The Topic of Great Randomness

[EricG1793]

Poor TTOGR.. it needs some attention, methinks.

I just got through another round of crunching the class requirements for getting a Computer Networking degree at the community college, and a General Studies degree at the state university. Long story about how I decided to go that route, but it revolves around the mediocrity of the Computer Science department, and the university and general. I can transfer classes both ways, it's just a matter of figuring out what fits where. I need one more upper-level computer science class at the university for the concentration in Computer Science, and there's a Databases class at the community college that will transfer as a specific higher-level class, but that class never runs at the community college. I have to laugh at myself because I realized that I could take said class online at another community college and transfer it in... yes, folks, you read correctly: I'd rather go through the process of applying to another school just to take one class than to take any more classes at the university! LOL

[Rysade]

I spotted this over on Meaningness.com:

http://meaningness.com/all-dimension...matic-overview

Eighth row, third column.

[eowyngirl]

I spotted this over on Meaningness.com:

http://meaningness.com/all-dimension...matic-overview

Eighth row, third column.

Hehe, nice.

[kk]

I was down at the river yesterday taking some whitewater pictures. After a while, I started messing with the shutter speed, and came up with the following result at 1/15".

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When I posted it to my commerce site at SmugMug, I needed a title. After a bit, I realized that the only one that made sense to me was "Timeslide".

That's so cool, Garrett!

Eric: Wow, that's a complicated way to take a class, but that's great! Whatever works, haha!

I am buried in CrossingsCon thoughts right now, and do not have much to add to the current conversation, but I want to congratulate everyone for reaching page 1337 in the TOGR!

[Neo]

Oh boy it's been a long time...

Just popped back on here to see how much things have changed lately...I can't even remember how many years it's been since I posted regularly here! Always good to see the TOGR alive and well, though... Kinda funny that I happened to return to YW when the TOGR is at page 1337 :P Anyway, hello everyone! I don't expect there's many of you out there who would still remember me...

[EricG1793]

Well, welcome back, Neo! Hmmm... your name kinda rings a bell. *Checks your post history* Well, you posted a handful of times over a few occasions since I joined, so I guess that explains why I don't really remember you! Dai Stiho!

[96bookworms]

Hey all! Dai stiho. Long time no chat, huh?

Is anyone else from the Forums going to CrossingsCon? I've gotten my ticket and a hotel room (finally, long story...), and can't wait to meet a bunch of cousins in real-space!

It's been fun to poke back through old posts and stuff, though sometimes a bit cringe-worthy....I saw that there's going to be a panel on the "History of the YW Fandom" (if you're going, they're still looking for panelists - I may talk if they need me to, but honestly I'm on the younger side!) and probably some discussion of the Forums, so I thought I'd have a look at what my history on the forums has been. I can't believe how young I was when I joined - and boy does it show. But everyone was always very friendly and welcoming, and it really emphasizes how incredibly great the YW fandom is overall. I've never met a more kind and open group of people, with less fandom drama than any other I've seen or heard of. For someone who hasn't interacted much with the internet (i watch more than participate, usually), the forums has been a great place to break down that barrier! Anyways, don't mind me as I keep poking around in the cavernous archives of the forum

[eowyngirl]

Is anyone else from the Forums going to CrossingsCon?

I'll be there! I don't think I could possibly be more excited.

[96bookworms]

I'll be there! I don't think I could possibly be more excited.

Awesome! And same here, I can't wait!!

[Neo]

so I thought I'd have a look at what my history on the forums has been. I can't believe how young I was when I joined - and boy does it show.

Well I don't know how young you were when you joined, but imagine how I feel, I first joined these forums.....*checks*.....In 2003! That's well over 10 years ago. And I was not even a teenager yet. Of course, I've been largely absent for most of those years, sadly, but I still claim my ancient-ness with pride! :P

I just recently started re-reading the YW books and OMG I forgot how good they are. I also recently heard about this CrossingsCon thing, I'm so sad I didn't know about it, though I wouldn't have been able to go anyway. Maybe next year though, if I can spare the time and money away from my "adult" life with my "real" job and all...

You may have seen my previous post in TToGR that was quite a few months ago...who knows when my next post will be. I like being sporadic!

[96bookworms]

Yeah, it's definitely been a while! CrossingsCon is definitely happening again, and it'll be on the West Coast this time, though we're still working on a location

[Neo]

Man, the whole forum really isn't as active as it used to be, huh? Was just trying to dig around for some more recent posts about the books, especially non-spoiler discussions of GWP, but there's almost nothing here. I really miss the old internet days when there were super active forums everywhere and they were the places to be

[Lazy Leopard]

Yeah, it is pretty quiet these days. It doesn't have enough regularly active folk these days. The lack of integrated chat probably contributes to that, but I've noticed the same sort of thing many other places. There are many more different places to socialise on the Net these days, and folk can only sensibly manage to follow a few. The majority, I expect, sink most of their Net socialising into Facebook, or Twitter, or Tumblr, or a few others like those. Far fewer folk have time for niches like this place. Once they go quiet it's very hard to stir them into life again.

[Neo]

Do you know if there's anywhere else where discussion of these books happens more regularly? I was hoping for an active Young Wizards subreddit but r/youngwizards only has like 10 subscribers and r/errantry only has ~100. I thought I saw something about a chat somewhere for YW fans but I can't remember what it was or where I saw it. I just want to talk to more people about YW!

[96bookworms]

Yes! There's actually a pretty active community built around the messaging platform Slack. It actually functions quite similarly to the forums, with multiple channels for different discussions. If you'd like to join, the link is here . If that link doesn't work for some reason, you can go to crossingscon.org and click on the link that says "Young Wizards Chat" and it should redirect you. Would be great to see you all there, cousins! I go by the handle thewordscomealive over there as well as on tumblr.