Hive! I summon thee! Come forth!

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

google!!!

I thought Googles slogan was "Do no Evil"? Lies! All lies!!

If you are very very shy outlander in finland, you might get lucky and be handed one of these when going to sauna. It is not meant to be used as "clothing" but you can try and hide behind it.

My hosts did never offer me that one!

I was in Finland for two weeks, many summers ago... One week at a guest family, and one week in a summer house with a few others, organized by the evangelic deaconry, IIRC. I liked it there. The summers can be astoundingly beautiful and warm. (Mosquitos didn't seem to be interested in me much, either). My hosts in the first week did speak neither German nor English, but their son (who was only there in the evenings) did, and a neighbor of them (neighbor still meant a few kilometers away, I think... Finland is big and empty, as once was sung in the ultimate lovesong). Very interesting days...

Oh, and I found a solution for my first personal computer "problem" there - A way to create the Game of Life which I learned about from a Piers Anthony (IIRC) book...

 

[Relique du Madde]

Double post

 

[Blackrat]

You turned into an brute with an negative intelligence score just now.

Ah. See, you should not upset him. He is not a pleasant fellow...

 

[Relique du Madde]

Oh, and I found a solution for my first personal computer "problem" there - A way to create the Game of Life which I learned about from a Piers Anthony (IIRC) book...

I used to love playing around with the Game of Life althoiught I did hate when very elaborate set ups totally and utterly self destruct after one errant glider causes the design that was set up to disintegrate.

 

[Blackrat]

My hosts did never offer me that one!

They propably didn't want to scare you off by handing out one and telling that you're supposed to beat yourself with it

(neighbor still meant a few kilometers away, I think... Finland is big and empty). Very interesting days...

Yeah. In the countryside everyone within 5-10km radius are considered neighbours .

 

[Relique du Madde]

Ah. See, you should not upset him. He is not a pleasant fellow...

But he was banging on the hive like it was a drum.

 

[Blackrat]

Interesting. Maybe I should book some music classes for him to attend.

Moving to other subject. Don't you just hate it when a season of some series end in a major cliffhanger. I was watching SG Atlantis yeasterday and hit the end of season 1. Now I want to see how it figures out, but I don't have enough money to buy the next season. Bummer. Now I'm upset!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Yeah. In the countryside everyone within 5-10km radius are considered neighbours .

I think Finland is bad for people with paranoia. Imagine, you're driving along the road. Nothing ever exists there for miles. At one inter-section, a second car gets onto the road. It might be following you for an eternity before any of you have the chance to leave the road!

Now, what only needs to happen is some reindeer deciding that standing on the road is quite comfortable and reasonable, and you'd believe you got into an ambush!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I used to love playing around with the Game of Life althoiught I did hate when very elaborate set ups totally and utterly self destruct after one errant glider causes the design that was set up to disintegrate.

Game of Life is fascinating... I actually "played it" for a while on graph paper, but you reach the borders to quickly, and have no choice but to find a way to simulate it on a computer...

 

[Blackrat]

I think Finland is bad for people with paranoia. Imagine, you're driving along the road. Nothing ever exists there for miles. At one inter-section, a second car gets onto the road. It might be following you for an eternity before any of you have the chance to leave the road!

Now, what only needs to happen is some reindeer deciding that standing on the road is quite comfortable and reasonable, and you'd believe you got into an ambush!

Especially when the road is like a snake and goes through a thick forest. The night is moonless and somewhere a wolf howls. Yeah. That exact thing has happened. I was getting a ride home from a friend and that is what happened. Except it was a moose rather than a deer, and it just decided that standing there was perfectly fine. Especially with this weird thing with bright lights and horrible noice standing few meters from it. I think it was 15 minutes before the moose finally moved away .