Darla Vladschyk wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:53:09 -0600, n...@eris.io.com (Nick Bensema) > wrote: > >And aren't there any more London Kibologists? There was one who > >couldn't make it last time I was there. > We would love to meet up with whomever is available that weekend for > good brew and maybe some fish & chips or pizza or tripe or whatever > you lot eat over there. > Make me a list!
Darla, I take that you & Vlad will be doing the sensible thing and taking a leisurely 800 kilometre stroll from Paris across to Luxembourg?
-- Andrew Pearson: "Exactly what the web needs less of"
In article <35mdd8F4llkg...@individual.net>, Zixia wrote: > Quoth the Darla Vladschyk: >> Make me a list!
> Uh, okie:
> 10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
> 1. Ben Allard. > 2.
It is so obvious you are the cad behind Good King Joffrey's poisoning
-Steve -- So if you people can't figure out what my birthday is based on subtle hints and vague statements made at random intervals then I'm beginning to think that you really don't care. -- Dean Lenort, a.r.k.
Zixia wrote: > 10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
I'm sure you would like to see me choke on a Cornish pasty, or at least try, wouldn't you? If we ever make it back to London, you should make sure to provide us with plenty of them, just in case.
On 25 Jan 2005 18:05:35 GMT, John D Salt <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
>So are these "base cabinets" used to support some kind of >tabletop? I am not familiar with the use of other port-drinking >surfaces. But I am wondering if you could arrange to have at >each corner a lower cabinet than the one at the next corner to >the right, in the style of an Escher picture, so that you could >mount your decanter on a set of wheels and have it pass itself to >the left without need of human intervention.
The usual way to do these base cabinets is to have a counter top set upon them. However, it will no doubt be several more months of buttcrack asshat madcap adventure before that is accomplished. Counter top surfaces generally prefer matched up and level surfaces to sit on, so the not matching up is combining with the general lazy ass and head up the assedness of the cabinet people to delay things interminably. I don't know about this Escher cabinet idea. Sounds like something that would attract a bunch of nerds to come hang out in my kitchen looking to be fed and entertained and stuff.
-- Paula "Or if you really want to meet me just take the NJT to 78, take 78 to 24, take 24 until it runs out, and then just drive around listening for the sound of quietly smoldering rage." Ben Allard
> > So are these "base cabinets" used to support some kind of > > tabletop? I am not familiar with the use of other port-drinking > > surfaces. But I am wondering if you could arrange to have at > > each corner a lower cabinet than the one at the next corner to > > the right, in the style of an Escher picture, so that you could > > mount your decanter on a set of wheels and have it pass itself to > > the left without need of human intervention.
> The usual way to do these base cabinets is to have a counter top set > upon them. However, it will no doubt be several more months of > buttcrack asshat madcap adventure before that is accomplished. > Counter top surfaces generally prefer matched up and level surfaces to > sit on, so the not matching up is combining with the general lazy ass > and head up the assedness of the cabinet people to delay things > interminably. I don't know about this Escher cabinet idea. Sounds > like something that would attract a bunch of nerds to come hang out in > my kitchen looking to be fed and entertained and stuff.
Hey, cool, let me know when you get the cabinets and nerds installed because I want to come over and point at both of them and laugh.
I love Escher, but I'm tired of seeing the same three or four prints over and over. The guy did a lot of purty pictures and they're all good, but 75% of the time when someone has an Escher print on their wall it's "Relativity" or "Metamorphosis" or "Ascending and Descending". What's wrong with the ones with the scary planaria? Everybody enjoys cross-eyed flatworms!
If you do go with the Escher cabinets, you might consider deforming each of them non-destructively (through the awesome power of wood-warping) so that each of your cabinets encloses the one to its right, all the way around the room until the first cabinet contains itself, so that you can have lots of fun trying to figure out how to get your food out of the intransigently intransitive cabinets.
You could use them to store your intransitive dice. Suppose you have three six-sided dice, with these numbers on the faces:
die A: 6 3 3 3 3 3
die B: 5 5 5 2 2 2
die C: 4 4 4 4 4 1
If you were to roll A and B, A would beat B most of the time. And B would beat C most of the time. But C beats A most of the time! The spots on each die add up to 21, just like any other die, giving each of the three dice the same average value (3.5) but... A beats B 58% of the time, B beats C 58% of the time, and yet C beats A a whopping 69% of the time. It's mathenoxiously disturbifying!
And of course while it would be physically impossible to make each of your cabinets completely contain the next one in the loop, you could do like the dice and make the first cabinet contain at least 51% of the second one, which would contain 51% of the third one, which would contain 51% of the fourth one, which would contain 51% of the first one, so while this construction would not be impossible, still, most of the time when you stuck your arm in instead of coming out with a can of beans you'd be sucked into eternal oblivion in Dimension X, where X is a number simultaneously greater than 11 but less than 7. The casinos there suck.
-- K.
I hear Gary Gygax once invented an eleven-sided die, but it was a failure because nobody wanted to play with a die where all eleven faces said "YOU'RE A DORK."
> I hear Gary Gygax > once invented an > eleven-sided die, > but it was a failure > because nobody wanted > to play with a die > where all eleven > faces said "YOU'RE > A DORK."
does it make me nerdier than you to say "it's LOU ZOCCHI, not GARY GYGAX!"?
> > I hear Gary Gygax once invented an eleven-sided die, > > but it was a failure because nobody wanted to play with a die > > where all eleven faces said "YOU'RE A DORK."
> does it make me nerdier than you to say "it's LOU ZOCCHI, not GARY GYGAX!"?
Yes, because I don't know who that is or whether you get free Crazy Bread with every order of louzocchi.
Oh, wait! You mean the guy who developed the hundred-sided Zocchihedral dice! I met him once, and you're still the biggest nerd in this sentence.
By the way, who's Gary Gygax? Is he just Wil Wheaton with different initials? Or was that Hugh Hefner? I'm confused by your extreme nerdiness.
Zixia <ab...@clu.org.uk> wrote: > Quoth the Darla Vladschyk:
>> Make me a list!
> Uh, okie:
> 10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
> 1. Ben Allard. > 2.
> Hmm, I didn't really think this idea through.
That's not the only thing you didn't think through! Of course, you weren't to know your thermite bomb wouldn't seal Baron von Usbeck's fourth and fifth escape tunnels, since your arctic survey team COMPLETELY FAILED TO DETECT THEM! I've warned you time and again never to send a Swede to do a man's work!
Oh such revenge I planned, piloting the late Baron's gyropod back to Novgorod. But the affliction of your insidious robocancer forestalled any such thoughts on my part, forcing me to ditch in the French Alps. (BTW, please send my warmest regards to the lovely Thalia, and thank her for that extraordinary cocktail she served me. I don't think I'll ever forget it, or her.)
Where explosives failed, your cyberplague nearly did me in. Stranded in Nice's frigid wasteland, I finally felt the flux vitae depart my emaciated, betumored husk. At the last moment I was able, by calling upon the occult teachings and deep reserves of mystical chi energy imparted to me by my former tibetan masters, to impress my fading consciousness upon the Helsinki ant supercolony WHERE I have been TRAPPED to this day! Indeed, I have been reduced to this one method of communication remaining to me, sacrificing individual members of my mind-body to be shorted out in the transistors of the circuit boards of the news servers of some GOD-FORSAKEN german free university to have ANY contact with the outside world AT ALL!
But, my dear Philip, please don't think these small trials have distracted me from our unfinished business. But I would be loathe to reveal too much of what awaits you. Simply put, it's to be hoped that you've laid in an ample supply of penicillin aboard your yacht! And you may wish to avoid any MAGNESIUM refineries in the coming months, IF YOU CAN!!
AH HA-HA hahaha, HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
-- Ben Hydrogen. A light, colorless gas which, given sufficient time, turns into dildos. - Doctroid Doctroid Holmes, on the universe's slowest marital aid
> I love Escher, but I'm tired of seeing the same three or four prints > over and over. The guy did a lot of purty pictures and they're all > good, but 75% of the time when someone has an Escher print on their > wall it's "Relativity" or "Metamorphosis" or "Ascending and Descending". > What's wrong with the ones with the scary planaria? Everybody enjoys > cross-eyed flatworms!
I have more than 4 escher patterns on ties. I don't have any of the above.
Matthew
-- Thermodynamics and/or Golf for dummies: There is a game You can't win You can't break even You can't get out of the game
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:06:35 GMT, Paula <mmmtobler...@earthlink.ent> wrote:
> I don't know about this Escher cabinet idea. Sounds >like something that would attract a bunch of nerds to come hang out in >my kitchen looking to be fed and entertained and stuff.
Why would you need the Escher cabinet to make that happen? You already have bQQbies.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, James Kibo Parry wrote: > What's wrong with the ones with the scary planaria? Everybody enjoys > cross-eyed flatworms!
Some of us are related to them!
D.
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In article <mtqdnXoNH4XS8G3cRVn...@io.com>, ni...@eris.io.com says...
> Yurp is awesome.
> Walking tours in London are worth every pence.
Europe sucks -- trust me, I've been to a few small patches of it. Everywhere sucks. Also, you start life as a microscopic nothing, and then the decay sets in. But I'd hate to be thought of as a spoilsport -- it makes people pay less attention, so the spoiling doesn't work as well. Of course it's not very effective to begin with. Schadenfreude, like necromancy, is inefficient. There is a big loss when converting a negative into a positive -- the forces of darkness have to take their cut, for example. But it's the only game in town, so I work hard at it.
Anyhow, I trust everyone will pack their trunks exclusively with Hawaiian shirts, because American tourists have an image to uphold, and because it's our duty to bring a little cheer to the miserable pit that is the rest of the world. Even if the Americans are sort of Canadian, that's no excuse to leave the floral prints behind -- with American tourists abroad all pretending to be Canadian, I expect Canadians to return the favor.
> Europe sucks -- trust me, I've been to a few small patches of it.
Hey, it's good that Europe sucks. Because if it didn't, the United States would still just be buffalo and deer and bears and Indians dancing around happily in all the empty space. And I'm way too pale to be an Indian, so I'd probably wind up living in Finland, where I'd be constantly nauseated by the smell of lutefisk wafting across the Norwegian border. So it's good that Europe sucks because that means I can live in the United States and not Europe.
> Everywhere sucks. Also, you start life as a microscopic nothing, and > then the decay sets in.
I think the original SimCity was the only good one in the series. This new SimEurope combined with SimPlankton is even more boring than plain SimPlankton was.
> But I'd hate to be thought of as a spoilsport -- it makes people pay > less attention, so the spoiling doesn't work as well. Of course it's > not very effective to begin with. Schadenfreude, like necromancy, is > inefficient.
But Europe also invented schadenfreude. And if Europe didn't exist, every time someone stubbed their toe, America would come to a halt because we'd all be going "AWWWW! YOUR POOR TOE!" so I'm glad we have actual schadenfreude so that when someone stubs their toe, we all go "HAW HAW! YOUR TOE HURTS NOW!" and go back to working, but extra- efficiently because we're all happy that someone's toe broke.
-- K.
Also, "Europe" is a dopey name for a continent. However, "America" is such a cool name that they named _two_ continents after our country.
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