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Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-26, 09:47 AM

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Ps, the thing wouldn´t allow me to make a longer title.:smallannoyed:

Jibar

2008-08-26, 09:50 AM

WORD TO YOUR MOTHERING UNITS!

*BOOGIE!* for great justice!

This thread has been blessed.

Cue the Shaft title song!

Griever

2008-08-26, 09:51 AM

Ugh, Chemisty Sucks....

However, Calculus 3 is awesome! :smallbiggrin:

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 09:55 AM

High five for mathematics!

Also, if you let me do the thread then I'd trick it out with all manner of crazy doodads and whatchamacallits. Pfft. Copy and paste.

SMEE

2008-08-26, 09:56 AM

Ah, the smell of a new thread.

Smells like... coffee! :smallbiggrin:

Thufir

2008-08-26, 09:56 AM

Ugh, Chemisty Sucks....

However, Calculus 3 is awesome! :smallbiggrin:

Indeed. Chemistry is the smelly science. Physics is better (It only smells if and when you blow up capacitors).

Edit:
High five for mathematics!

That as well.

randman22222

2008-08-26, 09:57 AM

Chem rocks your socks. Better yet?
Biochem. Toxins and all that neat stuff! :smallbiggrin:

Sneak

2008-08-26, 09:57 AM

*sniffs*

Mmm, I love that shiny new thread smell.

Charity

2008-08-26, 09:59 AM

I thought everything smelt of ball to you..

dish

2008-08-26, 10:01 AM

I shouldn't even ask, should I? I should just go to sleep.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:01 AM

I found that Biology, when properly applied, smelt pretty bad too.

Good to see a new thread, people. I look forward to filling it with my inane gobbledygook!

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 10:04 AM

I took Chem and Earth Science. Wasn't much good at chem, do to my distrust of math in general, (don't kill me, Zero), but Earth science was kinda fun.

I now know more about rocks than I could ever conceivably need to know.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-26, 10:04 AM

*gives cookie to everybody who´s posted so far in this thread*

This new thread smells of freshly baken cookies, cold milk and shiiiiiiny.

randman22222

2008-08-26, 10:05 AM

I found that Biology, when properly applied, smelt pretty bad too.

Good to see a new thread, people. I look forward to filling it with my inane gobbledygook!

Oh yeah. It smells horrible. But that means you're doing it right, and learning new things. Or applying what you already know correctly. :smalltongue:

dish

2008-08-26, 10:05 AM

Biology = something
Chemistry = smells
And Physics doesn't work.

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 10:06 AM

Thufir

2008-08-26, 10:07 AM

I found that Biology, when properly applied, smelt pretty bad too.

Good to see a new thread, people. I look forward to filling it with my inane gobbledygook!

Biology is the icky science, and thus even worse than chemistry, which isn't actually that bad, but clearly inferior to physics. Especially if you had my physics teachers.

Edit:
Physics doesn't work.

BLASPHEMY!

randman22222

2008-08-26, 10:08 AM

Well, you really shouldn't trust a guy who's good at maths, I suppose...

They could turn out to be me for one, and then you'll be sorry. YOU'LL ALL BE SORRY! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ahem. But yeah, maths is good.

Oo, speaking of which, I has homework to do. :smalltongue:

P.S. It goes Maths > Physics > Chemistry > Biology. That is nature's order.

Nature? Nature didn't invent maths! We did! Don't give credit to the wrong person!

Maths is our construct.

And yeah, I got my big ole maths IA to do. Which I am doing.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:09 AM

Biology = something
Chemistry = smells
And Physics doesn't work.

I was disillusioned with Physics when my High School Honors Physics teacher gave my "Testostercoaster" a lower grade because she didn't like the way I decorated it

dish

2008-08-26, 10:10 AM

Someone's gonna post that xkcd strip now, aren't they?

(I don't have to do it, do I?)

Thufir

2008-08-26, 10:12 AM

I was disillusioned with Physics when my High School Honors Physics teacher gave my "Testostercoaster" a lower grade because she didn't like the way I decorated it

A) Bad teacher
B) WTPF is a 'Testostercoaster'?

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 10:13 AM

Pffft. Fine.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png
Though I'm sure everyone's seen it by now anyhow.

But yeah, like I said when I wrote my PS, I like maths because I'm good at it.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:16 AM

A) Bad teacher
B) WTPF is a 'Testostercoaster'?

Well, the pictures of athletes and muscle cars were alright. It was all the women in bikinis that bedecked my fine creation that she called foul about...
This was the Gulag *ahem* High School we are talking about.

dish

2008-08-26, 10:16 AM

@P_Z: My hero.

(Surely you like maths for other reasons as well?)

Charity

2008-08-26, 10:16 AM

Just wait till you study it at uni

Mwahaahahahahahaaha...

Gamerlord

2008-08-26, 10:17 AM

Uhhhh....TOO MUCH SCIENCE!

*Brain explodes, becomes a zombie*
brainnssssssssss....

mangosta71

2008-08-26, 10:18 AM

Ugh, Chemisty Sucks....

However, Calculus 3 is awesome! :smallbiggrin:

I would have done better in Cal 3 if I'd gone to class more than half the time, and then slept through it even when I went.

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 10:22 AM

@P_Z: My hero.

(Surely you like maths for other reasons as well?)

Well, I like doing problems. Most satisfying. But mostly because I'm good at it I suppose. Sounds kinda' horrible when I put it like that huh?

Oh well, I never claimed to be an ethicist anyhow. :smalltongue:

Thufir

2008-08-26, 10:24 AM

Well, the pictures of athletes and muscle cars were alright. It was all the women in bikinis that bedecked my fine creation that she called foul about...
This was the Gulag *ahem* High School we are talking about.

But what was your fine creation? And why did you decorate it like that?

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-26, 10:26 AM

Well, I like doing problems. Most satisfying. But mostly because I'm good at it I suppose. Sounds kinda' horrible when I put it like that huh?
*gives my love life*
Solve that, huh!

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:26 AM

But what was your fine creation? And why did you decorate it like that?

It was a rollercoaster project, and I decorated it like that because I was the nerd who always got in trouble for doing crazy things in school.

I swear, no other honor's graduate in the top 10% of class got as much detention as me.

One time I wrote a "Student's Bill of Rights" and got about three hundred students to sign it before photocopying it and hanging it up around the entire school.

One time I got suspended because of some shenanigans I pulled during the school talent show (singing "She Blinded Me With Science")

Thufir

2008-08-26, 10:27 AM

*gives my love life*
Solve that, huh!

Sorry, can't be done.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/useless.jpg

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 10:30 AM

High five for being a genius who got detention all the time! :smalltongue:

*gives my love life*
Solve that, huh!
It's very simple. You just do as I do. That is to say, do not ever go outside, have no friends and pretend to be a pirate. Works out great.

dish

2008-08-26, 10:31 AM

But what was your fine creation? And why did you decorate it like that?

It was a testostercoaster (or something to that effect). The women in bikinis actually make more sense than anything else.

The Rose Dragon

2008-08-26, 10:32 AM

Actually, square root of heart is the left ventricle. Just so you know.

(When math fails, turn to logic!)

randman22222

2008-08-26, 10:36 AM

Why do I have "Dragostea Din Tei" stuck in my head? :smallconfused:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:38 AM

Because you would rather have that than "Chocolate Rain"

randman22222

2008-08-26, 10:42 AM

And here it is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk7Sxpmr7wI&feature=related), so the rest of GitP can have it stuck in their heads.

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 10:43 AM

Ha! I am immune to Youtube!

...because it's blocked here...

randman22222

2008-08-26, 10:46 AM

For your convenience, Cristo, here are the lyrics.
Enjoy. :smallbiggrin:

Ma-ia hii
Ma-ia huu
Ma-ia hoo
Ma-ia haha (x4)

Alo, salut, sunt eu, un haiduc
si te rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea.
Alo, alo, sunt eu, Picasso
ti-am dat beep
si sunt voinic
Dar sa stii, nu-ti cer nimic.

Vrei sa pleci dar nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Nu-mã, nu-mã iei, nu-mã, nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Chipul tãu si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tãi.

Vrei sã pleci dar nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Nu-mã, nu-mã iei, nu-mã, nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Chipul tãu si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tãi.

Te sun, sã-ti spun, ce simt, acum
Alo, iubirea mea sunt eu, fericirea.
Alo, alo, sunt iarasi eu, Picasso
ti-am dat beep si sunt voinic

Dar sã stii, nu-ti cer nimic.

Vrei sã pleci dar nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Nu-mã, nu-mã iei, nu-mã, nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Chipul tãu si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tãi.

Vrei sã pleci dar nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Nu-mã, nu-mã iei, nu-mã, nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Chipul tãu si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tãi.

Ma-ia hii
Ma-ia huu
Ma-ia hoo
Ma-ia haha (x4)

Vrei sã pleci dar nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Nu-mã, nu-mã iei, nu-mã, nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Chipul tãu si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tãi.

Vrei sã pleci dar nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Nu-mã, nu-mã iei, nu-mã, nu-mã, nu-mã iei
Chipul tãu si dragostea din tei
Mi-amintesc de ochii tãi.

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 10:47 AM

Why do I have "Dragostea Din Tei" stuck in my head? :smallconfused:

I actually know most of the lyrics to that song from memory and, unlike some people who hate it, I think it is nifty.

As for why, you have it stuck there because it is an Ear Worm.

dish

2008-08-26, 10:47 AM

YouTube is blocked in Chicago?

Jibar

2008-08-26, 10:48 AM

I Hate Robots

So this is how we'll cross the English Channel,
With sticks and stones,
And no sense of self,
Then we'll turn around and swim out to sea,
Into the Atlantic,
'Till we hit a continental shelf...

And then we'll dive, dive, dive,
'Cos we're tired of surface life,
We're gonna be mermen,
Hanging out with dolphins and sturgeon,
Coming up with crabbery buisness plans,
And fighintg crime alongside Aqauman,
'Cos he's kinda neat,
With flipper feet,
And he'll improve our self confidence,
As well as our self esteem,
'Cos Aquaman sucks but we won't tell him that,
Or else we'd sound mean,

So this is how we gained a sense of self,
With sticks and stones,
And some assitance from Aquaman,
It was the weirdest self help group ever,
Run by some robots,
And don't get me started on their "plan",

I hate robots,
They make terrible councilers,
I hate robots,
Bunch of metal mother boopers...

...why am I insane now?

Also: What rhymes with Morning that isn't Yawning?

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 10:49 AM

Fawning?

Also, I've said it several times in the past.

Most everybody's mad here.

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 10:51 AM

I'm mad. You're mad too. You must be mad, or you wouldn't be here.

And also, this thread needs more Marvin. Thusly:

Now I lay me down to sleep,
try to count electric sheep,
sweet dream wishes, you can keep,
how I hate the night.

Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't adorn my head,
I can see by infra-red,
how I hate the night.

Yes, I did that from memory.

Groundhog

2008-08-26, 10:52 AM

As for why, you have it stuck there because it is an Ear Worm.

Ahh, ear worms. I wonder what makes a tune an ear worm anyway. Actually, I hope no one knows, because if anyone finds out, we're all doomed to eternal ear worms.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-26, 10:53 AM

Fawning?

Also, I've said it several times in the past.

Most everybody's mad here.
Most everybody? Not everybody?

BURN THE HERETICS!:smalltongue:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:53 AM

Marvin the Paranoid Android is one of my personal heroes. And that verse is one of the single funniest things ever written! I wish I was as skilled at humor-writing rather than my silly epic adventure stories...

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 10:54 AM

I dunno... Brain the size of a planet...

...*Twiddles thumbs, having nothing to do.*

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 10:56 AM

Groundhog

2008-08-26, 10:57 AM

"Life! Don't talk to me about life..."

And silly epic adventure stories can be a vessel for humor-writing. Then you can slowly develop your writing into plain humor-writing.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 10:59 AM

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 11:01 AM

They sent him to take Arthur and Ford to the bridge, you know that? Probably the most intellectual task he was given all day. :smallbiggrin:

I've probably read those books six or seven times each by now. Marvin is my favourite character, closely followed by Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast.

Also, Cristo? Your avatar reminds me of Integra Hellsing, for some reason.

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 11:02 AM

Possibly because it looks a bit like her?

*Eats noodles.*

...Needs more things to do...

Jibar

2008-08-26, 11:05 AM

Well, the epic part was never a problem, I can only think big.

Making it silly though is the hard part. I wanted to write a story about a time-travelling boy and his robot. It was called "The Adventures of Melvin Spunkelstein."

Never got off the ground though.

I have a series of short stories planned about "Millie and The Honourable Lord Dannersby"
It's about a little girl with a polar bear friend. The polar bear knows everything ever.
They were going to journey through complete fantasy worlds and the whole purpose was to reinforce the sense of mystery and wonder in the world for people.

randman22222

2008-08-26, 11:08 AM

My favourite character in The Hitchhiker's Guide would have to be...

Huh...

I like Arthur and Slartibartfast. And Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged is good for a laugh. :smallbiggrin:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 11:08 AM

I have a series of short stories planned about "Millie and The Honourable Lord Dannersby"
It's about a little girl with a polar bear friend. The polar bear knows everything ever.
They were going to journey through complete fantasy worlds and the whole purpose was to reinforce the sense of mystery and wonder in the world for people.

Sounds interesting. Would it be a picture book series? I imagined the Melvin Spunkelstein books to be very colorful and childish. But I never got around to working on that project. My dark, brooding, and mature novel projects got in the way.

Jibar

2008-08-26, 11:11 AM

Sounds interesting. Would it be a picture book series? I imagined the Melvin Spunkelstein books to be very colorful and childish. But I never got around to working on that project. My dark, brooding, and mature novel projects got in the way.

Yup, pretty much. Another project for me and InksGuy... that he doesn't know about.
I can do dark and gritty, but I suffer from depression and God knows how many other disorders. I like all my work to be very much as happy and upbeat as possible.
Apart from my horror work. But I like horror.

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 11:14 AM

I kept starting up novels, but I never finished them. I have a good idea bouncing around in my head for a fantasy novel, but I'm not sure how long it'll last once I put it to paper. So I'm saving it for a day when I have a lot of free time. If I get a good head start, I might be able to continue...

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 11:16 AM

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 12:13 PM

I find that it helps me finish my written works when I work on a deadline.

Maybe you could just send the first couple of chapters to an Agent or publishing house, and generate enough interest for them to ask for the rest of your book by a certain time. That would really get you hopping.

'Course, that doesn't work so well if you have never been published before...

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 12:18 PM

'Course, that doesn't work so well if you have never been published before...

Which would be the first major snag right there...

bosssmiley

2008-08-26, 12:34 PM

I'll be finishing my novel if it's the last bloody thing I do.

I've even given a few Playgrounders the green light to hunt me down and beat me senseless if I fail to get a draft done by year's end...

Get off the Intartubes Cristo! You're wasting keypresses that could be better put to use on perfecting your magnus opus on whittering away to us. Of course, if you do get off the Intartubes, finish your book, submit it for publication and end up becoming a huge rockstar author we'll then get all snidey about how "...that Cristo dude thinks he's too good to talk to us now". :smallamused:

I find that it helps me finish my written works when I work on a deadline.

Maybe you could just send the first couple of chapters to an Agent or publishing house, and generate enough interest for them to ask for the rest of your book by a certain time. That would really get you hopping.

'Course, that doesn't work so well if you have never been published before...

Catch 22 in effect? :smallconfused:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 12:39 PM

Catch 22 in effect? :smallamused:

Thats why its so wonderful to be a writer!

I really wish that I was a writer in the 30's-50's, when I did Sci-Fi, I could just call the dang thing a rocketship and be done with it!

It is tiring trying to come up with pseudo-scientific and plausible sounding names for spacecraft. Not to mention trying to come up with a new faster-than-light travel system...

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 12:46 PM

System: The Wave Shift Matrix
Ships: Shifters (for obvious reasons)

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 12:47 PM

System: The Wave Shift Matrix
Ships: Shifters (for obvious reasons)

I guess that maybe I should stick to Fantasy then! :smallsmile:

Badabing, Badaboom. Elves, Dwarves, Ancient Evil. Young boy with a heroic destiny. Get all Jospeh Campbell on it.

I think that would work. Throw as many tropes in there as I can.

Jibar

2008-08-26, 12:48 PM

Thats why its so wonderful to be a writer!

I really wish that I was a writer in the 30's-50's, when I did Sci-Fi, I could just call the dang thing a rocketship and be done with it!

It is tiring trying to come up with pseudo-scientific and plausible sounding names for spacecraft. Not to mention trying to come up with a new faster-than-light travel system...

And now the bar's been set by Mass Effect.
BioWare actually employed scientists to make sure that everything in the game was not only scientifically accurate, but also entirely possible.
Few people realise that the future of man could easily end up as Mass Effect.

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 12:48 PM

I'm just good with names sometimes...

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 12:50 PM

Heh.... And so the new scientific age is heralded in by game producers. :smalltongue:

Also, giant robots.

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-26, 12:51 PM

It's gotta be someone...

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 12:52 PM

Its no secret that many of the latest advances in science and technology were influenced and inspired by Sci-Fi writers of the past.

Thanks, Jules Verne!

bosssmiley

2008-08-26, 12:53 PM

Badabing, Badaboom. Elves, Dwarves, Ancient Evil. Young boy with a heroic destiny. Get all Joseph Campbell on it.

Sounds pretty sci-fi to me (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarWars). :smallwink:

Have you thought of looking at some of the online technobabble generators for inspiration? Most of them are "Star Trek" themed, but if you have a strong conception of the world the story is set in you should be able to rehash their output with world-specific flavour (dammit, I've been been writing game setting stuff too long).

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 01:06 PM

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 01:14 PM

It helps that I spent a chunk of time a while back writing up a D&D campaign setting, complete with background and a bunch of major characters, gods and so on. Because I can think of a bunch of ideas for novels in that setting, and since it's all my original work anyways I don't have to put thought into the world at the same time as I'm writing the book.

All of my best characters have been based on the PC's of my campaigns! :smallbiggrin:

I don't consider that stealing, since they had no intention of publishing their character's adventures. I have also inserted dialogue that was actually spoken by my players into the stories. They are truly a great resource to a writer.

Krade

2008-08-26, 02:08 PM

I've kinda always wanted to write a book. I've got a couple of ideas that I think could really pan out well. Of course, one of them would only be a short story since it was originally concieved as a short D&D adventure where the heroes wake up battered and bruised, maybe one or two of them near death (negative HP but stabilized), in the middle of the woods. They know what they are in the area for, but they can't remember what has transpired since they left to get to where they are, and they have no idea how much time has passed since the last thing they could remember. The whole thing would work out so they simultaneously try to complete thier mission and find out why they lost thier memory. I'm not sure if I'd have it so they break the cycle or just end up in the woods again at the end though. I have a lot more to it than that in mind, but it's all I care to divulge at the moment.

The other story is a near-future fiction where the U.S. government has colapsed and deals were made with other countries to split it up between them. Russia, Japan, and China grab most of the Western half while various European countries get the other half. I'm thinking England, France, and Germany. Mexico manages to get a small amount and Canada intelligently decides to stay out of the whole mess altogether. Of course, in the middle of all this, the American people get completely screwed. That's the basic background for the whole thing, again, I don't really feel like sharing much more than that.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-26, 02:15 PM

I'm . . . an okay writer. I have a better time if I have a sort of target/style set out for me to write. Or even the slightest idea of a plot.
The worst part is that I have the best dreams of an epic story which carries on from where I left off, but I never remember enough of it to write down in a coherent way. :smallannoyed:
Or even a non - coherent way.
Sometimes it' be nice to be able to talk in my sleep or record your dreams.
Now for someone to make an xkcd reference.

I'm very good at writing short little things though.

Jibar

2008-08-26, 02:39 PM

Want something annoying?
15 clocks in my room.
Because of daylight savings and various ones stopping at different times all 15 have slowly and without notice become 4 minutes ahead.
All of them.
And I really can't be arsed to change them.

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 02:40 PM

On the bright side, you don't have to turn your head to know what the time is.

Charity

2008-08-26, 03:18 PM

jib why the hell have you got 15 clocks?

Jibar

2008-08-26, 03:24 PM

I have OCD.
It comes across in a need to have noise all the time, thus the larger number of clocks and the volume of their ticking.
It also comes across in an obsession with time. This crosses over into why I wear three watches.
Plus I like clocks. They're interesting.

On the bright side, you don't have to turn your head to know what the time is.

You vastly overestimate the placement of these clocks.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-26, 03:25 PM

15 clocks in my room.

tik-tak.
tik-tak.
tik-tak.
tik-tak.

:smalltongue:

Must be quite annoying when trying to sleep, heck I´m annoyed when my usual normal clock runs.(Not running and damaged currently)

DraPrime

2008-08-26, 03:26 PM

How are they placed? I mean, there's not much room for clocks is there?

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-26, 03:35 PM

Four walls, one ceiling, a wardrobe, a desk, somewhere for the telly to rest on, a chest of drawers, a windowsill . . . the list goes on and on. Basically any surface can hold a clock.
FUnny thing, I just realised that technically I have five ceilings in my room.

DraPrime

2008-08-26, 03:37 PM

You have 5 ceilings if you can rotate your room somehow.

Jibar

2008-08-26, 03:40 PM

Must be quite annoying when trying to sleep, heck I´m annoyed when my usual normal clock runs.(Not running and damaged currently)

I have them to replace people.
So unless there's someone else in the room, I can't sleep without them.

How are they placed? I mean, there's not much room for clocks is there?

3 set up on walls (1 partially hidden by bookshelf, 1 very bro...now checking, it's stopped :smallmad:, last one not trustable).
1 next to my bed.
1 on the desk.
3 in watch form.
7 on top of drawers. (1 has stopped but that's okay because it's shaped like a monkey).

My birthday lists for other people for the past few years have consisted of "Clocks - Watches - Money".

Calamity

2008-08-26, 03:44 PM

I can't sleep with even one clock in the room. The ticking keeps me awake.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 03:47 PM

I can only sleep at night if I have some sort of white noise going on. When its completely silent I go crazy.

The solution for this is to have a couple of fans going at max speed. I'm sure the ticking of the clocks has a similar effect on you, Jibar.

DraPrime

2008-08-26, 03:49 PM

I can fall asleep with the ticking of a clock fairly easily, but that's because I'm used to my clock which ticks REALLY loudly. It doesn't go "tick tock" It goes TICK TOCK

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-26, 03:51 PM

You have 5 ceilings if you can rotate your room somehow.

It's complicated. And may have more than five after all
I live in the attic so one sloping ceiling.
We have a recess in one side of the wall so there's the second.
The recess splits the other sloping ceiling so there's ceilings three and four.
We don't have a pointy ceiling so the ceiling proper makes the fifth.
We have another ceiling over the recess dug into the spiral staircase where dad keeps some of his books, so six.
Plus the cupboard/crawlspace which is technically part of our room has it's own ceiling so seven.

It also means that I have eleven walls instead of four. And that's not counting the almost-walls of the stairwell. Or the ones in the cupboard/crawlspace.

EDIT:
And I can't sleep with artificial noise or human noise. Natural sounds are fine unless you''re a seagull in which case someone should fee you a mound of salt.

Phase

2008-08-26, 03:51 PM

I'm ashamed of myself. I fell asleep during a lecture on the collection of stardust this morning.

DraPrime

2008-08-26, 03:52 PM

I stand corrected.

randman22222

2008-08-26, 04:02 PM

Man, I'd've gone insane without GitP... :smallsmile:

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 04:16 PM

Yes... Without...

Also, I need noide most of the time too... Even if it gets really annoying.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-26, 04:23 PM

Speaking of going insane without GitP, I am now leaving work to my non-computer having apartment. So I will catch you all in the (as in, my) morning!

Actually, I may be getting a new computer tonight. Wish me luck!

DraPrime

2008-08-26, 04:24 PM

Ooooh what kind of computer might you be getting?

randman22222

2008-08-26, 05:02 PM

I AM A MATHEMATICAL, SEXY GOD OF BRAINS!

My IA is finished. In one night. Because I procrastinate too much. But what really impresses me, is that by the end of it, I understood all these nice relationships between prime numbers, Pascal's Triangle, and inductions surrounding the divisibility of a certain expression.

Player_Zero

2008-08-26, 05:09 PM

Give me examples!

FEEEEEED MEEEEE!!

Flickerdart

2008-08-26, 08:23 PM

I always miss the creation of one of these things. Damn.

Thes Hunter

2008-08-26, 08:35 PM

Horrendous steak, makes horrendous steak fried rice.

I am now beginning to suspect the cut of beef. Aw well, I think the rest of it I have in the freezer will be thrown into a Japanese curry.

Dhavaer

2008-08-26, 08:47 PM

I thought that frying rice made horrendous fried rice...

Thes Hunter

2008-08-26, 08:55 PM

Only if you deep fry it.... and serve it with deep fried Coke. :smallwink:

Sneak

2008-08-26, 08:58 PM

I thought that frying rice made horrendous fried rice...

*gasp*

Fried rice is amazing! Especially Thai fried rice. All Thai food is amazing though, really.

Horrendous steak, makes horrendous steak fried rice.

Who'da thunk it? :smalltongue:

Dhavaer

2008-08-26, 10:21 PM

All Thai food is amazing though, really.

Except the bit about the Thai food, I agree completely.

Thes Hunter

2008-08-26, 10:41 PM

Thai food is da bomb.

I am going to get Hmong food tomorrow for the first time! Yum! Can't wait!

As for Thai cuisine I haven't found a place here yet. When I was in cincy there was a place just a block down from my study place that had some of the best Thai I ever had, except of course the food my friend would cook for us. :smallwink:

But I can make Thai currys at home, decently well. So what I am really missing right now is Korean food. I would kill for some good duk bo gi.

And Dhaver you're mostly right, All food is amazing... except German food. For some reason, I just can't get into German food.

*waits for all the German playgrounds to get online and plummel me to death*

Dhavaer

2008-08-26, 10:43 PM

And Dhaver you're mostly right, All food is amazing... except German food. For some reason, I just can't get into German food.

*waits for all the German playgrounds to get online and plummel me to death*

I'm not German but I'm willing to do some pummelling for the misspelling of my name.

Krade

2008-08-26, 10:53 PM

I'm not German but I'm willing to do some pummelling for the misspelling of my name.

It's really your own fault for haveing a name that's hard for people to remember how to spell. You ought to have gotten an easier one, like mine, or maybe The Shunter (please don't kill me! I was making a funny).

Thes Hunter

2008-08-26, 10:55 PM

Not the Shunty! *stomp!*

And Dhavaer, you're upset because I missed that a, eh?

Dhavaer

2008-08-26, 11:03 PM

And now I'm upset because you made an awful pun. You're just making things worse for yourself, here.

Raiser Blade

2008-08-26, 11:05 PM

Not only that. An awful Canadian pun.

Three times as deadly.

Krade

2008-08-26, 11:08 PM

I don't see any puns here. What puns do you see? Also, I'm pretty sure Thes isn't Canadian.

Edit: Way back when Thes was still new to the forum (and I was, for that matter), her screennane was simply theshunter. I, and many others, apparently, saw this as the_shunter instead of thes_hunter. The only reason I mention it here is because it came up while a bunch of us were hanging out at GenCon and it was relatively fresh in my memory.

Rawhide

2008-08-26, 11:26 PM

Guess she didn't like being called "a small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips".

Thes Hunter

2008-08-26, 11:26 PM

I am from a part of Michigan that is 1 hour away from Canada. So I do say Eh more than most.

Out here in Wisconsin, I will occasionally have people think I am from Canada, to which I reply, Oh geez, ya, you betcha.

Sneak

2008-08-26, 11:26 PM

I don't see any puns here. What puns do you see? Also, I'm pretty sure Thes isn't Canadian.

And Dhavaer, you're upset because I missed that a, eh?

A = Eh = Pun

Eh = Canadian

A = Eh = Canadian Pun

Guess she didn't like being called "a small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips".

Oh, that's nothing. People call me "to diminish gradually and come to an end" all the time!

Destro_Yersul

2008-08-26, 11:29 PM

Well, this song just came on the radio, and I feel that it's appropriate for Rawhide, especially considering that Eastwood sigatar of his.

Not a Rick Roll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZUHFuklo8) I promise it's not a rick roll.

Krade

2008-08-26, 11:40 PM

Is it bad that every time I see a montage I think Team America: World Police?

mangosta71

2008-08-27, 12:32 AM

As for Thai cuisine I haven't found a place here yet.

*comfort* The little town I live in had a Thai place open about six months ago. Best food in town imo, helped by the fact that they take requests on spicyness. Unfortunately, picking one item off their menu to be my favorite will require more sampling than I can afford.

Nychta

2008-08-27, 02:04 AM

Well this time I can't even say "Argh, the thread grew four pages without me!" Because it's not even the same thread. I wonder if I could make one one day! :smallbiggrin:

Also, for some reason I was on the name change thread a while ago (a long, long time ago) and I saw Thes wanting her name to be Thes Hunter. And she was fairly insistent that her name must not be The Shunter. And this is how I remember it.
I need to kick some knowledge out of my brain for tomorrow's exam. You guys don't mind if I forget you all, right?

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 02:05 AM

Do you even remember me in the first place?

Nychta

2008-08-27, 02:08 AM

I highly, highly doubt it. Unless you count from further up the page.

Because, you see, I only really started coming onto these forums in the last... few months? And I'm almost positive that I've never seen you. But now I'll remember you.

Damnit!

Jibar

2008-08-27, 02:10 AM

Do you even remember me in the first place?

Oooo, oooo, I do! I do!

I totally remember you.

Charity

2008-08-27, 02:21 AM

Do you even remember me in the first place?

I remember you odd, does that count Dhav?

Felixaar

2008-08-27, 02:45 AM

Damsels, Distressing? Sounds like the kind of banter made by Dallas Dakota, for Felixaar.

:smallwink:

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 02:48 AM

Oooo, oooo, I do! I do!

I totally remember you.

I remember you too, Jibar. :smallwink: And you, Charity, though I don't need as much memory for that because I see you around more.

Charity

2008-08-27, 03:27 AM

OK so I'm putting on a bit of weight, but theres no need to go on about it...

Jibar

2008-08-27, 03:28 AM

I remember you too, Jibar. :smallwink:

Yes!

And so, my life has been validated.

Charity

2008-08-27, 03:28 AM

Did you have to buy anything?

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 04:12 AM

Yes. I validate lives with the purchase of at least AUS$0.20 of divine favour.

Rawhide

2008-08-27, 04:17 AM

Dhavaer: I don't remember you or the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the Playground at all... ok, kidding!

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 04:22 AM

I cut my hair since then. It was getting too noodly.

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 04:24 AM

All food is amazing... except German food. For some reason, I just can't get into German food.

*waits for all the German playgrounds to get online and plummel me to death*

You're in that part of the world and aren't keen on German-style food? Shurely shum mishtake? /Connery :smallconfused:

German food rocks! I turn into such a fat b*st*rd whenever the German market turns up in Newcastle around Christmas. :smallbiggrin:

Do you even remember me in the first place?

I vaguely recall cheesecake, and being upside-down, and hats. Really cool hats.

Yep. Good times with Dhavaer. :smallbiggrin:

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 04:37 AM

I vaguely recall cheesecake, and being upside-down, and hats. Really cool hats.

Ah, sweet cheesecake.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e100/Dhavaer/The_Fog_of_War_by_RainfeatherPearl.jpg

I don't remember upsidedownness or hats, though.

banjo1985

2008-08-27, 04:56 AM

Wouldn't hats just fall off if you were upside-down? :smallconfused:

Charity

2008-08-27, 04:58 AM

Weebles often have trouble with vertical alignment Dhav...
Wow this is proper old skool.

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 04:59 AM

Wouldn't hats just fall off if you were upside-down? :smallconfused:

Perhaps they had an elastic strap to go under the chin?

Thufir

2008-08-27, 05:04 AM

Or if it was a tight enough fit for your head it might stay on anyway.

randman22222

2008-08-27, 05:54 AM

In your head they are fighting.

And, P_Z, I shall post up the entire project once it's been graded, if you want. :smallconfused:

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 06:29 AM

Do it. Also, I will mock your mistakes without mercy. :smalltongue:

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 06:36 AM

Damsels, Distressing? Sounds like the kind of banter made by Dallas Dakota, for Felixaar.

:smallwink:

Should I be worried? :smallamused: :smalltongue: :smallwink:

Recaiden

2008-08-27, 07:07 AM

Do you even remember me in the first place?

I remember you. A little.

Phase

2008-08-27, 07:08 AM

Most of the previous train of thoght seemed very much like a non-sequitor.
I had missed the quote in Dhavear's post and thought it was the most random
post ever.

Oregano

2008-08-27, 07:53 AM

Oregano's officially a college student!:smallbiggrin: Yay!

And he already has an AS! Yay!

Hm, what else to announce.:smallconfused:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 07:57 AM

Congrats on the college thing. My first day of college was amazing. I actually met my first college-girlfriend that day in my Freshman English class.

Cheers to you!

Edit: Enjoy it while you can.

Tempest Fennac

2008-08-27, 08:01 AM

Well done.:smallsmile: What subject is the AS Level in?

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 08:06 AM

Congrats on the college thing. My first day of college was amazing. I actually met my first college-girlfriend that day in my Freshman English class.

Cheers to you!

Edit: Enjoy it while you can.

*snicker*

I actually met my wife that day in Freshman English...

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 08:07 AM

*snicker*

I actually met my wife that day in Freshman English...

Congrats...

Hehe, I didn't meet my fiance (Wedding is October!) until my Junior year... about three girlfriends later :smallbiggrin:

I was quite the rake for a few years...

Oregano

2008-08-27, 08:10 AM

My AS is Sociology, which I eventually decided not to do in College, I'm doing Maths instead.

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 08:19 AM

Congrats...

Hehe, I didn't meet my fiance (Wedding is October!) until my Junior year... about three girlfriends later :smallbiggrin:

I was quite the rake for a few years...

Yup, poor woman was just entranced by me (and she doesn't come to this thread...so I can say that :smalltongue:)

My AS is Sociology, which I eventually decided not to do in College, I'm doing Maths instead.

I thought about doing Sociology in college, but by the time I was introduced to it I was already halfway through my Sophomore year and well into my English degree.

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 08:23 AM

My AS is Sociology, which I eventually decided not to do in College, I'm doing Maths instead.

Good choice. :smalltongue:

If you ever need mathemagical assistance you know where to find me.

Oregano

2008-08-27, 08:27 AM

Yer, hopefully I'll be alright with the maths, I got an A in my GCSE, missed an A* by a couple of marks and my friend missed it by one.

Maths is also a much better qualification as it can apply to many different jobs, Sociology pigdeon(sp?) holes you a bit.

Tempest Fennac

2008-08-27, 08:30 AM

I enjoyed doing Sociology at college. I was never that great at maths, though.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 08:33 AM

Yup, poor woman was just entranced by me (and she doesn't come to this thread...so I can say that :smalltongue:)
Aww´d, she scared by the name? :smalltongue:

Flickerdart

2008-08-27, 08:34 AM

Hehe, college. All you people are old. :smallbiggrin:

Oregano

2008-08-27, 08:35 AM

I'm only sixteen, although I was repeatedly asked to clarify that I wasn't 19, it's my fault for being 6'3'.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 08:38 AM

Rawhide

2008-08-27, 08:42 AM

'Tis a rather intimidating name.

But seriously, I do envy that you met your wifeas early as you did, Cristo. Ashley and I have been together nearly four years, and were together two and a half before I popped the question with a ring that I paid for with my piddling tax returns. Back when I lived in a rundown flat (it was more of a flat than an apartment) and worked a 9.50 an hour job even though I held a BA.

Things are a LOT better financially, but I'm amazed she said yes! Particularly because I'm sooo good at annoying her.

That so made me think of a Simpsons like exchange.

"Will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"Do you think I'll change my answer if you keep asking?"
"Yes, will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"No"
"Will you Marry me?"
"Oh, alright!"

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 08:44 AM

'Tis a rather intimidating name.

Actually I think it's DD's new avatar...it's kinda intimidating :smalleek:

But seriously, I do envy that you met your wifeas early as you did, Cristo. Ashley and I have been together nearly four years, and were together two and a half before I popped the question with a ring that I paid for with my piddling tax returns. Back when I lived in a rundown flat (it was more of a flat than an apartment) and worked a 9.50 an hour job even though I held a BA.

bought the ring with money earned from a less than 7.50/hr job, literally broke me for a month

...and the car broke down at a gas station on the way back from buying it

...and my folks couldn't spare a car for the ride back

...so I had to call her to get a ride back. An hour and a half in the car, with a 1/3 carat diamond ring in my pocket...

...but it wasn't all bad, I won like three scratch-off lottery tickets in a row while I was waiting for my folks to help me move the car

Things are a LOT better financially, but I'm amazed she said yes! Particularly because I'm sooo good at annoying her.

"What is marriage but the union of two people that would otherwise make fine enemies?"

Hehe, college. All you people are old.

Man, if just going to college makes you old, I'm frikken' ancient

Jibar

2008-08-27, 08:46 AM

"Hey. Hey. Jibar. Hey."
"Silence."
"Hey. Ya gotta work on me."
"Silence..."
"You gotta write something soon."
*silence*
"Stop thinking about KOTOR Mods, get off the forum, and write something."
"Yes. Alright. Fine. I'll write 'Personal Statements Suck'. WILL THAT APPEASE YOU?"
"...little bit."
"...can I get a drink first?"
"Yes you may."
*little bit later*
"Jibar? Jibaaar? ...I don't think he's coming back."

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 08:47 AM

Man, if just going to college makes you old, I'm frikken' ancient
And that would make me in the prime of my life.:smalleek: :smalltongue:

Calamity

2008-08-27, 08:48 AM

@Flickerdart: I'm going to college next week. You consider 16 years old to be... old? :smallconfused:

Oregano

2008-08-27, 08:51 AM

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 08:53 AM

Hehe, college. All you people are old. :smallbiggrin:

We're not old; you're larval. :smallwink:

But seriously, I do envy that you met your wife as early as you did, Cristo. Ashley and I have been together nearly four years, and were together two and a half before I popped the question with a ring that I paid for with my piddling tax returns. Back when I lived in a rundown flat (it was more of a flat than an apartment) and worked a 9.50 an hour job even though I held a BA.

*Blech!* Those jobs. I remember them. Anything to pay off the uni' debt though.

Oddly enough I met Miss Eggy while I was working a crappy pays-the-rent job. She was the only good thing I ever got out of two-and-a-bit years there. :smallannoyed:

The Bushranger

2008-08-27, 08:55 AM

I think I'm going to start painting little chair silhouettes on the side of my computer. I've just killed my third chair. Ouch.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 08:56 AM

bought the ring with money earned from a less than 7.50/hr job, literally broke me for a month

...and the car broke down at a gas station on the way back from buying it

...and my folks couldn't spare a car for the ride back

...so I had to call her to get a ride back. An hour and a half in the car, with a 1/3 carat diamond ring in my pocket...

...but it wasn't all bad, I won like three scratch-off lottery tickets in a row while I was waiting for my folks to help me move the car

Ashley actually wrecked the evening I had planned for the proposal. We were going to Downtown OKC for a night of fine Italian, dancing, and walking along the canal in Bricktown. I was going to take the knee on a certain bridge over the canal where we had our first kiss.

But she was tired that day. So I lost the reservations I had made, and we ended up going to IHOP.

It was another two weeks before I got around to doing the actual proposal.

Calamity

2008-08-27, 08:58 AM

Ooo what College? It's probably a pointless question as we probably live on the opposite sides of the UK but I like to reinforce the stereotype that England is all one town and we all know each other.

You're probably right. We probably live on opposite sides so if I told you you wouldn't really have a clue what I'm on about anyway.

Jibar

2008-08-27, 09:01 AM

"Don't worry. He's coming back."
"No he's not."
"Yes he is. He always comes back. It just... takes him a while sometimes."
"Oh shut up Unfinished Poems and Prose. Just shut up. He'll come back to you because he likes you. You're fun. You two have a good time. All I've done is sit and nag at him and now he's never coming back and I'm alone and it's all my fault."
"No, look. This isn't your fault."
"Yes it is! It's always my fault!"
"Look, if you just put down the bottle and dry your eyes a bit we can fix you up real nice."
"...we can?"
"Sure. We'll make you the best looking personal statement ever, and he'll have to come and write you."
"I guess..."
"There ya go."

*Later, in a very nice office.*

"Er, Mr... Jibar?"
"Yes, that's me."
"Why is your personal statement covered in poorly applied make up?"
"...Prose."

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 09:01 AM

Ashley actually wrecked the evening I had planned for the proposal. We were going to Downtown OKC for a night of fine Italian, dancing, and walking along the canal in Bricktown. I was going to take the knee on a certain bridge over the canal where we had our first kiss.

But she was tired that day. So I lost the reservations I had made, and we ended up going to IHOP.

It was another two weeks before I got around to doing the actual proposal.

This was in February, and I swore I wasn't going to propose on Valentine's Day (I hate Valentine's Day). So I waited, I think it was the weekend after Valentine's Day.

Guess what weekend that was?

Superbowl...bloody...Sunday.

My apathy about sports in general led me to propose on bloody Superbowl Sunday...

I still haven't lived that down...

We're not old; you're larval. :smallwink:

Heh, I'm going to have to remember that one.

"Hey. Hey. Jibar. Hey."
"Silence."
"Hey. Ya gotta work on me."
"Silence..."
"You gotta write something soon."
*silence*
"Stop thinking about KOTOR Mods, get off the forum, and write something."
"Yes. Alright. Fine. I'll write 'Personal Statements Suck'. WILL THAT APPEASE YOU?"
"...little bit."
"...can I get a drink first?"
"Yes you may."
*little bit later*
"Jibar? Jibaaar? ...I don't think he's coming back."

This is why I drink when writing. At least then you can pass off the computer talking to you as the alcohol talking...

Skippy

2008-08-27, 09:07 AM

We're not old; you're larval. :smallwink:

Heh, I'm going to have to remember that one.

Me too. Particularly, since it came from an egg...

Oregano

2008-08-27, 09:12 AM

You're probably right. We probably live on opposite sides so if I told you you wouldn't really have a clue what I'm on about anyway.

Yep it was probably a stupid question, well not probably, it was a stupid question.

I actually start on tuesday, I wonder what day I get to study on.:smallconfused:

Thufir

2008-08-27, 10:02 AM

And that would make me in the prime of my life.:smalleek: :smalltongue:

Nonsense! The prime of a man's life is clearly at the age of 20! Until I turn 21 that is...

dish

2008-08-27, 10:03 AM

Guys, you're having the usual British/American confusion over the term 'college'.

The Americans are using it to refer to college (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College#United_States) as the place where you go to get your degree. Brits call this 'university'.

The Brits are using it to refer to 'Sixth Form College' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_form_college). The place that educates 16-18 year-olds after they've left secondary school but before they apply to university. (Like the last two years of high school.)

Jibar

2008-08-27, 10:27 AM

Argh!
I know I've done nothing but complain about it, but personal statements are pretty much the perfect example of what I hate about the education system.
I've looked at tons of examples now, and about the only differences between them all our specifics such as where they had a part time job or what courses they did for A Level. They're not personal at all.
It's a cookie cutter excersise. If you can't adapt to their guidelines then you're announced a failure and banished forever to the land of Minimum Wage.
Every single attempt to place some creativity or originallity into it is decreed as heresy against their noble guidelines and shall be denounced as foolishness on the part of the creator.
I'm applying for a bloody creative writing course, and they want me to just copy and paste? I went to the Uni I want to get into, we got a talk from the guy who goes over personal statements. The guy who works in the creative writing department. And he made a point of mocking all the entries with something unique about them.
The worst part of this all was he asked us, when he put these statements on the big screen, who thought these were good statements. And for all of them, all of his 'bad' examples, only two people put their hands up to say "Yeah, I like it". Me and my hetero life partner. The student population has been indoctrinated to accept this degrading of their collective intelligence.
The personal statement represents the sublte destruction of personal individuality, directing our need to express away from the artistic and academic into the commercial and material. We are now defined by our posessions and place in society rather than our beliefs or our personality.
This isn't entirely the personal statement's fault, but it's damn well a big cause of it all. It comes at a pivotal place in most young people's lives, at that point where those who are still idealistic and cling to their role as youth are forced into dropping all this and becoming another part of the system. The personal statement crushes personal freedom and reduces all to just another brainless zombie shambling through life at the dictation of those who got just lucky enough to have been placed slightly higher above us.
Grrr. I refuse to back down and give in. I will not bow to their demands and I will not surrender my individuality. I will embrace it, I will rise above it and I will prove that life is about more than living.

...I booping hate personal statements.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 10:30 AM

It's a cookie cutter excersise.
Just cut them in the right shape before they go into the oven, ok?

:smalltongue:

dish

2008-08-27, 10:40 AM

Jibar: just write the thing already. I know I did mine many years ago, but it took me all of 30 minutes. It is not a work of creative fiction, it is a highly-stylised piece of formal communication in which your job is to convey certain facts about yourself clearly and concisely whilst using an undergraduate level of vocabulary and grammar and showing an awareness of and the ability to use more formal language.

Would it help if you thought of it as a writing exercise in which by following a multitude of rules you are forced to show off your technical ability and mastery of academic English?

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 11:55 AM

Argh!

<trimmed, one rant about how the personal statement is the boot of Big Brother stamping on the face of Jibar forever>

...I booping hate personal statements.

Think of it in terms of basic skills test, or a boring life-drawing assessment, or a technical performance in figure skating. The idea of the thing isn't to stamp out your individuality, it's to show that you can work to a pre-determined and seemingly meaningless template format when required. When you've shown that you have the basics down, then they let you do the fun stuff.

In some respects the personal statement is like an academic version of a CV. It's a useful aide memoir for the assessor if you're called for interview. It gives him a handle on who you are, what you're into, and - most importantly - what to ask you about.

Now just fill the thing in, tick all the relevant boxes and forget about it.

The worst part of this all was he asked us, when he put these statements on the big screen, who thought these were good statements. And for all of them, all of his 'bad' examples, only two people put their hands up to say "Yeah, I like it". Me and my hetero life partner. The student population has been indoctrinated to accept this degrading of their collective intelligence.

Questioning received wisdom? I think you may have actually earned a couple of bonus points there. :smallamused:

In other news: oh great, the students are back in town again. Expect immediate local shortages of cheap vino, instant noodles and green peppers on the shelves of your local supermarket. Also expect to have all your favourite night spots ruined by braying herds of lager lout freshers who've only gone to uni to get drunk and contract an STD and also by tedious coteries of droning middle-class prats (they'd be the seniors then) for at least a fortnight. :smallannoyed:

(yes, I was a student. No, I wasn't one of them)

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 11:56 AM

If you don't, Jibar, you will likely end up like me. I have been fired from pretty much every writing job I have ever had because I told myself I was a free-spirit who would not be confined to standards that catered to the lowest common denominator.

Edit: Now I work for the Government, getting paid way too much by the public's taxes...

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 11:59 AM

Ethrael

2008-08-27, 12:02 PM

Yes, I find cats partly evil, don't know about yours though. *shrug*

But as with the personal statement, don't have no clue about what to do, I've never had any clue about them...

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 12:03 PM

The sooner humans realize we are naught but mobile beds for our feline masters, the happier the planet will be. *nod*

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 12:12 PM

Quoted for truth. I'm happily enough avoiding mine (even though I've got to apply early for Oxbridge) because it's so darn dull. I can write dull things easy, coursework just flows off the pen or the keyboard, but this is the hardest thing I've ever writ 'cause I have to sell myself in 40 something lines of text or less and all the examples I've read are exactly the same. I don't do 'same'. I got to be original 'cause of the whole Oxbridge thing and because I want to do either English OR History I got to write for two degrees in one.

And ironically I can write other peoples' personal statements easily.

Quick solution: get someone else to write your statement. :smalltongue:

Also, what book?

Quincunx

2008-08-27, 12:12 PM

Me too. Particularly, since it came from an [/I]egg[I]...

Buuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrnnn. . .

That one's still smoldering.

Now, why was I here? . . .oh yes.

99 SEK wedding ring, beat that! (For those keeping track at home, with the exchange rate at the time, about $10 USD. One of those buy-one-at-full-price, get-the-other-cheap deals.)

Griever

2008-08-27, 12:15 PM

Man, if just going to college makes you old, I'm frikken' ancient

Yep, that pretty much sums it up, thanks Cristo. :smallbiggrin:

Jibar

2008-08-27, 12:16 PM

There. I've written it.
I hate it and think it's horrendeous, but it's a first draft and I can be told how terrible it is tomorrow.
I've at least managed to make it sound rather eccentric, despite sticking to all those rules and tips they keep giving us.
This wouldn't be so annoying if I had actually been made to do this sort of thing at any point in the year. But all of my teachers have simply looked at my work and decided that despite it being completely different from what they wanted, they never said what they wanted. They just expected it. I never had to feel like they were demanding something because they never demanded it.
This though, eugh. I've had nothing but demands placed on it. I can comply with their wishes, sure, but having them forced upon me in this manner does not a happy Jibar make. :smallmad:

If you don't, Jibar, you will likely end up like me. I have been fired from pretty much every writing job I have ever had because I told myself I was a free-spirit who would not be confined to standards that catered to the lowest common denominator.

Aaahhh, but you made one fatal mistake. You went to California. I'm going to Hawai'i!
Genius!

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 12:17 PM

Yep, that pretty much sums it up, thanks Cristo. :smallbiggrin:

Quiet you young whipper-snapper!

...where's my coffee? Wait, do I even drink coffee?

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 12:20 PM

Me too. Particularly, since it came from an egg...

Century egg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg): blackhearted, limey and really old. :smallbiggrin:

(also an acquired taste...and a bit niffy...oh dear. This is going really rather badly now :smalleek: )

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 12:21 PM

And ironically I can write other peoples' personal statements easily.
Write one for meeeee!
Even though I don´t need one....:smalltongue:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 12:22 PM

Aaahhh, but you made one fatal mistake. You went to California. I'm going to Hawai'i!
Genius!

Where did you get the impression that I went to California? I attended the University of Oklahoma...

Unless there is something else here that I am missing...

Jibar

2008-08-27, 12:28 PM

Where did you get the impression that I went to California? I attended the University of Oklahoma...

Unless there is something else here that I am missing...

Last thread I think. You and Bosssmiley discussed your writing career and you mentioned you tried to do the bohemian thing in California.
I could be imagining it, but I remember reading that.
Still: HAWAI'I! :smallbiggrin:

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 12:28 PM

Where did you get the impression that I went to California? I attended the University of Oklahoma...

Unless there is something else here that I am missing...

Well, to us Brits America generally = NYC, Miami, Vegas and California. :smallamused:

(whereas I know the truth! America is really just bits of Britain re-dressed by the sets and FX depts. for shooting purposes :smalltongue: )

Washington state = Cumbria
Detroit or Pittsburgh = Middlesborough
Illinois = the Fens
Chicago = Norwich
California = Devon & Cornwall
Virginia = Thames Valley
New England = the Cotswolds
Florida = the Isle of Wight
etc.

I forgot. I foolishly tried to find myself in Cali for a while, not realizing that your location doesn't really mean anything.

Intriguingly, even for people in the brainworks fields this is not strictly true (http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html). :smallconfused:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 12:31 PM

I forgot. I foolishly tried to find myself in Cali for a while, not realizing that your location doesn't really mean anything.

Sorry for that. I am a complete fool :smallredface:

But I am sticking to my fiction now, I really didn't like writing for magazines and newspapers anyhow.

I do wish you the best of luck in your writing, Jibar.

And I'm sure you are aware of the "England is London" thing that Americans seem to have, Boss. You will be happy to know that I am not one of them :smallsmile:

Besides, I'm much more of a German-phile than an Anglophile.

randman22222

2008-08-27, 12:33 PM

Jibar. Personal statements don't need to be that senseless kind of stuff.
Read this:

Hugh Gallagher's College Essay (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/essay.htm).

He wrote it as a satire of the system, to apply to a creative writing program. They loved it. :smalltongue:

Jibar

2008-08-27, 12:45 PM

I forgot. I foolishly tried to find myself in Cali for a while, not realizing that your location doesn't really mean anything.

Sorry for that. I am a complete fool :smallredface:

Don't worry man.
Unfortunately, I'm far too optimistic to let anything get in the way of my bohemian dreams, so I'll either be in Hawai'i for life, or trying to find a place to live with a Playgrounder because I have no money. :smalltongue:
If Nani can make a living though, why can't I?

But I am sticking to my fiction now, I really didn't like writing for magazines and newspapers anyhow.

Personally, I write to write as many different things as possible, so if I get the chance I'll write for just about anything pays.

I do wish you the best of luck in your writing, Jibar.

Thanks. :smallsmile:
I just have to convince the world that Cat-Muffins are one of the greatest ideas ever and I'm set. :smalltongue:

Jibar. Personal statements don't need to be that senseless kind of stuff.
Read this:

Hugh Gallagher's College Essay (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/essay.htm).

He wrote it as a satire of the system, to apply to a creative writing program. They loved it. :smalltongue:

All students of this year were given this little guidebook for writing our statements.
Included was a page showing you a good example and a bad example.
That one was printed there as a bad example.
I loved it then and I love it now.

randman22222

2008-08-27, 12:52 PM

A bad example? But it captures his voice incredibly! It tells more about him than any drab and dull 'normal' college essay could ever do...

Find whoever put that college essay packet together, and give them a back-hand from randman22222, in Abu Dhabi.

EDIT: I suppose as a college essay, it's a bit risky, though.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 12:55 PM

My first college paper was supposed to be an argument paper. So the position I took was that one should not use an excessive amount of peanut butter and jelly to make their sandwiches. It was six pages long, had four sources, and got an A :smallbiggrin:

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 01:06 PM

First college essay: describe a major event in your life and what you learned from it.

Great if you were a social teenager that didn't hate interacting with people, not so much for a small-town kid that led a life more boring than some sitcoms. The kicker: include a timeline of the events in your life.

The urge to put "fights off covert alien invasion" on the timeline for the first time I beat X-Com was unbelieveable.

dish

2008-08-27, 01:11 PM

Gah. My connection to the Playground just died - although I could still connect to other sites. I got back on by using Firefox with Tor, which indicates that random web blocks are back.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 01:33 PM

The urge to put "fights off covert alien invasion" on the timeline for the first time I beat X-Com was unbelieveable.

I wish I would have thought to put something like that down!

Edit: I swear I could call you brother, Cristo.

I would have written my argument paper in favor of giving more financial support to X-Com. I would have probably confused the heck out of my very very hot English professor...

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 01:45 PM

psh, when I saw the assignment list for that class I knew I was basically right back in high school english. Looking back, I wish I had done stuff like that. It would've made the class bearable, at least.

'Course, Junior year came along and I was afforded a lot more freedom. Wrote multiple papers about Silent Hill (even citing Gamefaqs), did whatever I could to twist the meaning of the assignment.

Edit: I swear I could call you brother, Cristo.

So now I have a Chinese sister-in-law, a British counterpart, and a brother in Oklahoma.

My family tree is very interesting.

Jibar

2008-08-27, 01:58 PM

So now I have a Chinese sister-in-law, a British counterpart, and a brother in Oklahoma.

My family tree is very interesting.

Welcome to the internet!

:tongue:

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 02:03 PM

*snicker*

I feel so worldly...

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 02:08 PM

Also, what book?

20 000 lieues sous les mers. Also known as 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea. Also known as Curly's French Homework What She Has To Write A Report On. I couldn't even look up the words in my dictionary. It's a very good book though.

a British counterpart

Who?

And I have an almost - twin in America, one in Cambridgeshie somewhere and prolly some other folks floating around.

Castaras

2008-08-27, 02:10 PM

We interrupt this banter to bring you this important newsflash.

All Red Dwarf fans: Did you know you can get a Smeg Dishwasher?

I kid you not.

We saw a lorry owned by Smeg while travelling today. (http://www.smeguk.com/Intro.htm)

:biggrin:

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 02:10 PM

Who?

And I have an almost - twin in America, one in Cambridgeshie somewhere and prolly some other folks floating around.

I call banjo1985 that from time to time.

Oregano

2008-08-27, 02:12 PM

I knew that, Smeg are actually a fairly large kitchen appliance manufacturer. I laughed the first time I saw it.

Castaras

2008-08-27, 02:19 PM

Wikied. Seems there's also a Shanghai Entertainment & Media Group.

Greatly amusing for me.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 02:20 PM

All Red Dwarf fans: Did you know you can get a Smeg Dishwasher?

:smallbiggrin:
I wonder what possessed them to name it that? They must get laughed at so often.
Especially as smeg apparently comes from the word 'smegma' which is a really not very nice thing.
Really.

Castaras

2008-08-27, 02:28 PM

No. No it isn't.

And, that company were founded in 1948. So it isn't their fault. And they're italian.

:smalltongue:

mangosta71

2008-08-27, 02:28 PM

The question is, does the company predate the book, or do the books predate the company? (Edit: ^. That answers that.) (Editedit: @V - there were at least two books written. I always assumed that the tele series was based on them.)

On the other topic, my first writing assignment in college was a research paper on a particular place of my choosing. I wrote a work of fiction with manufactured sources and got a B, even though my teacher confronted me and told me that she was sure I'd made it all up.

Castaras

2008-08-27, 02:29 PM

The question is, does the company predate the book, or do the books predate the company?

On the other topic, my first writing assignment in college was a research paper on a particular place of my choosing. I wrote a work of fiction with manufactured sources and got a B, even though my teacher confronted me and told me that she was sure I'd made it all up.

...Not book, surely. It's a tv show first, innit? A truely awesome tv show...

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 02:42 PM

Hmmm, internets family.....

I´ve got a brother in Phoenix AZ, USA.(Bor)
I´ve got a sister in Athens, Greece.(I´m Da Rogue)

She´s got a brother in Mexico.(Haruki-kun)
And another brother in England, North Hampton.(Almighty Salmon)

Orso me figures.

Would nay know.

DraPrime

2008-08-27, 02:45 PM

The first day of the school year ended about an hour ago for me. It sucked. That is all.

Oregano

2008-08-27, 02:45 PM

Sadly on the internet I'm an Orphan and an Only Child. In real life though I believe I have an Good twin somewhere.

Cristo Meyers

2008-08-27, 03:00 PM

The first day of the school year ended about an hour ago for me. It sucked. That is all.

What? You were expecting maybe something intellectually stimulating and enjoyable?

It's high school in the U.S., just be glad you're alive :smalltongue:

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 03:03 PM

What? You were expecting maybe something intellectually stimulating and enjoyable?

It's high school in the U.S., just be glad you're alive :smalltongue:

No one pulled a knife on you, I call that a good day!

Not that we had much of a problem with that at our school. And if we did, I was a Drama kid so I was too busy practicing in the Auditorium during every free second I wasn't in some other class.

DraPrime

2008-08-27, 03:10 PM

What? You were expecting maybe something intellectually stimulating and enjoyable?

It's high school in the U.S., just be glad you're alive :smalltongue:

Well I actually go to a school that's in the top 400 public schools in the country. Just saying.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 03:13 PM

I don't start college for one week. One week in which to do everything I should've done over the holidays.
Littlest Brother's been monopolising me and my laptop recently and he's been Googling the wierdest things and watching the bestest films.
We're watching Dragonheart at the moment. Tomorrow it's Thunderbirds (the TV series with puppets). There was never a livev action film.
And I almost choked to death on half a cola bottle a minute ago. Serves me right for watching Buzzcocks while eating and drinking.

mangosta71

2008-08-27, 03:15 PM

Indeed. One should also never watch Scrubs while ingesting anything. I was smelling apples for hours after that incident...

DraPrime

2008-08-27, 03:16 PM

I really don't understand what it is about Scrubs that makes people laugh.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-08-27, 03:17 PM

Tomorrow it's Thunderbirds (the TV series with puppets)
Awesome! I loved that show!

Jibar

2008-08-27, 03:21 PM

We're watching Dagonheart at the moment.

Sean Connery + Dragons = One of the best films ever

Tomorrow it's Thunderbirds (the TV series with puppets). There was never a livev action film.

I hear that.
I loved the original series.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 03:30 PM

Sean Connery + Dragons = One of the best films ever

Yes, yes it is. Shame he kept talking over it.

I hear that.
I loved the original series.

They should repeat it more often on TV; it's still fantastic even now, and the actiony bits are epic.
Also: Lady Penelope rocks. And her thiefly butler Parker.

Dr. Bath

2008-08-27, 03:35 PM

:smallbiggrin:
I wonder what possessed them to name it that? They must get laughed at so often.
Especially as smeg apparently comes from the word 'smegma' which is a really not very nice thing.
Really.

Did'ja know that in the Wallace and Gromit film they had a Smug fridge. I found this far too amusing at the time. Like having Duck matches in the first short. Don't judge me... >.> <.<

In other news...Bath is crazy. Filled with mouldy baths and insane hungarian landladies.

Jibar

2008-08-27, 03:37 PM

They should repeat it more often on TV; it's still fantastic even now, and the actiony bits are epic.
Also: Lady Penelope rocks. And her thiefly butler Parker.

And then you had Stingray and Captain Scarlet, both of which were just as incredible.
Oh man, my childhood kicks today's childhood's ass.

Almighty Salmon

2008-08-27, 03:37 PM

In other news...Bath is crazy.

Jeez! Like we didn't already know that!

:smalltongue:

Dr. Bath

2008-08-27, 03:39 PM

BAHRG!

Just 'cos I've not slept in two days and cognitive abilities face stuff...hand?

Thufir

2008-08-27, 03:46 PM

And then you had Stingray and Captain Scarlet, both of which were just as incredible.
Oh man, my childhood kicks today's childhood's ass.

Sadly I can remember nothing more about those two great shows than the theme songs. :smallfrown:

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 03:47 PM

And then you had Stingray and Captain Scarlet, both of which were just as incredible.
Oh man, my childhood kicks today's childhood's ass.

That was my choldhood too. If I had to rate them it'd be Thunderbirds the Captain Scarlet (who can forget the music or the many, many ways Scarlet was being killed in the end credits) and then Stingray. My Saturday (or possibly holiday) and illness TV schedule was all Channel Two:
Dangermouse/Top Cat
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet
Stingray
The Munsters
Today you have scary things and terribly produced things. Or just educational claptrap.

EDIT:
@^: You poor person. But fear not! YouTube has many episodes of them. Many, many episodes. Now get thee hence to enjoying some of the best shows ever made for children.

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 03:49 PM

The question is, does the company predate the book, or do the books predate the company? (Edit: ^. That answers that.) (Editedit: @V - there were at least two books written. I always assumed that the tele series was based on them.)

4 books ("Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers", "BTL", "Last Human" & "Backwards"). They were published in the wake of the TV show's success.

It's high school in the U.S., just be glad you're alive :smalltongue:

school = prison (http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html)

(from the linked article:)
"Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done. And I have no problem with this: in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose.

What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that (a) they aren't told about it, and (b) the prisons are run mostly by the inmates."

And then you had Stingray and Captain Scarlet, both of which were just as incredible.
Oh man, my childhood kicks today's childhood's ass.

Those were made in the '70s Jibar. And where is your love for the Prisoner-meets-Thunderbirds lunacy of "Joe 90"? :smallcool:

Lyesmith

2008-08-27, 04:00 PM

I return! Home! To these dark stantic mills, yadah yadah. It is good to be back! the cat curvived! i got my GCSE results! (A for both englishes, 2 B's, 3 C's, a D (food tech:smallsigh:) 2 E's (French and EP >.>)

Charity

2008-08-27, 04:07 PM

Eggy Since encountering schools as a parent I think I hate the system even more (if thats possible) there are islands of sanity oh yes, but the British school system is a maelstrum of conflicting interests and feckless drifters, fortunately my boy is now on an island... for the present.

Griever

2008-08-27, 04:10 PM

Lyesmith

2008-08-27, 04:14 PM

Yes. Instead of the exams and coursework, i had to hunt and kill some elephants. Alas, there are none wild in england, so i failed.

TwoBitWriter

2008-08-27, 04:15 PM

Yes. Instead of the exams and coursework, i had to hunt and kill some elephants. Alas, there are none wild in england, so i failed.

Well whose fault is that!? Honestly, probably the same thing that happened to the wild American Elephant. Thats why we don't have E's in our school, making it a long drop from D to F...

CurlyKitGirl

2008-08-27, 04:24 PM

A* - G are still passes.
BUT you need a C or higher to get into college. So it's a pass. But a crappy one.

And how's this for bad? My cousin goes to the (what once was) the second best secondary in the district. As in it went MBS (my old one and the 'best'), then CC and then HDS (noone liked it and it was the bad place).
Anyway, he went to CC and not. One. Person who took GCSEs there this year made their MTGs for all their subjects.
Why?
Because of their ******** headteacher.
She fired the photography staff halfway through the year (and it's a GCSE subject there), lost the courseworks for half the Arts/Humanities subjects, half the drama and art department left out of protest.
She spent their Arts and PE budget on plants and 'refurbishing the school' ie repainting the whole place. She shut down their swim pool and instigated the most ridiculous rules you can imagine.
Pupils are escorted to and from the bus stops; they have to wear black shoes or plimsols supplied by school. When the plimsols run out they walk aroud all day in their socks. No pupil (noy even Y11s or Prefects) are allowed into the village during their lunch times or breaks.
She's some kind of pyscho and (this is from a very reliable source) the applications for CC for the new school year are one - third less than last year putting even more pressure on HDS and MBS.

Dr. Bath

2008-08-27, 04:27 PM

I like school. *thumbs up*

You know what's cool? Ski sunday. Is that even still on? It should be. It was awesome. Well...mesmerising at least. And the theme tune was catchy.

Doo doo deedoodeedooo.... pssst. that's not how it goes.

Lyesmith

2008-08-27, 04:35 PM

Ski Sunday? Lulwhut?
Also, anyone got some good arguments for Swimming? we get to do whatever we want for PE on wednestday afternoons, and i'm tring to convince some freinds to tak up swimming with me (so i can show someone else up at a sprt for once, ha-har! and get fit again.)

DraPrime

2008-08-27, 04:37 PM

Dear god, it's only the first day of the school year and already I have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much homework. I've got at least 3 essays due in a week, a million forms to get signed, and a decent amount of homework due tomorrow. Goodbye relaxed DP of the summer and hello stressed and irritable DP of the school year.

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 04:42 PM

Swimming? It's fun?

Also, too much homework? Well that's your penance for going to your 'la-dee-da' post school. Luxury!

Back when I were a lad we had to get up four hours before we went to bed, lick the road clean with our tongues, go down t'e mill for 26 hours a day AND pay for the privilege of going. Then when we came home our dad would kill us and dance on our graves.

DraPrime

2008-08-27, 04:45 PM

You're childhood sounds awesome.

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 04:52 PM

To the max.

Also, I may've confused my childhood with that Monty python sketch.

DraPrime

2008-08-27, 04:54 PM

Only maybe confused? Not definitely?

Now if you'll excuse me I must go and do homework. If you need me after that you can find me unconscious on my bedroom floor.

Phase

2008-08-27, 04:54 PM

You're childhood sounds awesome.

True dat.

I'm tired. I just got back from a day of watching birds and catching bugs.

bosssmiley

2008-08-27, 05:29 PM

Also, I may've confused my childhood with that Monty python sketch.

Easily done. I tend to confuse mine with a cross between "Tom Brown's Schooldays", the Parris Island scenes from "Full Metal Jacket" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Dhavaer

2008-08-27, 06:18 PM

I don't really remember my childhood. I think I spent it all daydreaming. Much like my adulthood, really.

Griever

2008-08-27, 06:23 PM

Reading through the xkcd archives for the first time...

Apparently e^(pi*i)= -1... pretty sure that simple little equation just blew my mind entirely... I mean... just how is that possible?

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 06:26 PM

Heh.

I could prove it to you I suppose. :smalltongue:

Griever

2008-08-27, 06:35 PM

Heh.

I could prove it to you I suppose. :smalltongue:

It, but... it makes no sense at all!!! e is a positive number (around 2.35 iirc), how in the world could you put an exponent on it to make it equal a negative number... IT IS MADNESS!!!

Imaginary Numbers...

So, what's everyone up to?

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 06:39 PM

It'd help if you knew what e was, really.

Griever

2008-08-27, 06:43 PM

It'd help if you knew what e was, really.

Base of the natural logarithm?

@V Vague much? Ugh, skeletons, nothing more than dry bones!

Player_Zero

2008-08-27, 06:45 PM

In a manner of speaking...

But yeah. It all checks out in the end, no matter how crazy you believe it to be.

@/\ Pfft. Fine.

Euler said (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula) 'e^ix = cosx + isinx'

If x is pi then e^ipi = cospi + isinpi = -1, kinda' thing.

That's all you will probably ever need to know.

You can go look up the power series and whatnot on your own, I ain't your nanny.

Recaiden

2008-08-27, 07:44 PM

It, but... it makes no sense at all!!! e is a positive number (around 2.35 iirc), how in the world could you put an exponent on it to make it equal a negative number... IT IS MADNESS!!!

Imaginary Numbers...

So, what's everyone up to?

Well, its the power of a square root of a negative number, so i guess it works. Too busy to be up to much recently.