September 14
I woke up just before Meghan's alarm clock, and we snuggled until she said that she had to get up, and we both had to be kind of quiet because Amy was still sleeping in her bed.
We kissed goodbye, and she went into the shower and I went back to my room and quietly got dressed in my flight gear, 'cause Peggy was sleeping, too. And then I went out to Pebble Beach and called the airplane directors and said that I was flying to the Nature Center again, and she gave me permission if I stayed low.
This time when I came around to land in the pasture, I stayed close to the river and didn't spook the deer. And when I was going around the trail, I made sure to walk on the northern side of the trail, so they wouldn't get scared. On the third time around, they were gone, so either they'd gotten done eating or something else had scared them off.
By the time landed back at campus, I was pretty well lathered, and when I went in the bathroom Kat was already in the shower so I went to our room to get out of my flight gear.
Peggy was awake but still in bed, looking at her portable telephone. So I nuzzled her, and then said that I was going to the shower and if she wanted to take one before breakfast she could join me, and she thanked me for offering but she'd wait until after breakfast.
There weren't waffles or omelets this morning; they just had the basic breakfast food that they always had. And when I'd gotten some scrambled eggs and fruit and a small bowl of shredded wheat cubes I asked if they'd ever had a special breakfast like they had special dinners sometimes and Christine said that they hadn't and she hoped that they never did because changing a morning breakfast routine only led to a day of regret.
Sean agreed, and he said that he liked having mostly the same thing for breakfast. And he said that there were occasional changes, but it mostly stayed the same menu every morning and he thought that was for the best, too.
Now that everyone in class knew that we had to wait for another class to leave, there wasn't as much of a line outside the classroom, and I hadn't been standing around for very long before the class before ours ended and everyone left. Once the door was clear, we went in, and I sat in the same seat I had before.
When Lisa sat next to me, I thought about how I knew two Lisas, and maybe I should give them an extra name to tell them apart. But I guess when I was talking to one of them about the other, it wouldn't be confusing, probably.
Professor Brown started off by telling us the four laws of thermodynamics, and I thought it was really funny that the first was numbered zero. Then we learned about the different types of system, which were open, closed, and isolated. And that was important to know when you did calculations, because if you were wrong about what it was, the math wouldn't work or it would give you a wrong result. And then he said that there usually weren't a lot of variables, and explained how it was important to know if your system was homogenous or heterogenous, and I knew about that because when you had a clump of clouds it was all cloud, but when you started putting them in the sky then they became a mixed system and so you had to think about that when you were doing your calculations.
Humans probably didn't have standard tables for that but we did.
He also said that if you had a system with only one component like water, you needed the number of moles, the phase, and two variables, but it didn't matter which two. And I had to ask him what a mole was, 'cause I didn't think he was talking about the kind that make little dirt tunnels when they're looking for worms.
One student in the class snickered when I asked, but Professor Brown said that the mole was a measure of quantity, and he could explain after class more specifically exactly what the quantity was.
Then we learned about it going from one equilibrium state to another and how you had to know the path you took to get there, because some kinds of paths were reversible and it worked both ways and other paths it didn't, or it couldn't without a lot of extra work added into the system. Which was something weatherponies knew all about, 'cause the cloud-pushers always wound up flying their tails off whenever someone in the weather office made a mistake. And there were a lot of definitions that we needed to know, so I paid lots of attention to those.
After class was over, he told me out in the hallway what a mole was, and what Avogadro's number was, and he said that it must be difficult for me to use units I wasn't familiar with at all, and I admitted that it was. But I was figuring them out, and I knew that a lot of times it didn't matter anyways as long as you kept measuring the same thing throughout the entire equation. I could invent a heat scale called Silvers and assign my values however I wanted, and as long as I kept the scale constant I could use it in equations.
When I went to lunch, I looked around for Cedric and Leon and Trevor but I didn't see them, so I got my food and went to our usual table. Sean and Christine were involved in an argument about Star Trek and Star Wars, so I sat next to Peggy and we talked about snowboarding. She said that it wouldn't be too long before there was snow in the mountains in Colorado and it had been a little weird to her how when she'd come to Kalamazoo it had taken so long before there was any snowfall, even though she'd kind of known to expect it. And she said that she'd heard that it was going to be a snowy year, and then she wanted to know if I could bring a snowcloud down and make just a little patch of snow on the grass.
I wasn't sure if that would work, but it would be interesting to try.
When Sean and Christine had settled their debate, we walked to math class together, and he asked if I had my calculator with me, and I said that I had it and my weather wheel.
Professor Pampena started us out by reminding us about what vectors were, just in case anybody had forgotten over the summer, and what symbols used to draw and define them. It wasn't the same as we did it in Equestria, but the basic concept was the same.
As I was drawing out the letters with hats, I got to thinking how Cayenne probably knew this, too, and lots of other ponies did, and maybe there was an Earth-math club back in Equestria which would be pretty fun.
He gave us a problem to start, which made me happy. It was more fun to be challenged while you were learning instead of just sitting and being talked to. And it was a really easy problem, so I didn't even have to write anything down to solve it, then he reminded us how to add vectors together, and that was pretty easy too, but he drew a picture on the markerboard anyway just so that everyone understood what he was doing.
He said that when you multiplied vectors together, that was called a dot product, 'cause he used a dot to say that he was multiplying, and that gave a scalar. And he showed us how it worked geometrically, and then he proved it first and by the time he was done he'd filled the entire markerboard with his equations and then he had to wait until everyone had finished writing it down before he could erase the board and continue on.
What I thought was really nice was while he was done explaining it he told us what we could use it for, and that was something that some of my teachers had never done, and sometimes it was hard to pay attention to something when you didn't know it would be the foundation of something else later on. It was a lot easier to just go out and shove around clouds without really understanding how you got them to do exactly what you wanted.
So we could use them to compute lengths and angles, and he drew another problem and I worked it out before he was done explaining it. It was pretty basic, though; there wasn't any number bigger than two in the coordinates.
And then he gave us another question, where we had to figure out what a set of points made, like a plane or a sphere and that was pretty basic, too, and most people figured it out. It was a little bit discouraging that class was starting out so simple, but it was smarter to start out simply and make sure that everyone understood before moving on to more complicated things.
Class went by a lot quicker than I thought it would, and after we'd solved that problem and discussed it a little bit for people who had got it wrong, Professor Pampena said that we were done and we'd continue with where we'd left off on Friday.
I had time to write in my journal and also to read Jonah, which I really liked. God told him to go prophesy against Nineveh because they'd made Him mad but Jonah didn't want to so he got on a boat and fled instead. And then after he'd been at sea for a while a terrible storm came up and when the crew found out it was Jonah's fault, they threw him overboard. The storm stopped and a huge fish swallowed Jonah.
When he was inside the fish, he asked God to forgive him, and so God had the fish vomit him onto dry land, so he went to Nineveh like he was supposed to, and everyone there believed him, and they changed their ways and so God forgave them too.
Jonah was mad about that, and he sat outside and sulked and God grew up a plant to shade him then the next day he had a worm eat it, and Jonah was mad about that, too, but I think that God was right and Jonah should have been happy that God had forgiven him and let him out of the fish, and that everyone in Nineveh had changed their ways and God had forgiven them, too.
At dinner, me and Sean were talking about math and science, and he laughed when I said that I didn't know what a mole was, so I asked if anyone had a piece of paper and a pen, and when Christine gave them to me, I drew out the same equation that we'd done in calculus but I used Equestrian math symbols, and asked him to solve it, 'cause I knew he'd gotten it correct in class.
Well, of course he couldn't, and then he passed the paper around and nobody else could make any sense of it, either. Christine said that Aba looked like a monkey fucking a coconut, and I guess it kind of did. It wasn't my fault—the unicorns had decided to use their symbols for math and now we were stuck with them.
So then I solved it for him and turned it into human numbers and moved things around so that they were in the human order, too, and he said that wasn't fair, so I stuck out my tongue at him. And I thought it would be funny to translate one problem on my first math paper and then work it out in Equestrian and translate my answer back. I think that Professor Pampena would like that.
I left dinner a little early than I would have just so that I wouldn't be late, and I got my lab coat and I could have put it on I guess but it wasn't very comfortable so I just draped it across my back and then I went down to the parking lot to wait, 'cause I knew that they'd be there pretty soon.
Well, we had to go all the way into Parchment and the road the seamstress lived on was called Random Road, which I thought was pretty funny. She lived in a little red house on the north side of the road, and Miss Cherilyn knocked and pretty soon a heavy woman came to the door and she was really excited to see me 'cause I was the first pony she'd ever seen up close, and she said that her name was Christina.
She led us down into her basement and it was kind of crowded with everyone there and her piles of fabric for sewing and she also had some dress forms but of course they were shaped like a person and not a pony, and they were only the torso, which I thought was weird.
She had to take lots of measurements and a couple of times I saw Mister Salvatore get tense 'cause I guess he didn't like her getting that close to me and measuring around under my barrel and everything so I don't think he'd like going to the salon with me very much either.
And then I had to do it again but this time with the coat on and she pinned parts of it in place and she had me move around a little bit to see how I moved, 'cause it's no good making clothes that you can't move around in.
She trimmed some of it of and re-pinned it and then I had to try again, and eventually she was happy with how it was fitting, and she said that she'd give Mister Salvatore a call when she was done sewing it up, and he reminded her that I needed it for Tuesday.
When we were back in Sienna, I asked if we could stop somewhere to buy scrunchies for my mane, 'cause I was supposed to have it pulled back and we drove a little bit out of our way to go to a Dollar General and they didn't have all that many but I found one that I liked and Miss Cherilyn said I ought to get a couple because scrunchies had a way of going missing, so I picked out a couple more.
On our way back to campus, Mister Salvatore said that he was still negotiating with the tornado team but so far he didn't have anything to report. He said that they had a bunch of things already planned and he wasn't sure if there was any way he could change the schedule but he wasn't going to give up yet; maybe we'd just have to go meet them.
I was really happy he was putting that much effort into it—he could have just said no—and I would have hugged him but he was driving.
He let me out behind Trowbridge and that was when I got my chance. He stopped Sienna and opened the sliding door to let me out and so I just wrapped my hooves around him and then I let go and hopped out of the van and went inside.
This time, I got together my flight gear, but while I did, I was thinking about Peggy and I wondered if it bothered her that if I kept up this schedule I'd never be sleeping in our room and she'd be roommates with an empty bed, and I didn't think that was fair to her. So I had to figure something out, but by the time I got to Aric's I hadn't thought of anything. I could have Aric or Meghan come to my room sometimes but I wasn't sure that Peggy would like that if it became a regular thing.
I didn't have to come up with an answer right away, but it would be smart to think about it now.
I let myself in with the key that was under the mat, cause I could see through the front window that everyone was sitting on the couch watching a movie. It was called pi, and it was kind of about math the main character was trying to figure out a number that everyone thought explained everything and then he drilled a hole in his head because he thought it would let the numbers get out of his head. I didn't like that very much, and when we went upstairs Aric said that David had picked the movie and he liked strange movies and strange bands and Aric wasn't sure if he was a genius or just plain crazy.
I wasn't sure either. But he was nice, and I liked both him and Angela.
And I'd never asked David if he had a Prince Albert. I should have done that while we were sitting on the couch, because I think that would have made Aric a little uncomfortable and that would have been funny.
We snuggled and talked in bed for a little while, and he reminded me that he had to go back to Lafayette this weekend to finish things up there and so I'd have to survive without him for the weekend, and I said that I was going to Rockford to watch the football team play, and we probably wouldn't get back until late anyway.
He said that we'd better make tonight last until Monday, and I thought that was a good idea, too.
Frost has a really amazing play about Jonah. A Masque of Mercy.
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It's funny, because the only part of the story I knew--thanks to Vacation Bible School--was that he got swallowed by a whale because he was trying to run away from God. The part where God forgave Nineveh and then Jonah became a little bh about it was new to me, and that's really the most important part of the story, in't it?
ICR who said it, but someone said "A man who knows what to do will always have a job, the man who know why it is done that way will always be his boss."
As to making her own system, basically that is what everyone else did, so why not. The only halfway sensible system is Kelvin because in that system zero is absolute zero.
If Silver looks on the internet she will find The Devil Went Down to Georgia & The Devil and Daniel Webster
LOCAL MICHIGAN TAILOR PRICKS PEGASUS
Guess they aren't getting any sleep.
Unwelcome line break!
Missing a period here.
I wanna try! I wanna, I wanna!
Is this realization the result of you starting to keep track of characters?
Huh, I guess SG has never had chemistry? No need, I suppose, but most people who take calculus, physics, and thermodynamics have had chemistry.
I understood that reference.
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There's also the Rankine scale, which also starts at absolute zero but has degrees sized the same as Fahrenheit degrees. And yes, there are people who use it.
That's got to be a Quantum Castaways reference.
I know I've said it before, but I really want to see a companion story about the human Silver is exchanged with.
7727979 one day, Canada will come and throw out that battery acid starbucks calls coffee, and put a timmies on every corner! Noone will watch a boring sport like baseball, everyone will watch hockey! And we will teach manners to every American!
I'm sorry!
It was so nice to see Quantum Castaways update. Don't tell me that you hadn't read it before.
Our Feeb friend strikes me as someone that doesn't take no for an answer. Especially if it makes Silver happy... I think he tries to spoil her like a grandchild.
P.S. The QC update has now moved Onto the Pony Planet into position for the #1 fic I'm waiting to see update.
Someone reads Quantum Castaways.
So Admiral if your interested. Differences between thermal physics and engineering thermodynamics so far.
Engineering never explicitly dealt with isolated systems. We did stuff with them, but it was viewed as an approximation, a simplification, or when outside effects were negligible.
Engineering didn't cover homogeneous vs heterogeneous systems.
Engineering was way more likely to use mass instead of moles.
English units never seemed to get this. I had a thermodynamics problem that involved 4 different units that all measured the same thing.
I still say that's sacrilige.
I always love how we just say it has a hat instead of using the actual term.
forgot cross product, which returns a non scalar value.
Silver you devious bastard. I love it. I've done stuff like that before, it's pretty effective.
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Ninevah is bad. The Assyrians are the nazis of Jonah's world. God cares about the housewives of Ninevah, even they, and Jonah can't stand it.
But it's not principles or anything. He's literally just as mad about that damn tree.
Jonah, like us, talks a big game about mercy but then he'll unleash all of his hate over even the pettiest of things.
With the heavy maths you feature in this story, I thought you might find this clip interesting. (Maybe even Quite Interesting.)
Im useless at advanced math, because its all new languages, and I failed English as a native. I mean, I can get my head round the idea of the basics, and realise I need to type this function, then this function, then this function into a calculator or scripting language to get the computer to do it, but I cant follow it myself because the cheat sheet is too large to remembere where it is Im looking for, before I forget what it is I want.
Many are the scientist that looks at the Equestrian Portal, and scream heresy because it wont fit the standard model, instead of saying, so like Newton to Relativity, Standard Model is the simplified base of the Extended Model. So whats the minimum extension needed that when energy is zero, gives the Standard Model? Please dont be a variable speed of light, please dont be a variable speed of light.
Dammit. its a variable speed of light isnt it. I dont care that it allows a continous rotation from General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, I hate the mere idea of a variable speed of light.
Trouble is, Average Scientist, The Universe Doesnt Care What You Believe.
The First Rule on any Proposal is,
Where Am I Wrong.
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Try a Scottish single malt whisky then. Either you don't like it, or you'll fall irrevocably in love with it. Base flavour is lightly smoked grain + all kinds of different notes.
And... you don't mix that with anything. ANYTHING!
And you don't drink it on ice. Never. Ever. That completely kills all the complex the flavours. Room temperature or only a little cooler.
And you drink it in slow sips. Have a Scottish ale to accompany it (if you can get that).
That out of the way, if smooth stuff is your thing: start with a Speyside (that's a region, not a brand).
If you're more for rough and smoky, go for a Highlands & Islands variety.
Irish whisky often has a base flavour of light caramel for some reason. I like Jameson - especially together with a pint of Guiness.
And I haven't got a clue about American whiskeys. Only tried a cheap and nasty one so far, but there have to be good ones as well.
Yeah, I'm a whisky nerd. Sorry. Sláinte!
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I may be wrong but I think she probably had chemistry, I think the point is that because she had her education on Equestria either
1) she doesn't recognize the name "moles" because Equestrian use other term for it
2) chemistry in Equestria isn't advanced enough that they need to use moles, maybe their chemistry is more like "alchemy" knowing and learning how elements interact between them but withouth explanations on a molecular level.
Oh, I would use a scale called Silvers for saying how hot something is. But I think I would be meaning another kind of heat....
Also :/ It's a shame that Silver is gonna be taking only hard mathemathical classes. For us that don't have any passion for the numbers it's gonna be a bummer to read so much about equations and such. I hope in the next season she takes at least one class more in the social type, like he did with poetry or filosophy.
Ohhhhh... the internet just broadens one's potential target pool...
I've heard of at least one person who managed to persuade someone - over the internet, mind you - that there were no computers in South Africa and electricity was practically unknown. Despite the fact that the conversation was being carried out by computer.
(Mind you, some of the stuff that's true is pretty unbelievable. We have a whole class of plants here that actually require regular wildfires once every few years...)
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I've always liked the joke version of the first, second and third:
"You can't win. You can't break even. You can't even get out of the game."
And somewhere in Equestria Twilight Sparkle just got a chill down her back, and she doesn't know why.
Much Hype.
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Whiskey in coffee is always good. In cola, too. However, Jack Daniels is nasty, sharp, caustic stuff, only good for marinating meat and disinfecting cuts and scrapes. So don't ask for a "Jack and Coke." Try Jim Beam and RC Cola instead.
Never use ice. I've heard mixed responses to the use of whiskey stones.
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Well, that's the way it hopefully works, although I've been in some jobs where the opposite was true.
Silvers ought to be a proper measurement of temperature.
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Sleep is for the weak.
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Corrections made; thank you!
Can you imagine how different an alien system of math, in a different base, would be from ours?
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It was one of those things that I always knew, but never really thought about until I wrote the list.
She has, but ponies wouldn't call them moles, and would probably use a different number anyways. Carbon-12 is a fairly arbitrary substance to use as the basis of your definition.
I'm so happy it updated. Twilight + Marshall is one of the best human/pony pairings (if not the best).
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I'm still holding out for Silvers to catch on.
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It is!
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I have considered such a project. It wouldn't be nearly as comprehensive; I don't think I could do this twice.
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I, for one, would welcome our new Canadian overlords.
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It was one of the stories that inspired me to write good HiE.
He does. Besides beating up people when he gets the chance, making his pony happy is the other most rewarding part of his job.
It will be a little while yet . . . I still need to get caught up on comments and finish Stained Glass.
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Such a great story. That's one of those stories that I can keep re-reading, too.
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I feel like that's one of those things that separates the theoreticians from the engineers. IRL, there are no ideal gasses, so you don't really care what they do; you want to know what steam is going to do in your boiler.
Oh man, why would you even do that?
What, the weather wheel? I think everyone ought to have one. I bought one (although it's calibrated in base-10).
What is the actual term? Because I honestly don't know.
Never make fun of somebody who's not only as smart as you, but also knows an entire system of math that you don't know.
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This is a lesson that lots of people need to learn.
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So what I get from this is that in America we have game shows where you have to remember trivia about celebrities, whereas in England there are game shows where you need to know fundamental principles of mathematics. No wonder we're such a backwoods culture.
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I mean, just imagine this thing shows up. Let's say that it looks like a Stargate, and presto, a couple of unicorns pop out, and they're doing magic with their horns. Everyone's freaking out, and there's some physicist watching and the first thing he's thinking is 'what would happen if we used that TK in a particle accelerator? How does this relate to Einsteinian Relativity? Are they accessing some of the extra dimensions that string theory suggests?'
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Yes, and probably also some of 2. My thought is that the ponies are just on the very edge of understanding the molecular level of things--that's new science to them.
Also worth noting, in a place like Equestria, the line between (what we think of as) alchemy and chemistry would be a very fuzzy line. There are probably spells and potions that can transform lead to gold, for example.
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"That horse is a seven on the Silver Scale."
She'll be picking up some other stuff in her free time, because she's also going to figure out that ponies cannot thrive on numbers alone.
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To be fair, most Americans have no knowledge about Africa whatsoever, except that there are lions there. I bet if I asked my co-worked what continent the Egyptian pyramids were on, he'd get it wrong.
There are some of those in Australia, too, IIRC, and there's at least one pine tree in the US whose cones only open to drop seeds after a fire.
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They should have just written the laws like that.
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Can you imagine her frustration that all the Earth-math is wrong?
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Given that in my headcanon, ponies still use lots of symbols in their language rather than spelling things out, I'm now imagining how many misunderstandings there were when they were learning things like Japanese or Chinese, or other similar languages.
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Just don't put your Jim Beam in a lake and then set it on fire.
Y'know, I never considered that there might be a problem pony friendship magic: too many friends. Maybe that's just a sign that Silver is well on her way to ascension, and becoming the... um... alicorn Princess of Humans and Maths.
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"I like the Silver Scale, but I always felt Silver was too harsh in her ratings. Look at the curve of that neck. Look at those flowing fetlocks. Look at those rippling haunches! Whin-ney! That's a solid 9.5 if ever I've seen one." -Princess Celestia
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Well, wasn't that sort of the lesson in the third episode? If you've only got two tickets and five friends, you're gonna have a bad time. I guess when you've got lots of friends, you've just go to learn to manage your time well so that you don't disappoint any of them.
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Pretty much a ten, here.
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Huh. Looks like an Akhal Teke, but it doesn't look like and Akhal Teke.
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I'm not sure what it is, to be honest.
Oh, also, I learned this useful tidbit: you probably know that you can breed zebras with regular horses to get something that looks like a zebra with the temperament of a regular horse (hopefully, that is; I assume you can also get a normal-looking horse with the temperament of a zebra).
I had never stopped to consider what might happen if you bred a zebra with a Clydesdale.
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Fragment, consider revising.
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Honestly, it's the kind of thing Silver Glow would say, even if it's a fragment. She loves run-on sentences, too.
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Only non-sanctioned dumbass move I've had in labs is one idiot that decided to show off electrical resistance heating. By sticking each end of a paperclip in an outlet to complete the circuit, freaking out when it started to glow red, and trying to pull it back out. He got a nice burn that way.
Pony is so cute and nervictied for school
Peggy needs to wake up to watch pony snacking off a hay box, must not miss that cuteness.
If a Roc burst into the dining room, there's be bigger issues then just your breakfast getting interrupted.
Well, you can feel the change in the air currents Silver. Not sure humans can, at least to the degree you can anyway.
Also clever pony is clever, making a nice little carry bag for all her stuff.
Naughty Silver, just assuming something is allowed because you want to make waffles, silly pony. Again love her and her mindset, it's so... real. She's very lawful and obedient, but not obsessed with it to the point she'll learn all the rules for everything unless she's told she should. If she knows them, she'll follow them, but also not worry about those she doesn't.
Hmmm, someone load up her breakfast with sugar, let's see if we can get her literally bouncing off walls, cause we know she could!
God is turning into a broken record, it's all "Punish this" and "You are bad" that.
Smart pone is smart, and really really good at pattern recognition. Doubt most people would be able to figure out how a building is set up just by a few minutes of looking at the room numbers. Want to get her on a ship and see how long it takes her to figure out the compartment numbering pattern, since it's pretty simple and makes sense.. (Each one has a designation painted visibly on the wall, following a x-x-x-x pattern. Like say, 2-40-1-L First number is the deck it's on, with a 0 in front for levels (Decks count down from the main deck, level count up), Second number is the frame, so how far back the space is going by what frame the foremost wall lines up with (Frames are about 4' apart). Third is how far off center line, with 0 being right in the center, number counting up as you go further off, odds on starboard, evens on port, and the letter tells you what type of space it is 'L' being for living quarters/berthing. So just from that number, you know the space is a berthing or lounge on the second deck, about 160 feet back from the bow, and just to the starboard side of the ship but still near the center.)
Also very, very smart pone, taking smart classes that do help with dealing with weather.
I'm not sure most people would know 'the best place to sit' or care, but d'awww wanting to sit near friends.
Having pop culture jokes go right over your head, #ponyproblems.
"Who wants to burn stuff?" I like him! Silver gets best teachers. Also had a guy like him for chemistry,dude had been there since the school opened and was head of the science department, so could do whatever the hell he wanted more or less. First day of class, he bought a huge beaker full of alcohol into the class, dumped it on a lab desk, tossed a match on it and said "That is a chemical reaction".
HEY! No fair! Pony can't help it if her race makes physics curl up in a corner and weep.
Obedient little book buying pony, no putting things off for her.
YAY! Fun time football trip with pony!
Hmmm, don't know dude, from what we've seen, Silver might actually love math more then you do.
I'm pretty sure EVERYONE on that campus knows about birdy-pone by now.
D'awww just again her phrasing. "I closed my eyes and then I fell asleep." so.. simple, but not stupid. Also best surprise!
I thought you said you ordered Pizza? Papa John's is NOT Pizza
D'awww just, so worried about everyone and not wanting to make anyone miss her, she really does need some clones.
And pony knows whose in charge here and who has to just stay there and let pony have her fun.
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Same for History and Extra History
the aforementioned chemistry teacher also kind of did this every year. Not a balloon, but he'd get a coffee can and fill it with hydrogen, poke a hole in the top, and set fire to it just right to blow up the can. To show how few shits he gave, he did this one year, on a day when there'd been a bomb threat called into the school.
Evil little insatiable pony
Lazy pony is lazy, and adorable. Also truly alien to all human mindsets, as she finds math homework fun.
And so the bird feeder thievery has returned, but Aric seems to simply accept it as something that will happen.
Except she flew off campus without her gear all the time while staying low enough, so why worry about that now?
Dumb fish no care if I nom them, so it's alright!
And here we see Agent Glow's recon instincts take over as she surveys the area from perspectives humans would not think of.
Yes, bring down cloud for adorable pega perch!
Again, silly humans, this would go so much easier if you just shared shower time. Ideal pony shower room is just one of those totally open squares with a bunch of shower heads jutting out of the walls.
Hmmm, Silver remembering a bit of her Chaos Theory class in seeing how the shower schedule orders itself?
All humans remember how to serve pony! Especially Omelette making humans! They shall be well placed among the servitors.
Im sure there are many that would have loved to been born a pony Silver.
And going for the old school viscous, bloodthristy beats style of unicorn I see.
Maybe just a BIIIIT of over thinking.
I'm sure Pinkie has tossed rings on horns at some point.
Silver, you are so adorably literal. 'Pull my own weight'
No idea how flammable she is, nice way of putting it.
Built in protective lenses, #pegaperks
You can also tell the pyro's by them being the ones staring at the fire chanting "Burn, burn, burn it all!"
Well, can't blame the pony for never seeing the clothing section.
Correct, not all can yet drop everything to serve pony, so call the person whose job it is to do just that.
Yes, Human's know a lot about space, but ponies are able to turn them into a sobbing, nervous wreck for how little sense they make compared to what we 'know'.
Of course pony will be at extra trip for fun!
Disappointed class let out early... super mega ultra nerd!
Well, snuggles are still good, and again showing how much better these two are together then her and Aric, since, they can just snuggle and be perfectly happy simply being near each other, never get the feeling from Aric.
I want a herd of Silver's to invade the campus chanting 'Snuggles Snuggles Snuggles!'
Well, could bring a cloud down for a bit of privacy.... Or, be a pegasus and find some out of the way spot.
Hey, Bell Choir is back, yay!
Staying up for hours just chatting with freinds, how perfect for Pony.
And then ending with utterly adawwwwable cuddles.
Followed by adorable no deer scaring pony.
Noooooooooooo! No waffles OR omelettes? Worst! Morning! EVAR!
Gotta agree, steady, reliable breakfast is great. Other meals, sure, but breakfast, not much variety needed.
Deep Pony Thoughts, how to tell two humans apart when talking when they have the same name.
Yay for Zeroth Laws! When you find out important stuff that needs to come before established numbers, but don't want to renumber everything. See also, "War Doctor" to avoid THAT massive headache.
I'm sure humans would LOVE to see those 'standard tables' Silver.
You are right, not that kind of 'mole'.
As always, shit rolls down hill, and when the khaki fuck up, it's the blue shirts that have to bust their ass fixing it. See also, Muddy Sunday. Not sure if I told THAT sea story yet or not. But it was the first time since WWII an American Carrier has gone dead in the water.
"Silvers" needs to be a rating of innocent cutorableness.
And yes, Cayenne would know all this. She's also a nerd, but a very slutty nerd.
Earth Math Club, well Twilight would approve, and Pinkie would show up, because, Pinkie. Not sure how many more would enjoy it.
Well, can't fault it's better to be thinking and woring on it then just being lectured at, and we all know Celestia agrees with that one.
Jonah, the book of the bible ponies are most likely to go "Yeah, that makes sense" for.
Hey, and it breaks the streak, a town that instantly surrenders it's free will to obey every whim and decree from a 'higher being' without needing to be slaughtered first.
Silver,even for a pony, you are a bit TOO far into the 'Lawful' spectrum at times. Just because someone with more power/authority then you says do something, does not mean it's a good thing to do it.
Do not taunt happy nerd pony, she will destroy your ass, WITH MATHEMATICS!
Well, monkey fucking a coconut.... okay then.
Dump unicorns insisting on a standardized numerical system.
Silver has to be used to the "OMG PONY! reaction from people.
He does care about his pony, and yeah, hate to see his reaction to being at a salon where a person he's never seen before is waving lots of sharp, pointy objects around Silver's face.
Pony,scrunchies....... TOO MUCH CUTENESS!
Silver, that would have been the cutest car wreck ever if you had hugged him. But fear not, Pony Hugs will not be denied!
Pi..... yeah Pony would not get that movie..... NO ONE gets that movie! And... oh fuck, scary thought, Pinkie Pie watching David Lynch movies.... and you find out she understand them perfectly and can easily convey the meaning of them to others. PURE MADNESS!
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I’ve also gotten a nice burn that way, although what I was trying to do (diagnose a circuit) should have worked differently than it did.
She is.
Oh, it totally is.
“Nom nom nom . . . Oh, do you want some too?”
Yes, there would.
Totally true. I suppose in some ways she can ‘see’ them almost, I guess sort of like a bat can ‘see’ sonar.
I bet ponies are pretty good at improving that kind of stuff, what with the lack of hands and all.
I once read that there are two different ways of interpreting laws. One is that if it’s not specifically forbidden, it’s allowed; the other that is unless it’s specifically allowed, it’s illegal. I think that pony society trends towards the first . . . American society certainly does, too.
That would be equal parts horrifying and awesome. Like, imagine a bird in a building trying to get out, and now imagine that it’s a pony.
Pretty much the theme of the OT, to be honest.
Although in most cases they’re simple in buildings: the first digit or two is the floor number, and the rooms start at one end or a central point and ascend from there.
Want to get her on a ship and see how long it takes her to figure out the compartment numbering pattern, since it's pretty simple and makes sense..
GM has eight digit part numbers that as far as I can determine are randomly assigned.
Ford has 11 digit part numbers in this format: 3L4Z-342B5-AB. IIRC, the first four numbers are a model code (i.e., Ford Focus, Ford F-150, etc.); the set of five is the part (and those are logically arranged, too), and the last two are revision number. AA is the first, and then they count up from there, so if it’s been revised a lot it might be -AF or something. Chrysler has a sort of system that crosses between GM and Ford’s, and I have no idea what any of the other automakers do, since I don’t deal with them enough.
She’s not just at college to hang out with her friends and learn stuff about humans; she’s learning things that will help her one day be a weather supervisor of some sort. Presumably in the field, since I don’t see Silver ever getting herself tied down to a desk.
I dunno, depending on the class (and the availability of seats) I picked back if I knew I was going to want to snooze in the class, and front if I was kissing up to the professor or knew it was a class I was going to really like.
On the flip side, the humans in Equestria are probably getting blindsided with pony memes and pop culture jokes and innuendo all the time.
I never took enough chem classes to have a professor light shit on fire. Which is a shame. But! Here’s a fun school story:
Back in high school, I had a chemistry teacher named Ms. Slaughter. Heavyset angry black woman. We were allowed to have a 3x5 notecard as a crib sheet for the final, and she said very specifically that if anybody wanted to borrow it, to make them buy it.
Well, I got the bright idea of typing one up, and then using a photocopier to reduce it to the appropriate size, and then to sell them. So I did.
I got caught and hauled down to the principal’s office, where I said just what she’d told me.
Now, we both know than nine out of ten teachers would throw a student under the bus in a situation like that, but she said that that was exactly what she’d told us in class, and hinted that I was smart for taking her at her word, and so I didn’t get in any trouble at all.
And once again, looking at the other side, human tech is probably very confusing to the ponies.
She’s a good pony.
Football games are always better with ponies, unless of course it’s the Super Bowl <---more shameless self-promotion
I don’t know if she loves it more than he does. Probably not, since she’s not angling to become a math professor.
I should hope so.
You could do worse. Back in the day, Domino’s was way worse (but now it’s pretty decent, so I feel bad making fun of it).
I don’t think the world is ready for more than one Silver Glow.
It’s really amazing how much the internet has changed learning . . . and how many people are depressingly bad at it.
Oh man . . . these days, that’s a bad idea.
We had a math teacher like that. I never had the guy (which was a shame). He liked going down to smoke (since you weren’t allowed to do that in the classroom any more) and he’d stand below the window of the class and shout questions up to the students.
Pony’s gotta get some.
There is fun to be had in math, I’m sure. At least the people at Numberphile enjoy it, which I suppose proves that someone does.
How can he stop his marefriend from stealing sunflower seeds whenever she wants to?
Uh . . . option one is that I forgot; option two is now that she’s toured airplane factories and space command and flown airplane simulators and has a degree in standing in a wind tunnel and has worked with the tornado ponies she’s got a greater appreciation for the rules and regulations of airspace.
It’s true; if the fish were smart they wouldn’t let ponies eat them.
You think you’re safe because your windows are far above the ground, but that’s no hinderance to a pony.
When students are lazing about on the Quad, Silver’s perched above them on a personal cloud.
I know, right? Silly human modesty. And that’s kind of similar to what the group shower room in Hoben is like (although they’re on towers in the center, which is even better for socialization, since you can look face-to-face to a whole group around them).
The whole world works on math.
They shall indeed.
Yes, there are. Meghan, obviously, and many more like her.
Christine has the best ideas of how to be a unicorn.
I disagree; I think that’s just about the right amount.
I would hope so; unicorn ring toss would be so much fun.
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Well, I’m sure that’s a question that ponies get a lot. Especially when it comes to planting time.
This is something that’s good to know whenever you’re working with fire.
Fire is cool.
Yeah, it’s not something that would interest most ponies (Gusty being an obvious exception).
And the really funny thing is that this is in no way the weirdest thing he’s done for Silver Glow.
Can you imagine if some pony wrote a research paper (almost certainly a doctoral dissertation) explaining Pinkie Pie, and then some poor bastard of a human reads the thing?
Field trips are always fun.
Yeah, they really are the OTP.
Pretty much what any pony herd would do, really.
“Nobody ever goes on the roof of Dewing.”
It couldn’t be better. Especially if:
Cuddles are best.
Never mind the dog; what must the deer think of her?
This is why she’s smart to have a waffle-maker in her room.
Totally agree. Breakfast is generally not the place to be creative. Maybe on weekend, but not during the work week.
Depending on how pony names work, that’s probably not much of an issue in Equestria.
Also why I learned when programming in BASIC to always leave lots of space between command numbers in case you had to add more in later to fix a problem.
Any proper weather scientist would give his left nut to see those tables. There’s probably tons of stuff on them that humans don’t know at all.
Although that kind of mole is sort of cute in a really weird way.
Yes, you did mention Muddy Sunday before, and you’re right, more often than not it’s the commanders that fuck up and the underlings who have to fix it. If the commanders are decent, they do help sort out the mess.
One of the best managers I ever had at Firestone would stay late when we were backed up, and once even went out in the shop and did a brake job to help us catch up. He also ordered pizza for everyone on a really nasty snowy day when we were up to our elbows putting tires on all the cars that should have had them months before but the owners were putting it off.
It really should be.
She is very much a slutty nerd. Those are totally the best.
I bet there would be a decent sized crowd. Not huge, but decent-sized. Dr. Whooves would probably be there, too.
Oh, yeah, totally. Just sitting and learning generally sucks; but having something to do makes you learn even if you don’t realize that you are.
That and I think Proverbs.
Maybe they learned from reading the Old Testament that pissing off God never ends well.
Although let’s be fair to her, her best role model for that is Princess Celestia, and odds are that when Tia says to do something, it’s probably a good idea to do that.
She can probably derive rings around anybody else at the table. Heck, just being able to work with two different sets of math symbols is a feat onto itself.
That’s actually a reference to Quantum Castaways. Which is a good story, although it’ll probably never be finished.
I know, right? Especially since it was the pegasuses who invented that kind of math.
I should hope so by now.
Not to mention all the girl stuff. He’d probably have to punch a grizzly bear or something to get back in touch with his manliness.
Having said all that, if Silver wanted him to come to the salon with her, he totally would.
Pony hugs shall never be denied. That’s just the way of things; best to accept it.
IMHO, it’s not as weird as Wax, but that’s kind of a tough call.
Once again, Pinkie exists in dimensions that humans simply don’t. Or most other ponies for that matter.
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I like the way Estee did it in Tryptych, with the colors of the wind.
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I’ve read a lot of Estee’s stuff, but not Tryptych thus far. I will, one of these days, since she and I have similar headcanon for a lot of things, and I think she’s also a bit more creative than I am and thinks of things I never would have.
Is that a reference to this Pampena?
Huzzah! The pony tails are doubled!
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You’re darn right it is. What better person to teach an enthusiastic pegasus?
Fun fact: this is actually the same process that leaves you with non-matching socks, just less obvious because socks come in pairs.
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Dunno about scrunchies, I’ve never worn one, but I buy my hair ties in those bulk packs (like 30 on a cardboard sleeve) and it seems like I only ever use two or three of them before all the rest somehow vanish into the ether.
I wonder how often pony names overlap. Historically they might, if G4 Applejack is related to G1 Applejack. But now I wonder if there are any fics about two contemporary ponies having the same name, and the obviously hilarious japery that would occur.
I've got a feeling that if Cayenne had a fellow student do this, they'd find their lower lip pulled over their face.