DT-Side Chat Thread v. The Blu-Ray is out so I changed the friggin' title

[BlobVanDam]

Random question - what is the girl on the IaW cover actually holding? Is it related to a lyric or just part of the photo for some random reason?

My best guess is the "cold metal frame" from Wait For Sleep.

Ninja'd by the Proggy Snob.

I really don't pay attention to lyrics, so I had no idea about any mention of a cold metal frame. I'll have to actually listen out next time!

[Prog Snob]

Random question - what is the girl on the IaW cover actually holding? Is it related to a lyric or just part of the photo for some random reason?

My best guess is the "cold metal frame" from Wait For Sleep.

Ninja'd by the Proggy Snob.

I really don't pay attention to lyrics, so I had no idea about any mention of a cold metal frame. I'll have to actually listen out next time!

And the girl is clearly waiting for something...maybe sleep.   

[Onno]

Marco - that is really really interesting! I'm really interested in atom-scale (or smaller) physics myself, but there aren't many courses in my study which feature that, unfortunately I'll keep you up to date once I start my thesis By the way, did you actually test with a detector whether your simulation was right? And does the 10^-45 chance to interact mean that the neutrino will hit the electron only once every 10^45 times that you fire it? Does its path become altered somehow?

[RoeDent]

With all the excitement of the new album, I fear that ADTOE will almost be dismissed by both band and fans as a "transition" album, not a full part of DT's catalogue. It is probably my personal top DT album (yes, even above I&W).  I don't care that Mangini didn't really write the drumming for it. If anything, it proves that Petrucci can write wonderfully for drums, even though he doesn't play them.

[Prog Snob]

With all the excitement of the new album, I fear that ADTOE will almost be dismissed by both band and fans as a "transition" album, not a full part of DT's catalogue. It is probably my personal top DT album (yes, even above I&W).  I don't care that Mangini didn't really write the drumming for it. If anything, it proves that Petrucci can write wonderfully for drums, even though he doesn't play them.

Not to take away from JP, but he wrote basic drums tracks just to give MM a feel for what the song should sound like, the tempo, etc.

[?]

Today marks my 4th anniversary of being a DTF member! Such a great timing for the first round of my song roulette

[Prog Snob]

Today marks my 4th anniversary of being a DTF member! Such a great timing for the first round of my song roulette

Congrats ? !

Interesting punctuation.   

[wasteland]

Marco - that is really really interesting! I'm really interested in atom-scale (or smaller) physics myself, but there aren't many courses in my study which feature that, unfortunately I'll keep you up to date once I start my thesis By the way, did you actually test with a detector whether your simulation was right? And does the 10^-45 chance to interact mean that the neutrino will hit the electron only once every 10^45 times that you fire it? Does its path become altered somehow?

There is interaction only once every 10^45 times. In all the other cases there is absolutely no change in the path or the energy of the neutrino nor in the state of the electron. Which is the reason why nobody dies, suffers from mutations or even realizes he's hit by 10^11 neutrinos every second on every square centimeter of our body for all our lives.

[wasteland]

Also, WTF is wrong with the alumni stars?

Also, happy aniversary Ville!

[?]

Thanks!

The Alumni stars look normal to me.

[wasteland]

Now it's fine for me as well, but I couldn't have said the same a few minutes back, on my ipad:

[?]

[Prog Snob]

WTF   

[GentlemanofDread]

The hell is that..? 

[ProgressiveIce]

[Scorpion]

Now it's fine for me as well, but I couldn't have said the same a few minutes back, on my ipad:

Time lock, Supreme Dalek and Dalek Sec in open tabs? I approve.

[hefdaddy42]

Also, WTF is wrong with the alumni stars?

Oh...nothing.

[Prog Snob]

Nothing to see here

[hefdaddy42]

Move along.

[GentlemanofDread]

Move Along. You don't have the alumni stars we're looking for. Carry on.

[Sketchy]

HOLY CRAP. You'd better warn Bosk, there's jedi in this thread.

[hefdaddy42]

[Sketchy]

Whelp. I had some gin, and then got the munchies really bad, so now the labrador is covered in crisps.

[?]

My vacation just started!

...or: "Vacation with my parents, A LIFETIME IN HELL!"

[Prog Snob]

My vacation just started!

...or: "Vacation with my parents, A LIFETIME IN HELL!"

To where are you heading?

[?]

I just went back to my family today. We're going to do a little trip at the beginning of the next week, but other than that there are no plans for anything.

[Prog Snob]

I just went back to my family today. We're going to do a little trip at the beginning of the next week, but other than that there are no plans for anything.

Enjoy every last moment of it!   

[?]

I need to return a 700-word paper on October 21 and I haven't started working on it yet, so I need to write it during this vacation... Fuck.

[wasteland]

I need to return a 700-word paper on October 21 and I haven't started working on it yet, so I need to write it during this vacation... Fuck.

Sounds short. What is it aboot?

[Onno]

I need to return a 700-word paper on October 21 and I haven't started working on it yet, so I need to write it during this vacation... Fuck.

Sounds short. What is it aboot?

^that

[?]

There are 4 topics to choose from, each one related to American literature. The length is pretty huge for me, because I'm just a uni newbie

[Onno]

It's about 1.5 A4, can't be that bad, can it? My first paper this year was 2802 words

[wasteland]

We don't have to write papers, but once I went as far as to write 14941 words for a relation.

[?]

Ok, now I feel better about it

[wasteland]

My advice, choose a topic carefully, study it, then come up with the structure of the paper before even writing a word of it. You can change it as you write of course, but I wouldn't advice eve starting a paper without knowing where you're going to.

Like GRR Martin often says when asked if he knows how his saga is going to end, "I know I'm leaving Chicago for Los Angeles, but I'm not completely sure yet if I'll visit Denver or Salt Lake City of both."