Let The Countdown Begin!

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Geez... that just blows.  Stocked up on vitamins, I hope?  Nice comfy bed for when you actually get to lay down in it for a few minutes?  

I hope they don't try to cancel your weekend off with claims of "short-handed, nothing we can do"...  


Have you asked these other guys if there are openings wherever they're going?  



Sounds like you and Rapier both are just about ready for something different...  

Nah, this is a CHALLENGE in all caps.  To hell with the quiters, they can't hang and were fast becoming dead weight.  It's time to take the prison back from the prisoners.  I don't say that lightly because half of the people here are ex cons.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Texas passes the Right to Carry in Your Car Bill... this way i can't get in trouble, from my company, for packing heat in my car.  With some of the guys we work with, I'd like to be able to return fire. 

[haleyileaha]

Nah, this is a CHALLENGE in all caps.  To hell with the quiters, they can't hang and were fast becoming dead weight.  It's time to take the prison back from the prisoners.  I don't say that lightly because half of the people here are ex cons.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Texas passes the Right to Carry in Your Car Bill... this way i can't get in trouble, from my company, for packing heat in my car.  With some of the guys we work with, I'd like to be able to return fire. 

Your job sounds dangerous.....lol

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Steel is unforgiving and "accidents" do happen.  I've been in the oilfield/steel business long enough to trust very few with my health... and some of that is carry over from the Army.  Trust no one but your team members.


I watch EVERYONE and they know it. 

[Rani Zemirah]

Geez... that just blows.  Stocked up on vitamins, I hope?  Nice comfy bed for when you actually get to lay down in it for a few minutes?  

I hope they don't try to cancel your weekend off with claims of "short-handed, nothing we can do"...  


Have you asked these other guys if there are openings wherever they're going?  



Sounds like you and Rapier both are just about ready for something different...  

Nah, this is a CHALLENGE in all caps.  To hell with the quiters, they can't hang and were fast becoming dead weight.  It's time to take the prison back from the prisoners.  I don't say that lightly because half of the people here are ex cons.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Texas passes the Right to Carry in Your Car Bill... this way i can't get in trouble, from my company, for packing heat in my car.  With some of the guys we work with, I'd like to be able to return fire.  

I remember you saying something about that a few weeks ago.  I hope it passes, also, because I know what you keep with you all the time, and it's always nice to be covered, just in case...    

Geez... you're the only man I know who would see 70 hr work-weeks as a "challenge"...      I just hope they get a clue as to your real value sometime soon, and give you the raise and promotion you deserve!  Just remember that caffeine is NOT a food group...    Speaking of health... don't forget your vitamins!  That kind of schedule is brutal, as well you know!  Sorry you've got to be there all day, today.


I've got lots to do this morning to get ready for the day... and I just really wanna to go back to sleep for a while.  I will never understand why people call me on Saturday mornings...

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

I take a handful of vitamins, willingly, every morning... i'd rather take those than HAVE to take a handful of medications.     I've cut down on caffeine... not good in this heat.  I'll be out in near record, oh-so-wonderful, Houston heat for most of the day.  Man, i love this city!



*NOT*

[haleyileaha]

Wow that would be tough if you only worked 40 hrs a week I can't imagine almost twice that.

[Rani Zemirah]

I take a handful of vitamins, willingly, every morning... i'd rather take those than HAVE to take a handful of medications.     I've cut down on caffeine... not good in this heat.  I'll be out in near record, oh-so-wonderful, Houston heat for most of the day.  Man, i love this city!



*NOT*

And you people keep trying to convince me that I could live down there...    I'd probably just melt into the concrete!  It's hot up here now, also... 95* predicted, which usually means at least 98*, with a heat index of probably 102* or so, and it's barely even June.  Doesn't sound good for the rest of the summer.  I can already hear the mountains calling my name...

At least the hotel has a fairly decent air-conditioning system, because that many bodies in a confined space tends to get a bit rank after a few hours of sweating in costumes that may or may not not have ever been washed...    LOL  

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Wow that would be tough if you only worked 40 hrs a week I can't imagine almost twice that.

I lived in the desert of southern Iraq for 8 months and did some time in the jungles of Central America... Houston is a cake walk.  At least my clothes, here, don't rot off my body, like in Panama. 

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

I take a handful of vitamins, willingly, every morning... i'd rather take those than HAVE to take a handful of medications.     I've cut down on caffeine... not good in this heat.  I'll be out in near record, oh-so-wonderful, Houston heat for most of the day.  Man, i love this city!



*NOT*

And you people keep trying to convince me that I could live down there...    I'd probably just melt into the concrete!  It's hot up here now, also... 95* predicted, which usually means at least 98*, with a heat index of probably 102* or so, and it's barely even June.  Doesn't sound good for the rest of the summer.  I can already hear the mountains calling my name...

At least the hotel has a fairly decent air-conditioning system, because that many bodies in a confined space tends to get a bit rank after a few hours of sweating in costumes that may or may not not have ever been washed...    LOL  

Oh, you'd love it... it opens the pores and all that happy s**t.

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Quantum Physics Derail!

Our current knowledge about the subatomic composition of the universe is summarized in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics. It describes both the fundamental building blocks out of which the world is made, and the forces through which these blocks interact. There are twelve basic building blocks: six types of quarks that go by the rather unimaginative names of up, down, charm, strange, bottom and top, and six types of leptons, which include the electron and its two heavier siblings- the muon and the tauon- as well as three neutrinos. While I am unaware of the origins of these names, I am in complete agreement with second year physics students that their inventors should be flogged with rabid weasels.

Additionally, there are four fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces, both weak and strong. Each of these is produced by fundamental particles that act as carriers of the force. The most familiar of these is the photon, a particle of light, which is the mediator of electromagnetic forces, i.e. a magnet attracts a nail because both objects exchange photons. The graviton is the particle associated with gravity, though it is very poorly understood by today's physics models. The strong nuclear force is carried by eight particles known as gluons, while the weak nuclear force is transmitted by the W+, the W- , and the Z particles. Again, there shall be a great abundance of weasel-flogging should I ever acquire the locations of the rather benighted individuals who came up with these names. Though, in their defense, I have seen enough evidence to convince me that experimentation with psychotropic substances- or a great many blows to the head- were involved, and they are not entirely to blame. Moving on.

The behavior of all of these particles and forces is explained in-depth through the Standard Model, with the aforementioned exception of gravity. For technical reasons, the gravitational force, the most familiar in our every day lives, has proven very difficult to describe microscopically. The inability to formulate a quantum theory of gravity has for many years been one of the most annoying problems in theoretical physics. Until recently, that is. In the last few decades, string theory has emerged as the most promising candidate for a microscopic theory of gravity. If you are still reading this, you are either a serious physics geek or very, very bored

This derail brought to you by the accidental interaction of Tramadol and the alcohol content in a double-shot of Nyquil. Don't forget to tip the wait staff, and remember where you parked.

Where do quarks and their interaction with dark matter enter into you equation?



*Pssst... Rapier... I think he's finally loosing it!*

I don't. I think he's trying to impress the girls. Much the way that the male peacock's will spread their tail feathers and scream, trying to get the females attention. And considering that so many rennie women are typically much more intelligent than the 'dane women, his attempt to call attention to himself looks like a great idea to me.

Hey, do you think if we were to light Mouse on fire we could get the girls attention?

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Depends on how long we can keep him running before he drops & rolls.  




*you could "accidently" let you kilt get hung up on your sporran... let it all hang out.*

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Wow that would be tough if you only worked 40 hrs a week I can't imagine almost twice that.

I lived in the desert of southern Iraq for 8 months and did some time in the jungles of Central America... Houston is a cake walk.  At least my clothes, here, don't rot off my body, like in Panama. 

A couple of decades ago, I owned a landscaping company that specialised in new restaurant builds (being friends with the architects really helped) Anyway, one very nice August day, when half my crew didn't bother to show up because it was already 90' at 8am, I was left with 3 guys to do a James Coney Island that had been built on the salvaged land of an old gas station. Per federal guidelines the ground had been treated with packed shale. Anybody reading this know what packed shale is? Ever try to dig holes deep enough to plant 8' trees? It takes onward of 3 hours for one person to dig a 2' spherical hole, times 12 trees.

Having this "religious experience" spawned the thought "Now, explain to me why I dropped out of college?"

[Rani Zemirah]

Yeah... I can go to the sauna at the Y for that.    I would rather not walk around with my pores open ALL the time, thanks!  LOL  We have our share of nasty humidity up here, also, but nothing like down there...  I like the high desert of the Rockies, although it comes with it's own problems.  Just staying hydrated there is a full time job.  Most people just carry a water bottle around with them everywhere, and refill it several times a day without even thinking about it.  


Believe me, though, I would live down there right now if I thought I could deal with the heat/humidity.  I consider TRF to be my "home Faire", just because it really is where I feel most at home... but it's the people who make it that, and not the Faire, itself.  I miss all of you, every day...

And now I'm all homesick...  Thanks a lot, Fraser!!!    

Quantum Physics Derail!

Our current knowledge about the subatomic composition of the universe is summarized in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics. It describes both the fundamental building blocks out of which the world is made, and the forces through which these blocks interact. There are twelve basic building blocks: six types of quarks that go by the rather unimaginative names of up, down, charm, strange, bottom and top, and six types of leptons, which include the electron and its two heavier siblings- the muon and the tauon- as well as three neutrinos. While I am unaware of the origins of these names, I am in complete agreement with second year physics students that their inventors should be flogged with rabid weasels.

Additionally, there are four fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces, both weak and strong. Each of these is produced by fundamental particles that act as carriers of the force. The most familiar of these is the photon, a particle of light, which is the mediator of electromagnetic forces, i.e. a magnet attracts a nail because both objects exchange photons. The graviton is the particle associated with gravity, though it is very poorly understood by today's physics models. The strong nuclear force is carried by eight particles known as gluons, while the weak nuclear force is transmitted by the W+, the W- , and the Z particles. Again, there shall be a great abundance of weasel-flogging should I ever acquire the locations of the rather benighted individuals who came up with these names. Though, in their defense, I have seen enough evidence to convince me that experimentation with psychotropic substances- or a great many blows to the head- were involved, and they are not entirely to blame. Moving on.

The behavior of all of these particles and forces is explained in-depth through the Standard Model, with the aforementioned exception of gravity. For technical reasons, the gravitational force, the most familiar in our every day lives, has proven very difficult to describe microscopically. The inability to formulate a quantum theory of gravity has for many years been one of the most annoying problems in theoretical physics. Until recently, that is. In the last few decades, string theory has emerged as the most promising candidate for a microscopic theory of gravity. If you are still reading this, you are either a serious physics geek or very, very bored

This derail brought to you by the accidental interaction of Tramadol and the alcohol content in a double-shot of Nyquil. Don't forget to tip the wait staff, and remember where you parked.

Where do quarks and their interaction with dark matter enter into you equation?



*Pssst... Rapier... I think he's finally loosing it!*

I don't. I think he's trying to impress the girls. Much the way that the male peacock's will spread their tail feathers and scream, trying to get the females attention. And considering that so many rennie women are typically much more intelligent than the 'dane women, his attempt to call attention to himself looks like a great idea to me.

Hey, do you think if we were to light Mouse on fire we could get the girls attention?

Rapier, you always manage to get the girls attention...    Particularly when you're dancing across a balcony in chainmail and a kilt!    Poor Breandan was all drunk and stoned on unfamiliar medicinal interactions last night (although how that happens to a MEDIC I will never know...), and his homework was starting to freak him out, that's all... so put Mouse out now!  



Besides, even when you have our attention you never actually DO anything with it...    

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Depends on how long we can keep him running before he drops & rolls.  

I think this idea might deserve some fleshing out. Just a thought.

*you could "accidently" let you kilt get hung up on your sporran... let it all hang out.*

Don't you hate it when that happens? Hey, I have had little old women try and sneak up behind me and try to get a peek up my kilt. It's the damnedest thing. I don't mind the peep show, but at least give me fair warning.

[Rani Zemirah]

Depends on how long we can keep him running before he drops & rolls. 

I think this idea might deserve some fleshing out. Just a thought.

*you could "accidently" let you kilt get hung up on your sporran... let it all hang out.*

Don't you hate it when that happens? Hey, I have had little old women try and sneak up behind me and try to get a peek up my kilt. It's the damnedest thing. I don't mind the peep show, but at least give me fair warning.

Wait... you're saying that I can kilt-check you anytime... I just have to announce it first?