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Post by Wham Bam I Am! Jam on Nov 25, 2010 10:12:00 GMT -8
As for the jazz, I'm pretty sure Gene Austin was a jazz artist and some of his songs, like Bye Bye Blackbird, sound pretty upbeat.
In fact, I'm going to listen to it now.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 25, 2010 18:47:01 GMT -8
Any idea how big the world's population was at around the year 1600? 768 Million approx. Okay so then my calculations were correct, thanks!
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 25, 2010 21:08:26 GMT -8
So I'm doing a Twilight rewrite and before I start I want to know if anyone knows of a place that doesn't get too much bright sunlight. Sunlight is fine, but extremely bright sunlight would be a problem for the vampire characters. Alaska should work.
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Post by stothy on Nov 26, 2010 4:22:21 GMT -8
So I'm doing a Twilight rewrite and before I start I want to know if anyone knows of a place that doesn't get too much bright sunlight. Sunlight is fine, but extremely bright sunlight would be a problem for the vampire characters. Alaska should work. Be careful with Alaska. geosun.sjsu.edu/paula/103/activities/daynight.pdfAlaska is the state that can have days of continuous sunlight.
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 26, 2010 5:01:58 GMT -8
This is true.
How about that one city in Japan that was built underground? I don't think it's finished yet, but your readers are unlikely to fact-check you on that, and for the ones that do you can just say it's cool so you threw it in there.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 26, 2010 9:46:06 GMT -8
This is true. How about that one city in Japan that was built underground? I don't think it's finished yet, but your readers are unlikely to fact-check you on that, and for the ones that do you can just say it's cool so you threw it in there. No need to go all the way to japan, Montreal is also famous for it's underground city.
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Post by Darth Sariah on Nov 26, 2010 15:50:50 GMT -8
To questions really:
1. What are some good Jazz songs? (I need both a happy/uplifting one and a sad/melancholic one.)
2. If a young woman, who plays a lot of tennis and sports, was to hit a grown man with a shovel in anger would it be enough to knock him out?
1. I'd say Gene Austin for happy and maybe look up Alan Silvestri for either. 2. This can be determined on a multitude of factors. It is safe to say that this is a very likely scenario although the physics and multiple characteristics of the scene will have to be taken into account. Where was hit, with what force, the physical condition of all involved objects, physical threshold of the victim, ect.
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 26, 2010 16:18:22 GMT -8
This is true. How about that one city in Japan that was built underground? I don't think it's finished yet, but your readers are unlikely to fact-check you on that, and for the ones that do you can just say it's cool so you threw it in there. No need to go all the way to japan, Montreal is also famous for it's underground city. Oh, good. Montreal'd be much easier to move to and I love the concept of living underground. Though I could always move to New York and be one of those people that lives in abandoned underground tunnels.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 26, 2010 20:00:12 GMT -8
Okay, I'm writing a little side story to supplement my current work. It's a little legend about what happens when people die. They are taken by a psychopomp who is instructed with the responsibility to take the dead person's soul to the afterlife. There are only a set amount, one per type of death (they are many ways someone can be murdered, but there's only going to be one 'murdered' psychopomp, likewise there will only be one 'diseased' psychopomp) But.... just how many ways can a person die?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2010 12:07:27 GMT -8
Is there a name meaning "by the woods" or something similar to that?
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Post by Wham Bam I Am! Jam on Nov 27, 2010 13:14:03 GMT -8
To questions really:
1. What are some good Jazz songs? (I need both a happy/uplifting one and a sad/melancholic one.)
2. If a young woman, who plays a lot of tennis and sports, was to hit a grown man with a shovel in anger would it be enough to knock him out?
1. I'd say Gene Austin for happy and maybe look up Alan Silvestri for either. quote] Steal my idea, won't you?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2010 16:36:09 GMT -8
Okay, I'm writing a little side story to supplement my current work. It's a little legend about what happens when people die. They are taken by a psychopomp who is instructed with the responsibility to take the dead person's soul to the afterlife. There are only a set amount, one per type of death (they are many ways someone can be murdered, but there's only going to be one 'murdered' psychopomp, likewise there will only be one 'diseased' psychopomp) But.... just how many ways can a person die? It depend how vauge or how specific you want to be. Is there going to be only one Murdered psychopompor, or shall there be one for every possible murder method? Ect.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 27, 2010 16:56:23 GMT -8
Only one for "Murder". there would just be too many if I separated them by method.
Though now I have decided to include a "Death by stupidity" Psychopomp.
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Post by Story Keeper on Nov 27, 2010 16:59:17 GMT -8
I have a specific question. Was it the flashbulb camera that was invented first, or was there another kind beforehand?
Victorian/Georgian fanatics please help me!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2010 17:39:40 GMT -8
Only one for "Murder". there would just be too many if I separated them by method. Though now I have decided to include a "Death by stupidity" Psychopomp. This is all the ways to die I can think of; - Starvation - Drowning - Suffication - Choking - Blood-loss - Electrocution - Head injury - Heart attack - Shock - Laughter (yes it is possible) - Disease (even if you have one for each indivdual disease, that's too many to list) - Fallings from a great height bloody hell, there's just too many to list. That's a fraction. Just avoid saying the actual number of Psychopomps there are at all costs, okay? >.>
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Post by stormcat on Nov 27, 2010 17:45:34 GMT -8
Okay, looks like There are too many ways to die. So what if I were limit it by looking at it if each type of spirit was in need of a guardian. I've already got one for Children, and another for Terminally stupid, who else would need assistance?
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 27, 2010 18:35:10 GMT -8
I will probably be stealing this at some point because I like the concept, but I give you the Seven Deaths:
I.Murder (also including manslaughter) II.Act of Fate (unavoidable, a natural disaster or something similar) III.Act of Human Stupidity (always on the part of the deceased) IV.Accident (avoidable, but not the fault of the deceased) V.Time VI.Disease VII. Exposure/Starvation/Dehydration
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Post by reynard on Nov 27, 2010 18:44:06 GMT -8
I have a specific question. Was it the flashbulb camera that was invented first, or was there another kind beforehand?
Victorian/Georgian fanatics please help me! I did an essay once comparing a picture by Jacob Riis and Dorothea Lange. Looking back on what I typed, I can tell you that the camera came before the flash bulb. To be more precise, the invention wasn't really a flash bulb, but rather flash powder. At the time Jacob Riis took his famous set of pictures of the New York slums, including the picture I analyzed from 1888, Home of an Italian Ragpicker, flash powder was really new, had been invented in Germany, and even more recently around that time had been brought to the US. @ Sir Reilly: Babynames.com gives a short list of names with "woods" in their meaning. Adahy-Only a boy's name, of Native American origin, and means "timber/woods" Adohi-Only a boy's name, of Native American origin, means "of the woods" Arvid-A unisex name, of Scandinavian origin, means "Eagle of the woods, Brave Warrior" Boyce-Only a boy's name, of English origin, means "from the woods" Buzz-Only a boy's name, of American origin, means "village in the woods" Eastwood-Only a boy's name, of English origin, means "from the woods of the east" Forest-A unisex name, of English origin, means "from the woods" Forrest-Only a boy's name, of English origin, means "of the woods, forest" Horst-Only a boy's name, of German origin, means "man from the woods" Howea-A unisex name, of Native American origin, means "clearing in the woods" Norwood-Only a boy's name, of English origin, means "from the north woods" Silvijn-Only a boy's name, of Dutch origin, means "of the woods" Wood-Only a boy's name, of American origin, means "of the woods" Woodrow-Only a boy's name, of English origin, means "from the lane in the woods" Woods-Only a boy's name, of American origin, means "of the Woods" Woody-Only a boy's name, of American origin, means "from the lane in the woods" How are those?
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 27, 2010 18:49:43 GMT -8
They had photographs by the Civil War. If they weren't using flash powder back then, what were they using? Or was "two decades ago" considered "recent" back in the day?
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Post by stormcat on Nov 27, 2010 19:06:36 GMT -8
I will probably be stealing this at some point because I like the concept, but I give you the Seven Deaths: I.Murder (also including manslaughter) II.Act of Fate (unavoidable, a natural disaster or something similar) III.Act of Human Stupidity (always on the part of the deceased) IV.Accident (avoidable, but not the fault of the deceased) V.Time VI.Disease VII. Exposure/Starvation/Dehydration Where would stupidity fall into this? It's quite good really, I think I'll just bypass the Children's Psychopomp and have it so whatever the kid died of 'Eleanor' still escorts their soul to the afterlife.
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Post by reynard on Nov 27, 2010 19:07:24 GMT -8
They had photographs by the Civil War. If they weren't using flash powder back then, what were they using? Or was "two decades ago" considered "recent" back in the day? That's what I found in my research and what I wrote, that Jacob Riis was one of the first people to bring flash powder to the US by 1888, and that it had only just been invented in Germany. Further looking on Wikipedia would seem to confirm that. They say Riis was one of the first Americans to use flash, and that it had been invented in 1887. As for the Civil War, maybe they were using emulation of photographic plates. If the Wikipedia article is anything to go by, it was a photographic technique that existed before flash powder.
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 27, 2010 19:10:55 GMT -8
I will probably be stealing this at some point because I like the concept, but I give you the Seven Deaths: I.Murder (also including manslaughter) II.Act of Fate (unavoidable, a natural disaster or something similar) III.Act of Human Stupidity (always on the part of the deceased)IV.Accident (avoidable, but not the fault of the deceased) V.Time VI.Disease VII. Exposure/Starvation/Dehydration Where would stupidity fall into this? It's quite good really, I think I'll just bypass the Children's Psychopomp and have it so whatever the kid died of 'Eleanor' still escorts their soul to the afterlife. #3. Bolded for your convenience.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 27, 2010 19:21:24 GMT -8
Where would stupidity fall into this? It's quite good really, I think I'll just bypass the Children's Psychopomp and have it so whatever the kid died of 'Eleanor' still escorts their soul to the afterlife. #3. Bolded for your convenience. Oh... and suicide. Does that fall under murder or stupidity? Or should I make it so Death is confused so there is no psychopomp for suicide victims and they must find their own way to the afterlife?
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 27, 2010 19:31:42 GMT -8
#3. Bolded for your convenience. Oh... and suicide. Does that fall under murder or stupidity? Or should I make it so Death is confused so there is no psychopomp for suicide victims and they must find their own way to the afterlife? ' I think I could write a whole book based on that concept. I think I might try it. That's a really cool idea. Regardless, suicide isn't covered, no. Hmmm...If we split Exposure and Starvation/Dehydration and added suicide, it'd be nine, which is also a pretty cool number. We could also take stillbirth out of Act of Fate and get up to ten, and then we'd be only three shy of thirteen. EDIT: Alternatively, collapse Accidents and Acts of Fate together, and add suicide in to keep it at seven.
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Post by reynard on Nov 27, 2010 19:35:53 GMT -8
I think suicide would be either murder in a sense or stupidity in the right circumstances (say, Darwin Award material). Or it could be viewed as the product of depression or sloth, although sloth is a complicated subject.
As a stupidity/Darwin award example, there was a guy that killed himself when he was testing to see if a new jacket of his was stab-proof by stabbing the jacket while he was wearing it. The death was ruled "death by misadventure".
I mean, it's suicide, but that's different from someone so distraught that they would intend to take their own life.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 27, 2010 20:25:46 GMT -8
Regardless, suicide isn't covered, no. Hmmm...If we split Exposure and Starvation/Dehydration and added suicide, it'd be nine, which is also a pretty cool number. We could also take stillbirth out of Act of Fate and get up to ten, and then we'd be only three shy of thirteen. EDIT: Alternatively, collapse Accidents and Acts of Fate together, and add suicide in to keep it at seven. I'd create a whole separate category for the "unborn". So we've got: 1. Murder/manslaughter 2. Fate/ Accident 3. Stupidity (this psychopomp can be called "the Laughing ghost") 4. Suicide 5. Time 6. Disease 7. Neglect (Neglect to feed yourself, have shelter, drink) 8. The Unborn 9. Yeah... I'm going to have Eleanor as a special exception Since it doesn't matter how the kid died. What should I put for the ninth death? Hey! No stealing my idea!
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Post by Maldeus on Nov 27, 2010 20:35:33 GMT -8
You could have war be considered a separate category from murder/manslaughter.
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Post by Darth Sariah on Nov 27, 2010 20:36:54 GMT -8
They had photographs by the Civil War. If they weren't using flash powder back then, what were they using? Or was "two decades ago" considered "recent" back in the day? Wet plate Collodian process was the standard from 1851 into the Civil War. Best place to start research.
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Post by stormcat on Nov 27, 2010 20:44:05 GMT -8
You could have war be considered a separate category from murder/manslaughter. The Rules of War state you're not supposed to Kill civilians. But then again, who listens to the rules of war? I'm still keeping it as part of murder-death. Oh! I've got it! The ninth type is a special one. One who laid down their own life so another could live. Considered the most noble of all deaths, there can be a legend that anyone who manages to accomplish this will go straight to paradise when they die.
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Post by nchaos on Nov 27, 2010 22:16:52 GMT -8
Weird question, and it's not that important but does anyone know of slang that'd be used in Louisiana? I'm working on a short story based somewhere in Louisiana and I'd really like to try and get the dialogue as authentic-sounding as possible, without making it unreadable.
Also, does anyone know any ways to get a Southern inflection/accent subtly into dialogue?
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