tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66712898861563841112024-03-13T09:16:35.792-07:00Global Causality ViolationArgent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-24239180373142231512024-01-07T20:30:00.000-08:002024-01-08T06:49:16.066-08:00CIY Novice68 function codes.<p>Having just spent several minutes copying this stuff down using Google Translate on my phone, I thought it might be useful to post somewhere, so the next person doesn't have to squint at it. Is there a central place to coordinate these kinds of things one has to glean from Chinese language only manuals?<br /><br /> Fn-I - Wired mode.<br /> Fn-O - 2.4 GHz mode.<br /> Fn-P - Bluetooth 1.<br /> Fn-[ - Bluetooth 2.<br /> Fn-] - Bluetooth 3.<br /> Fn-K - Backlight Speed.<br /> Fn-L - Backlight Brightness.<br /> Fn-; - Backlight Mode.<br /> Fn-' - Backlight On/Off.<br /> Fn-, - Vol-.<br /> Fn-. - Vol+.<br /> Fn-/ - Mute.<br /> Fn-T (3sec) - Match 2.4 GHz.<br /> Fn-Y (3sec) - Unpair Bluetooth.<br /> Fn-G - Switch Mac/Windows.<br /> Fn-H (3sec) - Reset settings.<br /> Fn-Up - Stop Play<br /> Fn-Down - Play/Pause<br /> Fn-Left - Prev Track<br /> Fn-Right - Next Track<br /> Fn-Win - Win On/Off<br /><br />You need to select a mode when you first set up, it doesn't default to wired mode.<br /><br />Right column:<br /><br /> `~<br /> Del<br /> PgUp<br /> PgDn<br /><br />Mapped keys:<br /><br /> Fn-Del - PrtSc<br /> Fn-PgUp - Home<br /> Fn-PgDn - End<br /> Fn-Esc - `~ (again)<br /> Fn-1-9 - F1-F9<br /> Fn-0 - F10<br /> Fn-- - F11<br /> Fn-= - F12<br /> Fn-V - Pause/break<br /> Fn-B - Scroll Lock<br /> Fn-N - Insert<br /> Fn-M - Menu<br /> Fn-Tab - Delete (again)<br /><br />Edit: gaming cluster on the left:<br /><br /> Fn-W - Up<br /> Fn-A - Left<br /> Fn-S - Down<br /> Fn-D - Right<br /> Fn-Q - PgUp<br /> Fn-E - PgDn<br /> Fn-R - Home<br /> Fn-F - End<br /></p>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-4301480030611488362019-04-04T02:04:00.002-07:002019-04-04T02:04:44.346-07:00Cheers, updated.<div class="usertext-body may-blank-within md-container ">
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Because on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog.<br />
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Sometimes you want to go<br />
Where nobody knows your name<br />
But they're always glad you came<br />
You want to be where you can see<br />
The troubles are all the same<br />
You want to be where nobody knows your name...<br />
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You want to go where people know<br />
The people are all the same<br />
You want to go where nobody knows your name...<br />
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Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-81896250684763282432016-06-10T03:43:00.001-07:002016-06-10T03:43:25.108-07:00Quantum immortality and the Fermi paradox.What if some kind of
false vacuum energy exists and is easy to tap for a sufficiently
technological species? All the free energy people are right, there's
power to be had in "handwave zero point blah blah" energy.<br /><br />But
that means there's a lower energy level for the universe, and you're
likely to collapse the false vacuum and destroy the universe if you try
it.<br /><br />So, the reason we don't see other technological species is
because we can only exist in a universe where no other technological
species has developed yet. Quantum immortality works, but it's not good
news.Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-41038455375944355152015-11-28T18:13:00.000-08:002015-11-28T18:13:00.985-08:00Furry Taxonomy<div class="usertext-body may-blank-within md-container " style="display: block;">
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A "furry taxonomy" for reference.<br /><br />This could be a handy starting
point for surveys. Basically, collapsing the tree of life into
anthropomorphic chunks that I've seen identified as "different things"
by furries.<ul>
<li>Arthropods (insects, spiders, shrimp, etc)</li>
<li>Cephalopods (octopi, etc)</li>
<li>Piscines (fishes, etc)</li>
<li>Amphibians (newts, etc)</li>
<li>Reptiles (maybe split off dragons here)</li>
<li>Avians (birds)</li>
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And that gets to where things start getting tricky, the mammals:<br />
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<li>Monotremes (spiny anteater, platypus)</li>
<li>Macropods (your basic kangaroo)</li>
<li>Other Australasian marsupials (there's quite a lot of variety here, but I'm trying to be minimal)</li>
<li>Opossums (new world possums)</li>
<li>Other new world marsupials (Yapok, etc)</li>
<li>Lagomorphs (rabbits, etc)</li>
<li>Rodents (maybe include shrews and hedgehogs here, though it's taxonomically iffy)</li>
<li>Bats</li>
<li>Primates (maybe split off lemurs, they seem more popular than other primates)</li>
<li>Elephants, rhinos, hippos (this is iffy too, but people lump them together, so do eet)</li>
<li>Manatees</li>
<li>Whales and dolphins (which are definitely not manatees)</li>
<li>Pangolins, sloths, armadillos, giant anteaters, stuff like that.
(Pangolins don't technically go here but they look like they should, so
whatevers.)</li>
<li>Cervines (deer, antelopes)</li>
<li>Sheep and goats (again, we're being slack because furry logic)</li>
<li>Equines (horses and zebras)</li>
<li>Miscellaneous artiodactyls (camels, stuff like that)</li>
</ul>
And finally, we're ready to take on the carnivores. Take a deep
breath. There's two main divisions, feliformia (cat-like) and caniformia
(dog-like). We'll do feliformia first.<br />
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<li>Domestic cats</li>
<li>Small wild cats (the ones that go meow)</li>
<li>Big cats (the ones that go roar - lions and tigers but no bears)</li>
<li>Civets (actually a couple of groups go in here)</li>
<li>Linsangs, genets, and other cat-like viverrids</li>
<li>Hyena and aardwolf</li>
<li>Fossa (Really, all by their lonesome, the other Madagascar
carnivores look like covets and mongooses so we'll leave them in with
those groups)</li>
<li>Mongooses (actually about three groups of viverrids)</li>
<li>Meerkats (actually a kind of mongoose)</li>
<li>Other viverrids like the binturong.</li>
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And now we get the canoid carnivores. This group is full of surprises.<br />
<ul>
<li>Bears (including giant panda, for the moment, but you might split that off)</li>
<li>Red Panda (all by its lonesome, or you can mix it in with the raccoons and kin)</li>
<li>Obvious procyonids (raccoons, ringtail cats, Coati)</li>
<li>Non-obvious procyonids (Kinkajou, Olingo)</li>
<li>Seals (seals, sea-lions, etc... yes, really)</li>
<li>Skunks</li>
<li>Badgers</li>
<li>Weasels (and kin, but probably not otters. This includes ferrets and weasels and stoats and martens and wolverines...)</li>
<li>Otters (because water weasels seem to have their own fanclub)</li>
<li>Domestic dogs</li>
<li>Wolves (and coyotes and golden jackals and a few other basically wolves of different sizes)</li>
<li>True jackals</li>
<li>Red foxes and grey foxes (though they're not actually related, they get lumped together)</li>
<li>Fennecs (because cute)</li>
<li>Tanuki (Raccoon-dog, the ones from Pompoko)</li>
<li>Cape hunting dogs and dholes (and I think that actually does it for true canines)</li>
<li>South American foxes, including the maned wolf</li>
<li>Other miscellaneous foxes</li>
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<em>Phew</em><br />
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Anything I missed?<br />
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Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-85182590111064104662015-11-14T02:04:00.000-08:002015-11-14T02:21:46.717-08:00Four hours of sleep loss = a six-pack of beer?This one is all over the net. People claiming that missing four hours of sleep is the equivalent of drinking a six-pack of beer.<br />
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If I drink a six-pack of beer, I'm unconscious.<br />
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So I did some looking, and I haven't found an original source to this quote. The earliest sources claim that missing four hours of sleep for four or five days in a row is equivalent to staying awake 24 hours, and that is equivalent to being legally drunk. I can see how that got conflated by the usual game of telephone into missing sleep one night having that effect, and thence to someone's idea of what "legally drunk" entails.<br />
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There is also a <a href="https://arap.safety.army.mil/ARAPShowDocument.aspx?x=35" target="_blank">US Army document </a>that claims "On 4 hours sleep, 1 beer can have the impact of a six-pack" (the image below). Again, a much less strident claim and a more credible one.<br />
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Surprisingly, a perusal of Snopes fails to reward me with an article on the subject. I would have thought they would be all over this one.<br />
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Gentle Readers, can you find me a source for this claim?<br />
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In the modern era, where we survive on reversible computation driven by quantum fluctuations in space-time, we refer to the youth of the universe as the "ergocene": The era of work.<br />
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The simulation you are experiencing is the best approximation we have been able to create to what it must have been like to live in these heady times.Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-66888035299288130332015-02-07T04:40:00.001-08:002015-02-07T04:51:36.299-08:0050 Shades of Grey<span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span style="color: #181818;">#181818</span> <span style="color: #1c1c1c;">#1c1c1c</span> <span style="color: #202020;">#202020</span> <span style="color: #242424;">#242424</span> <span style="color: #282828;">#282828</span><br /> <span style="color: #2c2c2c;">#2c2c2c</span> <span style="color: #303030;">#303030</span> <span style="color: #343434;">#343434</span> <span style="color: #383838;">#383838</span> <span style="color: #3c3c3c;">#3c3c3c</span><br /> <span style="color: #404040;">#404040</span> <span style="color: #444444;">#444444</span> <span style="color: #484848;">#484848</span> <span style="color: #4c4c4c;">#4c4c4c</span> <span style="color: #505050;">#505050</span><br /> <span style="color: #545454;">#545454</span> <span style="color: #585858;">#585858</span> <span style="color: #5c5c5c;">#5c5c5c</span> <span style="color: #606060;">#606060</span> <span style="color: #646464;">#646464</span><br /> <span style="color: #686868;">#686868</span> <span style="color: #6c6c6c;">#6c6c6c</span> <span style="color: #707070;">#707070</span> <span style="color: #747474;">#747474</span> <span style="color: #787878;">#787878</span><br /> <span style="color: #7c7c7c;">#7c7c7c</span> <span style="color: grey;">#808080</span> <span style="color: #848484;">#848484</span> <span style="color: #888888;">#888888</span> <span style="color: #8c8c8c;">#8c8c8c</span><br /> <span style="color: #909090;">#909090</span> <span style="color: #949494;">#949494</span> <span style="color: #989898;">#989898</span> <span style="color: #9c9c9c;">#9c9c9c</span> <span style="color: #a0a0a0;">#a0a0a0</span><br /> <span style="color: #a4a4a4;">#a4a4a4</span> <span style="color: #a8a8a8;">#a8a8a8</span> <span style="color: #acacac;">#acacac</span> <span style="color: #b0b0b0;">#b0b0b0</span> <span style="color: #b4b4b4;">#b4b4b4</span><br /> <span style="color: #b8b8b8;">#b8b8b8</span> <span style="color: #bcbcbc;">#bcbcbc</span> <span style="color: silver;">#c0c0c0</span> <span style="color: #c4c4c4;">#c4c4c4</span> <span style="color: #c8c8c8;">#c8c8c8</span><br /> <span style="color: #cccccc;">#cccccc</span> <span style="color: #d0d0d0;">#d0d0d0</span> <span style="color: #d4d4d4;">#d4d4d4</span> <span style="color: #d8d8d8;">#d8d8d8</span> <span style="color: gainsboro;">#dcdcdc</span></b></span>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-49630464356275106872013-08-16T12:44:00.000-07:002013-08-16T12:44:50.296-07:00Cats and dogs... living together - convergent evolution.<blockquote>Judge Doom: [picks up the record from the record player - reads] "Merry-Go-Round Broke Down". What a looney selection for a group of drunken reprobates.<p/>
[all the drinkers turn away and cough - Doom sniffs the record]<p/>
Judge Doom: HE'S HERE!<p/>
[throws record like a Frisbee into Stupid's mouth; the other weasels laugh]<p/>
Judge Doom: Stop that laughing!<p/>
[Hits Smart Ass with his cane]<p/>
Judge Doom: Have you forgotten what happened last time? If you don't stop that laughing, you're going to end up dead just like your idiot hyena cousins! </blockquote>
Silly Judge - weasels aren't related to hyenas. Hyenas are in the "cat-like" carnivore family, and weasels are in the "dog-like" family.
The doglike nature of the hyena, and the weasel-like nature of the mongoose (a close relative of the hyena) is convergent evolution.Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-88034491041165781432013-03-10T15:09:00.002-07:002013-03-10T15:09:19.757-07:00New avatar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-6303817184160447742012-11-15T09:59:00.001-08:002012-11-15T09:59:15.106-08:00My new avatarBy <a href="http://avanii.deviantart.com/#/d5kcw83" target="_blank">Avanii at Deviant Art</a><br />
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This is Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, with the Electronium... an <i>analog</i> sequencer and algorithmic composer, the life work of Raymond Scott. You
may not know who Raymond Scott was, but you've heard his music... he
wrote some of the most distinctive tunes used by Warner Brothers in
Looney Tunes, including the incomparable <i>Powerhouse</i> theme.<br />
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Mark has bought the only surviving model of the machine from Motown, and is going to repair and refurbish it.<br />
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I think it looks like something Wile-E Coyote would use, and it sounds like it too: <a href="http://oldsite.raymondscott.com/ElecTwil.wav">http://oldsite.raymondscott.com/ElecTwil.wav</a>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-30282100305957504402012-09-18T11:00:00.001-07:002012-09-18T11:00:39.595-07:00Falling through the planet - geek edition.<b>Marco September 17, 2012 at 12:15 am</b><br />
Hope they don’t fall into one of those bottomless pit traps!
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<b>ToaSoul September 17, 2012 at 5:50 am </b>
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those make no sense its pretty much impossible to make
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a “bottomless pit” there has to be an end sometime!!
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<b>Argent Stonecutter September 17, 2012 at 7:03 am </b>
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If your pit’s deep enough there’s no bottom, just another top!
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<b>Raska September 17, 2012 at 10:56 am </b>
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that would get /weird/. You fall and fall and fall and then are spit out at the edge of the pit. *shudders* portal physics are mindbending
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<b>Argent Stonecutter September 17, 2012 at 11:19 am </b>
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Well, actually, you’d get cooked by the heat of the molten core of the earth long before you get anywhere near the opposite top.
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<b>Argent Stonecutter September 17, 2012 at 11:26 am </b>
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Ignoring thermal effects and air resistance, it would take 42 minutes.
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<a href="http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/poster-earth.cfm">http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/poster-earth.cfm</a>
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It turns out that *any* trip along any straight line (chord) through the earth under gravity, and ignoring friction, would take 42 minutes. That’s also half the orbital period for a sea-level satellite (though it would have to be a black hole or something to avoid being slowed down by air resistance).
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So if you had an evacuated maglev line from San Francisco to New York, it would take 42 minutes. San Francisco to Bombay? 42 minutes. San Francisco to Los Angeles? 42 minutes. The science is easy. Engineering it, now that’s a charming young woman.
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<b>Keldor September 17, 2012 at 2:22 pm </b>
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Of course, once you add just a tiny bit of friction, you’d fall until you stopped just short of the other side, at which point you’d fall back the other way, stopping just short of where you started. You’d continue falling back and forth for quite some time before eventually settling in the center of the earth, at which point you’d face a climb of nearly 4000 miles to return to the surface…
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<b>Argent Stonecutter September 17, 2012 at 4:10 pm </b>
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Oh, you want *realistic* calculations?
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Let’s see, in a vacuum the maximum velocity would be almost 8 kilometers per second. Terminal velocity for a human at 1 atmosphere is more like 50 meters per second. So under ideal conditions you’d have less than 1% of the speed to get back to the surface on the first pass. Air pressure would get higher as you dropped, and acceleration due to gravity would be reduced, so your actual velocity as you passed through the center would be much less than 50 meters per second.
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Also, the walls of the tunnel at that depth would be several thousand degrees, so the terminal velocity of the charred remnants of your body would be even lower.
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<b>Keldor September 18, 2012 at 12:22 am </b>
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To be fair, if you just let air fill the shaft, the pressure would be such that somewhere around 1/3rd (napkin calculations FTW!) of the way down, the pressure would be such that air would become a solid, so you wouldn’t even make it to the core. Engineering-wise, proper climate control (including a vacuum for you to fall through in your spacesuit) would be the least of your concerns, given that the strongest materials known to science would collapse like a wet sponge under an 18-ton hydraulic press. 50 million PSI is a *lot*.
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<b>Keldor September 18, 2012 at 12:34 am </b>
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Come to think of it, air would be solid well before that. I was basing my calculations on the theoretical depth in Jupiter where hydrogen becomes solid, and multiplying my 10 to account for the different gravity, but hydrogen is much lighter than air, about 15-fold, so, assuming a similar amount of pressure turns mostly nitrogen into a solid (ideal gas laws state that the number of particles determine the pressure/volume, so the relative density of the gasses is completely determined by their relative atomic weights (and temperature, but we’re assuming that’s the same)), the depth for solid air would only be around perhaps 75 miles, which is well away from the center.
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<b>Keldor September 18, 2012 at 12:36 am </b>
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Actually, 40 miles.
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<b>Marco September 18, 2012 at 2:08 am </b>
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Oh I love how you guys incorporate real science within the fantasy realm! I think Tarot would approve greatly if she was there!
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<b>Argent Stonecutter September 18, 2012 at 8:11 am </b>
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The partial pressure of oxygen would be toxic only 6 km down. I don’t think you can extrapolate so linearly from Jupiter, though, not just because Earth’s gravity is less but also because it falls off much faster with depth.
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The walls of the tube would be under significantly higher pressure than that from the molten rock (average density 5 grams/cc, versus 0.0012 g/cc for air). Like I said, the engineering challenges are a real charming young woman.
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<b>Raska September 18, 2012 at 10:55 am </b>
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:O…
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<b>C-Shock September 17, 2012 at 8:38 pm </b>
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Argent Stonecutter, your science is now the “About Me” info on my skype. and i’m putting it on facebook, if it’s not a problem…just to increase general knowledge. you is smart!
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Heh, maybe I should preserve this thread in my blog. Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-45278015674099564932012-07-09T14:53:00.002-07:002012-07-09T14:53:17.369-07:00Be thankful for weasels!Weasels kill 60 million mice a year in the state of New York alone! 60 million! That's gotta be enough to fill the Statue of Liberty!Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-14795098847918927542012-06-12T09:27:00.000-07:002012-06-12T09:27:04.092-07:00Alternate History #56.5"<br />
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Just got back from the alternate reality where Ben Franklin was the first Hereditary President of the US. In that universe the Civil War was over Metrification and railroad gauges. The summit party had to change trains on the Nashville-Atlanta line and a banjo duel broke out in
the confusion. Sherman’s banjo misfired because he couldn’t get metric
strings in Atlanta. Nothing to do but burn the place down and wage
terrible war!</div>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-76840785940440377442012-06-12T07:55:00.002-07:002012-06-12T07:55:40.634-07:00Game Mechanics in Second Life?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">What does <a href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/06/game-developer-michael-gez-linden-gesner-leaves-linden-lab-sl.html" target="_blank">Hamlet</a> mean by "Game Mechanics"? Something like this, perhaps?</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Congratulations, you've worn an outfit, you have achieved the Wear An Outfit Award™. You have now filled the top shelf of your Second Life Trophy Case™*.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">* To display your Second Life Trophy Case™ in Second Life™, upgrade to a Premium account and set your home position (review Setting Your Home Position Award™ <b>here</b>) to your new Linden Home™ and your Second Life Trophy Case™ will be revealed!</span></i></blockquote>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-64125968621084837362012-03-25T15:33:00.005-07:002012-03-25T15:39:12.807-07:00Six Stages of Debugging<br />
Geekier post than usual!<br />
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From an old and abandoned blog:<br />
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Somebody taped this on their door at work:</blockquote>
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Six Stages of Debugging</blockquote>
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<ol style="font-size: small;">
<li>That can't happen.</li>
<li>That doesn't happen on my machine.</li>
<li>That shouldn't happen.</li>
<li>Why does that happen?</li>
<li>Oh, I see.</li>
<li>How did that ever work?</li>
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Today is debugging blog day. I spent the entire day trying to debug a crasher that nobody knows how to reproduce, although there are multiple bug reports with the same stack trace...</blockquote>
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See more at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051027173148/http://www.68k.org/~jrc/old-blog/archives/000198.html" target="_blank">Archive.ORG</a> ...Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-12177509258242244282011-12-11T14:55:00.001-08:002011-12-11T14:57:12.231-08:00Yes, yes, another gravatar snapshot...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Saved for posterity, for when Xane changes his avatar...Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-59893208923856996522011-08-31T13:21:00.000-07:002011-08-31T13:21:14.395-07:00On Optimization<br />
There's nothing like a five year old program written by the damn fool you used to be to wise you up and take pity on the damn fool you'll be five years from now.<br />
--Argent Stonecutter, SL Scripting Tips forum, Dec 8, 2008<br />
Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-77257832081579758302011-06-22T17:20:00.001-07:002011-06-22T17:20:32.668-07:00What's the gentlest way to remove contacts from your friend list?<span style="font-family: inherit;">I normally use a little carbon tetrachloride or acetone (nail polish remover) and gentle rubbing, though some people swear by duct tape ... lay it down over the contact, wait for a couple of hours to set, and carefully peel it off. Never use a putty knife or spatula... you will shatter the contact and may scratch the underlying substrate.</span>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-32717684253205300142011-06-17T03:03:00.000-07:002011-06-17T03:03:22.542-07:00CANNED ESPRESSO NON-PATENT #101Eventually someone is going to combine Guinness' foam technology with canned coffee.<br />
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(this brilliant idea released into the public domain, GOOGLE FOR IT YOU SLACK PATENT EXAMINERS)Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-30879639335121228662011-04-06T12:43:00.001-07:002011-04-06T12:43:41.260-07:00Fermilab has found the Higgs Boson? Maybe...WE HAVE THE HIGGS BOSON. IF YOU EVER WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN LEAVE US$30B UNDER THE POTTED PLANT IN THE LOBBY OF FERMILAB BY SEPTEMBER 2011.Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-48976669183142786412011-03-28T19:14:00.000-07:002011-03-28T19:15:49.002-07:00<div>IMVU. This is the best they can manage for a ferret.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gO6Ib3bjj4g/TZFAqUiAN1I/AAAAAAAAAFA/SFIsiX3VdMo/s1600/argent_in_imvu.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 197px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gO6Ib3bjj4g/TZFAqUiAN1I/AAAAAAAAAFA/SFIsiX3VdMo/s320/argent_in_imvu.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589319708353509202" /></a>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-79813553044297675532011-03-17T11:01:00.000-07:002011-03-27T08:46:32.775-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euJOfqlYalA/TYM_OoeBr4I/AAAAAAAAAEw/lp-adSQRHKI/s1600/Untitled1.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euJOfqlYalA/TYM_OoeBr4I/AAAAAAAAAEw/lp-adSQRHKI/s320/Untitled1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585377483483623298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Just posting this here for future reference to use when Frank changes his avatar back.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ccd-_Lx4pdY/TYJMlg3MblI/AAAAAAAAAEo/pKJS9oTt2Sg/s1600/Untitled1.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ccd-_Lx4pdY/TYJMlg3MblI/AAAAAAAAAEo/pKJS9oTt2Sg/s320/Untitled1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585110695253143122" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And done...<br /><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rcmk9KxDn_4/TY9beojq6QI/AAAAAAAAAE4/LO9T-1IX8Pc/s1600/frank2.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 312px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rcmk9KxDn_4/TY9beojq6QI/AAAAAAAAAE4/LO9T-1IX8Pc/s320/frank2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588786244431309058" border="0" /></a></div>Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-35312547191445048272011-02-28T07:44:00.000-08:002019-08-02T09:42:35.902-07:00Kangaroos!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671289886156384111.post-76792341662790767952011-02-19T12:11:00.000-08:002011-02-19T12:12:59.480-08:00So, Athena is the goddess of Wisdom, is she?The Trojan War was started when Eris was snubbed by Hermes and not allowed into some Olympian shindig, so she offered a golden apple “to the fairest”. Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite all claimed to be “the fairest” and rather than have the most awesome cat-fight of all time the gods decided to have a beauty contest. They got this prince of Troy named Paris to judge it, and Aphrodite bribed him with the most beautiful woman in the world, a Greek princess named Helen. The Greeks objected, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for nine years and raze Troy to the ground.<br /><br />If Athena had been so bleeding wise, she would have sold tickets to Olympian Mud Wrestling between Aphrodite and Hera instead, and the topless towers of Troy wouldn’t have toppled.Argent Stonecutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146099139309195183noreply@blogger.com0