The number of times I've typed that into notepad....

I agree about the 'feel' for numbers. When people tell me that in real life they will always be able to use a calculator they think the point they are making is about the availability of calculators when actually (at least to me) they are claiming they will always press exactly the right buttons or that they will always notice any errors they make in the button pressing. To me this 'feel' for the numbers tells me when I've failed my 'use calculator' roll.

Don't get me wrong, I'm terribly allergic to wifi, mobile phones, even a microwave oven being used next door but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter much. You see, I'm also allergic to neutrinos. Do you know how many of those things pass through my body every single second. Oh it causes me so much pain you just wouldn't believe. :-)

And only a few would be considered wasted.

Ahh yes. Rob's Afterstep page. Chips'n'Dips. Early Slashdot. Me wondering whether to sign up or not on the first day finally getting round to it on the second day; thus the 4 digit ID. I remember when 100 comments was considered huge for a story.

Rob may go but he won't be forgotten.

If they are oggs then they are from my CDs. If they are mp3s then I'm still partway through the evaluation phase of 'try before I buy'.

But did the intermediate wavs match? This would tell you whether the ripping or the encoding introduced the difference.

I have had good success with a Turboencabulator. I needed to tighten the differential girdlespring but digital dust has been significantly below the measureable threshold.

In the small print, one of the instructions for compiling it up to 3 is "make lickmylovepump"

Not only that, but there are dangerous levels of DiHydrogen Monoxide in their bodies from all the environmental pollution.

I am a physicist and while I think everyone knows just how much Hollywood gets wrong on the Armageddon level physics, they also usually get it wrong on the day to day science lab stuff. My GF likes horses and always complains about them in films. From 'They don't make noises like that all the time' to 'one of those four fulling that carriage has a different stride length to the rest, they would have matched their horses properly in Jane Austin's time."

I don't often F11 firefox to run it in fullscreen mode but I have to now with slashdot. Too much whitespace is one thing then there is the immovable-without-voodoo bar across the top which take me back to the "glory" days of frames. Even the /. poll doesn't fit onto the screen any more.
Ah well.

> Surviving an infinite number of rolls is not the problem... The real problem is that if you've got, say, a D20, and you get it to roll a 1 a large number of times, the ones will have all been rolled out. After that it'll have a hard time producing more 1's.

You havn't met my dice then have you. I swear the thinkgeek t-shirt spies have been watching my Tuesday night games.

Exactly.

I was told that for every one hour of lecture time it should take three hours of your life.
One hour in the lecture.
One hour no later than a few days afterwards reviewing and annotating your notes, making sure you understand it all, adding extra information from text books and redrawing hastily sketched diagrams etc.
Then one hour close to exam time revising it.

I found I did best in exams when I worked like this. Finding a quicker way to get your notes right first time only means you have more time to spend in that second hour making sure you understand what you typed.