Your brain is tiny but apparently people on this forum are now baby wimps who are afraid of scary words oh noes!!!
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Abstract (adjective, from Oxford Dictionaries):
- Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence
- Dealing with ideas rather than events
- Not based on a particular instance; theoretical
Abstract, as in it has to imagine that it needs something high to stand on
There is no strong indication of this in the article. It's all free interpretation.
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1. Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence
Stairs.2. Dealing with ideas rather than events
Go up.3. Not based on a particular instance; theoretical
Something to stand on.There is no strong indication of this in the article. It's all free interpretation.
Science is barrier to fun facts.
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He (The elephant) moved the cube in two of the first six sessions (sessions 1 & 4), but never towards the food. In the first session, He stood on the cube once briefly after rolling it away from the suspended food to an adjacent wall. At no time did he reach for any items while on the cube.
The elephant apparently stood on the cube for fun before getting the bright idea to use it to reach for food. Could be a smart elephant. Could be accidental. Who knows?
Stairs.
Go up.Stop for a moment and think about what this sentence actually means.
Science is barrier to fun facts.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge
- Bertrand Russel
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Oh, this is rich! Two quotes from the abovementioned article:
Without prior trial and error behavior, a 7-year-old male Asian elephant showed spontaneous problem solving (...)
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The elephant's behavior suggests, however, that he was actively trying to use different objects and strategies for food acquisition. Each time a method was unsuccessful, he switched strategies.
A.k.a. trial and error ...
Bet they got a grant for this research.
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Make it sexy.
No. I hate writing sexy things. I find it desperately embarrassing.
It might take me a while to get to it. I have a dragon to knit, followed by a shawl I've promised to a friend that I want to finish before I go to visit her, and my novel to work on, and a long-running game I'm playing on my other forum with a couple of friends, and another game that I promised to help plan and run, and articles to edit, and War and Peace which I have out of the library and hope to not have to renew more than once, and a whole box of lizards to paint*. In short my free time is fully booked for the nonce. But I will get to it and I'll tell you when it's done.
*I'm sorry, that's an even longer sentence. But I put commas in. Just take it one clause at a time.
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Well, TBH, I first learned about this study from my little sister's grade school test, which was about reading comprehension, not science. I found it to be an interesting piece of trivia, but because the intelligence of elephants is about as relevant to our lives as medieval visual arts, I didn't care enough to verify facts.
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intelligence of elephants is about as relevant to our lives as medieval visual arts
The latter is pretty relevant for me. Not sure about the former, but animal psychology in general may be more important than most people realize.
a whole box of lizards to paint
Pics, or it didn't (won't?) happen.
My quotes are in reverse order. Sorry :(
Haha, why on earth does this forum insist that the ':(' smiley should look like this:
And who called it ''? How can it frown without eyebrows?
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I think that
should be renamed as :mustache:like this: <img src=http://what.thedailywtf.com/images/emoji/emoji_one/frowning.png?v=0 class=emoji title=:mustache:>.
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Pics, or it didn't (won't?) happen.
OK... I can show you the new ones after I've finished, but here's some I made earlier:
[url=http://thecommentsection.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1611]More lizards here[/url] if anyone is interested. Do scroll down, because the last ones in the thread are the best, on account of I'm still improving.
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You need a macro lens
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I ain't never gonna get that story
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Stumpy!
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It would be wasted on me: if it wasn't for autofocus I would never get a clear picture at all.
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I'll get to it. Probably this year.
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Coolbeans.
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The triceratops-like hulk is awesome. I still dig Epic 40k more because:
Oh, you can field superheavies in regular 40k now? Damn.
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Oh, you can field superheavies in regular 40k now? Damn.
You've been able to for a good few years now
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3 He might hurt his finger if he plays with that ring on.
Hmm, this gets better every minute: Discourse insists that 3. is 1.
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The triceratops-like hulk
It's a stegadon.
Thanks, but it's not that good really, I did it some years ago. Click the link and scroll down to the albino pair and the salamander if you want to see something halfway decent.
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Computers aren't science fiction. Unless they're like holograms or made of crystals or something.
They are made of crystals. In part, anyway. Each chip is sliced from a crystal of very pure silicon (to which impurities are very carefully added). The silicon dioxide, aluminum and more silicon that are added are also crystalline, although not a single, large crystal like the silicon substrate. The metal lead frame that the chips are attached to are crystalline, as is the chip package, if it's ceramic. The parts that are fiberglass (circuit boards) aren't, and the plastic may not be, depending on the kind of plastic, but almost all the really important bits are crystals.
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It's a stegadon.
It's been years and years since I've played and even longer since I've played that army, do you still need to pay extra for the large bow (though if so it looks like you consider it worth while)?
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Already did. The albinos look nice, but the photos are a little blurred. That's it, Im off to bed - need to let my worms rest a bit.
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They are made of crystals. In part, anyway. Each chip is sliced from a crystal of very pure silicon (to which impurities are very carefully added). The silicon dioxide, aluminum and more silicon that are added are also crystalline, although not a single, large crystal like the silicon substrate. The metal lead frame that the chips are attached to are crystalline, as is the chip package, if it's ceramic. The parts that are fiberglass (circuit boards) aren't, and the plastic may not be, depending on the kind of plastic, but almost all the really important bits are crystals.
Blah blah blah not science fiction.
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It's been years and years since I've played and even longer since I've played that army, do you still need to pay extra for the large bow (though if so it looks like you consider it worth while)?
No, it came with a choice of the bow, an equally oversized blowpipe, or something that IIRC was called and Engine of the Gods. I don't actually play, I just like to paint them, I have no idea what any of it is like in terms of fighting and only chose the bow because I thought it looked cool.
The albinos look nice, but the photos are a little blurred.
Yeah, I suck with a camera. The wound on the albino cold one's arm looks way, way better IRL. It actually turned out better than it was in my head. I'm proud of that one, especially considering I'd done next to no modding before.
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Yeah, I suck with a camera.
You may or may not suck with a camera, but you can't photograph shit like that without a macro lens.
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No, it came with a choice of the bow, an equally oversized blowpipe, or something that IIRC was called and Engine of the Gods. I don't actually play, I just like to paint them, I have no idea what any of it is like in terms of fighting and only chose the bow because I thought it looked cool.
Alright then, was just wondering (the later options weren't included on my old version of the model IIRC, may dig through things to check).
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You may or may not suck with a camera, but you can't photograph shit like that without a macro lens.
Yes, but I have no reason to believe I would be able to photograph it with a macro lens, because it's not only my close-ups of little things that suck.
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Blah blah blah not science fiction.
Even though they're made of crystals. That was my point. As opposed to:
Computers aren't science fiction. Unless they're ... made of crystals....
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Blah blah blah not science fiction.
For any that might be new to Blakeyspeak, this roughly translates to:
I don't give a shit that real computers actually run using crystals.
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How about
Your puny facts pale in face of the Blakeytruth™
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That is also an acceptable translation.
The greatest benefit of Blakeyspeak is that it lends itself to flinging multiple insults in just a single short sentence. And that sentence can be as simple as "blah blah blah".
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The greatest benefit of Blakeyspeak is that it lends itself to flinging multiple insults in just a single short sentence
Sounds like Polish.
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- It's possible to make a list starting from three.
- Although it is mildly annoying to compose one.
- Guess what? Markdown isn't involved at all.
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Exchange:
"Kennedy ground, Car 32"
"Car 32, Kennedy ground, go ahead"
"Just got rid of that flock of geese at Kilo-Fox and Alpha, where do you need me next?"
"Car 32, Take Alpha to Juliet, hold short Four Left"
"Alpha to Juliet, hold short Four Left, Car 32"A few minutes later:
"Kennedy Ground, Car 32, holding short Four Left"
"Car 32, Kennedy Ground, clear to cross Four Left and follow Juliet to Yankee, give way to the Jetblue Embraer on Yankee"
"Cross Four Left, follow Juliet to Yankee, give way to the Jetblue Embraer on Yankee, Car 32"After the Jetblue rolls by:
"Kennedy Ground, Car 32 at Juliet and Yankee"
"Car 32, Kennedy Ground, turn left onto Yankee and take it to Fox and Fox-Alpha, there's another batch of geese in the infield off to the southwest there."
"Left on Yankee to Fox and Fox-Alpha, another batch of geese in the infield off to the southwest....mmmm, tasty geese. Car 32."
"Good hunting Car 32, and I think we'll all be enjoying goose for dinner tonight"and the Jetblue pipes up
"Can I have some?"
"Sure, I think there's even enough for the pax, Jetblue 1307"
"Sounds tasty to me!"
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Why did you post that here?
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macro lens
For a cheap alternative, you can hold pretty much any lens in front of your phone camera.
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THE ONE NAMED "SHADOWRUN" WHICH SUCKED!
What about the one named Shadowrun that didn't suck?
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Never played it.
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It would be wasted on me: if it wasn't for autofocus I would never get a clear picture at all.
That's not what macro is for, and if you have focus issues, you need a tripod, too, or else something to use as a steady base instead of your hand.
And maybe a remote shutter release, if you really want to be sure.
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@eskel said:
Discourse insists that 3. is 1.
Jeebus, don't get Blakey started on that again.Yeah, we don't need another flame war on religion today.
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Even though they're made of crystals.
Crystals! (@blakeyrat, is Atomic Robo SF or Fantasy?)
Also, visit http://www.atomic-robo.com/, because I CBA to find the actual comic, and the site I got this image from didn't have a link back to the site, and it's a funny comic, and if you don't think so you're probably a bad person.
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"Good hunting Car 32, and I think we'll all be enjoying goose for dinner tonight"
My boss once killed a Canadian goose with a golf ball and a fortuituous swing.
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That's not what macro is for, and if you have focus issues, you need a tripod, too, or else something to use as a steady base instead of your hand.
Well by focus I mean focussing the lens so that a thing at the right distance is in focus at any given moment, not keeping it steady so the same thing is always in focus and in the same place. It's perfectly possible I'm misusing the term.
But I neither know nor care what macro is for, what I meant was, I have no skill at photography, my pictures would be bad anyway, and I have no particular desire to learn that skill, so there is no point in me getting a fancy camera or fancy lenses, because I would still take bad pictures.
If my bad photos offend you then stop looking at them. I'm very sorry they're not up to your standards, but that's the limit of my ability and I am perfectly ok with that. I don't care about photography, I don't know anything about it, and I don't want to learn. I have way too much stuff I'm already trying to do with my free time to bother about improving a skill I rarely use and don't find remotely interesting.
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shouldn't it be?
This is Blakey we're talking about. Facts, or lack thereof, are not a barrier to having and expressing an opinion on any subject.
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This is
BlakeyInternet we're talking about. Facts, or lack thereof, are not a barrier to having and expressing an opinion on any subject.FTFAOU
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'd by 19 (or 17) minutes.:-P
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Well by focus I mean focussing the lens so that a thing at the right distance is in focus at any given moment
That's what I buttumed you meant. A macro lens is for taking pictures of close-up things like miniatures.
I mean, not that you want to do it, but put a macro lens on so you can get the closeup, put the thing on the desk instead of holding it, so it's steady and not shaky, and sure, go ahead and use autofocus, and you'd probably get a pretty good picture.
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If my bad photos offend you then stop looking at them.
Settle down. I wasn't offended. I was offering what may or may not constitute advice; more like suggestions, if you cared to try to get better pictures. Because people who invite other people to look at their pictures usually try to make the pictures look good.
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'd by 19 (or 17) minutes.
Sorry,
ing a coworker to keep more steps than her is a barrier to post count.
