That reminds me of an old philosophical question. If you replace every part of the plane one piece at a time, at what point does it stop being the same plane?
My guess is, when it falls out of the sky.
Especially if you're doing the replacing in mid-flight.
Gary: This is one of the problems that wrenches my students minds when we study Hinduism and Buddhism (which we finished this week).
In this same vein, I must need to go back and take another look at Kali. How could I have gotten her idea of revenge so wrong? NSFW
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At what point does it stop being the same plane? When it is no longer called by the same name. I read somewhere that there is a castle in I think Tokyo that has the same name it has always had but in truth every piece ever used to build it with has been replaced at one time or another. Yet it is still the same castle, same floor plan same designs same name. It's "soul" has not changed.
Freehold and any other peeps:Geeky Girl
Oh....NSFW.
I don't know what the hell you were thinking, Mac. Where you purposefully firing the first shot in a Geek vs. Nerd war?
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I'm starting to think that maybe booking with the Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company wasn't the best idea.
Apparently our plane was able to roll across the pavement under its own power, so that's good.
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I'm starting to think that maybe booking with the Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company wasn't the best idea.
Apparently our plane was able to roll across the pavement under its own power, so that's good.
So, worst case, they can drive the plane there. That's good news!
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So a few days ago I found a few notes for an old Cyberpunk 20/20 game I was designing. I bring this up because of the idea posted earlier about transport tech. This was way before stargate, but since everyone knows what those are I will use that as a reference point.
Imagine stable constant stargates between cities. So for this game LA had 3 gates. Always on, with power and communication lines stretched through the opening. The gates are also about 3 times the size as in the stargate franchise.
Gate 1 was San Diego and Gate 2 was San Francisco while the final gate was Honolulu. All gates were at a transit center, but it was open like a big park. Couriers and people could go through upper levels via ramps and causeways; while some convenience belts moved boxes and "stuff" through the lower. Most of the lower level movement was underground and as such not open and the gates looked much like big arches.
So assuming you lived in LA you could drive to the parking area, then walk to the gates for a jog. Say you jogged to Honolulu where you find yourself with two possibilities. Stay in Hawaii or continue your jog through one of the other two portals. One which goes to Sidney the other to Tokyo. In Tokyo it has two other portals one to the north Island and one to the south. The one to the south had a portal to Taiwan and to the north portal and the northern had an additional one to South Korea. You get the idea.
So you could in effect if you knew the routes theoretically jog across the planet via these openings, that the scientists claimed were perfectly safe. All major cities had them. You could only have 3 in a small vicinity of each other. The only major city with an empty portal was Houston. The third was rumored to be set up for a base on Mars. if and when someone could place the other end there.
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I don't know what the hell you were thinking, Mac. Where you purposefully firing the first shot in a Geek vs. Nerd war?Freehold and any other peeps:Geeky Girl
Oh....NSFW.
Yes. Yes I was.
>:)
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I don't know what the hell you were thinking, Mac. Where you purposefully firing the first shot in a Geek vs. Nerd war?Freehold and any other peeps:Geeky Girl
Oh....NSFW.
Yes. Yes I was.
>:)
I do not bite the heads off of chickens. I do not work at a side show, although it sometimes feels like it.
I do not live in my parents basement, let alone with them.
I have known the love of a woman. More than just the one time.
I don't know what the hell you were thinking, Mac. Where you purposefully firing the first shot in a Geek vs. Nerd war?Freehold and any other peeps:Geeky Girl
Oh....NSFW.
Yes. Yes I was.
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It amuses me that Amtrak has a blob server.
Also, they found another part that needed replacing while they were replacing the first part. So another half hour delay (that's 2.5 hrs total if you're playing along at home).
I am beginning to question the reliability of the aircraft I hope to eventually board.
ლ(ಠvಠ)ლWhat the...?My little Troll buddy.
Troll buddy
Troll buddy
Where ever I go
He goes...Troll buddy
Troll buddy....
Hey, hey, hey!
Black Dynamite .[Scurries over to netflix]
Just watched this today.
Hee hee!
Thanks, FHDM, I had never heard of it.
*blink*
IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I felt better about the coming weekend. Friggin bone tired and sick of dealing with all the crap. Also out of <redacted> so feeling a mite testy. Durn irresponsible hippehs hidin' on me when I need their services most...
*blink*
Getting caught up on my DVRed Adventure Time while writing a make-up Islam exam.
You're making up Islam? Isn't there already a sourcebook for that?
Like, what is a haiku?
Maybe we should not,
Speak of this any further,I think I must go.
It's a Trap!It amuses me that Amtrak has a blob server.
Also, they found another part that needed replacing while they were replacing the first part. So another half hour delay (that's 2.5 hrs total if you're playing along at home).
I am beginning to question the reliability of the aircraft I hope to eventually board.
Also out of <redacted> so feeling a mite testy. Durn irresponsible hippehs hidin' on me when I need their services most...
He's never early,
He's always lateFirst thing you learn is that you always got to wait
I'm waiting for my man
--Lou Reed
As true today as it was in 1967
You're making up Islam? Isn't there already a sourcebook for that?
I'm not making it up. Some scalliwags who don't know what's good for them are making it up. My nice little objective exam goes back in the folder, and out comes The All Essay Exam of Punishment.
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You're making up Islam? Isn't there already a sourcebook for that?I'm not making it up. Some scalliwags who don't know what's good for them are making it up. My nice little objective exam goes back in the folder, and out comes The All Essay Exam of Punishment.
I do not believe that was the answer that he was looking for. But better than the obvious one.
You're making up Islam? Isn't there already a sourcebook for that?I'm not making it up. Some scalliwags who don't know what's good for them are making it up. My nice little objective exam goes back in the folder, and out comes The All Essay Exam of Punishment.
I always loved those. I might make a mistake sometimes on multiple choice, but I could BS my way through any essay, including some where I just plain didn't read the book and still aced the exam. :)
Then again, after discovering how few of my classmates were ever taught basic things like spelling and grammar, I'm pretty sure most of those grades were just for turning in the one paper that didn't hurt the teacher's brain. ;)
Still sick. After three days this is getting really old. Even napping the entire day away wasn't enough to make me feel better. :(
You're making up Islam? Isn't there already a sourcebook for that?I'm not making it up. Some scalliwags who don't know what's good for them are making it up. My nice little objective exam goes back in the folder, and out comes The All Essay Exam of Punishment.
HOLY HADITHA!
Can Leafy make an exam so hard even he cannot pass it?
Also out of <redacted> so feeling a mite testy. Durn irresponsible hippehs hidin' on me when I need their services most...
He's never early,
He's always late
First thing you learn is that you always got to waitI'm waiting for my man
--Lou ReedAs true today as it was in 1967
Hey! I was born in 1967! Coinkidink? I think not ....
Ahh, Summer of Love (at least for my Canuky moms ...)
Acutally I guess it would be the Summer of 1966 that was good to her (nine months and all)
ARRRGH! WHY DON'T HIPPEHS HAVE CELL PHONES!
ARRRGH! WHY DON'T HIPPEHS HAVE CELL PHONES!
Oh, they've got 'em. They just keep losing them 'cuz they forget where they left 'em. Duh.
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So it turns out that this airline, after finding mechanical problems and fixing them, thereby uncovering more mechanical problems, and fixing those, and making passengers wait four hours in the airport, has no problem making said passengers wait another half hour in the plane before pushing back from the gate.
At least they got us booked onto a new connector flight. One that departs some 18 hours from now.
I hate airlines. Gods the times I slept in airport seats waiting for connectors...
They make those things intentionally uncomfortable just to mess with you.
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Oh, and that means a) we miss the ENnies, b) we'll be short one person working the register tomorrow morning, and, most importantly, c) Sara loses her True Dungeon slot, which she has been looking forward to for months. Good show, crappy airline!
Oh, that's terrible. =( Oh that's really terrible. Grar.
Oh, and that means a) we miss the ENnies, b) we'll be short one person working the register tomorrow morning, and, most importantly, c) Sara loses her True Dungeon slot, which she has been looking forward to for months. Good show, crappy airline!
Where are you guys stuck?
That sucks so much. :/
Hey, at least there are good news: "Gold ENnie for Best Cartography goes to Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Poster Map Folio, Paizo, Cartography Rob Lazzaretti" and "Gold ENnie for Best Interior Art goes to Pathfinder: The Inner Sea World Guide, Paizo Publishing, Art Direction by Sarah E. Robinson".
Go Paizo!
ETA: "Gold ENnie for Best Production Values goes to Pathfinder: Bestiary 2"
:D
You might be able to drive there if you are close enough, way before you'd get there in a plane.That sucks so much. :/
Hey, at least there are good news: "Gold ENnie for Best Cartography goes to Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Poster Map Folio, Paizo, Cartography Rob Lazzaretti" and "Gold ENnie for Best Interior Art goes to Pathfinder: The Inner Sea World Guide, Paizo Publishing, Art Direction by Sarah E. Robinson".
Go Paizo!
ETA: "Gold ENnie for Best Production Values goes to Pathfinder: Bestiary 2"
:D
You realize I'm on the other side of the ocean, right? Driving isn't much of an option.
Unless I'm driving a submarine.
Crystal...and Lissa?
Have we met?
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Still sick. After three days this is getting really old. Even napping the entire day away wasn't enough to make me feel better. :(
Oh, and that means a) we miss the ENnies, b) we'll be short one person working the register tomorrow morning, and, most importantly, c) Sara loses her True Dungeon slot, which she has been looking forward to for months. Good show, crappy airline!
Completely unacceptable. You wouldn't happen to be flying Delta would you? Because they have it out for people named Gary, let me tell you.
EDIT: Nekkid Delta H8R8N for TOP!!! Aww yeah!