unique interests

I have one unique interest (out of 144 ewwww, my interests are gross!) in my profile, the four cities, by which I mean the cardinal-direction cities of the Tuatha De Danann from which they brought their Sword, Spear, Cauldron, and Stone (although there are some other implications for me as well). Do you have any unique interests listed? What are they?

unique interests

I have one unique interest (out of 144 ewwww, my interests are gross!) in my profile, the four cities, by which I mean the cardinal-direction cities of the Tuatha De Danann from which they brought their Sword, Spear, Cauldron, and Stone (although there are some other implications for me as well). Do you have any unique interests listed? What are they?

food preferences

I have had occasion to say recently (elsewhere) that there are not many foods I won't eat. Leaving aside all the ones I haven't actually tried yet, I thought that maybe I should take a count and see if it really is "few", or if I have just as many as the next person.

• Bananas, except in banana bread
• Cantaloupe
• Eggplant
• Okra
• Squid; octopus (although once I had baby octopus that was ok)
• Cooked salmon (raw is fine)
• Clams and clam chowder
• Bleu cheese (EW EW MOLD I just can't get over the idea)
• Egg yolk (e.g. in hardboiled, fried or poached eggs, although I like devilled eggs)
• Lima beans (weird chalky texture; I'm fine with every other bean I can think of)
• Avocado, except in the tiny bits they put in maki, and occasionally I encounter good fresh guacamole (if I wanted to eat axle grease, I'd eat axle grease)
• Persimmons
• Eel (unagi); giant surf clam or whatever that other one is called
• Organ ("variety") meats

Things I am merely not fond of:

• Large amounts of garlic
• Zucchini and other similar squashes (depends on the preparation, sometimes I actually like them)
• Cream sauces
• Goat and sheep milk cheeses (too pungent/sour/I dunno what the problem is -- I like feta, but I have only had cow's milk feta, which isn't the real deal)
• Cooked peas (on alternate Tuesdays -- sometimes I do like them)
• Mango, guava, papaya (fine in smoothies; usually too soft and slimy whole)
• Honeydew melon (sometimes ok)
• Flowers used as a flavour (jasmine, rose, lavender), except I do like violet quite a bit

Yeah, I dunno. Is that average? Less? It doesn't seem to be more picky than average, at least.

food preferences

I have had occasion to say recently (elsewhere) that there are not many foods I won't eat. Leaving aside all the ones I haven't actually tried yet, I thought that maybe I should take a count and see if it really is "few", or if I have just as many as the next person.

• Bananas, except in banana bread
• Cantaloupe
• Eggplant
• Okra
• Squid; octopus (although once I had baby octopus that was ok)
• Cooked salmon (raw is fine)
• Clams and clam chowder
• Bleu cheese (EW EW MOLD I just can't get over the idea)
• Egg yolk (e.g. in hardboiled, fried or poached eggs, although I like devilled eggs)
• Lima beans (weird chalky texture; I'm fine with every other bean I can think of)
• Avocado, except in the tiny bits they put in maki, and occasionally I encounter good fresh guacamole (if I wanted to eat axle grease, I'd eat axle grease)
• Persimmons
• Eel (unagi); giant surf clam or whatever that other one is called
• Organ ("variety") meats

Things I am merely not fond of:

• Large amounts of garlic
• Zucchini and other similar squashes (depends on the preparation, sometimes I actually like them)
• Cream sauces
• Goat and sheep milk cheeses (too pungent/sour/I dunno what the problem is -- I like feta, but I have only had cow's milk feta, which isn't the real deal)
• Cooked peas (on alternate Tuesdays -- sometimes I do like them)
• Mango, guava, papaya (fine in smoothies; usually too soft and slimy whole)
• Honeydew melon (sometimes ok)
• Flowers used as a flavour (jasmine, rose, lavender), except I do like violet quite a bit

Yeah, I dunno. Is that average? Less? It doesn't seem to be more picky than average, at least.

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From Firefox 3.0a8 release notes:

Firefox now quits properly (instead of just being killed) when Windows is shut down or restarted (see bug 333907)

Oho, so that's why Session Manager thinks Firefox crashed last time if I shut down Windows without first exiting Firefox.

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From Firefox 3.0a8 release notes:

Firefox now quits properly (instead of just being killed) when Windows is shut down or restarted (see bug 333907)

Oho, so that's why Session Manager thinks Firefox crashed last time if I shut down Windows without first exiting Firefox.

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Is there any information out there on the elven (or "elfin", as in the text) language spoken by the elves of Abode (that is, in ElfQuest)? As far as I know there are only tiny tiny samples in the canon, what we get from a few elves' names (such as Tyleet = "healer's gift"; presumably the "leet" in Leetah means the same, although she is also pretty 1337 ;) ) and then the phrase "nan iroeen seendaltheri?" that Kakuk says when they bust him out of Winnowill's prison; but I have only read the main storyline (original quest plus "Siege at Blue Mountain" through "Kings of the Broken Wheel") and "Hidden Years #1", so there's a lot I've missed.

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Is there any information out there on the elven (or "elfin", as in the text) language spoken by the elves of Abode (that is, in ElfQuest)? As far as I know there are only tiny tiny samples in the canon, what we get from a few elves' names (such as Tyleet = "healer's gift"; presumably the "leet" in Leetah means the same, although she is also pretty 1337 ;) ) and then the phrase "nan iroeen seendaltheri?" that Kakuk says when they bust him out of Winnowill's prison; but I have only read the main storyline (original quest plus "Siege at Blue Mountain" through "Kings of the Broken Wheel") and "Hidden Years #1", so there's a lot I've missed.