Just found an interesting spoonerism: Fire and Ice; Ire and Vice. There's something very ... political ... about it.
1,426 2016-08-29 20:37:17
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
1,427 2016-08-29 19:17:47
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Just apostrope out the E when he says it quickly.
1,428 2016-08-29 16:27:06
Re: New Inline Review Button (5 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
But then you don't know what new stuff has come in on the stories that you are following. (Hint for new feature, Sol.)
1,429 2016-08-29 14:52:40
Re: New Inline Review Button (5 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I like to learn from others.
1,430 2016-08-29 14:25:05
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Great sruff. I'll add a few suggestions later.
1,431 2016-08-29 12:12:54
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In regards to falling, rolling, and thumping: A fall coverts the potential energy of height into the kinetic energy of motion. In a straight fall, all that kinetic energy is downward. But if you roll using the energy of the fall, some--ideally most--of that energy goes into spinning you, so you hit the ground or floor with less linear velocity, less downward velocity, and less kinetic energy in the direction normal to (perpendicular to) the floor.
1,432 2016-08-29 11:28:54
Topic: New Inline Review Button (5 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
The button to show more new inline reviews goes back to the main page, both on the desktop and mobile interfaces.
1,433 2016-08-29 11:10:14
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'm not sure they'll ever get fully reconstructed.
I just tested the naked circuit board for the redesigned/rebuilt LDO 12v regulated supply. It doesn't work. I know where the wiring error is, but I'm not going to fool with it now. (It looks like there may be two complementary errors.)
Time to wash up and get to writing.
After this I have a long list of partially finished electronics. The first couple of items on the list aren't too big a deal, although they may take an hour or two. After that I have a somewhat larger project, though it should be straightforward (crosses fingers).
1,434 2016-08-29 05:49:52
Re: Question: How to contact someone not on your connection list (4 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I believe Sol deliberately ruled that out.
1,435 2016-08-29 04:33:17
Re: Question: How to contact someone not on your connection list (4 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Quickies, which are public messages.
1,436 2016-08-29 02:42:09
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Every writer is a Dr. Frankenstein, whose creations may start making their own decisions.
1,437 2016-08-29 01:39:18
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
A mad science superwoman comes into her powers. Hilarity ensues.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090803
Under all ot that, it's an amazingly well-crafted story. All the parts hang together, at every level.
1,438 2016-08-28 22:48:27
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Norm d'Plume wrote:Perhaps a "blaster" with multiple settings?
1. I forgot the sunscreen
2. I'm wearing a red shirt
3. BBQ
4. Liquify
5. Reactors look balmy compared to this
6. Mushroom cloud
7. The sun is jealous
8. Sh*t, I just melted the planet
9. We don't need no stinkin' solar system
10. Big bang
1,439 2016-08-28 15:49:28
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I created it. Two and a half days later it was not with any of my notes.
1,440 2016-08-28 12:36:36
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I lost a page of notes and spent about three hours more or less reconstructing it. I got a lot, and a few things I missed last time, but I missed things this time too. This is a list of disturbing things that Merran finds in her first few hours at the Academy. I've got three sequences to write for all this, and yes, I'm skipping ahead because a bunch bof ideas came together.
I'll work again this evening.
1,441 2016-08-28 03:59:58
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
He's not going to recover from a femoral artery opened with both entry and exit wounds. He's liable to suffer a severe blood pressure drop and go faint. And then loose consciousness, and then die. (This is for her final attack on Peter.)
1,442 2016-08-28 01:47:16
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I took a jump ahead a bit to record something that's floating around in my head. But found that I need to get a few inconsistencies out of the topography. I'll be working on that tonight.
1,443 2016-08-27 10:57:23
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
That's what I wrote!
1,444 2016-08-27 09:20:35
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The only cross-world trade is what sorcerers carry. Well, not quite but I haven't developed that yet.
The correspondence isn't exact, but a World-dependent mix from the twelfth century to maybe the fifteenth, with some things ahead or behind. (Kirsey's math is pushing the nineteenth.)
1,445 2016-08-27 09:13:20
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In her state? Even if she sets out to do that, I don't think she'll have time to orient.
1,446 2016-08-27 09:11:00
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Could just be local wierdness, until that part stabilizes. Who knows, it might give the ship motion sickness.
1,447 2016-08-27 08:22:30
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Depends how strong it is. (Remember, it will fall off as the square of the distance from the generator.) Close up it might fry electronics; further out it may just scramble logic circuits, requiring a restart to clear. If those logic circuits are controlling power switching equipment like motor controllers, something in those circuits might be fried when the control circuits space out. Further out still, it's severe RF interference (QRM).
1,448 2016-08-27 06:56:47
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
C is not a trained fighter. From her knees, lunging for the groin is a logical reaction.
1,449 2016-08-27 06:50:57
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I mean not in the world (universe), and not just in that particular World. None of these characters has even heard of such a thing, with the very slightly possible exception of Kirsey and Master Threckesrom.
Remember, in our world distilled spirits, even by your dates, did not become widespread untill the 1400's.
1,450 2016-08-27 04:49:50
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You can design the exploding shells to be mini-EMP generators, too.