore that. oO
Now... what's a jabib'ville? O_o
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OH SO WITTY. Yeah, I tend to write what I observe, however. So I'm still up in the air about all this - I might very well just take a little hole in the wall apartment in KC. I dunno. I can't leave the state for a little while, but once I can I'm thinking also of going back to Savannah, doing the same over there. I really like Savannah, reallyreally like it there. It's a great little city.
Jabib'ville! Boondoggles, outskirtsmc'urtz, plen'nyaways, last stop on the train tracks leading into the devil's lair, a hop skip and a jump to nowhere fast, widdlewhilewaysaways, a map-less wonder, country kitchen, Genghis Khan's last stand, hickslicksdicks - in other words, really out there in the middle of nowhere. o.o
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BAH. Savannah's bad for you. You should start at Salt Lake City or someplace equally uptight and conservative and Mormon and work your way up to dens of wickedness from there.
KC has an underground art scene, so I'm told. That might be a good place for a hole in th' wall apartment like you say.
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XD ... Savannah is NOT a den of wickedness. It's just misunderstood, that's all. c_C Anyways. Yeah, KC does have an underground art scene. I used to hang out with the poet scene and all that - talk about dens of wickedness. No, my permanently vacillating mind is currently thinking of staying out here in the middle of nowhere where I can't do any immediate damage. Or at least where no news crews would want to travel, unless of course the fire's big enough to bother - so that just boils down to good planning.
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Wow. I have been looking at everyone's pages lately, and I didn't realize I had been so out of the loop for so long. ;3;
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It's nice to be out of the loop, it gives you so much to look at all at once when you get back in!
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you're welcome and thanks to you for the coments on my work
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I have to ask you,
were you on drugs when you installed PC-Cillin on Zeke's computer? o_o;; or were you just not aware it's nefariously evil?
it's been giving Zeke viruses up the wazoo. When I try to uninstall, immediately there comes a message, OMG PEOPLE ARE TOTALLY TAKING YOUR SHIT FROM YOUR COMP YOU'D BETTER PUT THIS SHIT BACK ON!
and if I don't it won't let me do anything
so CONGRATS ANDY, GAWD.
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D: lawl lawl
Nod32? 
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You're welcome.
I hope you do find her.
I found the writing to be wonderful... and I can't put my finger on it just yet what I'm truly feeling about it, but I'll be sure to inform you as soon as I do.
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