Orwar

There's medicine for time-warping raisin bread into toasters? I don't know if that's 'medicine', strictly speaking ...

Meat pie.

Wednesday arrived early this week ...

"Make the drums louder! Make the guitar louder! Make the lights brighter! Turn 'em up!"

Oh, it is! But it also shows us that we've got a long way to go still, when it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe.

Yup!

Just had to try to see whether it'd work. Kind of bummed that it goes into my shoulders.

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Granted, but she's going to be mad about it until Midsummer. I wish everyone a very merry Christmas ... Grins wickedly.

You may want to have a lookie at this thread that I put in the 'Fashion' board!

Santa and I have a good thing going. I get to be naughty, and he gives me coal that I can burn to make soot to make calligraphy ink with.

I did use to have an ever so slight shear (pre-mesh a not-so-slight one - someone even told me I reminded them of Quasimodo!) - but when I got my beard it looked weird. I'll have to play around with it and see if it's possible .. ... Anyway. I need help deciding whether to get these trousers or not. How do I look? Is it worth L$899 (as I have to buy the fatpack to get the key chain - ugh!)?

Granted, but to say that your personal chef's skills have 'room for improvement' would be a severe understatement; when it is at all possible to get the food down, it only takes so long before it will want out again, one way or the other. I wish the trains in my country would actually work.

Scientists: "We believe that the universe is this old. No wait, -this- old. Okay. Oh and this star... Is that old. No, -that-old, actually. Soooo... This star is 2 Bn years older than the universe. Sounds about right!" Me: "But ... How ..?" Scientists: "The dark matter theory!" Me: "Okay, but, it's an unprov--" Scientists: "Dark. Matter. M'kay?" It reminds me of the old 'Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, it's impossible. Just not gonna happen, m'kay?' but also 'Oh, that glow? Yeah, that's from particles moving at roughly 1.25 times the speed of light.'

To be fair, when I go shopping for groceries I tend to run back and forth like a lost pinball. Mostly because I'll stroll half-way through the store before having decided on what I'll want to get for dinner. Then I realize I'll want sausages, which are at the front, so I run back there, then I want hotdog buns, so I run to the bread department which is half-way through the store, then I realize I need mustard which is also by the entrance. Then I figure I'll need some milk, so I run to the dairy section at the far back of the store, but then I realize I want cheese, which is all the way back where the sausages were, then I'll want something to drink which is next to the dairy section again, and then I realize that I need blackpepper which is just opposite to the mustard shelf ... When I go shopping with my classmate, she usually loses track of me within 30 seconds as I've ran off to look for olives that are by the exit of the store, then I'll zoom past her as I double back for noodles, and a few moments later she'll find me trying to fit more bottles of Julmust in my basket even when it's past full.

Pops on his spectacles and leans back, notepad and pen in hand. So, tell me how you felt when last you went shopping with someone whom you thought did so backwards, and how you handled the situation ... ... Okay, I'm not great, but I'm affordable!

It's true, that even people who agree with each other (more or less) sometimes feel a need to express and rationalize their opinions; in my world, that's just healthy discourse. And it's also true that a misunderstanding can spiral out of control pretty fast, and that in the format of a forum, where plenty of people can participate in the same discussion, the yarn that is the red thread tends to be dropped and make a mess of things. But as for the 'years later' part, I don't think that there's anything wrong with, when met with that, simply saying that "Look, you're quoting something from X years ago; the context in which that was said doesn't apply right here and now. If you want to discuss an issue, do so with what I say now.". Besides, we're not 'professional politicians' here, no one can force us to take a stand (as if there were any honest, responsible politicians in this day and age, hah) - heck, if the rhetoric becomes bad enough, I'll just stop responding to the thread. If whoever disagreed with me thinks that's a 'victory', well, let them revel in their misguided fantasy world; that's none of my concern.

And Second Life is largely (if not 'mainly') about the people in Second Life, people of different ages, cultures and ideas that sometimes clash. If we filter away our ideals, our opinions and our desires, what remains of us to engage with? I'm not disputing the fact that many politically loaded conversations in the forums tend to derail (but then, what doesn't get derailed around here?); but we need to be able to see the differences between cause and effect. Usually, the reason for the political discussions derailing, is that people let passion drive them - but that's not always the case, and there are times where the discussion actually contains intellectual exchanges which serve to enrich the participants. Besides, there's nothing in the ToS that says that we can not discuss politics - it's when people can't argue their points any further, and chose to instead verbally assault those who disagree with them, that the moderators swoop in to lock the threads.

Hah. If you ever need a pale guy skulking in the backdrop, just let me know!

Strokes beard in thought. Today, I feel like Orwar Furlgrimr.

It's not the topics that are foolish, it's the people who discuss them with uninhibited idealism who tend to make the mistakes that one might want to remove once the heat of the moment has cooled down. I may have said things that have hurt people, or made them angry - but I have never regretted it. If a person is so simple as to judge a person by a single idea that they adhere to, or so simple as to only exist for a single idea, then a bit of regret may in fact be healthy for them. If our ideas are never questioned, and can not stand up to rational criticism, then we can not grow if we continue to hold onto them. It is in the process of expanding our views that we grow and mature.

"And I know I drink."

Granted; your personal trainer calls in sick - but he has instead provided you with a temp, who has the personality of the Energizer Bunny. I wish I didn't have to manually switch my font every time I write a post ...

It's been much too many years since I studied hieroglyphics to keep up ... Perhaps that's for the better, though.