A Thread for Random Musings

[Pariah]

As nice as the accommodations have been over the past week, there is something to be said for waking up in one's own bed.

[tkdguy]

A Siamese cat let me pet it today.

[Pariah]

Country music coming out of Nashville today sounds like Nickelback with steel guitars.

[death tribble]

Summertime and the weather is cloudy and raining. But that's England for you.

[Burrito Boy]

I can't believe I just defended Al Gore! But since I was defending his right to free speech and not what he actually says, I can sleep easy tonight.

[Cancer]

Very hot here, with lots of smoke from the fires in B.C.

[Lawnmower Boy]

Very hot here, with lots of smoke from the fires in B.C.

 

Hey, hey, get your own smoke! There's only enough for one spooky, nuclear-wintery city.

[Cancer]

Empirical evidence suggests otherwise.

[tkdguy]

I've been looking at my old Rolemaster books today. I like the system; I'll try to run a game soon.

[death tribble]

The Dutch beat the Danes in the Women's European Cup Final 4-2 at full time but 2-2 at half time.

 

Usain Bolt came third in his last competitive 100m race losing to Justin Gatlin.

[death tribble]

Now I am invincible. Now they will fear me. Now they will know why they fear the night.

i

Have

Batman

Slippers !

[Lucius]

 

Today I returned to my own house after a few days in hospital and several more recuperating with a friend.

 

The pain can stop any time.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary points out I'm much better than I was and complaining won't change the campaign rules to allow Regeneration..

[Pariah]

Last weekend of summer break.

[death tribble]

So 20 years ago Princess Diana died. 40 years ago Elvis Presley died. Is there a pattern ?

I checked 1957 Bogart, Tailgunner Joe and Albert Anastasia all died. 1937 H P Lovecraft.

So not really.

[Burrito Boy]

After cutting pipe, threading pipe, and wrenching pipe all day I understand why plumbers charge so much.

[tkdguy]

Too angry in my youth, too bitter in my old age.

[Pariah]

The coconut ones are better.

[death tribble]

So Merryweather won. Big deal.

[Pariah]

Uninhibited female polymaths. Almost exclusively redheads.

[Cancer]

Shaggy monkey not seen in 80 years spotted in Amazon near Peru

 

So: which long-absent HERO boards member is this?

[Cancer]

There is a substance called lead tungstate. It is quite dense (very slightly more so than steel), but it looks like vaguely yellowish clear glass or plastic. But it is remarkably opaque to hard radiation, like x-rays. It is a scintillator: energetic particles passing through it cause it to glow briefly around the particle, which is very useful for particle physicists; there's a bunch of the stuff in at least one of the experiments on the LHC at CERN.

 

There is an amusing anecdote about one physicist carrying a slab of the stuff in his luggage, and being pulled aside because the security surveillance x-ray techs had scoped his bag, found this completely x-ray blocking oblong (they imagined a bomb in a lead box or some such) but on opening the bag found what looked to be just glass. Questions were asked.

 

I imagine this sort of stuff could be useful in a Champions scenario for defeating x-ray vision without stopping ordinary vision, e.g. as the viewing port of a lead-lined door.

[Enforcer84]

 

that's large. Anyway. I think I see the problem here. 

[L. Marcus]

Hey look -- the voter registration for this fall's Church Of Sweden election just dropped in. Hum hum -- perhaps I should actually participate this time, just to frustrate the semi-brown mess of the SD just at tiny bit.

[Nolgroth]

For the first time in my life, quitting a job eased my anxiety rather than created more of it.

[tkdguy]

I may decide to join you in the unemployment office.