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#2
Announcements / Re: Tropical Storm Fay
August 18, 2008, 01:17:19 PM
Har har. Guess when my parents get to try to fly back to Tampa?
Whee.
Whee.
#3
Current Events / Re: Oh, the Irony....
August 16, 2008, 11:43:06 PMQuote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 16, 2008, 10:14:19 PM
Invasion is not OK unless it is done by us...
Ah, see, the trick is, that's called Liberation (tm).
#4
Start Here, Please / Re: Hello and nice to meet you all
August 16, 2008, 02:58:46 AM
Hello there.
#5
Miscellaneous Discussion / Re: Pleasurable Brain Chemicals
August 16, 2008, 12:59:28 AM
I'm kinda tempted to get myself the demo CD...
#6
Miscellaneous Discussion / Re: Genetic Engineering might help fight the Devil !
August 15, 2008, 04:18:41 PMQuote from: Sibling Chatty on August 15, 2008, 12:03:51 PM
Sorry, I am constitutionally incapable of taking seriously ANYTHING that is done on a BLACK background, or that is written by anyone named VEXEN Crabtree.
One or the other, but BOTH overloads my Bullshit Meter and it just doesn't register...
You've given me valuable clues for when I need to publish the secret plans.
#8
Games and Jokes / Re: Picture Counting Game
August 13, 2008, 12:23:54 AM
#11
Miscellaneous Discussion / Re: The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!
August 10, 2008, 03:59:07 PM
1. If, to appease the Evil Daemons of Illness (or else DIE!!! a horrible and gooshy death) you have to 'feel bad' for 48 hours would you choose a headache, a cold/upper respiratory illness or a stomach problem?
Headache.
2. Why?
I'm used to them, and they impair my functionality as a human being least. Colds are indescribably annoying to me, and stomach problems leave me looking at least sixteen months pregnant and groaning while desperately rolling around on the couch trying to find a half-comfortable position.
3. Gotta choose one to drive for six months: A nice looking car in an ugly color or an ugly car in a nice looking color? (And why...)
Assuming that car performance would be the same, I'd choose the nice car in the ugly color. Most people I know tend to notice the car before the color, and I don't think a good color can mitigate the effects of a really ugly vehicle.
1. Do you find beauty and elegance in forms of abstract thought, like mathematics?
2. What's your favorite tool (in the broadest sense)?
3. Is it better to be too analytical and read too deeply into things, or to be oblivious to a lot of subtleties?
Headache.
2. Why?
I'm used to them, and they impair my functionality as a human being least. Colds are indescribably annoying to me, and stomach problems leave me looking at least sixteen months pregnant and groaning while desperately rolling around on the couch trying to find a half-comfortable position.
3. Gotta choose one to drive for six months: A nice looking car in an ugly color or an ugly car in a nice looking color? (And why...)
Assuming that car performance would be the same, I'd choose the nice car in the ugly color. Most people I know tend to notice the car before the color, and I don't think a good color can mitigate the effects of a really ugly vehicle.
1. Do you find beauty and elegance in forms of abstract thought, like mathematics?
2. What's your favorite tool (in the broadest sense)?
3. Is it better to be too analytical and read too deeply into things, or to be oblivious to a lot of subtleties?
#12
Games and Jokes / Re: Medical Dictionary Game
August 10, 2008, 03:41:36 PMQuote from: Griffin NoName on August 10, 2008, 01:17:03 AM
This won't hurt at all.
You are unfortunately equipped with survival instincts, so I need to lull you into a false sense of security to get you to keep still.
#13
Miscellaneous Discussion / Re: The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!
August 09, 2008, 06:10:21 PM
1) All media is going to be reduced to a single supply-chain: Radio, TV, Internet, Something Else.
What would you choose, if by some magical formula, you had to decide for everyone? Justify your choice with your considered opinion, please.
The internets, definitely. It may take some learning and getting used to, but the internet provides a degree of user choice that even the most advanced TV interfaces can't remotely approach. It also provides a much greater opportunity for independent voices to be published, and the popularity of a particular source is determined by the number of people who choose to view it much, much more than by ad revenue and executive decisions.
2) Space Exploration: love it, hate it, it's a Waste Of Money, it's the Ultimate Purpose of Humankind, what?
Love it. I know the money could be put to better use, but so much other money can be put to better use that the argument becomes irrelevant - we have enough money in the world to have a little extra to fund space exploration. Ultimate purpose - maybe, in the sense that it will broaden our understand of the way the world works, but not our immediate ultimate purpose until we screw this planet up so much that we have to move.
Otherwise, the amount of scientific insight it provides is so enormous that I think it's necessary.
3) If humans could modify Mars to be more human-friendly, but thereby ruining any possible chance of determining if there ever was life on it, should we anyway? Or should we be preserving Mars as it is, pristine, and just modify humans to fit Mars, instead?
If we don't find a better planet, we'd better adapt ourselves. We're pretty good at that, y'know. If we ever do need to move there, we might be a bit more cautious about modifying planets, anyway.
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1. What color stands out most to you? (Or what combination?)
2. What shape do you find most aesthetically pleasing?
3. What shape do you find most intellectually pleasing?
What would you choose, if by some magical formula, you had to decide for everyone? Justify your choice with your considered opinion, please.
The internets, definitely. It may take some learning and getting used to, but the internet provides a degree of user choice that even the most advanced TV interfaces can't remotely approach. It also provides a much greater opportunity for independent voices to be published, and the popularity of a particular source is determined by the number of people who choose to view it much, much more than by ad revenue and executive decisions.
2) Space Exploration: love it, hate it, it's a Waste Of Money, it's the Ultimate Purpose of Humankind, what?
Love it. I know the money could be put to better use, but so much other money can be put to better use that the argument becomes irrelevant - we have enough money in the world to have a little extra to fund space exploration. Ultimate purpose - maybe, in the sense that it will broaden our understand of the way the world works, but not our immediate ultimate purpose until we screw this planet up so much that we have to move.
Otherwise, the amount of scientific insight it provides is so enormous that I think it's necessary.
3) If humans could modify Mars to be more human-friendly, but thereby ruining any possible chance of determining if there ever was life on it, should we anyway? Or should we be preserving Mars as it is, pristine, and just modify humans to fit Mars, instead?
If we don't find a better planet, we'd better adapt ourselves. We're pretty good at that, y'know. If we ever do need to move there, we might be a bit more cautious about modifying planets, anyway.
______________________________
1. What color stands out most to you? (Or what combination?)
2. What shape do you find most aesthetically pleasing?
3. What shape do you find most intellectually pleasing?
