Monthly Archives: February 2011

The New Baen’s Bar–Do Not Want 3

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I haven’t been to Baen’s Bar in a few days, and now I come back and discover it’s ugly. I am seriously disliking the new interface, mostly because it no longer has sidebars. The Bar used to be partitioned into three little windows, with the root listings to the left and the biggest window for viewing the post you’d selected. You didn’t have to keep backing up and refreshing to get to different posts. I got so used to convenience of Baen’s sidebars that I spent only a day on OWW, because the interface annoyed me. Now both interfaces annoy me. […]

Stress-Vomiting 1

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Somewhere, I read a blog post about how unrealistic was the trope of characters throwing up while under mental stress. The writer pointed out that people rarely do that in real life, or rather, it’s a very specific reaction to stress. People don’t stress-puke generically. I would like to post the link for some of my college freshmen, but now I can’t find it. Does the description ring a bell for anyone?