KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

#introductions time! I'm an LA-area programmer, #scifi / #comics / #fantasy fan & hobbyist photographer. I've been @kelsonv for a while, but I keep meaning to look for a more specific instance for fandom-related discussions. It looks like this might be it?

Watching #iZombie, #TheFlash & #TheMagicians, way behind on a bunch of other shows. Favorite comics ATM are #Saga & #AstroCity.

In the middle of re-reading all of #LesMiserables, currently on the chapters introducing Marius.

Oh, now I really wish I was going to #SDCC this year:

https://sdccblog.com/2018/07/enter-the-laika-live-experience/

#laika #stopmotion

It occurs to me that the impending start of #SDCC is probably another factor in why I started thinking about this, as it's coming up on 5 years since my "adventure" leaving Comic Con in an ambulance due to a peanut-laced mocha from a nearby cafe. I could've been one of those rare cases in my late 30s.

An article on a recent incident where a college student died from peanut allergy got me thinking: most news stories about people dying from #anaphylaxis are about kids or teens. You rarely hear about a 40-year old or even 30-year-old dying from a #foodallergy. It happens (which is why I still carry an EpiPen everywhere), just not as often.

I couldn't find any solid numbers, but wrote up some speculation in my blog: https://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2018/07/age-food-allergy-death/

#allergies

Half-following the build up to #SDCC. I haven't been to #ComicCon since 2014, though I've been to WonderCon & Long Beach every year. The first year I couldn't get tickets I shrugged. It's exhausting, and there are other cons. I didn't even try this year or last. But now I find I've started to miss it.

In the past 2 weeks I have had to patch both of my bike tires and replace one of my son's tires. (And he's only been riding a month.) Some plant along the local bike path produces seeds with thorns that we keep running over.

I spent yesterday's ride (after fixing both our bikes) looking at all the plants, trying to figure out which ones produced the thorns. No luck.

So I searched onlineby describing the seeds. Looks like sandburs, and the plants do look familiar.

I'll be on the lookout.

There are a zillion Starbucks in walking distance of work, and one Coffee Bean. I generally prefer the Coffee Bean, but it's got a TV that's *always* showing cable news. Even muted, it's a job to ignore it, and sometimes it seems like it adds back as much stress as the walk and coffee cuts down.

Weird, I was just talking about this a few days ago.

When Researchers Used IHOP to Determine if Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-kansas-flatter-than-a-pancake.amp

#weird #science #pancakes

New #IVoted stickers in today's CA primary election.

7YO just told me he was going to write something down with his "epic pen."

I love that this kid understands puns.