yarksie
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Post by yarksie on Dec 21, 2013 5:14:24 GMT
I think it's the larvae that bite. We had about a zillion of them on a porch when I taught a workshop outside in Denton, TX, a few years ago. Mean little bugs, but at least they don't swarm you like bees or wasps. Very independent.  Recycled FTW! That's relieving. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 21, 2013 5:19:37 GMT
I am fairly certain you are in fact the defendant, GK Sierra. It's not my fault! I had to hire a public defender. Should have called Saul Goodman, I'd be a free man right now. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Dec 21, 2013 5:30:28 GMT
My new Headcanon is that Adam likes to pretend to be Judge Dredd. |
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Post by thedoctor on Dec 21, 2013 6:11:46 GMT
Me too! How many more do we need? |
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Post by thedoctor on Dec 21, 2013 6:28:55 GMT
This is really random, and I don't know exactly where to post it, but I was curious about the membership of this forum, so I played with the lists for a couple of minutes. It looks like there's currently about 200 regular posters (posters that have said something in the past week), and 190 people at the rank of "full member" or above. A good number of the "regular posters" (about half) are new members (who might not stick around for long), and a good number of the "full members" haven't posted in a LONG time (months to years). So would a good estimate of the sort of "community" of this board be about 50-100? I haven't done statistics, and I don't know how to play around with the listings more, but I thought it was interesting. The community that talking regularly on the comic threads would have to be smaller: I'd say 25ish just from what I've seen here, but I don't know. Interesting statistics, though.
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Post by thedoctor on Dec 21, 2013 6:33:00 GMT
This is really random, and I don't know exactly where to post it, but I was curious about the membership of this forum, so I played with the lists for a couple of minutes. It looks like there's currently about 200 regular posters (posters that have said something in the past week), and 190 people at the rank of "full member" or above. A good number of the "regular posters" (about half) are new members (who might not stick around for long), and a good number of the "full members" haven't posted in a LONG time (months to years). So would a good estimate of the sort of "community" of this board be about 50-100? I haven't done statistics, and I don't know how to play around with the listings more, but I thought it was interesting. The community that talking regularly on the comic threads would have to be smaller: I'd say 25ish just from what I've seen here, but I don't know. Interesting statistics, though. Well, that threw a wrench in my plans; just noticed that GK Sierra has not technically been online since Jun 1, 2013.  ? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 21, 2013 6:47:40 GMT
This is really random, and I don't know exactly where to post it, but I was curious about the membership of this forum, so I played with the lists for a couple of minutes. It looks like there's currently about 200 regular posters (posters that have said something in the past week), and 190 people at the rank of "full member" or above. A good number of the "regular posters" (about half) are new members (who might not stick around for long), and a good number of the "full members" haven't posted in a LONG time (months to years). So would a good estimate of the sort of "community" of this board be about 50-100? I haven't done statistics, and I don't know how to play around with the listings more, but I thought it was interesting. The community that talking regularly on the comic threads would have to be smaller: I'd say 25ish just from what I've seen here, but I don't know. Interesting statistics, though. Yep. This is pretty much true anywhere, scaled to the size of the community. At each step up of participation the group gets smaller by about a factor of ten, so there are many more people who just browse casually and read than those on the other end of the spectrum, who post regularly. Well, that threw a wrench in my plans; just noticed that GK Sierra has not technically been online since Jun 1, 2013. ? It's true. A machine has been making these posts while the real GK Sierra has been on a 6 month vacation. Alan Turing and his little test can pound sand. |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 21, 2013 7:09:20 GMT
It's true. A machine has been making these posts while the real GK Sierra has been on a 6 month vacation. Alan Turing and his little test can pound sand. I dig this post. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Dec 21, 2013 7:26:17 GMT
I think it's the larvae that bite. We had about a zillion of them on a porch when I taught a workshop outside in Denton, TX, a few years ago. Mean little bugs, but at least they don't swarm you like bees or wasps. Very independent. Recycled FTW! That's relieving. It's the name of a three-storey used bookstore. Great place. It's true. A machine has been making these posts while the real GK Sierra has been on a 6 month vacation. Alan Turing and his little test can pound sand. This is only for twitter now, but who knows what advances will come? www.ibtimes.com/liveson-grants-twitter-life-after-death-social-media-great-beyond-1175641 |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 21, 2013 7:54:16 GMT
I would rather have one that could be pre-programmed then one running on an algorithm, but it is cool nonetheless. Reminds me of the scene from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow where they find Dr. Totenkopf's skeleton with a dusty note attached that reads "forgive me". |
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Post by Gulby on Dec 21, 2013 10:38:52 GMT
(I usually don't have mush to say, so I just like the posts of you others that I can relate to, so my status is still "New member"... I don't think I will leave this place soon - love your plans and mischievous prophecies that I don't want to be realized, and love to read all of you ! - but I won't post enough to go on full member until a long time, I guess... T_T)
Edit : Oh well, I'm a Junior Member, actually. Great !
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 21, 2013 11:48:49 GMT
Well, that threw a wrench in my plans; just noticed that GK Sierra has not technically been online since Jun 1, 2013. ? It's true. A machine has been making these posts while the real GK Sierra has been on a 6 month vacation. Alan Turing and his little test can pound sand. So, basically, you've been a boxbot all along? I'm not sure if that explains a lot or not. (I usually don't have mush to say, so I just like the posts of you others that I can relate to, so my status is still "New member"... I don't think I will leave this place soon - love your plans and mischievous prophecies that I don't want to be realized, and love to read all of you ! - but I won't post enough to go on full member until a long time, I guess... T_T) That's the real way to do it! Shame on us who fill the forum with these useless content-free chat posts, and all respect to the real forumer who doesn't post unless she really has something to contribute! You might never become a gunner like us, but it just serves to tell how much more worthy your posts are than ours. Here, my post count goes one up again, and did I actually say something? |
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Post by TBeholder on Dec 21, 2013 13:13:16 GMT
Ah, of course not!(unless it bites me, dragonfly bite hurts a lot)  .I'm scared of cockroaches, though. One flew in my mouth when I was in first grade. Darn  Dragon flies bite? Oh shit. Their typical food is rather soft, like mosquito or butterfly. Then again, they can hold the prey despite pretty good accelerations, so big ones may actually be strong enough to bite far enough through the skin. Of course, jaws are optimized to pincer onto something small, so geometry is a bit off. Maybe into the little finger? Still no idea how you'd get it to bite you, however. Hold the dragonfly with one hand, get a fingertip on the other smeared in some bug, and feed it to dragonfly?  I'm kind of surprised that Annie is able to articulate that well. Why not? She is honest with herself. It's not my fault! I had to hire a public defender. Should have called Saul Goodman, I'd be a free man right now. Should have called Abigail DeCarlo. She beat all the Phoenix Wright games... and good at dealing with the crazies, which is more important. Well, that threw a wrench in my plans; just noticed that GK Sierra has not technically been online since Jun 1, 2013. ? It's true. A machine has been making these posts while the real GK Sierra has been on a 6 month vacation. Alan Turing and his little test can pound sand. It couldn't post if it was offline. |
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Post by zimmyhoo on Dec 21, 2013 14:03:25 GMT
*hide activity*
A lot of people do it.
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Post by zimmyhoo on Dec 21, 2013 14:06:32 GMT
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Post by keef on Dec 21, 2013 15:22:33 GMT
At the risk of being on topic: According to Bob plants are moved to Young's park as soon as the links to the forest are broken. So why is the cherry-tree still in the decon habitat? Maybe this is not the end of chapter. Dragon flies bite? Oh shit. If you are more than a few centimetres tall the risk is quite small. More chance to be bitten by a pigeon. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 21, 2013 16:27:10 GMT
I think it was 1996 or '95. Chilling on a middle school playground with my good buddy Zane. We were playing around with each others names, making up more and more ridiculous crap until it didn't even sound like the original. Later I asked him if he could make me an email account, and that is what he came up with. I thought it was the most original username in the world until I found out like 5 other people in the US have used it, and so does this one dude in China who shares my first name. Then I had to start changing the last two numbers everywhere I went because one of those 6 people had gotten there before me and already created a tattat44 account. Eventually I just switched to a different username that was less common. This forum account is a holdover from that era. I guess there really aren't any truly original ideas.
Hey, that actually wasn't a long story at all.
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 21, 2013 16:40:52 GMT
Hey, that actually wasn't a long story at all. tl;dr |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 21, 2013 17:14:38 GMT
Too many semicolons Didn't read  |
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Post by Señor Goose on Dec 21, 2013 17:24:55 GMT
Hey, that actually wasn't a long story at all. tl;dr Jeez, four letters? Slow your roll Tolstoy, I ain't got time for all that. |
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 21, 2013 17:29:07 GMT
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Post by Per on Dec 21, 2013 17:41:59 GMT
What kind of a scientific discipline is forumpics? We just don't know.
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 21, 2013 17:58:07 GMT
What kind of a scientific discipline is forumpics? We just don't know. It's the Olympics for frumpy people. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 21, 2013 21:02:43 GMT
At the risk of being on topic: According to Bob plants are moved to Young's park as soon as the links to the forest are broken. So why is the cherry-tree still in the decon habitat? Maybe this is not the end of chapter. I wonder about that myself. Robot's tree arm was placed in decon sometime in Annie's year 7, then it was deemed safe and moved to Young's Park before the residential in year 8. Decontamination took about a year. But the cherry tree has been in decon for at twice that, and still isn't ready to move. Maybe it's been there even longer. Looking at the big branches of the cherry tree, they seem to be arranged like the fingers of a hand—it's possible that it, too, started off as a tree-arm. Meaning it's been in decontamination long enough to grow from the size of a human arm to a tree large enough to support two year 7 schoolgirls in its branches. |
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Post by fishtie on Dec 21, 2013 21:25:37 GMT
At the risk of being on topic: According to Bob plants are moved to Young's park as soon as the links to the forest are broken. So why is the cherry-tree still in the decon habitat? Maybe this is not the end of chapter. I wonder about that myself. Robot's tree arm was placed in decon sometime in Annie's year 7, then it was deemed safe and moved to Young's Park before the residential in year 8. Decontamination took about a year. But the cherry tree has been in decon for at twice that, and still isn't ready to move. Maybe it's been there even longer. Looking at the big branches of the cherry tree, they seem to be arranged like the fingers of a hand—it's possible that it, too, started off as a tree-arm. Meaning it's been in decontamination long enough to grow from the size of a human arm to a tree large enough to support two year 7 schoolgirls in its branches. It's possible that it's in there for another reason. Some experiment control group perhaps. Obviously nothing too dangerous if a pair of children can just wander in and not even get a scolding. |
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Post by TBeholder on Dec 21, 2013 22:16:16 GMT
What kind of a scientific discipline is forumpics? We just don't know. It's the Olympics for frumpy people. Special Olympics for /b-zone. Some experiment control group perhaps. Obviously nothing too dangerous if a pair of children can just wander in and not even get a scolding. ... |
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 21, 2013 22:24:44 GMT
At the risk of being on topic: According to Bob plants are moved to Young's park as soon as the links to the forest are broken. So why is the cherry-tree still in the decon habitat? Maybe this is not the end of chapter. I wonder about that myself. Robot's tree arm was placed in decon sometime in Annie's year 7, then it was deemed safe and moved to Young's Park before the residential in year 8. Decontamination took about a year. But the cherry tree has been in decon for at twice that, and still isn't ready to move. Maybe it's been there even longer. Looking at the big branches of the cherry tree, they seem to be arranged like the fingers of a hand—it's possible that it, too, started off as a tree-arm. Meaning it's been in decontamination long enough to grow from the size of a human arm to a tree large enough to support two year 7 schoolgirls in its branches. I could have sworn that Tom said that there was something special and a bit dangerous about the cherries which caused the emotional rush for Annie. |
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Post by Gotolei on Dec 21, 2013 22:56:22 GMT
I wonder about that myself. Robot's tree arm was placed in decon sometime in Annie's year 7, then it was deemed safe and moved to Young's Park before the residential in year 8. Decontamination took about a year. But the cherry tree has been in decon for at twice that, and still isn't ready to move. Maybe it's been there even longer. Looking at the big branches of the cherry tree, they seem to be arranged like the fingers of a hand—it's possible that it, too, started off as a tree-arm. Meaning it's been in decontamination long enough to grow from the size of a human arm to a tree large enough to support two year 7 schoolgirls in its branches. I could have sworn that Tom said that there was something special and a bit dangerous about the cherries which caused the emotional rush for Annie. .  |
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 21, 2013 23:29:05 GMT
I could have sworn that Tom said that there was something special and a bit dangerous about the cherries which caused the emotional rush for Annie. . My memory has betrayed me! Thanks for linking me to that. |
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Dec 21, 2013 23:42:49 GMT
WAHAHAHA!! I'm surprised none of the shippers have remarked on the title of the thread.
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.I'm scared of cockroaches, though. One flew in my mouth when I was in first grade. Darn 
