Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106

[Phase]

I'm assuming that's a good wow right? Otherwise you would be dead inside.

I would make the same assumption. Watchmen > Sex

Or so I've heard...

[Thufir]

Teen Titans was a good series, could have done better, but still decent.
My favorite dead series is Firefly.(waits for rush of fans)

*Rushes in*
Sorry we're late. Actually we're not late, we're just in the nick of time, what does that make us?

[Siosilvar]

How does he do it?
And I drop a lot of hints too.
"Mouse, I'm watching HIGNFY now."

That's how he does it. He's learned the best time to annoy you is Saturday nights.

Also, *rushes off to join the rush of Firefly fans*

[UncleWolf]

Okay, time for me to hit the sack.

<insert sounds of a sack full of potatoes being hit with a baseball bat>

Seriously though, I need to get to bed. I have a long day tomorrow.

Good night and in case any of you missed it...

Ink is back!

[Dallas-Dakota]

You dare use the smiley for that?

Blasphemy! Total blasphemy, at all times should either the or smiley be used.

[Lemur]

Okay, it's time for me to hit the sack.

<insert sounds of a sack full of potatoes being hit with a bat>

Seriously though, I need to get to bed. I have a long day tomorrow, true that.

Good night and in case any of you missed it...

Ink is back!

There, I fixed your post. Or broke it, take your pick.

[Jibar]

I wish Seseme Street was still on in the mornings...

[Dallas-Dakota]

I wish Seseme Street was still on in the mornings...

Soooo seconded.

I wish I had it on my tv. But nay, none of my available channels have it...

[Death, your friend the Reaper]

Huzzah, finally became a legal adult!

*Drops the traditional crocodile pelt he made from the croc he had to wrestle to get into adulthood*

And for my present I have an exam tomorrow, fun fun fun, now I better go off on a tangent and get some more notes prepared for the Calc exam *looks both ways before being hit by study bus*

[dish]

...snip... although I'm told Howl's Moving Castle the book is nothing like the film.

This is a serious pet-peeve of mine. Diana Wynne Jones has been one of my favourite authors (honestly, I put her up there with Jane Austen) since I read Charmed Life many, many moons ago. The Ghibli version of Howl's Moving Castle is an absolute travesty. Ok, so it's quite pretty to look at, but ... the plot, the wonderful plot. They ripped it to shreds and stomped on it. They turned it into an anti-war polemic. They changed my lovely Howl into a bleedin bishie.

*Is dragged out of thread still ranting. Pausing only to wave to Firefly fans and to wish Death good luck with calculus.*

[InaVegt]

I have decided upon my title, for when my plans are complete.

Title can be found in my sig.

[Recaiden]

This is a serious pet-peeve of mine. Diana Wynne Jones has been one of my favourite authors (honestly, I put her up there with Jane Austen) since I read Charmed Life many, many moons ago. The Ghibli version of Howl's Moving Castle is an absolute travesty. Ok, so it's quite pretty to look at, but ... the plot, the wonderful plot. They ripped it to shreds and stomped on it. They turned it into an anti-war polemic. They changed my lovely Howl into a bleedin bishie.

*Is dragged out of thread still ranting. Pausing only to wave to Firefly fans and to wish Death good luck with calculus.*

It's still nice, but not as good as the book, and disturbing if you read that first to see the differences

[Allysian]

Oooo, Dianna Wynne Jones, she wrote the Battle of Derkholm series, right? I never finished it. I luff flyin piggies though!! I miss <insert name of sesame street dude that lives in trashcan>'s worms, they were cute.

[Kaelaroth]

I like Diana Wynne Jones - particularly Witch Week.

Oh, and, is Yahoo Flickr copyright free?

[Flickerdart]

I have decided upon my title, for when my plans are complete.

Title can be found in my sig.

As majestic as it is, nothing beats the Grand Puuba of Cyberspace.

[Recaiden]

I like Diana Wynne Jones - particularly Witch Week.

Oh, and, is Yahoo Flickr copyright free?

I think that's one of her best books. And no, anything with a copyright is still copyrighted. (I think)

[banjo1985]

I've read one of hers, it wasn't bad at all. I don't know much about her work other than that I'm afraid. Day of the Griffin I think it was called.

[bosssmiley]

Huzzah, finally became a legal adult!

*Drops the traditional crocodile pelt he made from the croc he had to wrestle to get into adulthood*

So you fell for that one too?

Happy AFONAL Day Death.

<insert comic as appropriate for anthropomorphic personification>
(wow! Firefox spell check recognizes "anthropomorphic personification")

ION:

• Steamgearlab: purveyors of custom uchronotechnic miscellania to the gentry and the professions
• a steampunk spacesuit (complete with top hat)
• Strange Maps offers city maps as Rorschash test
• some chin-stroking on the origins of progress
• and Jim at Grognardia tries to start a nerdfight

[Dragonrider]

This is a serious pet-peeve of mine. Diana Wynne Jones has been one of my favourite authors (honestly, I put her up there with Jane Austen) since I read Charmed Life many, many moons ago. The Ghibli version of Howl's Moving Castle is an absolute travesty. Ok, so it's quite pretty to look at, but ... the plot, the wonderful plot. They ripped it to shreds and stomped on it. They turned it into an anti-war polemic. They changed my lovely Howl into a bleedin bishie.

QFT!! QFT!! QFT!!

I loved Howl in the book. I read it six times in one month because of him (and I NEVER do that). He's just such an UNUSUAL character. And now whenever I reccommend the book to someone, they say, "Howl's Moving Castle? Oh, I've seen that movie."

*headdesk*

@Allysian: It's Dark Lord of Derkholm.

and @Banjo: That would be Year of the Griffin, the sequel to Dark Lord of Derkholm.

There are also two 'companions' to Howl's Moving Castle (Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways) but neither of them are nearly as good. I love Chrestomanci, though. And the Dalemark Quartet - really quite a *different* series as opposed to her other books. And Power of Three!

[Oregano]

Need help with my maths homework.

I'll type out the whole question.

5. The origin, O, and the point A lie on the circle x^2 + y^2 - 4x + 2y=0. Given that OA is a diameter of the circle find the coordinates of A.

I know the answer is ( 4, 2) which seems to relate somehow to the -4x and +2y, does anyone know why?

Also, how would I go about working this out?

[Dragonrider]

Need help with my maths homework.

I'll type out the whole question.



I know the answer is ( 4, 2) which seems to relate somehow to the -4x and +2y, does anyone know why?

Also, how would I go about working this out?

I started to do this problem and then got confused about the question.

But this is what I worked out so far:

I'm really good at finding the equation of a circle. Less good after that.



No idea if that's the direction I needed to go.

[Oregano]

That's exactly what I needed to know, I just figured it out before reading that, thanks anyway. Nice diagram too.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Oh by the Djel; math.
I thought I had escaped it two years ago.
And it's back.

*flees*
*vows never to return*

[Dallas-Dakota]

*pushes maths away*
*drags Curly back*
*ties Curly down so she can´t escape*

I still have maths....

[Castaras]

Oh by the Djel; math.
I thought I had escaped it two years ago.
And it's back.

*flees*
*vows never to return*

But but but maths is Good. Much better than English or Science, Maths is awesome...

[Recaiden]

Everything I can tell it seems that the center is 2,1 because you put the equation in the format of (x-a)^2+(y-b)^2=r^2. A is the x position of the center and b is the y position. R is the radius. So it ends up being (x-2)^2+(y+1)^2=5. Since Point A is across the circle from (0,0), it is (4,2).

@^ But you're writing a novel. How do you prefer it to English? Even though it is better.

[Castaras]

NaNoWriMo is writing 50,000 words. Which I'm failing miserably at. I don't mind writing, it's English the lesson I hate with all my being. Analysis, over-analysis, and over analysing the over-analysis.

Maths is nice.

[Oregano]

Everything I can tell it seems that the center is 2,1 because you put the equation in the format of (x-a)^2+(y-b)^2=r^2. A is the x position of the center and b is the y position. R is the radius. So it ends up being (x-2)^2+(y+1)^2=5. Since Point A is across the circle from (0,0), it is (4,2).

Yer, I got it eventually, it was the formt that got me confused, but I eventually figured out how to factorise it and then it was pretty easy.

Yer maths is totally better than English, because Maths is like universal and objective(well kind of).

EDIT: I hated over-analysis in English but I love it in Film, because at least what you're interpretting is there, on screen.

[Dragonrider]

That's exactly what I needed to know, I just figured it out before reading that, thanks anyway. Nice diagram too.

thanks. I never thought MS Paint would be so useful again.

I am definitely not a mathematical genius. I get it and I do pretty well, but it's a lot of very hard work. In contrast to my brother, who gets grades only slightly lower than I in it and yet gets all the concepts so quickly... 'tis throttle-worthy.

[Dallas-Dakota]

NaNoWriMo is writing 50,000 words. Which I'm failing miserably at. I don't mind writing, it's English the lesson I hate with all my being. Analysis, over-analysis, and over analysing the over-analysis.

Maths is nice.

Seconded. But english lessons are boring with us, not over/analysis...