The Happy Thread IV - Page 27

***Jonathan*** · 10-29-2009, 02:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mari

I passed Statistics with an 8.4 for my theoretical and an 8.11 for my practical (out of 10.0)

8.4, 8.11, 10.0... your post got too statistical right there

Congrats on passing!

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Originally Posted by EÃ¤rniel's acrticle[/QUOTE

The scientists also took electrocardiogram recordings of the frogs' hearts...

Lol, that must require some really cute minuscule electrodes

Knowledge is power, but can the revelation that the fungus alters the frogs' salt balances (rather than suffocating them) be of any help to the frogs in practice?

***Earniel*** · 10-29-2009, 06:25 AM

Congrats Mari! Great score! I never was good at statistics, but somehow they ended up being half of my job...

Congrats, Tessar! Sounds like you've got yourself some fans besides us.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Knowledge is power, but can the revelation that the fungus alters the frogs' salt balances (rather than suffocating them) be of any help to the frogs in practice?

At this point, none yet, I think. Especially considering that experiments in which they artificially raised the level of electrolytes, didn't lead to survival. (Which makes me think, there may yet be some other process involved, but the article doesn't mention anything in that direction.)

You can't battle any disease if you don't know what it does. So with this discovery, scientists will hopefully now have a meaningful direction to focus their research in. And there are frog-species that are imune to the fungus (including that most adorable one that makes its own sunscreen.) Research is still ongoing in what makes them imune, it would be interesting to see how their electrolyte balance evolves under infection.

***Tessar*** · 11-01-2009, 02:57 PM

AAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!1

MY SISTER BOUGHT ME THE NEW WHEEL OF TIME BOOK! AAAAH! AAAAH! AAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!

I am exhausted and need to sleep for a bit, but OMG OMG OMG!!! I AM SO READING THIS BOOK AS SOON AS I WAKE UP!!!!!!!

.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

***RÃan*** · 11-02-2009, 12:55 AM

I finally beat one of the kids in chess!!!

I just started playing a little while ago, and they've played a lot more, and I FINALLY beat one of the little buggers!

**Mari** · 11-06-2009, 08:21 AM

I just got my new laptop in ^_^
Yay for not having to fear the day this one breaks down and being without a laptop!

***Tessar*** · 11-08-2009, 02:05 AM

I'm happy because I actually did really well

. I made it into the top 12 out of 29 students in my category. I don't know my official ranking, because they don't tell you, but I made it into the simi finals and only 12 of the 29 singers did

. I think I probably ranked close to the top 5, but I didn't quite make it into the final round.

Considering that I'm still sick, I'll absolutely take it.

I learned a lot by doing the competition.

***VarnafindÃ«*** · 11-08-2009, 05:30 AM

I'm happy to hear that, Tessar!

**Mari** · 11-08-2009, 09:23 AM

Congrats and well done, Tessar!

**Mari** · 11-12-2009, 06:26 AM

My best friend has a new job! And it's a job she actually wants too ^_^
*sniff sniff* All grown up. I'm the only student left of the three of us now.

***Tessar*** · 11-13-2009, 05:48 PM

I am so freaking excited it's Friday. Tomorrow is going to be busy, BUT I don't have to get up by 7 a.m.... I can sleep in a little.

It's going to be heavenly.

I'm still so exhausted from NATS... hardcore stress and competition mode from Wednesday to Saturday night, then aaaaaaaaaaall day Sunday spent driving home and catching up on homework, then back to the grind Monday till now.

***Jonathan*** · 11-14-2009, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

I finally beat one of the kids in chess!!!

I just started playing a little while ago, and they've played a lot more, and I FINALLY beat one of the little buggers!

Lol! You go girl

**Mari** · 11-17-2009, 02:45 PM

I've been asked to play Zwarte Piet around Sinterklaas Day (december 5th)!
I'd love to, though my participation depends on a few practical matters.
Funny thing is: I was just thinking the other day I would like to do this some time!

Better go practice my cartwheel and Sinterklaas songs...

(The black people are Zwarte Pieten)

***Earniel*** · 11-17-2009, 06:59 PM

Ohoo! Time to break out the lighters and the wine corks? (At least that's how we at school usually turned the entire last year into Zwarte Pieten.)

I'm glad we weren't required to do cartwheels, though.

**Mari** · 11-18-2009, 06:41 AM

I'm sure I'm not required either, but I would like to be able to do it. In fact, when I was young I was very good at it.

Ingwe · 11-19-2009, 04:13 AM

"When you were young"?! When you were young?! You're still young! Compared to me, everyone is young!

lol I'm sure you will do fine!

***Jonathan*** · 11-19-2009, 10:49 AM

I second that! You're still young Mari. Compared to me, everyone's young (except for Ingwe, who is actually older)

***Tessar*** · 11-19-2009, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ingwe

"When you were young"?! When you were young?! You're still young! Compared to me, everyone is young!

lol I'm sure you will do fine!

Oh PLEASE

. You're one to talk. 27? Most opera singers careers are just getting started when they're 27. Don't talk like 27 is old.

**Mari** · 11-19-2009, 11:46 AM

*rolls eyes at all of you*

Ingwe · 11-19-2009, 11:52 AM

lol well...it's not always how young you are or how young you look, for me it comes down to how ancient I feel. If I'm only as old as I feel, then chances are, I was put in the ground 60 years ago.

AikanÃ¡ro · 11-21-2009, 08:13 AM

Eh, being young can be over-rated. The older I get, the more seriously people take me - even if it's with the same things I've been saying for years.

Unfortunately, I'm not yet old enough to be able to say 'when I was young...' and have it not sound absurd. Unless I'm talking to my class of 6 year olds, one of whom asked me in all seriousness if I went to school during the Victorian era.

I'm happy today. I found out that the grade on my first essay (the one I was obsessing about in the venting thread about a month ago) was misreported, and I actually did better than I had been told.

Also, I have new (well, second-hand, but new to me) books.

11-02-2009, 12:55 AM	#524
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I finally beat one of the kids in chess!!! I just started playing a little while ago, and they've played a lot more, and I FINALLY beat one of the little buggers! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

11-06-2009, 08:21 AM	#525
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I just got my new laptop in ^_^ Yay for not having to fear the day this one breaks down and being without a laptop! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-08-2009, 05:30 AM	#527
*VarnafindÃ«* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	I'm happy to hear that, Tessar! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

11-08-2009, 09:23 AM	#528
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Congrats and well done, Tessar! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-12-2009, 06:26 AM	#529
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	My best friend has a new job! And it's a job she actually wants too ^_^ sniff sniff All grown up. I'm the only student left of the three of us now. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-01-2009, 02:57 PM	#523
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	AAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!1 MY SISTER BOUGHT ME THE NEW WHEEL OF TIME BOOK! AAAAH! AAAAH! AAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!! I am exhausted and need to sleep for a bit, but OMG OMG OMG!!! I AM SO READING THIS BOOK AS SOON AS I WAKE UP!!!!!!! .... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

11-08-2009, 02:05 AM	#526
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I'm happy because I actually did really well . I made it into the top 12 out of 29 students in my category. I don't know my official ranking, because they don't tell you, but I made it into the simi finals and only 12 of the 29 singers did . I think I probably ranked close to the top 5, but I didn't quite make it into the final round. Considering that I'm still sick, I'll absolutely take it. I learned a lot by doing the competition.

11-13-2009, 05:48 PM	#530
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I am so freaking excited it's Friday. Tomorrow is going to be busy, BUT I don't have to get up by 7 a.m.... I can sleep in a little. It's going to be heavenly. I'm still so exhausted from NATS... hardcore stress and competition mode from Wednesday to Saturday night, then aaaaaaaaaaall day Sunday spent driving home and catching up on homework, then back to the grind Monday till now.

11-17-2009, 02:45 PM	#532
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I've been asked to play Zwarte Piet around Sinterklaas Day (december 5th)! I'd love to, though my participation depends on a few practical matters. Funny thing is: I was just thinking the other day I would like to do this some time! Better go practice my cartwheel and Sinterklaas songs... (The black people are Zwarte Pieten) __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-17-2009, 06:59 PM	#533
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Ohoo! Time to break out the lighters and the wine corks? (At least that's how we at school usually turned the entire last year into Zwarte Pieten.) I'm glad we weren't required to do cartwheels, though. __________________ We are not things.

11-18-2009, 06:41 AM	#534
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I'm sure I'm not required either, but I would like to be able to do it. In fact, when I was young I was very good at it. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-19-2009, 04:13 AM	#535
Ingwe Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Somewhere not of this world Posts: 402	"When you were young"?! When you were young?! You're still young! Compared to me, everyone is young! lol I'm sure you will do fine! __________________ I'm back. Everyone fear for their lives. Arrggghhh! Get to the choppa, it's Godzilla, fighting Indiana Jones, Copyright, uh-oh!

11-19-2009, 10:49 AM	#536
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I second that! You're still young Mari. Compared to me, everyone's young (except for Ingwe, who is actually older) __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and itâ€™s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry thatâ€™s ever been written. ☻

11-19-2009, 11:46 AM	#538
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	rolls eyes at all of you __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-19-2009, 11:52 AM	#539
Ingwe Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Somewhere not of this world Posts: 402	lol well...it's not always how young you are or how young you look, for me it comes down to how ancient I feel. If I'm only as old as I feel, then chances are, I was put in the ground 60 years ago. __________________ I'm back. Everyone fear for their lives. Arrggghhh! Get to the choppa, it's Godzilla, fighting Indiana Jones, Copyright, uh-oh!

11-21-2009, 08:13 AM	#540
AikanÃ¡ro Chaotic Good Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Mar Vanwa TyaliÃ©va Posts: 827	Eh, being young can be over-rated. The older I get, the more seriously people take me - even if it's with the same things I've been saying for years. Unfortunately, I'm not yet old enough to be able to say 'when I was young...' and have it not sound absurd. Unless I'm talking to my class of 6 year olds, one of whom asked me in all seriousness if I went to school during the Victorian era. I'm happy today. I found out that the grade on my first essay (the one I was obsessing about in the venting thread about a month ago) was misreported, and I actually did better than I had been told. Also, I have new (well, second-hand, but new to me) books. __________________ Vanima i metta nauva, nan anda ar sarda nauva i mallÃ«.

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