Some years ago, as a young physics undergraduate, I knew a sociology student who would come along to a group I would hang out with, accompanied by her extremely cute four-year-old daughter. She was as friendly and talkative as Pinkie Pie—the sociology student, not her little girl, who was too shy to talk and would hide behind a chair if anyone spoke to her—and would talk at great length, to anyone who would listen, about the failings of the social care system, the leadership battles within the

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We have three primary phenotypes (earth pony, pegasus, unicorn). All are interfertile and produce fertile offspring (vide. the Cake family), and the children of parents both of a single phenotype can be of one of the other phenotypes. No intermediate forms are noted (but see below).

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A few bits of random news:

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The other day Google’s image search failed me. I was after the well-known image of Pinkie Pie hunched over a control panel in Twilight’s laboratory while her friend examines her brain activity. I searched for “Pinkie Pie EEG”, “Pinkie Pie electroencephalography” and got nothing relevant. Of course I was easily able to locate the required file by other methods, but I’m very disappointed by the fandom’s failure to properly tag images.

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Bit of a catch-all blog, this one.

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I was feeling very bored and in the mood to experiment, so I fired up Inkscape and vectored Ahriman Station.

The source image is an SVG, so the exported images can be any size. I can zoom way in on these 80-meter Vigilance-class patrol boats and re-export it at any arbitrary DPI.

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So Chapter 7 has finally been updated, only three more to go, and I'm making good progress. While I had announced that I'd hoped to have a new chapter up by the second week of April, sadly, that does not seem to be possible.

I'm not going to make excuses, nor can I discuss what has happened, but let's just say certain issues have demanded more of my attention than I'd anticipated. Thus, why my progress has been slowed.
Rest assured that a new chapter is coming.

This blog is meant for those who've read Crystalforged. If you haven't yet and want to avoid spoilers, you've been warned!

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We are in a liminal state.

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So, I've been away for a number of years, and honestly? I'm angry at myself. Sure, at the moment, I can justify it by saying that it's because my internet is so bad at the moment, but in the end, that's just an excuse.

I'm reviving my old story, Future Tactics - The War Games, for a good reason.

The story was fun to write, and is fun to write. However, this post is a double-header for a reason.

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So chapter 9 and 10 were the two I dreaded the most. After reading them again I realized that having Shepard, AJ, and Dash fight, the way I did, was rather out of character; especially for the latter two. So I removed the fight and added a new story plot point that I think will be a lot more fun to play with in the future. So anyway with 9 and 10 being combined into a singular chapter this brings me to the end of the revisions and new chapters will be coming up soon.

I was poking about a concept I'd mused on for a long while, that 'cold iron' spoken of as protection and weaponry against all manner of fae creatures was actually meteoric iron, with a high nickel content. I was hoping to find a conceptualization in actual science that I could play with.

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A NEW CHAPTER?!

Holy balls Batma––Immortan Joe, the story updated!

My God...PREP THE RIG!

Celebrity endorsements by cute cartoon cats are good for any project. This week Symmetry Magazine reports that Hello Kitty is helping to promote the International Linear Collider.

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YES! New Lazarus chapter is finished and boy is there a lot of exposition and build up to something cool!

However, I lost a great deal of editors for the story due to my last hiatus and now I only have like one or two. So if any of you know actual grammar, not a little bit, like enough to actually write something that's formatted and well constructed (and would love to help) please contact me.

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If you hadn't noticed, Lazarus updated last night!

So feel free to check it out and let me know what you think.

This week we learn that operations at the Large Hadron Collider have been set back after a small weasel chewed through wiring on a 66 kilovolt transformer.

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You know how the game works. You bowl your ball towards ten pins set up in a triangle, with the aim of knocking down as many as possible. Simple. But the fundamental simplicity does not mean there is little to it, and like all the best games, fanatics have spent years analyzing every detail to determine the best strategy. This is an excellent one to study with the language of physics.

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