Life Outside PLT1

Happy Halloween

Yes, I know we have all seen this image before

Yes, the first one is primarily for Zorab

Muffin Inefficiency

Are muffins inefficient to eat? If so, how inefficient are they? If not, how efficient are they? Aren’t those quantities really the same thing? Can we describe it with a differential equation? Should I stop asking questions?

We seem to have a distinct split amongst the PLT1 populace over this issue. There are those who believe muffins are difficult to eat and those who believe they are easy to eat.

Difficult:

• Entry requires consuming the edge first.
• Then the cup must be peeled.
• And then the remainder must be eaten cleanly.

Easy:

• It really only involves biting skills above those of a 2-year old’s.
• Bite the muffin, avoid the cup.

There we have it. But I’m sure discussion on this issue will not end with this half-baked post.

Untitled Post

It’s times like these, drunk at 4am and unable to sleep due to the fact that I’ve just downed 2 cans of red bull, that I like to sit back and ponder the framework of things that are. I’m sitting in the dark, pounding on a keyboard like some Shakespearean monkey (of Hamlet fame), the soft glow of the screen providing just enough ambient light for me to type by. I consider the nature of society and how human failings are (at least in theory) compensated by being part of a greater whole. The question I now pose is; given an infinite number of humans (provided we don’t wipe ourselves out, re: nuclear/chemical/biological warfare, or nature wiping us out re:SARS, Superbugs, influenza), ultimately, is the direction that our society is headed in pre-determined by the nature of our communal existence, or is human group behaviour sufficiently random that our future cannot be predicted. This brings us to the classic Sci-Fi of Asimov in the Foundation series, where it is imagined that human behaviour in large enough groups is, while not completely deterministic, predictable to a large enough degree (and error is not compounded by recursive calculation in a manner that would reduce the the reliable timeframe to a useless length) that humanity can be steered around rough patches and (hopefully) avoid tearing ourselves apart.

The trouble with predicting the motions of large groups (assuming that soceity is predictable in a manner similar to the one outlined above) is that it falls down in the face of individuals that exist are more than a mere dimple on a population chart. People who live in society, but do not behave the same way as the rest of it, propagating ripples throughout our neatly arrayed functions and variables.

The trouble is, that given the question “Can’t we all just get along?” the answer is so often a resounding “No” when queried against the prevailing nature of the society the question is posed to (vis a vi, the middle east conflict).

Are we all horrible, selfish people who can’t see far enough past the end of our own limited existences to see the bigger picture? Has our society shaped us in a way that our children and our children’s children are not going to amount to anything more than we have? That they’ll continue the same petty grievances against groups of people they don’t know?

What do you want from life?

What do you want the next generation to get from life?

If you’re looking for some kind of clever argument, some final point that I’m building towards, I assure you I don’t have one. I’m just some drunk lunatic with a keyboard and a propensity to embarrass myself when I think too hard.

Ignorance and complacency will be the death of us.

(Also, your giraffe is on fire)

Sober Addendum: I’m not sure exactly wtf I was thinking, regardless here it is, make what you will of it.

the naked face

DS wants RDW 4 NIC2007

Name: JW RDW
//Land
2 Kher Keep
3 Molten Slagheap
3 Keldon Megaliths
14 Mountain
//Non-Creature
3 Browbeat
3 Goblin Lore
4 Threaten
4 Fiery Temper
4 Rift Bolt
2 Thunderblade Charge
//Creatures
4 Gathan Raiders
4 Blood Knight
3 Mogg Fanatic
3 Reckless Wurm
4 Greater Gargadon
SB: 4 Word of Seizing
SB: 3 Sulfur Elemental
SB: 4 Cryoclasm
SB: 4 Fortune Thief

Sideboard could use work as you probably don’t need 4 Fortune Thieves or 4 Word of Seizing. Maybe something like pyrocasm for the white weanies. Hostility would be good in this deck. This still isn’t very good vs lifegain but in NIC2007 meta the best life gain is sun’s bounty or matyr of sands. If vs sun’s bounty aim burn to head, vs matyr, well there’s not that much recursion going with her so maybe use sudden shock? or use firebreathing fat creature

Emo Balloons

Yet another reason why the bible was written by a bunch of small balls men

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man

 I point this in attention to all the little boy shagging priests out there.. You know who you are

I’M NOT UNIQUE!

The late night boredom of “Google yourself” revealed very little. But within the couple of DCI links and one back here to PLT1, I found this person:

Holy crap.

Now as you may have guessed “Laus” is an uncommon surname. Imagine my surprise when I found this guy! But wait there’s more!

MOAR Doppelganger!

Yeeeeerrrp. This seems to be the same guy, at least to my quick examination. So he also is deaf? And likes basketball? Funny old world. And it’s not like i selected this guy at random, he’s they only bloody one other than me!

my eyes have seen the coming of the morn’

The sun is alive and well and winning the battle with my curtains. Headlines are are rattling out of my radio, stuck halfway between national and god knows what. Or maby he doesn’t and thats what their there for. Mother nature is held in contempt of court for not showing face at the class action law suite against her. Midget rescues cat out of tree. LA sinks into ocean. Elsewhere Bill hicks coughs out a laugh, rolls over and goes back to sleep.
I snuff out the last of my early morning cigarettes and count my blessings, the glory being that i don’t have to use my toes or even put down my beer. Rise and shine on like some sort of crazy diamond.
I catch the only shirt that isn’t quick enough to run away and breath in through it deeply. It smells like something died in it, but hell, i probably have once or twice and when you go through something like that with a shirt, you know its the one.
The house is quiet, being first thing in the morning at 3 in the afternoon, but still…
Its a beautiful day.

Going for the record number of not-friends

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Zero out of thirty two ain’t bad, huh? Anyone done better?