And then on other days it just rains. Indeed do many things come to pass.

[kiya]

Tesla says, "And remember: as the bishop of Denver, he's much closer to God than the rest of us at sea level."
Whitney says, "Remember, according to the Principia, heaven is down."
Tesla says, "Doesn't the Principia also instruct us to disbelieve all written documents?"
Whitney says, "Yes."
Tesla says, "Well, that fails utterly to clear the issue up."
Whitney says, "Welcome to religion."
Tesla cackles.

Also, random referentiality: [Wizards] Fiendish Thingy Whitney says, "'Cause I coded it in eights. Well, and twelves, but mostly apples."

Have downloaded a pair of PDFs containing the official tiddlywinks rules and the simplified tiddlywinks rules (suitable for beginners). Now I take those and the Principia and shuffle them together and then edit it down into a divination system. Possibly with the rules for pogs. (Clearly the blue pogs represent the element Orange. Unless they don't. Must consult pineal gland.)

Satyr still stomping around in my head singing the March of Cambreadth. This is very frightening, but does leave me with some insight about why he's dating the redcap.

I was going to do my stock Flag Code rant, but I've come down out of the stratosphere and am now merely disgusted. So I'll boil it down to: You do not. Autograph. The flag. (You do not fail to fly it at half-mast for a deceased President. You do not leave it out in the rain unless it's an all-weather one, and even then you're liable to irritate me because I can't see that from here. You do not leave it out in the dark; you get a spotlight or you take it down at sunset. You do not tie it to your fucking antenna. Er. Not doing the stock rant. Stopping now.)

I cannot for the life of me put together what the next section of the WIP is, which makes it blessed difficult to write. I know what the one after that is, and either the one two after that or four after, depending on whether or not I need a hypothetical intervening section. This is not terribly useful.

. . . on second thought, I may have just cracked it.

Addendum: I did. Section 172: 507 words, done. And I traumatised oneironaut with the idea of Hello Khepri. (Speaking of which: Hello Khepri! Sleep now, for it is dawn.)

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[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I was going to do my stock Flag Code rant, but I've come down out of the stratosphere and am now merely disgusted. So I'll boil it down to: You do not. Autograph. The flag. (You do not fail to fly it at half-mast for a deceased President. You do not leave it out in the rain unless it's an all-weather one, and even then you're liable to irritate me because I can't see that from here. You do not leave it out in the dark; you get a spotlight or you take it down at sunset. You do not tie it to your fucking antenna. Er. Not doing the stock rant. Stopping now.)

GNARG! That is one of those things that annoys the heck out of me... *GRRRRR* Too much flag etiquette at Girl's State.

[drop-mike.livejournal.com]

And if you do, against our better judgment because we aren't morons like the generic "yous" that do this sort of thing, tie a flag to your radio antenna you should do it in such a way that it DOES NOT wipe across your filthy windshield. But don't do it at all because flags are not designed to flap in a constant 55 MPH without shredding, which is hardly a way to honor the flag. You DO NOT tape a big flag to the hood of your car. Flying a flag the size of your gas station, especially one so big that it nearly touches the ground in still air, DOES NOT say, "I'm patriotic," it says, "I'm a dork." When you have used up and spat out a flag until it looks like the flag that flew over Ft McHenry in the Smithsonian the ONLY way to dispose of it is through burning.

Finally, your patriotism is shown by your actions, not by your attachment to symbols. The flag is to be honored for what it represents and is not something to wrap yourself in, though there can be exceptions: http://www.teemingmillions.com/images/calendar/july2004-lores.jpg

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Also: You do not use the flag for advertising. It's in the Code.