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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1250 on: 01 Mar 2013, 14:41 »

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1251 on: 01 Mar 2013, 14:45 »

Does this cause problems for you when reading or writing at all?
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« Reply #1252 on: 01 Mar 2013, 15:09 »

no not really. usually i'm reading too quickly for it to happen - it only happens if i'm reading one word. other words are kind of distracting.

Does this help?

nnnnnnnno, but that was amazing
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1253 on: 01 Mar 2013, 17:09 »

(My favourite name is still Aletheia.)

This is how you would say my name if you had a lisp
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1254 on: 01 Mar 2013, 20:07 »

You pronounce your name "Ale-uh-see-uh"? 'cause I've been pronouncing it "Eh-lee-zee-uh"
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1255 on: 01 Mar 2013, 20:08 »

no not really. usually i'm reading too quickly for it to happen - it only happens if i'm reading one word. other words are kind of distracting.

Does this help?

nnnnnnnno, but that was amazing

While I'm commenting with almost complete ignorance as of what that would be like, it does sound pretty cool.  I imagine this possibly adds much more personality to names and words in general?
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« Reply #1256 on: 01 Mar 2013, 20:21 »

for the right word, yes. hold on, let me give some examples (my friend asked me about a bunch of words and I have samples handy, haha):

Mellifluous reminds me of some kind of sugarplum fairy; she's draped in pinks and purples and reds, and looks not unlike a fuchsia plant. She's always happy and sometimes you think it might be put on, but it's just an effusive, expansive joy that you never question in while you're in its presence.

Piquant is a little kid who you want to strangle but also find it impossible to stay angry at. He's round-cheeked - not fat, not really; it's the sort of fat that burns off around puberty, anyhow. He dresses in yellows, oranges, and reds more often than not; someday he's going to find a football team with those colours and he'll become an instant fan, mostly so he can get away with wearing those colours more often.

Recalcitrant is a rock. That's not metaphorical; it's a blocky, dull, dark grey rock with white chunks in it.

Motile is a spash of very quickly moving colour. There might be a person under that blur, but if so, they must be some kind of superhero; the sheer saturation in the reds and blues wouldn't be seen on anyone else, really, especially in such high concentration.

Halcyon is kind of a melancholy type. She's reminiscent of a draiad in the loosest sense possible. She's small and frail in body, almost childlike in every respect, though something something...very old and heavy seems to lie within her, I suppose. It feels kind of mystical to say, and I rather try to avoid sounding mystical. Her favourite time of year is summer, especially those long nights with a full moon where the wind is still blowing warm. There was a pond by her house as a child, and she snuck out one night and sat by it to watch the moon underneath the willow there; long nights remind her of it still.

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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1257 on: 01 Mar 2013, 20:46 »

uhh-lee-see-uh
or
ell-ee-see-uh

Either works. But call me Alisha, and I will end you.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1258 on: 01 Mar 2013, 21:53 »

I've been pronouncing it the way Maes Hughes pronounces his daughter's name.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1259 on: 03 Mar 2013, 08:13 »

What is this puzzle game called?

(click to show/hide)
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« Reply #1260 on: 03 Mar 2013, 08:30 »

peg solitaire?
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1261 on: 03 Mar 2013, 08:31 »

I've been pronouncing it the way Maes Hughes pronounces his daughter's name.

I've never seen FMA and can't find any videos with him saying her name. But yay for someone having a name like mine.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1262 on: 03 Mar 2013, 08:34 »

I can't find one either, but here's the voice actor saying it.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1263 on: 03 Mar 2013, 08:58 »

Yeah that sounds about right to me... and I AM adorable!
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1264 on: 03 Mar 2013, 10:00 »

peg solitaire?
That's it! You can probably imagine how hard it is to find that on Wikipedia when your knowledge goes as far as "You jump pieces over one another until you run out of moves".
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1265 on: 03 Mar 2013, 10:04 »

We made peg solitaire games in shop/tech ed/that class where you use power tools and whatnot
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1266 on: 03 Mar 2013, 12:40 »

It's just "solitaire" to me, and usually played with marbles on a board with indentations.  The pegs are for portable setups.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1267 on: 03 Mar 2013, 16:48 »

The board could conceivably also be used for Parcheesi.

Southern US has those with golf tees on a triangular block, and 15 holes.

There's a trick to it, regardless of layout (which WP suggests there are at least six).
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1268 on: 04 Mar 2013, 10:15 »

On my drive to teach, I pass a sign for the Johnstown Flood memorial, and one for the Flight 93 memorial. 


The first was the result of greed and stupidity.  The second was deemed an heroic salvation from evil. 

And yet I find the first much more interesting.  I think it's because of the remove of time. 
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1269 on: 04 Mar 2013, 10:52 »

Sometimes it seems like fate decides to turn things around for you, and everything arranges itself to make it even harder to make a different decision. Thanks fate.
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« Reply #1270 on: 07 Mar 2013, 22:46 »

i noticed this headline on yahoo:



and realised that that caveman...looks familiar...almost like a guy i used to live with...



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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1271 on: 08 Mar 2013, 01:56 »

Photocopiers are the greatest thing ever. Except when they are the worst thing ever.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1272 on: 08 Mar 2013, 04:20 »

You mean like when they break down all the time?
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1273 on: 08 Mar 2013, 04:47 »

So, Washington state voted to legalize marijuana last fall.  So the state legislature needs to decide how it should be taxed and regulated. 

In response, the legislature formed a committee. 

Since the committee consists of both members of the state center and state house of representatives, it is being called...



"The Joint Committee on Marijuana"


No, really!   :-D
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1274 on: 08 Mar 2013, 04:56 »

It's just "solitaire" to me, and usually played with marbles on a board with indentations.  The pegs are for portable setups.
But you probably call the card-game "Patience".
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1275 on: 08 Mar 2013, 05:18 »

Just so.
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« Reply #1276 on: 08 Mar 2013, 10:25 »

Since the committee consists of both members of the state center and state house of representatives, it is being called...

"The Joint Committee on Marijuana"

The Joint Joint Committee? I like where this is going. ;D
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« Reply #1277 on: 08 Mar 2013, 10:28 »

Photocopiers are the greatest thing ever. Except when they are the worst thing ever.


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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1278 on: 11 Mar 2013, 22:29 »

WiFi networks my laptop can see include "HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi" and "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"   

I want to rename our network something witty. 
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1279 on: 11 Mar 2013, 23:05 »

I've seen the SSID "FBI Surveillance Van".

If medical marijuana is useful for arthritis, could it be the Joint Joint Joint Committee?
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1280 on: 12 Mar 2013, 01:34 »

If the Committee members employ the services of ladies of negotiable affection, would it be a  Joint Joint Joint John Committee?


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« Reply #1281 on: 12 Mar 2013, 05:53 »

WiFi networks my laptop can see include "HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi" and "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"   

I want to rename our network something witty.


Ours is called "NotYourWifi"  :-P
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1282 on: 12 Mar 2013, 07:16 »

I just realised I've had this Creative Zen multimedia player for six years, and only now I've run out of the 4GB it has of internal memory. So I'm going to pop in at the electronics store and get a microSD-to-SD adapter, so I can expand it with the 16GB microSD card that's in my e-reader. By extrapolation, it should be good for another 24 years.

Planned obsolescence? What's that?
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1283 on: 12 Mar 2013, 09:44 »

By extrapolation, it should be good for another 24 years.

Neglecting the exponential growth of the size of the crap you keep on it, of course.   :-D
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« Reply #1284 on: 12 Mar 2013, 10:13 »

My old iRiver H340 player that came with a 40GB harddisk now has 240GB.  OK, it's fatter than my iPod touch, but it still fits on my belt just fine; the firmware can't handle that disk, of course, so it's been replaced by Rockbox (it's about time I updated that, but I need to set up a compilation environment again as it's limited to addressing 128GB disks in the standard build).  Both the original firmware and Rockbox play ogg/vorbis files, which is what I use by default.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1285 on: 12 Mar 2013, 11:48 »

Preston town centre had an open Wi-Fi network called CitiFi, and it really pissed me off because that portmanteau doesn't work unless you are pronouncing one or other of the original words incorrectly or are from Birmingham.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1286 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:06 »

My wifi is called "Rawr! I'mma Unicorn!" much to my father's annoyance.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1287 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:11 »

yesssss

Mine is just boyfriend's internet nickname. Boooorrring.
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« Reply #1288 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:15 »

There's a church next to us and the pastor lives on the other side of it; I wonder if they'd get our wifi signal if I changed it to something blasphemous...
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« Reply #1289 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:18 »

Just rename it to BUTT

That's what mine would be if I had access to it. But it's all on boyfriend's computer and I wouldn't have a clue what to do with it anyway. He's mister computer whiz.

And then I could be all like, connect to my butt, guys, I can handle multiple connections
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1290 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:19 »

I don't even know how to rename my wi-fi. I think I'd rename it 'Connect to this Wifi for free viagra'
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1291 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:26 »

Mine's PWHVKS.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1292 on: 12 Mar 2013, 13:54 »

Mine is named "The Shire", and for a while the pass phrase was "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul".
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1293 on: 12 Mar 2013, 16:22 »

I'm currently sitting on "the furce". But I just sent a message to the guy in charge of it asking if we could change to
HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi

Because that is the fucking best thing ever.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1294 on: 12 Mar 2013, 16:38 »

Mine is simply Routertron, because adding the 'tron' makes it sound like a Transformer! :lol:
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« Reply #1295 on: 12 Mar 2013, 17:35 »

I just changed mine to "The Legend Of Ron Burginternet" because I thought of it back when we first got internet but never changed it. Also I like really forced jokes.

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« Reply #1296 on: 13 Mar 2013, 23:18 »

I just read a query elsewhere from someone who saw the SSID "FBI Surveillance Van" and didn't know it was a joke.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1297 on: 14 Mar 2013, 06:52 »

Mine is named "The Shire", and for a while the pass phrase was "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul".

I cringe at the thought of having type that key in.
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1298 on: 14 Mar 2013, 17:46 »

who the hell are you people
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Re: Random thoughts
« Reply #1299 on: 14 Mar 2013, 18:12 »

who the hell are you people

I ask myself that same question...
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