www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBT6wktF5E

Probably safe for work.

Reminds me of the Battle of Helm's Deep, a little.

I read the Futhark on the cd cover once. Part of it is "Bring me my broadsword, bring me my cross."

Yes, really.

Seriously, it's pretty fun to do, and it helps science- so like, what are you waiting for? Classify those penguins!

I don't remember what year it was, but I remember playing snake and trying to read a LotR paperback in my car because we weren't supposed to work when it was raining. (The team of us were to photograph every house in the county.)

The National Quiz Bowl competition is this weekend in New Orleans. I dropped my oldest off this morning for the trip. Go Cyclones! Plus, New Orleans!

I have a RWBY fic on AO3 that's been lagging for a while, but I finally got back into the swing of writing it!

Also, I have never responded to one of these before, so I don't know how they work, exactly.

When I was like five years old snake was the COOLEST thing to me. Also, so were cellphones, because I was five and they had all of these BUTTONS.

To the fandom news:<br>So Rey gets trained? Wouldn't that be useless, since she already uses the Force better than Luke did before he was trained? ;P<br><br>Not-so-stealthy stabbing aside, Wikia's Fandom newsfeed has an article about how Wookieepedia came to be. It's a really interesting story; I'll put a link below my signature.<br><br>Funny story, when I saw Kylo take off his helmet, I expected his face to be all messed up like Vader's, so it was a definite surprise when he turned out to be completely fine and in fact rather handsome. I made a Scratch project out of it that day and made several people laugh.<br><br>    To the Silly News:<br>What in the?! I have no words for either of these! XD<br><br>    To the somewhat humorous part of the Serious News:<br>Yup, we Americans can't keep our mouths shut about anything, especially any real-life occurrences that we can compare to fiction in any way. Life is a giant action movie when you're an American (or at least a stereotypical one), and we love spoiling everything for everyone. (Haha, I'm thinking Hetalia thoughts while I'm typing this. Hetalia makes everything better.)<br><br>    To the psychological part of the Serious News:<br>It's kind of the same stuff behind every other terrorist attack, or really anything destructive in general - for some reason or another, you feel as if the target deserves to suffer, and you feel it strongly enough that you put effort into actually making them suffer beyond bullying or harassing, instead of just fantasizing as teenagers are wont to do (part of why DAVD exists is teens writing fanfic about making their enemies suffer in the most gruesome and painful way possible). I'm guessing the target here was something along the lines of the world itself, otherwise he would have been aiming for infrastructure like the 7/7 you mentioned or important buildings like 9/11 over here. Whether there was any mental disorder under all of this is not clear to me, since he was 22 and studies show that the human brain does not fully develop to adulthood until age 25. He could have just been immature and really, really fed up with life. Who knows - I'm not a psychologist or anything, I just find it interesting to examine people's motives.<br><br>    To the Not News:<br>The Vader facepalm, though.<br><br>-Twistey<br><br>Star Wars anniversary article/the story of Wookieepedia: <a href="http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/40-years-star-wars-lore?src=swm">http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/40-years-star-wars-lore?src=swm</a><br><br>"Kylo Ren in a Nutshell", in case anyone wants to watch: <a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/92928830/">https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/92928830/</a><br><br>The studies I'm citing in the psychological thing: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164708">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164708</a>

One of the victims of the Manchester attack went to my uni. Is very sad

Weirdly, the thing that caught my attention the most in your Star Wars post (at 3 A.M, in my defense) is that Captain Phasma is actually coming back. I rather figured she was just going to be in The Force Awakens, and disappear. Then again, I seem to have it in my mind that her actor is a fairly big name? But I'm not aware enough of Earth happenings to know who that is, or even if I'm correct in thinking that—but if I am right, it makes sense they would want her to continue appearing.

I wonder if she'll be a minor role again, or if she's going to become a personal nemesis for Poe—a Boba Fett to his Solo, as it were?

I would love muchly for that old style of phone to come back in style. I hate having a fragile mini-laptop in my pocket all day at work, having to keep it from bending or getting wet every moment. My older phone was much more durable. Then again, I do need the weather app to know the day's high temperature, so I know which animals need their misters turned on on a given work day. '~' Guess I can't always get what I want, but if I try sometimes, I just might find I've got what the animals need.

—doctorlit still thinks cell phone developers need to prioritize high durability over low weight and small size.