Happy Days in Random Chatter 10

[Digit]

Kepler-22 is about 600 light years from Earth. According to my calculations, if we had a spaceship that could go 0.99c, it would take about 606 years to get there from the perspective of someone on Earth. But to the travelers on the ship, they would only have perceived about 89.5 years to have gone by. This is assuming almost instant acceleration up to speed at the beginning of the journey and equally quick deceleration at the end. But if we're pretending the technology existed to travel that fast, we might as well imagine a technology that can accelerate every particle of the ship and the passengers' bodies so nobody becomes paste on the walls.

[Katya]

HA! After checking the syllabus, I found out the paper needs to be in Courier New font...

Ew. Who on earth requires papers in a monospaced font?

[Dead Cat]

HA! After checking the syllabus, I found out the paper needs to be in Courier New font...

Ew. Who on earth requires papers in a monospaced font?

Old computers, ASCII artists, biologists, and benevolent teachers, it would seem.

[Katya]

HA! After checking the syllabus, I found out the paper needs to be in Courier New font...

Ew. Who on earth requires papers in a monospaced font?

Old computers, ASCII artists, biologists, and benevolent teachers, it would seem.

Biologists? Really?

[Marduk]

Oh Craig. I appreciate the gesture, but I feel I've already read enough Bruce R. to last a lifetime.

Teachings, on the other hand, is now getting a second read.

[Dead Cat]

Ew. Who on earth requires papers in a monospaced font?

Old computers, ASCII artists, biologists, and benevolent teachers, it would seem.

Biologists? Really?

Really.

[Whistler]

wait, what's wrong with monospaced fonts? I rather like them.

[Katya]

Biologists? Really?

Really.

Oh, for protein sequences. Yeah, that makes sense.

[Katya]

wait, what's wrong with monospaced fonts? I rather like them.

They're harder to read.

[Craig Jessop]

wait, what's wrong with monospaced fonts? I rather like them.

They're harder to read.

I don't care how hard it is to read, I'm pushing 11.5 pages! Only one more until I'm done... I'm starting to use all the old tricks.

[C is for]

I love(d) using WordPerfect to type my papers, because it was ridiculously easy to change my font to 12.1, or my spacing to 2.1. I've never figured out how to get Microsoft Word to obey my whims like that.

Word and I have never been friends.

[Laser Jock]

wait, what's wrong with monospaced fonts? I rather like them.

They're harder to read.

Yeah, monospaced fonts are good for programming, bad for literature/essays.

[Portia]

Twelve to thirteen pages to write (and do the research for...), and about six and a half hours to do it. Here we go.

If I die, Marduk can inherit my copy of Mormon Doctrine. And I leave Portia my autographed copy of The Family: A Proclamation to the World.

Awesome. I leave Marduk a fertility goddess figurine, and you a year's worth of ProTab pills.

[Marduk]

Ooooh, that sounds hot. Does it have boobies?

[Portia]

Ooooh, that sounds hot. Does it have boobies?

I should say that it'd hardly be one without.

And I leave Katya a machine translation of Anna Karenina in Courier New.

[Marduk]

I graciously accept.

And I'll leave you an Indio Picaro.

[Dragon Lady]

I'm crocheting a hat for my relator as a thank you gift. It's a complicated pattern to begin with (complete with a link for Katya and anyone else that uses Ravelry) and I'm making it even more so by changing the color on two rows on one layer. (It's a thick hat with two layers, crocheted at the same time.)

Yellow is annoyed by one loop that doesn't lie nicely and is blatantly obvious when you're putting cream on black, so I made him sit down with me and figure out how to fix it. He did (it's amazing how his logical brain works so well with fixing crafty problems) but it makes the pattern ridiculously complicated. Like, I'd never be able to write out what I did. And it'll take twice as long to do it. (And it's already taking twice as long to switch colors every few stitches.)

Thank goodness it's only for 2 rows.

[C is for]

Crocheting is something I appreciate that other people can do, but I will never be able to do it because I'm not convinced there are any left-handed crocheters. I think they're a myth.

[Whistler]

my mother-in-law left-hand-crochets!

[Katya]

I'm crocheting a hat for my relator as a thank you gift. It's a complicated pattern to begin with (complete with a link for Katya and anyone else that uses Ravelry) and I'm making it even more so by changing the color on two rows on one layer. (It's a thick hat with two layers, crocheted at the same time.)

That is a very cute hat. (Also, it looks like Ravelry pattern links now work even if you're not logged in, which is nice.)