Generic Vacation Thread

[Lord_Iggy]

Into the land where the mountains are everywhere, the forests are unending, and the rivers overflow with salmon... I have come.

The land where German and Japanese tourists flock to, to see the aformentioned things, and to get outsmarted by the Ravens.

The land where the sky is wide, where the colourful 5% has become the colourful 50%, where hopes run high, whether for more tourists, government grants, or mining hits...

I have returned.

To the Yukon, home of 'The Magic and the Mystery' (according to the signs), my home.

Hey everybody! Back officially now.

 

[jeps]

 

[Lord_Iggy]

It's an afternoon's walk away.

 

[jeps]

from the central united states. from eastern canada, about 30 minutes.

I shall be away in late august. dates will be edited in when they are known. for good measure, since mods have a habit of not looking in this thread (just like players have a habit of not looking at when orders are due) it will be in my sig while I am away.

 

[Gelion]

Tough luck, I suppose. Good to see you're back (or in the process of returning, from what I understand), though.

Thanks, I do hope that I am on my way back.

 

[LBaeldeth]

Back. Sunburned, but happy.

 

[Nuka-sama]

Going back to Jolly ol' England, back with CPU by Sunday, maybe Monday

 

[Nylan]

Back. Sunburned, but happy.

Pah! The heat was in triple digits the last few days with near 100% humidity, and I was outside, working hard.

So I guess what I'm really trying to say is, I envy you

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Oh yeah, that's Farenheit.

I was about to ask why you didn't boil.

 

[Thlayli]

That's Fahrenheit!

*mumbles about how the Imperial System will conquer all*

I'll be gone from Friday to Sunday, for college interviews and mountain climbing.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

METRIC SYSTEM! Power to the decimals! Down with fractions and unnecessarily complex and irrelevant numbers!

 

[Nylan]

But it's FUN!

 

[jeps]

Oh yes, quite. I had to work with an american on different things, and I started using 12 ounces to a pound accidently. BIG problems came of that.

1000,100,10,1,.1,.01,.001 is the way to go

 

[Symphony D.]

Each has its advantages. Metric is obviously a superior universal and technical measurement but Standard is a better average working unit--the human mind works better with fractions than it does with decimals generally (they are easiler to visualize and compute) and 12 breaks down into good fractions much more easily than 10 does.

There's a reason not everything is base 10 (for example: time). And this is horribly off topic.

 

[jeps]

OT: the advantage to metric is you can use your fingers

On topic: I shall be away next weekend from the 17-19 but if I dont post it now I will forget.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

@Sym- I have to heavily disagree, I find decimals much easier to visualize and work with. And not everything is base ten because of less logically thought out systems in the past. I find that most arguments for the imperial system can be used against it somewhere else. IE: Sure, an inch might be the length of on of your hand's joints, or your foot may be exactly one foot long, but my casual stride length is one meter long, etc.

 

[Symphony D.]

@Sym- I have to heavily disagree, I find decimals much easier to visualize and work with.

I would argue that based on your own statements elsewhere that you do not qualify as a normal baseline sample of the population. But seriously, which is easier to make sense of? 0.1666666..., or 1/6? 0.08333333..., or 1/12? 0.71428571..., or 5/7? The last one doesn't really apply to Standard, sure, but one is much easier for most people to visualize (and mathematically, precise).

If you handed me a diagram and told me to build something I'd want it in Metric. If you want to tell me a guy is 1.86m tall, I'll tell you to give it to meet in feet and inches, because I can visualize it better. A large part of that has to do with what you're raised on, but fractions are by and large easier for the general populace to work with, and are better for quick and dirty measurements. Precision only matters when precision matters, which in the every day, is not that often.

Now, move it to While We Wait.

 

[Luckymoose]

Tomorrow I am leaving for 2 weeks but will have internet access. No updates things my PC has on it though.

 

[North King]

I will be gone until Thursday, the 16th of August. Family trip. I might have some extremely limited forum access; probably not enough to send legitimate orders in anything.

See you soon!

 

[carmen510]

Leaving tomorrow, don't expect me back until the 20th.