Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.

'Never Leave Me'


The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Hayden - Feb 08, 2007 12:49:12 pm PST #9413 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

It's tomorrow! Wow, I can't believe you knew that! Go team Nilly!


Scrappy - Feb 08, 2007 12:51:45 pm PST #9414 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Nilly, you are the sweetest ever.


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2007 12:52:18 pm PST #9415 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think those periods are necessary either.

My coder's brain doesn't like me starting off with a capital letter and not ending the sentence with punctuation. Which reminds me: how does capitalisation in parentheses work? When the parenthetical is a sentence fragment, it's okay. When it's one sentence, again, I don't capitalise the first letter, nor punctuate the end. But when it's two sentences the coder-brain freaks out. I have to end the first sentence with punctuation; does that mean I have to capitalise the start? Do I have to end the final parenthetical sentence with punctuation?

b) Does the famous Schrodinger's Cat thought-experiment apply in situations in which a human being is placed in the box?

Are you driving this question with the idea of sapience or the soul? What does the human have that the cat doesn't that's relevant to the experiment?

In light of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, would you argue that (a) this is true, (b) this is true, or (c)?

I don't know.


Hayden - Feb 08, 2007 12:52:24 pm PST #9416 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Nilly, you are the sweetest ever.

Second that.


Nilly - Feb 08, 2007 12:52:42 pm PST #9417 of 10001
Swouncing

I didn't know that!

I sorta remembered the February thing, because it's close to the birth-date of a daughter of a friend, and looked in "Press" and checked dates and couldn't find an exact one.

[Edit:

how does capitalisation in parentheses work?

I've always wondered about that. You know that there are no capital letters in Hebrew, right?]


Gudanov - Feb 08, 2007 12:54:48 pm PST #9418 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Egg Beaters don't really make good scrambled eggs. Hmph.

Here's what you can do to fix that. Take 3/4 cup of egg beaters, add 3/4 cup warm milk, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 4 cups flour, and a packet of yeast. Scamble well, let rise 1 hour, the make balls out of the mix and pack into a greased 13x9 pan in rows of four, let rise another 1/2 hour and finally bake at 400 degrees for about 18-20 minutes. When you're done you're still out of luck in the scrambled egg department, but at least you can have some really good rolls to deal with the disappointment.


Hayden - Feb 08, 2007 12:56:33 pm PST #9419 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I sorta remembered the February things and looked in "Press" and checked dates and couldn't find an exact one.

Just for the record, I'm going with "ridiculously awesome" and am willing to fight those who say different.

Are you driving this question with the idea of sapience or the soul? What does the human have that the cat doesn't that's relevant to the experiment?

Daniel Dennett argued that sapience is the point at which any uncertain eigenstate (which, to my ill-informed mind, means "life-state") wave would collapse (i.e. human intelligence, which most would argue is somewhat sapient,* can measure the difference between "life" and "death" whereas kitty-cat sapience is unproven, thus an uncertain measuring tool).

I don't know.

Correct!

Edit to include footnote:
* despite all of the evidence to the contrary


Polter-Cow - Feb 08, 2007 12:56:43 pm PST #9420 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

You know that there are no capital letters in Hebrew, right?

Then how do you express COMPLETE OMG FLAILMENT?


Nilly - Feb 08, 2007 12:59:25 pm PST #9421 of 10001
Swouncing

Then how do you express COMPLETE OMG FLAILMENT?

We move our hands a lot.

[Edit: we don't really have a way to do that. There are two kinds of writing in Hebrew, but you either use one or the other, so neither one can be used to "shout".]


Lee - Feb 08, 2007 1:00:55 pm PST #9422 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I just used asscaps in an email to one of my NY bosses.

At least I didn't call them asscaps.