Naw. I think DUX would need to tell Cyan that for there to be drama.
Agreed.
..But now it won't be sincere.
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I also kinda had relations with my boss, and as expected that situation exploded, imploded, reloaded, and then unloaded on me again.
He unloaded on you!! (Too easy)
My thoughts and prayers are w/ you teeeeeef.
Hang in there Dagg. I’ve never been able to be “just friends” with someone I have feelings for either. If I try, I too only get bitter and hurt even more.
Just tread lightly and don’t beat yourself up.
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No amount of clan loyalty is going to make me get near the computer when I find rare time to spend with my fiancee.
Bla, bla; rub it in our faces....wait, don't.
If the clan dies. I will blame JJ.
He is one of our core people who first jumped ship. I will raise my children with tales and song of the mean 'ole "JohnnyJonski Sewage-Man" who ruined over a decade's worth of work and friendship. We will bake little gingerbread joni'skins and burn them to a crisp. then tar and feather them. then feed them to young puppies who will choke and die.
...or you could just re-join. ...think if the puppies..
*Dux laces up his ☺☺☺☺ kicker boots and inquires on $ of a plane ticket to aussie*
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Are you a pilot or a creator??
I also kinda had relations with my boss, and as expected that situation exploded, imploded, reloaded, and then unloaded on me again.
Yikes. Are you going to need to find a new job? A friend of mine nearly had a mutiny on his hands when he fired a well liked gal he had a fling with. Was at a scout camp, so people are living with each other 24/7. Wasn't the best situation.
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If you like her, tell all the reasons that you do. Tell her about how insecrue you are about relationships and tell her why. It is never to late to speak your mind and get everything out on the table. If she is someone you really enjoy being around, isn't worth it get everything out on the table and settle the air.
Not telling her the reasons I liked her was probably my biggest failing in all of this. As for my insecurities, well I've no idea why they are there. At first I just didn't want to move to fast, then as time moved on it just seemed like bad timing or silly. In hindsight I think I was over thinking things, but I'm not sure. I do feel that I understand at least some of my failures here and will be better next time. Which wont be until after I settle down with a permanent job, whenever that will ever be.
Well Back to work. I need the analysis done and thesis written in three weeks.
Cheers,
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I read a profoundly depressing psychology article the other day. Apparently the sickly females of some fish species choose less attractive mates because they know that it's the only way they'll be able to procreate. The implications of this? It means that humans aren't the only ones lowering their standards when it comes to mating. This wasn't what depressed me, I think it was the mental image of sick fish that did it. It takes me back to reading The Lorax as a kid, which is probably the most depressing book ever written.
I'm also trying to make sense of this Langston Hughes poem. It's concise and poignant but I still can't decipher the last line. Any interpretations would be appreciated.
Deceased
Harlem
Sent him home
in a long box-
Too dead
To know why:
The licker
Was lye.
As for relationships, I try to avoid them. I wrote like 3 paragraphs on the subject only to finally decide against posting them. Mostly existential stuff anyway.
The licker was Lye... I believe that is dealing with the fact that Lye is caustic, and harmful to lick, so you have the subject VERBing that is itself harmful to VERB. Perhaps that'll point you towards better interpretation?
Perhaps the subject attempted to 'give someone a taste of their own medicine,' and was killed. Tried to fight a tough or something? It's pretty open to interpretation.
Hello all, figured I'd chime in a bit here for the Daggsmeister. Brandi and I strangely became friends a while after she broke up with me, and are still friends now. It may stem from the fact that we were friends for a while, (2 years I think? Hard to remember as this was 12 years ago) before we started dating. We just talk off and on, and hang out on occasion. She of course has moved on since she's engaged to that guy she met after we were no longer together, and I have moved on as well. I'm not entirely sure what makes the friendship work, but I thought I'd at least be living proof that it's possible for Daggs.
Only taking 3 classes this semester as not enough people signed up for my Chemistry class and they cancelled it 3 days before the beginning of the semester. I'm only lacking 3 classes at the sophomore level, so no other classes were open that I could make times for. 2 of the 3 I am taking are online, and the other one is at the University Park, which is 3 buildings on the HP Main Campus that my community college bought out because they no longer needed them due to outsourcing.
Work has been the same ol' same ol', glad you're getting a pick-up in hours there Nick, it seems you're into that sort of thing. I'm still only working part-time so that I can focus on school.
I really really don't want the clan to end, I love coming here to read and posting when I have something good to add to the conversation. I'd like to be more active in contests and whatnot but I've never really done them so I'm not sure how to get into that. The clan is the reason I still come to MTGS, because I haven't played Magic for real in quite some time. I actually need to get rid of my cards if anyone is interested or knows anyone who is. I've been contemplating whether to throw them up on Ebay as a whole huge deal or break them down into 4 sets and sell them that way. Figured I'd give you guys the first shot at whatever I have though, so if you're interested let me know and I'll try to compile something of a card list. I have a ton of stuff from Kamigawa Block through Future Sight, and some of the Worldwake era Scars type stuff but not as much. I bought 2 booster boxes or more of everything from Kamigawa - Future Sight, including a lot of Japanese and Chinese cards as well. I have some player rewards stuff too, foil textless ***'s, and a bunch of Textless cards, as well as Pre-Release cards from CoK-FS, and some game day or whatever cards too like the merit lage token and the Dimir, etc.
I have been G free for 7 days now, and it's pretty rough. As a heavy smoker for the last 10 years or so, I'm having a ton of withdrawal symptoms. Anxiety, Digestive problems, weight loss (kinda happy about that one), depression, crazy dreams, night sweats, the whole 9 yards. Just trying to hold it together and tell myself it will all be over eventually.
Anywho, I really enjoy all the stories here and would be sad to see it go for sure, so please please don't let it go! Whatever I can do to help I will.
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Foils in my little book of coolness: DCI Jr. Super Series City of Brass, all prereleases darksteel - coldsnap, textless Wrath of God foil, DCI Underworld Dreams, FNM Fire/Ice, Duelmasters Necropotence (Ice Age Artwork), FNM Juggernaut, 3 FNM Armadillo Cloaks, Marit Lage token.
Foils not in that tiny book: A ton of rares commons and uncommons, ranging from Mirrodin-Future Sight.
Also in the cool little book that's not foil: 3 Portuguese Chronicles (I think?) City of Brass (Black Bordered with Arabian Nights symbol), 2 Beta Psionic Blast, 4 signed 7th Ed. Birds of Paradise (Edward P. Beard), 2 Textless Putrefy's, 2 normal Wrath of God's, 3 Mirrodin Troll Ascetics, 3 Loxodon Hierarch's (just one of my favorite cards), 3 Textless Hinders, a Circle M Incinerate (original arena). I also have 4 of each pain land from Ice Age, as well as Apocolypse.
Tons of other rares in other binders as well.
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I'd at least be living proof that it's possible for Daggs.
Rock on! Proof that it is possible. Good to know...specially with the media showing me that you can stay friends in every situation. Why didn't Ross in "friends" actually cheat on Rachel while they were married and they stayed friends (I might have completely butchered that, never really got into that show)? Jerry stayed friends with Elaine after dating...even had to have sex to save the friendship. Been watching a lot of bones lately and it seems that a lot of relationships are coming and going without the emotional awkwardness that supposedly comes with that. With the world increasingly merging into reality tv and facebook socializing maybe I'm just basing my understanding on old fashion notions of the real world.
The Lorax is interesting. Nice story on what happens with over exploitation. It's what we did to the landscape for decades and there are landscapes that still show the damage even after 50 years of rest. The Dustbowl was a symptom of over exploitation of the land and it was arguably the largest environmental disaster in America history.
Course that legacy of destruction is just a legacy and not normally practiced today, wish some of those radical environmental groups would understand that.
Cheers,
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Thanks. Birthday was March 1st. Just chilled at home with some gentlemen Jack. Was thinking of going out today to drink with graduate students, but I'm a bit behind. Somehow I need a thesis done in 10 days and I'm still on analysis!
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I just got into grad school!
Congrats man, thats great news. Do you know the specifics of your program or any of the research you may be doing?
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Have finally admitted to myself that I am too busy to actually make alters to trade to people & have had to turn down the latest round of offers ;_; maybe in a few months, once I find a different library to work at x_x
eds - oh yeh, Cuberspost! I feel ya on the 10 year tip. I love it but I have to take breaks or I forget to enjoy the cake. . . & I wish I had the capital to assist you with your magical cards, but I got nothin'
Aaaaahhhhhhh......I have three days to get it done and I've got half a crappy paragraph written! I tried to get stuff written in the past few days....been chugging coffee and mountain dew like it was water....just to have a chemically induced alertness that spurs on creativity. Not working. I already know it will be impossible to run all the analysis that I need to do, so no matter what the paper will be incomplete.
It's a daunting task, made more frustrating with each wasted day. I stare at my computer screen, type type type, then delete it all as garbage. Bah! 3 days....if I can't get it done in 3 days I'm doomed. Doomed! Dooomed to spend spring break working on the paper....instead of burning down Nebraska.
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Have finally admitted to myself that I am too busy to actually make alters to trade to people & have had to turn down the latest round of offers ;_; maybe in a few months, once I find a different library to work at x_x
What kind of librarian are you Ria? Though I suppose I should ask what kinds of librarians exist first. Not a field I fully comprehend. I do know my range program has collaborated with librarians in an attempt to create a database of research articles organized by topic, type of article, quality of science, and relevance. I had to spend a semester reading articles and trying to rate them while the librarian talked about the difficulties in organization and searches and such.
I'm also working with a multi-agency program on the Sagebrush habitat. Everyone collects the data and then sends it to some guy who's good at organizing the data in an online database. So I can go into the datastore and pick specific variables to look at. Not sure if thats librarian or some sort of tech babble thing...but it sounds librarianish.
Do you do any of that kind of stuff?
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I'm just a desk monkey at the moment. I think the guy you're after is a 'computer dork', I do that stuff sometimes but never yet on a library's behalf.
I'm just a desk monkey at the moment. I think the guy you're after is a 'computer dork', I do that stuff sometimes but never yet on a library's behalf.
Naw, I was just wondering what the different types of librarians were called. I mean I assume they have specialist style names when you get into the up and ups.
I'm a failure.... I told myself that I'd have my thesis done before spring break. I tried...well mostly did. Got distracted more often then I care to admit. Still, I did a last ditch effort...a good run tonight with a gallon of Mountain Dew and an all nighter. Didn't come close.
The penalty.....that I wont go burn in Nebraska.
..... >_< ....
...well, maybe I can go to Nebraska and finish the paper in the car and at the in transit hotel. ...yeah... I'm sure that would work. How could that not work?
*Goes off to Nebraska*
Wooooo! Spring Break!
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It all depends on what offer I take. One of the colleges is offering me the chance to teach Composition 1 this fall, in addition to providing a generous stipend during my tenure there (plus an 80% tuition reduction).
At this point I need to see all the offers on paper before I commit to any school.
Probably the smart thing to do. I have a bad habit of taking the first thing that comes my way... hasn't hurt me too badly. But then everything in the past has always been temporary. Gotta give some thought to those more important things.
Uggg.....zero hour sleep the night before followed by an 8 hour drive. Then again I was only the most sleep deprived by about 2 to 4 hours. Got four hours of sleep last night and that made me rested enough to be a driver...well more rested than the rest of us anyway, not including the ones still buzzed. Course I suppose some of our drivers need a bit more experience. We were giving him directions in town and told him to take a left at the roundabout....his response..."what the hell's a roundabout?!?" ....he wasn't joking. >_< 15 hours later and now I'm at our Nebraska station ready to work tomorrow.
Nebraska has some snow on the ground, but only in the shaded areas. 1hr fuels should be good to go soon enough, here's hoping I torch a few thousand acres tomorrow.
Trying to keep up-to-date with the Tsunami. Direct family lives in Tokyo and Osaka and are thus relatively unharmed. However, my Aunt's family...parents and some siblings...have disappeared. Only confirmed bit of information I've got is that the parents home is gone. Not damaged or crumbled ruins...just gone. Hopefully we hear some real news relatively soon.
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Trying to keep up-to-date with the Tsunami. Direct family lives in Tokyo and Osaka and are thus relatively unharmed. However, my Aunt's family...parents and some siblings...have disappeared. Only confirmed bit of information I've got is that the parents home is gone. Not damaged or crumbled ruins...just gone. Hopefully we hear some real news relatively soon.
My thoughts go out to you and your family Daggs, let's hope for the best.
A lot of bull☺☺☺☺ out here, but it's nothing compared to what so more are going through. I did perform for an Abbotsford Heat game, who are the farm team for the NHL team the Calgary Flames. So it was pretty serious business, with thousands attending and more watching.
Thanks all. Still no news on the missing family, but then again thats better than bad news I suppose. I'm trying to remember if I've ever met them while traveling through Japan. The aunt is my mom's brother's wive so the relation is more distant inlaws. I do know I met the aunt's sister's son, he's fine...but the others? Frustrating not knowing, my heart goes out to them.
First day of burning went well. Torched 2200 acres, scorched earth as far as the eye can see. Not bad considering it snowed the day before and that one of the hazards was slipping on patches of ice. Frozen air and bitter cold wind didn't help, but the fire was some good comfort.
Strategy for the morning was a flanking fire, drawing flaming lines parallel with the wind. Heat creates convection currents that drives the two parallel lines together in a slow moving continuous wall. Thats what it was suppose to do. Gal to my left drew her line strong and got a good 100ft ahead of me. I was suppose to stay maybe 20ft behind her, but I was having problems keeping my torch lit, too much deisil in the fuel mix plus strong gusting wind, so I got a bit behind. Not sure if the wind changed directions or what, but somewhere ahead of me the flame turned creating 15mph flaming front with 8ft flame lengths barreling on me. Shouldn't have been too big of a problem...if I wasn't preoccupied with keeping my torch lit. Got yelled at for that one. Didn't need to yell at me. I'm fairly sure I would have eventually noticed a wall of fire heading towards me....I think.
Rest of the day was smoother. We even got some decent junipers to torch up. Gonna try to torch another few thousand acres before this trip is over.
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in other news
(X_X) finally got my wheel replaced on my bike, three months on. . . & nearly died first run out. I am sooooo out of shape, the hill we live on cashed my lungs, & my hips hurt in weird places. I shoulda been out jogging, I guess
(X_X) finally got my wheel replaced on my bike, three months on. . . & nearly died first run out. I am sooooo out of shape, the hill we live on cashed my lungs, & my hips hurt in weird places. I shoulda been out jogging, I guess
I'm in the same boat. I think my metabolism finally turned on me. I'm not sure how much I weight, but I now have a visible keg and have gone from size 32 waist to 36 in a year. If anything I need to work out so I don't have to buy new pants...the ones I'm wearing are snug.
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I still have such a hard time reconciling the notions of 'burning massive amounts of stuff' and 'good for the environment'.
I can understand that, it is a very common sentiment. The smoky bear campaign is the most successful advertising campaign ever launched in america. Our education system and culture is also geared towards aversion to fire. It is a problem our society will have to face eventually.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that the answer to all your questions is, "It depends." Take the notions of 'burning massive amounts of stuff' and 'good for the environment'. Reconciliation of those ideas depends on what you want to accomplish as a land owner, the season of the burn, the height of the flame lengths, the length of time the fire lingers in place, the types of plants burning, the types of fuel to be burned, terrain, how scattered the fuel is, and probably a dozen other factors that I can't recall.
We burned over 6000 acres, almost 10 square miles, for the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon of Kansas. The goal for both organizations was to restore grassland habitat. This would benefit loads of prairie birds, bison, and a host of wildlife. The vast majority of prairie has been converted to agriculture, the remaining remnants are threatened by invasive species and the Eastern Red Cedar. Fire suppression and absence is blamed for the Cedar's aggressive expansion and a return of fire is considered a relatively cheap and effective way of knocking those cedars back.
A good solid fire moving across the landscape is quite effective in killing any small saplings. This fire is a flanking fire, meaning that the wind is blowing parallel with the flame. Thus the flame creeps along at a relatively slow pace. The reason we did this is because the humidity was relatively high and temps were low making it harder to light trees. A head fire, fire moving with the wind, moves too fast to kill the trees. The flanking fire takes its time, heats up the trees, then torches them.
Another strategy we used was strips of fire. As strips move closer together the convection current they generate cause them to be pulled to each other, heating up everything in between and creating a hotter more...shall we say effective...flame.
Okay, I admit that the aftermath may be a touch aesthetically displeasing. But thats only because you don't see all the life currently existent in this picture. First of all virtually none of those grasses are dead. Plants are particularly hardy when they are dormant, and all the grasses and forbs are dormant. Now the sun will heat the blackened earth faster and the plants will utilize all the nutrients released by the fire, such as nitrogen, making the vegetation grow lush and vibrant. There is a reason grazers and browsers prefer landscapes recently burned. And a reason native americans burned landscapes to attract prey.
One interesting note, many of the invasive plants grow earlier in the season than the natives. To be really effective we could have burned when the invasives are about to seed round late April or may, but when the natives are still dormant. That would knock back the invasives and give the natives a big boost.
We can manipulate fire to go faster or slower, burn hotter, more destructive or less, all depending on what we want. A good slope can be used for really fast flames.
And if we want to do some real damage we just bring in the big guns.
Pesky tree was probably invasive anyway....
Cheers,
Daggertooth
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LOL Awesome pictures daggs!! Loving the last 2 haha. What I would really like to see is another picture after what you are saying is going to happen happens, from the same place and angle as the scorched earth picture, so I can get some perspective.
Any word on the family? I've been watching a lot of the stuff going on over there, and donated to a couple of places. I hope everything is ok, I know someone else with direct family over there and they're still trying to find them as well.
^ this is a very good, although a bit long, video of the tsunami as it was rushing in on the shore. I got it from the Discovery Channel website, and if you watch it make sure you watch it all the way to the end. It's seriously crazy.
Jonny is interested in the cards, and I'm working hard to get a list drawn up, there's just so many damn cards, lol.
Put my application in to the University of Houston, we'll see how that goes. They accept pretty much everyone from the community colleges around here, and my GPA is well over what is required to get in. Decided I want to be a Chemistry professor at a University ultimately. I know a long road is ahead of me on this one, but I feel it will make me very happy.
Happy spring everyone!
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I totally love the pictures. Most people neglect to see the positive uses fire has, and you're out there putting it to use.
As I've probably said in here before, my mom has been struggling with cancer. We recently discovered that it has moved into both of her eyes. It is now in her breasts, lungs, spinal bone(I think. It's spinal something), and eyes. I have an inkling that there are more areas, but I can't recall at this time. It is slowly causing her to go blind, and she is debating stopping treatment altogether. I'm not saying that she was/is a good mother, because she isn't. It still really ☺☺☺☺ing hurts though. Everyone is looking to me to be their shoulder to cry on, etc. again, and I'm just barely keeping it together. I have no where else to go with this; I have no close friends in real life, and everyone else is wrapped up in their own intense emotions. I feel like I am literally going crazy, and I have no idea what to do with myself.
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..But now it won't be sincere.
He unloaded on you!! (Too easy)
My thoughts and prayers are w/ you teeeeeef.
Hang in there Dagg. I’ve never been able to be “just friends” with someone I have feelings for either. If I try, I too only get bitter and hurt even more.
Just tread lightly and don’t beat yourself up.
Bla, bla; rub it in our faces.. ..wait, don't.
If the clan dies. I will blame JJ.
He is one of our core people who first jumped ship. I will raise my children with tales and song of the mean 'ole "JohnnyJonski Sewage-Man" who ruined over a decade's worth of work and friendship. We will bake little gingerbread joni'skins and burn them to a crisp. then tar and feather them. then feed them to young puppies who will choke and die.
...or you could just re-join. ...think if the puppies..
*Dux laces up his ☺☺☺☺ kicker boots and inquires on $ of a plane ticket to aussie*
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
Yikes. Are you going to need to find a new job? A friend of mine nearly had a mutiny on his hands when he fired a well liked gal he had a fling with. Was at a scout camp, so people are living with each other 24/7. Wasn't the best situation.
Not telling her the reasons I liked her was probably my biggest failing in all of this. As for my insecurities, well I've no idea why they are there. At first I just didn't want to move to fast, then as time moved on it just seemed like bad timing or silly. In hindsight I think I was over thinking things, but I'm not sure. I do feel that I understand at least some of my failures here and will be better next time. Which wont be until after I settle down with a permanent job, whenever that will ever be.
Well Back to work. I need the analysis done and thesis written in three weeks.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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I'm also trying to make sense of this Langston Hughes poem. It's concise and poignant but I still can't decipher the last line. Any interpretations would be appreciated.
As for relationships, I try to avoid them. I wrote like 3 paragraphs on the subject only to finally decide against posting them. Mostly existential stuff anyway.
Hey, good music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKcLaxzr3NY
Perhaps the subject attempted to 'give someone a taste of their own medicine,' and was killed. Tried to fight a tough or something? It's pretty open to interpretation.
Only taking 3 classes this semester as not enough people signed up for my Chemistry class and they cancelled it 3 days before the beginning of the semester. I'm only lacking 3 classes at the sophomore level, so no other classes were open that I could make times for. 2 of the 3 I am taking are online, and the other one is at the University Park, which is 3 buildings on the HP Main Campus that my community college bought out because they no longer needed them due to outsourcing.
Work has been the same ol' same ol', glad you're getting a pick-up in hours there Nick, it seems you're into that sort of thing. I'm still only working part-time so that I can focus on school.
I really really don't want the clan to end, I love coming here to read and posting when I have something good to add to the conversation. I'd like to be more active in contests and whatnot but I've never really done them so I'm not sure how to get into that. The clan is the reason I still come to MTGS, because I haven't played Magic for real in quite some time. I actually need to get rid of my cards if anyone is interested or knows anyone who is. I've been contemplating whether to throw them up on Ebay as a whole huge deal or break them down into 4 sets and sell them that way. Figured I'd give you guys the first shot at whatever I have though, so if you're interested let me know and I'll try to compile something of a card list. I have a ton of stuff from Kamigawa Block through Future Sight, and some of the Worldwake era Scars type stuff but not as much. I bought 2 booster boxes or more of everything from Kamigawa - Future Sight, including a lot of Japanese and Chinese cards as well. I have some player rewards stuff too, foil textless ***'s, and a bunch of Textless cards, as well as Pre-Release cards from CoK-FS, and some game day or whatever cards too like the merit lage token and the Dimir, etc.
I have been G free for 7 days now, and it's pretty rough. As a heavy smoker for the last 10 years or so, I'm having a ton of withdrawal symptoms. Anxiety, Digestive problems, weight loss (kinda happy about that one), depression, crazy dreams, night sweats, the whole 9 yards. Just trying to hold it together and tell myself it will all be over eventually.
Anywho, I really enjoy all the stories here and would be sad to see it go for sure, so please please don't let it go! Whatever I can do to help I will.
Rob
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Good Movie Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Mortal Kombat Mafia - Mafia - Lynched - Loss
Star Wars Mafia II - Townie - Exploded - Loss
Newbie Mafia 11 - Townie - Survived - Loss
Don't Fear the Reaper Mafia - Solo Mafia after day 1 - Survived - Win
Unluckyville Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
View Askew Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Foils not in that tiny book: A ton of rares commons and uncommons, ranging from Mirrodin-Future Sight.
Also in the cool little book that's not foil: 3 Portuguese Chronicles (I think?) City of Brass (Black Bordered with Arabian Nights symbol), 2 Beta Psionic Blast, 4 signed 7th Ed. Birds of Paradise (Edward P. Beard), 2 Textless Putrefy's, 2 normal Wrath of God's, 3 Mirrodin Troll Ascetics, 3 Loxodon Hierarch's (just one of my favorite cards), 3 Textless Hinders, a Circle M Incinerate (original arena). I also have 4 of each pain land from Ice Age, as well as Apocolypse.
Tons of other rares in other binders as well.
~Rob
/Official "White and Nerdy" Poster Boy of The Called\
Good Movie Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Mortal Kombat Mafia - Mafia - Lynched - Loss
Star Wars Mafia II - Townie - Exploded - Loss
Newbie Mafia 11 - Townie - Survived - Loss
Don't Fear the Reaper Mafia - Solo Mafia after day 1 - Survived - Win
Unluckyville Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
View Askew Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Rock on! Proof that it is possible. Good to know...specially with the media showing me that you can stay friends in every situation. Why didn't Ross in "friends" actually cheat on Rachel while they were married and they stayed friends (I might have completely butchered that, never really got into that show)? Jerry stayed friends with Elaine after dating...even had to have sex to save the friendship. Been watching a lot of bones lately and it seems that a lot of relationships are coming and going without the emotional awkwardness that supposedly comes with that. With the world increasingly merging into reality tv and facebook socializing maybe I'm just basing my understanding on old fashion notions of the real world.
The Lorax is interesting. Nice story on what happens with over exploitation. It's what we did to the landscape for decades and there are landscapes that still show the damage even after 50 years of rest. The Dustbowl was a symptom of over exploitation of the land and it was arguably the largest environmental disaster in America history.
Course that legacy of destruction is just a legacy and not normally practiced today, wish some of those radical environmental groups would understand that.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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If not late happy birthday.
Going paintballing tomorrow, should be great fun.
I just got grad school
I just got into grad school
:toot::toot::toot::toot::toot::toot::toot:
Sorry Daggs, didn't watch much Friends so I can't help you there
/Official "White and Nerdy" Poster Boy of The Called\
Good Movie Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Mortal Kombat Mafia - Mafia - Lynched - Loss
Star Wars Mafia II - Townie - Exploded - Loss
Newbie Mafia 11 - Townie - Survived - Loss
Don't Fear the Reaper Mafia - Solo Mafia after day 1 - Survived - Win
Unluckyville Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
View Askew Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Thanks. Birthday was March 1st. Just chilled at home with some gentlemen Jack. Was thinking of going out today to drink with graduate students, but I'm a bit behind. Somehow I need a thesis done in 10 days and I'm still on analysis!
Congrats man, thats great news. Do you know the specifics of your program or any of the research you may be doing?
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
I saw a wild kpaca on the insta-message
Have finally admitted to myself that I am too busy to actually make alters to trade to people & have had to turn down the latest round of offers ;_; maybe in a few months, once I find a different library to work at x_x
eds - oh yeh, Cuberspost! I feel ya on the 10 year tip. I love it but I have to take breaks or I forget to enjoy the cake. . . & I wish I had the capital to assist you with your magical cards, but I got nothin'
& Daggs - didja submitcha thesis didja?
Aaaaahhhhhhh......I have three days to get it done and I've got half a crappy paragraph written! I tried to get stuff written in the past few days....been chugging coffee and mountain dew like it was water....just to have a chemically induced alertness that spurs on creativity. Not working. I already know it will be impossible to run all the analysis that I need to do, so no matter what the paper will be incomplete.
It's a daunting task, made more frustrating with each wasted day. I stare at my computer screen, type type type, then delete it all as garbage. Bah! 3 days....if I can't get it done in 3 days I'm doomed. Doomed! Dooomed to spend spring break working on the paper....instead of burning down Nebraska.
What kind of librarian are you Ria? Though I suppose I should ask what kinds of librarians exist first. Not a field I fully comprehend. I do know my range program has collaborated with librarians in an attempt to create a database of research articles organized by topic, type of article, quality of science, and relevance. I had to spend a semester reading articles and trying to rate them while the librarian talked about the difficulties in organization and searches and such.
I'm also working with a multi-agency program on the Sagebrush habitat. Everyone collects the data and then sends it to some guy who's good at organizing the data in an online database. So I can go into the datastore and pick specific variables to look at. Not sure if thats librarian or some sort of tech babble thing...but it sounds librarianish.
Do you do any of that kind of stuff?
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
Good luck with your paperwork!
Naw, I was just wondering what the different types of librarians were called. I mean I assume they have specialist style names when you get into the up and ups.
I'm a failure.... I told myself that I'd have my thesis done before spring break. I tried...well mostly did. Got distracted more often then I care to admit. Still, I did a last ditch effort...a good run tonight with a gallon of Mountain Dew and an all nighter. Didn't come close.
The penalty.....that I wont go burn in Nebraska.
..... >_< ....
...well, maybe I can go to Nebraska and finish the paper in the car and at the in transit hotel. ...yeah... I'm sure that would work. How could that not work?
*Goes off to Nebraska*
Wooooo! Spring Break!
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
Probably the smart thing to do. I have a bad habit of taking the first thing that comes my way... hasn't hurt me too badly. But then everything in the past has always been temporary. Gotta give some thought to those more important things.
Uggg.....zero hour sleep the night before followed by an 8 hour drive. Then again I was only the most sleep deprived by about 2 to 4 hours. Got four hours of sleep last night and that made me rested enough to be a driver...well more rested than the rest of us anyway, not including the ones still buzzed. Course I suppose some of our drivers need a bit more experience. We were giving him directions in town and told him to take a left at the roundabout....his response..."what the hell's a roundabout?!?" ....he wasn't joking. >_< 15 hours later and now I'm at our Nebraska station ready to work tomorrow.
Nebraska has some snow on the ground, but only in the shaded areas. 1hr fuels should be good to go soon enough, here's hoping I torch a few thousand acres tomorrow.
Trying to keep up-to-date with the Tsunami. Direct family lives in Tokyo and Osaka and are thus relatively unharmed. However, my Aunt's family...parents and some siblings...have disappeared. Only confirmed bit of information I've got is that the parents home is gone. Not damaged or crumbled ruins...just gone. Hopefully we hear some real news relatively soon.
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
My thoughts go out to you and your family Daggs, let's hope for the best.
A lot of bull☺☺☺☺ out here, but it's nothing compared to what so more are going through. I did perform for an Abbotsford Heat game, who are the farm team for the NHL team the Calgary Flames. So it was pretty serious business, with thousands attending and more watching.
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
Thanks all. Still no news on the missing family, but then again thats better than bad news I suppose. I'm trying to remember if I've ever met them while traveling through Japan. The aunt is my mom's brother's wive so the relation is more distant inlaws. I do know I met the aunt's sister's son, he's fine...but the others? Frustrating not knowing, my heart goes out to them.
First day of burning went well. Torched 2200 acres, scorched earth as far as the eye can see. Not bad considering it snowed the day before and that one of the hazards was slipping on patches of ice. Frozen air and bitter cold wind didn't help, but the fire was some good comfort.
Strategy for the morning was a flanking fire, drawing flaming lines parallel with the wind. Heat creates convection currents that drives the two parallel lines together in a slow moving continuous wall. Thats what it was suppose to do. Gal to my left drew her line strong and got a good 100ft ahead of me. I was suppose to stay maybe 20ft behind her, but I was having problems keeping my torch lit, too much deisil in the fuel mix plus strong gusting wind, so I got a bit behind. Not sure if the wind changed directions or what, but somewhere ahead of me the flame turned creating 15mph flaming front with 8ft flame lengths barreling on me. Shouldn't have been too big of a problem...if I wasn't preoccupied with keeping my torch lit. Got yelled at for that one. Didn't need to yell at me. I'm fairly sure I would have eventually noticed a wall of fire heading towards me....I think.
Rest of the day was smoother. We even got some decent junipers to torch up. Gonna try to torch another few thousand acres before this trip is over.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
I want to see Chris make a Smokey the Bear commercial. It would be like "Only you can prevent forest fires...BUT WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT"
in other news
(X_X) finally got my wheel replaced on my bike, three months on. . . & nearly died first run out. I am sooooo out of shape, the hill we live on cashed my lungs, & my hips hurt in weird places. I shoulda been out jogging, I guess
I'm in the same boat. I think my metabolism finally turned on me. I'm not sure how much I weight, but I now have a visible keg and have gone from size 32 waist to 36 in a year. If anything I need to work out so I don't have to buy new pants...the ones I'm wearing are snug.
I can understand that, it is a very common sentiment. The smoky bear campaign is the most successful advertising campaign ever launched in america. Our education system and culture is also geared towards aversion to fire. It is a problem our society will have to face eventually.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that the answer to all your questions is, "It depends." Take the notions of 'burning massive amounts of stuff' and 'good for the environment'. Reconciliation of those ideas depends on what you want to accomplish as a land owner, the season of the burn, the height of the flame lengths, the length of time the fire lingers in place, the types of plants burning, the types of fuel to be burned, terrain, how scattered the fuel is, and probably a dozen other factors that I can't recall.
We burned over 6000 acres, almost 10 square miles, for the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon of Kansas. The goal for both organizations was to restore grassland habitat. This would benefit loads of prairie birds, bison, and a host of wildlife. The vast majority of prairie has been converted to agriculture, the remaining remnants are threatened by invasive species and the Eastern Red Cedar. Fire suppression and absence is blamed for the Cedar's aggressive expansion and a return of fire is considered a relatively cheap and effective way of knocking those cedars back.
A good solid fire moving across the landscape is quite effective in killing any small saplings. This fire is a flanking fire, meaning that the wind is blowing parallel with the flame. Thus the flame creeps along at a relatively slow pace. The reason we did this is because the humidity was relatively high and temps were low making it harder to light trees. A head fire, fire moving with the wind, moves too fast to kill the trees. The flanking fire takes its time, heats up the trees, then torches them.
Another strategy we used was strips of fire. As strips move closer together the convection current they generate cause them to be pulled to each other, heating up everything in between and creating a hotter more...shall we say effective...flame.
Okay, I admit that the aftermath may be a touch aesthetically displeasing. But thats only because you don't see all the life currently existent in this picture. First of all virtually none of those grasses are dead. Plants are particularly hardy when they are dormant, and all the grasses and forbs are dormant. Now the sun will heat the blackened earth faster and the plants will utilize all the nutrients released by the fire, such as nitrogen, making the vegetation grow lush and vibrant. There is a reason grazers and browsers prefer landscapes recently burned. And a reason native americans burned landscapes to attract prey.
One interesting note, many of the invasive plants grow earlier in the season than the natives. To be really effective we could have burned when the invasives are about to seed round late April or may, but when the natives are still dormant. That would knock back the invasives and give the natives a big boost.
We can manipulate fire to go faster or slower, burn hotter, more destructive or less, all depending on what we want. A good slope can be used for really fast flames.
And if we want to do some real damage we just bring in the big guns.
Pesky tree was probably invasive anyway....
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
Any word on the family? I've been watching a lot of the stuff going on over there, and donated to a couple of places. I hope everything is ok, I know someone else with direct family over there and they're still trying to find them as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9GEaWAmJg&feature=player_embedded
^ this is a very good, although a bit long, video of the tsunami as it was rushing in on the shore. I got it from the Discovery Channel website, and if you watch it make sure you watch it all the way to the end. It's seriously crazy.
Jonny is interested in the cards, and I'm working hard to get a list drawn up, there's just so many damn cards, lol.
Put my application in to the University of Houston, we'll see how that goes. They accept pretty much everyone from the community colleges around here, and my GPA is well over what is required to get in. Decided I want to be a Chemistry professor at a University ultimately. I know a long road is ahead of me on this one, but I feel it will make me very happy.
Happy spring everyone!
~Cubes
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Good Movie Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
Mortal Kombat Mafia - Mafia - Lynched - Loss
Star Wars Mafia II - Townie - Exploded - Loss
Newbie Mafia 11 - Townie - Survived - Loss
Don't Fear the Reaper Mafia - Solo Mafia after day 1 - Survived - Win
Unluckyville Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
View Askew Mafia - Townie - Survived - Win
As I've probably said in here before, my mom has been struggling with cancer. We recently discovered that it has moved into both of her eyes. It is now in her breasts, lungs, spinal bone(I think. It's spinal something), and eyes. I have an inkling that there are more areas, but I can't recall at this time. It is slowly causing her to go blind, and she is debating stopping treatment altogether. I'm not saying that she was/is a good mother, because she isn't. It still really ☺☺☺☺ing hurts though. Everyone is looking to me to be their shoulder to cry on, etc. again, and I'm just barely keeping it together. I have no where else to go with this; I have no close friends in real life, and everyone else is wrapped up in their own intense emotions. I feel like I am literally going crazy, and I have no idea what to do with myself.
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