Timewaster's Guide Archive

Um, are you being serious?

Yes. Signings are serious business.

If you are being serious, I didn't see him bring the box at TGS signing. Although I might have missed it.

No, no. You misunderstood. Miyabi is Brandon's pet box of macaroni and cheese. All of the forum posts we see? They're probably Brandon going incognito. How else would he know so much about the books before anyone else?

choose your own adventure books might work as a web book or web comic better than as a book.

There's MS Paint Adventures, but it only has one possibility explored. The audience decides what happens next, and then the artist draws it.

I seem to recall some plans you had to act out the magic. That is awesome. Also, soon I will be able to understand what the heck you were talking about in that thread. I'm pretty psyched from what I've heard.

You're permitted precisely 7.5 seconds of fanboy/girlism, but any longer than that and security will escort you out.

You're also limited to one squee per signing. Subsequent squees result in the above.

Wow... for serial?  Is there a penalty for just acting normal?

Yellow card. Two and you're out for the match. You only get the tarring and feathering if you act normal when you're talking to Brandon.

I'm going to have to do some serious prioritizing and whittle it down to one or two essentials.  Hopefully I don't spend my 25 seconds drooling and trying to remember my name.

Oh, that happened to me the first time I met him (the HoA tour).
Brandon: Who should I make it out to?
Me: T-t-t-t-t-titus. *uncontrolled creepy grin*
Brandon: Oookay. *scoots his chair a safe distance away*

Don't tell nobody, but I've found that if you wait until the end of the signing, you can sometimes get some proper interrogation in. I've also heard that if you offer to buy him dinner, he will sometimes accept.

Oh, and tell him that you're a Time Waster. We are his Abercrombie uber-zombie generals and he loves us even more than the cannon fodder (which is a lot, for those of you who haven't been following his blog).

EDIT: Note that my grin was creepy only because I had lost most muscular control in the presence of Brandon and the ever classy David Wolverton. My muscles were running on an OFF/ON status, so I walked like a toy soldier and my jaw moved like a ventriloquist's dummy's.

It's good to see you're still alive, Shi.

Four for me: sister, brother, awesomest aunt ever, mother (who hid the title wherever she went, stored it face down with the spine against something and usually something on top of it)

I believe a relevant quote can be found in the B&N interviews, and the Table of Allomantic Metals confirms it too. Here it is:

...In alloy form, it produces various expanded physical and enhancement effects. (Including the creation of Mistings)

The forum's search function hasn't been working for me lately, but here's a Google site search that you might find useful.

I believe that's established as giving one the ability to burn copper.

I'm pretty sure that that's what would happen if you ate the metal. Burning it would have a different effect.