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- Two semesters of Food Prep and Hospitality Management classes- that is, cooking, catering, and kitchen management for people who plan on going into the restaurant industry
- Anthro major with a geographic focus on Asia (primarily China) and a subject matter focus on medicine and food
- Lots of information on primitive survival skills and reference material on survival skills in general
- A decent amount of information and knowledge about archery in general, mostly the traditional sort but a little bit about the use of compound bows and crossbows
- Former Cisco certified network associate, working on getting that renewed, so if you need realistic computer information instead of Hollywood computer information I can help with that
- Past experience with and knowledge of vegetable gardening
- Does your character fly a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft, but you don't? I'm around 11 hours into the forty-plus hours necessary to get a private rotorcraft license and I have a lot of written reference material
- I know way more than is strictly healthy about radiation, radiation accidents, radiation sickness, etc.
- Also about American atomic and conventional weapons tests
- Also about the really disturbing bits of medicine, particularly maternal/reproductive health and how it can go wrong
- Probably best to assume that on the old White Wolf stat system where 1 is 'most basic level of knowledge' and 5 is 'world expert', I have a rating of 3 in Lore: Disturbing Things
- I was born and raised in the New York City area and while I have not lived there since the end of 2012 I still have a pretty good memory
- And I can help with information about the Red Cross in general, having worked for them for years
- Also about what a character would need to know or what they'd go through in the event of several kinds of major disaster
- And since weird skills are on the list, I make soap from scratch and can walk you through that if you want a character to be able to
- Oh, and if you need an image identified I'm really good at digging things up on Google Reverse Image Search and tracking them back to their source.

I knew you'd have the best list. = ]

I try. It all adds up after a while.

Likely to be scatter brained but...
- The geography of the SF Bay Area.
- The character of various neighborhoods in San Francisco, Oakland/Berkeley, and San Jose.
- Lots of bits about faerie lore. Using Cam's suggestion of the WOF system, I'd likely have 3 dots in Lore: Faerie and maybe one to two dots in Lore: Fables.
- Methods of printing. This included printing presses, silk screening, and such.
- Bird care and maintenance. Want your pup to adopt a conure or cockatiel? I can give you ideas on what they can expect.
- Marvel Comics esoterica. I've been reading since the late 70s, though I did take a break in the 90s.
- If some how you need your pup to understand or have an idea of how medical packaging works, I'm sure I can help out. I don't know everything about regulatory requirements (that's another department's responsibility) but I have a pretty good idea since I apply current standards.

I'm sure there is more but my brain needs more tea.

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I am all in favor of everyone in Milliways adopting cockatiels. (Okay maybe not everyone. But seeing the bar turn into a ridiculous cockatiel hangout would be pretty sweet. Someone walks into the bar and everyone turns and is all "...where's your cockatiel, man, it's not cool to be here without a cockatiel.")

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Cockatiels, yes. They have a very pleasant voice, even when they are agitated. I wish I could say the same about my conure.

What kind of conure do you have? (Sadly my cockatiels have both passed away, but I have a small Poicephalus parrot.)

She's a green conure, or parakeet to use the more proper term -- here in California parakeet usually is thought of as a budgie first, so we use conure -- which if you live in Texas or Mexico is much like pigeons . I love her but she is loud. We also suspect she used to live with a Sun conure due to some of her vocalizations. She's a rescued bird we adopted after an extended fosterage.

Oh man, and they're supposed to be the "quiet" conures. I've never gotten to hang out much with one but all the conure people I've talked to absolutely adore them.

I think she would do a lot better if we had a companion conure for her but we don't have the space. She does tend to be calm if I remember to give her lots of attention.

ETA: Looking at google images for your feather buddy, oh that is a beautiful bird!

Edited 2014-11-04 21:59 (UTC)

It's hard. My parrot is pretty neglected. I try, but yeah, it's hard. :/ (And oops, I was thinking of green-cheeked conures, not green conures, my bad.)

That happens all the time, even with vets here. We've even had ones try to argue against us when we call her a green conure and try and ID her for us. We're always like just look online, her markings match.

She'd love nothing more than to ride my shoulder around the house, which would go a long way to calming her, but I'm not so into the idea of changing my shirt every 15-20 minutes and cleaning up her messes. ; p Plus there's the whole "I need to cook dinner thing".

I thought of a few more things I could add:
- I've worked far too long in fast food and chain pizza restraunts.
- I've been on anti-seizure medication, Tegretol and Lamictal specifically, and so can give you first hand experience for how those drugs mess with your head. I fortunately, no longer need them but I still remember what they were like.

French, a lot of awkward word origins, religious history/mythology/philosophy.

Need to be taught calculus, potentially with barely any time to do it in? I'm your girl.

(Warning: trying to learn via IM is, near as I can tell, irritating and far more difficult than in a room with pretty colored chalk, but one makes do.)

Ooo, this is pretty interesting.

-Le Cordon Bleu baking and patisserie techniques and recipe structure
-related to the above, food safety, basic pricing, some European and American culinary history, and for some reason a lot of information about bananas
-Catholicism, both as practiced and some of the mysticism
-knowledge of the Central Arkansas area
-familiar with a preschool environment, so what kids ages 1 1/2-5 years old are generally like

And there are probably some other things rattling around in there, but those are the big ones.

-Geography of Chicago area
-Knowledge of Polish and Ecuadorian culture (particularly the Cuenca area), with plenty of relatives to talk to. In particular, I visited my family in Cuenca recently, so the city's really fresh on my mind.
-Completed my Bachelor's in mechanical engineering, with lots of experience in the workshop (using traditional tools, manufacturing processes, laser cutting, electronic board soldering, Computer Aided Design, etc.). If you want to know how the inventing and building process goes, I'm your woman!
-In addition to the above, I can provide basic tutoring on advanced mathematics and science, particularly physics.
-I'm a linguistics enthusiast, so while I'm no expert, I've read a lot to examine some interesting things about language.
-Played piano for 16 years. I dabbled in viola, clarinet, and recorder, and I played in a band for a year.
-Speaks Spanish (near-fluency), understands Polish (needs practice with speaking, especially the grammar), and took two years of college level Japanese

Hmm, I might be gagged by security clearance and non-disclosure agreement stuff in the future, but by then my expertise will be in other things. Generic things are fine. :P

Um...

I have a bachelor's in physics, and I concentrated on quantum stuff because it was fun. Electromagnetics wasn't fun, though.
I have a bachelor's in Computer Engineering, with a concentration on numerical simulations and multiprocessor stuff.
I spent some time trying to get a teaching certificate, and technically I did get it, but I didn't think I would make a good teacher, so, there's that. I did kind of obsess over the human relationship and interaction parts of my Dev. Psych classes, though.
Ask me about my self doubt! Not the crippling kind, though, just the kind that makes you limp. :P
Oh, I'll field questions about Albuquerque and New Mexico, too
I am proficient in Spanish, and mostly Mexican Spanish. I can spot a Nahuatl derived word pretty well, so if you are wondering whether a word or name is Aztec looking enough, go ahead and ask.

-Classics with a focus on Ancient Greek, I know about Architecture, Art, the gods and various myths and stories and know Greek and Latin
-Philadelphia area and suburbs
-New Zealand with a focus on Wellington and Dunedin
-General cooking and baking, wine, beer, hard liquors such as bourbon, scotch, rum
-Librarian who's worked in reference, as a fact-checked and in the youth/children's area so if I don't know, I'm good at figuring out where to start looking
-Theater including playwriting, monologues, stage makeup and musical theater
-American marching band, playing the flute, and public high school
-Psychiatry and anthropology, my father was a clinical psychiatrist for over 30 years so I've absorbed a lot and know questions to ask, my mother's an anthropologist
-The mysteries of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, and Rex Stout

That's all I can think of for now, this is a time when it would help to have my library visible.

I'm an actual doctor so if you ask me medic stuff I will do my best to either answer it or look it up and translate the answer into non-medic terms.

The more bizarre the question the more fun.

Other than that I'm generally an ignoramus, but I can answer things on life in Britain, the Sims, and most of my pups' canons.

I'm a Dane, so Danish (and to an extent Scandinvian) culture, geography, and so on, is a given.

I'm a librarian but I combined my MLIS (which focused on information retrieval and knowledge systems) with a Masters in Computer Science. So I know about HCI, sociological studies of computer usage, and I can code (Java and php - I haven't in an age though).
I'm just about done with an almost Masters in Management in the Public Sector. So management theory, innovation, change management, narrative documentation and user-involving co creation and so on and so forth (I'm a bit fed up with it, can you tell?)

I speak Danish, German, a tiny bit of Spanish, less French, read Latin, and understand Norwegian and Swedish to an extent.

I have small kids with all of the knowledge that entails. (There are so many things they don't tell you beforehand. Seriously)

I bake, I knit, I spin (spindle and wheel). I sew a little.

I've been pretty active on the Danish pagan scene. I used to read Tarot cards and cast runes and go sit in the dark in the forest at night.

And I excel in getting hurt in really inventive ways, so I've got list of first hand experience from dislocating a kneecap from slipping in a bit of water to a massively swollen, blue foot from a torn muscle that I tore because I was running to answer a ringing phone. The ER doctor was impressed.

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I have a very boring knowledge set, but it includes:

- the French Revolution, 1789-1794 (I'm already embarrassingly twitchy about the upcoming Assassin's Creed game.)
- Ancient Egyptian religion and magic
- small parrots, cats, small children, and succulent plants (and keeping them all apart)
- national and state archives
- Albany NY political bullshit
- Victorian novels

I've spent significant time in the Boston area, northern Ohio, downeast Maine (Passamaquoddy Bay area), Albany NY.

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- New York City history with an emphasis on social and cultural aspects of the 1920s and 1930s (basically what life was like in NYC for different classes during the Roaring Twenties and the Prohibition Era)
- anything that falls under film noir, gangster movies, all sorts of crime/mystery/heist movies from the 1930s through the 1950s

- I know a lot about US law and how courts work, for entertainment/informational purposes. (This is not an ad for actualfax legal advice - see how good I am at disclaimers!)
- My college major was Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, so in that very broad and general topic I am fairly knowledgeable. Along with some minimal competency in Arabic. I've also spent time living in Cairo, Egypt and Fes, Morocco.
- I'm okay at Italian and have spent a lot of time in Italy, especially Emilia-Romagna.
- Also in NYC.
- And the Midwest.
- And I now know basically every part of the U.S. naturalization process, if for some reason you ever wanted to know about that.

inb4"yourlistsucks":

- Need quick knowledge about post-Industrial Era small unit tactics, combined arms doctrine, World War stuff (I tend to specialize in Eastern Front/Pacific Theatre of Operations stuff), or various other bits of military-centric thingamahbobs? I'm your guy!
- firearms. I've shot a bunch of them, read about them, and respect the hell out of them, and know probably the most out of anybody in my family. Depending on what you want to know, I can talk your ear off about anything from basic mechanics and types to the Brown Bess and the Minié ball to Eugene Stoner and his various creations.
- born and raised in San Diego, CA, now in Davis, CA - any question relating to those two places is fair game (fat chance you'd probably wanna know about it, through).
- I grew up a stone's throw from Tijuana - my knowledge of Spanish reflects this.
- working on a BS in wildlife biology - I'm a long way from graduating, but give me your ecology questions and I'll do my best.

Man, there's some talented folks around here. :)

- I lived in the greater Dallas, Texas, area from 1972 to 2012, so I have a pretty good idea of the area, including details of things like the State Fair and the local museums.
- I'm currently in Morgantown, WV, so if you need an idea what northern West Virginia looks like, ask away.

camwyn, if you ever need photos of Cheat Lake for Shepherd, I can get photos from the I-68.
- I'm a PC tech, certified in hardware and network tech, and about to start training for network security. I've also spent time as a proofreader, editor, and technical writer.
- I've published actual tabletop, pen-and-paper RPG books (Earthdawn, Second Edition) and while I don't have as much of an idea of the industry as other former members of Living Room Games, I've known all those guys since college, and what I don't know, I can certainly find out.
- I'm an eclectic and voracious reader that absorbs trivia, so if you ask me a question about something, there's a pretty good chance I might know it, and if not, then where to start looking.

Oh man, people have some amazing skills around here. :)

*I'm a born and raised Wisconsinite (southeastern growing up, as in southern edge of the Fox River valley, now in Madison) so if you need a dairy state geography/history/what the heck is a kringle? type question answered, I'm your geeklady.

*I have a bachelor of arts in journalism, though I'm not actively using it at the moment.

*Passable Spanish, better written and understood than spoken by far. On a related note, years of shortwave and other radio have taught me to identify languages when they're heard. If I can't pinpoint the exact language, I can hopefully narrow it down to two or three very likely possibilities or, if nothing else, a region to start searching in.

*See also: radio geek! If you need shortwave-related information, especially about different broadcasters over the years, pester me. You can bug me about Morse code too, but be warned, I'm fairly slow at writing it out as yet.

*Synaesthesia. I'm a multivariety synaesthete (four specific varieties out of the score of potentials). Those experiences are unique to every individual, but if you need descriptions or ideas for a synaesthetic pup or character elsewhere, I can at least give you credible information on what it might possibly be like for them.

*The basics of handbuilding pottery. I'm not an expert, I just wish I were. :)

*Kitty cat rescue! :) I've been in and out of shelter volunteering over the years.

*I am, for all intents and purposes, totally blind. If ever you need a blindness question answered, fire away. I won't get offended, and I do mean that, I promise. So long as you're asking out of genuine interest, I'm answering the same way.

-Hah, I never think to include it as a skillset, but following Chanter's list, I do have an awesome accumulation of lived disability knowledge, covering hypermobility, seizures (tonic-clonic AND atonic, whee!), and hallucinations, among other things; if first hand experience is useful on any of that, I'm open for questions.

- I'm not an expert in 2nd wave Romanticism by any means, but it's possible that I know more about the Jeunes-France than English-language Google, at this point. If somehow that ever matters to anyone besides me, hey, I'm here for you!

-Retail experience, believe me I HATE IT!!
-Perpetual bad spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
-I have fallen off a 30 foot cliff.
-I almost have my BS in Archaeology, I have been focusing on the South Western US because that is where I live.
-New Mexico, esp the central area, Albuquerque mainly. I specifically know good food.
-Speaking of food, apparently, I am a really good cook.
-I can sew.
-sculpting, fx makeup, and cosplay are a hobby.
-I have been a part of 3 films for the 48 hour film festival. That was fun, but a lot of work.
-I am on the autistic spectrum, and I deal with horrible anxiety, and depression. Just ask crackchat, I've been severely close to bad decision making in the last year.
-I know a bit about turntables and stereo equipment.
-And then there are my vintage cookbooks and cookware. Can we say gelatin anyone?
-I have been a paintball referee before.
-And I can do basic dog grooming, you know bathing and shaving.
-I forgot, the human skeleton. I took a class on the damned thing. I may not be an expert, but I know enough to get frustrated with crime shows, and I can identify just about all the bones, with a possible sexing, and age if I have my book with me.
-Did I miss anything?

Edited 2014-11-05 17:16 (UTC)

- Cultural heritage conservator and material chemist with specialty in the plastics conservation. I hope to present a panel on collections care at the Star Wars convention in Anaheim, April next year.
- Member of the 501st legion and massive Star Wars geek.
- Dark Age reenactor for the last 17 years so I know a lot about the history of England during the Dark Ages, weapons and armour, costume construction and general living history stuff. I also have some great period recipes and built two Viking A frame tents.
- I can fight with sword, sword and shield, spear and, two handed axe combat techniques.
- Traditional archer and bow-hunter. I shoot and train people to use both longbow and Turkish horsebow. I also make my own arrows.
- I cosplay, sew, embroider and tablet weave.
- Geography, modern culture and history of Australia – especially Canberra, Brisbane and Far South Coast of New South Wales.
- I have several tattoos and an understanding of the process – both physical and cultural.
- bisexual and comfortable talking about it –I acted as a sexuality mentor during university.
- I collect teeshirts! Mostly geeky.

Impie bucket head! (Sorry, headvoice had to speak up.)

That is so awesome that you are part of the Legion! I've wished I had the time and set up to join one of the Star Wars organizations but alas, I live in an apartment, have no tools, and no time.

Bwhahaha! Why yes, I am. I have a biker scout kit because I wanted to be able to sit down without gearing down and TKs just can't!

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