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Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 06:29 PM (35,832 Views)
Snofox Kari
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human population might be in the billions, but that's only LIVING people....people who have died once had fingerprints and the odds of a currently living or newly born person having the same or a very close match to any other living or deceased person is still very very low...so if you take that into consideration, the number of "possibilities" widens a bit for human prints
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Elystriana
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Happy Pi day! :heart:
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Snofox Kari
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Indeed!
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towr
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Oh, come on, you can't have a square pie for pi day. I mean, squaring the circle is just not done.


What you should do, is take a circular piece of dough with radius z, stack it with toppings to a height a, and then bake it so the total volume becomes pi*z*z*a.
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Snofox Kari
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hmm gotta make it deep dish :lol:
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I miss hanging in/with this crowd.
You guys are great.

Also, my "History:The Modern Era" class wants me to have the topic for a thesis paper today. It has to fit within some time after 1000 CE (or AD for us stubborn old folk(?)) and have some connection to 'global history' and be something that there can be some debate or question, that my final thesis statement will be an answer to a question or challenge.

I'm thinking doing something with the change from what medieval Europe was actually like to the pseudo-medieval 'high fantasy' that permeates our fiction (the whole 'swords and sorcery, elves, dwarves, noble knights and evil wizards bit). Sort of a compare and contrast, trying to trace the transition from the reality to the common-use mis-presentation of. Not sure how to state my topic concisely (I don't need my precise thesis yet, just the topic). Thoughts?
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Snofox Kari
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that sounds like a cool idea, i'm sure after some preliminary research into it, you'd find a more solid statement to make your thesis with >w<
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TheDeepDark
Mar 20 2015, 04:37 PM
I'm thinking doing something with the change from what medieval Europe was actually like to the pseudo-medieval 'high fantasy' that permeates our fiction (the whole 'swords and sorcery, elves, dwarves, noble knights and evil wizards bit).
Yeah, but the pseudo-medieval 'high-fantasy' that permeates our fiction is a based on the fiction they wrote and told at the time, not on that period itself.
It's not that the reality of that time got distorted through time and became our fantasy, what they passed on was already fantasy. Myths, Arthurian legends, Norse sagas, folk tales, faery tales.
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So where'd They get 'em? And how did they reconcile what was with that fantasy (was it 'urban' fiction then? ;) )
Anyway, it's an excuse to study something interesting. Which will be a nice change for that class.
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towr
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I think the main point is that you shouldn't compare fiction-now with reality-then (history), but with fiction-then (regardless of whether they believed it or not).
Dwarves, trolls, faeries, elves, dragons, magic, they have all been around for centuries. The first written records date back to middle ages or earlier.
But it could be very interesting to see how the character of stories and elements in it have changed; e.g. how dwarves or elves changed, how magic changed (Dungeons and Dragons will almost certainly have had an influence).

As for where they got the stories, well, in many cases the origins are probably lost in time. But we do know some of the medieval and classical writers that were highly influential. Like Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chrétien de Troyes, who in the 12th century were responsible for shaping the Arthurian legends we know today. (Although some stories surrounding Arthur had existed in some form long before that.) And classical writers like Homer and Virgil and Ovid were influential throughout the middle ages and beyond.
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Snofox Kari
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personally, i like to find obscure and unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated cultures... seeing how even those that seem to have least in common actually have more in common that we realize (uniting the world through history!) but it's still fun to examin cultures by their myths and legends as well, many times such stories are a good way to show these connections


on another note....
i don't have fear of bugs....but.....someone call terminix D: we have a whole infestation!

oh...oh my GAA---! the spider bit me! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! i can't swat them fast enough!
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towr
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Snofox Kari
Apr 1 2015, 05:32 PM
on another note....
i don't have fear of bugs....but.....someone call terminix D: we have a whole infestation!
You can actually poke them all to death with your mouse pointer, though it takes a while.

Maybe it's time to file a bug-report ;)
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towr
Apr 1 2015, 07:53 PM
Snofox Kari
Apr 1 2015, 05:32 PM
on another note....
i don't have fear of bugs....but.....someone call terminix D: we have a whole infestation!
You can actually poke them all to death with your mouse pointer, though it takes a while.

Maybe it's time to file a bug-report ;)
i can't swat them fast enough, though D:!! the fruit flies are especially pesky


and...and...this is my bug-report! >.<!!
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You mean they don't just keep multiplying? I kinda gave it up as useless once the spiders started appearing. XD
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towr
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Yeah, you'd think the spiders would clear up the fruit fly infestation, but they didn't really help much.
I did manage to kill all the bugs once, but it did take so long I took a few breaks doing some more useful things.
The maximum should have been something like 120 fruit flies, but sometimes they fly away instead of dying, so that makes it take even longer. And initially they're not all on-screen and poking one can cause them to multiply, making it even more frustrating.

Anyway, infestation cleared, we're bug-free again :halo:
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