One of the many daily games that I've accumulated is travle where you have to get from on country to another using the fewest number of countries. There's also a US specific version that's laughably easy. I've got a question based on something that's come up a few times in that US version. Would you say that Utah and New Mexico border each other? Subsequently, does Arizona border Colorado? Basically, can a single point constitute a geographical border?
I am weird that the first thing I thought of was Zeno's dichotomy paradox?
iaintgotnopants wrote:One of the many daily games that I've accumulated is travle where you have to get from on country to another using the fewest number of countries. There's also a US specific version that's laughably easy. I've got a question based on something that's come up a few times in that US version. Would you say that Utah and New Mexico border each other? Subsequently, does Arizona border Colorado? Basically, can a single point constitute a geographical border?
I am weird that the first thing I thought of was Zeno's dichotomy paradox?
I thought of the 4-color theorem in geometry.
I would say that, yes. If I were at Four Corners Monument, I could take a single step and cross from one state into any of the others.
Since you are a three-dimensional being (I assume) and the crossing is a single point, you will enter both of the other state before you enter the diagonal one. You would have to be a two-dimensional plane to pass directly from one state into the diagonal state.
It should only count if you set foot in the state.
It should only count if you set foot in the state.
Tell that to national governments monitoring airspace. 
FAA governance of airspace only begins at 400 ft AGL. How high do you think merphle is jumping?
C'mon Jonman, don't count me out of this just yet. Give me a chance!
FAA governance of airspace only begins at 400 ft AGL.
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How high do you think merphle is jumping?
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What'd you all have for dinner tonight?
I have a jar of eyeballs in goo. The goo has gone watery. Can I add glue to thicken it? Or what would you suggest? I think I had this jar for 15 plus years. The eyeballs use to be suspended in the goo but now they just float like the children in the sewer.
I wonder if mod podge would work. I'm not sure if it would go clear in the goo. It dries clear, I have a big tube of the stuff.
Pull them out and put them in KY?
What'd you all have for dinner tonight?
I have a jar of eyeballs in goo.
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Hey at least it's something interesting, we're just having dumb pizza and pho.
Has anybody sniffed a chair that wasn't your chair, in an office or a car or other vehicle, or one given to you?
Have you accidentally fallen face first into a chair that wasn't your chair, in an office or a car or other vehicle, or one given to you?
How did you feel afterwards?
Did you mean to append "Asking for a friend"?
Has anybody sniffed a chair that wasn't your chair, in an office or a car or other vehicle, or one given to you?
Have you accidentally fallen face first into a chair that wasn't your chair, in an office or a car or other vehicle, or one given to you?
How did you feel afterwards?
Did you mean to append "Asking for a friend"? :D
Oh... ummm... yeah.. asking for a fiend.. errr I mean a friend.
Is that another service you'll be offering on your website from the Loathe thread?
Is that another service you'll be offering on your website from the Loathe thread?
I could have stumbled on a new product or service to market.. Gamers With Gas? pungentgamers.net chairstink.org?
Yeah, I was ok up until that last one.
At least make it .edu
Friend ain't nothin' but fiend misspelled - Frosty.
I always wondered about A Christmas Carol. I watched one and Marley said Scrooge was supposed to be visited by one ghost per night over the next three nights. Then the same one had three ghosts per hour on Christmas Eve/Morning...
.. can somebody explain this?
I defer to Morpheus (Greek version) or the Doctor (British version).
McDuck.
So here's my thing. Marley is condemned to eternal torment because of his wicked actions in life, but he's allowed to visit his old friend and partner so that Scrooge can be spared the same fate. Scrooge repents of his wicked ways and, presumably, allowed a place in heaven.
But Marley is still in chains. The deal, as far as we are told, is not, "redeem your friend and you too can be saved," it's just, "redeem your friend if you want." Marley's torment is repeatedly and specifically stated to be eternal.
So presumably, if Scrooge had died first, it would have been him visiting Marley and Marley who would have been offered a chance at redemption. In Dickens' moral universe, redemption is a coin flip depending on who happens to die first. That seems pretty f*cking dark.
Dickens is the author of Bleak House after all... Master of Darkness
I always wondered about A Christmas Carol. I watched one and Marley said Scrooge was supposed to be visited by one ghost per night over the next three nights. Then the same one had three ghosts per hour on Christmas Eve/Morning...
.. can somebody explain this?
The original Dickens says over 3 nights.
“That is no light part of my penance,” pursued the Ghost. “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”“You were always a good friend to me,” said Scrooge. “Thank’ee!”
“You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.”
Scrooge’s countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost’s had done.
“Is that the chance and hope you mentioned, Jacob?” he demanded, in a faltering voice.
“It is.”
“I—I think I’d rather not,” said Scrooge.
“Without their visits,” said the Ghost, “you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell tolls One.”
“Couldn’t I take ’em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?” hinted Scrooge.
“Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look to see me no more; and look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed between us!”
But here's the thing, each ghost's visit lasts nearly an entire day. At least, that's my reading of the text. There's almost no time between Christmas Present's visit and Christmas Future's arrival.
So presumably, if Scrooge had died first, it would have been him visiting Marley and Marley who would have been offered a chance at redemption. In Dickens' moral universe, redemption is a coin flip depending on who happens to die first. That seems pretty f*cking dark.
Have your seen Spirited? It's a fun take on the old fable.
The original Dickens says over 3 nights.
Cool, so Christmas Cupid is a faithful adaptation then.
I meant to watch Spirited last year but I have a list and if I don't finish the list I can't watch anything new to add to the list. And it would have to be as good as or better than Scrooged, which is a very high bar, to get on the list.
What's Stele's holiday movie list you say?
In order of "favorite never miss it" to "barely watchable but it's a sequel so we sometimes do"...
It's a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Elf
Home Alone
Scrooged
Miracle on 34th St
Love Actually
Santa Clause
Die Hard 2
The Family Stone
The Family Man
Bad Santa
Vacation
Home Alone 2
Santa Clause 2
Santa Clause 3
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