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[KnottedYet]

Kit, did you just STEP on a picture from a beach in Hawaii? How could you!!!!

[Kitsune06]

I! It... buh... uh... but... *blushes* um... *shame* It was a digital pic... so I don't think my digital boot hurt it much...

[mtbdarby]

Deb - I'm starting to feel like the short kid at school who's jumping at the cliff notes the others kids are tossing just out of my reach , so although the picture was deleted, I was able to look back on pg 363 and see! All better now......nice picture of yourself btw!

I called the Italian guy. He was just getting done with a bike ride (in his favor). He preceeded to call me 3 times today so we talked for several hours. Very easy to talk to, asked very good in-depth questions, very inciteful and cultured. Older than I would have looked for (9yrs older than me) but hey, it's all relative right? Then the darn cop's daughter in me looked him up on ccap and found some financial problems and a charge against him from the state that was later dropped. So now I'm leary...

Wicked Weasel?? That just sounds wrong to me...

[CyclChyk]

Aww it's not a 'tramp stamp'...
it's azz antlers! but seriously, I really admire anyone who can do a tattoo at the base of their spine like that- it's all bone under that skin, even if you've got fluff, there's generally not a lot there. It's hard for pple w/o tattoos to really understand, but that makes for a really painful tat. Mine was on my shoulder and still hurt enough.

Mine is merely of an ahnk so its not big or imposing and I can hide it easily. It actually hurt less than the tat on my back shoulder.

7|2Y |31N4|2Y~
01001000 01100001 00100001
00100000 00001101 00001010 01001100 011011110
11101100 11001010 01011000 0001101 00001010 01001011 01101001 01110100 01110011 01110101 01101110 01100101
... It takes a lot to say surprisingly little...

Ieinary??? I concede. You are the uber cyber chick.

[Kitsune06]

OK cliff's notes TD:

Pages 1-135 can be basically summed up in the following life lessons:

1. Don't poop on the floor. Ref. p. 96.
2. Lise's dating life is ALL IMPORTANT.
3. Peter Reid has neck wattles. ...according to Nanci. Lise still thinks he's hot stuff. It's an ongoing thing between them...
4. "Coke Alert" means "Don't read this drinking something, you'll spray your keyboard/monitor!"
5. Port goes with chocolate, but chocolate goes with everything!
After that, I've had to be a little more picky (and even then... since I do this at work I lose a lot of ground, and a lot is banter, too...

p. 138- brain bucket helmets
. 139- B18 saddles- Downing St.
141- nopale salad
142,143 asst'd bird info...

Ongoing jokes, running gags, and recurring topics:

Peter Reid
Herpes and Avian creatures
Wines/Beers/etc
Various states of intoxication
Australian delicacies that Americans can't get (or were briefly made illegal)
Lise's dating life
Trek's dating life
The idea that Road IDs should have Lise's and Trek's numbers on them. (after rescuing so and so, if you're a nice, single boy, call # or a nice, single girl, call #) (Reference page, anyone?)
(these seem outdated, though...)
Bike erotica (as in the delicate art of describing one's bike in suggestive ways)
the occasional cattiness
The possibility (via Margo) that I'm either lying about my age or purposely jumped through the hole in the fabric of space/time that I was *supposed* to be darning.
(Anything else?)

[Kitsune06]

Mine is merely of an ahnk so its not big or imposing and I can hide it easily. It actually hurt less than the tat on my back shoulder.



Ieinary??? I concede. You are the uber cyber chick.

Binary, actually. First of all, you need to be able to covert decimal to binary, if you don't go there first. The way ASCII is laid out, it's actually not that hard. Lowercase letters start at 97 and Uppercase start at 65, which may not look significant in base 10, but it is in base 2. For lowercase letters you write 011 then a five bit number for the letter number ("a" is 1, "b" is 2...). The reason it has to be a 5 bit number is that ASCII is 8 bits per character, just get the number in binary and add as many padding zeros as you need (for example, "b" is 10 in binary, with padding zeros it's 00010) So "b" would be 01100010. "g" is 01100111. For uppercase you just do the same thing, but with 010 instead of 011.

Now you just have to remember that 00100000 is a space and 00101110 is a period, and you can read and write whole sentences!

[margo49]

OK cliff's notes TD:

Ongoing jokes, running gags, and recurring topics:

The possibility (via Margo) that I'm either lying about my age or purposely jumped through the hole in the fabric of space/time that I was *supposed* to be darning.
(Anything else?)

I cannot imagine you lying - even flirtatiously
I might (just might) concede that you fell through accidentally.
That was my original hypothesis actually; but then I realised things may be more complex than even I imagine
btw do you need more wool or a bigger needle. And keep it neat - it should look just as neat on the inside as the side we see

[Kitsune06]

Margo- Me? lie? Especially not flirtatiously!
Actually, I think we're seeing the inside of the continuum. The "outside" as it were is *behind* us, just as much as the "inside" is in front of us and we're all wound within through-out it. Trippy, huh?

It's actually done with rather fine needles and thread... the whole thing is smaller and more intricate than you'd even know... You look right at it and unless you're looking *real* close, you just see the whole thing and not all the little patterns that make it up. Groovy, huh?

Cyclchyc, I give up. I've looked at your avatar every day now and tried to figure it out. I don't think I can. If it's a bizarre piece of rorshack work, I can't really tell you what I *think* it is, then... (a worm on a fishing hook, with bubbles?) ... oop, my cheese head's showing! ...

Is it modern art? It doesn't look like letters hidden in an interesting way...

[KnottedYet]

String theory meets fractal geometry in a Klein bottle.

Where are Brian Greene and Stephen Hawking when you really need them?

[kelownagirl]

Hi all, I spent countless hours today reading TE and catching up on TD. Hubby is away and I am alone and incredibly bored.

Anyway, I found a great site with 2500+ ideas for cycling/sports related t-shirts. Thought I'd sahre it with you.

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/cycling/-/pg_1

I would post some of my favourites but can't seem to download the thumbnails...

Anyway, it's worth a look if you're looking for biking Christmas gift ideas.

Not all are bike-related though, this one made me think of Trek...

[Kitsune06]

*hacks, coughs and spews pepsi out nose* Oh My God. Kelowna!
...where can I get one?

*checks watch* what's seven hours 'left' of the west coast? Wait... no... we want to go to... the future! It's near 4 AM somewhere to the east, right?
Hm...
God Bless Canada.

[kelownagirl]

Kits - really. It's only a *suggested* time.... Hang on a minute, think I might have one stashed in a glove in my underwear drawer. Not sure who I'd be hiding it from since I got it from my one of my kids...

Much safer up here though. Not sure it's a good idea down there in "3 strikes and you're out" land....

[Kitsune06]

I know. Well... Eventually I plan on moving.
A glove? use one of those film canisters with a lettuce leaf in it to keep it moist and sticky.
1620 is actually quite an awkward time. You're either still at work or it's just waaaay too early and you're shot all day. ... so I hear. ...on TV. ...and in Canada. Blame Canada!

*shuts up and goes back to mending space/time and humming Pink Floyd*

[kelownagirl]

Yeah but it was the "right" time when I was in high school...

Doesn't happen very often these days and it's SO much stronger now. Found that out the hard way...

barb

[Kitsune06]

No kidding. That's what happens when people start to specialize in growing/breeding. If average folks just had wild plants in their yard, I can guarantee it wouldn't be half as strong (on average... there'll still be weird strains like blueberry, orange, skunk and purple alaskan)... The sheer amount of work and time alone to force budding etc is crazy. I had a friend with a card who was allowed to grow his own and he said the combination of science and eastern philosophy that went into it was fascinating. I didn't pay as much attention as I could've b/c that stuff doesn't interest me a whole lot... I just like knowing as much as I can (i.e. just enough to get me in trouble) on as many different weird subjects as I can...