AliceTheOwl Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word Hmm. True. He had to know. He opened the dratted box, killing the dang cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word That's not quite correct. Properly, he put the cat at risk of death when the cat went into the box. Once the cat's in there, and before the box is reopened, it is improper to think of the cat as either simply alive or simply dead; it's a mixture of both states, with the relative proportions of the two states changing with time. The act of opening the box forces the state of the cat to have been resolved out of the in-the-box state and into one of the alive/dead conditions at the moment of the box opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word It's also the only proper use of a blink tag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word The only time I used a blink tag in a page was after some lazy student claimed they couldn't find something at the top of my web page. I consider that direct provocation. And since I no longer have edit access to that page, it's doomed to stay there until the page itself is removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. If they had blink tags for real life, I'd have all bathroom signs blink. (The #1 question asked of me, wherever I work: "Where's your bathrooms?") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. At one workplace, where there was only one set of restrooms for the entire floor, we dubbed the green-carpeted aisle between our workgroup's area and those restrooms "The Green Mile". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word And I bet it really did feel like a mile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word At times, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word It's worse where I work now, because there are only two nearby bathrooms. The rest have customer access, and are usually taken. If both employee bathrooms are taken, my last-minute jaunt becomes excruciating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word Sounds like your building is under-engineered. Or, perhaps, was built before certain building codes were changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Re: The Last Word Likely. I don't know when it was built, but it used to be a supermarket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Re: The Last Word I just counted my postcards from my trip to Europe/Britian. They total 80. I saw holes in my collection though -- I need more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Re: The Last Word did I take photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Do you collect postcards? Because I can send you panoramic postcards of local sights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. I once did a campaign of humorous post-card sending to a friend who needed the (im)moral support, one a day, six days a week. Went on for three or four months, IIRC. I had an excellent local source for silly post-cards, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Wow. The postal system was either pleased (for your revenue), or pissed (at having to deliver something every day). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Not sure it mattered much to USPS. Postcards are pretty minimal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word True. I guess if they were headed that way, anyway, it probably wasn't a big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word The shelter's vet is booked up for the week, so the kittens get fixed next Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word The important part (for the girl kitties, at least) is that they're spayed before their first heat. They'll probably be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Certainly true. They weren't fixed last week because one of the six was still under two pounds, which is the shelter's limit for the procedure. This week they're just booked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Yeah, it happens. Luckily, not with our kitten, who was JUST about to go into heat when we brought her in. So we just barely dodged that one. Phew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word I got seven kittens adopted out this weekend and an eighth that will go home next weekend. And one kitten named Beatty is being renamed Blender, because it's about the same effect when you put your hand near her as putting it in a Blender. She's being sent to foster that will try to mellow her out a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Do you collect postcards? Because I can send you panoramic postcards of local sights. I used to collect postcards, I stopped about 15 years ago. I collected them from places I had been to, and I particulary liked the "story cards", postcards that had a picture and a good longish description of the photo/place. I got the postcards from my recent holidays more as a momento, a cheap way of getting a good (professional) image. It also helps in remembering what the name of places are. Who can remember the difference between Santa Maria del Fiore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_del_Fiore) and Basilica di Santa Croce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Croce%2C_Florence), both in Florence after 5 weeks, when you had only one day sightseeing in the city. Postcards with their names on them goes a long way to help jog the memory. They are also easier to pack then acquiring the weighty souvenir books that are produced as alot of the information can now be found on the Internet. (I did buy the souvenir books but I looked for the less weighty and smaller ones where possible. On a side note: I think the coffee table type books would be a god-send as far a a good solid collection. Each book has the advantage of specializing in a particular subject area: eg you could have a book on Rome; one on the Colosseum, another on the Roman Forum; and if you extrapolate this into a collection you can see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word I see the merits in that idea, but that'd require more bookshelf space than I have at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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