Weirdness: Round three

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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:31 am

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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Thu Jan 16, 2025 3:13 pm

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/159192/Miriani — Author of, among others, a Ranma/HP crossover named "Hikari no Daija".

In this fic, Ranma ends up stuck at a younger age after the age-changing mushroom incident. This leads to him/her receiving acceptance letters from two magical schools. One is the local school, the Golden Sora Academy, the other... Hogwarts.

Incidentally, there was another story of similar vintage that used the name "Golden Sora", except it was written "Goluden Sora", which explains why I never found it in my library before. Since that story was later deleted, naming it is only for completion — it was "Mage" by Jess S1.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:14 pm

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3459888/TheDevian — Author of two old-school-like Ranma fics.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:42 am

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11416610/1/Am-I-Courageous by MuffinPudding. R/SM fukufic, stalled at six chapters.

"What do you mean, two Sailor Moons?"
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:24 am

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4528008/1/Butterflies-and-Wild-Horses by Smylingsnake. R/SM cross, stalled at thirteen chapters.

Ranma learns coding kempo and network ninjutsu from a cram school student named Ami.

Chaos magic? Anything Goes magic? What looniness is this?
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sun Jan 26, 2025 12:16 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVv_x-pMZ_M — Forced landing shortly after take-off.

Controller: "You're saying that you're on the ground?"
Pilot: "Yes, right across Wendy's and Aldi."
Controller: "Right, ARFF is on the way."
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:17 pm

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2741704/1/Chaos-Factor by Nemo Blank. R/SM cross, stalled at fourteen chapters.

Ranma is beset by youma and trigger-happy Sailor Senshi. Ryoga has a technique that works well on landmines. Happosai is still a pervy girl-fancier. The worst all-girl brawl in Tokyo's long and silly history happens.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:49 pm

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6520633/1/Crossing-Moon by Kenko. R/SM crossover, stalled at two chapters.

Something odd happens at Jusenkyo. Genma starts wondering if girls are as weak as he wanted to think.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:22 pm

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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:31 am

Weird-fact-time:

The time passed from the moon landing to the first manga episode of Ranma ½ is about half that from the first ep. to today.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:03 pm

https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/p415-sjoh/readings/Therac25/therac-update.pdf — The Therac-25.

This was the medical linac (linear accelerator) with no protection in hardware because the manufacturer assumed its software was good enough.

It wasn't.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Neko- » Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:04 am

Té Rowan wrote:https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/p415-sjoh/readings/Therac25/therac-update.pdf — The Therac-25.

This was the medical linac (linear accelerator) with no protection in hardware because the manufacturer assumed its software was good enough.

It wasn't.

Saw that one through Kyle Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0orGCiou8
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Ellen Kuhfeld » Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:52 pm

Té Rowan wrote:https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/classes/p415-sjoh/readings/Therac25/therac-update.pdf — The Therac-25.

This was the medical linac (linear accelerator) with no protection in hardware because the manufacturer assumed its software was good enough.

It wasn't.

Nor is hardware protection enough. The injector of a large tandem Van de Graaff generator damn near killed me. That injector ran at about 150 KV, with some decent capacitors, and lived inside a steel cage with a locked metal door so the electricity couldn't get out. There was a switch on the lock so as soon as the door was unlocked, the injector would be turned off, and it would be safe to go into the cage to service it.

This was Monday, maintenance day, and at the end of the day the accelerator would be turned back on to run straight through until the next Monday, Murphy willing. That day I was the operator to turn the machine on for the week's run. Had to do some fiddling around with the injector first, though. So I went, unlocked that door, and opened it. Bolts of electricity jumped from the injector to the door, frightening me so badly that after is stopped quivering I called the lab director at home, after hours, and told hi9m I was not going in there. And he grumped and persuaded, but I remained adamant. Lightning bolts, even small ones, were not part of my daily routine.

Fortunately, I was paranoid working around high voltage. I didn't push open the door I kicked it open. And it turned out that this was maintenance day, and they'd had to work on the injector, so the crew had bypassed the safety switch and forgotten to take out the bypass at the end of the day.

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The injector is way off at the other end, but here's an idea of the sizes involved. If you look carefully you can see a person climbing up a ladder at the widest part of the machine.

A similar accident happened to my thesis advisor, years before he became my advisor. They were finishing up construction and tuning of a three-tank proton linac. I'm not sure of the voltage it was running at -- 40 or 58 MeV -- but it was turned off at the time and my advisor was working at the end of the beamline. Some fool, not knowing my advisor was there, set the machine going; and my advisor ended up with a sunburn (or worse) all the way from one side of his hand to the other. I think the hardware protection was bypassed there, also.

Software and hardware can both improve your safety. But never overlook the human touch. NOTHING can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.
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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:30 pm

Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:Software and hardware can both improve your safety. But never overlook the human touch. NOTHING can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

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Re: Weirdness: Round three

Postby Té Rowan » Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:55 am

Hoary-old-fic-time:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1268458/1/In-Another-Lifetime by Jade Hunter. One-shot R/SM crossover.

What was Ranma's occupation during his Silver Millennium lifetime?
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