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STSF Laura

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  1. Compared to YOU, Supreme Evil One, everyone is nice. :-)
  2. Thanks everyone! And A9, bear in mind that's "nice by comparison", and recall that I've hosted with people like NDak...
  3. Hello, and welcome to STSF! Don't worry too much about the attachments section. Only the hosts use it very often, mostly to post chatlogs on the Academy and Advanced Sims boards. Yep, that would be the case! That's just some tools that you might want to use when posting; they aren't very commonly used, though. First thing to do is read the Help and FAQ sections, then "Tips from the Moose." If you'd like to see what all of that looks like, you can take a look at the chatlogs posted in the Academy Sims board.
  4. Heh, thanks all. :)
  5. Tuesday Late Nite, 02/07/06 In which we begin with a crop blight and end with 47, 619, 047 ladybugs. TuesLate0207.txt
  6. Would you feel less awkward if a GM played, too? When I graduated (back in the low tech ages when we simmed by Morse code, but after the development of electricity), I was fortunate enough to do so just as a new ship was launching, so I didn't have to come into a developed community. However, a little later on I tried another sim. It didn't work out for me. Charlie asks: I wish I had know that ship had a tendency towards long (we're talking close to a year), convoluted, heavily character-driven plots. It made it very hard for a newcomer to 'break in' -- I felt like I never caught up to what was going on.
  7. Wow

    Wow, welcome Neva! Nice to see you again! Laura
  8. Spoilsport. :lol:
  9. which raises point #2 -- the consoles on the bridge are always exploding. Has the 24th century forgotten about a little thing called surge protection?
  10. Well, the Tuesday late night academy still runs department sims. The thing is, as N'Dak pointed out, the larger the turnout, the harder it is to do a department sim. So we tend to only run them on slower nights.
  11. Heh. Look out Mavis Beacon, eh? ;)
  12. Hello and welcome! Glad you enjoyed your first sim with us! The speed is overwhelming to just about everyone at first, but you adjust a lot faster than you'd think. And it's good for you -- my typing speed doubled back when I first got into simming! :P It helps if you don't try to follow everything your first couple times through; just watch for the people you're in the same 'room' with -- bridge, sickbay, engineering, whatever. Then you can sorta 'zoom out' with practice. Hope to see you around! ;)
  13. Happy birthday, ya old man! :-)
  14. Fun, innit? B)
  15. Do we not, though? The standards by which scientific results/discoveries are judged are well-founded, and certainly far more stringent and less subjective than the standards to which we hold politicians and religious leaders.
  16. Dating systems may not be infalliable, but they do tend to return results in clusters. When test after test puts the age of the earth at a couple billion years, it seems much more likely that the earth IS a couple billion years old and not a couple thousand or a couple trillion, even if occasionally a test returns a much smaller or larger value. It's an Occam's Razor thing. Actually, I have an anecdote about this very thing. Just before Christmas, I covered a 5th grade science class. They were doing properties of matter, and one of the things on their lab was measuring the boiling point of water. Seven out of eight groups got results between 98-102 degrees Celsius. One group recorded 72 degrees. Now, I can choose to assume that their water actually boiled at 72 degrees; I can assume the other seven groups were wrong, in method or equipment; or I can assume that the one group did something wrong, or had faulty equipment. Likewise for the age of the earth. The body of evidence says that it is roughly between 3.8 and 4.8 billion years old. To argue that it's mere thousands of years old or that it's trillions of years old discards a far larger body of evidence than the 4.5 billion commonly accepted does.
  17. You can only carbon-date things that were once alive, actually. Rocks, they usually use something called the Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) system. This particular piece also used oxygen-isotope analysis, which helped to establish that it formed in the presence of water.
  18. And they're far preferable to the one-ring circus that passes for TV news. If nothing else, they repeat themselves less.
  19. My first Trek memory is of the scene from "Who Watches the Watchers" where Picard lets himself get shot by an arrow. Pretty sure I'd watched it before then, but that's the first episode I remember.
  20. :chuckles: Most of the versions of this I've seen have the "do only" instruction buried in the large directions paragraph. The test questions aren't usually considered "directions." Now, if the teacher was trying to get students to read the entire test and do the stuff they knew first -- good for standardized tests, especially -- then they give out something like this.
  21. Tube river? Ooohhh, I love those things... Lazy, lazy floatin' in the sun and the scenery changes but you don't go anywhere... ::wanders off to check bank accounts hopefully::
  22. Well, the convention ShoreLeave still runs. But as for "ShoreLeave East" -- I know it happened the same year as the introduction of "ShoreLeave West", but I don't know if any sizable group from STSF still meets there. Anyone? Bueller?
  23. If all smokers were as polite as that, I'd have no problems with them. My very first real job was at a bowling alley; smoking was permitted in all areas. I'm not hyper-sensitive to smoke, but I do dislike the scent and after a long day I became increasingly sensitive to it. So if I passed by someone who was smoking, I would turn my head out of the direct path of the smoke, in order to reduce how much of it I had to inhale. I can't tell you how many times people went out of their way to blow smoke right in my face. There are quite a few smokers out there who seem to think those of us who prefer to avoid smoke when possible are some sort of crybaby.
  24. Beg to differ. I would say that a person's health/quality of life/life expectancy is a fundamental concern. If a person cannot conduct normal activities without having that infringed, there is a problem. So it makes perfect sense to me to restrict the areas in which people can smoke. Now, you talk about the patrons of bars/restaurants not having to be there, so the business's property rights trump the patrons' health needs, but what about businesses that people pretty much have to frequent at some point? A supermarket, for example. That's also a private business. How do we decide what can and cannot be excepted from the rule?
  25. "New York -- stop mocking us or else!" ? :wacko: