Pony Express Issue 56: Dec. 29 - Jan. 5, 2009

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Kau

Canada3500 Posts

January 06 2009 06:57 GMT

Super Duper New Years Edition

Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,

With the coming of the new year, I thought I'd make PX look a little bit different, as well as adding a table of contents. Now you can get to your favorite section with a simple search :D. Hopefully you like it! Also, congrats neggy (if I'm allowed to call you that ^^)!

- Kau

Staff
Kau - Editor
Bloodyc0bbler - The Stove
Chill – Strategy
mel_ee - Graphic Designer
Nyovne - IRC Comments
LemonWalrus - Memory Lane
Physician - Memory Lane
{88}iNcontroL - Troll Booth Willie
Elric_ - Korean Korner
Hawk - Semi-Retired
decaf – Retired
mahnini – Semi-coming-out-of-retirement-but-not-really

Table of Contents

Serious Business and Funsies ................ p1
The Stove .............................................. p2
Chalk Talk ............................................. p3
Semi-Funny IRC Comment of the Week ... p4
Random Image of the Week .................... p5
A Walk Down Memory Lane .................... p6
Korean Korner ........................................ p7
Troll Booth Willie .................................... p8
Best of Blogs, Ban of the Week ............... p9

Cheddar and chive mashed potatoes

Ingredients
5-6 potato’s
cheddar cheese
salt
pepper
35% cream
chives
butter
minced or roasted garlic

procedure
1. peel potato’s, cut into smaller pieces, add to boiling water
2. in a metal bowl, add butter, cream and garlic and put bowl over boiling water
3. remove bowl from top of water when butter is melted
4. when potato’s are fork friendly, drain water, then pour contents of bowl into the potato’s
5. add salt, pepper, grate cheese into the mixture, then using a potato masher mash the potato’s
6. add chives, then stir them in
7. enjoy food

- Bloodyc0bbler

- Chill

Shameless selfpromotion never stopped me before.

[14:45] <@Langley> lol
[14:45] <@Langley> artosis gf is nevergg?
[14:46] <@Langley> rofl man
[14:46] <@Langley> two TLies dating is like WINCEST

[15:07] * mrs_backho (~never_gg@218.39.124.73) has joined #teamliquid
[15:07] * mrs_backho is now known as never_gg
[15:07] <@Nyovne> mrs_artosis
[15:07] <@Nyovne> hi
[15:07] <never_gg> rofl
[15:07] <never_gg> I just saw the blog
[15:07] <@Nyovne> I couldnt resist
[15:10] <@never_gg> I wasn't expecting anyone to care enough to blog it lol
[15:10] <@KizZBG> lol
[15:11] <@Langley> imagine little Artokids running around
[15:11] <@never_gg> Anyway, my personal life aside.....
[15:12] <@never_gg> OSL sucked and yet was awesome at the same time.
[15:12] <@Nyovne> kinda like you with artosis
[15:12] <@never_gg> STFU.
[15:12] <@Nyovne> haahhaha 2ease
[15:12] <@Langley> hahahaha

If anyone is a srs dick about neggy in this thread or whever gtfo. This is is just a running joke on IRC and she can take this from the regular crowd. We're all happy for her and are really glad she found someone to share her life (for the moment at least) with and be happy and have fun. If anyone is gonna dick that up, fuckoff. Thanks.

Peace
- Nyovne

LTT Shakuras

Lurkers existed even back 2003

Rekrul wtf

Brood War is two words

- Physician

Practical Korean 4: "It's okay"
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I'm not Korean. I have no Korean blood. I cannot speak Korean fluently. In fact I've only been in Korea for 3 months. So don't go apeshit if I use a ㅔ instead of ㅐ or I offend anyone's acute nationalistic feelings. Rest assured though that I will not teach anything without being 100% that it's right.

Note on Romanization:
(Romanization is where the Korean is phonetically translated into English)
I hate Romanization and I strongly suggest any serious learners of Korean not to use it. It's just for the newbies. The problem with it is that different English speakers will pronounce the syllables differently and on an international forum like this, it's impossible for me to be accurate with it. There are different variations of Romanization and below I do my own version.

A good site to learn the alphabet is here:
http://www.langintro.com/kintro/index.htm

Back to the mundane but highly useful stuff..

I found that this phrase can be used in pretty much the same situations as in English. E.g., how's the food? (its okay..), do you want a receipt with that? (no.. its okay), are you feeling okay? (Yeah, I'm okay) etc.

Normal
괜찮아요 (gwen-chan-ah-yo)

Informal
괜찮아 (gwen-chan-ah) Just drop the '요/yo' as usual

The nice thing about Korean, is that you can make the statement a question simply by using upwards intonation at the end. Combine this with the absence of pronouns, and the same phrase can be used for, "Are you okay?.

This is something you will hear more and more as the night wears on and people get more drunk. A small '괜찮아(요)?' to the poor girl losing all the drinking gmaes can be used to show your extremely considerate and gentlemanly nature.ㅋ

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괜찮아 = present tense form of verb 'to be okay' 괜찮다
요 = polite ending

- Elric

On January 03 2009 07:01 Frits wrote:

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On January 05 2009 07:14 Manifesto7 wrote:
people who don't browse TL using the forum button are not fully evolved.

an interesting idea, but also a challenge :p

On January 02 2009 15:44 Rekrul wrote:
NEW YEARS EVE WAS THE PREVIOUS NIGHT U HAD A CHANCE FOR YOUR MOTHER FUCKING SPECIAL TIME WTF R U DOING BROS BEFORE HOES

- {88}iNcontroL

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CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by Kennigit.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 11450 posts.

Reason: You are shitting it up too much.

Hot_Bid was just banned by SonuvBob.

That account was created on 2003-10-09 00:31:23 and had 17043 posts.

Reason: STOP SPOILING ME ON MSN JERK

Question of the Week

How do you like the new look? Comments and suggestions all appreciated :D

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

January 06 2009 06:58 GMT

I sent pm's out really late today so I will fill in missing portions as they come in and bump the thread. Sorry for the inconvenience!

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 06 2009 07:02 GMT

new look looks sweet! <3

probably necessarily too b/c PX has so much content now

SonuvBob

Aiur21550 Posts

January 06 2009 07:19 GMT

Images need to be 590px or less in width. :p

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

January 06 2009 07:30 GMT

Good read.

Like the new look.

Tekin

2711 Posts

January 06 2009 07:36 GMT

hahaha
Love the random image "i seez nothing"

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

January 06 2009 07:39 GMT

On January 06 2009 16:19 SonuvBob wrote:
Images need to be 590px or less in width. :p

Oh haha, I used the length of [ hr] to guess the max width and also tried a 550px one, but I thought that the slight blurriness of the resized images looked better than the normal sized ones ^^ so I stuck with the resized images (although another reason was not wanting to guess and check the max width).

Edit: Also, does anyone see yellow boxes around all the images? If so, why is that? If not, why do I see them?

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

January 06 2009 07:39 GMT

XD, I love the random image of the week. Imo it's actually even better as a standalone rather than with the entire report.

New Look Suggestion: Remove the little yellow box around the titles. No biggie, I think it would just look a little cleaner that way.

^^Like the yellow box around these.

Edit: Looking at the ban of the week, would this be a record for the number of posts banned in one week? Hmm...but if haji has been banned along with a few other ppl it could surpass that.

SonuvBob

Aiur21550 Posts

January 06 2009 07:42 GMT

Yellow box means it was over 590px, so it was resized.

thunk

United States6233 Posts

January 06 2009 07:42 GMT

#10

I kind like it without the yellow box, but cool nevertheless.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

January 06 2009 07:46 GMT

#11

Btw kau, would it be too much work to write the blog titles next to (or use the url bbcode) for the blogs? I feel like seeing the blog titles would compel me to click the links more.

But dont worry if it's just too much of a hassle, I completely understand.

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

January 06 2009 07:47 GMT

#12

On January 06 2009 16:42 SonuvBob wrote:
Yellow box means it was over 590px, so it was resized.

Ohhhhh so I guess I will need to resize them :p

Give me a few minutes

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

January 06 2009 07:56 GMT

#13

I love the new look

Makes me proud to be a part of this!

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

January 06 2009 07:59 GMT

#14

On January 06 2009 16:46 thedeadhaji wrote:
Btw kau, would it be too much work to write the blog titles next to (or use the url bbcode) for the blogs? I feel like seeing the blog titles would compel me to click the links more.

But dont worry if it's just too much of a hassle, I completely understand.

Haha I know I should, I've just been lazy ^^ I'll probably get around to it tomorrow.

Elric

United Kingdom1327 Posts

January 06 2009 08:00 GMT

#15

On January 06 2009 16:56 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
I love the new look

Makes me proud to be a part of this!

Me too. Kau & PX Fighting~

Btw... just out of curiousity, does anyone learn Korean through my updates?..... Anyone?

Nyovne

Netherlands19137 Posts

January 06 2009 08:15 GMT

#16

Best look pew pew~!

AttackZerg

United States7465 Posts

January 06 2009 08:44 GMT

#17

I like the new look, totally fits in with the TL experience

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Go pony.

a-game

Canada5085 Posts

January 06 2009 10:06 GMT

#18

very nice makeover, kau. thanks for doing PX

if this becomes too much work for you, or you lack material, you might consider doing it semimonthly. don't want you to burn out like your predecessors!