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Re: The Last Word Momcat was a sweetie, and a pretty gray to boot. I admit, though, I'm looking forward to being able to let the two resident cats back into our bedroom. We've been letting the kittens out during the day and nothing has happened yet, so I don't quite grasp the need to continue the isolation, but I'll ask.

Re: The Last Word Apparently the momcat & one kitten have already been adopted from the shelter after my wife returned them all late Friday afternoon. We have adopted one (and she'll be given to my sister-in-law when the latter returns from her vacation) and one other is still with us while recovering from some repair work. That leaves four kittens still out there.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Guano chemistry would be far advanced from the way things are now.

Re: "Neat" Pictures It's really frightening to be partway through a five-hour exposure on a faint (10th magnitude) star and have a nice bright satellite (6th magnitude; that's a factor of about 40 in amount of light coming per second) come into the field and blunder very, very close to your target. That would hose your work for the night completely. Fortunately, it didn't happen. I had very good luck that run.

Re: The Last Word I have. I think I do more needle-thread work at my house than my wife does. Of course, most of that is repairing buttons and holes in pockets.

Re: suggestions for "does not work in..." If your campaign takes people to space, then "does not work when gravity isn't within 25% of 1 gee" might be such a limitation; the local acceleration of gravity is related to the local mass-energy density and curvature of space-time. Makes the power more or less worthless unless the character is on Earth, though.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Heh. I have no nose to speak of. I have had people grossed out when I demonstrate how close to flush I can flatten it. And my wife finds it amusing that it droops visibly when I lie on my side in bed.

Re: The Last Word I tend not to associate the term "rack" in that sense with the term "company" in that sense either, so your interpretation of Lemming's comment slipped past me completely.

Re: Thoughts on SPD I want to echo the point Checkmate made back on page 1, and thrash the badly decomposed corpse of a horse I've beaten before on this subject. The problem with SPD is that the quantum of SPD is much too large at the low end. The difference between SPD 2 and SPD 3 is much larger than the difference between SPD 7 and SPD 8. This means that the quantization of SPD doesn't matter so much in a superheroic campaign, but at lower levels and in lower-powered genres it's huge. This is a direct consequence of SPD being the reciprocal of reaction time, and as SPD gets low, the differences in reaction time represented by different SPD values become very large ... and this happens at just the genre/power level when small differences in reaction time should matter most.

Re: "Neat" Pictures I would expect his reaction could be to kick himself. M33 (the galaxy there) is about a degree across, which means the plane had to be pretty low to appear that large in his image, which means he's either right under the approach path for a major airport (so he doesn't have a choice) or he chose his target for that shot very poorly, when it was in the part of the sky where all the airplanes go. Given the symmetry of the image of the stabilizer, probably he does live under the approach path and this time the plane got him.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I don't notice slow loads with any single page in particular. Just at times, any given page seems to take excessive amounts of time.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Another odd one of a piece of sky plus something else.

Re: The Last Word Quite correctly so. If the Zombie Plague were to start there, it would also end there. No brains to feed on.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Yeah, I guess "shredded galaxies" would be something appropriate for volume 666 of the Astrophysical Journal. Who says journal editors have no sense of humor.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Lunar eclipse around 1000 UT on Aug 28. Consider yourself reminded. Eclipse page

Re: The Last Word Same sort of thing with English place names, and anything in Welsh.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Momcat and most of the kittens go back to the shelter this weekend, the fostering being over and them being ready for adoption. I say "most", because one we're keeping for a couple weeks until my sister-in-law returns from her vacation, at which time she gets her as a birthday present. Another we may hang on to for a few more days, since she seems to have a herniation around her spaying incision and may need to be "at home" for a few days of recovery.

Re: The Last Word So is "syzygy".

Re: A name looking for an archtype At the risk of provoking necromancy, I am reminded of this thread.

Re: Musings on Random Musings In other words, just stand back and let Teh Bunneh make a krilling.

Re: The Last Word Heh, forgot about the car-mount carrier stuff. Well, it's good that there's something positive with the name.

Re: The Last Word Not only is it a place, but for me it's a place with a heavy emotional loading.

Re: The Last Word Heading over to Yakima with my kids for a duty visit this weekend. Not looking forward to it.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: How about a nice rousing game of Psychotic Surgeons versus Helpless Screaming Dismemberment Victims? A: Tab A goes in Slot B. It's pretty simple that way.