Deep 6 FaWtL

Yeah, which is kind of annoying since Tennant is my least-favorite Doctor, but I really didn't have any better words.

Lol,

My son started on Tennant, but loves Smith, (although we just watched the replay of last season and he decided that he likes the new one too.) ;P

Me, I started on Baker. I like several doctors, (some more than others) but Baker will always be the best in my mind.

That's one good thing about Dr who. There's one for everybody! :)

Whoops, Dr Who nekkidness.

Now we've moved on to Smith's last episode,... :P

Excuse me while I grab my #4 Dr's scarf,... I feel a chill.

Eccleston > Smith > Tennant. Haven't seen anything of Capaldi yet. Too young to have seen any of the old series.

Between that and finishing The Shepherd's Crown a couple days ago, I've been in a very melancholy mood this week. It's like... it's all done. That's it. No more.

It's like that normal disconnected feeling you get when you finish a book you've been pouring night after night into, and now it's done, and there's nothing left. No more sequels, no more series, no more extensions. It's over. For now, your time in that world is done.

And you don't want to go.

I feel a little like this now that Fables is over.

EDIT: That said, I'm not too destroyed, because I've got so many other things I "need" to do... :/

:D

Capaldi is awesome because,... He's freakin Capaldi. ;P
Whether or not you like him as a Dr varies from person to person. :)

And yeah, I'm showing my age a little bit. :/
My first episode of Dr Who ever was back when we could only get him on PBS, and I caught the first episode of Baker. Regeneration and all.
I was hooked. :D

Eccleston > Smith > Tennant. Haven't seen anything of Capaldi yet. Too young to have seen any of the old series.

I think Eccleston is the one doctor I didn't find incredibly f*#+ing annoying.

Troughton!

Thank Ellen Kushner! It's more David Bowie imagery.

Here's a recap of Carrion Crown. Better late than never!

Icyshadow wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

it seems like every time I attempt to write prose fiction the work inevitably becomes dialogue heavy with terse narrative.

That might be your style then.

Incidentally I feel similar about my sparse writings.

That makes me wonder if mine are the same way...

it seems like in my prose fiction, the art is not in the prose itself at all but in the storyshaping. The prose exists just to tell the story and get the point across effectively.

Agreed. Style is the tool for the story, not the other way around.

Hey everyone. I hope you are doing well.

My hair is on fire right now, and I'm having difficulty finding the extinguisher. I'll be back in a little while.

Maybe try using shower? Don't forget to plug yourself out of power first though, it would be bad idea to spray yourself with water while connected to the grid!

I set my arm on fire, once.

On my 21st birthday.

I set my arm on fire, once.

On my 21st birthday.

WWT(ammy)D?

Tammy would roll with it.

She doesn't sweat the small stuff.

Capaldi is awesome because,... He's freakin Capaldi. ;P

Whether or not you like him as a Dr varies from person to person. :)

I've never seen him in anything else.

I'm kinda surprised you haven't made an alias for Tammy

That's one good thing about Dr Who. There's one for everybody! :)

I feel roughly the same way about Dr. Who that FHDM feels about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only with more apathy and less frothing-at-the-mouth rage.

David M Mallon wrote:

After 4 weeks of dating, she decided to choose her new job over me. Ouch.

You should totally move to Nashville and write 3 albums about it.

F*!* you, Nashville.

You could always go for the slightly older women, they're sophisticated and know what they want.

She was a couple years older, and very sophisticated. Pretty sure she knew what she wanted, too.

Or the slightly younger that are still idealistic and hopeful, however your livers might not be able to handle a second go at being young.

That was last month. If another girl asks me if I want to go to the bar at 1 AM on a Wednesday, I'm going to put my head through the wall.

Whatever you decide, f$*$ her it's her loss! She'll live to regret that!!

I doubt it. I understand her reasoning, even though I don't like it. I'd have probably done the same thing in her situation. Whatever.

That's one good thing about Dr Who. There's one for everybody! :)

I feel roughly the same way about Dr. Who that FHDM feels about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only with more apathy and less frothing-at-the-mouth rage.

That doesn't sound like Freehold at all!

I'm kinda surprised you haven't made an alias for Tammy

I'm afraid if I do it'll upset circuitous (and pointless) plan #106 "get Tammy published without earning a single penny off it" also I get bonus points if I don't really have to do anything to make it happen.

Next step

That step might actually take awhile, I was hoping I could bait someone into doing it for me, alas so far no one in any of the "Why can't the Lich learn to love?" threads have gone for the bait.

Doctor Who?

Capaldi is awesome because,... He's freakin Capaldi. ;P

Whether or not you like him as a Dr varies from person to person. :)

And yeah, I'm showing my age a little bit. :/
My first episode of Dr Who ever was back when we could only get him on PBS, and I caught the first episode of Baker. Regeneration and all.
I was hooked. :D

I've barely seen any of Capaldi's episodes because I unfortunately got sick of Moffat.

I liked the...two episodes I watched with him, but...I'd been getting tired of the show for a while.

Ragadolf wrote:

That's one good thing about Dr Who. There's one for everybody! :)

David M Mallon wrote:

I feel roughly the same way about Dr. Who that FHDM feels about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only with more apathy and less frothing-at-the-mouth rage.

That doesn't sound like Freehold at all!

Apathy is the new apoplexy.

Knock knock!

Who's there?

Doctor!

Doctor who?

But, I'm Doctor Who!

Tacticslion wrote:

Ragadolf wrote:

That's one good thing about Dr Who. There's one for everybody! :)

David M Mallon wrote:

I feel roughly the same way about Dr. Who that FHDM feels about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only with more apathy and less frothing-at-the-mouth rage.

That doesn't sound like Freehold at all!

Apathy is the new apoplexy.

Apathapoplexypse

If you aren't seeing the person who created the show you hate in every shadow and going into a frothing blood-frenzy every time someone mentions even an anagram of his name, then you are doing it wrong.

Jon Pertwee all the way. Who else could make so many ruffles look so dashing?

Or am I dating myself with that one, too?

I'm guessing that's the one my Dad watched on PBS when I was a kid :-)

I'm guessing that's the one my Dad watched on PBS when I was a kid :-)

Yeah, when I was baby-sitting him...

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around, however he was in San Francisco in the sixties (Damn original hippies, always cavorting in my lawn.

But seriously my Dad is almost seventy :-)

Wow if any of you have TCM, The 7th voyage of Sinbad is on followed by The 3 worlds of Gulliver and then Jack the Giant Killer. Looks to be a late night for me

Evening, all. What did I miss?

Nut n' honey.

Is it strange that I don't generally like paraphyletic groups, and thus i don't like the class reptilia?

This is just a personal opinion that's affected by my interest in evolution and genetics.

If you aren't seeing the person who created the show you hate in every shadow and going into a frothing blood-frenzy every time someone mentions even an anagram of his name, then you are doing it wrong.

Joshua Hill Whedon? Unhallowed, "Hi, Josh!" Oh, join, washed hull... Woollen jihads? Huh? "Hush!" wailed John Lo. John hauled his owl.

Is it strange that I don't generally like paraphyletic groups, and thus i don't like the class reptilia?

This is just a personal opinion that's affected by my interest in evolution and genetics.

If that's the case, then the division of phylum chordata into vertebrates and invertebrates must drive you hella nuts.

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

Is it strange that I don't generally like paraphyletic groups, and thus i don't like the class reptilia?

This is just a personal opinion that's affected by my interest in evolution and genetics.

If that's the case, then the division of phylum chordata into vertebrates and invertebrates must drive you hella nuts.

Hmm, I thought vertebrata was a clade.

I could be wrong as my memory is fuzzy and i haven't read about this in a while.

I can't stay awake through an episode of Dr. Who. Girl dog runs from the Tardis.

David M Mallon wrote:

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

Is it strange that I don't generally like paraphyletic groups, and thus i don't like the class reptilia?

This is just a personal opinion that's affected by my interest in evolution and genetics.

If that's the case, then the division of phylum chordata into vertebrates and invertebrates must drive you hella nuts.

Hmm, I thought vertebrata was a clade.

I could be wrong as my memory is fuzzy and i haven't read about this in a while.

Edit to my original post:

What I meant to say (other than swapping out "kingdom animalia" for "phylum chordata") was that even though all vertebrates are chordates, some vertebrates don't actually have vertebrae. The term being bandied about lately has been "craniata" - vertebrates with bony skulls. I really need to read what I'm writing before I post it.

In any case, vertebrates/invertebrates are paraphyletic basically because some animals that have notochords or spinal cords do not have vertebrae. It's a huge convoluted mess.

Speaking of convoluted messes, I really need to eat something and go to bed.

I'm drinking V-8 juice for dinner.

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

David M Mallon wrote:

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

Is it strange that I don't generally like paraphyletic groups, and thus i don't like the class reptilia?

This is just a personal opinion that's affected by my interest in evolution and genetics.

If that's the case, then the division of phylum chordata into vertebrates and invertebrates must drive you hella nuts.

Hmm, I thought vertebrata was a clade.

I could be wrong as my memory is fuzzy and i haven't read about this in a while.

Edit to my original post:

What I meant to say (other than swapping out "kingdom animalia" for "phylum chordata") was that even though all vertebrates are chordates, some vertebrates don't actually have vertebrae. The term being bandied about lately has been "craniata" - vertebrates with bony skulls. I really need to read what I'm writing before I post it.

In any case, vertebrates/invertebrates are paraphyletic because vertebrates evolved from invertebrate ancestors. In addition, some animals that have notochords or spinal cords do not have vertebrae. It's a huge convoluted mess.

yep, I knew craniata was a clade and always thought vertebrata was a clade within craniata, but maybe I was reading outdated information or the information i read became outdated by now.

it truly is a mess lol.

I remember trying to trace the evolution of tetrapods from lobe-finned fish from other fish, and becoming terribly confused. twice, with a few years between each try.

EDIT: In any case, I'm actually fine with having a [hypothetical] clade called vertebrata that includes animals that don't actually have vertebrae, so long as the path of ancestry/descent is correct. They may have secondarily lost vertebrae.

Never trust a guy who hauls his owl.

EDIT: In any case, I'm actually fine with having a [hypothetical] clade called vertebrata that includes animals that don't actually have vertebrae, so long as the path of ancestry is correct. They may have secondarily lost vertebrae.

Not necessarily. The points of contention:

- Tunicates (AKA sea squirts) have a notochord during their larval stage, but lose it in adulthood, and have no internal skeleton whatsoever.

- Hagfish have a notochord and a cartilaginous skull, but no vertebral column or jaws.

- Arrow worms and acorn worms have no notochord or skeleton, but are more closely related to basal chordates than to actual worms.

- Lancelets have a notochord and a rudimentary brain, but no skeleton.

This is a pretty good (and entertaining) resource on the subject of phylogeny.

In any case, don't take my word for any of this stuff. I know I've oversimplified, and likely made a mistake or two. I'm only an armchair biology fan, after all.

Aniuś the Talewise wrote:

EDIT: In any case, I'm actually fine with having a [hypothetical] clade called vertebrata that includes animals that don't actually have vertebrae, so long as the path of ancestry is correct. They may have secondarily lost vertebrae.

Not necessarily. The points of contention:

- Tunicates (AKA sea squirts) have a notochord during their larval stage, but lose it in adulthood, and have no internal skeleton whatsoever.

- Hagfish have a notochord and a cartilaginous skull, but no vertebral column or jaws.

- Arrow worms and acorn worms have no notochord or skeleton, but are more closely related to basal chordates than to actual worms.

- Lancelets have a notochord and a rudimentary brain, but no skeleton.

This is a pretty good (and entertaining) resource on the subject of phylogeny.

In any case, don't take my word for any of this stuff. I know I've oversimplified, and likely made a mistake or two. I'm only an armchair biology fan, after all.

Hence the key operating word 'hypothetical'.

Thanks, that sounds pretty cool.

Fun fact: when a name is followed by ® I imagine a tiny little pirate's 'arrh'. Every time. Ever since I was a little kid.

I made Carnivorous Sea Sponge Leshies for Skull and Shackles, named one Robert.

Looks like I forgot Rule #7 again. Don't drink and talk science, or you'll end up sounding like a mouth-breather.

Looks like I forgot Rule #7 again. Don't drink and talk science, or you'll end up sounding like a mouth-breather.

Hey! You take that back! I'm a mouth-breather, spout gibberish science, and don't drink!

... except for water. And tea. And milk. And juice. And soda. And certain yogurts. And noodles sometimes. And those little plastic cups of fruit.

... okay, I drink a lot of things.

Freehold DM wrote:

If you aren't seeing the person who created the show you hate in every shadow and going into a frothing blood-frenzy every time someone mentions even an anagram of his name, then you are doing it wrong.

Joshua Hill Whedon? Unhallowed, "Hi, Josh!" Oh, join, washed hull... Woollen jihads? Huh? "Hush!" wailed John Lo. John hauled his owl.

frothing blood frenzy