Very Brief Observations

[SFEley]

Hi.  I'm Tony Marmot.  It's a fact: The average woodchuck uses practically none of his or her full chucking capacity.

But with my new seminar, "CHUCK YOU!  YOU WOOD IF YOU COULD!" any rodent -- even you! -- can become a fully actualized chucking machine.

Don't believe it?  Call now for a free video!  You'll see how thousands of mere groundhogs, who never chucked even a sapling in their entire lives, learned the skills they needed to raze entire forests to the ground in weeks.  What does that mean for you?  More flatland!  Prime real estate, my furry little friend. 

So quit staring at your shadow.   Climb out of your hole and start chucking today!


Tony Marmot's Woodchucking Success Seminars:
"Because if you're not chucking others, you're chucked."

[fiveyearwinter]

I notice that this "SFEley" character keeps acting like he runs the place...

::rolls his eyes::

[Russell Nash]

Let's say the "constant memory" works.  Any time you want, you can have all your memories transferred to your fresh young clone.  Poof, new young you.
Let's say that for strong reasons (probably technical, maybe legal), once you've done this the old you can't hang around any more.
Would anyone voluntarily live past, say, age 40?  How old would you permit yourself to be if you could become young again (a kid, a teenager, whatever) at only moderate cost and inconvenience?
How different would the world be?  And what sorts of new problems could we get from that? 

Well, OldYou would still die.  From his point of view nothing would have changed.  YoungYou, though would feel just like OldYou, but be young.  So the benefit is all YoungYou's.  Would you still do this procedure, knowing how much YoungYou would enjoy it?  Or would YoungYou suddenly start worrying about paying the mortgage, and health insurange, and oh shit, I have to go to college again and I have to pay for it this time. 

I'm young again.  Now I can put off writing my novel another 20 years.

YoungYou would not have to go to collage. He could have DNA testing done on him to make sure that he's OldYou's clone - who is considered dead - and he could be tested on weather he has all of OldYou's knowledge.

Anyway, wasn't this the plot of a Schwarzennegger film. Called Sixth Day or something like that.

[SFEley]

I notice that this "SFEley" character keeps acting like he runs the place...

::rolls his eyes::

A very brief observation!  Well done.  >8->

Now please stop rolling my eyes around.  I'm using them.

[ClintMemo]

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

[fiveyearwinter]

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

hahahaha that's awesome.

[Russell Nash]

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

I'm in D&D withdraw. I don't have anyone over here who can play.

[ClintMemo]

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.

[ClintMemo]

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

I'm in D&D withdraw. I don't have anyone over here who can play.

Do you have friends at home (wherever that is) that still play?  Join in by internet.  We have a friend that lives 1000 miles away in another state. He plays every week via Skype and a couple of webcams.  Timezone might be an issues, though.

[Russell Nash]

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

I'm in D&D withdraw. I don't have anyone over here who can play.

Do you have friends at home (wherever that is) that still play?  Join in by internet.  We have a friend that lives 1000 miles away in another state. He plays every week via Skype and a couple of webcams.  Timezone might be an issues, though.

Our game broke up before I left. Our DM (a genius in the role) got married, had a kid AND went back to school. Other guys moved out of state and I'm now 6 hours ahead. Unfortunately it wouldn't fly.

[oddpod]

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

I'm in D&D withdraw. I don't have anyone over here who can play.

Do you have friends at home (wherever that is) that still play?  Join in by internet.  We have a friend that lives 1000 miles away in another state. He plays every week via Skype and a couple of webcams.  Timezone might be an issues, though.

Our game broke up before I left. Our DM (a genius in the role) got married, had a kid AND went back to school. Other guys moved out of state and I'm now 6 hours ahead. Unfortunately it wouldn't fly.

thats grim
thares got to be some gamers near you some whare!
how lont will it take you to get to the north of england?

[Russell Nash]

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

I'm in D&D withdraw. I don't have anyone over here who can play.

Do you have friends at home (wherever that is) that still play?  Join in by internet.  We have a friend that lives 1000 miles away in another state. He plays every week via Skype and a couple of webcams.  Timezone might be an issues, though.

Our game broke up before I left. Our DM (a genius in the role) got married, had a kid AND went back to school. Other guys moved out of state and I'm now 6 hours ahead. Unfortunately it wouldn't fly.

thats grim
thares got to be some gamers near you some whare!
how lont will it take you to get to the north of england?

I'm in Berlin

[ClintMemo]

The older I get, the less I believe in conspiracy theories.

[Startrekwiki]

The older I get, the less I believe in conspiracy theories.

Really? The older I get, the more I believe in them.

[ClintMemo]

The older I get, the less I believe in conspiracy theories.

Really? The older I get, the more I believe in them.

It's because the older I get, the less faith I have in the ability for groups of people to get together, agree on something (sinister or not) and then agree to never tell anyone else what they are doing.  I think it was Ben Franklin who said "three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead".
I think some things that are labeled "conspiracies" are just things that are allowed to happen because those who have the power to stop it don't because it is in their best interest for it to happen or because they don't realize what is happening.  Other popular conspiracy theories (like the moon landings being faked or the holocaust never happening) are just absurd simply because the amount of people that would have to be involved is immense.   That doesn't rule out everything.  It's possible that some things (like the Kennedy assignation) were planned by a small group and other people allowed it to happen, even though they weren't involved.  (I'm not saying it happened that way, just that it could have happened that way.)

[Startrekwiki]

I guess some people have problems. The scary thing is, it's possible they don't notice it, and think that they're normal, when everybody else knows that something is wrong with them.

Or the other way around.

That's a scary thought.

[SFEley]

I guess some people have problems. The scary thing is, it's possible they don't notice it, and think that they're normal, when everybody else knows that something is wrong with them.

"Everyone's mad but me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee."

[Russell Nash]

I guess some people have problems. The scary thing is, it's possible they don't notice it, and think that they're normal, when everybody else knows that something is wrong with them.

"Everyone's mad but me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee."

The world has gone mad. Sometimes I feel like me and my invisible friend Chuck are the only sane people left
--Jeff Kay

[fiveyearwinter]

Mt. Dew has brominated vegetable oil in it.

A drink having vegetable oil in it (even if it's been brominated) is kind of gross.

[ClintMemo]

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.

[Birnam Wood]

Hi.  I'm Tony Marmot.  It's a fact: The average woodchuck uses practically none of his or her full chucking capacity.

But with my new seminar, "CHUCK YOU!  YOU WOOD IF YOU COULD!" any rodent -- even you! -- can become a fully actualized chucking machine.

Don't believe it?  Call now for a free video!  You'll see how thousands of mere groundhogs, who never chucked even a sapling in their entire lives, learned the skills they needed to raze entire forests to the ground in weeks.  What does that mean for you?  More flatland!  Prime real estate, my furry little friend. 

So quit staring at your shadow.   Climb out of your hole and start chucking today!


Tony Marmot's Woodchucking Success Seminars:
"Because if you're not chucking others, you're chucked."

Observation: Disenfranchised prairie dogs could take up wood chucking.

[Startrekwiki]

Hi.  I'm Tony Marmot.  It's a fact: The average woodchuck uses practically none of his or her full chucking capacity.

But with my new seminar, "CHUCK YOU!  YOU WOOD IF YOU COULD!" any rodent -- even you! -- can become a fully actualized chucking machine.

Don't believe it?  Call now for a free video!  You'll see how thousands of mere groundhogs, who never chucked even a sapling in their entire lives, learned the skills they needed to raze entire forests to the ground in weeks.  What does that mean for you?  More flatland!  Prime real estate, my furry little friend. 

So quit staring at your shadow.   Climb out of your hole and start chucking today!


Tony Marmot's Woodchucking Success Seminars:
"Because if you're not chucking others, you're chucked."

Observation: Disenfranchised prairie dogs could take up wood chucking.

I know one that would suit that to a "T".

[Thaurismunths]

40°f in the spring is a whole lot warmer than 40°f in the fall!

[Russell Nash]

40°f in the spring is a whole lot warmer than 40°f in the fall!

I wouldn't know it was 56ºf here today.

[SFEley]

Bookkeeping would probably be easier if I didn't try to do the second half of 2006 in one evening.