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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    we are collectively bad at this sleep thing i fear

    pretty much
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    now listen to Dark Magus
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    ^^ what's it about?

    ^ we should start a club

    The last man on earth(I think?) lives in a huge house in the woods he inherited from his father. He begins hearing strange noises in his house at night, and finds the door open more than once. You play him going through his house, fixing lights and biding your time until the morning comes.

    In short, a bit of Kafka's The Burrow, mixed with Beckett's Endgame and probably influenced by the shortest horror story "The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door"
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    sometime.

    not now.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Melusina said:

    A half-hour ago I was all "I'd better go to sleep soon" so what do I do? Start listening to a 96-minute album, that makes perfect sense

    now listen to Dark Magus


    In Which Tachyon Fails Basic Arithmetic
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    sounds intriguing, Odradek
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    math, who understands it?

    not me
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    spinor
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i understand some math

    so do you, i expect

    i highly doubt anyone understands all of it
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    what would 'all math' even mean?

    what a silly thing to say
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    In mathematics and physics, in particular in the theory of the orthogonal groups (such as the rotation or the Lorentz groups), a spinor /ˈspɪnər/ is an element of a complex vector space. Unlike spatial vectors, spinors only transform "up to a sign" under the full orthogonal group. This means that a 360 degree rotation transforms the numeric coordinates of a spinor into their negatives, and so it takes a rotation of 720 degrees to re-obtain the original values. Spinors are objects associated to a vector space with a quadratic form (like Euclidean space with the standard metric or Minkowski space with the Lorentz metric), and are realized as elements of representation spaces of Clifford algebras. For a given quadratic form, several different spaces of spinors with extra properties may exist.
    DRUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGS
  • edited 2013-10-14 02:47:19
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    image

    IT RETURNS
  • i never really liked miles davis very much


    Sketches From Spain is nice tho
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    If being evil's cool.

    Consider me.

    Miles Davis
  • fun fact: Saetia got their name from the track of the same name on that album
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    all right I'm done
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Miles Davis is very accessible, especially before he went electric

    his was the first jazz i listened to

    i do not expect i am unusual in this regard, not in the slightest
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Charon leaned forward and rowed. All things were one with his
    weariness.

    It was not with him a matter of years or of centuries, but of wide
    floods of time, and an old heaviness and a pain in the arms that had
    become for him part of the scheme that the gods had made and was
    of a piece with Eternity.

    If the gods had even sent him a contrary wind it would have divided
    all time in his memory into two equal slabs.
  • i started out with A Love Supreme, then it was Sonny Sharrock and then i just went off the deep end completely
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Here lies Central Avenue

    Beloved princess, totally awesome part-time horse

    Died of a painfully slow internet connection
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    iirc the first Coltrane album i heard was Blue Train
  • My dreams exceed my real life
  • or you could it was Sonny Sharrock and then Painkiller and then of the deep end


    Painkiller is jazz/grindcore so i mean to some peeps it would be fairly accessible

    there are also bunches of John Zorn albums along the way, and i still listen to plenty of more accessible stuff


    (*shrug*)


    there is a big wide world of music out there
  • iirc the first Coltrane album i heard was Blue Train

    Blue Train was my second

    I also have Ascension, but i found that kinda boring/underwhelming... >_>
  • not to say that it was bad
  • The sadness will last forever.
    math gods
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    grindcore is a difficult genre imo

    i cannot just listen to abrasive metal, i need to be in the right frame of mind

    and i don't think i understand the aesthetic standards by which it is judged
  • The sadness will last forever.
    lizards are birds with scales
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i have Ascension

    i preferred Om
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Om is my favorite Discworld god.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anypony home?

    I'm gonna leave soon myself but it would be nice to have at least some kind of chat before I go
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    The Jabberwock is here!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Yay!

    So when I was 13 my online high school used FirstClass for everything. At the time I'd been reading a lot of ToastyTech, so I put together a little PowerPoint presentation in which I attempted to imitate Nathan Lineback's style by showcasing a bunch of screenshots of FirstClass and describing how it works.

    Why am I mentioning this? Because I found an old backup disc that just happened to have that PowerPoint file on it. This pleases me, even though the presentation itself is quite embarrassing to look at now, because I thought all the screenshots of my school's old FirstClass setup were gone...but I still have them!
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    that's a nice story but you're wrong

    Fluttershy has them, anyone can see that
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Hee hee, I don't even know what that was about

    I was just sittin' around being bored and I was like "you know, I wanna take a picture of one of my ponies and post it to Tumblr"

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Also, that was back when I still wrote dates in MM/DD/YYYY format

    Nowadays I try to avoid that as much as possible, in part because I dislike the ambiguity (though it hardly matters on a disc of my own) and partly because it doesn't make much sense to me (seems like you should go in order from smallest unit to largest or largest to smallest; putting the date in the middle is just weird).

    Though I still use it when I write papers and stuff for other people, because it's what Americans expect to see.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i use DD/MM/YYYY on forms and stuff but everytime i do i feel guilty for not using ISO 8601

    wow, Windows 8 really is a pile of shit


    i dread this laptop's inevitable demise
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    It actually seems like this would be an OK thing to use for a DVD player..... except Microsoft removed the ability to play DVDs from Windows 8!
    what

    why
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I use ISO 8601 for a lot of things. It's especially useful for file and folder names because unlike the other formats, it will actually sort correctly given the simple alphabetical/numerical sorting of something like Windows Explorer. But it feels a little silly handwriting dates that way, somehow.

    As someone who's used Windows 8 for a few months now, I can say that...once the initial shock wears off, it gets tolerable pretty fast. The desktop's still there, and that's where you're going to spend pretty much all your time, so once you get used to the Start menu being gone it's not that different from using 7...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    you know that said, sorry Americans but DD/MM/YYYY makes way more sense than MM/DD/YYYY

    i mean what even is that shit

    not remotely hierarchical

    anarchy in date form
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    not having a start menu is not something i can see myself easily adjusting to.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    It actually seems like this would be an OK thing to use for a DVD player..... except Microsoft removed the ability to play DVDs from Windows 8!
    what

    why
    Ah, that. I'm guessing it's because Microsoft didn't want to pay the licensing fees for the codecs since so many new computers don't even include optical drives.

    That said, it's not really as big a deal as it might seem, because (a) no competent manufacturer will ship a computer with a DVD drive without bundling DVD playback software (every computer I've owned in the past 10 years has come with PowerDVD), and (b) people who don't want to use the default software will install something like VLC anyway.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    you know that said, sorry Americans but DD/MM/YYYY makes way more sense than MM/DD/YYYY

    i mean what even is that shit

    not remotely hierarchical

    anarchy in date form

    ok, good, i'm not the only one who thinks so
  • edited 2013-10-14 09:06:17
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Route 666 said:

    That said, it's not really as big a deal as it might seem, because (a) no competent manufacturer will ship a computer with a DVD drive without bundling DVD playback software (every computer I've owned in the past 10 years has come with PowerDVD), and (b) people who don't want to use the default software will install something like VLC anyway.


    true

    i dunno, i'm reading this and it really is making me feel uncomfortable

    if there's one thing i hate more than changing stuff permanently, it's having change imposed on me by other people
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Ligotti Ligotti Ligotti
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

    i dunno, i'm reading this and it really is making me feel uncomfortable

    if there's one thing i hate more than changing stuff permanently, it's having change imposed on me by other people

    I can understand that.

    It frustrates me that the traditional sort of desktop setup seems to be becoming a thing of the past. The main reason I use Xfce, despite feeling its interface inferior to GNOME 2, is that it doesn't seem to be trying to reinvent the wheel the way GNOME 3 or Ubuntu's Unity are.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Well, I'm gonna get going. Talk to y'all later, I suppose.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Bye CA
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