Thanks, ita, brenda and sara! I'll forward all your answers (the combination of them is what really helps, too - if one version is not 100% clear on one detail, the others complete it).
My brother is grateful, too. Is it even more "a stranger on the internet" if he's not in fact the one who's posting? He did know I was going to ask "your Buffy forum people", if that counts.
Am I the last one to know about Google SMS? Because that is WAY COOL.
No. I think I have the honor of being the last to know about Google betas. Although that particular one does me little good as I have only the most basic cellphone.
Selfishly, I'm hoping that NillyBro's sudden interest in Irvine means grad school, which would of course lead to regular Nilly Grand Tours.
I'm with ita on the pronunciation thing, fwiw.
14 items listed on ebay now. Still not done.
The one business call that I really needed to make today was made and they were not there. poop.
amych, you're so sweet!
He needs it for a text he's translating. I'm his proofreader, his "please ask your English-speaking clever educated friends" go-to person, and his "oh, when is the next chapter going to be ready?" local nagger (is "nagger" a word?).
He's translating It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science.
[Edited to: FAY!]
what is the site with the deadly cute animals? And is that where the cute frog hat wearing kitten is?
Hey, shrift. You're an FMA junkie, right?
Yes, I am!
Are the DVDs set up funny?
I don't think so -- FMA does a lot of narrative time-jumping, and I'm pretty sure that's how the episodes aired. (Edit: I'll have to check my fan-subtitled Japanese eps at home to be sure.) In the first couple of episodes,
Ed and Al are in the desert, and it's basically present day.
And then they jump back in time to show how
Ed and Al lost their mother and various body parts, traveled to Central City, and how Ed became an alchemist.
After that, it sort of eases back into present day again. Eventually the show fills in all the time gaps.
Did that make sense? I hope it made sense. I'll be over here making out with Roy Mustang.