For my face - I have things I do routinely - I moisturize a lot, which is partly due to my skin being a bit sensitive and otherwise it gets irritated. I have products I use, like the moisturizer with a light sunscreen. I routinely wash the makeup off my face every evening when I get home. I use hypoallergenic products because they consistently don't irritate my skin - is that what you're talking about?

I mean, do you have a One True Product Line (or combination)? Do you get religious about stuff like that?

Wait, Consuela, are you saying you're The Man?

I feel like I need a Jack O'Neill quote here, but yes, I am a very tiny cog in the great factory machine which is The Man.

I've read reports that MegaUpload purposely encouraged (and rewarded them for doing so) copyright violators to distribute using their services. Does anyone know more about that?

ita, synecdochic on DW has a Very Long and detailed analysis of the Megaupload indictment. If even half of what the government is alleging is true, those guys shot themselves in the foot and then bragged about it in internal mail. They violated the DMCA intentionally and kept the evidence on their servers.

do you have a One True Product Line (or combination)?

I use Oil of Olay Complete Protection for sensitive skin: it's the only moisturizer that gives me sunscreen and doesn't make me break out or irritate my eyes. Nothing else has worked as well, so I'm sticking with it.

I don't have anything remotely touching a routine but I do have some One True Prodcut: Cetaphil for cleansing, Clinique City Block 40 SPF for everyday sunscreen, Vichy 60 SPF for heavy duty all over sunscreen, and I really love Kiehl's Ultra Faacial Moisturizer, but I am using Oil of Olay now, just because of $$. I only use moisturizer in the winter because my face is quite oily in the summer between heat and sunscreen.

I tend to stick with Clinique for most of my makeup and skin care - I started using them back when they were about the only thing on the market that didn't irritate my skin and just stuck with them.

I am religious about my Pond's cold cream, but only for sentimental reasons. I once asked my grandmother, well into her eighties, tiny and blind, but with pristine unwrinkled skin despite spending years working in the sun in the coffelands, "Grandma, how do you have such beautiful skin?" I was expecting some deep secret, along the lines of things that get advertised late at night. But no, "Pond's cold cream," she asserted. I've been using it ever since.

Oh, and I bought all the ingredients (I hope) for coconut cream pie without even knowing it was pie day.

Ponds is good - remarkably so, considering that it's not very expensive and it's been around forever. If my skin's extra dry I'll use some of the dry skin cream and it helps.

After all that back and forth about hiring a student, I emailed the girl making her the job offer on Friday, and I haven't heard from her! She is organizing Pan-Hellenic Rush Week this week, so I am hoping that is it.