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[Link the Writer]

So I was messing around with my silly American fantasy idea and now I've got
(1) a redneck and his niece from Alabama on a motorboat named USS Mark Twain charmed to fly around in the air.
(2) The USS Alabama come to life to battle the incoming magical threat about to, well, threaten Mobile, Alabama. Like charmed to sail, unmoored, toward the threat with magical blasts roaring from the gun turrets.

Sweet lordy lord, the weirdness that comes from my brain.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I have an ending, but maybe needs a little more oomph.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I go and help my 14-year-old grandniece with her Math homework once or twice a week.

Today we did Geometry. Nothing like figuring out the surface area of a cylinder.

 

[Set2Stun]

Geometry can come in handy sometimes. Glad you mentioned it as I didn't have anything ready to post when I clicked on the thread

This came up recently; was wondering how two personal pizzas compared to one large pizza and found the following from Google:

Two 7" pizzas. Radius of a 7" pizza is 3.5". So, we have 3.14159(3.5x3.5) = 38.48 …times 2 for 2 pizzas = 76.96" of Pizza Area

Now the 14" pizza … A= πr² … so we have 3.14159(7x7) = 153.94" of pizza area

One 14 inch pizza is double the size of two 7 inch pizzas

 

[Louanne Learning]

As writers, we love language, which is made up of symbols. So I sometimes wonder at the resentment towards math, which is also made up of symbols. (with a little bit of figuring thrown in)

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I was voluntold to work over 4 hours (time and a half!) to cover for a vacationing coworker. But that actually sounds a lot worse than it was. I celebrated with a beer at home.

That actually doesn't sound ... too bad. As long as they paid you time-and-a-half.

As writers, we love language, which is made up of symbols. So I sometimes wonder at the resentment towards math, which is also made up of symbols. (with a little bit of figuring thrown in)

The symbols of language are easy to understand, since we've been taught them since birth and keep using them throughout the day. (Of course, it depends on which language).

The symbols of math have to be taught and re-taught in school, which many kids dislike and therefore don't make an effort in (to their own detriment). And when most of us become adults, we find we've forgotten most of it, since we don't use it every day (unless we have a job that requires it).

I personally don't mind either math or school-grade geometry or algebra. It's calculus that gives me the you-know-whats.

 

[Link the Writer]

I think I know why I’m not as freaking out about my short bowel syndrome condition. I was born half blind and with profound hearing loss, so I guess I’m drawing from what I learned from that experience to help with this new bout of weird bodily betrayal.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Today I found out that the word stratagem dates back to the 15th century, but strategy only to about 1800.

 

[big soft moose]

From the Ancient Greek Strategos meaning to lead the army

 

[Louanne Learning]

And the first recorded use of the word base-ball was in the 1744 A Pretty Little Pocket-Book

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I’m going to treat this like the old Random & Useless Thoughts thread.

I’m at the airport for my wife’s delayed flight from London. Here before her, so that’s good. As mentioned to my daughter yesterday, love is blind. Here’s hoping it’s lost its sense of smell and developed a strong stomach for when she gets home. (Cleaned to my specifications. That doesn’t guarantee anything)

Not unrelated, hoovered the car today and, just as I saw it, that little metal angel I found in my pocket a few months ago disappeared into the hoover. I’m sure it came off my daughter’s key ring when I drove her car a while back, stayed pocket to pocket since. It’s back in my pocket now and I’ve enough dog hair from the hoover to fill a mattress if anyone’s interested.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I’m going to treat this like the old Random & Useless Thoughts thread.

Good idea.

One of my favourite books is the dictionary. I remember when we were young kids, and we asked my mom how to spell a certain word, she would always respond, "Go look it up in the dictionary."

 

[Rigor Mortis]

There’s a very good definition of dictionary over on wonky dictionary thread.

 

[Louanne Learning]

that little metal angel

I have one of these in my car, too

 

[Link the Writer]

“Home where my gu-uts just died.


“Home of dis-abled pride,


“Of thee I sing…”

Oh god, now my character (the one with short bowel syndrome) is re-writing Americana patriot songs to revolve around his condition.

 

[Set2Stun]

I’m going to treat this like the old Random & Useless Thoughts thread.

I had guessed that this was Louanne's intention with this thread !

But with the fun addition of asking that if you read it, you post on it, in a creative way to spur on more engagement.

 

[Louanne Learning]

It does make you stop and think for a moment.

I had a wonderful visit today with my husband's former personal support worker. In the last couple of years of his life, she'd come over twice a week so I could go out and do groceries and errands and whatever. She and my husband really clicked, and she became like one of the family. She still comes to visit me regularly and I love her like she was one of my nieces.

She's about the same age as my nieces who lived with me, and they've all become good friends.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Bank holiday Monday, today.

 

[big soft moose]

That was last week wasn’t it?

 

[Mish]

Another chapter finished.

Off to write another one.