Random Stuff X: Something Weird

[+Slowswift]

5 hours ago, Oversleep said:

Truth be told, it feels a little weird browsing Shard without Twi's posts being here and there.

Yeah, it kinda does.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Never feels the same without her aye

[Oversleep]

http://amebes.tumblr.com/post/152457902050/bigbigtruck-lizdexia-hawkyaly

Edited June 21, 2017 by Oversleep

[+Slowswift]

@Computer peoples here:

Is it worth the headache of trying to partition this darn thing? Or should I just write over everything (including the previous OS), since I believe all the essential files are elsewhere and the most I stand to lose is a bunch of random files?

ETA: I did a thing. I don't know if it's the right thing. I don't even know if I know what the thing is. But here's hoping everything isn't stormed to pieces.

ETA2: It didn't work. Hooray for erasing the drive, then! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edited June 21, 2017 by Slowswift

[Kaymyth she/her]

21 hours ago, Briar King said:

I just wanted to check on her for her 1st tropical storm possibly striking. I think it's going to effect me more then on NOLA side of state.

All of the parish's government buildings were pre-emptively closed for today, so she's got a free day off. It's raining buckets, but nothing worse than that.

[Briar King]

5 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

All of the parish's government buildings were pre-emptively closed for today, so she's got a free day off. It's raining buckets, but nothing worse than that.

Cool deal. I knew she would experience it one day but atleast her 1st time is only a tropical storm and not a full blown rusting HURRICANE!

Edited June 21, 2017 by Briar King

[Silverblade5 he/him]

So, I just learned that a coworker is a grandson of Dave Sanders. 

[Sunbird she/her]

@Silverblade5 Like Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame? Or is this a completely different Sanders?

[Silverblade5 he/him]

17 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

@Silverblade5 Like Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame? Or is this a completely different Sanders?

The Dave Sanders that was shot and killed on April 20, 1999. The Dave Sanders that saved at least 100+ lives by clearing out the lunch room. 

Edited June 25, 2017 by Silverblade5

[Sunbird she/her]

@Silverblade5 Oh. Now I feel awful about how flippant I was. I'm really sorry for shooting my mouth off about the Columbine attack without realizing it.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

13 hours ago, Sunbird said:

@Silverblade5 Oh. Now I feel awful about how flippant I was. I'm really sorry for shooting my mouth off about the Columbine attack without realizing it.

That's alright. I know it wasn't intentional  

[Delightful]

Just want to say hi I'm alive, insanely busy, haven't had much time for recreation, I'll pop in when I can and hopefully return to my normal presence here once all this insanity is over.

Love you all. 

[Briar King]

On 6/24/2017 at 8:35 PM, Silverblade5 said:

The Dave Sanders that was shot and killed on April 20, 1999. The Dave Sanders that saved at least 100+ lives by clearing out the lunch room. 

I know many of y'all weren't even alive when this happened but this was my senior yr less then a month from graduation and I still remember the bone chilling silence from everyone when this news started coming in over the speaker. 

[Mestiv he/him]

5 hours ago, Delightful said:

Just want to say hi I'm alive, insanely busy, haven't had much time for recreation, I'll pop in when I can and hopefully return to my normal presence here once all this insanity is over.

Love you all. 

Don't let this wedding overwhelm you we'll be waiting for you

[Sunbird she/her]

5 hours ago, Delightful said:

Just want to say hi I'm alive, insanely busy, haven't had much time for recreation, I'll pop in when I can and hopefully return to my normal presence here once all this insanity is over.

Love you all. 

Thanks for letting us know you're okay. You will do GREAT at this whole getting married thing. =)

1 hour ago, Briar King said:

I know many of y'all weren't even alive when this happened but this was my senior yr less then a month from graduation and I still remember the bone chilling silence from everyone when this news started coming in over the speaker. 

I was 4 when it happened, so I was utterly clueless. I didn't learn about until yeeeears later when my high school band played "An American Elegy" in class and our director explained the origins of the piece.

[+Slowswift]

So, uh, I found this post on an old blog of my uncle's.  

A New Policy for the Repository

Spoiler

 

Edited June 28, 2017 by Slowswift
Fixed link

[Kaymyth she/her]

Today's XKCD is now how I choose to forever picture @Chaos's classes.

[Chaos he/him]

12 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

Today's XKCD is now how I choose to forever picture @Chaos's classes.

I seriously cannot stop laughing at that one. The alt text is even funnier.

(Unfortunately though I'm too much a mathematician. Generally when you have an existence proof you don't want to explicitly find it because it's hard, and I'm lazy. So you just cite the theorem and call it a day.)

[Kaymyth she/her]

40 minutes ago, Chaos said:

I seriously cannot stop laughing at that one. The alt text is even funnier.

(Unfortunately though I'm too much a mathematician. Generally when you have an existence proof you don't want to explicitly find it because it's hard, and I'm lazy. So you just cite the theorem and call it a day.)

Well, of course it's hard. Did you not see that they require swords and horses in order to track it down? Have you ever tried to do complex math on horseback?

(Your realism is getting in the way of my fun headcanon. There are advantages to not knowing enough calculus to know the exact level of silly the comic has reached.)

[Silverblade5 he/him]

6 hours ago, Chaos said:

I seriously cannot stop laughing at that one. The alt text is even funnier.

(Unfortunately though I'm too much a mathematician. Generally when you have an existence proof you don't want to explicitly find it because it's hard, and I'm lazy. So you just cite the theorem and call it a day.)

I think f(x) = 1^x might be a good candidate. 

[Sunbird she/her]

I logged my 1200th book read on GoodReads today!

[Ammanas]

Just got done reading Interlude I-8 in WoK and seriously think Brandon was having some fun with us fans who create elaborate theories and visit the coppermind. Ashir and Geranid sound like a lot of members on this site. It's all in good fun though.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

8 minutes ago, Ammanas said:

Just got done reading Interlude I-8 in WoK and seriously think Brandon was having some fun with us fans who create elaborate theories and visit the coppermind. Ashir and Geranid sound like a lot of members on this site. It's all in good fun though.

Was that the interlude with the two ardent scientists?

[Ammanas]

9 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

Was that the interlude with the two ardent scientists?

Yes

[The Sovereign]

9 more hours and I am off for 6 straight days!? This is the first vacation I have taken since I went to Osaka, JP back in in the fall of 2015.