I don't think I ever got around to posting about the philosophy of Karmway. So let's do that now ( Read more... )

I'm coining the phrase "cargo cult pedantry". (Write that in your dictionaries now.) A cargo cult pedant is someone who has seen or heard other people being pedantic about something and decides to join in (so that they too can experience that sweet, succulent feeling of superiority that we pedants enjoy all the time), without actually understanding ( Read more... )

The Elemental Plane Of Orphans

Based on citizenpsmith 's suggestion here:

Just listen to those violins. You can hear it in their voices: "We're the melody; we're the harmony. We matter. You don't. Nyeahhh!" They think they're so much more important than anything else in the orchestra. Whose idea was it to let such a whiny, egotistical, touchy, demanding, narcissistic and just plain irksome ( Read more... )

Give me a short phrase (2-3 words -- preferably nothing too vulgar). I'll choose one and write a few paragraphs of prose that somehow incorporate it.

Based on inkylj's suggestion here:

Nuclear Fusionby Admiral Jota ( Read more... )

Name a topic. I'll choose one of the proposed topics and write a sonnet about it in a future entry. (Note: I make no promises about the quality of the poetry. Only the format.)

...but perhaps should have been ( Read more... )

Today, my car's gas tank was ripped apart from the inside by a tiny zombie dinosaur.

That's the last time I fill it with undeaded gasoline.

The stuff I've read about using gravity assists say that you fly in close to a planet, and if your angle is right, you'll swing around in a hyperbolic orbit and fly off in the opposite direction. And they also say that the reason you don't break any laws of physics doing this is because you're stealing some of that planet's kinetic energy from its ( Read more... )