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| The film 'The Game': watched. Not pleasant. |
[25 Nov 2009|12:31am] |
N) Skipping/Ignoring all else, it seems as though the protagonist by all rights should have been much angrier after the final reveal. 'Yelling' angry at least, 'Okay, killing everyone in here right now with my bare hands' at most (?).
Bladder full, must sleep after doing work for tomorrow.
Pleasant social interaction.
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| AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaa |
[24 Nov 2009|09:43am] |
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N) It is 9:43. We have to be at a certain place at 10:00. It was 9:13 a few seconds ago when we started responding to emails. Why is it 9:43.
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| Manga versions read; investigation of the second episode of the Scientific Railgun anime underway. |
[23 Nov 2009|09:16pm] |
N) The quality of the animated version: 'passable'? There was a better term, perhaps, but it has been forgotten. Maybe a double negative.
In any case: it does not stand in the top tier in terms of quality, but there haven't been any significantly wince-inducing things worth complaining about. At most minor notes on the lines of 'Ah, that wasn't as good as it might have been.'. Overall acceptable.
After experiencing the plotline of the manga, will likely stay away from most anime episodes until it gets to the interesting part(s) involving the Sisters. ...hmm, it looks as though there are lots of Index anime episodes on that section already. Presumably worth watching.
Character voices: Saten's voice sounded like the voice of a certain Hayate, but apparently it's not. Curious. Overall... hmm, consistent. Moderate roles, the most high-profile not that high-profile.
Guessing ends at this point. Will we be able to sleep early tonight or not? That is the question.
If we hold off on pursuing the Index episodes until later in the week, we may be able to do it. Ah, just remembered the source of tonight's procrastination.
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| Various levels of imagined drama. |
[23 Nov 2009|02:09pm] |
N?/M?)
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"LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER!"
"Lies! Everyone's told me I'm Obi-Wan's son!"
"YOU ARE."
"But... but..."
"A LITTLE SLOW ON THE UPTAKE, AREN'T YOU."
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That's the simpler version of the imagined scene, making use of the classic conversation there. The ultimate roots are those situational descriptions which try to trick the reader into thinking that there's a paradox.
For the full level of drama it would require an ambiguous pseudonym, a father with a bad memory and a very full, indiscreet past, for there to be a convenient way to leave without being followed immediately after realisation, and for all others to not overcome all mental obstacles and realise the alternative explanation before the appropriate time.
"Can you not forgive me [for leaving you in that orphanage for your safety while I risked my life for everyone's sake]?"
"No, I can't forgive you [for pretending to be my parent when you weren't]. ['Get out.'/'Leave.'/equivalent]"
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[announcement of leaving, meeting the father] "Hello, [first name]."
"[something appropriate which adequately shows lack of knowledge of the other's identity]"
"You.. don't recognise me? You... don't remember me? [shaken; steadily crosses the floor--slaps the other's face once, heads to the exit]
[bewildered] "Wait! What is your aim!? Why did you tell [son's name] that you were his father?"
"His father? Why would I tell him that? You're his father. I only told him the truth, that he was my son."
[instant of incomprehension; sudden eye-widening in realisatoin] "[true name]!?"
"Idiot." [turns away, closing eyes while doing so and optionally showing the faintest glimmer of a tear at the corner of one eye; leaves forever [before the son has a chance to react, and before the father has a chance to react further] (some sort of glider usage from a ledge which serves as one of many entrances/exits? Convenient if none on hand to be followed with)]
Son: "Noooooooooo!"
Imaginer: "So much glorious emotion. That horror when the person in question (the child in this case) realises what said person has done... I still don't understand why it's so wonderful."
Hmm. Speaking of Star Wars, there was supposed to be one of those moments in the new third movie. We should likely watch it at some point if only for the sake of satisfying our curiosity regarding the quality of that scene.
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| U-mu-mu-mu. |
[23 Nov 2009|01:26pm] |
M) If we (or someone) created corn which produced and used right-handed amino acids, could we grow it on nothing other than sunlight and non-chiral substances? If not, what else would be needed?
Loop that first paragraph until successful, then continue.
--If that was sufficient, then could we raise chickens created to use right-handed amino acids on that corn?
Again, keep repeating as many times as necessary.
A large plantation containing nothing digestible by humans is acceptable.
The ultimate aim: a banquet which has a moderate amount of calories and is carefully balanced, yet reaches heights of deliciousness in taste and texture which would normally be extremely unhealthy.
Taste could be an issue, even if texture wasn't. Even if the ideal was not reachable, hopefully mitigation could be achieved.
...the things that could be made from the milk of inedible cows...
Ah. I just realised something. Even if the amino acids weren't used, I don't know enough to guarantee that the same would extend to fatty acids or other things... I don't know enough about which molecules are and aren't chiral, nor about in which cases that definitely makes a difference.
That project will have to be shelved for a while.
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| Hmf. |
[23 Nov 2009|06:42am] |
N?/M?) Through the power of procrastination, we field a seven-day week on six days' worth of sleep.
There would be more said at this juncture (junction? !?), but several things have shut down in or else out of order.
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| Somewhat startled to see a reference to an 'International Violence Against Women Day'. |
[23 Nov 2009|06:31am] |
N) Apparently it actually exists, and it means the reverse of what it sounds like. What it does sound like is very disturbing, more so in being [verb forgotten] internationally.
Edit: N) The forgotten verb-thing: 'observed'. Very sleepy right now. Ending this edit at this point for the sake of something else that I've forgotten about.
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| ...Hm? (Another line of thought about gambling-- |
[22 Nov 2009|11:02pm] |
N) --which, like perpetual motion machine lines of thought, are challenged partly with the prediction that they will be defeated, and out of curiosity regarding how that would happen.)
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Unrelated: something keeps happening which disrupts this computer's focus. Before, full-screen video windows would keep returning to their un-full-screen configuration. Just now, we were typing and the letters typed suddenly stopped appearing, requiring one to click in the text-box again. Puzzling and irritating.
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For a completely random roulette wheel of X numbers, there's an expectation of each number coming up once every X spins, of course relevant only over many cycles.
The question: can this be exploited in such a way that the sequence would have to appear decidedly non-random for anything other than a profit to be made? (Eg. the same square or group of squares being fallen on three times as many times as would be presumed to result from a random spin.)
Different principles seem to conflict with each other here. The one suggesting that the aim would be doomed would be the 'same probability each spin regardless of previous spins' line of thought.
However, entropy comes to mind. A sequence of the same square every time is as equally likely as any other sequence, but there are far more possible sequences of nearly-even spreads than there are of blatently-uneven spreads, and so stastically a nearly-even spread seems higher... hmm.
How, then, to wager on relatively-even spreads? Perhaps to wager only on those squares which have not recently been landed on, putting more on those which have not been landed on in a long time and waiting longer before putting any on those which have landed multiple times in close succession.
Of course, even if it were a valid approach it would become problematic if the wheel in question wasn't random, or/and if the spinner was able to deliberately manipulate it in response to where bets were placed.
Umumumu. There's not much that can be done about the second possibility, but as for the first perhaps if all numbers were recorded over a long period of time any significant trends could be determined... but for all I know that might get one kicked out.
Yes. Even if a way were hypothetically determined to prevent the house from winning, the house would then act to prevent that method from being used. For that reason, only approaches like poker which involve taking the money of others gambling instead of from the house itself would be effective, most likely... though that conclusion has been reached before.
--and, ultimately, if there were an effective way of getting a consistent income out of such means it presumably would have been discovered and publicised before. Hrm.
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| Hm. |
[22 Nov 2009|10:20pm] |
N) In a sense, cryonically-frozen bodies are the equivalent of Write-Only Memory.
On that note, note that Read-Only Memory has to be Written at least once.
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| Kept forgetting to write this down. |
[22 Nov 2009|06:48pm] |
N?) We'll know when our hair has reached its maximum length by that the hair at the front of our head will have caught up with the hair at the back of our head.
It's slow-growing enough that at any point in time it's easy to grow paranoid that it's already stopped getting longer, but the length difference between the front and back hair is a clear indicator that we'll be able to rely on. *smiles*
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| Hm? |
[21 Nov 2009|09:28pm] |
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N) ...what the heck does the presumably-German word 'Schwartz' mean in English?
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| Bailing water out of a sinking ship (hopefully heading towards land)... |
[21 Nov 2009|03:45pm] |
N?/M?) Every moment that we live, we're dying. This body cries out to us to feed: amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, even some fats and uncounted numbers of things we don't know about yet can obtain by feeding on once-living biomatter.
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Sliced meat without unpleasant processing look like Pathology slides, edible sections removed with steel and consumed.
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'Process'. Obtain, break down, separate, filter, a constant function of taking those things from the outside that we need and removing from our body that which harm us.
Wastes that we can't remove accumulate. Errors accumulate. Our repair functions are constant maintenance and are not 100% efficient. We can only dream of overkill.
The food we take in is processed, that already within us is processed, our cells burn through the fuel we feed them and others wonder how we can eat so much while remaining thin. Exercise? What should they be told?
Energy comes in, is used, goes out. All the substances we use are taken in, used up and must be replenished.
The more we eat, the more this flesh works to sustain itself, the faster it accelerates itself as it hurtles onwards to nigh-inevitable death.
If we don't eat, we suffer, undergo ability impairment and die. If we eat, we hasten our acceleration towards death. These pseudo-morbid thoughts avail us little, but you could say we're thinking about what alternative answers to give those who ask why we eat so much more than they do during meals.
It's really mystifying how they can eat such small, unbalanced meals and still look healthy.
It's also boring to give the same answer to the same question each time someone asks. Also, there's the perception that a 'best answer [from our perspective]' exists, and that if we vary our replies we'll heighten the chance of saying something that will sufficiently function to strengthen the bonds between us and others, even if we aren't aware of it at the time.
Anything stated is in certain senses true, or at least that's the goal. Once a conclusion has been come to, it's easy for people to rationalise dozens of good reasons for coming to it without touching on the real reason: taking that as inspiration, even if the real reason is known plenty of reasons that others should find acceptable are possible to come up with for almost any action, particularly if reasonable.
"I'm hungry. If I don't eat at least this much I won't become full, and it's safer to eat a balanced meal than anything else. What do you want from me!?"
...physiological comparison could be helpful, seeing exactly what any hypothetical major differences are between our metabolism and lifestyle or others'.
Ah, and we've almost never or possibly never at all used the last sentence in the paragraph two paragraphs ago.
Edit: N) Presumably the heat aspect shouldn't be overlooked. There's the noted increase in appetite as it's become Winter again, for instance, and the hypothesis that in the avoidance of sweat we deliberately increase the amount of heat loss, leading to further heat production, leading to greater internal demand for food to make up for that which was used in heat production... ...manual control of the various settings involved would be very helpful. *ponders the inappropriateness or appropriateness of the term 'settings'* (Cell-related information might imply inappropriateness, but unknown brain-related information might imply appropriateness. Hypothalamus.... control regions... hmm.)
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| Hmmm. |
[21 Nov 2009|03:26pm] |
N?/M?) Shorts under a skirt. I see potential here.
The benefits of a skirt while retaining the more crucial benefits of trousers: a state to keep in mind.
Of course, limb hair necessarily must be taken into account.
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| Where do the tendons connect? |
[21 Nov 2009|01:00pm] |
N) We can straighten our legs with no problems, so why is it a problem if we're touching our toes? Why is the bottleneck at the back of our knees, rather than our waste?
Hrm.
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| Certain seedy Japanese websites come to mind... |
[20 Nov 2009|09:58pm] |
N) N: "Hmm, reading this recent email about an HIV/AIDS talk indirectly reminds us that multiple times we've realised that we don't know the details of how AIDS differs from HIV or what triggers it. Let's take this opportunity to look at the Wikipedia AIDS article and find out."
Longarticle_is_long: "ALL YOUR CPU ARE BELONG TO US. YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SCROLL MAKE YOUR TIME." [Note: not actually said.]
Happily, we realised what was happening and forcibly stopped the loading process. Both the 99% in the StatusbarEx add-on and the absurd tininess of the scroll bar added to that the browser had practically frozen up to quicken the realisation in question.
I have no idea how large that damn article would have gotten. I have practically no desire to know. What I'd like to know is how the hell it got that large without someone editing or dividing it into sub-articles as takes place with anime series's character pages. Maybe a result of temporary trolling? Hrm.
*looks through what did load* Nothing definite, apparently.
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