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Created on 2009-03-30 19:18:52 (#7812), last updated 2026-01-15 (1 day ago)

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Name:kareila
Location:United States
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I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, a redhead (going gray), a Christian, a Democrat, a native Southerner, a virtual Bostonian, a musician, a yarncrafter, and a computer geek... not in that order. There are probably more labels that could apply to me, but I wouldn't be comfortable with them.

You probably already know who I am, or think you do, so there's really no point in going into more detail here.

My mood theme is shamelessly ripped from the panels of Ozy & Millie.

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." -Kurt Vonnegut

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." -Douglas Adams

"I pray that we may be justified in our hope and unalone in our sorrow." -John Green

"No one in the world ever gets what they want / And that is beautiful" -They Might Be Giants

Current computers: 13" M2 MacBook Air c.2022 (Ventura); 24" M1 purple iMac c.2021 (Sequoia); 13" M1 MacBook Pro c.2021 (Sequoia); M1 Mac Mini c.2020 (Sequoia); 13" MacBook Air c.2019 (Mojave); Mac Mini c.2015 (El Capitan); Core 2 Duo iMac c.2008 (Leopard?)
Current iPods: 7th gen 32GB touch (2019 blue); 7th gen 16GB nano (2014 purple); 4th gen 4GB shuffle (2015 blue)
Current cell phone: iPhone 12 (purple)
Current game consoles: Steam Deck OLED; Nintendo Switch; Sony PlayStation 4; M2 iPad Air



Here are a few lists of favorites compiled as of 2005 or so and sporadically updated over the years. I broke them out because my list of interests was getting unmanageable.

Favorite Authors: Douglas Adams, C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, Mercedes Lackey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Charles de Lint, Robin McKinley, Neal Stephenson, J.K. Rowling, Jim Butcher, Diana Wynne Jones, Leigh Bardugo, Ann Leckie, Erin Morgenstern, Seanan McGuire, T. Kingfisher, Martha Wells, Alix E. Harrow, Arkady Martine, John Scalzi, Charlie Jane Anders, Rachel Hartman, Andy Weir

Favorite Animes: Cowboy Bebop, Read Or Die, Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, Last Exile, Scrapped Princess, Ghost In The Shell, Twin Spica, Pretear, His And Her Circumstances

Favorite Musicians: Andrew Bird, Ben Folds, Guster, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Indigo Girls, Glenn Gould, Blue Man Group, Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt, Sigur Rós, Shearwater, Pentatonix

Favorite Movies: The LEGO Movie, Star Wars Episodes 4-7, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Real Genius, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Mary Poppins, anything by Pixar or Studio Ghibli, most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Favorite TV Shows: Battlestar Galactica (new series), Doctor Who (new series), Heroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Castle, Mythbusters, The Daily Show, The Rachel Maddow Show, Jeopardy!

Favorite Comic Strips: 9 Chickweed Lane, Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, For Better Or For Worse, Foxes in Love, Foxtrot, Kevin and Kell, Ozy and Millie, Poorly Drawn Lines, Questionable Content, Sinfest, Strange Planet, xkcd
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