OT: Things One Qught Not Do Just Before Bed

[Atrocities]

1. Eat 10 Italian meat balls. Oh the heart burn.
2. Let the cat in.
3. Start a game of Space Empires
4. Drink a warm beer
5. Log on to check these forums
6. Watch the last episode of Enterprise (It just boils the blood)
7. Eat 10 more Italian meat balls, but this time with BBQ sauce.
8. Drink another warm Beer
9. Drink warm flat pop
10. Forget that you let the cat in. - hence why I am now awake.

[Wade]

-Tidy up the Windows desktop and read on forums til 2:45 AM when I have to be to work at 7:00 AM. This means sleeping early tomorrow...Good night.

[Renegade 13]

11. Go on the internet...at all. There's just too much stuff to look up. *He says, at 3:37 in the morning*

[Randallw]

12. Touch up your entry for a competition the next day.

[mrscrogg]

eat cold spaghetti with extra sauce and garlic bread

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Eat anything.

[mrscrogg]

true nut it tasted so ggod ! - than I went to bed !---------ugh !

[Wade]

mrscrogg said:
true nut it tasted so ggod ! - than I went to bed !---------ugh !



That sounds naughty.

[mrscrogg]

you should try it sometime - you wake up two hours later with acid intergestion eating a hole in your stomach and stale garlic smell on your breathe

[dogscoff]

13: Watch Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cFlaWxWDhI) video.

Or Windowlicker. That's even worse...

[AgentZero]

Decide to pop into these forums 'just to see what's happening'. I'm quite sozzled and should have gone to sleep a few hours ago, yet here I am, going on a mad postathon.

[capnq]

Atrocities said: 3. Start a game of Space Empires

This is also a good one to avoid while waiting for a pot to boil.

Fortunately, I noticed the change in sound when it transititioned from boil to fry.

[Kamog]

Just a few days ago, I was heating some soup on the stove and I started playing a game. By the time I remembered to check the soup, all the water that was in the soup was gone and the dried-up remnants of the soup was half-burned.

Another time, I was boiling a pot of water, but by mistake I turned on the wrong burner on the stove, one which happened to have the aluminum lid for the pot sitting on it. I walked away to play a game and then after a while I noticed a burning smell so I went to the kitchen. The lid was completely melted. Molten aluminum was dripping into the spill tray. It was hard to clean and the house smelled like burning for a few days after that.

[AgentZero]

Molten aluminum was difficult to clean up? The hell you say!

On a completely unrelated note, I find it most amusing that the Irish insert an extra 'I' in aluminum, pronouncing it aluMINIum. I don't know why that's relavent, but it's funny.


No, really, it is.

[Randallw]

I find it strange that americans DON'T pronounce it Aluminium like it's supposed to be.

[AgentZero]

Oh noes! Not the Aussies too! And who are you calling American?
slaps Randallw around with a wet fish
Wikipedia articles exist for both Aluminum and Aluminium. I'm sure there's a great story behind that discrepancy, I'm just to tired {AND CLEAN!) to find it.

[Kamog]

Well, I'm in Canada and in school we always learned the spelling as aluminum, without the extra 'i' and most people I know say aluminum as well.

There have been arguments at work with our British coworkers about this as well as other discrepancies.

[AgentZero]

Like oregano?

[Randallw]

If it's an Irish pronounciation then probably it's that way here because of Australias huge Irish heritage. I for one am part Irish, but then I'm also part German, French, Scottish., and probably quite a few other ethnicities.

Edit: according to Wikipedia the US used to pronounce it properly but changed when someone put out a catalogue without adequately spell checking.

[Renegade 13]

Bah. Aluminum just sounds better than aluminium.

Canadian pronunciation > those other people's pronunciation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Kamog]

Aluminum uses one character less and therefore it's more efficient to type, takes up less space on the page, saves ink, saves one byte of memory, etc. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

If it was melting, I very much doubt it was pure aluminum - Melting point of 660 C/1220 F.

If your stove really does get that hot, might I suggest something safer to cook your food with than a blast furnace?

Most likely it was tin - Melting point of 231 C/449 F.

[dmm]

Almost everything made out of Al is actually an alloy, because pure Al doesn't have good properties for making stuff. Alloying it affects its melting point. I read this on Wikipedia, so it must be true. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif (Notice how I cleverly avoided the spelling controversy, and saved lots of ink and bytes.)

[AngleWyrm]

"...Because pure A.I. doesn't have good properties..."

So the Alloy would be mixing AI with knowledge of player locations, map triggers/waypoints, preassembled build plans, foreknowledge of the tech tree...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'...Foreknowledge of the tech tree...'...'...Player knowledge of the tech tree...'

Hmm, doesn't really look that much like cheating. Would depend on how it is handled.

[Renegade 13]

Al not AI http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif As in Aluminum not artificial intelligence http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[phalzyr]

Randallw: i find it strange that you think it is strange. Don't you know americans enough by now to not think it is strange for us to do things differently?