I preferred the thread title as it was in Part 5 over the shorter version in Part 6, and so I decided to copy the style of the former. May this THREAD Restoration usher in a new era of peace, prosperity, progress and posts about current thoughts for /dqn/!
THREAD thread?
Even if I spend every waking moment thinking about it, it'll never come to reality.
All anyone has to know in order to kill me is my address and the fact that I pee outside every morning. That's a scary thought and I hope nobody wants to kill me.
You could murder anyone. Of course, there would be repercussions. But the actual act of murdering that person would have occurred, and it's not even difficult.
I wonder if medically supervised high-protein diet programs like OPTIFAST still fall under the heading of "fad diet".
>>9
Just the name "OPTIFAST" gives it that feeling, no matter how legitimate it might be. OPTIFAST.
Yet another thread to flood with posts about the parts of my life I'm unsatisfied with! Hurray!
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is so good to read while jammin out to metal. They should really make an anime or GOOD ova of it.
I need to stop frequenting so much sites. I should choose 3-4 to just stick with for good.
I found out my friend is transphobic and I feel physically ill
>>15
Oppaifast sounds like a diet involving several gallons of milk a day.
That hair is utterly ridiculous. I like it.
>>16
Are you sure? When my friend told me she wanted to be a boy and dressed in men's clothing and so on, I reacted harshly because that's basically how I felt I should react. When I sat down and thought about it, I realised I didn't really care. I was a little happy for her, even.
I think this is often the case. Unless they're particularly religious or from an ultra-conservative family, people are open-minded by default. Sometimes we just act a certain way to save face or meet certain social norms, whether it's because we want to appear a certain way around other people, or just because we want to feel comfortable about ourselves.
I need to finish that CD. No, not that CD! The other CD.
>>22
Societal norms? Or the way I was brought up (I know this is the worst excuse ever, but you can't really shake what you were taught as a kid even if you understand it was wrong).
In a way, I suppose it's kind of juvenile. Like people who act differently to appear cool, or people who feel uncomfortable watching cute magical girl shows even if they enjoy them.
Finally that big thunderstorm we've been promised for the past week has come to my town. This kind of weather kind of makes me want to climb the roof and hang on to the lightning rod. A pity I forgot most of the Latin I learned in school. Does anyone know a good Latin translation of "Jupiter is a big pussy who never learned to aim"?
It'll all be better tomorrow. Apart from the weather, that is.
>>25
I went to a lecture that dealt with mythology once where they said that Greeks believed rain to be the semen of Zeus.
Squeeks needs to update his SSL certificate.
I feel stressed and anxious for ABSOLUTELY no reason
i'll fucking cut you up! just gotta lure you out
>>29
And to think I always used to believe the rain was just Zeus pissing through a sieve.
http://4-ch.net/debate/kareha.pl/1244123052/13,14 took a lot longer to write than I thought. I got up three hours ago and still haven't had breakfast, because I was too busy writing those posts.
Got my Book of Mormon in the mail yesterday. Actually bothered to look at this morning and I'm 100% convinced guys, I am converting right now and you all should too... er... I mean, I looked at it and inside is an inscription: "To Wayne: Thanks for everything! /s [some couple]"
What a disappointing gift. I'm sure that in a way, they felt they were doing Wayne a favor, but still, what a cop out. Wayne didn't get a box of chocolates for his efforts. He didn't get a gift certificate to a store or restaurant he enjoys. No, Wayne got a book they give away for free. You can see almost see the look on Wayne's face in that inscription. Poor guy...
>>39
>>35 here, arguing that "lol dude, chill, it's just the internet" tends to be used as a shitty excuse by people who don't want to acknowledge that acting like an jerkass online is just as annoying and occasionally hurtful on the internet as it is in real life. Not sure what point you were trying to make, maybe that all internet creationists are really atheist trolls in disguise?
>>40
you typed a lot of stuff in the /debate/ thread but not a lot of it really makes sense to me, so it seems like it must be something you typed in anger
I like the idea of a heated political debate ending with one of the guys shrugging and saying, "Lol, dude you take this way too seriously."
I bet that guy would win.
>>35,40 railing against being a jerkass online as annoying and hurtful while being a jerkass online in the same sentence is hypocritical. Moreover, I would be much obliged if we all left /debate/ out of here and in /debate/. Thank you.
I ate too much food at a Cantonese restaurant and now I feel slightly sick and like I want to pass out.
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk.
How could I possibly have forgetten what strawberries smell like?
Now that I own the BBC... what am I supposed to do with this thing?
There's an extremely unladylike bulge visible in this skirt that I'm wearing.
She doesn't love me, I believed her lies like a fool.
What is it about the Internet that gives people the idea that common-sense rules, such as that standard spelling ought to be at least approximated, and that not everyone who disagrees with you is deliberately trying to annoy you, are suddenly utterly invalid? Just a few minutes ago I was called a troll and told to STFU, when all I said was that I couldn't parse a single word in someone's youtube comment and that a browser plug-in to check their spelling might be helpful in future.
I found a Commador 64...what do I do with it? Wait, does it even work?
How the fuck do I turn this thing on.
I really wish people would stop saying, "he's good with computers." when introducing me. I know enough unix and C to float, I'm not an expert.
>>51
It's and '', not
and ".
Read your American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It may not be perfect, but it's 1993 and it's the best we've got!
Why is my gender so manipulative and cruel?
I had the urge to write a random musical analysis, but I don't know anybody who would actually care to read it. I'll just post it here.
The song "You're No Good for Me" by Kelly Charles is unremarkable, but the intro is quite catchy. Numerous artists have sampled this 8-second acapella with great success. The hook is infectious but short; simple but elegant.
Consider the lyrics:
You're no good for me
I don't need nobody
Don't need no one
That's no good for me!
Kelly arranges the words in a simple structure: ABB'A'. The chiastic symmetry contrasts A's personal "you" and "me" with B's more general "nobody" and "no one." Kelly accompanies her elegant lyrical structure with an equally elegant melody.
Unlike the elaborate fortspinnung melodies of the Baroque period, the Classical era popularized simpler melodic statements built up from shorter parts. Kelly's hook exemplifies the Classical melody: each individual line is combined to make a longer melodic statement.
Classical melodies often follow a specific harmonic contour: they first establish the key with alternation between dominant and tonic, then briefly visit the subdominant before going back to a satisfying dominant-tonic resolution. Kelly follows these harmonic guidelines perfectly.
In line 1, Kelly outlines a minor triad, firmly establishing the key and ending on the dominant. Line 2 mirrors line 1, falling back down to the mediant. This returns the harmony to the tonic without completely resolving. The third line rises to the submediant, implying a subdominant harmony. Much like the lyrical structure, line 4 is a variation on line 1. Instead of moving from tonic to dominant, the fourth line begins on the dominant and finally resolves on the high tonic.
The placement of the words within the scale is also quite clever. The two words that fall on the tonic are "you're" and "me". Kelly contrasts the two words by placing her rejected lover on the low tonic at the beginning and herself on the high tonic at the end. Kelly parallels this structure in the first line, where she places "me" on the ending dominant. In the second line, "I" falls on the dominant, while "nobody" ends on the less important supertonic. Similarly, "no one" ends on the submediant in the third line. Kelly thus cleverly empowers herself by placing "me" and "I" on the dominant and high tonic, relegating others to the less important degrees.
I doubt that Kelly Charles considered any of these factors when composing the hook. It is likely that the melody arose naturally from her soul. However, the most natural things often conceal great complexity in their deceptively simple beauty.
>>53
I just run linux and I don't even program and I get that shit constantly.
>>56
http://4-ch.net/love/kareha.pl/1338929970/l50 lol i dunno
VC: plounable
>>59
I'm going to drive a fucking nail through your eye, Tokiko!
>>61
It's obviously a MtF transexual. They're the only ones who lament gender issues.
>>55
If you use TeX or LaTeX, you can also use `` and '' to get proper quotation marks. But of course this is not an option on a BBS such as ours.
>>60
I'm sad to say that the faggotry in those initial posts was actually myself and not Tokiko. This time.
I don't give a fuck if you don't like it, it doesn't concern you anymore!
I love that these boards are slow. I hate boards that move really fast.
>>66
That's because we only have 6 people, and I'm not so sure we have even that many.
>>68
I have the administrative password. There are a few more but 6 posters are responsible for 60% of the posts.
It's actually just 2 people talking to each other.
When I was a newfag I thought ( ˃ ˂) was one person that was just talking to themselves
Focus on the spiral.
The spiral will liberate us. We're trapped in cubic prisons. Walls around walls, boxes within boxes. For freedom we must break through. Believe in the spiral within yourself. You can see it if you care.
Something deep within me is stirring... my shining true self WILL be purified through the Spiral! I can feel my mind evolving! THEY walk among us, in the same clothing and same skin, yet if WE were to kill them, WE would be the ones punished. Those saved by the grace of the Spiral will be Lifted when The Tear occurs... and in a Higher Plane of reality ,our selves will merge and Truth shall be accomplished. We must be brave for those we love!
>>63
Don't quote me on this, but I think ``This" might be LaTeX-specific. The TeXbook makes no mention of it. Maybe I'll check this later.
Regardless, it's wrong. Those quotes don't come from TeX, they come from ASCII.
I heard somebody say that "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem".
Yes, that's right, isn't it.
But your problem was hardly temporary, was it?
It wasn't a problem at all.
>>77
It's stressed out since the early days of computing, Don't use double grave accents nor apostrophes to form a quotation mark outside of software where it's applicable, because some many fonts will mess them up and embarrass you.
And, yes, it doesn't makes you look cool or "retro" or whatever, it makes you look dumb. Like some kid who have found his dad's C64 and doesn't know what to do with it, but believes that he's magically 1337 now or something!
Stop this shit, dude, and learn about modern typography and specifically this two characters if you insist on being different: U+201C and U+201D.
>>77
I found it on page 21 of Wynter Snow's TeX for the Beginner, published in 1992. The book also contains a few LaTeX-specific tips, but those tend to be labelled as such.
>>79
I agree with your first line, just wanted to point out that computer users had ways of displaying opening and closing quotation marks at their disposal (albeit within the context of specialised software) even in 1993.
>>79
How right you are! Better go email these people:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html
Well, 2 of them are dead, but I'm sure they're rolling in their graves.
'Doing this' is retarded. It's like using brackets )like this) instead of (like this). It's not a case of being retro or whatever, it's a case of following the standard. Even if that standard is semi-obsolete thanks to Unicode, it's easier to type `` and '' than g and h. In fact, those characters may not even show thanks to SJIS dickery.
Go complain at the people using - for a minus symbol or ... instead of the dedicated ellipsis symbol. They're committing the same dreadful sin.
>>81
I was under the impression that - was a minus symbol, but kept getting misused as various forms of dash.
> it's easier to type `` and '' than g and h.
When you are habitually used to typing g and h on any virtual keyboard that doesnft make it incredibly difficult, not really.
> So when people ask, `Why are you beginning this quotation with two grave accents?'' I can just as easily ask why they're hyphenating two numbers in
9-3=6'.
When it comes to Unicode-friendly environments, I have my horizontal lines straight, thank you. I only hyphen to subtract when I code. Save it for someone else.
> In fact, those characters may not even show thanks to SJIS dickery.
On these boards, SJIS dickeryc isnft. Most Unicode Ifve ever seen here (bar perhaps the astral planes) gets entityfd.
>http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html
>page uses " quotes and ' apostrophes
So yeah.
> If you're good at sightreading four-hands piano music, I have hundreds of pieces I'd like to try playing with you; please drop me a note and we can hopefully get together for a jam session.
Dammit. I'm only kind of good at sightreading. But while I would love the once-in-my-lifetime opportunity to jam out with the Knuth, travel to California is prohibitively expensive from where I am and I'd not want to delay TAOCP or give him a terminal illness from an alien cesspool
>>88
The best solution to seeing lots of shitty posts is to make a lot of good posts.
Your favorite anime is shit, and I fucked you're waifu.
Runescape is a terribly low quality game but I love it so much.
>>92
And suddenly, the purpose of that thread is revealed: linking to it sardonically.
I hate the shitposting thread. I wish it would go away
Why is manga such an embarrassing hobby to have...
>>81
Try using "". This is why they are designed to look straight, not angled like . Also, imagine how much space you save in the modern UTF-16 environment by using "" instead of double
''. If you want to link to CS guys then you should probably care about every single byte.
There is also a slight problem with your hyperlinks: none of them leads to some obsolete manual of style or typing guidelines.
> In fact, those characters may not even show thanks to SJIS dickery.
You are, probably, lagging behind for about a decade. Even Windows supports majority of unicode characters by default.
>page uses " quotes and ' apostrophes
Yeah, and you aren't The Knuth. And you aren't posting to your own web-page. You are just a stuck-up wannabe on the internet.
>>97
WHOA WHOA WHOA! The computer ate my grave accents.
See? This is terrible. You are terrible.
On the second thought, if punching unicode number in is too tiring for you, you could use a specialized software which would replace double grave accents and apostrophes with proper quotation marks. Set it up to work with your browser. Or you can edit your layout and add proper quotation marks on (for example) "<", ">" keys with Alt+Shift key sequence.
>>98
But then what will I press when I'm doing hardcore programming in HTML?
>>99
Wait, are you coding in your browser? Like, on some web-site instead of FrontPage or notepad?
But anyway, the last sentence meant that you have to press Alt+Shift+< (+>) to input left/right quotation marks. So, typing tags would be fine. And you'd use special entities of quotation marks in your html, right? ttp://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html