archermoo

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
betelgeuse, betelgeuse, betelgeuse
 

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Bleah. A publisher sent me a free copy of a physics textbook, presumably for me to look over and consider adopting for my classes. Little do they know I have no part in the text adoption process here.
 
Consequently, this leaves me free to observe that the only thing more boring than a physics textbook you have to read is a physics textbook you don't have to read.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Texas State Wildlife and Game Department
 
Yet more shocking revelations came to light today regarding last weekend's hunting 'accident' in Texas. Officials at the Texas State Wildlife and Game Department revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney violated established State hunting laws when he shot Mr. Harry Whittington.
 
As Wildlife Ranger John Burton explained - "We got nothin' against huntin' lawyers around here - hell, I've bagged a few myself. And Mr. Huntington's age made him a prime candidate for herd-thinning: he's 78 and way past his prime. But Huntington is a TAX lawyer, and you ain't allowed to take tax lawyers until May 1st."
 
In 1987, in an agreement reached with the Texas Bar Association, the Wildlife & Game Dept. established a series of laws regulating the hunting of lawyers. "You have to understand," said the Chairman of the TBA, "if we don't thin 'em out then they overpopulate their egosystem. Next thing you know, there aren't enough cases to go around. Young lawyers starve, or clog up the court-houses and television trying to drum up clients. It just messes things up. But we also didn't want indiscriminant slaughter, so we got together with the Wildlife boys and set up a few rules."
 
These rules include the following:
 
1) Only lawyers above the age of 64 and personal-injury attorneys may be taken, with a limit of two per hunter per year. Muzzle-loader hunters are allowed three, bow-hunters are restricted to four.
 
2) Only female lawyers above child-bearing age may be shot, even personal-injury attorneys.
 
3) Tax lawyer hunting season is the only time restriction, with the season running from May 1st to December 12th.
 
"Of course, the usual standard hunting rules apply: no setting up lawyer-stands within a 10-mile radius of a courthouse, no money-licks, and no shooting 'em when they're seated," said Ranger Burton. "We Texans are hunters, pure and simple - there's nothing like bagging a
67 year-old corporate merger attorney at 200 yards with a compound bow. But you have to have standards, and you have to play by the rules and give 'em a fighting chance."
 
The Vice President will more than likely receive a fine of $10,000, and may even be required to perform a few hours of community service. "I know that seems sorta harsh for just nailing a really old one with some bird-shot, but me and a few others suspect that this was what we call a 'canned hunt' - the Vice President invited the lawyer along. It ain't illegal per se, but a canned hunt is just plain wrong, and an insult to all of us who hunt lawyer the proper way."
 
When asked for comment, White House Spokesman Scott McClelland confirmed that "Vice President Cheney did indeed pull the trigger which activated the primer which detonated, which caused a rapid formation of gas which pushed the shell which sent the pellets flying in the general direction of the lawyer. But he didn't know about that tax-lawyer loophole."

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

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I prefer my Bailey's shakes be a) malts rather than shakes, and made with vanilla bean or just plain vanilla ice cream. But hey, each to their own!

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I'll admit I will occasionally answer questions in this manner, mostly to get people used to asking the question they want the answer to, rather than something different. Though if I was in that kind of mood my answers would've been:
 
Which phone number?
Yes.
Yes.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
PDS

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
I memorized it for a poetry reading in High School:
 
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
 
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
 
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
 
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the tugey wood,
And burbled as it came!
 
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
 
"And hast thou slain the Jaberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
 
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did grye and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe
 
-- Lewis Carroll
 
And I can recite most if not all of Alice's resteraunt from memory as well...

Re: The cranky thread
 

 

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I once had a kitten with a UTI. You know, kittens have urethras, too.

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Not to get serious or anything, but I'm guessing it is because you earned it.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
What am I, a lab rat?

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Potentially true, but it is nice to see someone admit that the world outside the boards seems slanted against liberals.
 

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Well, there are more important things than NGD for OTHER people to do. Not for you. This is as good as it gets for you.
 

Re: The cranky thread
 
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Me, having their picture drawn, 38.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
What?

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Dude, you better hope MightyBec doesn't see that...
 

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...
 
Just finished re-reading Phoenix Guard, 500 Years After, and the Viscount of Adrilankha books, working on the Vlad books. Because a) they are very cool books, and I'm refreshing things for the Dragaeran adventure I'm trying to put together for Dundracon.
 
And hey, not only is Steve a great writer, he's also a pretty good drummer, guitar player, and singer!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
You know, even the flamewar political threads here are much more pleasent than most other boards out there. If I read one more thread posted by some cretin complaining that he cannot get Civ IV running on his computer that meets NONE of the posted minimum system requirements I'll...I'll...well...stop reading them...
 

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
*ponders*
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Exclamation points.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
My feelings on internet posters is the same as the best bathroom-wall graffitto I ever saw. Sadly, you sort of have to be a math geek to get it, but it fits perfectly.
 
On one stall wall there were lengthy heated arguments, just like in a political NGD thread, without the server-imposed censorship of language, or any identification of the poster.
 
One day there appeared a large circle more or less encompassing the diatribes, with an arrow leading to a the brief mathematical inscription that can be best rendered into English as "vector sum = zero".
 
Failing that, I'd nominate "a write-only memory of internet posters".

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Nothing like banging your head against the wall for a few hours on a problem connecting to a database that you JUST created, only to find out that your great idea when setting up the tnsnames.ora file of putting the loopback address for the host since the database is local to the client, and the client will likely change IPs since it is a laptop would have worked much better if you'd typed 127.0.0.1 instead of fat fingering it to 120.0.0.1...

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