On pain and nerves:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317733.php
726 2017-06-03 03:39:48
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
727 2017-06-02 22:16:52
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
5 minute minor
728 2017-06-02 00:56:16
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I had a professor who turned Leibnitz's quotient rule into a Cab Calloway act:
"Dee of Hi on Ho is Ho dee Hi less Hi dee Ho all on Ho Ho."
729 2017-06-01 12:27:45
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Yes.
"He saw the aged king, Wyndar."
"He saw the aged King Wyndar."
"the island prison, Alcatraz"
"the island prison of Alcatraz"
"the island prison Alcatraz"
Hmm. I'd argue that in the last example the word 'of' has been elided. And I'd argue that "world Wild West" is an elided form of "world of Wild West".
But I'm sure that others would argue differently.
730 2017-06-01 11:58:39
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Is Wild West the name of the world?
731 2017-05-31 22:43:54
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Not a r*pe scene, but definitely porn.
732 2017-05-31 21:54:16
Re: Stephen Kink (22 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Isn't LSD a liquid at any reasonable temperature and pressure?
733 2017-05-31 07:37:38
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
If you haven't reviewed it yet, go ahead. I think you did. The changes are only at the end.
Who said anything about a r*pe scene?
734 2017-05-30 23:03:51
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Same Bat-time, Same Bat-channel
735 2017-05-30 05:01:16
Re: Beware random quickees (18 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
You don't even have to open the quickie; just try to see the list.
There is a place in Hell reserved for these people.
736 2017-05-28 11:39:10
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
How much is burning and how much is tissue rupture because of boiling fluid?
737 2017-05-28 10:49:20
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
A teaser from the chapter I'm working on:
Pausonallie stood on tiptoe to bring her lips close to Merran's ear. "What's wrong? Everyone here is a sorcerer. Clothing doesn't hide anything from us."
"I know that," Merran muttered. "It's the principle of the thing. People wear clothing. Animals don't. And if we can sorsee through it, it's more important to observe the rules." Her mother's explanation had been better, but Merran was having a hard time thinking clearly now.
"Is there a problem, dearie?" A heavy woman waddled over ...
738 2017-05-28 07:52:10
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I've edited the end of Ch 16: Dirtier than Dirt (previously: The Rockpile) to fit the opening of the next chapter.
739 2017-05-28 04:23:05
Topic: A reference for writers (0 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
For all I know I may have mentioned this before, but ...
The Pocket Reference, by Thomas J. Glover might belong on your shelf. If you need backgound information, on how to signal a crane operator or give first aid, on the weight or strength or ropes, on minerals or clouds, on electrical wiring, on glues or on gluons, on nuts and bolts or winding a radio frequency coil, on airline codes or car rental codes or the codes molded into tires, on ASCII codes or area codes (worldwide), on handsaws or circular saws or fire extinguishers, on the configuration of electrical plugs around the world (and the voltages they're used for), on military ranks and insignia, on life expectancies or the masses and orbits of Sols planets, on wind chill or consanguinity, on flow over a dam or daylight savings time, you might just find this big little black book useful.
740 2017-05-27 22:47:18
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
My calculations did not include the weight of the rope. With distances, I can take the numbers fom The Pocket Reference and estimate the weight of wet rope (It should get heavier as you go) and try to include that in the calculations. As long as we are limited to differentiation aand I don't have to exercise my weaker integration muscles I should have an answer in reasonable time. (I'm not going to try to do the catenary--cosh function-sag. That could be a day of study and work--and dammit, now I'm curious and I don't know where to find it in The Pocket Reference.)
741 2017-05-27 11:44:38
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Okay, I have a plausible-but-not-seriously-checked result.
If the two pulleys are at the same heigbt (an assunption maybe unjustified) the maximum force on the rope will occur when the distance from the end to the plumb line through Tazar is square-root-of-one-half (about .71) times the drop from tbe pulley to the knot joining the lines. If that condition cannot be achieved, the maximum force is with Tazar directly below the pulley (or hawspipe) through which the rope passes.
742 2017-05-27 08:13:32
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I promised you the position at which the force on Jaylene's rope (and Solace's rope) are maximized. I'm not getting the algebra right just now (or else I'm botching the chain rule in the calculus, which I don't think I'm doing) so I'll have to work on it some more. On to more reviews.
743 2017-05-26 17:52:04
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Ouch. I realized yesterday morning that I'd missed two scenes in The Rockpike. On reflection I realized one of them might be better later, but one of them should occur now. In fact, it should be Merran's first meeting of the people of the Rockpile.
I'll do at least six reviews today. (I could do 18.) But I'm going to spend time on The Rockpile too.
744 2017-05-26 06:39:55
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
No, he doesn't. And I'm not a fan in general. But this has a lot to recommend it.
745 2017-05-26 03:38:13
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'd boot the bootalicious too, and any bodacious so bold as to butt it's way in. "Behira-blessed backside" hits the funnybone without parading the hepcat
Just watched the Gilliam =Munchausen= with my father. I'd forgotten how well it's put together.
746 2017-05-25 04:26:44
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Oh, a couple paragraphs from finishing this too-long chapter. I start typing after the reviews (yours and a few others).
And at some point I may turn the partial episode from The True and Complete Account of the Instructive Adventures of the Daring and Sagacious Count Hulhausen Lundersot, and of His Life and Times into a full short. It might make a nice giveaway.
747 2017-05-25 04:20:37
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I owe you two reviews. I probably won't be able to do them tomorrow, so Friday. For now, I suggest swapping out hip words like bootie.
748 2017-05-25 00:11:35
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
What's up, Chuck?
749 2017-05-24 20:42:06
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Vomiting while not in control of your breathing tends either to suffocate you or destroy youy lungs.
750 2017-05-24 04:54:09
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Spilled Pu.
