Very Brief Observations

[Tango Alpha Delta]

My neighbor has a Lexus.  If he has more than one Lexus, does he have two Lexus, two Lexuses or two Lexi?   

Lexuces or Lexim. Either is acceptable.

The Lexicon - dictionary for luxury cars, or extraordinarily small gathering of pedantic linguaphiles?  (I'll choose "A", please!)

VBO:
Negotiating a smooth transition from the 12-fret palm-muted double-picked descending glissando to the E-B-G-B bass fill in the opening of Pipeline (The Chantays - 1963) is much more difficult than I thought it would be.

What a relief... I thought I was the only one! 

[birdless]

I established a new rule in my D&D game last night.
Puns attract monsters.
Two characters nearly died.

hahahaha that's awesome.

You would have thought they'd have learned their lesson after the first one.

Last night I had to amend my rule:
The experience point value of a pun attracted monster is zero.

Oh man, this made me laugh! 

[Tango Alpha Delta]

I established a new rule in my D&D game last night.
Puns attract monsters.
Two characters nearly died.

hahahaha that's awesome.

You would have thought they'd have learned their lesson after the first one.

Last night I had to amend my rule:
The experience point value of a pun attracted monster is zero.

Oh man, this made me laugh! 

Man... I'm glad those monsters haven't found their way to the newcomer thread!   

[birdless]

After the New Members thread postings, you may want to get your dice hand warmed up.

[Tango Alpha Delta]

After the New Members thread postings, you may want to get your dice hand warmed up.

VBO: If I refrain from the really juvenile joke I'm thinking, maybe they'll let me off the hook for the pain-inducing puns...

[Thaurismunths]

VBO: If I refrain from the really juvenile joke I'm thinking, maybe they'll let me off the hook for the pain-inducing puns...

Nope. Part of being a heretic is losing credit for everything you do.

[Tango Alpha Delta]

VBO: If I refrain from the really juvenile joke I'm thinking, maybe they'll let me off the hook for the pain-inducing puns...

Nope. Part of being a heretic is losing credit for everything you do.

That would explain a lot about the world financial markets, lately...

[wintermute]

And it's hard to imagine* an evolutionary situation in which a baby would be alone, where that baby *shouldn't* be panicking. A friend of mine has their nursery upstairs, and everytime they put the baby alone in the darkened room, she howls for hours. I imagine her hindbrain is waiting for the andrewsarchus (why yes, I am engaged to a paleontology geek, why do you ask?) to come and devour her.

*or, alternatively, my imagination's not good enough.

Andrewsarchus has been extinct for 36 million years. That means that human (or even ape) babies have never needed to worry about them. Some of the early proto-monkeys, maybe...

[Liminal]

Falling is simply flying from a different perspective. There just happens to be a very large, inevitable wall in your way

[Heradel]

Falling is simply flying from a different perspective. There just happens to be a very large, inevitable wall in your way

The pertinent quote on flying as falling is here.

[Liminal]

Falling is simply flying from a different perspective. There just happens to be a very large, inevitable wall in your way

The pertinent quote on flying as falling is here.

Actually, the line struck me after reading Ender's Game because I was thinking a lot about shifting perspectives in a zero-gravity environment as well as my own shifting emotional perspectives.

But yeah, Adam's description of flying as falling is wonderful. What was the name of the story that Escape Pod published about the boy who fell into flying? I thought that was one of the more interesting and touching character studies that EP has done so far.

[stePH]

What was the name of the story that Escape Pod published about the boy who fell into flying? I thought that was one of the more interesting and touching character studies that EP has done so far.

"The Angle of My Dreams".