David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Not that those two states have much to do with each other, rather they are both related to N!.In theory Utopia public relations is supposed to make announcements like this, but I don’t like dealing with them (and vise versa), and I don’t have time if I want to beat N!, so here goes.We (or more accurately, my wife) are expecting. We are very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 So soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Well, you know the old saw: it takes nine months to make a baby...except for the first, which takes as long as it wants. Or as long as Mom wants, in my case.In any event, given the last line of the first post, please accept my congratulations, Dr. Troll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted March 30, 2005 Author Share Posted March 30, 2005 :Sigh:Let me apologize to everyone (including and especially my wife and her family) for sounding churlish. Maybe this will teach me not to post when I’m green and angry.I was (and am) irritated with some N! reporters who have apparently been stealing our garbage and found out that Emily is pregnant. Thus her parents got to find out about this over the news and mine via a late night phone call.We are actually are happy about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kestrel404 Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Congratulations!One more like this, and we'll have gone from statistical anomally to virtual proof that N!Prime increases fertility in novas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Congrats big green cloney dude, to you and you're good lady wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preston Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 The best of luck to all three of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Well congrats. After some of the shit you've said here I'm suprised you knew which hole to aim for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowena 'Synergy' Bainbridge Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Congratulations, Doctor Smith. I shall send appropriate gifts soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Apologies in advance to Dr. Troll for doing this in his thread (I really am happy for you, Doc), but: Quote:Originally posted by Rowena 'Synergy' Bainbridge: Congratulations, Doctor Smith. I shall send appropriate gifts soon. OK, that's it. I'm calling you out, Synergy: you're an android, aren't you? Project Utopia has some lab somewhere where they are spitting out Buffy-bots (or, more to the point, Starfire-bots), don't they? Your blind naivety aside, even British literature professors don't have the blatently artificial verbage that you've been robotically spitting out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 What the...?Okay, I saw Mom go through this three times after I was old enough to figure out something was different and Mommy wasn't just getting fat.Hormones, right?You might want to think about the fact that not everyone that logs onto this or any other opsite feels comfortable talking about everything and nothing that sparks across a nerve gap in their brains. Even though I post in public there are some people I just flat out won't talk to about certain things even if I would answer the very same question from another soul posting 2 minutes later. Call it restraint, a matter of taste or just acting on my conviction that some people are forces of entropy taking any and every opportunity to suck out pieces of your soul. Ease up and cut Ro' a little slack. And if you really need something to get emotional about just think about what could have happened when you decided to play Eistein a week or so ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Love you too, Tarot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 There you go. Just ease into the emotional roller coaster and enjoy the ride, Mom. Its only not fun if you're not having any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowena 'Synergy' Bainbridge Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 My apologies to Doctor Smith as well for this:,,Quote:Originally posted by Timeslip:Apologies in advance to Dr. Troll for doing this in his thread (I really am happy for you, Doc), but: Quote:Originally posted by Rowena 'Synergy' Bainbridge: Congratulations, Doctor Smith. I shall send appropriate gifts soon. OK, that's it. I'm calling you out, Synergy: you're an android, aren't you? Project Utopia has some lab somewhere where they are spitting out Buffy-bots (or, more to the point, Starfire-bots), don't they? Your blind naivety aside, even British literature professors don't have the blatently artificial verbage that you've been robotically spitting out.I spent part of my educational experience at Oxford, dear, and did three semesters of Literature under some of those British professors you have maligned. They were an influence in my late teens and the precise way they spoke was rather appealing to me, so I have striven to emulate it.I am an extraordinarily powerful telempath with greatly enhanced cognitive, perceptive and intuitive abilities. This has necessitated a certain amount of 'detachment' in my life lest I be consumed by other people's more volatile emotions.I have not made a judgement call on the fact you consume LSD as a nutritional necessity, dear, so please do not presume to judge me on my interpersonal skills.,,Quote:Originally posted by Tarot:What the...?Okay, I saw Mom go through this three times after I was old enough to figure out something was different and Mommy wasn't just getting fat.Hormones, right?You might want to think about the fact that not everyone that logs onto this or any other opsite feels comfortable talking about everything and nothing that sparks across a nerve gap in their brains. Even though I post in public there are some people I just flat out won't talk to about certain things even if I would answer the very same question from another soul posting 2 minutes later. Call it restraint, a matter of taste or just acting on my conviction that some people are forces of entropy taking any and every opportunity to suck out pieces of your soul. Ease up and cut Ro' a little slack. And if you really need something to get emotional about just think about what could have happened when you decided to play Eistein a week or so ago.Thank you for the defence, Tarot. It is most appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Gods, she's fun when she gets her superiority schtick going.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowena 'Synergy' Bainbridge Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Timeslip:Gods, she's fun when she gets her superiority schtick going.... It is not superiority schtick, it is a simple statement of fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Riiight....Well, Synergy, you go right ahead and believe that.Someone let me know when her batteries run down; she's gonna make a great statue somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeslip Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 That said, sorry to have dragged this thing off-topic, Doc. So, do you two have a due date yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted April 1, 2005 Author Share Posted April 1, 2005 Several of them actually, maybe end of October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Sorry I didn't get to tell ya earlier Troll, but congrats to you and the future wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Hey Troll, did you just imply multiple births there? That might be a very interesting development given your quantum talents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted April 2, 2005 Author Share Posted April 2, 2005 Amped,That's current wife.Walker,An interesting development (my mother said she wouldn't wish twins on anyone)... but not true. It's ironic but twins don't run in my family (either family).What I was refering to was the fact that the various medical types each come up with a different day. The OBYN, the sonogram operator, etc.The scary part is there have been so few nova births (especially nova-baseline) that... well... the unexpected might happen. Is quantum backlash inherited? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Preston Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Okay, I'm not expert here, but I have seen nothing to indicate that Quantum Backlash is heriditary. Just as our individual QE's are different, so are our reactions to taint, the nature of our aberrations, and our level of advancement. We are unique individuals in rather quantifiable ways. I don't believe that your genetic contribution will carry with it the unique manifestations of Quantum, or Taint.What might be interesting to study is the effects of quantum usage on the developing children. TimeSlip's child has already be very directly effected by quantum usage and continuing usage of quantum in the child's vicinity will (I hazzard to guess from my own personal experiences) have an effect on how the child develops, assuming he/she is an unerupted nova. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Via Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Neil, you have a lot to learn. I would have great joy teaching you what you need to know, but The Other is very protective of her darling little Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Apparently Van never read the fine print that said, "Social skills do not come stock with your reality altering node and must be purchased in the human upgrade kit."What a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Interesting conversation so far. We've got a self-limiting dipshit who's managed to convince some random quiff he's worthwhile enough to marry and then knocked her up (in that order?). We've got discussions on whether or not Taint is inherited. And now RightGuard is talking about some Christ figure. And we're still on page 1.Gotta love thread cohesion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Via Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Christ,being the name my son has chosen to call himself,at least for the time being. I do not tell him what not to do, if I do not think he is doing anything wrong. So do tell me, what harm is there in a name of a child? And Chillmeister, I would think you could move on from your old tired joke. That is unless you are getting old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 Harm? Not any really. But, I mean, It's like someone calling themselves Buddha, Yahweh, or Allah. It's kind of pathetic.I mean, we all, or at least most of us, have names that mean something. Jager fancies himself a hunter and if obsessed with being a member of the Master Race and calls himself Jager. Codex was all about the books so that was her name, though I don't get Saimhe's meaning. My name is an homage to an old rockstar. But naming yourself after some deity figure just kinda seems fucked up and sad.Okay RightGuard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Via Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 And I am sure that when you were 8 years old, you had it all down. Your style was perfect,and you were never wrong. I am not saying I like what names he uses, but I would rather have him find out his own truth on things such as this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted April 2, 2005 Share Posted April 2, 2005 I think your son is going to get either a superiority complex, or illusions of grandeur if he calls himself Christ continually.If you don't like the name, correct him, you are his mom anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Via Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 Amped,I am not his mother. I am not really even his father, but that is a long story. The other is his mother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakinyan Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister:But naming yourself after some deity figure just kinda seems fucked up and sad.It's lame I admit but naming oneself after mythological beings isn't all that uncommon right. I mean look at some of the names Novas use. Baal, Eris, Kid Apollo??? WTF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted April 3, 2005 Author Share Posted April 3, 2005 Quote:Lemmy Chillmeister:Interesting conversation so far. We've got a self-limiting dipshit who's managed to convince some random quiff he's worthwhile enough to marry and then knocked her up (in that order?). We've got discussions on whether or not Taint is inherited.The two subjects are related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Totem: Quote:Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister:But naming yourself after some deity figure just kinda seems fucked up and sad.It's lame I admit but naming oneself after mythological beings isn't all that uncommon right. I mean look at some of the names Novas use. Baal, Eris, Kid Apollo??? WTF! No man, you ain't catching me. You named yourself Totem, that's a magical/religious focus right? A general kind of magical thing? Kid Apollo is calling himself "kid", it's a derivative. And the others, well fuck it. I mean no one is worshiping Baal, or Eris, or Thor right now. It's like calling yourself King Arthur or Hercules. That's a big fucking difference from Christ or GOD. Hey, I'm no a theologian but to me it's pretty fucking weird to call yourself GOD unless you actually think you are one. And with Christ, well, fuck, that's just fucking weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Vanguard: And I am sure that when you were 8 years old, you had it all down. Your style was perfect,and you were never wrong. I am not saying I like what names he uses, but I would rather have him find out his own truth on things such as this. Nope. When I was eight I was dodging my dad's fists and my mom's boyfriends fists. I was actually pretty fucked up. So your kid is fucked up too. That's why I'm saying something, so you can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 Can you imagine growing up in a place where Vannie is considered a nurturing influence or an authority figure? I mean the personal annoyance as someone whose posts you can dismiss while wondering what twelve languages it was translated through before they got around to trying english pales completely when you put yourself in that poor kid's place. Here is someone who can't speak any language known to man with consistency, prefaces every sentence with a pitifully unimaginative selection of catch phrases (miss my point, don't understand, wish I could explain, yadda, yadda, yadda) and can't keep a metaphor straight to save their ass. Every day past the age of five that little Christ doesn't end up atop a building with a high powered sniper rifle is bucking the odds. How the fuck this got past social services is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Via Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Tarot, you haven't seen me. You do not know me, and you do not know how I act when I am not posting out rants on this forum. So, you really wish to see me? Or do you simply wish to see what you want to see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarot Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Vanguard: You haven't seen me...You do not know me...You do not know how I act...Did it ever occur to you in whatever altered mental state of buzzed grace you exist in, that this is you? That its not an act, not a minor deviation of center standard or an omission of truth that would somehow make sense if only we knew?Online, offline, petty or sublime... Its all you, Vannie. Enjoy the ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowena 'Synergy' Bainbridge Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Quote:Originally posted by Vanguard:Tarot, you haven't seen me. You do not know me, and you do not know how I act when I am not posting out rants on this forum. So, you really wish to see me? Or do you simply wish to see what you want to see?You let your child make his own decisions at an age when he can barely tie his own shoelaces, let alone deal with life-changing consequences. I don't care if the boy's as smart as I am or not, because intellect must be backed up by experience, which is usually only acquired through maturity and education.As a 'young' prodigy myself, I ask that you guide your child gently. Christ is not an appropriate name by my standards, but if he wishes to be called it, explain to him who and what Christ is to the Judeo-Christian faiths so that he understands the consequences of naming himself so.You cannot let any child make such important decisions on his own, not without some kind of parental guidance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kestrel404 Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Synergy: In my opinion, maturity comes from experience, and education by itself will yield neither. But otherwise I agree with you.Troll: If you aren't subject to Quantum backlash syndrome, then why are you worried about it being inheritable? Are you worried for Timeslip's sake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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