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Re: 09/29/2025

llearch n'n'daCorna — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:00:43 -0000

"I wasn't complaining, I was envying and wondering how I could get in on that." ;-]

Re: Namesake - Memory of a Song - Part 3

llearch n'n'daCorna — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:24:23 -0000

To my mind: They have been paid. He has a bank account. He doesn't know what or where it is. On his nightstand or a random shelf is his bank card, begging him to set a PIN so he can use the five or six figures of bank account. ;-]

Re: 02/12/2025

llearch n'n'daCorna — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:24:21 -0000

Now I want to have dreams about brooding werewolf librarians. Or at least read the story...

Re: 07/03/2017

llearch n'n'daCorna — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 05:15:17 -0000

Yeah, except they're supposed to be standing on the right. Just read the signs on the tube. -.-

Re: 20160601

llearch n'n'daCorna — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 06:11:39 -0000

I don't know. I mean, you get felt up, that's got to count for something. ;-]

Re: protect a screen session with a password

llearch n'n'daCorna — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:57:26 -0000

note that restart isn't totally needed - you can run "^a :password $encrypted_pw" to enable it in flight, as it were.

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

llearch n'n'daCorna — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:36:18 -0000

... afterwards. ;-]

Re: Least I Could Do: the Comic

llearch n'n'daCorna — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:29:41 -0000

The fight raged on for a century, many lives were claimed but eventually, the champion stood; the rest saw their better...

Re: Plan D

llearch n'n'daCorna — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:08:38 -0000

Lady of Negotiable Affection, surely?

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

llearch n'n'daCorna — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:02:55 -0000

It's a deus ex machina! How awesome!

... either that or a MacGuffin. ;-]

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

llearch n'n'daCorna — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:47:54 -0000

Indeed. We've always been at war with Eurasia.

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

llearch n'n'daCorna — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:12:49 -0000

Or a trap.

Re: 20140703

llearch n'n'daCorna — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:20:55 -0000

39, and barely on the edge of this. There are times when I'm grateful to my parents for my metabolism. >.>

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

llearch n'n'daCorna — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:21:31 -0000

Don't forget the bubblegum. ;-]

Re: 11/22/2013

llearch n'n'daCorna — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:39:49 -0000

Erm. Given the comic at the top, how dirty does it have to be to be inappropriate?

... Don't answer that. ;-]

Re: 01/25/2013

llearch n'n'daCorna — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:47:42 -0000

No, I think that was deliberate. Given the large number of trolls in the EVE community...

Re: Hangi

llearch n'n'daCorna — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:57:15 -0000

Hinemihi is one of four maraes out side of New Zealand, not three - or so I'm told. She is also the only thatched marae in the world - and therein lies a tale.

See, after Mount Tarawera erupted (and destroyed the Pink and White Terraces, a major tourist attraction in the area), it covered the entire area with ash to a fair depth. One of the local villages sheltered inside her, all 60 or so of them, and took the benches on either side of the house and propped the roof up with them, so it wouldn't collapse under the weight. When the ash stopped falling down, well... you see the third picture? Right in the middle, at the peak, there is a small wooden carving. That was the only part of the entire structure that was still above ground level. A wee bit of ash.

After they got out, there was nothing growing around for miles, so they moved away. The Governor-General of New Zealand at the time was Earl of Clandon, and he asked if he might purchase a keepsake to take home to England with him. A picture was taken, and she was disassembled and shipped to Clandon, where the head gardener was given the picture and a pile of pieces and asked to put her back together. He looked at ash on the roof, in the picture, and figured she was thatched.

Later on, during WW1, the Maori Battalion was stationed at Clandon for R&R, and found her being used as a boat house. They asked that she be moved up away from the lake, and repaired.

Long, long history to the marae. All sorts of interesting details. Alan Gallop wrote a book about it, even.

Oh, and there are plans to replace the thatch with a more traditional roof, which is to say, using slates of kauri tree from back home. It's still in discussion, and has been for the last four years or so. Progress is being made, but it's ever so slow...

Re: It's All My Fault

llearch n'n'daCorna — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:55:47 -0000

Give it some years, and we may well end up an elegant, tastefully shaped country.

Although not for long. ;-]

Re: The Subtlety of Posture

llearch n'n'daCorna — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:04:50 -0000

That's not you upside down shaking hands, there, is it? It looks an awful lot like you...

Re: My Beautiful Dojo

llearch n'n'daCorna — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:34:06 -0000

Only if someone else is the one planting their face. ;-]

Re: How To Be Confident

llearch n'n'daCorna — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:14:16 -0000

I was thinking about this. It boils down to something along the lines of, I'm being more precisely imprecise - if that makes sense.

Rather than saying "it will happen" or "it will not happen", I'm giving what I consider to be an accurate prediction of what I expect to happen. Either it will happen or it won't, but at the time I speak, I'm speaking in statistically probable values; there's a 75% chance it will happen, or there's a 95% chance it won't happen (obviously, these are not both the same chance; unless the former is "if person a does x" and the latter "if person a fails to do x in a timely manner") - either way, it's specific.

And I need to be aware of the fact that other people aren't thinking statistically, and adjust my usage appropriately; either specify that, or, likely (hah!) more usefully, change my verb choice to something more confident...

Re: How To Be Confident

llearch n'n'daCorna — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:20:38 -0000

Isn't it, though?

Re: How To Be Confident

llearch n'n'daCorna — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:54:21 -0000

That's an interesting list.

I use an awful lot of those sorts of phrases, because, well, they describe precisely what I mean. "probably going to be that way" because, on balance of likelyhoods, it probably will be that way. "I'll figure it out" because I will. I honestly expect to figure it out, without any problems at all. "I guess", "I need to", because I do guess, and I do need to.

This is, I suspect (ooo, another one) one of the differences in the way I think to the way everyone else thinks. Or something similar.

I'll think on it. There is a solution there somewhere...