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Charlotte

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So I noticed again that Thorin's website is kulthea.net, which sounds like an Indian goddess, and that made me think of Indian women doing that weird side-to-side thing with their heads when they dance, and wondering if it hurt.

 

Which made me think about what a tortoise does when its head retracts. Does its neck buckle or fold? And that's exactly the question the scientist asks in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

 

Which makes me wonder why Cat's Cradle is called that: why a cat, exactly, as opposed to some other creature? That leads me onto evolution, and then Richard Dawkins, who I was discussing with someone at work today and they pointed out what a big forehead he has.

 

'You think that's a big forehead.' I said, and showed them a picture of B.F. Skinner, who wrote Walden II which was based on Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau. And that name reminds of Thorin.

 

Which makes me wonder about Thorin's website, kulthea.net....

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I wonder if the cable had snapped and the capsule fell back down the shaft in Chile would it have been a fun ride...

 

Imagine if someone was standing under the hole lookin up

"Yeah, I can see something moving, coming this ....WAAAAY" SPLAT!!!

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Imagine if someone was standing under the hole lookin up

"Yeah, I can see something moving, coming this ....WAAAAY" SPLAT!!!

 

I was thinking that.

 

It would have taken all my strength not to chuck a rock down there to scare them and just hope no one was standing under the hole.

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I hate not being able to find things with the correct interface.

 

It's a nightmare!

 

All I want to do is import a midi file which I created in one program into another so that I can assign real sound samples to the super mario-esque midi tones.

 

If program number 1 had the real sound engine I'd be sorted.

 

If program number 2 wasn't riddled with problems such as creating a master tempo then I'd be sorted.

 

It is at times like this that I wish I knew how to write programs. :innocent:

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I've always wondered why buildings were called buildings when they've already been built?

 

(I asked this once in a lecture, and apparently buildings were invented by Mr. William Ding and named in his honour)

 

Bill Ding :D

 

How many skittles would it take to fill a standard bath..

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How many skittles would it take to fill a standard bath..

 

A standard bath is around 9 cubic feet.

 

A Skittle is approximately 0.39 cubic centimeters.

 

A standard bath = 254 851.619 33 cubic centimeter

 

therefore:

 

653,466 Skittles would fill a bath tub.

 

So, assuming there are approximately 400 skittles in a 16 oz bag, you would need 1,634 bags. Good luck.

 

 

How bloody bored am I?

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