How Long Can You Make My Thread Get?

ahhh, the classic rolling O


good choice if it's not already your permanent state of being

Orgasm? Sure, if it doesn't distract you from otherwise functioning properly.

Sparkly, magic stuff, hm? You want fireballs, elemental spells, summons, or mental spells (telekinesis, ESP-related stuff, sleep, confusion and other related spells)?

You might say I metaphorically used the latter on Xior.

Lucifer, have you read Terry Prachetts' Reaper Man, or really,.. any of his books. Death, the grim reaper plays a big role in his discworld series.



They say there are only two things you can count on ...

But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.

But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).


http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

Well, being that I'm not cultured because I sit at home in hell torturing people, I haven't read it yet. But it sounds like another of those humors on religion--a discworld on four elephants and a turtle shell? It sounds awfully familiar...

His books are a parody of everything we hold sacred from religion to hollywood. I love the whole series, and the writer is still writing more.
I just thought you might laugh a little, not mwah haw haw...so much.

Anyone see the new Turtles packaging?

Well, I like satire, I like cynical humor, sarcasm, irony and pun. I laugh either way.

I liked some of the discworld stuff, what I've seen - I rented a couple of animated series. Soul Music was one and one was about witches. They're cute - for younger audiences. Soul Music was about the grim reaper going on hiatus.

buh

Just my daily post to this thread in order that in continue ad infinitum.


Joe (Infinity is more of an idea than a number) Nation

buh?

ad infinitum = towards infinity

It's Latin. Infinity is not a real number--it's an idea of a type of "number" but it's considered undefined because it does not stop.

Are you familiar with David Foster Wallace's Everything and More?

I've been working through it for over a year. (I'm an anti-math rather than a polymath) It's very rich in ideas. One of which is that infinity is a graspable idea and so is the idea of multiple infinities.

I'm still hoping to learn to tie my own shoes.

Joe (if x=sub y-1 then a/0 ll`~ then <> = -1) Nation

No, I haven't read it yet. But the Arabian idea of infinity is one more than a thousand. As in One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. (The idea behind it was the wife telling the king her stories every night so that he wouldn't kill her because they were so interesting, and because she never stopped telling them, it was as if she told an infinite number of stories.)

The three most interesting things about humans are their languages, their numbers and their tools.

Language, especially English. My mentors say "English sucks"--they use this as a rule when doing an etymological analysis of English words from Greek or Latin.

Did you ever wonder how the Romans dealt with astronomical numbers? Roman numerals in math can be clumsy.

I remember thinking the same thing in college. My assumption was , since there was no concrete "proof" ,or any really strong examples of large quantities ( beyond a few thousand) it was an assumption to the romans that numbers could go on to infinity... there for there was less attention to detail when they got past thier useable numbers.

My friend showed me how they might have done long division with huge numbers in the thousands. The digits didn't exactly line up because "VIII" takes up three "digits", while the Arabic ones only take up the usual ones digit.

> watching this thread slowly tick to a stop<


It is like wheel of fortune... tick
tick
tick...

maybe you and theBear and i could have a pay per view event here - til it's kicky's turn.

if kicky jumps in .. noone will pay..