User talk:I am not good at running

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12:42, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

prolog and linelen
Hi - The "doesn't work with arbitrary lines" problem can be fixed by extending your "line" predicate to include constant defined lines, i.e. in addition to the predefined lines in the fact base, add a predicate defining a line as a thing with 4 constant (real valued) args. I don't remember the syntax for this, but it would be something like
 * line(X1,Y1,X2,Y2) :- realnum(X1), realnum(y1), realnum(X2), realnum(Y2).

Including line in the definition of the linelen predicate bascially makes it the logical statement "if this is a line, this is its length". Adding the predicate to makes "if this is line" be satisfied by the lines currently in the factbase or any line defined with 4 (constant) values defining the endpoints. -- Rick Block (talk) 20:15, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

spider
Hi,

I saw that you asked a question about a black-widow lookalike critter and then removed it. Actually, you could have left the question there and your own discovery as it might be helpful to someone else. No big deal either way. I think you found the answer to your question. The "false black widow" may be a good creature to have in your garage since it occupies the same ecological niche as the real black widow. The females will breed and make egg cases, but the babies will disperse rather than filling up your garage with their webs. This kind of spider, like the black widow, is very little inclined to bite. (I had to remove a black widow from a piece of farm equipment early this summer and as soon as it became apparent to her that something very large was on the move she dropped down and played dead.) On top of that, while I understand that it's no fun to be bitten by one of these creatures on the other hand they aren't considered dangerous the way black widows are. Worldwide, widow spiders still kill a fair number of people over the world every year, but as far as I know the look-alikes have never been blamed with the death of a human. I guess that if I had small children around I would "invite" the spider to go outside, maybe by catching it in a mason jar and carrying it far enough away that it wouldn't find it back to where my kids play, but otherwise I generally just forget about (or study) the non-poisonous kinds. P0M 03:41, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Longcat-ness-monster.png has been listed as a possibly unfree image

 * If the original picture is copyrighted, and, despite this being a work of satire/parody, somehow doesn't qualify as fair use, go ahead and delete it. It'll be a shame if my user page loses its Cryptozoologoaquatifeline goodness, though :( --I am not good at running 20:21, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Vit
Answered Talk:Dead_Cities_(album) -- 62.147.37.163 17:41, 3 June 2006 (UTC)