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My own laughter as I have mic connected to home system.
you should share that with the rest of us.
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Quote by TonyaL
Is everyone else done with this year. So much has happened that I'd love to wake up and it be 2021. I had one good thing happen which was my grandson was born in January. After it went downhill. Because of the corny virus we had to stay away from our loved ones like everyone else in the world. I watched my grandson grow in pictures even though he only lives two miles away. My best friend is immunocompromised so I could not see her and she was also only a couple miles down the road. We were making summer plans for swimming and about her grandson due in July. Also trying to figure out when she could meet mine. On June 13 she turned 52 and on June 21 she died. It is hard for me even now to believe she is not here. She was my mom, sister, best friend rolled into one. I don’t have anyone like that anymore and don't think I will.
Now this month already has brought another death as my s/o's uncle passed on Monday the day after is 82 birthday. This is one of those kind you see often. On top of this we found out another family member has inoperable cancer and only has a month to live. He's another in his early 50's. This is the person my kids call uncle. We spent all of our vacations with him. It hits really hard. All three had some form of Cancer.
I've also been going through my own medical issues. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, as well as different deficiencies and the surgery I was hoping for to help my pain the doctor won't do at this time. It's all just too much. Now I have to make the hard decision of do I send my littley to school or have her do remote.
I'm just putting it all out here. I want to say Fuck Cancer and Fuck this virus. Sorry I rarely curse but this year just sucks.
I think that cursing is the only response for what's happened this year. Love you. 
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Quote by Trousseau
Since I don't want to get disqualified for failing to meet the fine print, can I get a ruling?
Is it necessary for me to violate the laws of physics? Or can I get to the future by hibernating? (Buck Rogers, Rip Van Winkle, etc.)
If you don't like me staying in one place while a long time passes, how about if I travel close to the speed of light for a while and come back, which achieves the same effect: time passes but not for me.
Some of your sentences suggest it has to be a scheme where I can control the time I go to and also that I can choose to return. Are those necessary elements or just possibilities?
Sorry to be a nerd, but I don't want to get into any "but the transporter doesn't work like that" arguments.
I assume I don't have to include a redhead in shorts, although she might be a nice addition to any story.
we're good with 'slow time' as long as there is travel thru time, either via machine or induced coma or what have you. and no, you don't have to include a red head in shorts. lol
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Quote by IMPÜRETHOUGHTS
He's a friend who happens to be an actual master in the bdsm lifestyle in L.A.
He mostly makes me laugh because if you say something sexy 10/10 I won't find it to be sexy.
Remember, I am in a league of my own so what works on others won't work on me
Hint hint.
so... the sandwich line's not gonna work?
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Quote by RumpleForeskin
Sic 'em, Jeff. BTW, I'm told guys like you and Buz cand get your pics on post office walls for practically nothing though some sort of charges may be involved.
The new contest theme, time travel has never been my 'thang' as a reader much less a writer. Best I recall, the few I've read and enjoyed such as the Connie Willis novel featuring the bubonic plague in England and the Stephen King's look back at the Kennedy assassination spent little energy on the mechanics of time travel and focused instead on the story.
Not that it matters. What with one thing and another, any type of writing, especially fiction, has been a challenge for months now. (sigh)
Sure hope this contest kicks starts my fellow Lushlanders. It's been too damn quiet around here. Anybody want a drink?
i loved that book. didn't care for anything else Willis wrote, but that one was amazing.
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Quote by Verbal
LJ tried CBD for neck pain and it did nothing that a regular salve didn't do. Ibuprophen was much more effective.
I do have a friend who swears by it though (and the one who suggested LJ try it).
it's better for some ailments than others. also, you need to make sure you're getting quality stuff. not all of it is, some of it is just people trying to make a quick buck.
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Quote by Meagananne1986
The benefit would be a person searching for the "best" stories would have a single cue to look at rather than looking at either the scoring or the total reads. The dimensioness figure would show at a single glance the stories most liked and read by the community from amongst 59,000 plus published in Lush.
I would think the hardest part of doing this would be the mathematical construct and that once that was built, Gav could relatively easily code the construction. Developing the construct would be most time consuming I would think.
if someone is looking for the best stories, i'd steer them towards anything with an EP ribbon.
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Quote by DarkSide
I have written an account of some analysis I did, I have sent that email to the contact us email address as specified. Hopefully, everyone On the Lush panel of representatives can read it, if and when it gets distributed. I'm not going to explain everything here because I don't want to create an issue out of something that may get rejected anyway.
However, you have indicated above that the scores are about quality - they are not. Mistakes are made when they are used. They can be used in a bad way to mark down stories, they can be ignored when everyone gives 5s, they are only ever used by friends of authors and some discerning people that bother to use them. They are not indicative of quality.
The views metric, and I may be wrong (Gav could correct me on this) is probably not representatives of reads either. I would assume it measures the hits on a downloaded page.
Measuring a proper read of a story is subjective, but reads are more indicative of how popular a story is. It's a different metric but probably a better one. Megananne1986 is correct in that it records the total reads and a mathematical approach would be needed.
i guess my problem with this, and this is my opinion, not the site's official stance, is that i really don't take scores all that seriously. they don't really count for anything, unless it's a comp (in which case Nicky monitors them very very carefully for any signs of downvoting). on a site like lush where, pretty much the norm, is giving a story a 5, regardless of it's quality, it just seems like a lot of effort to put into it when there are so many other things that i'd rather see time and work put into - in the end, to me, they don't really improve the lush experience.
i do get a kick out of reading comments, but yeah, scores are just sort of a fun bonus. i do know that some people take them pretty seriously, and i'm not putting them down for it, but honestly, the scoring system has been what's it's been since the beginning, and personally, i don't really see a reason to change it.
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Quote by Meagananne1986
I think what Darkside is looking at is a "dimensionless" metric that takes into account both the total score and the total numbers of reads. I see where he is coming from. A story with say 10 reads, all 5's is not the same as a story with 100 reads with all 5's which isn't the same as a story with 1000 or 10000 or even 100000 reads and all fives. The latter is significantly harder to achieve than the first. So I can see what Darkside is saying. The question really is determining the "weight" of the various variables and designing the mathematical construct required for Gav to code.
not really sure what the benefits of this would be? also, benefits verses workload for Gav should be taken into account.
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Quote by Liz
This doesn't make any sense at all. Story scores aren't supposed to be representative of how many people read the stories. It's about quality, not popularity.
If no one has to "push a button" then whatever metric it is you're envisaging isn't actually a score, is it? Why would the site want to change "scores to reads" if there is already a 'views' metric on stories already?
obviously, you're not smoking the good stuff. come to my lair and i shall remedy that.
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Quote by LikeToWrite
After being a member of this site for several years, I know what I'm about to say has nothing to do with what you are talking about, but I wanted to put in my 2-cents worth for whatever it's worth. If someone was beating on me, I'm going to fight back to the best of my ability, including a good punch on their nose if I get a chance.
umm... some people enjoy being whipped you know...
