On how Lis and I communicate:

[xiphias]

LIS [Pours herself a Mike's Hard Limeade and mixes it with cranberry juice; drinks it]: Ooo! This is really good. Ian, want a sip?
IAN [Takes a sip]: Ooo! [In precisely the same modulation as Lis said it.] Just so you know, while I said "Ooo!" like that in order to tease you, I actually mean "Ooo!"; that really IS good.
LIS: So it was really sincere mockery?
IAN: Well, I was sort of trying to call out to you. So it was actually calling. It was Colin Mocherie.

Comments

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

Wow.

That's incredibly bad.

But I still laughed!

[griffen.livejournal.com]

AUUUUUUUGH!!!

*runs from the room, holding his nose*

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

I like mixing Cheerwine with limeade myself.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Now, that's just sick and a waste of good limeade.

[Despite being born and spending the first 20 years of my life in NC, I never particularly liked Cheerwine*. And when I hit Boston, I discovered I prefer my lime rickey's straight as well.

Though I, along with the few other North Carolinians at my Silicon Valley-located company, have been bemused of late at Cheerwine showing up in our kitchen and cafeteria drink selections.]

*Not surprisingly, given that I dislike a lot more items in traditional "Southern cuisine" relative to the number I dislike in other cuisines. More evidence in my mind towards that "somehow I was a Northern urban baby swapped at birth with a Southern rural one" theory. : -)

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Whereas I just moved to NC from Boston and Chicago, and Cheerwine is the perfect morning beverage that I have been longing for all my life. :)

[querldox.livejournal.com]

So, what were my biological Mom and Dad like? : -)

[Somewhat more seriously, out of curiosity, whereabouts in NC? No problem if you don't want to say, since your User Info page is vague (presumably deliberately) on your location]

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Heh. You get genius from both sides of the family, as well as an utterly lack of docility. Odds are you never realized that you're half-white.

Mom rocks about a million billion ways. Take xiphias's mom's level of cool-mom-ness, then put it into a science geek. Win-win combination.

Dad's dead, and I sure hope for your sake that you're female, because all the health problems are sex-linked. You are, however, utterly immune to cancer.

Charlotte.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Um, no, never realized I was half-white before.: -) I'm male, and I managed to figure out we actually have met a few times in person; back when I was last resident in Boston in '92-96 vis a vis the SIPB/AG circles and when I ran into our host here and company, including you, at the SW: Episode 1 showing at Fresh Pond. chesyre confirmed my guess on your id.

Was actually in Charlotte for part of the day back at Xmas prior to my flight back to CA from visiting family. If you enjoyed Chicago and Boston, I suspect you're finding Charlotte wanting. It's certainly grown greatly since I lived there in '64-'72 as a kid, but it's been mostly middle management banker types and hasn't had time relative to its growth to develop the sorts of things and areas that make large urban areas interesting, at least to me.

Btw, ironically, my father died of cancer. Doesn't seem to be a strong genetic disposition though, as he's the only one on either side to have had it to my knowledge.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

So, um... who are you?

I lived in the suburbs of Chicago, and similarly for Charlotte.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Drop me an email at my username @ gmail.com and I'll tell you. I decided a while back I wanted to keep this LJ account relatively anonymous, thus not willing to state a name in a public post. Fair warning; I doubt my name will mean anything to you. You had a relatively distinctive nickname, I have a trick memory, and I wasn't active per se in SIPB.