Just In Case You Were Wondering

[Nihil Obstat]

For anyone who was wondering/interested/homicidal/wanting to kill me recently, yes, I have been significantly and notably stranger and more wacky than usual in the last week and a half. The reason for this is a magic combination of exams, studying, and caffeine.

Am I going to get marginally more boring when exams are over? Possibly, but I hope not. This is a lot of fun.


In the meantime, all inquiries as to my sanity and fitness to interact with society should be directed to my secretary, Maehara Shinobu.
[img]http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv189/Nihil_Obstat/shinobu_0801.jpg[/img]

Feel free to help yourself to coffee in the break room.
[img]http://n8ux.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/woot-copy.jpg[/img]


Btw: This stuff is super cool. Jolt Cola is gross, but the blue raspberry flavour is delectable.
[img]http://imstartintofeelit.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/jolt-blue-raspberry.jpg[/img]

Edited April 28, 2010 by Nihil Obstat

[Hilde]

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[aalpha1989]

[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/bounce.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/woot.gif[/img] CAFFEINE!!!! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/coffee.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/twitch.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/drool.gif[/img][img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/eek.gif[/img]



[img]http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac278/jshoulta/Espresso.jpg[/img]







[img]http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac278/jshoulta/espresso-1.jpg[/img]

[MIKolbe]

you're just a chump.

[CatherineM]

An advantage to being female is that we can blame such things on hormones.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

Wacky is good. We need more wacky. LOTS more wacky.

As for anime, I don't hate it, but I think it may take me some time to acquire a taste for it. So, you have my permission to continue.

Question: When I lie on the couch and read or use my laptop, I am facing West, and also facing my cats. Should I switch to the other side of the couch so that I am facing East? If I do, my male cat will also switch, so that I continue to face him. This would leave me facing one cat and with my back to the other. However, since I am facing East when I am preparing their food, and they face East while they are eating, does their directional orientation matter while they are sleeping?

Also, my cats take their food directly into their mouths without use of their paws. Am I setting a poor precedent by eating in a different manner than they do, that is, using my hands (and utensils)?

Please answer these questions in the most correct, yet concise manner possible. Use of textbooks or other authoritative sources is allowed. However, anime is not considered an authoritative source on this topic.

Proceed. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/teacher.gif[/img]

Caffeine in any form may be consumed while answering. However, please indicate whether caffeine has been consumed or not, so that the answer may be viewed in its proper context.

Edited April 28, 2010 by IgnatiusofLoyola

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='27 April 2010 - 08:17 PM' timestamp='1272417468' post='2101239']
Wacky is good. We need more wacky. LOTS more wacky.

As for anime, I don't hate it, but I think it may take me some time to acquire a taste for it. So, you have my permission to continue.

Question: When I lie on the couch and read or use my laptop, I am facing West, and also facing my cats. Should I switch to the other side of the couch so that I am facing East? If I do, my male cat will also switch, so that I continue to face him. This would leave me facing one cat and with my back to the other. However, since I am facing East when I am preparing their food, and they face East while they are eating, does their directional orientation matter while they are sleeping?

Also, my cats take their food directly into their mouths without use of their paws. Am I setting a poor precedent by eating in a different manner than they do, that is, using utensils?

Please answer this questions in the most correct, yet concise manner possible. Use of textbooks or other authoritative sources is allowed. However, anime is not considered an authoritative source on this topic.

Proceed. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/teacher.gif[/img]

Caffeine in any form may be consumed while answering. However, please indicate whether caffeine has been consumed or not, so that the answer may be viewed in its proper context.
[/quote]
Until finals time last semester, I also hated anime. Very vocally. Then, on a lark, I decided to watch an anime series. I did it to break exam stress. I'd study for a couple hours then watch an episode.
From there, it was already too late. Now it's a horrible secret that only a two people outside PM are aware of. (Literally)
I still hate on it outside PM. It's a study in cognitive dissonance.

To answer your question...... I think this picture will do just fine.
[spoiler][img]http://quakeulf.suxos.org/gallery/albums/colonthree/konata.jpg[/img] [/spoiler]

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='27 April 2010 - 08:22 PM' timestamp='1272417771' post='2101248']
Until finals time last semester, I also hated anime. Very vocally. Then, on a lark, I decided to watch an anime series. I did it to break exam stress. I'd study for a couple hours then watch an episode.
From there, it was already too late. Now it's a horrible secret that only a two people outside PM are aware of. (Literally)
I still hate on it outside PM. It's a study in cognitive dissonance.

To answer your question...... I think this picture will do just fine.
[/quote]

Your response is concise, but does not address the matter at hand. In addition, it ignores the tradition that anime does not qualify as an authoritative source.

Further, the question of caffeine consumed was not addressed, so your answer will be declared invalid.

P.S. That picture is godawful ugly. I can't even figure out what it represents.

[Hilde]

I strongly dislike anime. I like pokemon though, but pokemon is pokemon.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='27 April 2010 - 08:32 PM' timestamp='1272418346' post='2101266']
Your response is concise, but does not address the matter at hand. In addition, it ignores the tradition that anime does not qualify as an authoritative source.

Further, the question of caffeine consumed was not addressed, so your answer will be declared invalid.

P.S. That picture is godawful ugly. I can't even figure out what it represents.
[/quote]
I think they consider that a smug face, but with no attempt to make it realistic.

[MIKolbe]

i still think you're a chump.

[Jesus_lol]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='27 April 2010 - 06:43 PM' timestamp='1272419010' post='2101279']
I think they consider that a smug face, but with no attempt to make it realistic.
[/quote]

i think my avatar is better at being smug. and evil

[MIKolbe]

i got some rust...

i gotta use chump more often..

where's rexi when you need him?

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='27 April 2010 - 08:49 PM' timestamp='1272419375' post='2101288']
i got some rust...

i gotta use chump more often..

where's rexi when you need him?
[/quote]

Perhaps he is doing the research that Nihil has been asked to do regarding whether I should face East or ad felineium, and whether I may use my hands when eating, even if my cats do not do so.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='27 April 2010 - 08:47 PM' timestamp='1272419266' post='2101286']
i think my avatar is better at being smug. and evil [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]
[/quote]

You're right, it is better than Nihil's. But, both are too large.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='27 April 2010 - 08:54 PM' timestamp='1272419698' post='2101293']
Perhaps he is doing the research that Nihil has been asked to do regarding whether I should face East or ad felineium, and whether I may use my hands when eating, even if my cats do not do so.
[/quote]
Hikari finds your hypothesis to be unlikely at best.
[img]http://users1.ml.mindenkilapja.hu/users/agylebonto/uploads/special-a-01-large-08.jpg[/img]

Yoichi, however, is pondering thoughtfully.
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2436/3552934466_278061b97c.jpg[/img]

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='27 April 2010 - 09:02 PM' timestamp='1272420165' post='2101303']
Hikari finds your hypothesis to be unlikely at best.
[img]http://users1.ml.mindenkilapja.hu/users/agylebonto/uploads/special-a-01-large-08.jpg[/img]


[/quote]

Who's the woman in the background? What kind of university are you attending, anyway? If that is a sample of Canadian women, then Canadian women are skewry.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='27 April 2010 - 09:07 PM' timestamp='1272420444' post='2101308']
Who's the woman in the background? What kind of university are you attending, anyway? If that is a sample of Canadian women, then Canadian women are skewry.
[/quote]
She's supposed to be Japanese, but apparently in anime, everybody is white.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='27 April 2010 - 09:25 PM' timestamp='1272421552' post='2101324']
She's supposed to be Japanese, but apparently in anime, everybody is white. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]
[/quote]

Hmmm, interesting. I have an old college classmate who now lives in Tokyo and does the Japanese to English translations for anime films and Japanese sci-fi novels. I keep meaning to watch the films he translated, but I keep forgetting. He says he really doesn't like Japanese sci-fi that much, but it pays the bills.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='27 April 2010 - 09:31 PM' timestamp='1272421899' post='2101331']
Hmmm, interesting. I have an old college classmate who now lives in Tokyo and does the Japanese to English translations for anime films and Japanese sci-fi novels. I keep meaning to watch the films he translated, but I keep forgetting. He says he really doesn't like Japanese sci-fi that much, but it pays the bills.
[/quote]
Sounds cool. I haven't seen any sci-fi stuff either.