I'm so stupid, I signed up and got the Zot.

[hk409]

THIS SITE IS ZOT!

GIMME A BRAKE ALREADY! YOU GUYS MUST BE THE BIGEST MORONS ON THE WORLD! THE BIGEST MORONS NEXT TO THAT SOFTWARE COMPANY I USED TO VISIT SIX YEARS AGO! OY YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! YOY! EACH TIME I TRYED TO POST SOMETHING NO MATTER HOW SMART! NO MATTER HOW CONSERVATIVE! EVEN IF I BEND OVER BACK AND DO BACK FLIPS AND THEN BEND OVER FOR THAT DUMB LIBERAL WE UNFORTUNATELY ELECTED! EVEN IF SPELL CHECKER ARE WORKING I STILL GET THEN KICKED OFF!! THEN ZOTTED!! WHY? IS IT JUST BECAUSE I WRITE SO BRILLIANT? BOB RUNS THINGS HERE!? OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. MAEYBE PEEPLE LIKE JJFATE AND NOAH HORSEFLY IS ASKING FOR IT BUT WHAT ABOUT ME!

[Dead Corpse]

Is FR flaky today for anyone else? Horrible load times and intermittant page drops.

[Dawsonville_Doc]

12.5 million sq. ft.? Wow...
That translates into enough space for roughly 25,000 inhabitants...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yep. It's flaky today. Slow.

[NicknamedBob]

"That translates into enough space for roughly 25,000 inhabitants..."

And that's only in the castle. Keep in mind we will have many theaters, libraries, dining halls, and other public spaces. Lots of room outside of it as well.

The castle enclosure is one mile in radius, and it is one of three enclosures we will be lofting into orbit, and then on to Mars, with the three enclosures acting as counterweights to each other as they rotate to produce artificial gravity.

Total capacity would be perhaps a million, but I do not think we could support so many. The green growing things will have enough to do to provide food and oxygen for up to ten thousand of us, and our pets and livestock.

We've been trying to provide for every contingency, and that's why the project has gotten so out of hand.

[Monkey Face]

MS. Dude, to you, if you don't mind!

Last time I looked I had female accoutrements.

[sionnsar]

Is FR flaky today for anyone else? Horrible load times and intermittant page drops.

Me too...

[Monkey Face]

I thought it was me, but it's the site...;o]

[tuliptree76]

Good afternoon.

[Monkey Face]

I think we're all talking in s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n today, huh?

;o]

[HKMk23]

First we build it, and then we try to draw it.

What's so unusual about that? It's SOP in the Tech Sector; documentation always follows manufacturing and the ECO will be Implemented next quarter. Maybe. Well, actually it has improved since the Dot Com bust. In 2000, we were pushing capital equipment out the door as fast as the manufacturing floor could assemble it. "Gotta ship to recognize revenue; damn the documentation!" But, cooler heads have prevailed in recent years (not surprising considering the amount of time some now have on their hands), and we now must have the ECO Implemented in Oracle by the system ship date. But it still isn't a design-then-build sequence; they're very much concurrent processes.

Gasp!! I've slipped into "work-speak"! It all sounds so Dilbert-esque, when I read what I typed.

[tuliptree76]

Yeah. I wonder why it's like this. It must be part of what happened earlier.

[tuliptree76]

I've slipped into "work-speak"!

LOL! That's okay. I'll just make sure I don't slip into "work-speak" - If I do I'm sure you'll all fall asleep. ;-)

[HKMk23]

Maybe "Denial of Service" attack.

[Dead Corpse]

We've seen problems like this before. Could be the back up server is flaking again.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Still water all I see
No waves serenity
Reflecting peacefully
Looking like the speed for me
Held out I feel no need
No gravity it seems
Suspended here to see
A moment for eternity

Slow motion
I'm getting nowhere fast
Slow motion
Let it last
Let the moment take its time
That I may see and realise

So slow the water falls
See how the water falls
See how the ripple waves
To rise and gently fade away
Frame by frame by frame
Unravelled and unexplained
The mystery unveiled
As I uncover each detail
Freeze like the speed for me
Freeze so that I may see
Freeze time and realise
The sights that lie before your eyes

(I never heard this song by a band called Fluke, but o how good the lyrics are for today)

[Monkey Face]

LOL! Thanks!

Are you still shopping? You must be having lots of fun! Are you still losing weight?

[NicknamedBob]

We've quoted Scott Adams and his creations here before.

I particularly like Dogbert's saying that he had wondered about the meaning of life ... so he looked it up.


In the Dictionary! ... "Somehow it was less than I expected." He said.

-- Actually, we've had to rebuild the castle. When we realized that we were approaching the end of the internet for the first time, I made arrangements to lift the castle grounds and all its contents with some extremely large hot-air balloons, and some very powerful turbo-jet engines. We moved it initially to Loch Ness, and did a little tour of the neighborhood. (We stocked up on beer in the process!)

Then we flew over the North Pole and stopped for a while in Kauai. We began some of our engine modifications there, developing a way to extract a Useful element from seawater so that we could build a large number of Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines.

We then moved the "Flying Castle" to Eniwetak Atoll, so that we could finish up the Useful element extraction, and link up with our other pods.

We've disposed of the turbo-jet engines, and other stuff, and made arrangements to transport into space some science cargo for those who have trouble getting it up.

As soon as everything is completely put together, we'll move into Earth orbit, and then to Lunar orbit, and finally on to Mars!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I am still losing weight, but have slowed down on the shopping, lest I have no money left to pay bills!

Got rid of two huge bags of clothes while I was at it.

Finally found my lost energy. I am busy reorganizing three rooms into a sewing room, and office, and a den. Right now there is some of each in all of them, accumulated during all my time of sick tummy and depression. Nice to have energy again!

[Monkey Face]

I'm really glad to know you're feeling better. I hate having the "blahs" because I get more depressed just looking at what I "should" be doing.

You will most likely really enjoy your trip, now that you have energy AND new clothes!

;o]

[HKMk23]

Moving that kind of mass into orbit and beyond will require immense energy. You may have to transcend conventional Electromagnetic Theory to do it. Take heart, however, the proposition has been made that imposing the Lorentz Transform on the original Maxwellian equation set has left our (vintage 1876) EM model bereft of some very critical elements; elements that would provide explanations of phenomenae that defy our present ideas.

Here's a little "light reading" to introduce some seminal ideas on a non-traditional energy source.

Also, you may want to peruse this library of documentation of successful overunity devices and processes.