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| Jan-23-12 | | frogbert: dom, i was only trying to return annie's "accusation" from a few days ago, all in good spirit. i know you have to be a gentleman and defend the young lady, so that's perfectly all right, too. :o) |
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| Jan-23-12 | | Thanh Phan: Try offer these cupcakes then! http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/c... ;) |
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| Jan-23-12 | | mack: <Domdaniel>
What exactly did my message say? I assume it was one of the flirtier ones. I've been apologising to people all day without knowing what I'm supposed to be apologising for. Other set responses I apparently might like to use on acquaintances include: 'How was the day?'
'I am in the museum.'
'I admire you!'
'Love.'
'I am watching a movie.'
A very peculiar phone, indeed. There's no predictive text, yet it does have a 'fake call' function. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | frogbert: <A very peculiar phone, indeed.> i'll bet it's some secret code. for instance, the first, capitalized letter of the responses you quoted is the start of the message 'HI, I LIKE ...' or possibly 'hi, i listen to ...' or some equally mi6-ish code. mack, you need to type down *all* the different templates available and try to solve the puzzle. next, you'll need to figure out who was really supposed to receive your phone; it probably became yours by some accident - a case of mistaken identity or something. hurry, there's no time to lose! |
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Jan-23-12
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> Ah. The message said, uh, lemme check ... all in a knight's work, as it were, here we go: "Forgive me. You look pretty today. How about dinner?" Innaresting, huh? I like that 'Forgive me' as an opener - it hints at some line which the texter is about to cross, though I suppose it could also just mean 'sorry'. Speakina ambiguity, that 'How about dinner?' could be read as either (a) 'wanna come out to a charming little Chinese place I know and experience a romantic ritual?' or (b) 'where's my evening grub, you cow?'. Context-dependent, innit?
The *more* startling message received at the same time was from somebody signing themself as 'Giggles' and expressing their undying lurv. Enough said. I have my suspicions, and they pertain to RL rather than CG. Though one never know, do one?
I was wondering if they'd accidentally released the Valentine's Day hypnotic aphrodisiac gas a few weeks early, or something. |
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Jan-23-12
| | Domdaniel: Ackshully, "Forgive me. You look pretty today. How about dinner?" is an exquisite piece of compositional compression, like a cross between a haiku and a novel. I'm reminded of 'The Last Words of Dutch Schultz' ... taken down by police stenographers in 1930s New York as the bullet-riddled mobster lay dying in hospital. They wanted places, names, confessions, answers. They *got* stuff like: "French Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone." I suppose I ought to follow the current fashion and record it using my William Burroughs voice and release some sepulchral audio files on the nutterweb. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | Annie K.: <Thanh> where do you find these things?! Great pick. :D <frogbert> thanks for the pronunciation comments. ;) <Dom: <<mack> Clearly "call me when it's done" suggests mafiosi to you or me. To other folk I suspect it falls within the range of employer/employee relations, whatever they are.>> Bloody showoff. :p Hmm, or maybe even parent/child relations, although it might be hard to tell the vector direction, considering the manners of kids these days. ;) <The *more* startling message received at the same time was from somebody signing themself as 'Giggles' and expressing their undying lurv. Enough said. I have my suspicions, and they pertain to RL rather than CG.Though one never know, do one?>
Omigosh, LOL. Wasn't me. :p
Somebody's got to be making this up, it's too funny...! :D |
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| Jan-24-12 | | Thanh Phan: <Annie K.> Various comic reading, random word searches and email or chat comments become part of my search of the day, lol For the weekend there is this I thought would like http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.ne... |
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| Jan-24-12 | | mack: <I suppose I ought to follow the current fashion and record it using my William Burroughs voice and release some sepulchral audio files on the nutterweb.> Oh Christ, no. I'll start getting Galway flashbacks. |
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Jan-24-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <Dom: I have my suspicions, and they pertain to RL rather than CG.> What is RL? |
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| Jan-24-12 | | dakgootje: template replies? I have to check whether I have any of those on my phone! Doubt it though..
I do have the same fake call-function - very handy during boring meetings. Or so it said in the manual. You had to be a rocket-scientist to activate it - or, worse yet, tech-savvy. Moreover, I don't <do> meetings. |
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Jan-24-12
| | OhioChessFan: Where are my manners? How could I post that without a link to this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XFf... |
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Jan-24-12
| | Domdaniel: <Somebody's got to be making this up, it's too funny...! :D> Somebody *is* making it up. More than one somebody, in fact. Me, I just tell selective truths.
;) |
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Jan-24-12
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> -- <What is RL?> Always so philosophical. A deep question.
RL is what's left of IRL when I leave. |
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| Jan-24-12 | | frogbert: have you seen these "puzzles"? it's one variant of solitaire chess:
click for larger view(i haven't gone entirely bonkers even if the diagram might suggest i have.) in the above, the black pawns have merely been used to create two different playing boards of 4x4 squares each. the one in the upper, left corner is a fairly simple starter exercise, while the other one is much harder. the rules are simple: all pieces move like they normally do, except that 1) there are no pawn promotions
2) you can only make captures
3) you capture "your own" pieces
in a way the 3rd rule is pretty self-evident, since there are no other pieces to capture. the goal of each puzzle is simply to remove all but the piece making the final capture, i.e. to reduce the material to one piece (or pawn) only, by a series of captures. my son got this game for christmas from his mother, but strangely his father turned out to be the one most intrigued. strange that. if in need of notation (to express a solution), using a-d and 1-4 and standard notation should work well. good luck! |
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Jan-24-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> Intriguing. In-tree-going, even, like the infamous *Norwegian Tree Cat*... En passant, I see your display also creates two 'empty' 3x3 boards, thus strangely vindicating my 'spare room' chess theory of a couple of years ago. If in need of notation, I often just make one up. As long as actual communication isn't an issue. Do they have unique solutions? |
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| Jan-24-12 | | frogbert: mostly the solutions are unique even if sometimes two captures can be made in any order. the two i "reprinted" both have only one possible "solution path", i think. and sorry about the wasted 3x3x2 squares. maybe entirely filling them with pawns would look better, albeit somewhat dark? |
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| Jan-24-12 | | frogbert: or, just to drive the point home - this is not *normal* chess - something like this?
click for larger view(this one is *without* any puzzles, just to be entirely clear and to avoid any fruitless frustration.) |
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| Jan-24-12 | | achieve:
click for larger viewHere's my first try, bottom right (e1 = a1):
1 Ba1xRc3 2 Nxb4 3 Rxb4 4 Pc1xd2 5 Pxc3 6 Pxb4 - and failed first try, leaving the Bd1 on the board 2nd try: narrowly failed again!
This isn't easy, I need to get used to this... Ought not to be *that* difficult, one would think. Nice new game! Good composition.... |
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| Jan-24-12 | | frogbert: not sure it will help anyone's game, but for a chess geek i found it to be enjoyable puzzles. if we disregard the trivial ones (like the beginner example i gave in the upper, left corner), you typically get this "duh - why didn't i spot that sooner" feeling whenever you finish a new puzzle. :o) |
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| Jan-24-12 | | achieve: I think for young kids this is a nice way to get used to how the pieces capture and recapture, and to think ahead (I dare not use the word "calculate" yet) ... Though I can hear any 5 yr/old whining to his dad that s/he "wants to play on the big boaaaaard..." And indeed daddy ends up playing Solitaire Chess every spare moment, neglects his wife, loses his job, 2nd loan on the house, usw. ... |
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| Jan-25-12 | | technical draw: <Dom><There's bad luck, and there's really screwing up and being done over by fate...> Isn't that unserendipity or did I just make up a word? |
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| Jan-25-12 | | frogbert: there's a fate chance that is your undestiny. |
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| Jan-25-12 | | Bureaucrat: Hi guys,
Sorry to intrude, but I like puzzles :-)
click for larger viewNc2xa1
Bd1xb3
Na1xb3xd2
c1xNd2xRc3xb4 |
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Jan-25-12
| | Domdaniel: <tech> Brilliant ... and so unserendipitously done. |
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