Random Thoughts XV: Temere Cogito, Ergo . . .

[Gori the Grey]

Gallagher applied the theory that it takes 10,000 hours to master any one subject.

See, I told you this was the rule of thumb.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Speaking of recommendations, for some reason I've been getting a lot of ABBA clips turning up in my FB feed. I have no idea why. I do enjoy ABBA, but don't remember going out of my way to watch anything recently.

 

[Farm Boy]

I'm bored.

 

[Gori the Grey]

You got some reading to do, young man.

 

[Farm Boy]

He was annoying me.

Plus, my reading place got all snowy, now it's muddy. If I'm going to be annoyed, I will wait for a dry butt while I do it.

 

[Lexicus]

He was annoying me.

Plus, my reading place got all snowy, now it's muddy. If I'm going to be annoyed, I will wait for a dry butt while I do it.

I had a particular rock down in the creek that I was fond of, back when I lived closer to it. Couldn't go in the rain, the good seat would be underwater.

 

[Gori the Grey]

He was annoying me.

That I want to hear about. Once things dry out.

 

[dusters]

I have several people around me who were born in the 1950s whose health I would be happy for.

From whom I would love to learn a lot more, but 70 is such a mystical age for men - depending on genes and anamnesis, for one it is the beginning of a second youth, for another - the last decade of the end of life.

 

[Perfection]

I had a particular rock down in the creek that I was fond of, back when I lived closer to it. Couldn't go in the rain, the good seat would be underwater.

Rock down eh?

 

[Farm Boy]

It feels wrong in a weird under-the-skin way that "suicide catapults" or some such unit is a serious "strategy" that exists within an actual video game. How do you write a note to that guy's mother?

It may not have been your intention, but thank you for this line. It gave me a good memory about the...

Spoiler ...abstractions in games. :

My wife was a huge fan of the series. Less about the actual game mechanics and balance and all the things a civfanatic draws enjoyment from, but for the stories and grand epic tales one could tell as the board plays out through the game. She was running a conquest of some sort, probably recreating the empire where the son never sets, while I was dinking about in the room not on the computer(a rare occurrence to have happened that way around), and I hear her take a city. Followed up by, "The only thing I don't really like is all the screaming sound effects." She took in very good sport my only slightly mocking laughter and overlong akshually* aside regarding abstractions.

*as Sommer would put it

 

[Voidwalkin]

In the age before metallurgy, shaving might have been impossible. Can you shave with flint?

You'd have to pluck it all off. Ouch.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Obsidian knives can even be used today for exquisitely sharp surgical instruments. I daresay they'd have done the job for shaving. Assuming one had access to obsidian (would have to live near a volcano for that, or have a source via a trade route).

 

[Farm Boy]

Open flame!

 

[Gori the Grey]

I feel like a lot of the plot of "We Bought a Zoo" is right there in the title.

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Obsidian knives can even be used today for exquisitely sharp surgical instruments. I daresay they'd have done the job for shaving. Assuming one had access to obsidian (would have to live near a volcano for that, or have a source via a trade route).

Obsidian was one of the first trade goods identified in the archeological sites in the middle east, because the chemical composition of obsidian can be tracked back to the volcano it came from, and it is a mineral that doesn't rot, decay, or burn up, so remains in the archy record. Obsidian was traded clear across the Mediterranean from Sicily, or from Anatolia down to Egypt.
Obsidian can be flaked into edges as sharp as a modern razor. It was a good, if somewhat fragile, substitute for metal blades and was used in mesoamerica to provide cutting edges for weapons where they didn't have advanced iron or bronze metals available.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's not bad, but a bit soulless. Afaik he was quite decent with buildings/scenery but not with drawing living things.
Maybe he could have been a good manga artist.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

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It's not bad, but a bit soulless. Afaik he was quite decent with buildings/scenery but not with drawing living things.
Maybe he could have been a good manga artist.

Is it one of his? I'd have pegged it as AI because of how the stairway covers one of the ground floor windows.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is it one of his? I'd have pegged it as AI because of how the stairway covers one of the ground floor windows.

It is, yes - googled and the image was presented at the Telegraph, a UK newspaper.
Here is another of his, a much more imposing one:

 

[Voidwalkin]

I don't like that style.

I tend to find people who really like houses and buildings kinda...hierarchal, generally. Hitler no exception.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't like that style.

I tend to find people who really like houses and buildings kinda...hierarchal, generally. Hitler no exception.

Hey, when your best friend is a building, you are special ^^