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Aug-20-11
 | | Domdaniel: This game features a traveler against a traitor: Comet vs Brutus, 2003 |
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| Aug-20-11 | | mworld: i have a bad feeling this is going to be trekky oriented...seeing the 26th century time pod data. |
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| Aug-20-11 | | mworld: but brutus was never in a century. Maybe it was someone from caesars 9th legion, 20th century, who did a walkabout and discovered a 26th century plot, leading to the legion's decimation? |
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Aug-20-11
| | Domdaniel: <hms> -- < The only exceptions are phrases that include the term <maths>. Those are all mine.> Does that include phrases like "as he was slammed into the <mat, H's> brain wondered why he ever took up sumo wrestling..."? Or "<Ma! 'th's> are too hard to pronounce - will zis do?" Technically, this is the mathesis of metaphor with some tmesis. *Ath Thoth ith my witneth*, as some old Egyptian put it in Thebes. "Thomas Aquinas was provocative, but even he thought it too much to anagrammatize his name as *O'Maths* - his book <Summa Ths> was originally going to be a summation of theology, but he decided to include thaumaturgy and theatricality and the other 'th's as well." That's summat, H. |
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| Aug-21-11 | | dakgootje: I generally use the term as abbreviation for the fictional institute 'Massachusetts Academy of Technology, History and Science'. This is of course a play on the real world-renowned 'Massachusetts Academy of Things like Hats and Stuff'. They are especially good in Stuff. |
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Aug-21-11
| | Domdaniel: Or the <Maastricht Academy of Time, Horology and Seconds> founded by a Dutchman who, noting the strange non-flatness of the landscape, thought he had reached Switzerland, home of clocks. And there's the <Mullingar Academy of Tillage, Heifers and Sheep>, a farming college in Ireland. "My Anchor's The Hard Stuff". |
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| Aug-21-11 | | hms123: I see you finished your <MAT,HS>. |
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| Aug-21-11 | | dakgootje: Do you have a picture of you busy working?
"Hms at maths". |
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| Aug-21-11 | | hms123: <dak> <Busy working?> I have no idea what you are talking about. |
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Aug-21-11
 | | OhioChessFan: http://www.jasonbennion.com/images/... |
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Aug-21-11
| | Domdaniel: <hms> I've heard of this 'busy working' ... it's something bees do, apparently. Although one might wonder whether pollination, quaffing honey, and buzzing around flowers is really work. Consider the lilies. |
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Aug-21-11
 | | WannaBe: I am 'busy beeing' pollinating... That's my story, and I am 'sticking' to it! |
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Aug-22-11
| | Domdaniel: Heh. I knew a guy who used "Hello, I'm a Bee and I'd like to pollinate you" as a chat-up line. Mostly just with flowers, though. Now he's wanted by Interflora in six countries. |
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| Aug-22-11 | | hms123: <Dom> Thanks for the compliments. You have helped me a lot over the years, so any shout-outs from me are well-deserved. It should have been <polymath<s>>, I assume. |
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Aug-22-11
| | Domdaniel: <mworld> - < but brutus was never in a century> Oh yes he was, without even getting into the question of whether he ever served as a *centurion* in a Roman army. I suspect he was too posh and upper-class for mere centurionhood - a glorified sergeant-major, in modern terms. He lived during the VII century AUC: Ab Urbe Condite, 'from the foundation of the city'. That being Rome, supposedly in 753 BC, in Xtian years. Oddly, the Latin word 'brutus' meant 'dull' or 'irrational'. Interesting name to give a child. |
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Aug-22-11
| | Domdaniel: Speakina Romans, I'm thinking of resurrecting one of their customs. (No, not haruspication or alphatabulomancy ... the dark art of drawing letters from a bag to tell the future.) This one was called 'Contesseration' (contesserare). First, get a Contessa, and then ... No, the root is actually 'tessera', a type of square (still seen in words such as tesseract and tesselation). The custom was to formalize a friendship by breaking a square tile in two and rejoining the parts. (Gay marriage for squares, without the squidgy bits, if you like.) If Caesar had contesserated Brutus, he might not have been stabbed by him. Though Caesar, like some modern leaders, had a reputation for, well, shagging anything with legs. Think I'll stick to the Contessa after all. |
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| Aug-22-11 | | mworld: <Oh yes he was, without even getting into the question of whether he ever served as a *centurion* in a Roman army.> Oh no he wasn't :p unless you count coming along after the fact and inventing the word to put him in one; not very existential of you =] speaking of irony, there's always the obvious supposition that 'caesar' means 'hair'. |
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| Aug-22-11 | | mworld: guess you explained how the phrase, "are we square?" came to be. |
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| Aug-23-11 | | dakgootje: <Gay marriage for squares, without the squidgy bits, if you like.> Is that like calamares without the squid? |
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Aug-23-11
| | Domdaniel: If we're all square, why does it take six of us to form a platonic solid? |
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| Aug-23-11 | | mworld: i see your point...but i'd imagine that you meant to say 12 of us given: we = square. If you are suggesting that we are all individually square then it wouldn't be platonic, now would it? |
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Aug-23-11
| | Domdaniel: The cubical *surface* of a Platonic solid, I mean. The *volume* would require an infinite number of infinitesimally thin (inframince) square slices. "Don't need a home or volume control..."
A SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) could tell the difference... |
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Aug-23-11
| | Domdaniel: I now expect Gaddafi to tunnel his way out (more quantum weirdness) and surface in Kalmykia, where Kirsan will reveal that Brother Mu'ammar is really an alien ambassador to our benighted planet. The aliens will then provide Kirsan and Gaddafi with a couple of starships, and at this point my crystal ball turns muddy. Inspissated, even. In one scenario, Washington DC is wiped out by photon torpedoes. In another, Kirsan and Gaddafi leave for Andromeda at a velocity in excess of c. At four times the speed of light, Kirsan will say "one see four is the English opening"... |
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| Aug-23-11 | | mworld: but if *we* are square, then how can *I* be square too? |
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| Aug-23-11 | | hms123: <Dom>
From today's New York Times:
<10:59 A.M. Russian Chess Official Says He Talked to QaddafiWith his 42-year rule appearing to crumble, to whom did Colonel Qaddafi turn for a sympathetic ear? Apparently, to his old chess buddy.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the head of the World Chess Federation, claims to have spoken to the embattled -- and still unaccounted for -- Colonel Qaddafi by phone, according to Russia's Interfax news agency. Mr. Ilyumzhinov said the Libyan leader was still in Tripoli. FIDE head Ilyumzhinov says he talked to Gaddafi on phone, he is in Tripoli with his eldest son Mohammed, no plans to leave Libya #news Tue Aug 23 14:13:56 via web
RT RT_com
This account could not be verified, though it is not entirely from left field. Colonel Qaddafi and Mr. Ilyumzhinov met in Tripoli for a chess match staged for the Libyan state television cameras in June. Of course, as The Lede pointed out then, Mr. Ilyumzhinov has a reputation for being something of an eccentric, believing, among other things, that chess is "a gift from extraterrestrial civilizations."> |
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