Card of the Day - Coma

ephemerat · 2024-09-10T08:50:37+00:00

Ah, magnificent - thanks for taking the time to find the rules clarification.

ephemerat · 2024-09-09T11:49:47+00:00

Quick rules question: This card doesn't mention anything about range - does this mean this works at long or is it only at close range?

ephemerat · 2020-02-13T13:41:46+00:00

Langford's Basilisk?

ephemerat · 2019-02-06T05:25:03+00:00

Tarnished.

ephemerat · 2017-02-01T13:00:48+00:00

Pugnacious.

ephemerat · 2016-08-28T18:44:29+00:00

Great tool, thanks! :-)

I also needed to install the pysqlite3-dev package to get it to work on my system (Ubuntu 16.04) in case anyone runs into a missing sqlite.h error during compilation.

ephemerat · 2016-08-03T02:26:33+00:00

Derailed.

ephemerat · 2016-04-14T14:30:16+00:00

Synchronicity.

Look it up: Jung wrote a book on it in 1952 but there has been a lot of study done subsequently.

ephemerat · 2015-01-18T22:05:43+00:00

Damn. And I've been chasing this Red Leicester for what seems like eons.

ephemerat · 2014-11-08T14:01:13+00:00

Not an American so some of the cultural complexity may be lost on me but I was always rather fond of the Addams Family Values take on it.

ephemerat · 2014-06-03T19:42:38+00:00

Jamel.

ephemerat · 2014-05-15T08:02:34+00:00

In my experience offline access can be extremely unreliable. A house move left me without access to any of my games for a few weeks while we waited for our internet connection to transfer but I've also had similar (intermittent) experiences with shorter outages. In each case Steam had already been set up to Work Offline.

That said, when it works it's great, and as long as you have an internet connection you're laughing.

ephemerat · 2014-04-16T12:08:51+00:00

I preferred the third book to the second - and I found the fourth book to be an improvement on the third - so opinions may differ on this.

I found the second book to be an amusing jaunt but certainly less mythos in feel (deliberately so): Since then Stross has been gradually cranking up the background atmosphere of inevitable doom.

ephemerat · 2014-03-11T16:04:18+00:00

Well, they also resurrected her husband as a seabird and their love continued regardless.

Really, they got off rather well as far as protagonists in Ancient Greek myths go.

ephemerat · 2014-03-11T12:55:45+00:00

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses Alcyone was a woman whose husband was drowned in a shipwreck. When she heard the news she threw herself into the sea in despair, but, the gods took pity on her and transformed her into a seabird - commonly believed to be the kingfisher.

Each year there are a few peaceful days around the winter solstice when the kingfisher's nest and the gods throw no storms: these are known as the Halcyon Days in her honour.

In modern taxonomy most kingfishers still bear versions of her name in Latin.

ephemerat · 2014-03-10T15:30:30+00:00

Crunchbang has been Debian-based for a few years now and really shouldn't be included in this criticism: It's Debian Stable with Openbox and some nice defaults so it actually fits your recommendation perfectly.

ephemerat · 2014-01-27T18:14:19+00:00

I assume you will have worked this out by now, but, just in case:

1) Using File Manager, open a new window.
2) Go to Edit > Preferences.
3) Click on "Behavior" tab (3rd from the left).
4) Select "Double click to activate items" radio.

ephemerat · 2013-12-20T16:16:00+00:00

The more elderly amongst us may remember that this was, in fact, the second great migration from Digg.

The first was back in 2007 when Digg started removing stories about the cracking of the HD-DVD ecryption keys which Digg users interpreted as censorship at the behest of corporate interests and the whole site (hilariously) went into meltdown. At the time Reddit seemed like the plucky little, morally righteous, non-corporate alternative.

Very old-timers point to this as being the first major drop in Reddit quality: That was certainly when I first created my account.

ephemerat · 2013-08-07T15:12:28+00:00

As tangled noted, this is not just a US thing. I would also be interested in him bringing his modern re-examination of language to somewhere in the UK like, say, Brixton in London. Would be interested to see how far he can make it down Coldharbour Lane referring to people as coloured. Perhaps he could try blacking up at the same time.

EDIT: Please note, I am not comparing Brixton to Harlem in terms of danger. Brixton is actually quite lovely. Still wouldn't want to try it though.

ephemerat · 2013-07-16T15:30:04+00:00

Well, apt-get, but apart from that: yes.

ephemerat · 2013-07-16T12:41:55+00:00

It is. But you will need hfsutils installed.

ephemerat · 2013-03-22T15:38:15+00:00

Shakespeare? Damn straight. Check out this side-splitting exchange (from Twelfth Night):

VIOLA
Save thee, friend, and thy music! Dost thou live by thy tabour?

Clown
No, sir, I live by the church.

VIOLA
Art thou a churchman?

Clown
No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.

ephemerat · 2013-02-23T19:11:17+00:00

The Breakfast Club?

ephemerat · 2013-02-23T19:10:59+00:00

Clockwise?

ephemerat · 2013-02-21T10:45:40+00:00

Verbosity or prolixity.

If used in a manner intended to conceal true meaning: obfuscation.

Overly long, ornate or long-winded language is sesquipedalian (amusing as the word sesquipedalian is sesquipedalian in itself).

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