Oolite Bulletins

What is the one change about Oolite you would most like to see... what would that one thing be? ,,Wo ist die Dokumentation?" The eternal bugbear of Open Source projects. I'll be more specific - the current version has a chicken and egg problem with installation, due to the change from Oolite.O...

Friday has been and gone with no further hats in the ring, so I award the Chalice, whiskey, and single-shot revolver to ... - Cholmondely and Digebiti's sartorial "elegance". Some MBPs to NiteOwl, Wildeblood and ffutures for their efforts, and over to Cholmondley for whatever dastardly Dic...

Make pteridomania great again! The only two times that I can think of pteridophytes being unusually large proportions of the (microfossil) population of drilling samples were : in Devonian mudrocks - because other types of pollen-producing plants hadn't really got going yet. And in the first few hu...

Have we stalled? I've been off-planet, trying to break-in a new laptop. (Well, new enough that Win11 will run on it. Not that Win11 wants to run with anything else. Which meant days of trying different routes to get it under my control, not Uncle Bill's.) The status quo is : - Nite Owl with Indy's s...

I'm another X-Axis roller! And also find the idea of X-axis yawing rather odd. I admit that this is due to tradition, the joysticks I know about came from planes, and so rolling is all I've heard about. Aircraft (fixed wing or rotor wing) attach the foot pedals to the "thing at the back that t...

It's probably not related, but I just did a new Oolite install onto a new machine, and got the "spacecraft does a slow back-flip+roll" symptom again. Last time I saw this, I discovered (to my moderate surprise) that the new machine had a "shock accelerometer" (for parking the har...

Here's some genuine "Science Fiction Trivia" for you! You wear a hat to a synagogue? I though you had to wear one of those little lace doily things. Round, floppy beer mats. Whatever they're called? Same way that Christian women are meant to cover their hair - but not with a burkah. But w...

This doesn't count: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Digebiti: Other failed exports include the silk top hat, the tricorn and the pith helmet. Whilst hat-wearing is all the rage on Digebiti itself, and hats are worn by gentlemen of all ranks and none (not to mention the ladies), the partic...

{tap, tap}
Is this thing on? {hooowlllll rowunnnnnd}
Is there anybody in there?

Wait, it's all coming back to me now: the fellow prior to the fellow prior to the scarf-wearing one (the fellow whose adventures were notoriously demagnetized for being black-and-white, and hence useless for re-runs) was the original wearer of the fez. Reincarnation, however described, does not con...

And handing a MBP (for finishing this round with an excellent example) and the chalice to Rockdoctor, I shall beat a hasty retreat... Eye of newt ... tip of Sullivan's cue ... Interestingness of Davis. Let's try brewing up something really weird. Give me a few minutes to find the aqua regia . Check...

ffutures wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 5:43 pm

And handing a MBP (for finishing this round with an excellent example) and the chalice to Rockdoctor, I shall beat a hasty retreat...

Eye of newt ... tip of Sullivan's cue ... Interestingness of Davis. Let's try brewing up something really weird. Give me a few minutes to find the aqua regia.

That definitely qualifies. One to go! The topic being "parallel universes", preferably with interaction between universes. Charlie Stross 's " Merchant Princes " series, which starts with an uncertain number of parallel universes, in one of which a family discover they have a re...

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:19 am

(There's an hour I'll never get back. )

You get it back - doubled - in Purgatory, when you have to re-watch everything you wish you'd never watched in the first place.

HOTAS = Hands on Throttle and Stick ( ie : Joystick) HOSAS = Hands on Stick and Stick ( ie : 2 Joysticks) HOSAK = Hands on Stick and Keyboard HOSAM = Hands on Stick and Mouse My BDASM vocabulary is (un-)suitably expanded? From boat handling, there should also be a HOWATs - hands on wheel and thrott...