Topic: WCDT Strips 3306 - 3310 (12th to 16th September 2016) (Read 40154 times)

Perfectly Reasonable · « **Reply #50 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 08:48 »

Zombie Monkey wants your coffee!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #51 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 09:30 »

Five mochas is anywhere from 10-20 shots of espresso (probably ten), but also holy shit that's a lot of sugar.

sitnspin · « **Reply #52 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 09:42 »

Well made coffee needs no sugar. I'll take the straight espresso, please.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #53 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 11:30 »

As would I.

sitnspin · « **Reply #54 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 12:52 »

10-20 espresso shots sounds wonderful, to be honest.

Tova · « **Reply #55 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 14:08 »

I do appreciate all the comments rightly pointing out that any side-effects would depend on her tolerance, strength of the coffee, etc.

But really, blurry vision is a pretty severe side effect. Are we speculating that she's likely to have drunk enough to induce hypoglycemia or something? And the idea of the pitch and pace of your voice increasing due to caffee is news to me. But I assume the comment was made for comedy only.

War Sparrow · « **Reply #56 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 14:10 »

Quote from: sitnspin on 13 Sep 2016, 12:52

10-20 espresso shots sounds wonderful, to be honest.

Well, that's it, everyone. We have found Saint Drogo(Droga?)

Tova · « **Reply #57 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 14:13 »

Quote from: sitnspin on 13 Sep 2016, 12:52

10-20 espresso shots sounds wonderful, to be honest.

Sounds scary to me.

I forgot one thing... I don't think mochas are necessarily two shots? Depends on where they're made I guess.

I drank mochas when I started drinking coffee... once I'd progressed to espresso, I had a mocha again for the heck of it, and it seemed very weak. Again, that might be down to the place that made it.

BenRG · « **Reply #58 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 14:19 »

Quote from: Tova on 13 Sep 2016, 14:08

But really, blurry vision is a pretty severe side effect.

It isn't her vision that's blurred; it's ours because she's vibrating at a high enough frequency.

Tova · « **Reply #59 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 14:33 »

Oh, nicely done.

Zebediah · « **Reply #60 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 15:23 »

Yeah, remember Emily's reaction to her first espresso?

Kugai · « **Reply #61 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 16:17 »

Clare will now be awake for the rest of the week

osaka · « **Reply #62 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 17:55 »

Or she will crash in about 2 and a half hours and sleep for like 20 hours.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #63 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 18:18 »

I once got an iced drink with 12 shots of espresso (I had a free drink) and the barista was worried (she'd never made one with more than eight). I drank it, went back during lunch for an iced tea, since...well, I was thirsty. I thought maybe they'd given me half decaf or something, but she seemed genuinely surprised I hadn't completely crashed, so apparently not!

sitnspin · « **Reply #64 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 19:18 »

Quote from: BenRG on 13 Sep 2016, 14:19

Quote from: Tova on 13 Sep 2016, 14:08
But really, blurry vision is a pretty severe side effect.

It isn't her vision that's blurred; it's ours because she's vibrating at a high enough frequency.

hedgie · « **Reply #65 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 21:55 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 13 Sep 2016, 18:18

I once got an iced drink with 12 shots of espresso (I had a free drink) and the barista was worried (she'd never made one with more than eight). I drank it, went back during lunch for an iced tea, since...well, I was thirsty. I thought maybe they'd given me half decaf or something, but she seemed genuinely surprised I hadn't completely crashed, so apparently not!

My first job had an "off-menu" drink called "the heart-stopper". We made it by sticking espresso shots in a part of the fridge where the water would freeze at the top and we could concentrate them further. A 16 oz cup had about 14 oz of this concentrated expresso, 2 oz of cream, and a dash of sugary flavour. For most of the time I had worked there, there was only one regular who I'd even serve them to. Then one day, I was dumb enough to say what it was to someone I knew. I broke down and served him after a week of begging and cajoling. He didn't sleep for two days, and his girlfriend said that he had *ahem* problems because of it.

Tova · « **Reply #66 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 22:06 »

Interestingly, the whole idea of sugar causing hyperactivity in children is contested these days. Not that excessive sugar is good for you, by any means.

CPMIC: yay for sharing expository context

Typo: keeping it

Penquin47 · « **Reply #67 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 22:36 »

Fairy Girl! Emily sees Fairy Girl!

Channelore HellicottAtham · « **Reply #68 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 23:08 »

Clin-ton's hand! He forgot Clin-ton's hand!!!

BenRG · « **Reply #69 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 23:12 »

I think that Dora has the right angle for living with Emily in her life - Don't expect her to conform to 'adult' stereotypes and accept that there is and always will be a part of her that is childlike and innocent. Don't criticise it; rather embrace and celebrate it.

As I suspected, Emily literally didn't understand the implications of telling Clinton that she was 'too busy' to date. I'm not even sure she fully understood the implications of dating for that matter. Still, she has Fairy Girl to stalk and that is much more fun!

Now, is it me or is Jeph engaging in a little self-mockery when he has Emily say that Clinton has been doing a lot of 'expository content'?

ZoeB · « **Reply #70 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 23:19 »

Quote from: Skewbrow on 12 Sep 2016, 11:27

Quote from: JimC on 12 Sep 2016, 03:48
Quote from: oddtail on 12 Sep 2016, 02:10
On top of that, if an AI created a device that no science can adequately explain, there's ten different reasons why this special device would not be crammed into consumer electronics.

Not quite convinced, consider the work that's been done on genetic algorithms and evolved circuits - eg Thompson http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf . There's a possible line of development there.

Thanks for the link, JimC! Good reading!

My former coworkers at Nokia told me that story. When they reached the punchline in the end, and told the bit about how removing totally disconnect parts of the circuitry made it malfunction, I recall being impressed at first and a bit skeptical later. After all, it would have been very much in character for them trying to put a fast one by a math guy largely ignorant about EE. Not unlike other rookie tricks: "remember to lube the muffler bearings" or "you go fetch the keys to the trebuchet shooting range".

See also http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/alife/0262290758chap70.pdf
Using Meta-Genetic Algorithms to tune parameters of Genetic Algorithms to find lowest energy Molecular Conformers
ZE Brain, MA Addicoat
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems

I'd given the simplified poster for a lay audience unfamiliar with the problem domain before.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275953662_Meta-Genetic_Algorithms_Molecules_and_Supercomputers_Poster
Meta-Genetic Algorithms, Molecules, and Supercomputers
MA Addicoat, ZE Brain
Poster, SC10 Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

My PhD topic.

Genetic and Evolutionary algorithms have already been used in such areas as antenna and rocket nozzle design, where theory is still imprecise.

As long as we can determine that solution A is better than solution B, and there's a way of encoding A and B that has a close mapping to them during evolutionary generation of solutions, we really don't need to know exactly why they work, we can optimise anyway. Knowing what the optimum is then gives us clues into the mechanisms involved.

gpvos · « **Reply #71 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 23:37 »

"Expository context"? Is Emily aware that she is in a comic or something?

BenRG · « **Reply #72 on:** 13 Sep 2016, 23:50 »

If any character could see through the Fourth Wall as if it were a plate glass window, it would be Emily. She has the potential to be Questionable Content's Pinkie Pie.

Tova · « **Reply #73 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 00:15 »

It's a type of medium awareness.

Warning: yes, you guessed it, it's TV tropes. I hope you have self control or lots of time.

Phaedrus_schmaedrus · « **Reply #74 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 00:31 »

someone may have made this observation already, but emily and raven are very similar. both appear "ditzy" (is that the right word?), but have hidden depths (even if raven never got the explicit character development emily did)--and for bonus points, they're both prodigies (raven made the dino-chino machine vanish into the quantum ether; emily accidentally opened a portal to hell with her computer)

mad hands murphy · « **Reply #75 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 01:16 »

Do it Quentin

Climb the Asian giant

bhtooefr · « **Reply #76 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 01:17 »

Quote from: Phaedrus_schmaedrus on 14 Sep 2016, 00:31

emily accidentally opened a portal to hell with her computer

New headcanon: The Phobos Anomaly is Emily's fault.

Akima · « **Reply #77 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 02:07 »

So... We're Doomed?

Emily seems taller than ever.

brasca · « **Reply #78 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 03:47 »

Quote from: osaka on 13 Sep 2016, 17:55

Or she will crash in about 2 and a half hours and sleep for like 20 hours.

Hopefully her nanotech will still be with her when she awakens.

Quote from: Penquin47 on 13 Sep 2016, 22:36

Fairy Girl! Emily sees Fairy Girl!

At least she's handling this better than Faye's Pizza Girl obsession.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #79 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 06:53 »

Quote from: hedgie on 13 Sep 2016, 21:55

Quote from: Method of Madness on 13 Sep 2016, 18:18
I once got an iced drink with 12 shots of espresso (I had a free drink) and the barista was worried (she'd never made one with more than eight). I drank it, went back during lunch for an iced tea, since...well, I was thirsty. I thought maybe they'd given me half decaf or something, but she seemed genuinely surprised I hadn't completely crashed, so apparently not!

My first job had an "off-menu" drink called "the heart-stopper". We made it by sticking espresso shots in a part of the fridge where the water would freeze at the top and we could concentrate them further. A 16 oz cup had about 14 oz of this concentrated expresso, 2 oz of cream, and a dash of sugary flavour. For most of the time I had worked there, there was only one regular who I'd even serve them to. Then one day, I was dumb enough to say what it was to someone I knew. I broke down and served him after a week of begging and cajoling. He didn't sleep for two days, and his girlfriend said that he had *ahem* problems because of it.

Would I have been able to order it without the cream and sugar?

sitnspin · « **Reply #80 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 07:57 »

Quote from: hedgie on 13 Sep 2016, 21:55

My first job had an "off-menu" drink called "the heart-stopper". We made it by sticking espresso shots in a part of the fridge where the water would freeze at the top and we could concentrate them further. A 16 oz cup had about 14 oz of this concentrated expresso, 2 oz of cream, and a dash of sugary flavour. For most of the time I had worked there, there was only one regular who I'd even serve them to. Then one day, I was dumb enough to say what it was to someone I knew. I broke down and served him after a week of begging and cajoling. He didn't sleep for two days, and his girlfriend said that he had *ahem* problems because of it.

Take the sugar, cream, and flavouring out of it, and that sounds amazing. Concentrated espresso is a brilliant idea. I am surprised and annoyed that in all my time as a coffee afficianado, including my time as a barista, I had not thought to try that. This must be corrected.

hedgie · « **Reply #81 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 08:56 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 14 Sep 2016, 06:53

Would I have been able to order it without the cream and sugar?

If we allowed one to order it, yeah. Unfortunately, the place used fairly bad beans, so even for someone like me, it made it more palatable.

Quote from: sitnspin on 14 Sep 2016, 07:57

Take the sugar, cream, and flavouring out of it, and that sounds amazing. Concentrated espresso is a brilliant idea. I am surprised and annoyed that in all my time as a coffee afficianado, including my time as a barista, I had not thought to try that. This must be corrected.

Basically the same idea as freeze-distillation. Stuff was pure rocket fuel. Sometimes the only "flavouring" I used was Rumpelminz or some other type of peppermint schnapps. Well, not for customers, obviously.

comicalArchitect · « **Reply #82 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 08:58 »

Quote from: bhtooefr on 14 Sep 2016, 01:17

Quote from: Phaedrus_schmaedrus on 14 Sep 2016, 00:31
emily accidentally opened a portal to hell with her computer
New headcanon: The Phobos Anomaly is Emily's fault.

New headcanon: Emily is Garry.

Morituri · « **Reply #83 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 09:39 »

Weeelll, if you're really into it, my wife gets this stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Bizzy-Cold-Brew-Coffee-Concentrate/dp/B01D91MADQ/ref=sr_1_2_a_it

It's about 3000mg caffeine per bottle, so slamming the entire bottle at once is not recommended. Its intended use is for adding water to make 24 cups of (fairly strong) coffee, but she takes it neat in a 2-ounce shot glass with her breakfast. And then chases it with an ounce of lemon juice.

I don't drink her coffee; she doesn't eat my ghost peppers. Fair's fair.

It's reputed to be very good coffee, when diluted to regular coffee strength. As a non-coffee drinker, I wouldn't know.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #84 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 12:03 »

Quote from: mad hands murphy on 14 Sep 2016, 01:16

Do it Quentin

Climb the Asian giant

Yeah.. I'm guessing this was meant as a joke, but I feel it's kind of problematic in language and implication. Identifying Emily as 'The Asian'... she's more than just her ethnic background. And marking her as something to be conquered.. yeah, not good. No idea where you are getting 'Quentin' from. At a guess it's some reference that I'm just not getting to something else. But that doesn't make it any less squicky.

osaka · « **Reply #85 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 12:06 »

However, I'm pretty sure Emily would be pleased with the idea of literally climbing on top of her. Like, to her shoulders, to sit there or something.

I don't know, it just seems like she would.

sitnspin · « **Reply #86 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 12:57 »

Has Emily grown? She's always been tall, but I don't remember her being that much taller than Dora.

osaka · « **Reply #87 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 13:24 »

Huh, I thought she was canonically taller than Sven at like 6'4". Maybe I'm just imagining things.

Kugai · « **Reply #88 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 13:40 »

Emily is like a Cat - she is as tall as she needs to be as the moment requires.

I wonder if she sees her a third time a wish will be granted.

hedgie · « **Reply #89 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 13:43 »

1. Cats are a liquid, and can take any shape that their container does.
2. The fairy girl doesn't grant wishes, she plays pranks (her own words… unless that was one of the pranks)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #90 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 13:48 »

Quote from: mad hands murphy on 14 Sep 2016, 01:16

Do it Quentin

Climb the Asian giant

Global Moderator Comment This is both shipping and moderately racist. In other words...no.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #91 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 14:05 »

Also, who the hell is "Quentin?"

Kugai · « **Reply #92 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 14:07 »

I think he meant Clinton.

Thrillho · « **Reply #93 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 14:22 »

Quote from: sitnspin on 14 Sep 2016, 07:57

Take the sugar, cream, and flavouring out of it, and that sounds amazing. Concentrated espresso is a brilliant idea. I am surprised and annoyed that in all my time as a coffee afficianado, including my time as a barista, I had not thought to try that. This must be corrected.

I literally found too much coffee to have a larger immediate affect than some class A narcotics. Less of a comedown, mind

sitnspin · « **Reply #94 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 14:40 »

Quote from: Thrillho on 14 Sep 2016, 14:22

Quote from: sitnspin on 14 Sep 2016, 07:57
Take the sugar, cream, and flavouring out of it, and that sounds amazing. Concentrated espresso is a brilliant idea. I am surprised and annoyed that in all my time as a coffee afficianado, including my time as a barista, I had not thought to try that. This must be corrected.

I literally found too much coffee to have a larger immediate affect than some class A narcotics. Less of a comedown, mind

This is not dissuading me from my point. I'm a fan of both.

Thrillho · « **Reply #95 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 15:05 »

Quote from: sitnspin on 14 Sep 2016, 14:40

Quote from: Thrillho on 14 Sep 2016, 14:22
Quote from: sitnspin on 14 Sep 2016, 07:57
Take the sugar, cream, and flavouring out of it, and that sounds amazing. Concentrated espresso is a brilliant idea. I am surprised and annoyed that in all my time as a coffee afficianado, including my time as a barista, I had not thought to try that. This must be corrected.

I literally found too much coffee to have a larger immediate affect than some class A narcotics. Less of a comedown, mind
This is not dissuading me from my point. I'm a fan of both.

Not dissuading anything, you're just the only person I know could weigh in on my point.

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #96 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 16:21 »

If a Deerstalker is what you wear when tracking deer, is Emily wearing a Fairystalker?

MrNumbers · « **Reply #97 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 16:24 »

Quote from: BenRG on 13 Sep 2016, 23:50

If any character could see through the Fourth Wall as if it were a plate glass window, it would be Emily. She has the potential to be Questionable Content's Pinkie Pie.

Who would win in a Zen-off, Marten or Big Mac? Claire and Twilight are off in a corner discussing library sciences while Applejack and Faye drink hard cider and arm wrestle.

... SkullLord and the CMC should never meet.

Fuck I keep trying not to drag pony into things but then I see prompts like this and my brain goes all technicolour.

Perfectly Reasonable · « **Reply #98 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 18:47 »

While some people try to think outside the box, Emily thinks outside the Solar System.

ysth · « **Reply #99 on:** 14 Sep 2016, 19:40 »

Quote from: ysth on 12 Sep 2016, 07:00

No WTF Macchiato?

All better, thanks Jeph!

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