Amidus Drexel's Alliterative and Awe-Accentuating Anvil of Random Banter CLXXXVI

[Mutant Sheep]

Does this mean that I am a wizard? Cool.

Aren't steroids illegal?

They are? I didn't know priestin' was a competitive sport.

Am I the only one who failed the easiest Maths in High School and is afraid of stuff like that? (It's force though, right? )

Yeah. WHen you have lines going through your vowels, it's time to find a new math.

I took AP Calc my junior year of high school and got a 5 on the AP test and I'm scared of that equation.

I just don't geddit. Myeh.

[DraPrime]

Bargh. Thanks to insomnia I got only forty minutes of sleep last night. This is a shame, since today is a reading day, which means that I'd normally have more time to study. In fact, two of my professors are holding study sessions to go over the exam material in depth. Whatever part of the brain is responsible for sleep clearly saw this great chance for me to study, and started cackling maniacally as it plotted to ruin all that.

[Socratov]

I already told you, that kind of chimerisation wouldn't end up working out. It's hard enough to combine a dog with a pony, let alone add a dragon on top.

didn't we as the playground find out that dragons (when delivering genetic material) don't so much deliver genetic material, but some sort of mutation that actually renders the basematerial much stronger? So it could be a small pony with floppy ears/wagging tail/puppy tongue and webbed wings/scales/claws instead of hooves. it si established that dragons would do anything that moves (or indeed doesn't), so why not ponies, or puppies, or both?

[factotum]

Dammit, I wish I could work well without being under pressure. Every damn time! I can't even function until the last minute! And then I get an excellent score, which really kills me, because it makes me think how awesome I'd be if I were actually able to devote a whole month to a project instead of 6 and a half hours.

Judging from how perfectionist you are (seriously, you're the only person I've ever heard of who's considering dropping a course because she only scores a mere 75% or thereabouts on it! ) it would probably make things worse--you'd have time to read back through what you'd done and decide to redo it because it wasn't good enough.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

didn't we as the playground find out that dragons (when delivering genetic material) don't so much deliver genetic material, but some sort of mutation that actually renders the basematerial much stronger? So it could be a small pony with floppy ears/wagging tail/puppy tongue and webbed wings/scales/claws instead of hooves. it si established that dragons would do anything that moves (or indeed doesn't), so why not ponies, or puppies, or both?

Under that philosophy you could add everything to the dragon and it would be fine, right? So a dog-cat-mouse-badger-porcupine-lion-ninja-bear-dragon would be acceptable, right?

[Elemental]

I find him in like five seconds every time. I was jsut... staring.

Well... They do put a lot of effort into their scenes that is worth looking at.

Intriguing. No doubt there will be a nice prestige class to go along with that.

Probably. It might even be one involving a nice hat.

Metalworking, eh? I like the sound of that. My room would be vastly improved by putting an anvil in it.

I am in total agreement. Though that would likely violate the building codes.

didn't we as the playground find out that dragons (when delivering genetic material) don't so much deliver genetic material, but some sort of mutation that actually renders the basematerial much stronger? So it could be a small pony with floppy ears/wagging tail/puppy tongue and webbed wings/scales/claws instead of hooves. it si established that dragons would do anything that moves (or indeed doesn't), so why not ponies, or puppies, or both?

Oh, you can have a half-dragon pony or a half-dragon puppy, but adding a third in just makes things extremely difficult. Particularly as both ponies and puppies are quadrupeds so it would be hard to show that it's not merely a half-dragon one of them.
After all, ponies use their ears expressively, and ears down for them means what you'd expect, fear, worry, sadness etc. And putting the tail of a pony on a dog doesn't help either because dogs can have fluffy tails.

In short, you have a ghastly mess of genetic material to shuffle around that just refuses to shuffle.



In other news: Why do the American Starcraft servers have to go down on the day I bought the game. It's a conspiracy to annoy me.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

In other news: Why do the American Starcraft servers have to go down on the day I bought the game. It's a conspiracy to annoy me.

The day I really wanted to play, too. I haven't even gotten to play much at all. Le sigh.

[Teddy]

I find him in like five seconds every time. I was jsut... staring.

Even in Waldo-land?

ION:
Everything is in the tube and out of my control. If all goes well, I won't even have to lift a finger again. Ahh, what a great feeling!
*leans back to relax*

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Nope, no time to lose. There's a World of Tanks to be played.

[MoonCat]

Wooh, 3:45 hours of sleep. So cold. I think the north should be outlawed.

[HalfTangible]

Wooh, 3:45 hours of sleep. So cold. I think the north should be outlawed.

If you ever want appreciation for the cold, come down to visit good ol' Sugar Land during the summer and try to stay outside for as long as you can.

Personally I prefer when this place is over 95 degrees to when it's less than 60, but I seem to be in the minority there.

[Deathkeeper]

Bargh. Thanks to insomnia I got only forty minutes of sleep last night. This is a shame, since today is a reading day, which means that I'd normally have more time to study. In fact, two of my professors are holding study sessions to go over the exam material in depth. Whatever part of the brain is responsible for sleep clearly saw this great chance for me to study, and started cackling maniacally as it plotted to ruin all that.

Sorry 'bout that. I actually went to sleep at a reasonable hour last night. Guess all that extra insomnia had to go somewhere.

[Kneenibble]

In other news: Why do the American Starcraft servers have to go down on the day I bought the game. It's a conspiracy to annoy me.

You got Starcraft II? Yay! I insiste on a game with you when you have it up and running.

*waves and winks back*

*hides blushing face*

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Protip, when translating to another language, make sure that the word is a noun before using it as such. Right now, you've said "the resistance-" (and the following word has to be feminine).

May I suggest faux German? Less glaring to those who know it, and it's possible to make it look better in English instead. How about "Der Resistanz"? Not that I'll ever join your cause...

This is a lovely segue for me to share another thing for those among us who might need a laugh, which is Stephen Fry doing a camp German voice.

[Teddy]

Wooh, 3:45 hours of sleep. So cold. I think the north should be outlawed.

But I like the cold. It makes everything white and crispy and utterly cozy.

*hides blushing face*

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*budgie*

Naww...

ION:
I just heard a loud thump, and a fine mist of snow hit the window just next to me. It turned out that the large tongue of snow that's been hanging off the roof outside my bedroom window (one floor above where I sit now), providing a beautiful upper bound to my view, finally succumbed to the forces of gravity. Oh well, it was pretty while it lasted, and now no one will run the danger of getting it all in the head, which wouldn't be a good thing...

IRN:
Speaking of the winter, it never ceases to amaze me how the colours shift from day to day. Yesterday, the world had faded every contrast to white, every edged had turned crystalline and a light blue sky and endearing sun domed the landscape to make me feel like I was wandering in a half-remembered dream.

Today, however, every open surface rebellioned against the frost and draped itself in an uncanny shadow, all while a biting wind swept the plains and streets and a gray sky loomed above. There was a promise of the ominous hanging in the air, but thankfully, nothing ever happened.

[LaZodiac]

ION:
I just heard a loud thump, and a fine mist of snow hit the window just next to me. It turned out that the large tongue of snow that's been hanging off the roof outside my bedroom window (one floor above where I sit now), providing a beautiful upper bound to my view, finally succumbed to the forces of gravity. Oh well, it was pretty while it lasted, and now no one will run the danger of getting it all in the head, which wouldn't be a good thing...

IRN:
Speaking of the winter, it never ceases to amaze me how the colours shift from day today. Yesterday, the world had faded every contrast to white, every edged had turned crystalline and a light blue sky and endearing sun domed the landscape to make me feel like I was wandering in a half-remembered dream.

Today, however, every open surface rebellioned against the frost and draped itself in an uncanny shadow, all while a biting wind swept the plains and streets and a gray sky loomed above. There was a promise of the ominous hanging in the air, but thankfully, nothing ever happened.

The funny thing about those snow tongues is that we are encouraged to get rid of them up here since too much snow on the roof makes it collapse and kill everyone.

Also, about the beauty of winter and stuff...sometimes I take for granite how beautiful the winter actually is. It actually is quite elegent and amazing. It's just so damned cold and I'm just so used to it, I sometimes don't appreciate it correctly.

[Dimonite]

...sometimes I take for granite how beautiful the winter actually is.

... You think that winter is a rock?

[LaZodiac]

... You think that winter is a rock?

I don't pretend I know how to spell sometimes.

[Amidus Drexel]

The corruption of this trend is widespread, I must start writing 95 reasons against!

Heh, and directed at the right person, too.

What shall we nail them to?

Yes, the first is the Wave Drift Force, the second one is the good old Net Force on an object in vacuum all physics students know and love.

First rule of physics classroom: The physics classroom exists in a frictionless vacuum, unless the question indicates otherwise.

'ot water, good dentishtry, and shoft lavatory paper.

They're speaking of the wrong Conan, of course.

I took AP Calc my junior year of high school and got a 5 on the AP test and I'm scared of that equation.

Overachiever.

[Dimonite]

Overachiever.

*laughs for literally a minute and a half*

But seriously, no. I did maybe 40% of the homework for that class. An overachiever works hard to get the highest grade possible. A lazybones like me accepts whatever grade fits the work level he feels like doing. Mostly it's that our calc teacher is pretty much the best teacher ever.

[Teddy]

The funny thing about those snow tongues is that we are encouraged to get rid of them up here since too much snow on the roof makes it collapse and kill everyone.

Well, we're encouraged to get rid of snow and icicles as well, if they hang over enterances or walkways, and, well, the snow tongue was hanging over the path to our shed and compost in our garden, to my slight worry, but it's seldom trodden, and the tongue didn't quite get intimidating enough to prompt me to action. After all, it hasn't been thaw yet.

Also, there hasn't been quite enough snow yet to cause any roof collapses. There were quite a lot of them (mostly striking sport halls and similar open buildings with large roofs) in the snow-rich winter 09/10, but even though the winter 10/11 was even snowier, there weren't nearly as many collapses in it thanks to the natural selection.

Also, about the beauty of winter and stuff...sometimes I take for granite how beautiful the winter actually is. It actually is quite elegent and amazing. It's just so damned cold and I'm just so used to it, I sometimes don't appreciate it correctly.

Well, at least I got you to reflect on it, and this means a lot to me.

Also, I kind of like the expression "take something for granite", despite how accidental its creation might have been. It kind of expresses how you overlook something of hidden value, taking it for rough and uninteresting granite.

[Amidus Drexel]

*laughs for literally a minute and a half*

But seriously, no. I did maybe 40% of the homework for that class. An overachiever works hard to get the highest grade possible. A lazybones like me accepts whatever grade fits the work level he feels like doing. Mostly it's that our calc teacher is pretty much the best teacher ever.

Heh, the calculus class I'm in now is easier than the math I was doing junior year. Trigonometry is a bunch of useless nonsense, past the basics.

Also, I kind of like the expression "take something for granite", despite how accidental its creation might have been. It kind of expresses how you overlook something of hidden value, taking it for rough and uninteresting granite.

Hey, granite is interesting! It's not silly and weak, like talc.

[Heliomance]

They're speaking of the wrong Conan, of course.

They're speaking of the only Conan - my line comes from Cohen.

re: dragonpuppypony, wouldn't it be simple enough to do a dragonpuppy in pony style?

[Teddy]

Hey, granite is interesting! It's not silly and weak, like talc.

Well, if we're supposed to get to the bottom of it, I'd say both granite and talc are interesting in their own ways, and I could gladly spend an evening discussing them with good company. I just don't get overly excited when I see a granite rock next to the road. I take them for given, basically. Or granite, to put the new expression to use.

Also, don't speak badly of talc. It's the primary component of soapstone, which is quite fascinating thanks to its quite unique sculpting properties.

[Dimonite]

Well, if we're supposed to get to the bottom of it, I'd say both granite and talc are interesting in their own ways, and I could gladly spend an evening discussing them with good company. I just don't get overly excited when I see a granite rock next to the road. I take them for given, basically. Or granite, to put the new expression to use.

Also, don't speak badly of talc. It's the primary component of soapstone, which is quite fascinating thanks to its quite unique sculpting properties.

Well everything is amazing once you really think about it. Do you ever have those moments in the theater when you hear something or feel something and it snaps you out of the reality of the play or movie and back into the real world? I have moments like that all the time, only in real life - everything seems somewhat distant and magical and just too fantastic to be true. I sort of "snap out of" real life, and realize that there's something bigger and better than the normal everyday experience. Either that or I'm just crazy. Either way, I like it; those are some of the best moments of my life.

[Amidus Drexel]

They're speaking of the only Conan - my line comes from Cohen.

So it is. They sounded similar enough that my brain didn't recognize the difference until you pointed it out.

Well, if we're supposed to get to the bottom of it, I'd say both granite and talc are interesting in their own ways, and I could gladly spend an evening discussing them with good company. I just don't get overly excited when I see a granite rock next to the road. I take them for given, basically. Or granite, to put the new expression to use.

Also, don't speak badly of talc. It's the primary component of soapstone, which is quite fascinating thanks to its quite unique sculpting properties.

Rocks would make for gneiss conversation, I imagine. There are easily enough types of rock to talc about. I apologize for all terrible puns made.

I prefer marble statues, although I understand that it isn't quite as malleable as talc. I suppose that's more of a chiseling than sculpting, though.

Well everything is amazing once you really think about it. Do you ever have those moments in the theater when you hear something or feel something and it snaps you out of the reality of the play or movie and back into the real world? I have moments like that all the time, only in real life - everything seems somewhat distant and magical and just too fantastic to be true. I sort of "snap out of" real life, and realize that there's something bigger and better than the normal everyday experience. Either that or I'm just crazy. Either way, I like it; those are some of the best moments of my life.

Indeed; reality is always more interesting than it seems.

You are crazy. Just like everyone else.

[LaZodiac]

Well, at least I got you to reflect on it, and this means a lot to me.

Also, I kind of like the expression "take something for granite", despite how accidental its creation might have been. It kind of expresses how you overlook something of hidden value, taking it for rough and uninteresting granite.

Glad it does. Because in a way, as much as I hate the winter, damn if it doesn't look good.

I'm going to pretend this is actually the origin for the term!

[Mynxae]

In other news: Why do the American Starcraft servers have to go down on the day I bought the game. It's a conspiracy to annoy me.

The day I really wanted to play, too. I haven't even gotten to play much at all. Le sigh.

You got Starcraft II? Yay! I insiste on a game with you when you have it up and running.

Starcraft II was down? Wow. I've never actually seen it down... Is there a Sheepie and Nibbles available for practise at 3v3 (AI or players, your choice/s)? Or must I constantly play Colonial Line Wars and Blasterbots? (custom maps)

I definitely need to challenge Ele to a duel. If he manages to beat me the first game, I'll stab something.

[Teddy]

Well everything is amazing once you really think about it. Do you ever have those moments in the theater when you hear something or feel something and it snaps you out of the reality of the play or movie and back into the real world? I have moments like that all the time, only in real life - everything seems somewhat distant and magical and just too fantastic to be true. I sort of "snap out of" real life, and realize that there's something bigger and better than the normal everyday experience. Either that or I'm just crazy. Either way, I like it; those are some of the best moments of my life.

Well, when I snap out of movies, it's usually because they break my willing suspension of disbelief (usually through a blatant disregard for physics), which I wouldn't really say makes the movie "distant and magical".

I can, however, indeed get struck by a feeling that reality is a sort of magical dream from time to time, and I really like those moments as well. I wouldn't say it gives me a sensation of there being something bigger or better, but rather, it makes me feel like I'm not a part of anything, like I'm totally free to do nothing at all but to relax in utter tranquility, and like nothing ever could touch me.

I'm going to pretend this is actually the origin for the term!

Nah, that makes for a much more boring etymology. Stick to the truth, I think it sounds better.

[LaZodiac]

Nah, that makes for a much more boring etymology. Stick to the truth, I think it sounds better.

Oh? What's the real etymology then?

[Dimonite]

Well, when I snap out of movies, it's usually because they break my willing suspension of disbelief (usually through a blatant disregard for physics), which I wouldn't really say makes the movie "distant and magical".

I can, however, indeed get struck by a feeling that reality is a sort of magical dream from time to time, and I really like those moments as well. I wouldn't say it gives me a sensation of there being something bigger or better, but rather, it makes me feel like I'm not a part of anything, like I'm totally free to do nothing at all but to relax in utter tranquility, and like nothing ever could touch me.



Nah, that makes for a much more boring etymology. Stick to the truth, I think it sounds better.

Well, that is how one usually would snap out of movies. But I'm talking about that moment when you're completely immersed in the world of the movie - and then, suddenly, for no real reason, your senses focus on the theater, and you realize that you're outside - an observer. I guess that's more what I mean - that sometimes you get to watch from the outside, and you realize just how great the show is. Am I making sense? I've always had a bit of trouble describing the feeling (the movie thing is the closest feeling I can think of, but it's nowhere near as awesome, nor quite the same sensation).

[Mutant Sheep]

Starcraft II was down? Wow. I've never actually seen it down... Is there a Sheepie and Nibbles available for practise at 3v3 (AI or players, your choice/s)? Or must I constantly play Colonial Line Wars and Blasterbots? (custom maps)

I definitely need to challenge Ele to a duel. If he manages to beat me the first game, I'll stab something.

Well, I think its because its tuesday. Blizz does routine server matinance on tuesday in what is... My early morning, you guyses early afternoon? Not sure if today went long, havent been home. But I'd love to play a game!