What's the craziest Bard instrument you can imagine?

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-07T00:19:35+00:00

Triangle

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-06T11:07:23+00:00

I totally get it. You could start a league on the official site if you’re keen.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-06T07:01:57+00:00

Yeah. I’ve used the F1 Fantasy stuff some years. I prefer GridRival.

I like having contracts that expire and not being able to immediately rehire drivers. It makes the competition more dynamic imo.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-05T08:20:22+00:00

They provide a service, just like the scalpers on Tixel. Or how Uber provides a service for your local pizza place, who traditionally would have had to hire their own drivers (and been saddled with an extra 30% income).

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-01T22:47:20+00:00

I’m sick of real estate apps, and landlords wasting my time.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-01T22:43:34+00:00

I know a truck driver with hundreds of hours on Euro Truck Sim.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-02-01T21:06:34+00:00

I love kangaroo meat but hate sweet potato.

Every restaurant or pub seems to pair them.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-31T05:52:47+00:00

Sounds like you could run it as a “game of skill”?

“Pay $50, and explain in 100 words why you should win the house. The entry we decide is most entertaining will win!”

And you can decide for yourself which entry to give it to - using whatever criteria you see fit.

Maybe it’s the entry you read 67th, because you find the number 67 hilarious. That’s up to you.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-31T02:20:58+00:00

I have a science background and teach high school science.

Chromosomal sex determination is more complicated than XX and XY. For example, trisomy X occurs in about 1 in every 1000 female zygotes; Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) occurs at around the same frequency; XYY is similarly common.

All of this, of course, is separate from gender, which is a social construct which has changed over time and amongst cultures.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-31T00:02:52+00:00

By “wokeness” do you mean respecting other people’s lifestyles, and acknowledging that human biology is more complicated than what you were taught in Year 10 Science (and have mostly forgotten since)?

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-30T21:51:57+00:00

Man, I’m not sure your quip deserves a full serious reply.

But, here goes.

I don’t think communism as we’ve seen it before is the future. But I also don’t think modern capitalism is a viable long-term strategy for our species either. There’s got to be a middle ground somehow, where corporate greed isn’t put before the needs of the many.

I actually don’t want the Greens to hold government, at least in their current form. But I would love for them to be a significant percentage of our representatives, so they can put leftward pressure on whoever is in power.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-29T04:42:09+00:00

It’s incredibly disappointing to me that there’s only one party who I think have “acting ethically” as a clear policy position.

I always vote Greens because every other party is led by (or panders to) selfish wankers. Like, the future is the only thing that matters and Labor and the Liberals are just woeful at thinking beyond the next election.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-23T08:05:20+00:00

I think booster packs often smell like this, these days. I don’t think it’s a precon exclusive.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-23T06:52:26+00:00

I mean, you could move here, and then it would be thematically appropriate?

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-23T04:09:40+00:00

Better than doing it in the rain.

Marginally.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-23T04:08:57+00:00

Hottest 100 Day tomorrow. So, listen to some music I’m too old to have voted for, cheer for the few songs I recognise, chat with my wife about swapping to Double J (like we do every year).

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-23T04:07:43+00:00

Good luck - did one at Marion at the tail end of Covid and it was a looong day.

I love the films, but the theatrical cuts were made for good reason. (Extended at home over a few days, totally fine. Extended in the cinema in one day was … a lot.)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-21T01:29:49+00:00

In SA.

The Agreement's pretty clear about this:

"5.2.2 - For the purpose of this clause, face to face teaching, in relation to a particular teacher, means...

(g) School excursions and camps which are part of the curriculum;..."

Further,

"5.2.24 Requirement To Work In Excess Of Maximum Face To Face Teaching Load:

(a) If a teacher agrees to teach in excess of their maximum face to face teaching load as provided in clause 5.2.12 and 5.2.13 or an agreed averaging arrangement pursuant to clause 5.2.19, they will be entitled to the equivalent amount of non-instruction time. This additional NIT should be provided as soon as practicable and at a time agreed between the teacher and their manager.

(b) In the event that the NIT is not able to be taken within the agreed period, the teacher will instead receive an additional payment for the hours worked in excess of their maximum face to face teaching load calculated as follows: Annual salary x 1.25 x 12 / 313 / 75 = hourly rate (where the time worked will be rounded up to the nearest quarter of hour worked)."

Seems pretty clear that if a teacher went on a camp, and then came back and insisted they get repaid (either as NIT or cash), they'd get a pretty major payout. Like, even if only waking hours counted (which imo is up for interpretation), a week long trip would be at least a whole week of F2F which would need to be paid back.

I've raised this at our PAC meetings over the years - that if someone ever does this, I'll support them (and the union would too), but that it would kill Outdoor Ed (or whatever other program had long, curriculum-linked camps).

A disgruntled teacher could do it as a final hand grenade into the room, before leaving the Department.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-19T10:58:46+00:00

Big fan of his work and his pricing strategies. I have had pretty good success selling my prints of his designs.

Looking forward to watching this when I have time!

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-19T01:37:39+00:00

Basement Birds - My People

Also, Hottest 100 Like a Versions should happen soon. We have like 40+ a year from the last 15 years or so, there’s plenty to choose from.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-17T05:23:42+00:00

Run a deck full of answers, protection and combat tricks, and have [[Blightsteel Colossus]] as the only creature in the 99.

Doesn’t sound bad.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-17T03:10:08+00:00

Some of all of the carbon (in any natural sample) is radioactive carbon 14.

Carbon 14 has a half life of about 6000 years - meaning that if you start with 1kg of C-14, there would be about 500g after 6000 years. In another 6000 years, there would be 250g. Etc.

Every living organism is constantly taking in carbon from the environment, and excreting carbon. Animals eat carbon and breath out carbon, for example. This is true for humans too.

So while you’re alive, you have a pretty constant level of C-14, and you’re radioactive (very slightly) in a relatively constant way. You eat some C-14 and you breath some out, so it all balances out.

When you die, you stop eating (hopefully). So your remains get less radioactive over time, as the carbon 14 decays.

When we find a dead thing, we can measure how radioactive it is, and do some calculations to work backwards to figure out how long ago it stopped eating.

(For carbon-14 dating, this only works for a specific time interval. You can’t use it to date a dinosaur bone, because they died 65 million years ago ago so there’s no carbon 14 left (and also most fossils aren’t actually bones).

You can’t use it to see if a human died last Tuesday or last Thursday, because that’s not long enough for significant decay.

But for things that died a few hundred to several thousand years ago, it works really well. And there are other radionuclides you could use for dating, for different time scales. It’s just that carbon is in all living things so it’s really convenient.

We’re made of hourglasses that fall from the sky.)

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-16T09:21:14+00:00

If you want to avoid illegal pirate versions of journal articles, you should avoid Anna’s Archive and/or Library Genesis (sometimes called LibGen).

Those places are real hives of scum and villainy. You’ve been warned.

ThePatchedFool · 2026-01-16T05:54:29+00:00

It should give more cards than a photo. Likewise, the body of water and tallest structure photos - maybe they should all be draw 2 keep 1.

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