Yes, but eldraeic has sensible numerals.
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The Latin, not so much of a problem. The Perl, on the other hand…
Hanger One at Moffett Field in California. They’ve got the cladding stripped off and they’re renovating it, with an expected completion date in 2025.
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Helpful muse, snarky edition.
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This is actually the Azur Lane skin for Fusō in World of Warships, not how the JMSDF actually paint their battleships (sorry, “big gun destroyers”). But dammit, IT SHOULD BE.
So kawaii! (The Empire approves, +7).
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Multiple things I think they’d appreciate:
- the members of the forum having a keen eye for proper crafting of their footware
- the members of the forum noticing potential fraud, and then being willing to put their money where their mouth is and invest the resources to checking
- the follow up to this discovery of fraud leading to the responsible business being brought down
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I like situations like these where it’s revealed your modal individual has more power than I generally think
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Building a walking table, mostly as an applied use of a cool walking leg idea you have and also as a test of your woodworking skills. Yes, they have much more efficient ways of fetching a drink, but I can absolutely see eldrae appreciating a hand-crafted contraption for the novelty and Rule of Cool.
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Oh, absolutely!
(Given the choice between efficiency and elegance, they will pick elegance 11 times out of 12.)
And if it wasn’t mission critical, they would accept some loss of efficiency for elegance, I think.
Nevermind the levels of sheer awesomeness inherent in “So I created some walking leg mechanisms, and then built a table to execute them. Because it was cool.”
The somnolence modulator is a thing. Of course, it you use it for more than a few days, you’ll go insane and eventually die, so people don’t generally flip the damnfool switch on that one.
Yeah, the problem isn’t staying awake, the problem is that organic brains need the downtime for maintenance, proper memory processing and other such fun things, and without regular maintenance you get erratic behavior. For those old enough to remember Windows 9x, sometimes you need to defragment your hard drive to keep performance reliable – and the defrag process requires enough CPU and disk access time that trying to do anything else at the same time is going to be extremely inefficient.
… To duck into tech metaphors for a bit here, what might work would involve re-engineering the brain’s neural network to use a more efficient memory storage method – the equivalent of a modern journaling filesystem, that essentially defrags on the fly as a background process, or change the actual hardware to a storage medium that doesn’t have fragmentation issues to begin with.
There are no technical reasons why either of those wouldn’t be possible, and I expect that the Eldrae, enthusiastic transsophonts that they are, have absolutely done some tinkering in that general area… Not to mention the Esseli (those were the happy blobby bioengineering enthusiasts, right?) who can probably whip you up a bespoke conversion tailored to your biology on demand (and receipt of payment)…
… But, frankly, while the need for it can sometimes be inconvenient when you have a deadline and things you want to finish, sleep is considered highly enjoyable by most species.
At least in humans, sleeping isn’t just about memory maintenance and defragging. It’s also the physical cleaning period.
We’ve recently learned that one of the reasons for the pattern of slowly increasing brain waves in non-REM sleep is that over the course of the day the “waste” from neurotransmission chemicals will accumulate around the synapses. The coordinated waves gently squeeze cerebral fluid through the brain tissue and sweep the waste out of the dense areas and into places where it can be absorbed into the blood-stream for disposal.
ie One of the many purposes of sleep is washing your brain.
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Oh hey, I learned a new cool thing today.
And yes, again, it’s almost certainly possible in theory to engineer a brain that can manage that without the need for downtime (again, I’m pretty sure the Esseli will have at least three back-of-paper-napkin-sketch concepts for it), but in practice it’s roughly as advisable as, say, physically cleaning dust out of your computer while it’s running – theoretically possible, sure, and there’s no inherent reason for anything to go wrong, but if something does you’re going to feel really stupid having to explain what happened to your insurer.
Since this has been making the rounds on Xwitter, McMaster-Carr’s website is apparently a work of art from a usability perspective.
Have some very fancy bread. Because if you’re baking artisan loaves, they should look impressive too. (Leave the video on mute, the sound is just a song and I don’t feel it adds anything.)
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Holy craft bread, batman! That’s awesome. So appreciate, much nom.
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Crafting of intricate glass chandeliers requires specialised tools and teamwork. And, as pointed out by the commenter, it shows some interesting cross-discipline skills that could result in some very interesting things in Eldraeic culture.
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When the ANZACs retreated from Gallipoli, they left copies of this letter behind for the Turks to find. It strikes me that this is the sort of thing that might get you dubbed an honourable gentlesoph, at least when it comes to war.
Brigade Head Quarters, Australian Imperial Force, Anzac, 20th December, 1915, 2.30 a.m.
To the Commander of the Turkish Forces, Gallipoli, Turkey,The brigadier presents his compliments to our worthy Turkish opponents, and offers those who first honor his quarters with their presence such poor hospitality as is in his power to give, regreting that he is unable personally to welcome them. After a pleasant sojourn of seven months in Gallipoli, we propose to take some little relaxation at that period in which we are instructed by a higher power to observe “good will to all men.” In bidding au revoir to our honorable foes, we Australians desire to express appreciation of the fine soldierly qualities of our Turkish opponents, and the sportsmanlike manner in which they have participated in a contest honourable, we trust, to both sides. We have been with you, yet a little while, and you shall see us not. For us it is a matter of deep regret that the ancient friendship so long existing between the British and Turkish Empires should have been thus disturbed and broken by the insidious machinations of the arch enemy of humanity. We have left this area and trenches, in which we have taken considerable trouble and pride, clean and in good order, and we would be grateful if they may be so maintained until our return, particular care being asked in regard to matters of sanitation, so vital to the health and well-being of an army.
We hope you will find the wine, coffee, tobacco, cigarettes, and food to your taste, and a supply of fuel has been left in the cupboard to ameliorate in some measure your discomfort during the cold watches of the winter. Our only request is that no member of the nation who was guilty of the inhuman murder of that noble woman Miss Edith Gavell, to whose portrait this message is attached, will be permited to pollute with his presence the quarters of soldiers who have never yet descended to such barbarous and ruthless methods.
(All spelling is original.)
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From Preservation of Normality. (There’s another set of workplace safety posters here.)
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