Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141

[Quincunx]

Summer is good. I get to be home and sleep till, like, 9:30. What a rebel I am!

Also I haven't been turning my computer on till like 1 pm every day. What am I doing in those 3 1/2 hours between getting up and getting on it? I haven't a clue. But it's cool.

But the book was just sitting there!

Dragonrider! Buddy! Pal! Quilter! I had to throw together a duvet cover recently and foolishly decided to make squares out of two triangles sewn together on the hypotenuse! I'm sure you have already guessed the problem with that idea! What should I do to not stretch each and every would-be-square out into bizarre rhomboids?

[Teddy]

Summer is good. I get to be home and sleep till, like, 9:30. What a rebel I am!

Also I haven't been turning my computer on till like 1 pm every day. What am I doing in those 3 1/2 hours between getting up and getting on it? I haven't a clue. But it's cool.

Lucky you! I've still got two and a half week left before school's over for the year, and I've got two tests (maths and physics), one book to finish and a writeup on said book to do for next week. And I'm going to spend the entire weekend playing board games, which is really awesome, but because of that, I've only got a limited time to study.

Especially for maths test, which is on Monday.

I had to throw together a duvet cover recently and foolishly decided to make squares out of two triangles sewn together on the hypotenuse! I'm sure you have already guessed the problem with that idea! What should I do to not stretch each and every would-be-square out into bizarre rhomboids?

Use the pythagorean theorem and a pocket calculator?

[Quincunx]

The Pythagorean theorem says very little about the tendency of a fabric to stretch on the bias, turning what was once the side of a 14-inch square into something more than the hypotenuse of a 9-and-a-bit-inch square, while not affecting the 9-and-a-bit-inch sides of said square, reducing the 'square' to a ripply and puffed rhomboid.

[Teddy]

The Pythagorean theorem says very little about the tendency of a fabric to stretch on the bias, turning what was once the side of a 14-inch square into something more than the hypotenuse of a 9-and-a-bit-inch square, while not affecting the 9-and-a-bit-inch sides of said square, reducing the 'square' to a ripply and puffed rhomboid.

I understand. And I guess that there is a reason that quilters stick to rectangular shapes, too.

[Quincunx]

The noob ones, anyway. At least the flipside, which is all rectangles, looks nice.

[Haruki-kun]

*mutter* What is the frikkin' point of taking care of your stuff if it's gonna be exposed to someone else's carelessness, I ask of thee?

That's the point of reading a book very, very, VERY carefully to avoid damaging the spine or the cover only for it to have a shoe dropped on top of it, leaving huge long crease on the front cover?

And then you get the usual crap like "why did you leave it on the floor, then?" I didn't leave it on the floor, OBVIOUSLY! I left it on -surprise- the nightstand, and some idiot dropped it.

It's just pointless trying to take care of your belongings.

[Coidzor]

No, no, you're just supposed to kill your siblings.

Your parents don't tell you because part of the test is to work it out yourself.

[Adumbration]

Let's see now how my new avvie looks..

[Dragonrider]

But the book was just sitting there!

Dragonrider! Buddy! Pal! Quilter! I had to throw together a duvet cover recently and foolishly decided to make squares out of two triangles sewn together on the hypotenuse! I'm sure you have already guessed the problem with that idea! What should I do to not stretch each and every would-be-square out into bizarre rhomboids?

So when you put the triangles together and stitched along the hypotenuses, the fabric stretched in a weird curvy thing? I can see that happening, but I've never done it. It could be you have particularly forceful feed dogs on your sewing machine, I guess.

I wonder if it has to do with the size of your squares? Triangles tend to work better when they're SMALL. 5x5 squares sewn from two triangles have a lot less stretch than 10x10 or bigger. Also, it largely depends on the fabric you're using . . . if it's cotton quilting fabric then it's relatively un-stretchy, but when I made something out of corduroy and denim last winter, that was HELL. Trying to line up the seams on the slightly stretchy but relatively stable denim with the wonky-stretchable corduroy was not the most frustrating sewing experience of my life, but it made it onto the chart.

[KilltheToy]

No, no, you're just supposed to kill your siblings.

Your parents don't tell you because part of the test is to work it out yourself.

Oh, is that what I'm supposed to do with him?

That would explain a few things, actually.

[Thajocoth]

It was one orange, at point blank range. The peel was still on it, and was still on it on the lawn it landed on after bouncing off of my neck. I was walking on the shoulder of the road (I walk to/from the pizza place every day. 35 min walk each way, for the past... just over a month.) They were driving by in the opposite direction. Speed limit's 35, but no one ever does less than 45 on that road, and people who do less than 55 are tailgated, even though it's a residential street, not a highway. (miles per hour) (Long Island has some of the worst drivers anywhere.) Guy was in the passenger side of the truck.

[Trobby]

Very, very, very, very, very NEARLY done with all my coursework! I just have to...build an entire 4-page site in under 3 days.

Which...won't be too bad, actually. Especially since I'm going to recycle as much of my last page as possible without it being too obvious.

The only thing I have to really worry about is what I'm going to put ON the page, since I haven't actually thought of anything to write about yet. o.o;;

Maybe a fan page of something?

[Blue Ghost]

How about a fan page of the Playground?

[Trobby]

A fan page...of a fan page? That seems insanely redundant.

[arguskos]

It was one orange, at point blank range. The peel was still on it, and was still on it on the lawn it landed on after bouncing off of my neck. I was walking on the shoulder of the road (I walk to/from the pizza place every day. 35 min walk each way, for the past... just over a month.) They were driving by in the opposite direction. Speed limit's 35, but no one ever does less than 45 on that road, and people who do less than 55 are tailgated, even though it's a residential street, not a highway. (miles per hour) (Long Island has some of the worst drivers anywhere.) Guy was in the passenger side of the truck.

...so it was just a random orange? That sounds... highly coincidental, actually, not like a malicious oranging.

Still, woah, like, what. You don't hear "I was hit by a speeding orange" every day.

[Pheehelm]

A fan page...of a fan page? That seems insanely redundant.

Needs more meta. Make it a fan page of itself. Talk about how wonderfully designed it is, how perfect the colors are, how intricate its code is, et cetera.

[Trobby]

^...I just might do that.

[absolmorph]

No, no, you're just supposed to kill your siblings.

Your parents don't tell you because part of the test is to work it out yourself.

I friggin' knew it!

[Thajocoth]

...so it was just a random orange? That sounds... highly coincidental, actually, not like a malicious oranging.

Still, woah, like, what. You don't hear "I was hit by a speeding orange" every day.

Well, it was thrown right at me purposely, but I figure they'd've thrown it at anyone who was walking there at that time. Like, I don't think it was personal, I think they were just jerks in general.

[Trobby]

Needs more meta. Make it a fan page of itself. Talk about how wonderfully designed it is, how perfect the colors are, how intricate its code is, et cetera.

Incidentally, I am totally going with this idea. I'll show you all the final product when its done.

Edit: Well...that was as easy as I thought it would be.

[Pheehelm]

Attractive, elegant, navigable. I love it.

[Mando Knight]

Incidentally, I am totally going with this idea. I'll show you all the final product when its done.

Edit: Well...that was as easy as I thought it would be.

Include links and reviews of other fan pages of various things. Thus it'll become the fan page of fan pages. With purpose.

[Trobby]

I'll consider doing that after I receive a grade for it. <.<; Don't worry. I gave you all credit for helping out.

[YPU]

You know I must have asked this before, but diden't there use to be a Gitp IRC chat? I lost all my data when my hard rive crashed and burned.

[Nano]

This is intense.

[CJTMW]

This is intense.

Haha, those are wonderful.

[Dogmantra]

So... Eurovision. Usual rubbish, don't know why I bothered watching it. After Laka's amazingly good song a couple of years ago, it's all a letdown now. Belgium was quite good though.

[cycoris]

Gaaaaaah why does my brain always do this to me?

Two weeks before finals, it'll go into vacation project mode. Have so far started a couple of craft projects as well as a worldbuilding/writing project. And I should be stuuuuudying.

Not to mention the fact that I am full of envy for anyone who's already done with school.

[Kobold-Bard]

So... Eurovision. Usual rubbish, don't know why I bothered watching it. After Laka's amazingly good song a couple of years ago, it's all a letdown now. Belgium was quite good though.

Frace was amazing. Your post is blasphemy!

[YPU]

So... Eurovision. Usual rubbish, don't know why I bothered watching it. After Laka's amazingly good song a couple of years ago, it's all a letdown now. Belgium was quite good though.

Voted for turkey by default due to genre of music, couldn't be bothered to watch the finals.