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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 08:27:17
Message: <4a0abca5@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> "mone" <mon### [at] alienenterprisesde> wrote:
>> Enviable :). I only can remember that I had to drive a car with broken brakes on
>> some occasions :(
> 
> Hm... my "sleep cars" never had bad brakes. But occasionally I'd be dreaming to
> be driving down a slope, and not able to step on the brake hard enough to bring
> the car to a full halt. Always managed to avoid any accidents, but more often

Related, sort of ... Another thing that recurs in some dreams. I'll 
enter a room and get a sense of dread. I reach for the light switch, and 
flick it. The lights either don't come on at all, or only glow dimly. I 
then spend a good portion of the dream debugging the switch ... or 
freaking out ... depending on how strong the sense of dread is.

> As far as flying is concerned, I never needed planes for that. Just concentrate,
> and rise myself up into the air :D (It very much felt like lifting some weight,
> only that I seemed to be using muscles different from those commonly known to
> anatomy experts)
> 

I have had that kind of flying, too... I do it for a while, then forget 
how to... Gets frustrating.. ;)


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~Mike


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 08:27:27
Message: <4a0abcaf@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> http://bash.org/?451603
> 
> I would like to use this opportunity to mention how much I positively 
> HATE web filtering software. iPrism seems to think that this site is 
> adult content.

For the benefit of everybody except Mike:

http://bash.org/?429313

Can you spell NSFW? ;-)


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 08:41:23
Message: <4a0abff3$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> 
> http://bash.org/?429313

Bastard :-P

> 
> Can you spell NSFW? ;-)

FSNW?


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~Mike


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 10:43:02
Message: <4a0adc76@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> For the benefit of everybody except Mike:

I don't even think the USA is prude enough to fire someone over seeing a 
page that has the word "masturbate" on it.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 10:43:34
Message: <4a0adc96$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Any good packages (better than Blender, say) for modeling such a thing 
>> and building a 3D walkthru?  I tried it with a custom front-end to 
>> POV, but the need to do bounding made it really tedious. Maybe I'll 
>> redo it without using real lighting and it'll render at more than 
>> pixels-per-hour without excessive work.
> 
> I want to play with skecth-up one of these days...

Good idea, thanks!

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 10:59:00
Message: <4a0ae034$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> For the benefit of everybody except Mike:
> 
> I don't even think the USA is prude enough to fire someone over seeing a 
> page that has the word "masturbate" on it.

How about "Jesus"? ;-)


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From: Mueen Nawaz
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 11:06:00
Message: <4a0ae1d8@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>>     Continuation of a dream that occurred on a different night - I
>> think it
>> happened, but it's extremely rare for me.
> 
> This is more what I meant -- sometimes the earlier dream will have
> happened months or years ago.  This is admittedly relatively rare for me
> too.

	I should clarify. I _feel_ it's happened more often, but I suspect it's
more of a deja vu thing: That I never had the earlier dream, but while
dreaming this dream my brain somehow thinks I had that dream before. The
rare occasions are when I actually _know_ I had the dream/setting before.

-- 
It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.


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                   /  \/  \ u e e n     /  \/  a w a z
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                                   anl


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 12:30:10
Message: <4a0af592$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 12 May 2009 19:32:43 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 May 2009 21:21:20 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> 
>>>> Wait, what? Auditors? Harm you? Paranoid much?
>>> Well, it *is* their job to prove that I'm doing my job wrong
>> 
>> Well, no, not really.  It's their job to prove your company is
>> following the laws that they're required to and to document areas where
>> compliance isn't being met.
> 
> In practice, auditors that don't find violations are like cops who don't
> give out any tickets because people are all obeying the law. The
> auditor's job may be to show your company is following the rules, but
> their performance is judged on how many rulebreakers they find. :-)

I could see it that way, I suppose. :-)

Jim


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 12:54:28
Message: <4a0afb44$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:07:35 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:

> *Jots this down* I'll keep that in mind, should I ever need to act out
> the heroic efforts of poorly acted action at 35,000 feet film. ;-)

The interesting thing is that the Mythbusters actually did this (well, in 
a full-cockpit simulator).  They tried to land it on their own and didn't 
do very well, but they also pointed out that the autopilots in aircraft 
these days are pretty amazing, and the plane can for the most part fly 
itself.

Jim


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: That XKCD thing
Date: 13 May 2009 12:55:12
Message: <4a0afb70$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 12 May 2009 23:57:34 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I have a friend from years ago who used to keep a dream journal.  He
>> remembers distinctly waking up one night and writing about the dream in
>> the journal, but when he woke up the next morning, the pages were
>> blank. He'd apparently had a dream in the dream, dreamed that he had
>> woken up and written his entry and then gone back to sleep.
> 
> http://bash.org/?451603

That's just sick. ;-)

Jim


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