Space Marine and Dragonwrangler Bar & Grill

Fenika said:

Does anyone read these whole mini epics?

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Yes.

My thoughts for Blueberry too.

ION: I finished my chapter and even got a few words down for the next. And I still need to write down that romantic scene that I mentioned earlier before it turns into a major distraction.

maxmordon said:

Thank you, Fen.

In other news, I screwed up badly with these evaluations. Now I feel tired and hate myself.

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Don't hate yourself. We all screw up. I got my horse tangled in uber strong marine lines and he could have broken a leg but we dealt with it and carried on.


The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~John Powell

Also, cheers V

I am off to bed for realz this time.

Fenika said:

And in Blueberry news, I made him a playperch on the top of his cage and got him used to it, in case he does get a wing amputation. He liked it but wasn't super excited. I might move it slightly later.

He's still flying around like nothing's bothering him.

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Aww... Poor birdy...

Thanks again, Fen. I think I'm a bit upset with my birthday coming up and all. I yend to get emotional...

Hey, everyone. I haven't been around much. Not that I'e been doing what I should have been doing.

Went to dinner with my sissy! I haven't seen her in MONTHS! And chatted on Facebook with my niece.

I hope everyone is ok - hugs to those that need them...

I've also started a random insane sort of book blog. Link in signature if you want to check 'er out.

Black-Marlin said:

What she said.

As for time being a dimension, there's a dead easy experiment you can do to prove this. Toss a ball from one hand to the other. It happens fast, right? Now toss that ball *high* from one hand to the other. It takes longer. This is because it has gone through more space. (I know this is blindingly obvious. But sometimes asking 'why?' about blindingly obvious things yields interesting answers). If time was not a dimension inextricably intertwined with physical space, this would not be the case. Space doesn't care if you measure it in millimetres or lightyears. Likewise with time, and hours or aeons.

And yes, I was talking about the M-Theory subset of string theory. Which is weird and peculiar, and upon which my grasp is not sure...

BM

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This actually makes sense. In a very weird sort of way.

As to the m subset theroy, I don't think I get it entirely either, but I did like the idea that having two membranes bang against each other created the big bang.

Physics, or at least the bits of it that aren't all proofs, blows my mind.

maxmordon said:

Thanks again, Fen. I think I'm a bit upset with my birthday coming up and all. I yend to get emotional...

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Ion, work was work was work. I can't wait until the summer holidays are over and I can start being a starving student again. Anything to not be in retail.

Well, my braids(and scalp) are starting to hurt just a little less. But they still kind of really hurt. I finally hit the 51% mark on this galley that I have. I might try to go ahead and finish it tomorrow, or hopefully, the week. That way I can go ahead and get my review posted and everything.

I think after that I'll read some of the books that I own that I haven't gotten to yet, and then I might start checking some out at the library. But we'll see.

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I also still need to create a blog for my fiction.

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I also have some homework that I need to work on.

I like the hologram theory, as it states explicitly that nothing which has ever existed is lost forever. All those stars which have exploded? All logged in the memory of the universe... Of course, we could be in a holographic universe which remembers the membranes of brane theory, but that would require us to be in a pocket universe of some kind, and the math gets progressively complicated when you start viewing things in terms of matryoshka dolls...

Shoestring said:

ION: I had a question that's been nagging me since I self-banned, and no amount of dictionary-diving has helped me any, so I turn to you all. I'd go to the people outside but I don't think the question is big enough to devote a whole entire thread to it. It's just this: can a property be a campus without being medical or institutional? my people want to say 'off-campus', but my brain says they can't until I know whether or not it's 'proper'.

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Google, Microsoft, Pixar and Apple all have campuses. I think the term is fine if the site is sufficiently big and multi-buildinged... You're not going to call a barber shop a campus, but if you've got the sort of place where it takes more than 5 minutes to walk quickly from a building at one end to a building at the other, then it probably suits.

Any help?

So my self imposed exile to get more writing doen was a failure. Instead I wound up missing you all, taking care of my poor wife while she had the flu, moving in a roommate, throwing a party for my 7 year old during which the police had to be called. Remind me again why I thought leaving would be a good idea.

Missed you all, hope everything has gone well here. Yay for all of your achievements. Hugs for all of your sorrows. See you tomorrow.

Andelana, I think suites what you are looking for.

Good morning Cantina and to those who need them.

Off to work in just under half an hour. New snow fell yesterday and it's still thick on the ground. According to the BBC weather site, it's -1 C at the moment and likely to go down to - 4 C tonight and possibly there will be some more snow. I know that's positively balmy compared to where some of you are, but it's pretty parky for the south of England. I wonder how this will affect other people in the office getting in.

Stanley_Ford said:

So my self imposed exile to get more writing doen was a failure. Instead I wound up missing you all, taking care of my poor wife while she had the flu, moving in a roommate, throwing a party for my 7 year old during which the police had to be called. Remind me again why I thought leaving would be a good idea.

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Tell us more about this party. It sounds better than any party I've been to, ever.

Liosse de Velishaf said:

Aww... Poor birdy...

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He's just so tiny I feel he shouldn't have cancer. There should be a cute clause against cancer.

maxmordon said:

Thanks again, Fen. I think I'm a bit upset with my birthday coming up and all. I yend to get emotional...

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I've decided birthdays are just a good chill day. If other folks have time to hang out, great. If not, fk it. It's my day.

bettielee said:

Hey, everyone. I haven't been around much. Not that I'e been doing what I should have been doing.

Went to dinner with my sissy! I haven't seen her in MONTHS! And chatted on Facebook with my niece.

I hope everyone is ok - hugs to those that need them...

I've also started a random insane sort of book blog. Link in signature if you want to check 'er out.

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Hallo again. Don't make me crotch grab you!

Stanley_Ford said:

So my self imposed exile to get more writing doen was a failure. Instead I wound up missing you all, taking care of my poor wife while she had the flu, moving in a roommate, throwing a party for my 7 year old during which the police had to be called. Remind me again why I thought leaving would be a good idea.

Missed you all, hope everything has gone well here. Yay for all of your achievements. Hugs for all of your sorrows. See you tomorrow.

Andelana, I think suites what you are looking for.

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Seconding a need for details

Stanley_Ford said:

So my self imposed exile to get more writing doen was a failure. Instead I wound up missing you all, taking care of my poor wife while she had the flu, moving in a roommate, throwing a party for my 7 year old during which the police had to be called. Remind me again why I thought leaving would be a good idea.

Missed you all, hope everything has gone well here. Yay for all of your achievements. Hugs for all of your sorrows. See you tomorrow.

Andelana, I think suites what you are looking for.

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A 7 year old party had cop involvement?

Sounds interesting. Spill

*Serves and toast.*

Totally revised my story line for SS. Talk about a rewrite.

Andelana said:

Google, Microsoft, Pixar and Apple all have campuses. I think the term is fine if the site is sufficiently big and multi-buildinged... You're not going to call a barber shop a campus, but if you've got the sort of place where it takes more than 5 minutes to walk quickly from a building at one end to a building at the other, then it probably suits.

Any help?

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Tons. Thanks a lot!

I love how the frost on the windows in the morning creates such beautiful patterns.

I'm going to spend the next half-hour trying to get a good picture of it for my desktop.

Addendum: The pretty of the ice window:

lilyWhite said:

Addendum: The pretty of the ice window:

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Oooo, pretty.

And good morning all!

Took a day off of potty training yesterday. It started out as just having Toddler wear pull-ups for church (no Sunday School teacher needs to deal with that mess), but then we just let him stay in it. We all needed a break. But now it's back to business as usual.

And now I should go write. I'm near the climax of my Secret Short. I really need to finish it so I can edit the living crap out of it. And there is a lot of crap.

New blog post up!

Morning folks. I'm sitting in a Tim Ho's in my pajamas right now sippin' delicious tea in a sunny window, is awesome.

I need to get more dilligent about checking my reps, because someone actually reminded me to tell that story from ages ago. D'oh.

Thank you for all the reps everyone.

I have now consumed chocolate yogurt. Mmm.

In related news, my mom has started adding cocoa to her yogurt. I'm starting a trend

BigWords said:

Not so great when a minor character decides he is the star, and keeps hogging the scenes he is in though...

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I hate when that happens. Kick that mofo in the butt, man.

N.P. Browning said:

Though, sometimes, there are some people/ critiques that should just be ignored. Reality is, some people are just mean/ jealous, and they're going to take it out on your work.

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This is probably true, but also there are crits that need to be ignored because they are simply not helpful, even when they aren't mean or jealous.

maxmordon said:

I was once told I should stop writing in English altogether. So... yep.

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Well fuck that person who told you that. At most, you would need a good editor in English, but I don't even think you need that. And if you didn't write in English I would have to go actually use my Spanish so I could still read it.

hillaryjacques said:

If I never see you again, Cantina, know that I loved you well but, perhaps, not wisely.

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10trackers said:

Dude, you better get back here Be careful!!!!

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What 10s said.

maxmordon said:

I think I'm a bit upset with my birthday coming up and all.

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Oh man my da, I know the feeling. Birthdays... guh.

BigWords said:

I like the hologram theory, as it states explicitly that nothing which has ever existed is lost forever. All those stars which have exploded? All logged in the memory of the universe... Of course, we could be in a holographic universe which remembers the membranes of brane theory, but that would require us to be in a pocket universe of some kind, and the math gets progressively complicated when you start viewing things in terms of matryoshka dolls...

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I vaguely remember reading an article last month that presented recent evidence our universe might actually, honest-to-the-gods, seriously be a computer simulation. I wish I could find the link to it.

10trackers said:

Tell us more about this party. It sounds better than any party I've been to, ever.

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What she said, Stan. What she said.

Raventongue, do you mean this?
http://io9.com/5950543/physicists-say-there-may-be-a-way-to-prove-that-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation

Hope, that works, first time using links here.

Man, I should not have stayed up to two reading. My alarm did not go off despite waking up at the right time. I think I killed another alarm clock. We'll see how good a day this turns out to be. I'm hanging out most of the day with friends which means I have a very short window to get essay work and my own writing done before.