Ask politely then report them to the librarian. Your 'like an immature pushover' comment made me laugh. If you recognize it... stop being a pushover about it?

I was in MCJROTC in High School and it was a joke. Most kids took it because it filled the gym requirement, but was basically a mostly 'do-nothing' class most of the time. I mean... there's really not much to learning military history and tradition. Drill was easy as shit (and I joined the drill team after school which was fun), and PT was only on Fridays.

By sophomore year I was changing into my uniform on uniform days only for the duration of ROTC's block and getting away with it. After that they changed the gym requirement for graduation so I didn't have to take ROTC any more. Ah... good times.

I only care to disprove your idea that there's a law above logic. Because if that were true, and it were contrary to a logical system, there would/could be cases where the illogical higher system overrides the subordinate logical system, thus invalidating the logic system by the very nature of its construction.

However, you've hit a decent concept, just mis-labelled it. The concept would still follow logically, it's just that we haven't yet discovered, observed, or understood any of the precepts at work to allow the conclusions that may appear illogical in our currently logical world. Am I making any sense here? There are things outside of current human scope of understanding that we COULD fit into our logical system if we simply realize all the missing factors that make the result predictable and thusly logical.

At 11/23/09 01:40 AM, Peaceblossom wrote: Haha, nobody has said it, but based on some of the posts its clear they didn't read it. And yeah, something about shy girls draws me in so much.

Oh, it's been said. I just happened to lurk your thread and extend them the courtesy of unsaying their crap. ; )

Anyway, you're kinda young to the whole game, but I'd be feeling pretty good about myself other than the apparent lack of condomage during coitus. Fuck that shit... ALWAYS be prepared. You stop at the store on the way home, tell her she can only blow you; WHATEVER. No going in without putting on the batter-block.

So, yea. It's not that bad. I mean... it could be worse for sure. What if this chick actually thought you wanted a relationship with her? You're clearly not interested any longer and into that other girl, so it's good that you don't have to be inexperienced and now you've got some decent confidence vibes going so you aren't all timid or whatever around your real interest. Even if the other girl ISN'T clean... you're probably fine. STDs aren't exactly prevalent, nor are the odds 100% of you contracting them given that somone has one. I mean... you can't even be guarenteed to get a girl pregnant with one occasion of spilt milk you're cryin' over. It's repeated exposure to the population at large that puts you at risk; NOT each individual occurance.

Good luck with it all. Oh, and lay off the drinking. It'll catch up. Monetarily, health-wise, etc. You DO NOT want to deal with alcohol withdrawals.

At 11/23/09 01:27 AM, REVIV wrote: You should of never became a mod again. I mean you got phished, you have to be dumb as FUCK to fall for that.

Well, I wouldn't be calling you dumb as fuck if it weren't for the fact that you apparently relish ignorance enough to announce it so proudly.

Feel free to troll my userpage news posts for the actual explanation of my account's compromising.

At 11/22/09 11:45 PM, Captain-Jack wrote: I believe, though am not sure, that that honour goes to Slightly_Crazy_Dude.

Great, now all the marsupials are coming out of the woodwork.

*macdeth, unless forum mods are the only ones who matter which I guess I'd like to believe so let's just say so.

The cat was being playful, it interpreted your half-hearted hand-movements as something enticing and interesting and gave it a nibble to see if you'd react playfully. Your quick jerk and "OUCH WHAT THE FUCK!?" undoubtedly startled it into running away.

Odds are, it was your sudden movement that actually made the bite do any damage. My cat doesn't even close her mouth when she bites playfully, she just grabs you lightly with her jaws and you play along by making your hand go dead.

Easy, plan a date where you two get your Christmas shopping done for everyone else. Stay with her and strike up conversations about the window displays or different things you see in the different stores while you're shopping for a 'mom' gift. She'll probably drop hints about what she likes and doesn't, and that should give you a decent idea. If you're bold enough, you could secretly buy her gift while she isn't paying attention, but I'd probably just go back later on for it.

At 11/22/09 04:33 AM, StarF68 wrote: Well I understand where you're coming from, but that's just sort of the point of this particular piece, that by ripping out the cable within himself he's sort of short-circuiting and jumping between trains of thought sporadically.

Yea... see in retrospect I recall those lines about short circuiting and the cable being ripped from himself, but the presentation was so distracting I couldn't even follow the point. Poetry has always struck me as the economy of word-use, and if you're speaking so you can intone, add effects, etc. you can economize your words a lot better. I mean... his point was almost already made by the time he'd identified it with the line about his circuited connection with earth being ripped from him. The rest REALLY lost me.

This is really his only poem like this, you can see another amazing (and more cohesive) example of his work here:
Joan of Arcadia (Original)
Joan of Arcadia (Remix)
Joan of Arcadia (Live)

Noted. Can't watch/listen now but I'll probably check it out soon.

They-uh jus' ahvin'-a-laff, guvnuh.

At 11/22/09 11:59 AM, 749-Pi wrote: If I can get a less biased source of facts on Wikipedia than a classroom, why should I show up to school?

Wikipedia isn't accredited by any school board, so you cannot earn a degree, or any other reality-based credentials like experience. Wikipedia and the internet are great supplemental learning tools, but they don't teach you the value of trudging through coursework for someone else who may or may not have bias in order to learn.

Furthermore, pretty much every teacher ever assigns an essay of some sort where can give you opinion on all the research you've done on your own. I mean... it's kind of ridiculous to me that you've only JUST NOW come to the realization that any source may be biased toward reporting information that jives with its own views, that's cynicism/common sense 101 IMO.

Keep attending school, it's a better idea.

I can do witty banter with the best of 'em. It has to be an extended conversation, though, since I like to incorporate things previously talked about with newer points in the conversation.

Or funny voices/impressions to make fun of someone or something. Valley Girl, Yoda, Movie Announcer Voice (thank you Pablo Francisco), etc.

Some of my favorite people to hang around with are those who observe something and then suggest this absurd change to it. Y'know, everyday comedy that COULD happen but didn't so they decide to imagine and ask 'what if' about it. Those are situationally funny, though, so I can't really give any examples without the standard 'you had to be there' problem.

I love me some good poetry, but I pretty much hated that. I can see how it's appreciable, for sure... I mean, he does a great job with his little effects and stutters. But the jowel-shake annoyed me and I'm never a fan of poetry that seems to just spit out a bunch of unrelated nonsense with vague allusions toward coherence and imagery that seems to be simply snatched from a scattered mind.

So... great performance, but I don't think I'm a fan.

At 11/21/09 08:51 PM, TrantaLocked wrote: OMFG I am actually getting it! This actually takes a lot of experimentation before you can found out the way to do it. I am trying different areas and angles and all areas sound different. Damn I did not know harmonics can get this complicated 0_0

Look up harmonics online. They work because when the string is vibrating at a certain pitch, there are 'nodes' along the string where there is little movement. The easiest to find is 1/2 the length of the string, which is typically right at the 12 fret on a guitar neck, though it's different depending on the condition or quality of your guitar and strings. So when you're hitting different nodes, you're sounding primarily a different harmonic pitch, all of those pitches make up the full-sounding note of the individual string. Harmonics have a similar relationship to a note that strings do to chords. Closer to the bridge makes notes sound metalic and rigid, whereas going further down the neck makes them sound more buzzy and soft.

Physics is facinating, BTW.

Emphasize how badly you feel that you've led her on, but every time you emphasize that, you should be following it up with 'so I conclude that the only way to set things right is to stop this farce and own up to my feelings like an adult.'

The rest is up to her. Do not let it drag out. She'll somehow notice and get down on herself because she won't understand the subtleties you're conveying while you two are together. Whether it's immediately or ages from now, eventually she should understand if you're mature and respectful about it.

And that's how you're not a douchebag. You approach it as if you respect her too much to lie to her and let her believe things that aren't there.

Yea, like others have said it's a pinch harmonic. P.H. Tabs are non-standardized notation, unfortunately, so maybe the v means a vibrato of some sort? If it's a really high pitch, then you shouldn't be striking the body-end of the string, you should be striking the string between where you're pinching and the string lock at the top of the neck.

I've never heard the song in question, but I bet the guitarist used one of his other fingers on his fretting hand instead of the picking hand to strike that note. So, I guess you are supposed to put a finger on the string at the 3rd fret, strike it with another finger to sound the note. As for the v... listen to the song and figure out what they're referring to there. I don't really know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_guitar_
company

They give some clues as to how to identify different models kay used to offer, but it doesn't appear to be expansive. Take it to a guitar shop, Guitar Center might work, but I bet if you find a local guitar repairist with more than a few decades in the business he'll probably be able to tell you what your particular instrument features (in terms of pickups, headstock material, etc.) and if not a model name some clues to find out what model it is. You'd probably need to see someone who appraises antique musical instruments for a living to really know. I certainly have no idea.

... for what it's worth, it looks like quite a quality guitar you have there.

At 11/21/09 07:55 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Your Trillian has a spellcheck? Dang....Mine doesn't! How did you get one? :'(

Come to think of it, it was a feature that would underline and link keyword, I don't know that it was a spell-check per-say. I disabled it years ago and have since updated several times, so I don't even know if that feature is supported.

http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-featur es.html Yea, 'instant-knowledge' I think, and then there's a wikipedia auto-lookup as well. So, I guess maybe there isn't a spell-check. Fanaticism claims another victim. : x

Watching the Patriots lose a game they had already (by all rights) won simply by failing the 4th and 2 conversation on their OWN 30 yard line instead of punting was the most pain I've endured watching football since watching them perform similarly against the Giants in '07. The team's brilliant, and then they go and make STUPID FUCKING GAME-CHANGING MISTAKES at the MOST CRITICAL MOMENTS toward the end of the game. Meanwhile, fans everywhere are all "RRRRHGGFFFFFFFFFFF."

Furthermore: you're going down, Jets.

Weird. There's almost as much age difference between the daughter and mother as there is between the mother and father.

Once you're in the habit of healthy eating, it becomes second nature. It's the same way it's become second nature to you to eat some of the unhealthy crap that you've been eating at present. Because you've got into the habit so it's easy to stay in the habit.

Breaking habits is easy: change your routine. When do you crave chocolate? Late at night it seems. Instead, go to bed several hours earlier. That way you don't even have to bother craving chocolate at such a late hour, because you're in bed getting rest. Or go for a jog or something.

Being healthy is a lifestyle choice, but you have to take it one decision at a time until you've actually established the habit.

At 11/21/09 04:58 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: I used to use trillian... but I like digsby better. You should try it! You might like it better too! ;)

I double dog dare ya! ;)

Ha ha, well I'll keep in mind that you recommend it, anyway. Once I finish getting off my lazy ass and finish setting my PC back up in my room I just might.

He'd probably have a great rant about the fictionalization of reality and how that says volumes about society. Each punchline would undoubtedly be hilarious.

But... he's dead and gone. Move on to new hilarious comedians.

I can't stand Monopoly. It's so long and boring. I usually play for about 20-30 minutes, then decide instead of killing myself via suffocation from breathing in the horse figurine I'll just give all my money and properties away and go do something else.

At 11/21/09 03:06 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: I use digsby... it lets you have aim, msn, yahoo, facebook, etc... all in one. Plus it has tabs AND spell check, unlike trillian. :D

Uh, trillian's got both and much more since I've been on, which is now since 2005. In fact, words that it doesn't recognize you had the option to hover over and it would automatically load a small blurb from the web either defining it or whatever else.

I really recommend trillian. Astra is pretty sweet and once I started trillian I never went back. It supports pretty much every client for chat there is.

At 11/20/09 12:40 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1122519

Sure enough, I viewed it on this very PC, as my browser recognized that link and it was entitled "Rage Against the Machine." Now for the truly burning question: why was it deleted?

Why do I swear that I posted in this exact same topic within the past month? That EXACT phrasing and everything. I said I liked their covers such as "Pistol Grip" and "Kill a Man."

Explain this to me. I can't find it in my post history.

Creatine supposedly supplements your muscles giving them some sort of vitamin or mineral that naturally takes longer to regenerate. From what I understand, it's involved in the stamina of said muscles, allowing you to work out harder, not feel as terrible when you do, and recover faster from the exertion. I also understand that, as with any performance enhancing product regarding working out, there is some debate on the pros and cons.

I do, however, doubt that it's a good idea to be using it at age 14. That's just my opinion, though.

I love nothing more than finding someone who's wiser or more experienced than me. It happens often, actually.

As for 'smarter'... please. There's no such thing. And I don't mean that in the egotistical way. I mean nobody's really truly 'smarter' than anyone else. There's just more or less inclined. IQ tests and scores are constantly shifting. They're not reliable nor necessarily an accurate gauging of one's intellect. It's, unfortunately, become another way for people to convince themselves that they are superior to those that are actually their peers.

So when someone says to me that they rarely or never meet someone of equal or greater intelligence than themselves, I wonder how often they get out. And when they do, I wonder how often they have meaningful conversation with others. Because there're a tunna people out there worth having the right discussion with.

Water, unless there's alcohol; in which case: beer, or if I can't stand the liquor: soda.