Goldfish-In-Space In reply to OfOneSoul [2014-08-23 00:28:45 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to hypermagical [2014-06-09 05:41:42 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to REINDE-ER [2014-06-02 03:20:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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REINDE-ER In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-06-02 22:27:16 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.~~

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to silversongwriter [2014-01-28 07:01:37 +0000 UTC]

This is embarrassing, but I was poking around and my touch screen went a little wonky. I'm not actually watching you. Sorry.  

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silversongwriter In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-28 15:33:07 +0000 UTC]

Well I'm a great musician, so consider it a plus

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evermore In reply to silversongwriter [2014-04-28 17:20:39 +0000 UTC]

I don't think we get to decide our own greatness. Greatness is defined by what is built on our work well after we're gone. Only the fortunate see greatness in their lifetime.

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Rhetoricism [2014-01-22 18:46:16 +0000 UTC]

DEAL. I just need something to critique, now. Feel free to help me out there.

Hello! Life goes. I have been working so much that I haven't really been finishing anything writing related. Also who knew commercial fishing vessels were so against having blueprints on the internet? How am I supposed to know what they do on the inside? I can't keep basing these things off of Haven. I did finish reading Embassytown by China Mieville the other day though. IT WAS FANTASTIC.

How's things for you? What are you reading?

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Rhetoricism In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-24 06:27:01 +0000 UTC]

Anything by SgtPossum should be an interesting read: this fav.me/d6v8x0r might be something to look at :3 

I've never really considered commercial fishing blueprints, but you know what can be a pain? Working out the schematics for a country-sized skyscraper. Absolutely maddening. There's not enough non-complicated engineering data out there. I don't want to take a degree in civil engineering, I want to know if it's feasible to turn the Vatican State into a skyscraper! *flails wildly* 

Life is hectic, as usual. Moving down-country soon, next few weeks. Leaving my tropical lair behind me, sadface sadface. 

Plowing through the final chapter of The Talisman by Straub/King. It's a heck of a read. 

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Rhetoricism [2014-01-24 07:57:30 +0000 UTC]

I wish I had a tropical lair. I wish I could wear a sarong all year round and have little lizards on my wall instead of little spiders. Or conduct a lizard and spider war on my wall. Or that.

Now I'm thinking about being woken up by a bird eating spider and I might like my temperate climate again.

Slightly more relevant; if you can bullshit your way through the weight distribution and stability issues I think you can probably make any superstructure convincing. I mean, they put Great Britain on top of a space-whale in doctor who. That was a good episode. That was a convincing episode. I mean, what about the crazy new space metal (not unobtanium because that's awful) that has all these science-fiction properties like being the best alloy ever in partnership with aluminum. Make sure it's a cheap and plentiful metal that it's good with. Something on meteorites, maybe. Lets get freaky with the periodic table of elements. We're making shit up as we go along like incredibly less scientifically informed Isaac Asimovs.

I kind of took a gamble in assuming the genre here was sci-fi. I need boat blueprints for way less exciting genre problems, but turning the Vatican into a skyscraper has a distinctively sci-fi feel to it. I'm assuming you're not secretly Dan Brown.

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Rhetoricism In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-24 08:29:33 +0000 UTC]

I wear a towel all year round, but I don't have lizards on my walls; I have geckos. Lots of them. There's one that lives in my room, and gets in-and-out through the air conditioner; every morning at roughly 9am she makes that adorable gecko chirping sound most people think is a bird; it's pretty wild. There are no spiders in my house anymore; most get eaten by the geckos (who also eat most of the billionty-trillion insects that like my kitchen lights). Those that aren't eaten get punched; I'm a dab hand with a punch and if you turn away for the RAID they disappear like magical freaky web-monsters. 

We also have a plague of grasshoppers (fist-sized) and stick insects (forearm sized) at the moment. It's a bitch fishing them out of the pool. Then there's the two-foot monitor lizard we have hanging around, and an iguana-like specimen that's at least three feet who lives by the pond downhill. Oh, and the resident birds of prey that we see circling above sometimes, and the kangaroos that get into every single bit of roadworks we have, and also live by the pond in the late summer. They hang around so often there are actually paths through all the shrubbery where they romp. And the snakes are back again; no venomous ones this year so far. 

And-- well, okay. Let's just say that if you like animals, the tropics are for you. If not, meeeeh. 

As for the Vaticanscraper: yes, it's sci-fi, but that's not the core of the story. It's just an interesting setting I came up with. There are too many problems with an earth-bound megascraper to do the hand-wavey things, unfortunately. I mean, the tallest building in the world apparently has a wind-negation system, because it's up so high and is really, really thin. Also plumbing is an absolute bitch; when the skyscraper gets country-sized, I've worked out you need entire floors for plumbing and electricity transformers, not to mention generators. But I guess nanomachines can fix most of that somehow. Always dependable. 

Also no what are you talking about my name is Ban Drown i mean uh *sweats nervously* 

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Rhetoricism [2014-01-25 06:59:35 +0000 UTC]

I kept stick bugs for a bit. They were giant, spiney and the best things to ever lay eggs that hatched while I was away. I came home to a lot of little ant-sized things dead in my room. I keep thinking of getting another one. I haven't seen any Australian Stick Insects since my last ones though. It's all Indonesian Leaf Bugs. No. I want my spiney death-bug.

Can you find out how wind moves around mountains or through badlands? That might help you out. I'm trying to remember what it was I was watching once, that was about making a super-structure building that was basically its own self contained system. Would have been more than a mile around, five miles high. I remember that it was shaped like a spire. So helpful!

ARE YOU OR ARE YOU NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DA VINCI CODE?

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Rhetoricism In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-26 12:51:33 +0000 UTC]

I've given up on keeping any regular pets aside from Dog, my dog. I've had a series of cats this past year, but they've all been rescue cats and are all now semi-feral, as it wasn't possible to housebreak them in the slightest. They come and go, coming back for food and sleepsies on my comfy couch every week or so. One of them is called Cat, the others don't have names. 

I did have a goat a while back; a friend of mine left the country for a few months and asked me to keep it, so I used it to mow my property. Goats eat a -lot-. The friend had never named it, just calling it Goat, so that stuck. 

I'll look for that vague superstructuer thing; research is haaard. 

I AM NOT A DA VINCI CODE MAKER I SWEAR TO BABY JESUS PLEASE DONT HURT ME

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Rhetoricism [2014-01-27 02:28:05 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god GOATS. I love goats. Anything smart enough to be a pain in the ass is probably worth keeping around.

I actually didn't hate the Da Vinci Code. I ignored the second book, though. The entire thing seemed really gimmicky.

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Rhetoricism In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-27 03:22:23 +0000 UTC]

Keeping goats is hard sometimes; they're not really herd animals, and their ability to climb anything coupled with their ability to eat anything really makes keeping them in once place an exercise in futility and large amounts of steel wire or industrial strength chain-link. 

The da vinci code series is really a James Bond wannabe who got stuck in an obscure and useless feild of archaology/theology. It's got far too many vanishing lady friends and fairly hamfisted writing. 

SEE I AM NOT DAN BROWN THAT PROVES IT HAH

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Rhetoricism [2014-01-27 03:36:33 +0000 UTC]

or does it

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Rhetoricism In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-27 03:39:21 +0000 UTC]

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Aerode [2014-01-17 23:46:42 +0000 UTC]

Work is as fun as I make it, haha.

thanks! You too.

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Aerode In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2014-01-17 23:49:13 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure! I hope tomorrow's a much better day. You deserve a reprieve for all your hard work.

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to DailyBreadCafe [2013-12-18 21:14:54 +0000 UTC]

looks cool!

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DailyBreadCafe In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2013-12-19 08:38:35 +0000 UTC]

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to CommnderShepard117 [2013-12-13 05:37:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, a little bit. Less dinosaur heavy, haha. The arc of the first book is a bit odd, but it kept me busy enough that I really enjoyed it.

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to rsbohn [2013-12-03 20:40:06 +0000 UTC]

no problem!

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to oaklungs [2013-11-20 07:13:34 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to Astralseed [2013-08-22 17:33:07 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that's amazing! Thanks!

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Astralseed In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2013-08-22 17:33:41 +0000 UTC]

you're very welcome 

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to vespera [2013-08-08 22:54:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to DailyBreadCafe [2013-07-20 00:33:19 +0000 UTC]

ahhh, that's so cute! Thanks!

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to DailyBreadCafe [2013-06-19 20:46:48 +0000 UTC]

They have been really helpful! I have also had some stuff to deal with lately, so yeah. No worries about late critiques or anything. I have not started yours yet, either. x___x

I hope Toby is okay, and in for a good recovery!

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DailyBreadCafe In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2013-06-20 13:10:35 +0000 UTC]

Yep, well it's good to have a busy life sometimes! Hope we can catch up sometimes soon

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to DailyBreadCafe [2013-06-21 02:17:41 +0000 UTC]

It will happen! Eventually. Hahaha.

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Goldfish-In-Space In reply to SimplySilent [2013-06-17 05:22:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, and thanks for the llama!

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SimplySilent In reply to Goldfish-In-Space [2013-06-19 06:30:59 +0000 UTC]

No prob

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