Hey, evil dead, you're in my seat.

Xander ,'First Date'


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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.


Emily - Mar 03, 2008 6:49:34 am PST #2609 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I need to share this with somebody. I'm trying to prepare for my most advanced class, which I really know nothing about. I've just realized that the textbook I'm trying to base my teaching off of is pretty much crap but am trying to slog through anyway, since it's what I have. I'm reading about inclined planes, and I reach this sterling example of quality:

Letting F be the force required to raise a given weight on the inclined plane, and W the weight to be raised, we have the proportion:

(2-1)

2.1.1 Screw Jack

One of the most common....


Cashmere - Mar 03, 2008 6:50:18 am PST #2610 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

A guy was just playing a theremin on Yo Gabba Gabba. I thought of Jon B.


§ ita § - Mar 03, 2008 6:50:48 am PST #2611 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Later myths of the pantheon are confusing because the beliefs of other cults had been absorbed.

I'm choosing to believe that "providing" is completely the wrong word, on top of the grammatical violations. I can't go as far as extracting a meaning, though.

A game where two people of the same sex (and preferably straight) put their faces closer and closer until one of them chickens out. If none of them do, then they get closer until they kiss.

I'd say gay chicken is like slash--only counts if the players are canonically straight.

Hey, is an action in Photoshop basically a macro in most other applications? I'm assuming they can get pretty complex, since I'm seeing them for sale. What's a brush, and what's it used for? Is it defining a "simple" shape so that it can be easily reused--like a stamp in the 3d world?


Kathy A - Mar 03, 2008 6:52:06 am PST #2612 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

A dachshund named "Dottie Matrix" - how can you help but love?

What a cutie! And speaking of geeky dog names, my sister and BIL have four dogs: Mama and Papa dogs Ergo (my BIL's line of work is ergonomics) and Pixel (my sis is in IT), and the two puppies, Data and Qwerty.


tommyrot - Mar 03, 2008 6:52:49 am PST #2613 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'd say gay chicken is like slash--only counts if the players are canonically straight.

OK, who can come up with the best sentence incorporating the terms "gay chicken" and "cock-block"?


Ginger - Mar 03, 2008 6:59:14 am PST #2614 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

A brush is like a stamp, ita. Some are images and others are "brushes" in the sense that they make a different kind of stroke. You can, for example, "brush" a brick background.


§ ita § - Mar 03, 2008 7:00:19 am PST #2615 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, Ginger. That simplifies some of the stuff I've been looking at a great deal.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 03, 2008 7:04:50 am PST #2616 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'd say gay chicken is like slash--only counts if the players are canonically straight.

Well, I suppose you could have participants sufficiently unappealing that people into their gender wouldn't want to kiss them either, but then it wouldn't so much be gay chicken as butt-ugly chicken.


Dana - Mar 03, 2008 7:09:52 am PST #2617 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It's an exciting day in celebrity news!

Simon Cowell admits to using botox! Doesn't find Nicole Kidman fanciable!

Kid Rock pleads not guilty to Waffle House fight charge! Cites Johnny Cash!


Kathy A - Mar 03, 2008 7:11:39 am PST #2618 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

As a fat person/person-of-size/whatever you want to call me, I find this to be made of teh awesome! Now if only I could be so quick with the retort the next time something like that happens to me...