Random Fact Thread

[Dante]

-Occasionally, at my school, when people were bored they would add "dynamite."
-I think scissors beat dynamite, as they could be used to cut the fuse.
-Those rock-paper-scissors variants are mind-blowing, though.
-I can't remember the last time I played rock-paper-scissors.
-For some reason, this makes me think of flipping coins.
-I do things like that fairly regularly.
-I woke up at a reasonable time this morning, but I felt very tired.
-...Due to staying up until past midnight reading Going Postal.
-I think I stayed in bed for an extra hour or so before getting up.
-Well, maybe not that long.
-I can't remember what time it was when I first looked at the clock.
-My mother and brother seem to be having the closest thing they could have to an ongoing argument.
-My mother finds some of my brother's videos annoying.
-She wants to get rid of them.
-Which isn't actually entirely reasonable.
-I've just had lunch.
-It was pretty tasty, but Mother made me help make it.
-I'll have to see if I can persuade her to let me off some of cooking tonight.
-As likely as not, though, she'll be unreasonable and refuse.
-My lunch was pretty big, so I'll probably only have a small dinner.

[Antenora]

-The RPS site has an interesting discussion of the "dynamite" move when added to normal Rock-Paper-Scissors.
-According to that, scissors beat dynamite and dynamite beats rock, but nobody's sure what happens if dynamite goes up against paper.
-The Rock-Paper-Scissors-Dynamite game seems to be unfair.
-RPS-type games with even numbers of items don't seem to work well.
-When I need to decide things, I sometimes flip a coin.
-If I don't have any coins handy, I flip pieces of paper as if they were coins, or spin a pencil and see where it points.
-I've been reading through this humor site: www.aaaugh.com/index.html
-The "How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?" joke is there.

[Dante]

-I generally spin pencils/pens.
-I had to do that a while ago, to decide whether to tear a page out of my book, or hand the whole book in.
-Mother's having a nap, but she's just sent me to get water.
-As usual.
-I could almost set my watch by her, on Saturdays.
-My brother is being loud.
-Hopefully, my parents will take him out for a walk soon.
-This will give me some peace and quiet.
-Hopefully, it will also tire him out.
-I've gone back to using my scrap-paper bookmark.
-I lost it for a while, as I didn't need it for Crime and Punishment (the Literary Classics range has a red piece of material attached to serve as a bookmark) or for The Quiet American (so short and full of different chapters/parts that I could easily remember where I was).
-It doesn't look so misty outside, now.
-It does look damp and dull, though.
-The sky is a kind of white-grey.
-Oh, that reminds me.
-I took a picture of a jay on the lawn earlier.



-Unfortunately, by the time I had grabbed the camera, it had hoped too far away for me to get a good picture.
-And a moment after I photographed it, it flew away.

[Antenora]

-My computer's being slow and annoying.
-The internet keeps having to close, and a little while ago there was something about a virus being detected and deleted.
-At least any viruses we have are being removed, apparently.
-Still, I'm worried that they might cause damage, even if the antivirus thing gets rid of them.
-Nobody else in the house is awake yet.
-They'll probably be up soon, though.
-I heard a raven a minute ago, but couldn't see it.
-That's a cool jay.
-I wish I had a number that followed me around, as PJ is followed by the number 42.
-Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention to random numbers around me.
-There are some post-it notes on the desk with numbers on them, but there don't seem to be any particularly reoccuring numbers on them.

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

No-one seems to be interested in The Nameless Novel Ball. (I'm somewhat annoyed about this, as I'm hosting it.)

[Dante]

-Recently, my computer has been incredibly slow on occasions.
-It's been pretty annoying.
-My parents are back from their walk.
-I'm not sure if I mentioned them leaving.
-But they weren't out for long.
-And I was busy taking pictures.
-I wonder when I'll have to go help with dinner.
-Too soon, probably.
-Although that's not a real answer.
-Also, I should find myself a drink.
-The weather outside is the same as it was earlier.
-Well, perhaps it does look a little less damp.
-I see conspiracies almost everywhere, but I haven't noticed any 42 / Bad Wolf / Bad Peej -like things.
-Unless I'm being followed around by something I wouldn't notice, like chairs.
-But then, where's the point?
-It's meant to be noticeable.

[Antenora]

-I've suspected all sorts of conspiracies about various things.
-Sometimes, for instance, I keep seeing the same obscure word or name in unrelated sources.
-Or some quote or phrase seems to show up again and again in what I'm reading.
-And I suspect that crows are following me.
-Maybe I'm the victim of a massive chair conspiracy...
-I certainly see chairs everywhere, and who knows what they're plotting.
-My father keeps asking me if I want the light on or off, although it doesn't make much difference.
-Ugh, I just got a Too Many Connections on 667 in another window.
-There's text at the bottom of the screen: 200 OK Connection: close Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:09:43 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "52cc9-2b-3dab073f" Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Content-Length: 43 Content-Type: image/gif Last-Modified: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:04:47 GMT Client-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:18:14 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1
-I think that Too Many Connections text is one of the new v4 things, and I don't think I've noticed it before.

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

I keep getting "Too many connections."

[SF]

pandora said:

snicketface said:

-I saw the spoiler *sigh*
-I sorta wish I didn't see it, although it makes me wonder if it's true
-I'm working on my longest post
-I started it last night, but had to go to bed as it was midnight and I had school today

You can't even let me have it for a day? Fine. My whole life has been full of pointless conversations if you beat me I'll just post all of those conversations. Or something, but I'm going to have the longest non-story post.

-I'm still working on it Pan. I don't have as much time as I did when I did the other ones, as it was summer then, and I have school and a social life now.

[Dante]

-I seem to have missed the Too Many Connections.
-I've been reading The Book of Imaginary Beings.
-I kept on nearly falling asleep.
-I should try not to stay up so late tonight.
-Also, I'm meant to be helping with dinner right now.
-I can hear my brother watching TV.
-And Father may also be helping with dinner.
-It looks like it's getting dark outside.
-And now the light in here is getting orange-y.
-I don't like that colour of light.
-It looks slightly tacky, I think.
-But I'm not entirely sure why I don't like it, aside from that.
-I did have an odd coincidence with Francis de la Rochefoucauld the other day.
-And there is the possible Bad Peej conspiracy encompassing the world.
-But that's not really a conspiracy against me, but against the world in general.
-Well, I'd best go and cook.
-This will probably keep me occupied for more than an hour.

[Antenora]

-The Book of Imaginary Beings is really good.
-I actually have it in both English and Spanish editions, although I can't remember where I put the latter.
-Recently, I've seen a few coincidences like that Rochefoucauld one, involving Nameless Novel clues.
-I dreamed I was locked in a dark room with my notebook, and then came a clue concerning that same situation.
-So if there's a conspiracy surrounding me, it's more like a bunch of little conspiracies than a big unified one.
-It's been a nice, quiet morning.
-My father's out in the yard watering the grass, and Mother's out shopping.
-I've been trying to do a crossword puzzle, and wandering around the yard.
-I keep hearing a weird "chip, chip" noise, apparently a bird, but I'm not sure what kind.

[Dante]

-Dinner wasn't too good, in the end.
-Oh, and currently, it's an hour and three minutes since my last post in this thread, so I was quite correct.
-I'll probably be playing Cluedo with my parents at some point later in the evening.
-All I really had to do was make scones, which was easy.
-And for some reason, I was reminded of a regular sketch on a children's show I watched years ago.
-I can't even remember what that sketch was called, now.
-Ducky And Me?
-Mother's just confirmed that we'll be visiting the nice set of gardens when I visit my grandparents tomorrow.
-And possibly walking around in some woods.
-There's a cave up there, actually.
-I'll try and get some pictures of it.
-We took a torch to it once, but it didn't go back far.
-It just went around a corner and then ended.
-The sky outside is a very dark blue, and everything else just looks black.
-I'm not really looking forward to going to my grandparents' house tomorrow.
-I think I might be bored.
-I'll take pictures, though, as there is some really interesting stuff over there.
-I'll also take Noisy Outlaws Etc., so that I have something to read.
-I expect to have finished reading The Book of Imaginary Beings today.
-I know it's a reference work, but I like to read those through first, so that I know what's in them, and can remember it later.
-Anyway, if I haven't finished that today, then I'll force myself to stay up late and finish it.
-I think I might be getting a headache.
-And my left shoulder aches.

[Antenora]

-I liked Noisy Outlaws.
-Snicket's introduction to it is really good.
-We have ants, unfortunately.
-There were a lot of ants on the porch, but none of them seem to have actually gotten inside.
-Father wants to clean the patio, I think.
-I really should get some work done on my homework, but I'm really tired.
-I don't have a huge amount of work, but I don't want to put off what I do have.
-I'm somewhat interested in seeing the movie Mirrormask.
-I've heard it's really good, and my parents are interested in it.
-However, I'm not sure if it's showing anywhere in my local theaters.

[Sixteen]

-Ahh.
-I had my first flute lesson today.
-I can make a noise from it.
-So that's a start.
-I might post the next chapter of my story today.
-The Nameless Novel Ball isn't too lively.
-That's a pity.
-I wasn't here for the Grim Grotto Ball, so I was interested to see how this would go.
-Brainiac: Science Abuse is on now.
-Some man is trying an experiment about unicycles.
-Oh, and now they're freezing an egg with liquid nitrogen.
-I love that show.

[Dante]

-It's actually been a while since I saw ants.
-I used to see them outside occasionally, but the last time I saw them was out on the moors somewhere, I think.
-That's odd.
-Although I think my father did recently spray some ant-killer around.
-I saw an advert for the Mirrormask book on the Egmont site, but I didn't know much about it.
-Not even the plot.
-My brother took the computer for ages, playing a game.
-It was pretty annoying for me.
-But now he's doing homework with Mother.
-My parents and I played two games of Cluedo earlier.
-The results:
-Game 1: Nobody wins.
Game 2: I win.
-The reason that nobody won the first game was because Father missed a card in his hand, thought that he'd won, and took the cards out of their envelope.
-And in the second game, then I discovered the room and weapon on my first turn, but for a long time I managed to make my parents think I had the perpetrator instead.
-I feel like there's something I should be saying, but I've forgotten it.

Edit:

-I've done a few Searches, but for some reason I could never find the actual thread for the Grim Grotto ball.
-If anyone could find a link to it, I'd be interested to see it.