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The Fridge / What did you get for Holiday 2014?
« on: December 25, 2014, 11:18:14 PM »
Quote from: rhombus,Dec 25 2014 on  06:01 PM
- A bottle of Hidden Legend Winery's King's Mead
- A bottle of Hidden Legend Winery's Dark Mead
- A bottle of Hidden Legend Winery's Honey Mead
- A bottle of cranberry desert wine
- A bottle of white wine
- A drink mixer
- A Buffalo Wild Wing's gift card
- And a few books
Haha, that looks like what my family ended up with. Lots and lots of booze XD

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The Fridge / What did you get for Holiday 2014?
« on: December 25, 2014, 02:13:00 PM »
  • Purple sweater
  • Purple Mighty Mug
  • Hand-crafted Dalek mutant out of felt and yarn...also purple

  • Two Skulluggery Pleasant books (numbers 3 and 4)
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It's Party Time! / Life Without Plastic
« on: December 13, 2014, 07:17:40 PM »
Without plastic, there would be less garbage in the oceans. Therefore, we would have a (much smaller?) island of garbage that isn't making life difficult for everyone who has to rely on the ocean.

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Silver Screen / What are you watching?
« on: November 25, 2014, 08:16:43 PM »
Edge of Darkness part 1

Because, Bob flippin' Peck!. I don't have enough swear words to articulate how fantastic he is in this.

I watch it because there's not enough Muldoon in Jurassic Park to even match the greatness he can reach.

And nothing does greatness like performing a British Police officer whose daughter is shot down before his eyes by a mysterious assailant, and starts to figure out the nature of the anti-nuclear group she was part of while trying to figure out who killed her.

HE DOES IT REALLY WELL

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The Welcome Center / So this place still alive?
« on: November 24, 2014, 11:55:09 PM »
Well, your My Little Pony thread is still exploding...

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The Party Room / How's the Weather?
« on: November 22, 2014, 11:09:40 PM »
It was pouring rain a little while ago and thundering now. Last I checked, 60 F

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The Fridge / My wisdom teeth
« on: November 20, 2014, 03:22:51 AM »
Technically, dairy is not the best idea right after getting teeth pulled. For a brief while I had to sip broth, but I don't remember really. I just know you're not supposed to do dairy or straws.

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Silver Screen / What are you watching?
« on: November 15, 2014, 10:58:45 PM »
Your Inner Fish
A documentary about researching how early prehistoric fish developed limbs that allowed them to walk on land and utterly change the face of life forever.

There was one segment I cant stop snickering at. In genetics, there is a gene called "hedgehog", which sends a signal for limb development. This particular signal triggers the development of fingers (pinkie finger first, apparently) in an embryo's paddle hands (no matter what animal that embryo will become). Too little of this signal causes less digits to form. Too much of this signal causes extra digits to form. So now we have an explanation for how polydactalism happens. The manipulation of the gene signal, placed in another part of the embryo's body, caused a mirror image of that limb to form in the new place, an experiment that had not been able to be replicated until now, since 1961. And what did they name this signal that is an incredible boon to genealogy? I kid you not, "sonic hedgehog".

Twenty-first century science! Where we make monumental discoveries about how our bodies develop and function, then name them after video game mascots :lol !

But I'm really happy to have learned something brand spanking new, namely in genetics and embryology. Even if that particular new discovery has a silly name...

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It's Party Time! / LBT Dumb Ways to Die
« on: November 15, 2014, 03:21:47 AM »
Attempt "Up with your tush and look like a bush" in the face of danger

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It's Party Time! / Transform the next poster
« on: November 15, 2014, 03:20:36 AM »
I transform the next poster into my hopper!

But don't tell Littlefoot!

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The Party Room / Replace the place with another place
« on: November 11, 2014, 03:25:31 AM »
So, here's something I just came up with.

Find a song that has any city, state, country, whatever, and replace it with another, at least so it fits into the song, and even edit lines so it fits into the new location. It could even just be a line.

For example, Lullaby of Broadway becomes Lullaby of Norway, which I ended up thinking/singing to myself without really thinking =P
Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Norway.
The hip hooray and bally hoo,
The lullaby of Norway.
...
When a Norway baby says "Good night,"
The sun's up in the evening.
Lil' Oslo babies don't sleep tight until the dark:
Good night, baby,
Good night, milkman's on his way.
Sleep tight, baby,
Sleep tight, let's call it a day


Now, if you want to, you can do the whole song if you can get the syllables to meet up.

May the deities of all help you if you figure out Istambul (Not Constantinople) ...or harder yet, Moskau

Now go, wrack your minds over the right number of syllables!

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The Fridge / Misconceptions as a Child
« on: November 11, 2014, 03:08:34 AM »
Quote from: The Chronicler,Jan 10 2012 on  09:15 PM
One thing from when I was a kid that I'll never live down is that I never understood that Uranus joke. <_<  Occasionally, some kid in my class would ask me, "How big is Uranus?" and I would answer with the diameter of that planet. For a long time, I never understood why people laughed at me every time I gave them the same "correct" answer. :oops  :bang  <_<
And this is why we say it "yur-un-us" in the proper astronomical community. My solar system professor, who is part of The Planetary Society (headed by Bill Nye) and long time teacher of astronomy ensured we dropped that joke like a fig the very day we started class.

- It wasn't really a misconception, but I struggled with the concept of little kids dying. I don't know how I became cognizant of death, but it was just really unsettling. I remember talking to my mother about an earthquake in Turkey when she was young, and how a lot of people got killed. I said "But not the kids, right?"
"Yes, kids too." And yet when she had a miscarriage and was told that "Alice died" (Alice was the name pre-selected just because we liked it, and is a name I totally intend on bestowing upon my own daughter), I just...kinda left her to cry in the bathroom to do whatever. I knew what it meant, but for some reason it didn't bug me like the kids-dying-in-a-Turkish-earthquake did...
I have a feeling Turkey is going to show up a lot here...

- Oh, I thought my mother could speak Turkish simply because she spent a small portion of her childhood there. I don't even know if she still remembers how to count to ten in Turkish now...

- My mother referred the female bat at the end of Anastasia as "Natasha", even though she doesn't actually have a name. But I totally did. And still think of her as "Natasha" :) .

- I could only comprehend going to another state by flight. My grandparents in Ohio had an orange and white cat named Butterscotch. So when I was six, a kitten/year old cat was in our neighborhood, and I thought she looked like my grandparents' Butterscotch. Which transferred in my mind as having come from the sky =P . Turns out she was born in the neighborhood.

- When I was seven, I wrote a fan letter to Michael York, and we sent it to his agent's address. I like to think that he got it, but I really don't know. I spent a long time thinking he'd write me back.

@CancerianTiger Oooooh, dinosaur egg oatmeal *salivates frothily*

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The Written Word / Doctor Who fan fiction
« on: November 06, 2014, 05:33:53 AM »
My Dalek 42 story has been stewing a while longer since my last post, and I've come to more conclusions that have only made the writing process harder.

I've reversed the second two parts of the story.

The first regarding Dalek 42's creation and purpose (referred to as Subject 42 through the first two thirds of the story), then sent to the Dalek aslylum where it stews in hallucinations of humanity and plotting revenge against the Dalek Scientist 10, who would later become Dale X. The final part is escaping (probably when the Alaska crashes into the Asylum?) and attempting to execute its plan.

Since taking a creative writing class, I'm fully cognizant that my writing is really, really minimalist, and I do a lot more telling than showing. It helps to fill holes, but there's no way I'm going to upload something with a minimal writing style, since there's not a lot of "meat" in it.

Would anyone be able to help brainstorm for the story and give suggestions for getting around the actual storytelling issue?

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Silver Screen / Funniest Quotes You've Heard
« on: November 06, 2014, 05:05:14 AM »
My favorite lines from Futurama

Fry: Well, buddy, how d'ya like your new home? See? He's happy already.
Hermes: That thing doesn't have emotions, Fry. Its brain is the size of a walnut.
Fry: So are walnuts and they're delicious!

Fry: Uh, hello, Mrs. Mellonger.
(much later)
Robot Devil: Trouble is, you have what my old music teacher, Mrs. Mellonger, calls "stupid fingers".
(I just...absolutely love that Fry and the Robot Devil have the same music teacher XD . Now I'm using "stupid fingers" to describe my struggles with knitting)

Fry: Bender, if you say the A-word, you'll blow this planet straight to the H-word!

Somewhere there's a line that kills me every time I hear it, but I'm drawing a blank...besides the "so are walnuts" bit...

But oh...I have so many from Bob's Burgers. Here are a few

Tina: (about helping her dad through insurance fraud) I'm gonna go to jail! Or Hell! Or Hell-Jail!
[fantasy in Hell lunchline]
Tina: So what's for lunch today?
Hell Lunchlady: Your lies!
Tina: (dramatic) NOOOO!...That's what we had yesterday!

Teddy: Today someone threw a snowcone at my windshield. I thought I hit a rainbow. It was terrifying!
(Gotta be frank, that actually does sound kinda scary...)

Bob: [addressing a large pot] Duvall, is that you in there?
Duval: [from the pot] No one's in this pot. Go away. I am the spaghetti.

Tina: Here's a bunch of numbers. They may look random, but they're my phone number

Gene: [singing] I'm not afraid of ghosts
I'm not afraid of sharks
I'm not afraid of cancer
I'm just afraid of snakes
they really freak me out
where are their arms and legs?!
It's not okay!
(My love for snakes remains in place, but I quite often find myself singing this to myself. It's just so fun!)

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The Fridge / Bionicle
« on: October 10, 2014, 06:10:58 AM »
Hmmm...I am feeling a bit of conflict...but I'll wait to see what happens.

But beefed-up unable to tell jokes Gali, though! And serious but clumsy Kopaka! And hot tempered (as always...) but forgetful Tahu! AAAAH! *claps*

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The Fridge / The origin of HIV
« on: October 08, 2014, 05:38:12 PM »
And the moral of the story is, there is a reason why we don't handle bushmeat. There is a reason why bushmeat is technically illegal!
Heck, it seems like a good number of our viral diseases of horror come from bushmeat!

I want to think there's an economic reason for it, but then again, shouldn't there be alternatives that are much more sensible?

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Ask Me / Ask Pangaea
« on: October 05, 2014, 03:58:50 AM »
The New Skaro questions were very helpful, and thought-provoking.

I do have a part dinosaur-related question, involving the recent new discoveries about Spinosaurus. Since then, I've considered it to be like a mix between a crocodile and grizzly bear. I even thought about it being like its version of a stork, which got me to thinking:
Is there a remote possibility, though there is no record of it (as of now?), that if it got a hold of a small enough fish, it could swallow it whole, much like the way many aquatic birds do?

Another dinosaur question relates to the Dromaosaurs. The more we learn about that family, the more bird-like they become. There's evidence to suggest that they were fairly intelligent. Could they have been intelligent enough to imitate human speech? I might never do it, but I'm considering writing a small AU Jurassic Park story as if it were being told in the modern era with all the new information we have. Some of which being tiny, feathered Velociraptors that are relatively annoying ankle-biters but not actual threats. I'm considering one of them hanging around with people enough that she starts imitating speech, which includes picking up on the "You didn't say the magic word" thing, and no one knows where she got it from until it was too late. Would it just be a bit of JP goofiness that would only serve the story (kinda?).

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Silver Screen / A Tetris Movie is Coming!
« on: October 02, 2014, 12:34:53 AM »
Uggh, and to make things worse, it's going to be a Threshold movie.

From the makers of Foodfight. Well, I'm off to make an underground bunker.

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General Land Before Time / I've left LBT...
« on: September 28, 2014, 06:10:59 PM »
I'm no stranger to fandom jumping. At the moment I'm stuck in a weird place between Doctor Who and Gravity Falls...which actually meshes quite nicely. Occasionally, I pop into Jurassic Park/Dinotopia as a mild crossover (about 95% Dinotopia and 5 % JP).

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Land Before Time Captions / Petrie's turned into a melon!
« on: September 23, 2014, 04:54:08 PM »
"I am not Petrie; I AM MELON LORD"

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