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2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:46 pm
by jast
DRC: the day's less than two hours old and I've gotten heaps of useless things done already:
- Decided to start a DRC thread using ISO date syntax for a change
- Finally uploaded an avatar to my board account
- Upped my current Steam Community rating to "3 - Shooting blanks"
In other news:
- The three teeth the dentist drilled into yesterday are still acting up whenever I drink stuff. I think it's because of the temperature.
- I've had a sore throat since a couple of days ago and Friday is choir day. I may have to skip it, missing out on lots of fun and slagging.
QotD: if you could undiscover/uninvent any breakthrough discovery/invention, which one would you choose and why?
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:39 pm
by Teplin
Nice avatar! Having a sore throat sure doesn't stop you from doing genius vocal work.
QotD: I don't like the look and feel of plastic. I wish I could take back the discovery of it, and everything that's made of plastic now was still made out of wood and glass and metal, nice and solid. I know that makes some technology I'd still like to have problematic, but... maybe it could be discovered but be much more expensive to make, and only used for circuit boards inside of our brass and wood framed computers, and brushed aluminum cell phones.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:50 pm
by JonPorobil
It's not yet the 9th over where I live, but good QotD! Can I answer with something as abstract as "The exploitation of discrepancies in international law?" Or will you insist on one particular concrete invention?
So. I don't know, really. Pretty much every invention I can think of has a light side and a dark side, and I can't really think of anything influential that has done more bad than good in the long run. I guess I could pick something stupid and inconsequential, like the
Chapstick-style butter applicator, but what's the point of that?
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:10 pm
by Rabid Garfunkel
Television commercials. Put the product placement in the script and on the set to get your thirty pieces of silver o' my studios. Why television commercials? They bug me.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:15 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
QOTD: Clothing

Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:23 pm
by Ross
Gunpowder.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:00 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
Ross wrote:Gunpowder.
But what would momma guns put on their baby guns butts?
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:19 pm
by Bjam
Today I'm going to the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman audiotorium. Gonna be seeing Vince Gill and Loretta Lynn among others. I'm riiiiidiculously excited. Nashville is fantastic and wonderful, and cowboys are awesome. Hopefully I'll be setting up the music room in the new house on Saturday. Yay for lovely music rooms.
QOTD: I would un-invent the Ugg boot/mini skirt combination. So many of my friends go out dressed like that in Boston in the winter and then complain that it's cold. No freaking duh, your lower limbs are completely exposed. They're fine individually, but together they make no sense.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:25 am
by Caravan Ray
Bjam wrote:
QOTD: I would un-invent the Ugg boot/mini skirt combination.
No no no.
It's got flesh...and it is still slightly ovine. It is perfect.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:32 am
by slats
QotD: Agriculture. I'd be much happier as a hunter/gatherer.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:06 am
by jast
Generic wrote:Can I answer with something as abstract as "The exploitation of discrepancies in international law?"
I'll take pretty much anything. You could uninvent globalization instead, by the way, if that's not too extreme.
I'd like to uninvent, among other things, the
Rorschach test.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:17 am
by ujnhunter
QotD: Any invention that would take away from my dream of becoming a horse riding Warlord w/ giant Battle Axe and awesome Skull helmet w/ Horns.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:47 am
by Billy's Little Trip
QOTD: The Internet, so I don't have to look at Jast's new avatar.
Jast, if you look at your new avatar just right, you look like a paraplegic in a wheel chair breaking through the tape at the finish line at the special Olympics. Of course, if that IS the case, then congratulations.

Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:49 am
by fluffy
qotd: Sexual reproduction. Life would be so much simpler if we were all had linear inheritance from a single parent.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:07 pm
by jast
fluffy wrote:Life would be so much simpler if we were all had linear inheritance from a single parent.
Yeah, and everybody knows that multiple inheritance is extremely tricky to get right.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:36 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
fluffy wrote:qotd: Sexual reproduction. Life would be so much simpler if we were all had linear inheritance from a single parent.
Wow, I think that's the first time I've seen Fluffy make a typo. A mathematical comic idea must have popped in your head at that very moment in time and caused your brain to hiccup.

Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:53 pm
by jimtyrrell
Roll call: getting some recording done again, finally. Boy does that feel good.
QotD: Crocs. NFL Free Agency. Coffee with anything but coffee in it.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:18 pm
by fluffy
Billy's Little Trip wrote:fluffy wrote:qotd: Sexual reproduction. Life would be so much simpler if we were all had linear inheritance from a single parent.
Wow, I that's the first time I've seen Fluffy make a typo. A mathematical comic idea must have popped in your head at that very moment in time and caused your brain to hiccup. :P
That's kind of like Hitler pointing out the hypocrisy of stepping on an ant.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:09 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
fluffy wrote:Billy's Little Trip wrote:fluffy wrote:qotd: Sexual reproduction. Life would be so much simpler if we were all had linear inheritance from a single parent.
Wow, I that's the first time I've seen Fluffy make a typo. A mathematical comic idea must have popped in your head at that very moment in time and caused your brain to hiccup.

That's kind of like Hitler pointing out the hypocrisy of stepping on an ant.
Dis une is true

Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:08 pm
by jack
qotd: cell phones
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:13 am
by Project-D
jack wrote:qotd: cell phones
damn straight.
Re: 2009-01-09 (Friday)
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:01 am
by mrbeany
QotD: When I'm in a bad mood, I would say written communication. If I'm in a good mood then the concepts of country, nation, and tribe.