Solar liseuse charger (or: "Enjoyable descent into unutterable silliness.")

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by NatCh

We're (mostly Alex) working on a list of categories for the rest of the forum, so I'm sure there will be some appropriate category for this thread "So far off topic that you can't see it from here" most likely.

Topics? You mean these threads have topics? Cool! Then again, as I've said, I try to ignore labels lest I become one. "There you go, VRing again."

[vivaldirules]

A liseuse is an ebook reader.
Solarify it to make it even neater.
Just emotify your posts,
Or you'll see smileys and ghosts,
And we'll never be on-topic again.

It's been a tough week.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Topics? You mean these threads have topics? Cool! Then again, as I've said, I try to ignore labels lest I become one. "There you go, VRing again."

where is Taylor when you need him... i desperately want to mozzle the verb "to VR" but i can't for the life of me decide on just ONE thing it can mean...

[Taylor514ce]

Taylor is lost in the Great American Airport system. I have a theory. There is only one airport. It's a multi-dimensional shape, to be sure. When you fly in an airplane, you aren't really traveling geographically, you're just phase-shifting to another manifestation of the meta-port. That's why you feel so drained and disoriented. It's only when you step outside of the airport that you snap back into reality. The snap always causes displacement, which is why it's 6 hours later or earlier than it should be. The airports generally map to hard points in reality, which is why when you leave DFW, you're in Dallas. What happens though, if that breaks down? I suspect it has, a few times. There are times when it takes me a day or two to realize, "Hey, I'm in Atlanta", and then be not at all sure that's where I meant to go.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Taylor is lost in the Great American Airport system. I have a theory. There is only one airport. It's a multi-dimensional shape, to be sure. When you fly in an airplane, you aren't really traveling geographically, you're just phase-shifting to another manifestation of the meta-port. That's why you feel so drained and disoriented. It's only when you step outside of the airport that you snap back into reality. The snap always causes displacement, which is why it's 6 hours later or earlier than it should be. The airports generally map to hard points in reality, which is why when you leave DFW, you're in Dallas. What happens though, if that breaks down? I suspect it has, a few times. There are times when it takes me a day or two to realize, "Hey, I'm in Atlanta", and then be not at all sure that's where I meant to go.

i have no hard scientific evidence of this theory however on an empirical level, my own personal experience would tend to confirm it. i hope you get un-lost soon...

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

where is Taylor when you need him... i desperately want to mozzle the verb "to VR" but i can't for the life of me decide on just ONE thing it can mean...

I'm pretty sure it means a lot of things and most of them are pretty annoying.

Good luck, Planet Head. By the way, does that cranium of yours actually fit through the security scanner? "Sir, please remove your head and come through again."

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Thanks. I didn't have something in particular in mind. Just trying to understand the logic behind the classification that people use. In the end, it's just a label and I try not to get too concerned about those. Aliens, huh? Just for fun, if we go back 500 years or more, would fictional works about civilizations in distant lands have been properly classified as scifi or fantasy using the current definition?

What 500 year old work are you talking about? Today a fiction work from the civilizations in distant lands would be historical fiction if it is really based on an existing civilization.

Dale

[yvanleterrible]

Those works pertaining to people living over the edge of our flat earth. Fiction I say!

[DixieGal]

Of course airports are multidimensional. How else would they be able to instantly convert a person and her bags at point A into a person and her bags at points B & C? And if you go to Rome, remember, Leonardo may have been a genius, but the airport named for him couldn't find your bags if you smacked 'em upside their heads with your luggage claim tickets.

I speak Southern also, and the farther I go from home (Birmingham), the deeper my accent becomes. I can charm the hotdogs off people in Chicago with just a few little 'ol colloquialisms!

(Gentle Reader: ... )

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Those works pertaining to people living over the edge of our flat earth. Fiction I say!

Ah yes, Fiction. There is a misnomer. Just because something is not true does not make it fiction. Fiction as a genre is a book that intentionally tells a made up story for entertainment value or to make some moral or otherwise useful point.

Dale

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Ah yes, Fiction. There is a misnomer. Just because something is not true does not make it fiction. Fiction as a genre is a book that intentionally tells a made up story for entertainment value or to make some moral or otherwise useful point.

Dale

so, what you're saying is, there's lies, damn lies, and then there's statistics ; and *then* there's also fiction ?

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

so, what you're saying is, there's lies, damn lies, and then there's statistics ; and *then* there's also fiction ?

Exactly! Actually I have a high regard for good fiction.

Dale

[nekokami]

I think we absolutely need [unutterable silliness] as a thread prefix. Then I wouldn't have missed this one for so long!

When in doubt, I sometimes fudge with "speculative fiction," but the story set on another planet seems to me as though it could be "SF" or "Fantasy," and which it is would probably have to do with how the reader "got" there. In general, though, if the laws of physics and so forth appear to be the same as in our world, but a key fact about the world has changed (e.g. the planet you're on), I'd usually call it SF.

They're really marketing terms, though, like "shoujo" and "shonen."

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by nekokami

I think we absolutely need [unutterable silliness] as a thread prefix. Then I wouldn't have missed this one for so long!

The only trouble is that it's hard to tell when a serious thread is going to degenerate into a silly one. Look at this one. It started out as a perfectly valid discussion about nuclearfying a liseuse and then some rabble rousers showed up and it went straight down the toilet. Let's face it, we need some thread enforcers around here. I'll volunteer now.

Okay, everybody out of the pool unless you're here to discuss liseuse solarification! Go on. Get out! And don't come back!!

Is everybody gone? Okay, so how do you pronounce liseuse again?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by nekokami

I think we absolutely need [unutterable silliness] as a thread prefix. Then I wouldn't have missed this one for so long!

i'll make you a deal : the next time i see a thread degenerating into unutterable silliness, i'll run and get you ; and you do the same for me.

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

The only trouble is that it's hard to tell when a serious thread is going to degenerate into a silly one. Look at this one. It started out as a perfectly valid discussion about nuclearfying a liseuse and then some rabble rousers showed up and it went straight down the toilet. Let's face it, we need some thread enforcers around here. I'll volunteer now.

yes, you are the FIRST person who springs to mind when it's time to nominate thread enforcers. absolutely.

Okay, everybody out of the pool unless you're here to discuss liseuse solarification! Go on. Get out! And don't come back!!

Is everybody gone? Okay, so how do you pronounce liseuse again?

i beleive you were pronouncing it "lisajuice" for a while. however the absence of emotifaction made your intentions somewhat unclear. regardless, keep it down ya rabble rouser, can't you see we're trying to have a serious degeneration into absurdity here ??? sheesh !