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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2004-08-16 08:23 am

It's all about the prepositions

Conversation from Sunday, about my birthday, which is Friday:

[livejournal.com profile] triadruid: You'll be 27, then?
Me: Yep. Fine druid number, that.
Triadruid: You're going to wake up a druid any day now. You'll likely wake up a druid on Saturday.
Me: Seems sort of unlikely.
Triadruid: *shrug* You could maybe wake up *with* a druid then. Three druids, possibly.
Me: Yeah, that sounds okay.
Triadruid: Nine druids, maybe. Do we know nine druids?
Me: I'm going to need a bigger bed.

[identity profile] chronarchy.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Eris was invited. Might just put mattresses all over the floor.
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (pining for the fnords - by kittenpants)

[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
You shooting for 5, or 23?

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Whee! How did your visiting go, and can we look forward to another thrilling Chronarchy story?

By the way, we've had some fabulous new ideas about Flaunt for the Holy Grail, which we will expect you to take part in, as we're scheduling it for when you're in town...

[identity profile] chronarchy.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
The full story, with pictures, will be on Thusday, I think.

Damn developing. I need a digital camera.

turning 27

[identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
You realize that this is the last time you'll be an age where you can be nn don't you? The next age would be 256 and that's a ways a way...
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (snow otter)

Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Errr, 444 = 64, n'est pas?

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Not even close.
44 = 4 x 4 = 16 x 4 = 64 x 4 = 256.

444 is much larger depending on how you group. the smallest would be 2564 or 28 x 4 or 4.3 billion (american, not english). The other would be 4256 or 2512 or about 4 x 10153.

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
No, darlin'.
64=4^3.
(I can't be bothered with the tags at the moment, sorry)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (calvin flailing - from atke_icons)

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ehh, sorry. I'm stuck on the 3's.

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
Sokay. I still love you, but I will be double-checking your tallies from now on :-P
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (Default)

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
When the GC budget starts to involve double-exponents, I will be glad to have your help, honey. :)

There is just no need for that at all.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
When the GC Budget starts to involve double exponents, I will pry it from your weird manic grasp and re-write the sumbitch.

(By the way, scroll down, you could have a convert...)

Re: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully

[identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
One too many superscripts there, I think.

Re: turning 27

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. I'm very excited about that, actually. Unlike some people, I *do* like a math geek, and would likely be one, had I but the brainpower to manage it.

Re: turning 27

[identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
So, uhm, what would I have to do to qualify as a druid by, say, this Friday?
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (building a henge are we?)

I dunno:

[identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Is your age (or any other appropriate measurement) factorable by 3?
Can you 'sing' in a tempo which makes tortoises itch?
Do you have an affinity for creatures of nature? nevermind, Volfie...
Can you try to get along with dualistic Wiccans?
Do you own either a long white robe, or a long white beard?
Have you ever built a henge out of sticks/river rocks/Sculpey/dinner?

Please submit in triplicate (naturally).

Re: I dunno:

[identity profile] saffronhare.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That earns the ::pfft:: award for the day. Well done, beardy man.

Re: I dunno:

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well then. I should have posted my version, then... it involved cows.

Re: I dunno:

[identity profile] capriciouslass.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you ever built a henge out of sticks/river rocks/Sculpey/dinner?

Rolling on the floor here... there was a conversation at dinner last Friday about building a henge out of ...er... feminine hygeine products. The aim of said structure would be to keep the misogynistic supervisors away. Yes, my weird sense of humor strikes again. However, the original suggestion was not mine, but was instead made by [livejournal.com profile] cameellie....

Re: I dunno:

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone's beat you to it. (http://www.tamponhenge.co.uk/)

Though I have no idea if their structure wards away bosses or not.

Re: I dunno:

[identity profile] capriciouslass.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I'll have to pass that link along....

[identity profile] saffronhare.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
nine druids = grove

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-08-16 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey now, I'm trying to recruit you some more.