SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting

[mercurymaline]

It sounds like the whole F scale was invented for measuring that mixture.

I mean, what kind of logic is that?

If I recall correctly, they were trying to get water as cold as they could, under early 1700's laboratory conditions, to set a baseline for the scale.

As for pressure, I really don't know. What do I look like, wikipedia?

[The Rose Dragon]

...and naturally, dying when someone stakes me in the heart with wood.

That makes you a vampire?

Woo, I'm a vampire! Finally, the reason for my irrational love of places only lit by artificial sources of light and my emoness has been found!

[I'm da Rogue!]

@ Curly : It's HamaRtia, not HaRmatia. Harma has a different meaning.

Peripeteia (Περιπέτεια) is the adventure in modern Greek.
And in tragedy, it's the reversal, the turning point.

peri = round, peteia(pitein) = falling

As for pressure, I really don't know. What do I look like, wikipedia?

...Yeah.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Well, anyone dies when you stake them which was something I've always found funny about vampire stories ever since I was about seven or eight.
Yeah. Miss Logic and Fantasy Lover. Bad mix.

Let us unite: Vampires R Us? No. We need a better name.
Besides; I could tell all sorts of gory ways people used to identify vampires. Some including desecrating graves and all sorts of things.
But I won't unless asked to show respect for some of our frailer non-vampiric companions.

[FoE]

Wooden stakes kill some vampires. The vamps in the Blade movies are only vulnerable to sunlight, blood coagulant and silver (unless they're possessed by Blood Gods or genetically-engineered or Dracula). Cassidy from the Preacher comic has been staked before, and while it hurt like hell, he got better. (He could survive anything, even decapitation. Sunlight killed him pretty dead though.)

@V: Yeah, but he was resurrected in that case. And even then he came back as a human, not a vampire.

And that's one of the essential plot points of Preacher spoiled right there.

@@V: Cassidy's death. Big spoiler for anyone reading the series.

God the third most powerful being? Depends on your interpretation. On his throne, God could do anything. He could have handwaved the Saint of Killers out of existence. And Genesis died when Jesse did, so not that powerful.

[The Rose Dragon]

And he came back even from that. He made a deal with the third most powerful entity in Creation (read: your Lord the God) though, so it was OK.

^ Which part, the part where he comes back, the part where he dies or the part where God is the third most powerful entity? Cause the latter is spoiled in the first volume of the series. The part where he comes back isn't a big deal, everyone comes back from the dead once during the series. The part where he dies... OK, that might be kind of a spoiler, but it's Garth Ennis. Everyone dies at some point.

A bigger spoiler is this:

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Arseface gets a girl.

[unstattedCommoner]

What are you talking about? All vampires are the same.

Also, the One True Temperature Scale is defined by:

0.5 * ln( (x - 5)/(17 - x) )

where x is in celsius.

(Note that temperatures outside the range [5 C, 17 C] are part imaginary.)

[I'm da Rogue!]

I hate the weather these days.

It's May, it's supposed to be hot here.

It's just around 20-25, and cloudy. I hate it.

I don't like the sun much, but I want sunny summers.

[Dragonrider]

I hate the weather these days.

It's May, it's supposed to be hot here.

It's just around 20-25, and cloudy. I hate it.

I don't like the sun much, but I want sunny summers.

Seconded!

It's supposed to be 95 (fahrenheit) by Saturday, though.

[I'm da Rogue!]

Seconded!

It's supposed to be 95 (fahrenheit) by Saturday, though.

I meant 20-25 C.

Dunno about F.

[Skippy]

I've been watching Monk lately. And I'm loving it.

What worries me a bit, is that I'm slowly transforming into him. My OCD has been growing little by little. My mom calls me "Melvin" sometimes, as a reference to Melvin Udall, from "As Good as it Gets".

And the work doesn't help, either. Working at a movie rental, my OCD tendencies keep growing, since I spend all of my afternoon cleaning, and placing things, and counting, and moving things from one place to another.

Ah well. Not that I am complaining of it. Just commenting. It's funny sometimes, and useful as well. At least in work.

[wadledo]

Hooray for Monk, causing people to discover their own terrible flaws every five minutes since whenever it first aired.

[Skippy]

Hooray for Monk, causing people to discover their own terrible flaws every five minutes since whenever it first aired.

I've only seen two chapters (Believe it! I barely watch tv!) and I really feel I can understand him. I'm not yet that wacko (I still shake hands with people without feeling nervous), but I can totally understand how he feels when something is out of place. It's terrible!

*Walks to the kitchen, turns light off, then returns to the pc*

[Recaiden]

I've only seen two chapters (Believe it! I barely watch tv!) and I really feel I can understand him. I'm not yet that wacko (I still shake hands with people without feeling nervous), but I can totally understand how he feels when something is out of place. It's terrible!

*Walks to the kitchen, turns light off, then returns to the pc*

Yeah. Ever since i started watching that show i notice littlethings that i do. It's a little strange.

Also, It definitely doesn't rain or get dark enough her in Texas. If the sun came out about 2 or maybe 3 days a week, that would be great. And i guess i'm a vampire too, since stakes through the heart would kill me.

[Dragonrider]

what distinguishes a vampire is not that a stake in the heart can kill them; it's that other things can't.

[Skippy]

Yeah. Ever since i started watching that show i notice littlethings that i do. It's a little strange.

Also, It definitely doesn't rain or get dark enough her in Texas. If the sun came out about 2 or maybe 3 days a week, that would be great. And i guess i'm a vampire too, since stakes through the heart would kill me.

The problem is, I knew them since before I first saw the show.

[Player_Zero]

Two hours until my first exam. Wish me luck. Or else!

[phoenixineohp]

I used to hate January and November. Now I hate May. It started last year when May tried to kill me. But I'm stubborn. This year is no where near as bad, but it still sucks.

I've been in a bad mood for 3 days now practically. It alternates between no mood (void setting when I am adequately distracted), depressed and pissey. I don't especially like or enjoy the last two, so I'm also annoyed. Mostly about being annoyed.

When you have no energy, and I mean NO energy, the tank is running on vapors and you are pretty sure you don't have mono, what do you folks do?

[Zeb The Troll]

Why, sleep, of course.

Although I'm assuming that's not an option, so I suggest....

ummm, now that I think about it, I usually just complain about how tired I am and wish I could sleep more. But that doesn't really help, does it?

[Player_Zero]

I used to hate January and November. Now I hate May. It started last year when May tried to kill me. But I'm stubborn. This year is no where near as bad, but it still sucks.

I've been in a bad mood for 3 days now practically. It alternates between no mood (void setting when I am adequately distracted), depressed and pissey. I don't especially like or enjoy the last two, so I'm also annoyed. Mostly about being annoyed.

When you have no energy, and I mean NO energy, the tank is running on vapors and you are pretty sure you don't have mono, what do you folks do?

Proper diet and excerise?

...Or energy drinks, caffeine and 18 hour long sleep sessions... That could work too.

...51 minutes to exam time...

[Ceska]

When you have no energy, and I mean NO energy, the tank is running on vapors and you are pretty sure you don't have mono, what do you folks do?

Take my antidepressants.

Completely lacking energy was one of the reasons I'm having therapy and medication at the moment. The funny thing? I'm sleeping far less, about two to three hours per day less, but I'm never out of energy. I'm currently having a fever and have to take antibiotics because of my tooth (my jaw was swollen about three centimetres. Dentist said that I could have died if I had waited a day longer), but I'm feeling nothing. Neither pain nor uneasiness.

[phoenixineohp]

I'm on my own thanks.

But I sleep about 12 hours a day. Or really, exactly however much I was awake. Apparently it's typical for people like me to need to sleep a lot. We burn a lot of energy during the day in our natural state. So we sleep a lot.

Diet is healthy though a reduced calorie intake right now. But there is fat to burn so it should be okay.

Exercise. Thats that killer. I don't feel like getting up, let alone moving. Hopefully that will improve soon. My family is hopefully going to open our pool this week. That should eliminate another excuse.

It may just be depression. Drat. But I am up for any other suggestions.

[Nychta]

I used to hate January and November. Now I hate May. It started last year when May tried to kill me. But I'm stubborn. This year is no where near as bad, but it still sucks.

I've been in a bad mood for 3 days now practically. It alternates between no mood (void setting when I am adequately distracted), depressed and pissey. I don't especially like or enjoy the last two, so I'm also annoyed. Mostly about being annoyed.

When you have no energy, and I mean NO energy, the tank is running on vapors and you are pretty sure you don't have mono, what do you folks do?

Well, I have an energy drink. I love V and Demon, but Red Bull will suffice. I avoid sweet lollies, and go for sour ones instead. I also listen to upbeat music, really loud.

[adanedhel9]

I was always told "normal" was 98.6... >.>

Err, yeah. No idea where my number came from.

What do you mean by mathematically equivalent? They're on completely different scales, and involve a (far too) relatively complicated equation to convert. And I think the one I use is pretty comprehensively based on "common sense". Also science. Which actually normally uses Kelvins... Which is Celsius with a more universal 0^o.

They're mathematically equivalent in that it doesn't matter which one you use, so long as you indicate your choice. You can even switch back and forth within the same problem.

There's nothing that Celcius can do that Fahrenheit can't, and vice-versa. But absolute 0 does make Kelvin superior to either: there are certain operations (such as multiplying and dividing) that only work on scales where 0 means nothing (like Kelvin, but not C or F).

[Ceska]

It may just be depression. Drat. But I am up for any other suggestions.

It definitely sounds like depression to me.

The exercise aspect is kinda problematic for me right now, but then, it's exam time, so I doubt I'll have the time.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Bleh.
Roguey, you're sense of cold is abnormal. 20-25*C here would kill and/or melt your average brit.
When you come here I suggest you were lots of woolies; can't have our Goddess of Theft dying from pneumonia here.

My absent-mindedness/ignorance of self has increased recently.
You all know I volunteer at Rainbows (think little Brownies for Brits or those wierd things with funny names that are for younger members of Girl Scouts in the US).
Yesterday the weather was rainy (yes!), but they couldn't go on their Bingo Walk so they did crosswords instead.
When they figured out the answer and they didn't know how to spell it I'd write it on my arms. Mostly my left.
And use my skin as the Almighty Pen Test as you do. After an hour my left hand and arm was covered in words like: laugh; cake; birthday; rainbow; dolphin and several others. Oh, and balloon in very large letters on the underside of my forearm.
I head home meaning to wash it off eventually. I wash off the right arm (barely touched, only a few pen marks on it) and forget about the left arm.
I'm in bed and think 'I'll wash it off before I leave for college'. And don't.
Didn't even realise it until about fifteen minutes agho when some girl asked why balloon was written on my arm so big.
I also seem to have a picture of a rainbow done entirely in greens.
Graffitti is fun.

[Serpentine]

Aha! That dog is a Newfoundland! Hurrah!

[SDF]

I can already has a newfoundland!

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[Serpentine]

Omg omg omg!
WANT.

[Tholok Razescar]

The one that talks next is... Is gonna be gutted!