Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 It feels like a ghost town for the forums every week. Refresh every once in a while expecting a PM or a new post to arrive, checking "who's online" to find out if anyone else is making a post. There might as well be a tumble weed icon rolling across the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 ...or, you know, you could go do something outside. Or sleep in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 My Stuff -> Preferences -> Do you want to be notified via email when you receive a private message? This solves one of the problems; I don't know if Aran's RSS feeds still work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Originally Posted By: Ephesos ...or, you know, you could go do something outside. But going outside is always a sure way to miss something exciting here. Of course, staying here is always a sure way to miss all the exciting stuff happening outside... Dikiyoba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 You're all forgetting that it's freaking cold outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Pansy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Yeah I know, but still. It is friggin cold outside and i really don't mind it, but I'm on the forums while i do my other computer stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Nope, nothing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Come on, SoT, don't be so careless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan You're all forgetting that it's freaking cold outside. Yeah it's expected to only get up to 60 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 I'm assuming you're talking in degrees Fahrenheit, in which case it would be just cool enough for me to put on a sweatshirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Swimmin' Salmon Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Woaaaah! Did you see that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Hypnotic Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Originally Posted By: Spddin Ignis ...while expecting a PM... I have a feeling you're refering to me on the ASG RP. I do the same. Its not all that cold, although living on the other hemisphere makes it summer here. Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 ha. Yeah probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 We are getting hit by the third wave of snow in one week, and it's not even winter yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 I'm Russian, and this is only Chicago. Get over the cold, it can't kill you or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Hypothermia...so yeah...it can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dantius I'm Russian... Originally Posted By: Spddin Ignis Hypothermia It is a well-known fact that Russians are inherently immune to cold-related illnesses, syndromes, and conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 It's like the Slith's inherent fire resistance, only with cold. Plus, it also scales with level, so a KGB colonel could, for example, be immersed in a vat of liquid nitrogen with no adverse effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Poached Salmon Woaaaah! Did you see that? Clearly we did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan You're all forgetting that it's freaking cold outside. Originally Posted By: ANGREH MARINE Pansy. So tonight it's likely to get to forty below (that's forty below to you Fahrenheit users). Not to worry though — according to the long range forecast it'll be above freezing on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Quote: forty below (that's forty below to you Fahrenheit users) What math are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Spaki Njordvald Quote: forty below (that's forty below to you Fahrenheit users) What math are you using? He's right. 32 degrees Fahrenheit is 0 degrees Celsius, one Fahrenheit degree is equal to 5/9 of a Celsius degree, and it works out that -40 degrees is the point at which Celsius and Fahrenheit temperatures are equal. It's a cute little fact to remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Correct math, as well as correct definitions of the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales, one would conclude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Fahrenheit and Celsius coincide at 40 below. That's 233.15 above to you Kelvin users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Ah. I was getting confused on the Kelvin conversions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 I prefer to work on a scale which depends upon how many layers/blankets I will need to use on a given night. Tonight, it's only 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Heh. *is retarded* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Nikki, you must have thin blankets. Or bad. Bad can work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Swimmin' Salmon Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Sweet jesus! There it was again! How cool is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: James Stevens As I sat down one evening within a small café, A forty year old waitress to me these words did say: I see that you're a logger, and not just a common bum, For no-one but a logger stirs his coffee with his thumb. My lover was a logger. There's none like him today; If you'd pour whiskey on it, he'd eat a bale of hay. He never shaved his whiskers from off his horny hide: He pounded them in with a hammer, and bit them off inside. My lover came to see me upon one freezing day; He held me in his fond embrace which broke three vertebrae. He kissed me as we parted, so hard it broke my jaw. I couldn't speak to tell him he forgot his mackinaw. I saw my lover leaving, sauntering through the snow, Going gaily homeward at forty-eight below. The weather tried to freeze him. It tried its level best. At a hundred degrees below zero, he buttoned up his vest. It froze clear through to China. It froze to the stars above. At a thousand degrees below zero, it froze my logger love. They tried in vain to thaw him. At last, you know it, sir: They made him into axeblades, to chop the Douglas fir. So since I lost my lover, to this café I come, And here I wait till someone stirs his coffee with his thumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Spddin Ignis Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 Maybe it's just every afternoon on the forums. I guess I should go outside. Tali ho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan This solves one of the problems; I don't know if Aran's RSS feeds still work. They draw on the PPP, so no. However, UBB.Threads has its own RSS feeds, though I remember they aren't always reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 @SoT: LOL; I have a slightly different version of that song on CD. I was considering posting some of the lyrics myself, but you got there first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk llloyd Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Personally for me saturday is my day off from EVERYTHING, just everything, starting somewhere between 2 and 4 ussually saturday afternoon, ending about 2 on sunday. so there's my excuse, ussually i'm playing geneforge or watching anime 'till 7 in the morning eating frozen snack foods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 You should probably thaw them first... eating frozen stuff is murder on your teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk llloyd Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 I have no comment to that, except i'm fine since i regularly eat ice anyway, and am, as far as i know thus far in my life, completely immune to brain freeze, so i do have a yummy comment then so there. another fun fact is i am quite good at resisting cold temperatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: The Ratt Nikki, you must have thin blankets. Or bad. Bad can work too. I just don't like the cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 @The Mystic: My dad used to sing that song to us in the car when we were kids. Years later, when I went into physics and learned about absolute zero, I just decided that it didn't apply to loggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 As a physicist, you should just move the coordinates to somewhere where -1000º is not a problem. —Alorael, who now wonders why degrees of temperature are not subdivided into minutes and seconds. And, for that matter, why you can't combine temporal seconds into minutes and minutes into degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 It can be done, it just requires using your imagination to a certain degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 One way to think about absolute temperature is to realize that T as a measure of how hot something is is actually upside down. You should really think of 1/T as a measure of how cold something is. So absolute zero is infinitely cold. It's impossible to get colder than that. The ultimately rational unit of temperature is the Planck degree — a unit entirely free of arbitrary conventions because it is based solely on fundamental constants. Unfortunately it's an inconveniently large unit of temperature. 1 Planck degree is about 1.4 x 10^32 Celsius. An alternative that isn't quite so firmly pinned down might be a temperature based on the somewhat fuzzily determined energy scale called Lambda_QCD — the energy at which the energy-dependent interaction strength between quarks and gluons equals 1. This means that, just as water droplets break up into loose water molecules at 100 Celsius, and most atoms ionize into loose electrons and nuclei at a few thousand Celsius, protons and neutrons will begin breaking up into loose quarks at around 1 QCD-degree. That's somewhere around 10^12 Celsius. We really know nothing about what might happen at 1 degree Planck, but it might be that spacetime itself breaks up into loose ... events? Zowie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk The Knight Who Said Ni Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Student of Trinity, that Oregon logger's song is a classical piece of folk music. I can remember Pete Seeger performing that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity 1 Planck degree is about 1.4 x 10^32 Celsius. We really know nothing about what might happen at 1 degree Planck, but it might be that spacetime itself breaks up into loose ... events? Zowie. Integer overflow? "This universe has encountered an unexpected error. Please restart." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 This has got to be the longest Saturday afternoon ever. Dikiyoba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Actually, we're all traveling at relativistic speeds. Thus, it's still Saturday. For us super-speedy spiderwebers, Saturday goes until the next Earth Saturday, so we actually have an 8 day Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Then why am I in school right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk llloyd Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 schoolo at 10:13 P.M.? man that tastes real bland, like super bland nihilist flavored. and even if you were, you could be in saturday in your mind...tricking yourself is real easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Hint: Not everyone shares your time zone. —Alorael, who doesn't even share your calendar. Every day can be Caturday if you reject standard units! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk llloyd Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Oh yeah, i think i'm going to need everyone to say what time zone they are in now. also everyone have a happy splaturday tomorow, be sure to splat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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