To all the folks east of Utah: I'm sorry about the snow storm you're going to get. It started with rain, which turned to ice, and ended with two inches of snow. Fortunately, the sun's out and the weirdly warm weather is already melting it. I fear other areas aren't having conveniently warm weather, though.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2009 6:24:03 am PST #9204 of 30000
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§ ita § - Mar 05, 2009 6:35:57 am PST #9205 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The book I'm reading, Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter, says that most people can't draw both sorts of typewritten "a"s or both "g"s. I give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was true when he wrote it, but do you think it's the true now, with so many more people interacting with type?
I have to exclude myself from the sample pool because I spent a lot of time hand-copying alphabets as a (very well-adjusted) kid.
tommyrot - Mar 05, 2009 6:37:11 am PST #9206 of 30000
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 spent a lot of time hand-copying alphabets as a (very well-adjusted) kid.
Did you have a system of different-colored pens?
Jesse - Mar 05, 2009 6:38:29 am PST #9207 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What does he mean, "can't"? I don't write the kind of "a" with a thinger on the top, but I'm physically able to. Also, what's the other kind of g?
Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2009 6:42:47 am PST #9208 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
![[link]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LowercaseA.svg){kind=link}
![[link]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LowercaseG.svg){kind=link}
Jesse - Mar 05, 2009 6:44:43 am PST #9209 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, funny -- it basically never occured to me that anyone would hand-write the "double story" lower-case g.
Liese S. - Mar 05, 2009 6:45:30 am PST #9210 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That map is interesting, but doesn't really tell the whole story. My county, for example includes part of but not the whole Navajo Nation, whose unemployment rate is something like 50%.
I bet he wouldn't like my childhood alphabet, which reversed the direction of the curve on the bottom of the g's and other letters like that. I don't know why.
Aims - Mar 05, 2009 6:47:15 am PST #9211 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
billytea - when you are around again, Mo Willems wrote a children's book for you. It's called "Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed" and it is currently Emeline's favorite bedtime book. Last night she eschewed "Madeline" for "NAKED MOLE RAT, MOMMA!"
Gudanov - Mar 05, 2009 6:49:43 am PST #9212 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
What is this hand writing you are talking about? Are you saying there is a way of making letters without a keyboard?
Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2009 6:51:12 am PST #9213 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Gud, there's this thing where you can carve the letters backwards on a piece of lead, and then stamp them on a piece of paper.