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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
Postcount	7968
Homepage	http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/
Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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The Postorial Race... in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, November 12 2006 08:53 Profile Homepage #78 quote: Originally written by Artequila: Salmon, I'm going to have to invent a new gesture for you because the facepalm has exhausted its utility. Salmon is a dirty, dirty spammer. What is the appropriate response to dirty spam? Not eating it, for one, I suppose. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, November 12 2006 08:45 Profile Homepage #172 That was the record for double-(multiple-)posting. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
GF3 HACK AND CHEATS in Geneforge Series
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 23:48 Profile Homepage #2 Note that trainers already allow this. Check the forum header for that. Note also that discussion of hex-editing is prohibited here. Read the CoC for details. If you have questions, PM me. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Genetic Templating in Averum? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 23:43 Profile Homepage #30 quote: Originally written by Ezrah, Kitty of Wonder.: Du willst haben mein lebensraum? Your word-order could use some work, or else I am direly misinformed. quote: Heh, I never really got the whole furry nazi thing. Thank you. I didn't really want to be able to sleep comfortably any time in the next several days. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Very quick Geneforge 4: Rebellion Update. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 21:19 Profile Homepage #35 Check the URL. It is definitely something that he had on hand. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Genetic Templating in Averum? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 20:36 Profile Homepage #23 The assumption within my BoA continuity is that the vahnatai and the humans are distant biological cousins (like chimps and humans), and the vahnatai made the sliths and nephils out of humans and reptiles and cats. This is not Vahnatai Creationism &#x00AE, because the vahnatai didn't create everything, just a couple of races. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Do you play music when playing Avernum? in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:58 Profile Homepage #21 Reading those old posts about Tom Lehrer songs made me think of National Brotherhood Week, which is one of his songs that is not dated at all, and probably never will be. I let iTunes do its thing as I play Avernum. My most vivid musical connection is listening to "Achilles' Last Stand" and "In My Time of Dying" over and over again while going through the land of the dead in Nethergate. That was freaking amazing. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
HELP in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:48 Profile Homepage #7 I'd be surprised if not, given the profile names associated with this user. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Margaritaville in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:44 Profile Homepage #5 Ephesos's "pirate" one is clearly the best. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Very quick Geneforge 4: Rebellion Update. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:34 Profile Homepage #33 quote: Originally written by Kitana: Edit: I just noticed the post above, and to clarify I meant GF4. GF4 looks awesome, not the weird turtle thing. The turtle is not amused. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Contest Judging Registration in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:29 Profile Homepage #6 Count me in for Newcomer, I suppose. I have both, of course. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BOA walkthroughs in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 11 2006 19:24 Profile Homepage #2 For your Blades needs, check out my links list at my webpage (also linked in my signature). It has pretty much all the resources you could need. And yeah, TrueSite is the home of walkthroughs. [ Saturday, November 11, 2006 19:25: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
1994 Backwards Is 2006 in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, November 10 2006 20:14 Profile Homepage #65 quote: Originally written by Artequila: quote: Originally written by Kelandon: I took a linear algebra course in the senior year of high school. I learned NOTHING. I felt that the teacher wasn't very good... If you're talking about who I think you're talking about, he was EASILY the worst teacher I had in high school. No, it was a woman (whose maiden name I forgot, and that would've been the name you knew her by, since she got married right before she taught my class). I'm thinking of the men who taught advanced math at that school... could you be referring to a certain deparment head? I heard that he was unendurably bad. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
November Posting Stats Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Poll in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, November 10 2006 19:46 Profile Homepage #147 There are a couple of lacons who could bite me and I wouldn't mind. Well, one historical example comes to mind, really. [ Friday, November 10, 2006 19:46: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
1994 Backwards Is 2006 in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, November 10 2006 19:36 Profile Homepage #63 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Five years afterwards, what do you still have that you got from the college instructors you consider good? What from the ones you consider bad? Is this difference really as big as the difference in teaching quality you have been claiming? I took a linear algebra course in the senior year of high school. I learned NOTHING. I felt that the teacher wasn't very good, and I walked away not knowing what eigenvalues or eigenvectors were, how to diagonalize a matrix, what an orthogonal matrix was, or anything like that. I took another linear algebra course in college and had a good teacher, and now I feel as though I'll never forget most of that stuff, and even if I do, a quick description of the technique will make me remember. One might say that the fact that I was learning it a second time gave the second teacher an unfair advantage, but all the material felt brand new to me. I couldn't recall ever having learned it before. On the other hand, I did a couple years of AP Physics in high school, and a good chunk of that was E&M. I had a spectacular teacher, and I feel that Coulomb's Law and the basics of circuits will pretty much remain with me forever. On the other hand, I took an honors E&M class in college from a terrible teacher, perhaps the second-worst I've ever had, and he was supposed to teach us the Lorentz transforms for E&M, and I can't remember a word. I think I recall that electric fields change to magnetic fields if you go at relativistic speeds, or something like that, but I have no idea how it worked at all. One might claim that the reason is that my high school class was on a basic subject with stuff that one uses over and over again, but my college course was on more advanced material that is more specialized and harder, so it's an unfair comparison, but this is not enough of an explanation. My astro class right now is more advanced and more specialized than basic mechanics, but we have a great teacher, and I know that I'm learning more with him than I did with my old E&M professor. One might also claim that this comparison between high school and college is not fair, but I don't think so. My "Modern Physics" professor was mediocre, and I honestly cannot remember a word that he said. If I did learn something in that class, it's gone. My astro professor is really good, though, and when I read over my notes, I remember what he said and what about it that was new to me, or, in other words, what I learned. So yes, it really is that big a difference. And here I'm not even referring to the fact that bad teachers make a person not want to go to lecture, which slows down learning even more, or that they discourage students from taking further classes in the same subject, which also reduces learning. I also don't just mean that good professors provide a better support system for students — having an official time when students can do problems together while the graduate students and the professor are all there, outside of office hours, is a godsend — or anything like that. I just mean that sitting in lecture does me less good, both in the short-term and the long-term, when the professor sucks at teaching. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
1994 Backwards Is 2006 in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, November 10 2006 10:30 Profile Homepage #57 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: I don't think tenured faculty are a big problem for North American college teaching. A bigger problem is that quite a few courses are taught by inexperienced grad students and adjuncts. I don't know if my experience is unusual, but I haven't really had a problem with this part. I've had seven courses taught entirely by graduate students (and since I several of them had the same teacher, we're talking about five different graduate students). Four of those teachers were language teachers, and one was a math teacher. The math class was the best experience I've ever had with a math class at the college level. Three of the language teachers were spectacular (and one good enough that I actually decided on a major largely on the strength of this one class). Only one out of the five was bad, and to be fair, that one was terrible; she was by far the worst teacher I've ever had. But I can't help but feel that she was the exception: at Cal, at least, the courses taught entirely by graduate students are often quite well done. Moreover, I've almost always had good experiences with discussion sections, which are almost entirely taught by graduate students. A few have been bad and pointless, but that happened because there was nothing for us to do in the section, not because the graduate student was no good. I've really only had maybe one bad teacher in section. On the other hand, I've had — counts — at least six fairly terrible professors. My problem has never been with the graduate students. They have almost all been top-notch teachers. My problem has always been with the professors. I do kinda like the German idea that some professors should be more dedicated to research and some more to teaching. [ Friday, November 10, 2006 10:32: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, November 9 2006 23:19 Profile Homepage #6 I ended up Tweety. Then I filled in all my second-choice answers and got Pepe Le Pew. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
1994 Backwards Is 2006 in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 22:38 Profile Homepage #41 Thuryl: We may disagree on a fair number of things — how much role the government should have in regulating the economy or morality — but there are enough things upon which most people can agree — that the government should be responsible for building roads and maintaing transportation, for instance — that a basic sense of competence can be judged. I understand your objection, though: I don't particularly want an extremely politically savvy Republican, sort of a Republican LBJ, in a position of power, and that might end up being a further consideration. But my base concern is that we elect people who are actually capable of doing their jobs. Zorro: I agree with you, and our points are fairly compatible. The ideology got so bound up in, well, ideology that it couldn't adjust to real-life situations. Neo-con ideology said that we should pursue the Iraq War in the way that we did. When it turned out that it wasn't enough, that it wasn't working, it was hard for the Republican leadership to admit that their original plan hadn't really panned out. This is definitely related to competence, although I agree that it goes above and beyond it. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BoA is being Pic-y in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 22:25 Profile Homepage #21 Or perhaps a basketball player. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Singleton Level? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 15:48 Profile Homepage #4 Not too hard to accomplish with scripts. Pointless, I should add, but not hard. [ Wednesday, November 08, 2006 15:49: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Episode VI: Return Of The Abominable Photo Thread in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 15:47 Profile Homepage #27 Hmm. Andraste is not quite as I imagined, yet not so different as to be terribly surprising. Now, definitively, I approve. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Post election gloating in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 15:42 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Drew: RUMSFELD RESIGNS!!!!!! Wow. That's a pretty big deal, and one that I didn't expect. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BoA is being Pic-y in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 15:38 Profile Homepage #17 Lingua barbarica. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
1994 Backwards Is 2006 in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 8 2006 15:35 Profile Homepage #27 This may sound a little strange at first, but hear me out. What's the first thing that Italians used to say about Mussolini? "He made the trains run on time." What was the second thing they'd say about him? Horrible dictator, lack of freedom, brutal, all that bad stuff. But the first thing that people remembered about even Mussolini was that he was competent at the fundamental aspects of his job (making the government run efficiently). People care most about the government doing its job competently. They also care about basic civil rights, and if you can manage both, then they'll start caring about issues. But if you, as a member of the government, can't manage to handle the fundamental aspects of government rule, people are going to get very angry with you, even if they agree with you on all the issues. I'll vote for a competent Republican over an incompetent Democrat on any given Tuesday, even if that Republican disagrees with me on issues such as the environment or taxation. This is a lesson that I'm not sure that the leading Republicans up to this election had realized. It was missed in all of the rhetoric about Iraq; we were greeted as liberators, but we were also greeted as the people who shut off the electricity and couldn't get it back on. We were greeted as the people who destroyed the police state, but we were also greeted as the people who couldn't manage to field adequate police in Iraq's cities. Iraqis knew that Saddam's government was more competent at maintaining order than the government we helped to set up, and that's the most important thing to them, as it should be. I'm pretty sure that it was missed domestically, too, as Bush's government discovered in a big way during Hurricane Katrina. The death toll, which was smaller but not enormously so than the death toll in the 9/11 attacks, was simply too high. Whatever you may believe about the role of government — big or small — it's certainly the case that it's the government's responsibility to help during natural disasters, and Bush's government simply was not competent enough to do that. I don't think that the leadership around and including Bush realized that it matttered that Brown was not good at his job, but it did. And Katrina was not the only instance of offensive incompetence in the past few years. I'm not trying to place blame on any one specific person (Bush, Cheney, Frist, whoever), but I do think that the people in power in Congress and the Bush administration by and large failed to do their fundamental jobs, and I think that this is the reason for the election turning out the way that it did. Many people respect McCain for another reason: he views the rules of the game (freedom of the press, etc.) as good in their own right and not simply limitations set upon him from outside. (This is a feeling that I've never gotten from Bush or any of the major Republican neo-cons.) I think there are a number of Democrats who are the same way as McCain is. I am completely in favor of those people, Republican or Democrat, being the ones in charge, those people who are good at doing the basic job of governing and who respect the core laws of our society as the Founding Fathers did. [ Wednesday, November 08, 2006 15:37: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Or Else... in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, November 7 2006 21:05 Profile Homepage #19 I had to vote provisionally, due to moving and not changing my address in time. It should be fine, though, as nothing was particularly close in any race of consequence in my district. Santorum is loathsome and I'm glad he's gone. And it's time again to bemoan the absurd legacy of the U.S.'s direct-democracy movement of the early 20th century: I cast something like 40 or 50 votes on my ballot, which was bigger than legal-size, double-sided, and two sheets of paper. In other countries, one normally casts perhaps three or four votes in each election (for candidates at a few levels of government). In the U.S., one normally casts at least a dozen votes per election, and usually two or three dozen. EDIT: By the way, the Dems are a lot closer to winning back the Senate than I expected. Taking the Senate in a single election is tough, because only a third of the seats are actually up for election, but they need three more seats, and there are three more too-close-to-call seats up for grabs, in each of which the Democratic candidate has a razor-thin lead. EDIT 2: Wow. Make that 2 more seats that Dems need in the Senate, and 2 more races up for grabs, in both of which the Democratic candidate is leading by a noticeable (although not decisive) amount. [ Tuesday, November 07, 2006 22:42: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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