GAME: The Person Above

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:59 pm

has a name I don't get

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:05 am

... is not alone in that!

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:23 am

...also has a nonselfexplanatory(is this a real word?LOL) name.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:44 pm

Has a sig that is one of the most important quotes in human history.

umsolopagas · Post by **umsolopagas** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:32 am

..has made me dig around for this

4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name:
From a character in King Solomons Mines. My brother, who I'd never seen read a novel, read my copy some years back and recently described a really funny part of the story that cracked me up when I realised what he was talking about.

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:02 am

Is the Lizard/Dino?

umsolopagas · Post by **umsolopagas** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:24 pm

..is the handbaggy rat?

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:59 pm

has a name I still don't get ...

I'm a little thick sometimes, sorry.

Post by **laurie** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:55 pm

... unlike many men, will admit to having faults.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:57 am

... posted this, exceptionally, at a reasonable hour, but (as an be seen on other threads) is again up at unholy hours!

Post by **laurie** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:40 am

... is wondering whether he's acquainted with a vampire.

No, just a night owl who hates mornings and thus sleeps them away.

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:02 pm

...is what I use to be but am no more.

Post by **laurie** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:06 pm

... has children who motivated her to become a morning person.

Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:01 pm

...is in the same state as me (according to her profile, that is)!!

umsolopagas · Post by **umsolopagas** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:04 pm

...has been MIA for quite some time. Hey Mary

Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:09 am

...is observant.

I was directing and producing a play, while remaining a full time student. It kind of sucks your life away!

umsolopagas · Post by **umsolopagas** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:10 pm

...is very energetic.

Please tell us more of said play.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:12 am

... is curious about Mary's play.

Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:08 am

...made a comment in the Math jokes that I don't get.

I like this joke better if the operator is d^2/dx^2-d/dx

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My play. Let's see. It was Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. I had a cast of about 25. It was pure Shakespeare text, except I cut a scene and a few other lines in an effort to shorten it (modern audiences are restless when it comes to theatre). I set it in Elizabethan times and the costumes were fantabulous! I used a split stage (one half prison and one half palace) for most of the play and the set itself was pretty minimalist (although not as minimalist as Ian McKellan's Macbeth). The interesting spin was that we attempted to humanize every character, so you couldn't point at any one and say "they're bad." It was SO much fun! We rehearsed for about 12 weeks and had four performances. What made it so intense was the fact that I was not only directing, but also producing it. I didn't have a very big crew to help me, so often I was directing scenes, while working on someone's costume or something like that.

It was a blast!!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:30 pm

... was able to humanize everycharacter of the play, so

Mary Russell wrote: you couldn't point at any one and say "they're bad."

without changing the text by Shakespeare. How?

RE: Math humor

OK, I don't know how much maths you studied. I'll try to explain what the joke was even if you don't get the exact details.
Any differential operator acting on a constant gives zero.
A differential operator (in some variable, say "x") acting on an exponential of that very same variable multiplies it by some number.
A differential operator (in some variable, say "y") acting on an exponential on a different variable (say "x") again gives zero. This is the original version. (c*e^x was confident he was safe, but the operator was d/dy and destroyed it - but that was a bit easy)
I found more funny to do it in a subtler way: I constructed an operator in "x", by taking the difference of two such operators which multiply e^x by the same number (namely, one in both cases). But because I took the difference, the result was still zero, but in a more elaborate way.
You really have to be a nerd to enjoy such jokes...

Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:03 pm

...thinks you have to be a nerd to enjoy math jokes.

First, the play. It is really how a character is played that determines the character. If you say certain lines with particular emphasis or gentle the voice, you can do a lot to completely change the meaning of the lines. We ended up making the "rape scene" (2.4) a very tender scene. You'd have to see it to believe it, I think.

It makes it so Angelo really loves Isabella and his struggles with lust (and subsequent misuse of his power) are not so much evil as human. We portrayed Isabella a whole lot more compassionately and showed her attraction to Angelo and her own struggles against giving in to Angelo because we made it so that she actually loves him in return. It served to make everything a whole lot more complicating and more human. It was marvelous fun!

As regards the math. I understood the original joke, but I made a little boo boo when I calculated d^2y/dx^2 of ce^x. I thought it was (c^2)e^x because I was thinking of e^(cx), not ce^x. My bad!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:11 pm

... must be a great director to make Measure for Measure, II 4 not appear as a disgusting blackmail, all the more cynical that Isabelle's brother is sentenced to death, if I understand correctly (I only read that scene, not the entire play) for seducing Juliet, not raping her (or did I get that wrong? Isabella says he loves her).

Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:19 pm

...should read Measure for Measure! It's a phenomenal play!!! (yes, I know I'm biased).

Isabella's brother is sentenced to death for getting Juliet with child, but it was mutual (Juliet says so herself).

Post by **Darb** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:42 pm

Must be a wonderful student, and a natural leader, to have the chops to direct (and produce) 25 of her peers.

Very impressive

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:20 am

...just gave Mary a compliment.