One of the benefits of a curved windway that hasn’t been discussed in any of the WTT threads, is the more efficient use of the blade area. Does anyone have surmises as to the overall effect of that phenomenon?
Gotcha!
serpent
Where are the spelling cops when you need 'em!?
You should pose with a fluffy white cat in your lap.
I can’t help but think the San Jose Sharks made a bad deal when they traded Owen Nolan away. He was the heart and soul of that hockey team. Where else will they get a hard hitter who can also score like, say, Teemu Selanne? Ya know?
And purchase a secret volcanic island lair. ‘Serpent Island’ does sound pretty scary,doesn’t it? 
Backwards causation is iimpossible if
the future doesn’t yet exist. No event can have
causal powers until it’s real. By the time a future
event becomes real, and can make a causal
difference, the features of the past are
already fixed!
Throw me a Frickin bone here, people! 
Love ya Serp. 
Don’t come after me. I know you could probably lift me over your head. 
Serpent, you really need to get a life…
~Larry
I had a life once…
but I fed it peanut butter and it died.
Actually, if one looks at the apparent philosophy of certain societies, most notably the Soviet Union (which for you younger types flourished for a little over seven decades beginning in the early Twentieth Century {Western reckoning}), the future is somewhat predictable and the past is mutable. The present moment is the only one which may reasonably be surmised to be real.
Ontogeny recapitulates philology.
Well, if a 50 megaton bomb was dropped, I’m sure the village smithy would be the only recognizable whistle left in the area. But I wouldnt suggest playing it, lest you get numb (and glowing) lips worse then any oak ever bit ya
Unh, uh!
Oncology emasculates philately!
You Knnnniiiiigggggggggggggggggettts!
(with heartfelt to Zoobster)
SerpiePie, Reborn!
insulting kniggggget! I do have a life! It’s right over… uh… well, it’saround here somewhere.. maybe in the laundry room… just a second…
BRB…
serp_brb
[quote="Chuck_Clark The present moment is the only one which may reasonably be surmised to be real.[/quote]
seems to me as if the present moment is also an illusion. just as you are aware of something, it has already slipped into the past, and you are always playing catch-up, but never quite get into the present moment. 
Can we also say also that all seeming randomness is an illusion? 
Celtoid, that’s what Augustine said!
Very good, Chuck. I recall when the Soviet Union
was collapsing, a fellow was walking about with
a sign: ‘70 years on the road to Nowhere!’
I have come to the conclusion that hairballs are due to an excessive buildup of catness, the expulsion of which serves to bring the reservoir back to its optimum capacity. Part of my research is focused on the the act of lolling in choice sunbeams and its effects on felinity.
N
Oh, dear.
Although I developed this theory several years ago and have related it to a number of people, I’ve never, until this moment, put it in print. This is indeed a momentous occasion.
For two or three years, I worked part-time installing and servicing household water purification equipment. In the conduct of that work, I had occasion to visit many houses each day. I observed a phenomen that demonstrated a clear trend, which I concluded was indicative of an underlying process.
Whenever the sun was shining, as I went from house to house, I observed that in a high percentage, possibly even a majority, of these houses, somewhere in the house where a beam of sunlight shone on a piece of furniture or on the floor, there in the middle of the spot of sunbeam could be found a cat.
This led me to ponder as to what was causing the phenomenon, and I came to the conclusion that cats must grow from some kind of airborne spores that settle on household surfaces and germinate when exposed to sunlight. Certainly what I observed was that wherever sunlight could be seen to be shining on a spot of furniture or floor, in a high percentage of instances, in the middle of that spot, a cat was growing. Surely my theory is the only plausible explanation for this.
Best wishes,
Jerry
“Ive got a life here in my pocket. Serpent, You can have it if you need it. Oops, no, its gone. Maybe its in my closet.”
“Switchfoot”
“Yes Leader”
“Be quiet”
(two points for anyone to successfully identify the slightly adjusted quote above)
Two recent articles concerning these topics:
Teethout, Oliver (2001) ‘‘Hair balls and Felinity: The Chicken
or the Egg?’’;
also Prejudice, Rachel (2003) 'Sunbeams and Catness Instantiations:
Is the Correlation Causal? --both in ‘Tooth And Claw Quarterly,’ Blackwells, UK.
You’all ought to apply for a grant.
Jerry, I think you’re on to something. Cats are always springing up in sunny spots at my house.
Funny thing, though. We got a new dog a couple of months ago, and he has taken to laying in the sunny spots, too. I don’t know if he’s just following the lead of one of the cats (he has clearly adopted her as his pack leader), or what. My old dog never did this. The old dog had a much thicker and heavier coat, though. Who knows?