The Topic of Great Randomness

[96bookworms]

Hello everyone! I haven't been active in a LONG while, but I promise I'm still alive! just lurking, 'cuz I've been SOOOOOOOO busy!

I'm going to South Africa again, this time with a study tour that my dad's taking (college student EL trip) I'm so excited!!!!! In exactly 12 days, I will be on my way to ZA! Plus, I get to miss almost a month of school! It's really great! We're starting in the Jo'burg/Pretoria area, going to Cullinan, Apartheid Museum =( and several other stops. Then we're heading to my uncle's farm, and staying there and working at a farm school nearby. Kruger is also in there, and an Ostrich Farm. We're going to be in St. Lucia for a bit, and then heading to Cape Town.....Table Mountain, Robben Island, all the rest....yay! I haven't been to most of these places in 4 years! (others than the farm and Kruger when we went last January (2010)

In other words, I am REALLY busy =D

oh, I can't believe I never posted pictures!!! I promise to put up some pictures either really soon, or when I come back in late June!!!

[Stellazira]

Oh, okay then. At other forums I have a habit of clicking on a board and then clicking on a link to show me the newest posts of a thread. I'm not really used to other ways of getting to the newest posts I guess and I'm not really familiar with this forum software. :P

Thanks for the help.

[Kathy Li]

I've been trying to figure this out for a while, but is there a way to quickly jump to the first unread post of a thread?

You have to be logged in. But if you click on the "What's New?" tab at the top, it'll list all the topics/threads that have new posts since you were last on the board. Next to each topic title, you'll see a little circular icon: . Clicking on that will get you to the first new post in the thread.

[Lazy Leopard]

I've been trying to figure this out for a while, but is there a way to quickly jump to the first unread post of a thread?

In the "Latest Posts" section at on the forum front page, if you click on the little triangle after the poster's name you'll be taken to that post. Not quite what you're after, but...

[Stellazira]

I've been trying to figure this out for a while, but is there a way to quickly jump to the first unread post of a thread?

[Lazy Leopard]

I've been re-reading TVTQ

I've just started re-reading OHMWS (aka TVTQ), having given TBoNwM a re-read recently. All tripped off by finishing TBM. I discovered that, for some strange reason, TBoNwM was the very first of DD's books I ever read...

[Stormwind]

Obviously life has caused me to fall away from one of my favorite places to spend time... I've been re-reading TVTQ and it caused me to look at Facebook and see a post from DD about cat food.... which reminded me I needed to look up the forums... Sorry I've been gone so long...

[Nightvol: Lord of the Horde]

i still wanna help facilitate a "Great YW Get Together" someday

I sometimes wonder if we could petition DD to re-open a chat seeing as how its been so long now
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I support both of these ideas, products, or services.

[kk]

*splutter* Tuttle, Dee, Mythbusterfan! I remember all of you! I was kind of a newbie when I remember seeing you around a lot.

And I remember a while ago a lot of people had wanted to have a YW get together in NY, and try to get onto the helipad at the Metlife building. And hug the asteroid in the museum. A YW meetup would still be fun!

I miss the chat, too. I was only on a tiny tiny amount before I remember it getting taken away, but it was fun the few times I was on. And yeesh, I used to check the boards every five minutes back then - now it's all so quiet.

What happened to Young Reader/Dragon Writer? He came back a while ago, but I guess he disappeared/is lurking again. Heh, like me. I've been lurking for way too long now. I need to start posting again.

Trialia: *tacklehugs you* So sorry about your friend

LifeSong: I don't know... It may depend upon the test, and what it would accomplish.

[LifeSong]

I'm sorry about your friend, Trialia

I've been thinking about death for a while, and especially because recently a friend of mine found out that her father's office is going to be conducting a test on a lamb, which will then be killed. I had to struggle not to cry, and my friend said she had wanted so badly to just sabotage the whole thing (she knew how) but couldn't and wouldn't.

Is it better to sabotage the one experiment or to let the lamb die? Is this the "For the Greater Good" situation again? It's come up so much; some in negative format and some in positive. Take Spock's "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few/one." Contrast that and his heroic sacrifice with Grindelwald and Dumbledore's "For the Greater Good" or even Hitler (and by the way, I'm not comparing the death of one life to a psychopath killing millions - that would be way out of proportion; I'm just drawing connections.) Self-preservation is a strong instinct - a hero would be willing to sacrifice her/himself to save others; but the lamb has no choice but to do so.

To me, a life is a life is a life . . . whether a human's, or a sheep's. That's part of why it bothers me so much to see this young creature forced against its will - possibly beyond its realm of thought - to make a sacrifice for a species it may or may not have any reason to care about.


LifeSong

[Lazy Leopard]

*tries to remember what he was wearing at DWCon* Hmmm... I'm guessing the waistcoats might have been eye catching... DD tweeted a piccie of me at some point back then, but I've no idea how to find it now...

Tralia, sorry to hear about your friend.

[Trialia]

Lazy Leopard and I met in person last summer -- he has some epic choices of clothing, I can tell you that.

I guess I don't tend to reply to the TOGR very much unless I'm actually replying to someone... I've been pretty tired and busy inbetween the tired, so, yeah. That and a very close friend of mine died a couple of weeks ago, so grieving for her and trying to straighten out her online things so her mom has a backup. She was only my age (25).

[Lazy Leopard]

This place does still get a bit busy just after a new book's published, but it doesn't have the interactivity the old chat seems to have provided (not that I remember much of that, I didn't visit often back then). Also, the way the Internet goes, folks almost inevitably scatter somewhat as time goes on and new places open.

[mythbusterfan]

yeah the internet is an amazing place, i've met a surprisingly large number of people from here haha. i still wanna help facilitate a "Great YW Get Together" someday, so we can get like a ton of the old regular cedric crowd and chill and talk or whatnot for a couple days. it would be fun. I would be here more but like, forum post based discussion is slow and facebook/ normal instant messenger are easier. I sometimes wonder if we could petition DD to re-open a chat seeing as how its been so long now. maybe she'll give it another go. it'd be nice to have a lurking place for several days on end again XD or take bets on how many times chat'll kick alla (i think that was her we were taking bets on) in an hour some more haha XD it'd be nice to bring some life back to this board, since i'm sure we'd all post more if we had a reason to be on 28 hours of the day.
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[96bookworms]

I've been meaning to post on here for a loooooooooooong time, but just never seem to get around to it....I've been a major lurker recently, mostly because of time....*sigh* I never have ANY time BUT I just finished the play I'm in, and I'm not really doing anything in April much....so I might be back! Oliver was lots of fun, though =D And I've gotten like 3 different people to read the books!!! yay! One sorta picked it up on her own, but I definitely encouraged her! I've been trying to get my other friend to read it for almost two years...and one day, she just picked up the first book, which I was reading, and said "hey, this looks interesting...can I borrow it?" I might have possibly been grinning like a maniac ;D She's on A Wizard Abroad.....yay!

I remember when it used to be crazy busy on here =D It feels like such a long time ago.... and now the forums is mostly echoey and empty..... echoey and empty.....echoey and empty.......