KittiHawk

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by KittiHawk 9y ago
My parents had always told me their grandparents were part Seminole. I liked that because it made me feel more connected to my home. To find out (through a 23andMe report showing 99.9% Euro genes) it wasn't true was unsettling, like I&
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
> Who ends up being tech support for these new companies? The executives. But that's only for people smart enough to realize to send them messages, or otherwise garner their attention via Twitter, Reddit, or HN and happen to be in t
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
The thrift stores in my area are as busy as ever, and the online market for used clothing is huge. I get most of my clothes used on eBay or Poshmark. (Aside from swag shirts and underwear, which I buy new.) Sounds like a lot of the people
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
Perfect.
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
I would be interested in reading about men's reactions later on after having had vasectomies. That's something I've never seen discussed.
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
My favorite things to embroider are fractals and flowers, fractals because you can keep your place without a pattern handy and flowers because you can freehand them easily. It's a therapeutic, contemplative activity when done for leisu
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
It doesn't sound like that's been nearly sufficient for quite some years now.
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
Some of my fondest neighborhood memories are of neighbors inviting each other over to pick their fruit trees. My family had some apple and black cherry (this was in Canada) trees; other neighbors had plums or blackberry patches. Sometimes p
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by KittiHawk 9y ago
This makes me wonder how much differences in eye contact between cultures (in terms of etiquette) is due to prevailing genetic influences. Like if most of the people in a group are wired to make less eye contact, maybe that's how the
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by KittiHawk 10y ago
I finally went on the round-the-world backpacking trip I've been dreaming about since I was a kid watching National Geographic. It was surreal, hard, beautiful, smelly, and everything I ever hoped it would be. Growing up poor and growi
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by KittiHawk 10y ago
I'm super happy for you, both for finding a drug that works for you and for changing your life to fit your vision of yourself. Way to go.
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by KittiHawk 10y ago
"Please don't spread this mistake. People who break security are “crackers.”" No, no, no. "crackers" has its own sordid baggage.