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July 29, 2006 -- 10:14 AM
posted by Al
All this talk of dices has given me a idea, I think I should put my mechanical engineering degree to use and make the worlds first 13 sided dice. It might be a tad on the physical impossible side but if it fails maybe a quatum singularity will be created instead.
July 29, 2006 -- 10:07 AM
posted by Beck
bah... way to see right through me Alison... way to take the fun out everything :)
July 29, 2006 -- 3:57 AM
posted by anonymous
An insect crawls along your kitchen floor. You take a sheet of paper towel and place it in front of the insect to crawl upon. You release the insect outside.
WHEN YOU ARE AN INSECT, WHO IS YOUR GOD?
July 29, 2006 -- 2:16 AM
posted by alison
huh? in my sleep-muddled state, i'm pretty sure you're ribbing me, Beck, but the only response i can think of, at this juncture is "gwah?"
besides, isn't obtuse an angle? i'm not sure i'd prefer being acute, so obtuse is okay with me for now.
July 29, 2006 -- 12:25 AM
posted by Beck

what's your problem with 10 sided dice Alison?!? You can accept 20 but not 10? Sometimes you really do come off kinda small minded and obtuse. Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just ask Mary...
July 29, 2006 -- 12:08 AM
posted by alison
um... yeah, I was debating pointing out the speed at which I was rebuffed, and decided against it, but I'm always up for being disproved like that.
and not that I'm trying to imply any judgement here - honest, no matter what you think - Albert, I have not actually ever played D&D, so I did not know about the ten-sided die. I never suggested we ought to not accept the possibility of a ten-sided die existing, nor that any other strangely large-number-sided die was impossible, I just wasn't aware, in my own personal experience, of a ten-sided one. I do know that Scattergories has a 20-sided die, I never doubted that... I just didn't know about the ten-sided one.
July 28, 2006 -- 8:34 PM
posted by Par
Oh, and thanks for the beta-testing help there, guys. I'll move the new version over soon. The only real features you might notice are that when you preview, it'll update the messages below (so, if someone's posted while you're writing, it'll show up before you post) and un-editing should finally work as it's supposed to (although I had to re-upload a file just now to make that the case). Really, the update was just housekeeping for me (although, based on my experience in my new job, it looks like I could use a lot of cleaning up to make the whole codebase easier to manage. That's for another day, though; this change was just me being bored in the car.)
There are two actual features I've been looking at adding: automatically posting a message when someone adds an event, and a javascript doohickey (sorry for the jargon there) that would auto-reload the page when a new message was posted. (The latter is more a proof-of-concept proposition than anything else.) Time will tell how motivated I am to get those done, though.
July 28, 2006 -- 7:52 PM
posted by Par
Not to pass judgement, or anything, but I'd just like to point out that the time from alison issuing a challenge (throwing down, as it were) about the existence of a 10-sided die to when Jess responded was an astonishing 14 minutes.
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