The Race to Insanity and Beyond!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me whaps Phil.

[kerensky]

Not ot mention the Noodle incident.

[El_Phil]

We don't mention "The Incident" do we? No we don't.

Especially not after the court case. That was a luckily timed fire in the evidence storage room wasn't it Narf? I'm sure you wouldn't have been acquitted otherwise.

It was almost too lucky if you ask me.........

[kerensky]

Now i want you to stare deeply into my Avatar and tell me that Narf is trully guilty of everything...

Come on say it...

You can't now can you? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

[El_Phil]

Narf if trully, madly and deeply guilty of everything. Especially 'The Incident' of which he is at least twice guilty of.

Wasn't that hard to say really. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[kerensky]

Now where you looking deaply into my avatar at the same time?

If it didn't work then I realy nead to work on my subliminal messaging system..

EDIT:
Oooo, I am now a Second Lieutenant. Yea me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Kamog]

Incident? What incident?

.... *gasp* Surely you don't mean THAT incident, do you? That's unspeakable, unmentionable, never happened, didn't see anything, didn't hear anything! Besides, there's no proof.

[Jack Simth]

Of coruse there's no proof! Nothing would have survived. Not that it happened.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

"The Party insists that nothing of the sort ever happened here! Any who says otherwise is a TRAITOR and will be SHOT!"

[Kamog]

That's right, absolutely nothing has happened. Everything is quiet here, situation normal, no irregularities of any kind whatsoever.

[Jack Simth]

Oh, and while we're at it, it just so happens I've recently aquired all the oceanfront property in Arizona, USA; anyone wanting to make a purchase of said property should get their head examined by a professional psychiatrist immediately.

[El_Phil]

Proof? Who said anything about proof?

If this were a proper show trial no-one would be concerned with proof, not when you have entirely unforced spontaneous confessions!

[Kamog]

I voted today! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I'm an innocent little mousey!

[AdmiralMartin]

But you look guilty!

/me puts on his uber lie detecting computer "Come on, you can do it, boot up one more time..."

Computer sparks and dies.

Well, I guess I'll just have to do it myself.

/me Walks towards narf. "Don't worry, It won't hurt a bit.."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"You mean 'It won't hurt me a bit'."

/me knocks out AdmiralMartin with a wooden hammer, then escapes out the roof hatch.

'Escape, escape, escape from the crazy people!'

[AdmiralMartin]

/me catches narf anyway.

Now. Look at me
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6982/toocute11hg.jpg
and tell me the truth... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif . You cannot lie...

[Ed Kolis]

Ummm... I like big butts??? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The truth?

That avatar is way too cute!

Awww...

[Jack Simth]

You might want to ask David E. Gervais (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB23&Number=397033#Post39 7033) to put a nice shiney coat on it.

[Kamog]

That kitten is really really cute! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

... um, where are his ears?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That's a Martin. It's an actuall small, furry animal.

[Kamog]

Oh, I didn't know there was an animal called a martin, but that picture looks like a kitten to me. ...A kitten with no ears.

[El_Phil]

It's just a kitten with it's ears flattened back pretending to be a marten, hoping to confuse passing Pine Martins into thinking it's not a baby cat and so eat them. Cunning bugger!

[AdmiralMartin]

Or perhaps. It is a martin. An AdmiralMartin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Kamog]

Sometimes I wish we could learn complex skills instantly like they do in the movie Matrix. It takes so much time and effort to learn a new language or a new sport or to learn to play a musical instrument. It would make life so much easier.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Things are prized based on the effort we needed to acquire them.

[Jack Simth]

Shush! Your wisdom is showing!

[NullAshton]

Ooo, shiney new avatar. Fear my new black hole!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

/me lobs a Quantum Graviton Beam at NA's new avatar

[Kamog]

That's funny! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif But also, that is just evil. A true friend wouldn't do something like that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif

[NullAshton]

Don't worry, I have a bunch of graviton beams stabilizing my black hole.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Who says we were friends? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/stupid.gif Don't you remember the chaos and infighting during the First and Second Bar Wars? We were at each others throats!

(2000th post! yay! just after being the 11,111th person to view the newbie FAQ. Boy, I'm feeling lucky today)

[NullAshton]

Avatar wars! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Ashton's avatar spews antimatter jets at everyone.

[Kamog]

Happy Chinese New Year! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
This year is the year of DOG.

[El_Phil]

Hmmm we are due another bar/avatar/something war sometime soon, much like San Fransisco is due a giant earthquake. It could happen any time with no warning.

Year of the dog. So many awful jokes to make, so little time.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me watches the pretty sparkles approaching.

[AdmiralMartin]

/me watches them wink out

[Jack Simth]

Hey now! There's no particular reason for antimatter to sparkle....

Well, unless it's running into particles ... or vice-versa.

[Kamog]

Well, I've never seen any antimatter, so I can't say whether it sparkles or not. I suppose that if the antimatter made up something shiny, like a Christmas ornament, then it could sparkle.

[Jack Simth]

Or a diamond! An Anti-diamond! Made of anti-carbon! Just anti-perfect for that anti-special anti-someone .....

[El_Phil]

Quartz. That's sparkly as well, indeed that was one of the few things I learned doing Geology. Sparkly = probably got some quartz in it.

The diamond/anti-diamond reactor, possibly the most expensive way of generating power ever. Aside from burning water maybe.

[Jack Simth]

Actually, burning water into hydrogen ash is actually being worked on as a viable method of storing energy.

Burning water into helium and loose oxygen is being worked on for generating energy.

[El_Phil]

Burning water into helium and loose oxygen sounds very tricky. For starters where does the helium come from. You could fuse together two hydrogen atoms to get helium, but that isn't really burning, that's nuclear fusion.

As for the first part I'll hold my hands up and say I have no idea what that means. As I understand it you could call water 'hydrogen ash' as it is fully oxidised (burnt) hydrogen. So how do you burn something that is already burnt? And how do you store energy by doing so http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Most expensive? Naah. Diamonds are IIRC actually one of the most ubiquitous precious stones there are, it's just the fact they used to be so rare (and of course their sparkly shiny look when cut, and the fact that it's the most dense naturally occuring material known to date) which is why they're expensive.

Then again, my source (old space strategy game called Fragile Allegiance) may not be entirely accurate in this time period, so I might be completely off the mark here.....

[El_Phil]

Diamonds aren't dense, not especially.. They are the hardest naturally occuring substance and only beaten by a few very odd man made compounds.

The expense depends on size, disproportionatly so. Industrial diamonds (fraction of a carat sized) are indeed dirt cheap and fairly common. As you get bigger you get rarer and hugely more expensive.

A typical mine will 'lose' 80-90% of the total carat value in processing, but that only accounts for less than 1% of the money value. That's how 'worthless' small carat stones are.

On the other hand if it weren't for jewelry the large diamonds would be equally worthless, they have no inherent value, just the rarity and sparklyness of them. Which is part of the reason man made jewelry diamond haven't caught on, a man made large diamond is like a knock off designer clothing. It's a statement of wealth and status, so buying a cheap one defeats the point (unless you haven't got the money, but want people to think you have http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)

[NullAshton]

Actually, I think the most dense naturally occuring material known to date is uranium.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

So I meant hardest..... Big deal http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Eh, well so my source was wrong. Well..... we know what to do when our sources are wrong, don't we Louie?[/Brando voice]

[Jack Simth]

El_Phil said:
Burning water into helium and loose oxygen sounds very tricky. For starters where does the helium come from. You could fuse together two hydrogen atoms to get helium, but that isn't really burning, that's nuclear fusion.


Nuclear fusion is just a special kind of burning..... also, it's four hydrogen atoms -> one helium atom.
El_Phil said:
As for the first part I'll hold my hands up and say I have no idea what that means. As I understand it you could call water 'hydrogen ash' as it is fully oxidised (burnt) hydrogen. So how do you burn something that is already burnt? And how do you store energy by doing so http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

You use electricity to un-burn it. You use electrical energy to separate the water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, changing electral energy into potential chemical energy (2(h2O) -> 2(h2) + o2); as long as nothing sets it off, and you keep the two gas types thus produced around (and separated, hopefully), the stored energy is very stable. With the application of a small amount of energy (and mixing the two types of gas back up), you can convert that potential chemical energy into another form of energy - electricity, say. Sure, there's energy lost to an unuseable form at every stage.... but you can store it just about forever.

[El_Phil]

Yeah I did get my nuclear fusion wrong, it's been a while. I still wouldn't call it burning though.

Ditto the first past, seperating hydrogen and oxygen and storing the gases that isn't burning or even oxidisation. When you recombine them, that's oxidation. (By the definitions I know anyway) That's what threw me, the way you phrased the first statement. Still all cleared up now.

[Jack Simth]

Oxidize (and closely related words) is a technical term.
Burn isn't.
Acid getting on your hand is still said to burn your skin, even if no portion of your skin combines with oxygen in the process. An iron nail sitting in a bucket of oxegenated liquid water usually oxidizes; few people would say it burns there.
Sort of like insect vs. bug. A spider is a bug, but not an insect. Although I can see where people often get confused, as there's a lot of overlap between bug and insect.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

2301st post in this thread!

[kerensky]

No, n,o no, it's 2302..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

No, you mean 2303rd http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[NullAshton]

You both are wrong. It's clearly the 2304th post.

[douglas]

You're all off by one. This is the 2406th post in this thread. It is the 2405th reply.

[NullAshton]

Hmmmm... Ooops.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Agreed. Whoops.

[NullAshton]

HE DID IT!
*points at Strategia and runs away*

[kerensky]

No he must be the perpetrator!!!

/me throws pie at someone random/

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

2310th reply here!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me catches the pie and eats it.

[Jack Simth]

So, what kind of pie was it? I didn't get too good a look....

[Kamog]

Was it delicious?

Cheese pie? I've never had cheese pie. What kind of cheese is inside cheese pie?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...I dunno. I ate it too fast.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Cheese pies contain pie cheese. Duh.

[AdmiralMartin]

No. They contain Cream Cheese! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Kamog]

I used to have a monitor with a degauss button. Every so often, when I'm bored, I'd press the button and watch the screen flicker nicely. But if I press it again it doesn't do much. I have wait a long time and then press it to get the nice rainbow-colored flicker effect.

Can't do this anymore because it's an LCD screen now.

[NullAshton]

Did you know that if you have a CRT screen, you can make the screen flicker by moving a magnet over the screen, and then hitting the degauss button? No waiting needed! Of course, it does start to damage your monitor after a while...

And there's the auto button on a LCD screen. That makes it flicker.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

http://www.malfador.com/SE5scr022.htm

.....I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before somebody edits that microscope pic to have three or five eyepieces instead of two http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Jack Simth]

So what does deguassing do, anyway?

[NullAshton]

It adjusts the electron streams to ambient magnetic fields, or something.

[Kamog]

Microscopes are fun. I used to have a 900x microscope when I was a kid, and I'd look at all sorts of things. That microscope only had one eyepiece. It was most fun to see amoebas and paramecia swimming around in a drop of water. I'll have to get myself a microscope one of these days and do that again.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

TIME TO LET THE RACE TO PROFANITY, I mean, INSANITY RESUME!!!!!

[kerensky]

#(&$)!( #&#!@!#&%!^&#% !*#(!*#)!@(*$^ ~~~~@*$^)*

[NullAshton]

Is this dead yet?

[Jack Simth]

Well, it had lain dormant for a month and ten days.....

[NullAshton]

Your fault for posting a link to it and reminding me.

[Jack Simth]

So?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Can anyone tell me why we're still mirroring the post subjects? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Yeah...You!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Interesting news item - Apparently, a squirell broke into an asylum and dragged away several patients.

-Pause-

I'll start running now...

[Jack Simth]

Hey now! Squirrells need to stock up on supplies just like everybody else!

[Kamog]

One thing I find somewhat annoying is when the bosses at the top of the company refer to us employees as "resources." I feel like they only think of us as things, like a piece of equipment to be used.

[Jack Simth]

Yeah.

Sometimes they're simply clueless.

Recently, the company I currently work for was concerned about the high turnover rate. So they had a meeting to try and figure out why. Five or ten of them got together in one of the training rooms, and discussed the matter over pizza and cake. They kicked the training class of about 30-40 out of the training room, and pushed them into the meeting room suitable for about 10.

And they wonder why turnover's so high.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The problem with people and power is some people, once they gain a certain amount of power, begin to feel they are entitled to it.

This leads to the thought that they have a right to exert that power, which leads to the thought that other people don't have the right to exert power against them, which leads to petty tyrants.

[Kamog]

I recently learned that a billion is a different number depending on who you talk to.

In school, I learned that 1 billion = 1,000,000,000.
Apparently, it could also mean 1 billion = 1,000,000,000,000.

This must have caused a lot of confusion for people!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Where did you hear that?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

In Europe, we refer to what you (across the great pond) refer to as a "billion" as a "milliard". A "billion" means "a million times a million", which makes more sense to me as "bi"=2, and our "billion" is a million squared.

Oh, and somehow I snatched up a subject from somewhere over on the Dom2 forums, or so it seems. I think it happened once before.

[Jack Simth]

Hey, there have been times where such little discrepancies have cost companies a fair chunk of change (contract spelled out the value via words, such as "three hundred fourty-seven million dollars, USD", rather than typing up the number, such as $347,000,000 USD), depending on where the contract details were arbitrated.....

[Kamog]

A few days ago, I went to the casino with some friends. I just watched the other guys play and I didn't gamble because I know very well that the games are set up to take your money. Strangely, though, all three of the guys that gambled at the blackjack tables made money, making between $25 and $160 within an hour or so. They made it look very easy.

...But I later found out that they just happened to be lucky that day, and they had lost hundreds, or even thousands of dollars during previous visits to the casino. I have no idea how these guys can afford to lose so much money and keep playing. As far as I know, they're just average guys and they're not rich or anything. But they don't hesitate to bring a few hundred dollars each time they visit the casino and blow it all. That just doesn't make sense; it's kind of an expensive form of entertainment. For me, every dollar is precious and I'd hate to lose my hard-earned money gambling when I could use it to buy groceries.

[Jack Simth]

Yep. It's also a psychologically addictive form of entertainment, and the casinos usually set the expected return at about .99 for the player; that is, you bet 1 penny 100 times, and on average, the number of times you win and the number of times you lose will leave you with 99 pennies. $20 will go a long ways on the nickel machines. A lot of the times, a "good" gambler isn't actually spending any more money on gambling in a given month than a smoker does on cigaretts in the same timeframe. Both will often make ends meet by skimping a might on meals - hamburger rather than pork chops, and the like.

People who don't know when to stop, though... they tend not to have houses, cars, or friends after a while.

[NullAshton]

Actually, for blackjack, it is possible with a certain style of playing to actually beat the house, by about 0.01%. It's a small advantage, but it means you're actually gaining money.

And if you're not that good, you can just try to have fun, instead of winning money.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Or, you could simply go about twenty or thirty feet from your garbage can, and start playing hoops with coins.

[Morkilus]

I have several friends and plenty more extended family members that enjoy casino gambling quite a bit. The only way I could justify it to myself would be in the "winning big" stories and the illusion that you are getting free drinks. But maybe that's because I play other games that suck away only your free time... but still, stories of how you won thousands at a casino are generally more popular than ones of how you crushed United Flora after a brutal campaign.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Yeah, but after you crush United Flora, you'd have at least several hundred worls, after which winning the lottery is kinda redundant.

[NullAshton]

Yeah, but those several hundred worlds are just easily erased electrons and magnetic data on a disk, which a single person can destroy with only one hand.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...*Sniffle*...

[Jack Simth]

Hey now, it's HARD to open up a computer case with just one hand!

[NullAshton]

Uh... Close SE4, delete the savegame file, overwrite the data a few dozen times.

[Jack Simth]

And do you have any idea how hard it is to swing a good sized sledgehammer effectively with just one hand?

[Kamog]

Sledgehammers are hard to use. One time, we were having a camp fire and we had some big pieces of wood that we wanted to burn, but no axe to chop it into smaller pieces. For some reason, we did have a sledgehammer, so we used it to break up the wood. The guys kept missing the wood and someone accidentally hit the sledgehammer on the ground and the head broke off.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Better to hit the ground and have the sledgehammer's head fall off than for it to hit a bystander and have his head fall off, I suppose. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Kamog]

Have you ever had bubble tea? If I were to start a business, I would consider opening a bubble tea shop because it seems like those drinks are high-priced in relation to the ingredients, and it must therefore be quite profitable. There's different flavors of bubble tea, each with a different fruit flavor or whatever, and they put these pearls in there and charge $5 or $6 for a cup. I can buy an inexpensive lunch for that kind of price. It's sort of a social thing: you would never go to a bubble tea place alone, but you go because your friends go, and you all end up buying the expensive drinks. They give you a big wide straw for sucking the pearls that are at the bottom of the tea.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

What is bubble tea?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

From the sounds of it, it's tea you make not with a teabag but with small pearls of tea-and-flavour, which you can suck up through a straw afterwards. Just guessing though, never heard of it either.

[Jack Simth]

Ooh, look what I ran across!
http://home.comcast.net/~jlbuchanan1/UFO.jpg

[Kamog]

That could be an EEE saucer! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Kamog]

Happy Canada Day! /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Canada.gif

GST is reduced to 6%, yay! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

GST was supposed to be for the duration of the first gulf war.

[NullAshton]

Bump. Because we still haven't reached 200 pages yet. We should.

Then we should continue all the way to 1,000 pages, to see if there's a comma in the page number.

[Kamog]

OK, we need more insanity happening. ... I feel so sleepy lately. Haven't been sleeping enough since the SEV demo came out...

[DarkHorse]

I hope there isn't a Range Check error at 1,000 pages.

[NullAshton]

That would be awesome if there was. Want to try? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Caduceus]

We're getting there slowly people. More arbitrary discussions are needed.

[DarkHorse]

I think Space Empires XXIV should have a neuronic-controlled holographic interface.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I think that Space Empires XXIV should put you in control of a real planet with real people, genetically engineered to look and act like another race. No more Play By Web, Play By Galaxy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[NullAshton]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
I think that Space Empires XXIV should put you in control of a real planet with real people, genetically engineered to look and act like another race. No more Play By Web, Play By Galaxy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif



Heck yeah. Then we could have the entire galaxy have time accelerators installed on it, so we won't have to wait years to see the results.

[DarkHorse]

Creating a new game in SE:XXIV should spawn a completely new parallel universe for you to conquer.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Exactly. You know exactly what I want. Now bring on the Planetary Napalm Bombs! We're going to invade the Vietnorak! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Kamog]

Let's include that in our list of suggestions to Aaron. Maybe he can put that feature in the first patch for SEV. Hopefully it won't be too much of a programming change for him.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

2008 Gas Station (http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9283/gasstationsb6.png)

[NullAshton]

What about XXV? Or even... XXX.

[Kamog]

When the price of gas gets to $21.05, I'll get rid of the car and just walk or ride a bike everywhere. Or get an all-electric car.

[Jack Simth]

Oh, if you're going electric, make sure to use capacitors rather than batteries. Higher weight, lower effeciency, lower capacity, but almost no maintenence at all.... ever.

Oh, and while you're at it, install a universal constructor (They're Working On It (http://reprap.org/)) in the back.

Wouldn't it be just perfect to have a van that could make full-sized copies of itself?

[Kamog]

That constructor is neat. One day we'll have Star Trek replicators and we'll never have to go grocery shopping. You just instantly materialize your dinner.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Replicators makes me think of multiplying bugs now.

But the Star Trek replicators would be neat.

[Jack Simth]

Multiplying bugs? Do they do division as well? Perchance they can manage the dreaded matrix reduction?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Matrix reduction? I've got a shrink ray for that. Just need to kidnap Matrix.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Rapid prototyping and direct writing technologies are sufficiently versatile to allow them to be used to make a von Neumann Universal Constructor.



Oh, so we're back to the "grey goo" again? How long is it this time until the Earth gets "von Neumann"ed?

[NullAshton]

Jack Simth said:
Multiplying bugs? Do they do division as well? Perchance they can manage the dreaded matrix reduction?



Nah, more like von neumann lego blocks.

[Kamog]

Linear algebra wasn't too bad. It's the partial differential equations that was hard! We need some bugs to solve those.

[NullAshton]

Someone should put some von neumann processing units on some distant planet.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Sure, so they can come back and KILL US ALL!!!!

[NullAshton]

No, for extremely cheap processing power.

[Kamog]

Let's put the von neumann units on all the "dwarf planets" like Pluto.

[AgentZero]

Do not ask which creature screams in the night,
Do not ask who waits for you in the shadow,
It is my voice you hear in the night,
and it is my body that lurks in the shadow,
for I am Agent Zero, and you are the puppet,
that dances to my tune..



Discuss.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
http://www3.telus.net/public/funnybnz/700NE.jpg

Seriously, it does it's job as a creepy poem. Good, but not great.

[Kamog]

Today, October 6th, is Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival. It's an Asian holiday and today at work, a Chinese co-worker brought moon cake for us. Moon cake is an expensive, round and dense pastry-type of of cake and it's filled with a thick filling.

[NullAshton]

Mmm. Cake. Don't suppose you could e-mail us some?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

OK.....why has this wonderful discussion about nothing in particular died?

edit: I may have been gone for a long time but for some reason, I still have more posts than NA! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Geez, I remember when we competed for postcount with each other.....

[Ironmanbc]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
OK.....why has this wonderful discussion about nothing in particular died?

edit: I may have been gone for a long time but for some reason, I still have more posts than NA! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Geez, I remember when we competed for postcount with each other.....



Well I've got nothing in particular to say anyways http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[NullAshton]

Strategia... we competed for post count?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Well..... I seem to remember something along those lines, at least. In this thread. Somewhere. A long time ago.

[NullAshton]

Whatever. My avatar is still cooler than your avatar.

See? I have STARS.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Subject: New Twist On Old Joke
Author: Chris French
Date: 22 Jan 2007 04:15 AM
Q: What do you get if you cross a hippopotamus, an elephant, and a
rhinoceros?

A: You get stomped to death by three very large, very pissed-off
African mammals.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

--
CF

I Read Baened Books



Subject: FW: Summary of this year's emails
Author: Leonard Hollar
Date: 13 Jan 2007 07:03 PM




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Subject: Fw: Summary of this year's emails





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I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue
on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that
needs sealing.

Also, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown)
who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the
$15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating
in their special e-mail program.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out
for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant
freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water
buffalo on a hot day

Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward

an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove
toilet stains.

I no longer can buy gasoline without taking a man along to watch the car so
a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.

I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr. Pepper since the people who make these
products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup water in the microwave
anymore because it will blow up in my face...disfiguring me for life.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked
with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume

sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al
Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our
American troops or the Salvation Army.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number
for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore

and Uzbekistan ..

I no longer have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free

replacement pair from Nike.

I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have

their recipe.

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown
African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it
bites my butt.

Thank you too for all the endless advice Andy Rooney, George Carlin and

Robin Williams has given us.. I can live a better life now because they told


us how to fix everything.

And thanks to your great advice, I can't ever pick up $5.00 I dropped in the

parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting
underneath my car to grab my leg.

Oh, and don't forget this one either! I can no longer drive my car because I

can't buy gas from certain gas companies!

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70
minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this
afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to

grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a
friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's
cousin's beautician...........and believe it or not, this email will be
tracked.

Have a wonderful day....

[NullAshton]

Shameless post padding to check my signature. Whooo, squirrels!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

How your computer works (http://www.newportharbor.us/computerworks.htm) - Whoever made this is a genius.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
How your computer works (http://www.newportharbor.us/computerworks.htm) - Whoever made this is a genius.



Sweet Jesus..... that's brilliant! And captivating as hell.....

[NullAshton]

Interestingly enough, if you look closely enough you can see that the balls are created at one place, and destroyed at another.

[GuyOfDoom]

I'm new I need post counts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[GuyOfDoom]

Awesome

[Suicide Junkie]

Surprisingly, post count dosen't mean that much.

High post counts are merely a symptom and/or side effect of the underlying disease known as Space Empiritis.
Those with particularily acute cases tend to spawn large quantities of mods, shipsets, PBW games and other infection vectors.

Naturally these primary symptoms are of much more concern. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[President_Elect_Shang]

I've been trying to spread my posts around and lookie what we got here! I could'a been spamming one thread this whole time! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[President_Elect_Shang]

Only 132 more to go...

[NullAshton]

I'm not an acute case, I mostly just have a mild case.

Though I might develop a few acute symptoms soon, if I ever get a mod off the ground...

[Kamog]

Wow, I thought this thread had died... but yay, it's alive!
Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to post lately because of annoying things such as work and other obligations taking up my time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[President_Elect_Shang]

Today I was cleaning the dishes and thought of Narf. Here I was getting them ready for the dishwasher and for the first time I noticed that cheese has a very low melting point. You know that strainer thingy in the bottom of the sink right? It was full of cheese yet the water wasn't really all that hot to the touch. Anyway I thought of Narf when I say it there and that gave me a little chuckle. I also thought of how hard it would be to get it out from under my wedding band since I can't get the darn thing off my finger anymore. I should really get it cut off before something dumb happens and it takes some of my finger off!

Last post for the night. Goodnight sleep tight and I wish you all the best in life,
PE Shang

[Kamog]

Learning to play the piano is so hard! I've been taking lessons for over a year now, and lately I've been practising for an hour every day, but I'm still horrible at it!

I have great respect and admiration for people who can play any musical instrument well, because I can appreciate the amount of time and dedication they must have put into it. It's not easy at all.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Kamog said:
Learning to play the piano is so hard! I've been taking lessons for over a year now, and lately I've been practising for an hour every day, but I'm still horrible at it!

I have great respect and admiration for people who can play any musical instrument well, because I can appreciate the amount of time and dedication they must have put into it. It's not easy at all.



Depends on the instrument, I guess. And born talent.

[NullAshton]

Did you know that the Keenspot mirror thread has almost caught up to this?

[Kamog]

Happy Chinese New Year! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

This year is the year of the Pig.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Happy Chinese New Year!