Gilded

When I first encountered ydoaPs on the internet something like 10 years ago it was my immediate impression that he was the kind of responsible and mature person that would make a great father. Well okay that's a lie but good thing you waited for a while. Congratulations and good luck!

Nothing more exciting than Capn linking the thread on IRC I'm afraid. I'm saying that because my future self told me not to tell anyone about the time machine. I'm mostly just on IRC these days, and the stuff I actually (occasionally) do is somewhat disconnected from hard science in general.

Hi, I'm Gilded, SFN veteran and Finnish person extraordinaire. Pine trees are boring even for evergreens and basically the a-holes of the forest. Cutting them to pieces to make furniture and houses doesn't do much to change that. The whole acid thing indeed stems from a really old thread (like from 2005 or something) where I was curious about acids that could potentially burn their way through a pine table. The song/poem is a reference to The Simpsons, particularly

Wow, just wow. Better start wearing white clothes I guess.

Ikea Triforce: ▲ ▲ ▲ Soviet Triforce: ▼ ▼ ▼ Those are the only ones I know.

Classy, let the lounging commence!

"Swanson, Tom Swanson. Swoon before my high tech wristwatch that shoots a violent cascade of neutrinos that will go right through you. Literally."

It was certainly a good excuse to envelop everything in darkness and listen to brutal drone music.

I heard that I also heard that Voted for Picard though.

That's pretty tame compared to what happened on deviantART... Twilight avatars and signatures everywhere, oh the horror! There was a hilarious one on the local newspaper about changing city area roadsigns to a more multicultural design, from this: to this: Oh you, religion! It's funny because it could be true. Political correctness gone mad and all that.

Some good ones on World of Warcraft. I especially liked this. Also, if you like 4chan's /v/ you might want to check out their background music...

[04:15] <+Sylar> John, Gilded once brought up a good question: In your experience, is it EVER lupus? [04:15] <@John> once [04:15] <@John> lupus nephritis

About the intelligence thing, I for one would like to see squids top this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8408233.stm PS. "Is Cthulhu related particularly to squids or some other cephalopod?"