We have way more couples/hookups than those guys, anyway!
this board seems to have its own way of talking/typing/accent. i can't place it right now without pulling up some good examples, but hopefully some of you know what i mean. other msgboards i'm on don't seem to have this, but maybe because they aren't as personal as this board (i'm guessing, with all the sex)
this board seems to have its own way of talking/typing/accent. i can't place it right now without pulling up some good examples, but hopefully some of you know what i mean. other msgboards i'm on don't seem to have this, but maybe because they aren't as personal as this board (i'm guessing, with all the sex)
Presently I am reading a very interesting if frustrating book called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach).
Man you know what I'm really interested in these days? The IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Completed on December the 18th at the Scott-Amundsen station at the south pole, it's the worlds largest high-energy Neutrino Observatory. 5160 seperate optical sensors buried up to two and a half kilometres deep in the antarctic ice shelf extend the limit of observable neutrinos up into the TeV range, allowing us to explore and understand high energy astrophysical processes that produce such neutrinos, and search indirectly for dark matter by looking for the remains of decaying weakly interacting massive particles, as well as forming part of earths supernova early warning system. Did you even know the world HAD a supernova early warning system? Well it does. Not to protect us from anything mind, but in order to give astronomers a pointer where to aim their telescopes. Neutrino emissions from a supernova peak several hours before the actual explosion (or rather peak photon emission), so you've got a bit of warning there. The other elements of SNEWS are the Borexino, Super-Kamiokande, Large Volume Detector and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Neutrino Observatories are pretty interesting anyway. They detect the Cherenkov radiation (sort of like a sonic boom, but with light) from the passage of a neutrino through a medium in which the speed of light is slower than the theoretical maximum. Ice and water generally. Cherenkov radiation is the thing that creates that terrifying ghostly blue glow around submerged nuclear reactors btw: cool stuff.
What cool things are interesting the rest of y'all right now?
i'm so bad at math though, i'm probably just going to wind up reading jess walter's the zero instead and settle for "close enough"
this board seems to have its own way of talking/typing/accent. i can't place it right now without pulling up some good examples, but hopefully some of you know what i mean. other msgboards i'm on don't seem to have this, but maybe because they aren't as personal as this board (i'm guessing, with all the sex)
Basically we're all trying as hard as we can to mimic the speech patterns of T. Rex and/or the characters of Achewood, in the main.
it's a community that functions in the way its members choose to treat it. here, they treat it like basically a conversation between a large group of friends, which in a lot of respects it is.
Presently I am reading a very interesting if frustrating book called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach).
huh, i was reading a david foster wallace interview from around the time he released his book about math (a book called everything and more: a compact history of ∞), and he said basically the exact same thing about the book you're reading, jon: that it's good but also that dude's ability to lay out his arguments is scattershot. in terms of pop-math books i want to read, there's dfw's and charles seife's books on zero and "proofiness." i'm so bad at math though, i'm probably just going to wind up reading jess walter's the zero instead and settle for "close enough"
There was a Dumbrella element, but I think that's more of an adjunct? We mostly came over from another smaller forum that went belly-up due to the owner kinda going a bit nuts when her online & RL identities collided. We brought over a chest of in-jokes/memes with us (Which were probably derivative of other places? Not sure, that was my first forum, really), but slowly the people who got them moved on somewhere else.
After that the feel of the place definitely became heavily influenced by DB though, no doubt. Dongs, this is why we can't have nice things, and I'm sure a host of other stuff I can't remember or wasn't involved in DB enough to realise are imports. A lot of the threads you started way back were DB imports too, so there was a lot of cross-pollination of ideas.
Wait who else on this board frequents hpn? Or like, posts there. Mad curious. That overlap is one of my favorites ever, the constant criticism of QC over there compared with the fact that for some reason people from here still post there. We're all so closeted over there though. I think I admitted it once over there last mark and thankfully the board crashed.
i don't think the dumbrella influence is all that played-up or that a lot of us take our cues from it. i honestly just think it's the size of the community and, as tommy said, the extra-forum communication. i call dudes over on SA by their first name all the time. it's just how it goes.
I'm really interested in like, how a certain poster on this forum, every two-three months like clockwork, makes two or more seperate threads where he 'discusses' aspects of this forum. It's pretty intriguing how he posts serially in these threads, continually bumping up the page until he gets bored of them, in lieu of posting in other threads on the forums, almost as if said threads are some sort of desperate cry for attention arising out of that individuals unexamined egotistic narcissism, a bit like your boorish friend of a friend who rather than trying to engage in the conversations of others will constantly and clumsily steer every conversation round to the thing that happens to interest him, which is of course, underneath it all, himself.
Let's talk about that for a while.
you're surprised that their lives have continued on as opposed to holding still, so you try to fall back into the old patterns, try to make it be the same as it was but it's not and things change and I am, I suppose, having trouble accepting that.
And I do not at all mean to say that the majority of people on this board are fucked up like 'social misfits' or something, it's just that something has to attract us all to the internet as a viable alternative for socializing as opposed to doing it all in the real world exclusively.
because they feel like they're missing something in their "real" social life.
Petanque!
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Petanque!
i think it's fair to say that most (if not all) people who do so do it because they feel like they're missing something in their "real" social life. when you get enough people together who are missing the same thing from their lives, it's inevitably going to lead to a really intimate and tightly knit community like the one we have here, not to mention all the relationships that have sprung up from it as well
petanque...that element of danger.
petanque...element of danger.
petanque...danger.
PETANQUE DANGER
Those are some classy-looking...what do you call someone who plays petanque? A petanquiste? Petanquer? Petanqueoneer? Pentaqueologiste? L'homme Petanque? Petanqueleur?
Petanque!
Those are some classy-looking...what do you call someone who plays petanque? A petanquiste? Petanquer? Petanqueoneer? Pentaqueologiste? L'homme Petanque? Petanqueleur?
Does anyone know this?