Canderous and Cade's Crazy Cantina: a shiny new fanfiction social thread!

I don't have any writing to put in it while I'm at work (unless I put a shift note in, but I figure medical notes are practically their own language so it probably wouldn't work well), but it's an interesting concept!

 

I studied male and female speech patterns back in high school psychology and I think this is based on that. I find it interesting to see how accurate it is for certain stuff.

 

I don't think it works. I was working on a story and went through and put different sections of the story through the analyzer and it gave me a different result each time.

 

It states that it's not meant for prose/story writing.

 

Okay, I just put in some of my blog posts and it gave me a different answer every time again. Although I did notice that when I put in journal posts where I was mad or irritated about something I almost always came up as Male. When I talked about my children or the cats it came up female.

 

I copied and pasted in a recent rant I made on another forum about horrible officiating at a high school football game. Unsurprisingly, it came back with 85.74% male.

 

I'm becoming a better and better plastic modeller, apparently. Going to the local hobby store the other day, I brought my most recently-completed model, a Soviet IS-3 heavy tank, to show to the good folks who work there. They've seen a few of my other works, and were agape at this one in particular. One of them was insistent that I produce work of such quality that it could be featured in the readers' gallery of an armor modeling magazine. Right now I'm working on an ISU-152 self-propelled gun that, hopefully, will turn out even better.

 

That's awesome Goodwood!
I know nothing about models, other than I probably would get very frustrated with them. I couldn't even put together LEGOs when I was little (unless it was some random thing I was building.)

I got a plot bunny for NaNoWriMo today and I'm so excited! It's the first bunny I've gotten for anything in a long while and it felt so awesome when it came to me! I miss that feeling... I hope it means it will start happening more often!

 

I found a baby king snake while out for a walk. I tried to pick it up to carry it away from the road, but the aggressive little guy would have none of that. So, I herded it across the road and to safety, and it curled up and tried to strike at me. I crouched down and watched it repeatedly strike at the air, and then decided to leave it be. Cute little guy, with such cute air strikes.

 

In a way, building models is easier than LEGOs because the instructions tell you precisely what part to put where, and you don't have to sift through big piles of pieces. On the other hand, the detail parts tend to be quite small, especially in smaller scales (I refuse to work in less that 1/48 scale for anything save ships and sci-fi models—the exceptions are models that are given to me as gifts or planes that are simply too big to make in the larger scales).

Here's to your bunny having a long life, whilst being fruitful and multiplying.

 

That's awesome about the bunny! Feed it well. I wish a bunny would bite me.

I forgot, NaNO is in a month. I've wanted to do it for a few years now, but I've never been able to. With a total of 10,000 words due December 2nd for 3 research papers, I think nano might need to be put off again

 

Here's an interesting petition that I got e-mailed, figured some of the forumites here might support it:

https://www.change.org/petitions/electronic-arts-finish-production-of-star-wars-1313

 

So . . . I'm 9k words from my goal of 60k on my novel. I started the week about 20k from my goal, so . . .

 

Good effort, Dantana.

Do you think the story will take 60k words to tell, or are you just setting a basic goal for length?

 

Basic goal for length. Could be longer, I'm just shooting for that so it isn't too short.

 

Goodwood: that's great about the modelling. I've done a fair bit myself but I'm still not that good.

Dantana Skywalker: yay! Won't take long now before you'd finished it.

This might be slightly depressing, but I got a trophy yesterday. It's a forum one called 'Minos'. I've been on these boards for a day over nine years. Nine years and 15,617 posts! That's 4.75 posts a day. I think I need to get out more.

 

moosemousse: Did you ever post on the Bioware Social Network? Because I've seen a name similar to yours on those forums during the period between the release of Mass Effect 2 and 3. If so, you and I posted in several threads together...particularly against a certain uber-Renegade user.

 

I have but only three times, and it was about 3D printing Mass Effect guns. My name is the same here as it is there though.

 

Ah, cool.

Now that you mention it though, the user I was thinking of was actually named "enormousmoonboots."

 

Goodwood: because that's very similar to moosemousse!

This seems random but I'll be in Nevada next year for Burning Man. I might stick around for a bit longer, but I'm not sure yet. Anyone want to meet up?

 

I have no current plans to be in Nevada. MAGFest down in DC, yes. Burning Man, no.

Though, if anyone else is going to MAGFest...

 

@ moosemousse I'm super jealous! I've always wanted to Burning Man... it's on by bucket list!

I unfortunately live nowhere near Nevada.

 

I'm a state over from Nevada. My dad's been to Burning Man a couple times. I've always been curious, but have never gone.

So, for Halloween, I bought the XL size men's Star Trek costume shirt in red, 'cause it's the size to go over my chest. There's only one problem: the sleeves are way too long and wide, so I look like I have no hands. I'll be altering it. Anyway, I was running around the house going, "I cannae do it, Captain, I havenae got the hands!" My family now thinks I'm crazy.

 

Good thing you got Bones to help out. "Dammit Jim, I can't reattach those hands I'm a doctor not a...oh wait...I can do that."

 

I burst into my brother's room, waving my long sleeves, and said that, and he just about fell out of his chair laughing.