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[camwyn]

Well, the stubbed arm pain seems to be receding- I spent most of yesterday aching in all the major muscles used in the drawing of a longbow by a right-handed person. Seriously- the inside of my forearm, the triceps, the median deltoid and trapezius, and the biceps to a lesser degree. I think all that the fall missed was the latissimus dorsi. It's mostly not hurting now, though, so tonight I'm just going to buy a bottle of acetaminophen (how I have lasted since February with only the painkillers in my first aid kit I do not know), a bottle of ibuprofen (acetaminophen is great but does nothing for prostaglandin-related pain), and some nice chili plasters or something.

Had to go up to Connecticut yesterday for a 'blessing ceremony' for my cousin's kid. Guys, if you want to dress your kid up in a white dress and have a preacher-type person talk about covenants and raising the child in God and stuff, then for frell's sake get it baptized. You don't have to go with Catholic if you don't want to, but don't appropriate the trappings if you don't plan on taking all that the ceremony implies.

Started working with the Evil Genius book this weekend while watching "Clone Wars". Am currently working on learning the colour sequence of resistors and how to use a multimeter. It is surprising how very little surprise the men in my family showed when I mentioned yesterday that I'd touched the meter probes to my tongue when I failed to get continuity across a wet finger. Given that two of them started talking about how it couldn't possibly deliver anything like the bzzerp of licking a nine-volt battery... well, perhaps there is more of me in this family than I had thought, and it only lies buried beneath the surface.

Off to deal with my office's most technologically cranky employee now. Honestly, if that man doesn't learn to work his own portable electronic devices sometime very soon, I am going to add him to the list of people to be hunted with dachshunds.

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[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Off to deal with my office's most technologically cranky employee now. Honestly, if that man doesn't learn to work his own portable electronic devices sometime very soon, I am going to add him to the list of people to be hunted with dachshunds.

Why wait? Monday's the perfect day for hunting with dachshunds.

[camwyn]

Eh, he's working from home and I don't know where home is geographically, so why tire out the dogs?

(Remind me to log out of my damn RPG character journal before answering next time. *sigh*)

[derien.livejournal.com]

I always get confused when you refer to the Evil Genius book. I think for a minute I'm reading a daegaer entry, because she always refers to her brother as the Evil Genius.

[camwyn]

Nah. This book. It's not actually particularly high in evil content or even genius-level content but it's a nice sound foundation to work from.

[avram]

don't appropriate the trappings if you don't plan on taking all that the ceremony implies

I’m trying to imagine what Christianity would be like now if it had followed this advice all the past couple millennia.

[camwyn]

It'd be the religious equivalent of what Wall Street would look like if the architects followed all the precepts of Greek architecture, including brightly coloured paint on your major friezes and marble pillar things.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Oooh.

Who are you and what're you doing in my brainpan?

There's a mnemonic for resistor colors

[(Anonymous)]

"Bad boys rape our young girls, but violet gives willingly"

1 black
2 brown
3 red
4 orange
5 yellow
6 green
7 blue
8 violet
9 grey
0 white

silver is 'within 10%' and gold is 'within 5%', no metallic band is (IIRC) 'within 20%' - 'damn inaccurate' in any case.

Actuallly, I'm not sure if 0 is at the white or black end, but I'm about 80% confident I have it right - it's the PIE circle I can never remember the layout of.

- ClassicDrogn

Re: There's a mnemonic for resistor colors

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

For some reason I remember black and brown being 0 and 1, but that might be because I've gone monkey crackers since high school or have simply misremembered.

[ahmeemee.livejournal.com]

Given that two of them started talking about how it couldn't possibly deliver anything like the bzzerp of licking a nine-volt battery...

I can just see them talking about it over the black eye peas, too.

[camwyn]

We were standing around in back of the catering hall, on the patio overlooking a stream with geese and things in at the time. Uncle Tim and Jeremy never really struck me as battery-lickers before.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Lemme guess, this was a Unitarian service?