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  2. Posted

    On 3/16/2025 at 7:36 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

     

    One eyed  one horned  flying purple people eater? 

     

    Note that the song is NOT specifying what color the creature is. Explicitly, it's a creature that eats purple people.

  6. Posted

    4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

     

    I understand there are some authors who believe the author decides what the characters think, say & do  

    How charming. 

     

    Care to try to prove that we all aren't figments of some author's imagination?

  8. Posted

    On 3/10/2025 at 0:57 AM, ChronosCat said:

    It seems to be becoming increasingly common (or at least is in style) for dragons to be depicted with four limbs, the front ones being wings. (One of the many things that bugged me about the Hobbit movie trilogy was that Smaug was given that body design when he really should have had the classic dragon design; Tolkien even drew him with six limbs in his own illustrations! Also I was recently looking to replace one of my Dragonriders of Pern books and was frustrated to see the cover-art for the latest reprint give the dragons and fire-lizards only four limbs when it's made very clear in the text of the books that they have six limbs.)

    It's not all that new a thing, and it isn't just dragons. I remember one series (can't recall the title, unfortunately) of at least four fantasy books. Major characters were a pair of weapon-wielders. Physical descriptions, which included what weapons they bore, were copied verbatim from the first book into each of the others. Cover art NEVER matched on the weapons, which also varied from book to book. Back-cover blurbs sometimes didn't mention the weapons, but if they did, matched neither the text nor the cover.

  9. Posted

    On 3/5/2025 at 9:57 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    If you have a notion of how difficult it is to simulate 'random', it elevates his work to a much higher level.

    Depends on how accurately you want to simulate 'random'.

    R{n+1} = fractional portion of (pi+R{n})^x for some x>1 is good enough for a lot of casual purposes.

    I once read of a random-number generator that was adjudged NOT good enough for the purpose someone wanted to use it for, when it was found that graphing sets of three consecutive random numbers in three dimensions produced a set of parallel planes.

  10. Posted

    11 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Do you like Pina coladas? 

    My weird brain just tried to combine that song with Hotel California.

    Quote

    If you like making love at midnight

    Sweet summer sweat

    Some dance to remember

    Some dance to forget

    Please note, I didn't claim that the combo made any sense...

  12. Posted

    On 3/2/2025 at 10:56 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    But isolated communities that are not initially related, but small in number can get inbreeding issues over time.

    But it is not a rule. Many tribal cultures face this and still avoid the issues; it helps when they purposefully exchange young people to stir the genetic pot. Still, you have to wonder why very isolated cultures such as Inuit do not have more problems with this.

    Inbreeding combined with aggressive culling is how you improve a bloodline. Although if it's being managed by humans, there may be issues with the definition of "improve" - that's how we got dogs with such flat faces they have trouble just breathing, for example.

    For that matter, though, that's just a form of over-specialization. Which is what has driven multiple, independently-evolved versions of saber-tooth felines to extinction, when the environment around them changed such that their specialization wasn't helpful. (There's another try at the idea in progress. The Bornean clouded leopard. The longest fangs, relative to body size, of any known felines since the North American saber-tooths died out.)

  14. Posted

    3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Note to others who might want to survive their chili encounter, water does not help. Starch or sugar will cut the burn. Bread, potatoes, something sweet . . .

    Or milk, ice cream, etc. - actual milk-based dairy. Or something greasy. Or mayonnaise.

    Capsaicin is a non-polar molecule, so does not dissolve in water - but it does in fats and oils. And of course something that's somewhat dry and absorbent can soak it up.

    (Why are eggs sometimes classed as dairy? Because, in the US, they go in the refrigerator? So does orange juice. And fish.)

  15. Posted

    6 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    There were three dogs; one died in a closet near his wife, one was indoors and survived, one was outdoors and survived.

    Seems weirder and weirder.

    On a different note, if you're going to live in New Mexico, Santa Fe is nicer than most of the other options.

    I dunno, Las Cruces has its appeal. Gotta give at least a grin to a city where a major street is named Lover's Lane.

    (Well, literally, it's Amador Avenue.)

  18. Posted

    9 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Yes, and Arthur is very quick to cite “America” and “liberty” as justifications, which Jay is calling out as insincere.

    Not quite. She says she doesn't trust the sincerity of such justifications.

    "After all, Rome would be so much better if I were emperor instead of that idiot." (And thus we get such clearly beneficial things as The Year of the Four Emperors, AD 68-69.)

    If a person claims motives of pure self-interest, they may not be telling the whole truth, but what they're saying is probably true.

  22. Posted

    21 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Also, as of noonish, they have not sanded Pine and it's still all white.

    Sanding pine is usually a technique to make it smoother...

    :P

    And down here in the desert... I had to open the windows and turn on the fans before noon.

  23. Posted

    21 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Well, that and that Putin claims that much of the Ukraine is Russian territory now.

     

    If you think about what he said, he claimed that ALL of Ukraine, and several neighboring countries, are part of Russia.

    His logic - if you accept the underlying premise - clearly supports the conclusion that most of western Russia and a couple neighboring countries are part of Ukraine, and several others plus another chunk of western Russia are part of Poland.

  24. Posted

    A bunch of the kids will be heading off to college soon. Some colleges (not all) require that freshmen live in the dorms, unless their parents live in commuting distance and the kids continue living with the parents.

    Tedd and Grace will continue living together - whether that be at Edward's home or in their own apartment.

    Nanase and Ellen will start living together - in the dorms or in their own apartment.

    Catalina and Rhoda might or might not room together.

    I don't see any other romantic couples at a stage where it would be a decent idea - yet. Subject to change without notice, possibly as soon as when the next page comes out.