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Have some welcoming welcomes of welcomeness!

The fact that I am online at this time should show that there is no snow day. School computers FTW...

I've never had my user taken. To the point where if you Google Heliomance, every single result is me. :D

I have a habit of leaving my laptop in my room connected to the Internet. Just because it says I'm online doesn't mean I'm there.

My uni games society has Munchkin, Star Munchkin, Munchkin Cthulhu, and Munchkin Blender. In addition, various members of the society have Munchkin Booty and Super Munchkin, and bring them in on occasion :D

There's a whole load in Oxford too. Not sure how much, but much more than we had at the beginning of the week. I might have to go and take pictures later. Uni won't have closed though.

There's also an OC named Andre. Maybe he could be recrutied?

At least for a mass of people in Derby anyway. The presenter's been reading the list of school closures for five minutes now, is still going and it's still not completely compiled because they're getting too many emails to go through them quickly.

How is it where you are? Snow, no snow, just a dusting of snow? Is it closing anything for you, or is it business as usual?

For the Brits on the Board: Britain faces another 10 inches of snow as grit supplies run low

*throws snowballs at Boarders*

We briefly touched on that stuff in my programming language design class, I'm expecting to hit it a lot harder in the Compilers class next semester.

(I am rather sad that programming language design didn't involve actually designing a programming language, but I suspect that's beyond the scope of a three-credit one-semester class...)

I remember you - good to see the resident techie is still around.

To answer your question:
Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.

Fun stuff - like machine translation and syntactic parsers. My theory is that if I know enough about the linguistics side, I can help design stuff, and then send it off to people who are better at programming than me to make it work. Plus there's sometimes a lot of prep work in compiling corpora and most of that is very syntactic/linguistics-y.

I was originally planning on going into Comp Sci, but I couldn't keep up with the math, and the programming was getting over my head. Now I'm in Linguistics, which still kicks my butt on occasion, but at least there's less debugging.

... we had to settle for good ol' fashioned bleach and alcohol. And sporks. Those were popular. I can't tell you how many eyeballs I went through when I first started the job.

I feel like a crotchety old-timer. All shall fear my dementia-induced ramblings!

We're still alive and kicking!

How do Linguistics and Comp Sci overlap? I'm a CS major myself, trying to minor in Japanese, but I can't really see how it would work the other way around...

Wow. I wander back in after 5 years and it's like nothing has changed - well, except some of the names, but I remember Huinesoron and Neshomeh and... wow, I've missed you guys. *overcome with sudden nostalgia*

Anyway, I dropped back by because my boyfriend recently started asking me some questions about LotR, and that made me remember how much I enjoyed this community. I just wanted to see if you guys were still around.


For those of you who weren't here 5+ years back, hi - I'm Laureril, also known as Laura (irl) or Agents Erin and Maralys of the Dept. of Mary Sues LotR division.

In real life, I'm finishing up a BA in Linguistics, with a minor in Comp Sci. I'm not sure when/if I'll get back involved here - I've got a lot on my plate atm, but it's strangely good to be back. Gah, I haven't really written fanfic in years.

So don't mind me, or my entourage of minis, I'm just sticking my head in to say hi.

I made a list of charges to put up against bad OCs in the BSG (2003) fandom. They can be found here.

~Lily Winterwood, prepping everything for the pluggage of her first mission...

Ah well, having stayed shy of the world of fanfic I hadn't been self-medicating with them as often as I had previously...though they did come in handy after a few overheard conversations about plans for the weekend....
I'll just have to wear headphones more often.

I'm still interested in seeing if anybody else remembers me! I may be out of bleeprin, but I can probably steal some from my greatgreatgrandmother. I think my little brother told her they were her heart medicine...he thinks the blackouts are funny I guess. I've got plenty of sporks, and can supplement with junk food of all types, I'm at college after all. It's all over the place, free for the taking, I may have to do a little running after the taking...but exercise is good for me right?



Thanks for remembering me Nesh! I do remember you were active back then too, congratulations on surviving this long in the business. My hat is off to you.

Oh and the reason you probably don't remember me as the guy who did that thing, is I never did get around to doing it... Thus it is quite impressive that you merely recognize me!

(I had written an introductory chapter for my cousin EruDaughter, guess who joined first, I believe we got it approved, but we never got around to putting it up anywhere....I still have it somewhere if anybody's interested in seeing a dated spinnoff)

~E.N.

I don't remember well enough to say "Oh yeah, you're that guy who did that thing" (mostly because my memory sucks), but I have definitely seen your username before. Welcome back. {= )

~Neshomeh

I think I've got you beat for not having been here in ages... it's quite literally been YEARS!

I hate college, it leaves no time for the 'unimportant' things in life....why'd I have to go do something technical like engineering....

I'll bet 300 sporks, and 4 boxes of bleeprin (or whatever the current permutation of it is), that NOBODY here these days remember who I am...

~E.N.

hmmm...if I really wanted ppl to see this, I wouldn't have put it under a comment made by someone else. Ah well, what's done is done...

Goodfic for the list:
1. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3134295/1/TheScrewed
Quote: "I am pleased to inform you that our status has gone from royally royally royally screwed to just royally royally screwed...Though the young soldiers are still complete morons, the metroids are continuously breaking free from their holding cells, the Hunter continues to devastate our forces, our energy is running out, our mining expeditions end with more casualties than productive phazon extractions, and the shadowlings possess our troops at every possible opportunity, we are quite confident that we still have a 5 percent chance of success."

2. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3347901/1/Beauty
Oneshot. Captures the moment pretty well.

Badfic:
<a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2407956/1/metroidstupidandmenstral">http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2407956/1/metroidstupidand_menstral

As I mentioned to Ansela earlier, and admittedly my biology can be corrected here, but, as you say, it's HIV that builds up in one's system. Not AIDS. The nasty one's passing on? It's not AIDS, it's HIV. And it doesn't always develop into AIDS. I think there's tests that show HIV pretty quickly, though possibly not as quickly as the fic mentioned has, but tests that pick up AIDS after that long? Whoever's got it must have a piss poor immune system, for it not to just have been transmitted but also to have developed that fast.

Melissa, a Les Miserables fanfic.
Rated K, Summary: Unbeta'd, Javert/OC A new look at Javert's suicide and why he did it. Well it may not be so new.... and now it is official, I suck at summeries.

It's a oneshot, the OC in question looks suspiciously 'Sue-ish, there are two reviews, both of which have pointed this out, but I can't find any indication from the author that she plans to fix this.

The thing that's bugging me most is that the OC in question doesn't seem to ever be physically present. o.O How would one even deal with something like that, should it prove worth going after? (and that's not saying it will, there are definitely worse badfics. *shudder* But it made me curious.)

We've been talking about AIDS in my Epidemiology class, so I happen to know that it takes about two weeks to even build up enough HIV in your system to transmit it to someone else and about four weeks before it's detectable. A diagnosis of full-blown AIDS after just one week is pretty much impossible.

Note that there are about two whole weeks in which you can be shedding virus without even the possibility of knowing about it. Scary stuff.

Whoever takes that one, please include a nice big helping of "Bad Science/Biology/Medicine" on the charge list.

~Neshomeh

Surviving
Due to blood transplant, Jack gets AIDS. i'm rating this as a teen because i think most people can handle this kind of stuff but, i'm just warning you now this has to do with AIDS, i will try to update fast.

The AIDS is diagnosed after a week, the pacing is terrible, capitalisation of names is erratic, Cam is at the SGC at the same time as Jack and Janet, the Gate Room now seems to be the Control Room, there are ANs in the middle of paragraphs, there are multiple speakers per paragraph (which gets better in later chapters) and, IMO, the whole thing is far too f---ing flippant about the situation.

Blood Ties
Carters Brother has come to her with a secret now she has to convince everyone to let Andy, her niece, stay at the SGC in order to protect her, Asguard, and the SGC from being uncovered by government factions

Andromeda Carter, daughter of Mark Carter and niece of Samantha Carter. Yes, Sam has a niece in canon. No, we don't know her age or name. That, however, is no excuse for turning the poor lass into a Sue. Using abbreviated ranks (e.g. Maj.) in narrative and speech is silly. Mark knowing about the 'Asguard' is WTF-worthy. And if you're going to Sueify a canonical family member, at least be consistent about the spelling of her full name.

Blood and Water
Leaving a pregnant Vala Mal Doran at the SGC, SG1 and Vala's younger sister, Xala, go on a reconaissance mission against the Priors. Set in late Season 9, prior to the finale.

The universe doesn't need another Mal Doran. The universe couldn't handle another Mal Doran. And how the f--- is Vala pregnant and at the SGC? That completely messes up canon timelines.