Yay, billy! Have an echidna.
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
'Potential'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jun 24, 2014 11:36:52 am PDT #661 of 30000
brillig
Sheryl - Jun 24, 2014 1:23:13 pm PDT #662 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay, Jilli!
We've got a big trip coming up in August. Worldcon is in London this year, so we decided to extend our trip a bit. We'll be in London for a couple of days after the con, then we head to Dublin for a couple days. Never been to Dublin, so that should be fun. (Yeah, we went to London last summer, but there are plenty of things we still want to see. Plus, we don't have to worry about my folks keeping up with us this time.)
Jesse - Jun 24, 2014 1:40:12 pm PDT #663 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am waiting for Big Work News, and it is killing me! I'd better hear tonight.
billytea - Jun 24, 2014 1:44:56 pm PDT #664 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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Pix - Jun 24, 2014 1:49:10 pm PDT #665 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Jilli! I’m so happy for you. I know how stressful this has been. Hurray!
Have fun in Ecuador, fellow travelers! I spent my first day in Northern Ireland today. It’s gorgeous; really reminds me of rural Connecticut in many ways. ND gets in tomorrow morning, and we have all kinds of fun planned with the family. I was doing well powering through the 8-hour time shift after flying in this morning until I lay down this afternoon “just for a quick nap” and woke up at 9. Oops. But I think I’m tired enough that I should fall asleep again pretty soon and wake up at a decent hour tomorrow, so my hope is that that will be the extent of my jet lag. It’s just shy of midnight here right now.
dcp - Jun 24, 2014 3:31:41 pm PDT #666 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
level 20 of the Euclid game
I had smooth sailing until level 19. Now I shall have to puzzle a bit.
Is 20 the last level, or are there more?
Hil R. - Jun 24, 2014 3:33:46 pm PDT #667 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Is 20 the last level, or are there more?
20 is the last level. I got the solution, but I'm still not sure why it worked. I was able to work out the beginning of the solution by myself, but then after that, I tried a few things that seemed logical but didn't work, and then just started trying things, and one of them ended up working.
Nora Deirdre - Jun 24, 2014 3:44:24 pm PDT #668 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I need to figure out where to go on vacation. Someplace rural and quiet.
Vermont! Beer and cheese.
Nora Deirdre - Jun 24, 2014 3:47:15 pm PDT #669 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
My travels are much less exciting. I got back from Columbus late last night and am going back for another week starting Monday.
t much whining redacted
billytea - Jun 24, 2014 3:52:08 pm PDT #670 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
20 is the last level. I got the solution, but I'm still not sure why it worked.
For my solution, I basically had to puzzle out two steps: first, how to find the point of intersection between the tangent line and the line through the two circles' centres; and then how to construct a line passing through a given point and tangent to a given circle. That second part stumped me until I remembered a result about right-angled triangles from Geometry of the Circle in Year 9 (which I mostly remember as being immensely fun and taught out of an atrociously formatted textbook).
What approach did you take to get it?