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The Washington Post reports that no specific time-frame for Breuer's departure has been given, so it's possible he'll continue to not prosecute bank executives for some time.
In spite of the fact, under his direction, the U.S. Attorney General's Criminal Division has prosecuted a huge number of financial frauds and other crimes, Breuer has been unable to shake the reputation — and did himself no favors on Frontline — that he is either unwilling or unprepared to go after high-ranking executives at large financial institutions.
"[We] don't let these institutions go," he tried to explain about the lack of criminal prosecutions. "We've brought civil cases. We've brought regulatory cases and the entire approach here is to have a multi-pronged, comprehensive approach to what gave to the financial crisis."
Breuer and his office have been criticized for not having confidence in the mountain of evidence — turned up by regulators, lawmakers, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and dozens of private lawsuits against banks — that shows bank executives were complicit in fraud related to toxic mortgages and the mortgage-backed securities created from them.
The Asst. A.G. has also received scorn — and calls for his resignation — from critics for his office's part in "Operation Fast and Furious," and other "gun walking" operations wherein government agents knowingly allowed buyers for Mexican drug cartels to purchase weapons at U.S. dealers. It was intended that these weapons would then be tracked to locate higher-level criminals in the organization. However, a number of the guns ended up on the streets, including one that was believed to be used in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.


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The six-minute trailer for Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis' "Cloud Atlas," debuting at Toronto in September, is here. The adaptation of David Mitchell's novel stars — deep breath — Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Bae Doona, Zhou Xun and Hugh Grant, many of whom are in multiple roles and disguises.
The trailer, like the novel, spans a mind-boggling number of eras and scenarios, including a 19th-century ship off the coast of New Zealand run by a captain (Sturgess) with a deadly brain bug, an American investigative journalist (Berry) looking into a thriller-style nuclear conspiracy, a gangster-turned-novelist with manicured facial hair (Hanks!) throwing a literary reviewer off a building, and an ominous Kona warrior (Grant, sporting tribal facepaint).
TOH reported on "Cloud Atlas" at the Cannes market, where Warner Bros. bought North American rights for $20 million.
The trailer must be seen to be believed; UPDATED slideshow and tongue-in-cheek video commentary from Tykwer, Andy and Lana Wachowski are also below.

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Bayern Munich have agreed to let unsettled Germany international striker Lukas Podolski return to Cologne.
The 23-year-old moved to the Bundesliga giants from Cologne in the summer of 2006 but has grown frustrated by his lack of first-team opportunities at Bayern.
Reports suggest the transfer will take place in the summer after Podolski agreed a four-year contract with Cologne.
Bayern general manager, Uli Hoeness confirmed the news by saying: "I think that the transfer will take place on Monday."
Cologne are 11th at the halfway point of the Bundesliga season after winning seven of their opening 17 games.
Meanwhile, Hoffenheim striker Vedad Ibisevic has been forced to have an operation on his ruptured cruciate knee ligament.
The current Bundesliga leaders expect the 24-year-old Bosnia international to play no further part in the current campaign.
Ibisevic's team-mate, Marvin Compper, said: "We had a good talk with Vedad before his return to the hospital in Heidelberg and are happy the operation went well.
"It has happened, now we have to look forward and appear strong."
Ibisevic suffered the injury in last week's friendly against Hamburg when he had to be stretchered from the pitch.
The news comes as a major setback to Hoffenheim as Ibisevic had scored 18 goals in the first 17 games of the campaign.
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We have just released a new Windows package with no embedded Java.
It is a much smaller download – just about 6 MB instead of 19 MB, and it works with your pre-installed Java.
You must have an installed Java on your machine in order to run PSM with this installation! If you are not sure if you got any Java, go to Windows "Start" menu, select "Run" and type in "cmd".
A DOS-style shell window opens. Type in
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Since modern Java 6 on Windows is faster than the previous JVM version we bundle with PSM, with the new packaging and with the latest JVM ProStockMaster will run faster! Also, many GUI-related issues are fixed in Java 6, so various skins work faster and behave more stable in JVM 6.
The new PSM packaging also fixes some weird but relatively rare problems with Windows Vista 32-bit/64-bit pre-installed JVMs. If PSM refuses to start on your Windows machine with the bundled Java try this 'unbundled' installation package.
Note that ProStockMaster version did not change. It is the same v1.6.0 we have released last month.
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—Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
There are two Bills that are floating through the corridors of power on the Hill that could potentially change the course of civil and political rights within the United States and the world. One was introduced through the House of Representatives and the other through the Senate. The two Bills touch on a common thread that are premised on "national security" however there are interesting challenges that will surface should the Bills be passed that affect global public interest that require further examination, introspection and discussion.
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)
US Representatives Mike Rogers (R-Mich) and Dutch Ruppersberge (D-Md) took the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) to the floor last year, despite the threats that President Obama would veto the Bill on the version that it was then. On 25th April 2012, President Obama's Administration released a statement saying that:
"Legislation should address core critical infrastructure vulnerabilities without sacrificing the fundamental values of privacy and civil liberties for our citizens, especially at a time our Nation is facing challenges to our economic well-being and national security. The Administration looks forward to continuing to engage with the Congress in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion to enact cybersecurity legislation to address these critical issues. However, for the reasons stated herein, if H.R. 3523 were presented to the President, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill."
The US House of Representatives approved the CISPA on a bipartisan vote of 248-168. Proponents of CISPA believed that they could get the Bill ready for the President to endorse. On 7th May, 2012, the CISPA was received in the Senate and the Bill was Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Cybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act 2013
The US Senate has introduced a new Bill called the Cybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act 2013 through Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Tom Carper, incoming Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and recently issued a Press Release.
The two Bills are controversial because on one hand, they address an important aspect of security and it is critical that countries work towards securing cyber space through having relevant legislative framework in place but what is also equally important is that considerations such as human rights provisions such as rights to privacy and other issues such as data protection rights be a part of the equation. It is also important that lawmakers remember that the foundation of freedoms and rights is also based on the notion that individuals are protected from arbitrariness otherwise there is a devolution to a Police State. There has to be a balance.
Policy should precede legislative framework and where these factors along with other key considerations such as objectionable content are identified. Given the interdependencies of the Internet through its architecture and the series of relationships and transactions, the enforcement of US control over other states through these two Bills means that every Policy made by the global community within Multistakeholder organizations' like Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will be subject to these laws if passed.
There was much debate and controversy around the WCIT and rhetoric included "Hands off the Internet" but it would appear that they were being selective when they said that.
Last year the US Government decided to return two domain names, namely Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org which it improperly seized and held in its possession for well over a year, without so much as an explanation. These sites are Puerto 80's popular sports streaming sites, which the government seized back in February 2011. Puerto 80 responded by petitioning the government for return of the domains. What was fascinating about this was that Puerto 80 is a Spanish company, and a Spanish court had already found the sites legal. The courts in the US disagreed holding that the US government did not have to return the domains and Puerto 80 appealed and then late last year the US Government mysteriously dropped the matter without an explanation.
Even if the Bills were to contain provisions to protect the privacy rights and civil liberties of Americans, there is no guarantee that the rights and protections would extend to non-Americans. The challenges to an open and internet are occurring within the United States. These Bills could waive all the existing privacy laws that were crafted to protect ordinary American citizens.
Will we see more domain name seizures, DNSSEC filtering etc? What would be the impact on Whois?
The thing about Pandora's Box is once it is opened there is no going back.
Caveat – These views are solely my own and do not reflect the views of any of my affiliations.
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Related topics: Cybercrime, Domain Names, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation, Privacy, Security, Whois
If the US does not come to their senses and continues to treat both US citizens as well as non-US citizens like they are merely sources of information to catch terrorists, then I think it's time to expand the internet in such way, that the USA is not in the middle of it. I started already by trading in my private .net domain for a .nl domain. Not only do I trust the Dutch government more than I trust the US government to respect basic human rights, as a Dutch native I can at least vote and influence the direction things are going here.
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Haven't, but here's the discussion picking up from where people started receiving theirs at DGR.
It looks like ****e. All I'm saying. If you buy that you probably get a pack of chewing gum, the kind that comes with baseball cards.
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I am starting to get to where I want something that would give best of a Banger-GT and a Blowfly so I only carry one, and this actually sounds kind of cool.
It's a great disc. It is my main up shot/jump putt/ turn over driving putter now. I can't really throw it farther than 200' without it maybe turning and burning but it will hold any line I put it on under 200'. You have to throw it like a comet though, slow arm speed and lots of snap.
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Description: The agate pendant cleverly carved, with the center darker portion carved in the shape of Buddha, the lighter portion carved around the Buddha as mandorla, retains natural agate dark brown and yellowish color tone with translucency. Jin Dynasty period. Length: 2 3/8 in (6.0 cm) Width: 1 7/8 in (4.8 cm) Weight: 35.2g
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These homely fellows seem to be literally rising from the ground beneath us and attacking heroes, villains and citizens without discrimination. Their taste in fashion is despicable, not to mention the flies and the smell! Be sure to have the zone event channel added to one of your chat tabs in-game to see the event notifications and take part in all the fun!
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Ravenwing Cabal's Annah will be in Croatoa to explain more about some of the activities, as will Granny Beldam in Nerva Archipelago.
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23rd April 2002, 01:59 PM | #11 |
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What an excellent idea! I wonder if bonding Q2 and Q3 togther thermally would provide any thermal stability benefits? Jam |
23rd April 2002, 03:17 PM | #12 |
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peranders, could you post an ultimate current source?
As you may know these things are becoming quite popular with tube/valve people. I just installed the C4S from the bottlehead site on my tube preamp, but I was wondering if there was a way to improve on the design. Needless to say I am no EE.
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Difficult to answer your question without actually building and testing the circuit. In simulation, I simply raised the global temperature. A 10degC rise in junction temperature gave a 2.5% current variation for this arrangement, compared with 3.5% for the LED schematic. Current variation with load (10ohm to 1kohm) was 0.1%, the same as the two-transistor ccs, compared with approximately 0.75% for the two LED versions. For a 50V supply rail modulated with a 2Vpeak sine wave, the current variation was 0.004% for the circuit I posted, 0.04% for the White circuit, 0.18% for a standard two-transistor ccs and 0.37% for the LED/transistor version. Geoff |
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I should have mentioned in my original post that, for the 4-transistor ccs, R1 = R2 = R and Iconst is 2 * Vbe / R. For initial calculations, R = 1.3 / Iconst is sufficiently accurate.
23rd April 2002, 05:17 PM | #15 |
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Hi Geoff
Which BJT did you use in the simulation? Sonny |
23rd April 2002, 05:46 PM | #16 |
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BC550 & BC560, with R1 and R2 set at 120ohm. I adjusted all versions of the ccs to give a current of between 10 and 11mA, which was the figure the White circuit gave with the resistor value shown on Eric's schematic. I must stress that the figures I obtained should be treated as approximate since I made no attempt to optimise each circuit. However, I believe that they are sufficiently accurate to permit an initial comparison to be made. The main disadvantage I see with the 4-transistor or 2-LED/2-transistor ccs is that a higher supply rail voltage may be needed in certain applications due to the larger PD across the ccs. Geoff |
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I just the other day was drawing up a CCS, and those are exactly the transistors I was planning to use! I'll have to try out your circuit. |
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I think your sims shows the fine result you can get with a 4-BJT solution compared to a "simple" current source. Sonny |
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Your's is longer than mine :-( Is this a competition to see who can design the most complicated current source? Tiroth By all means try the circuit I posted. However, if your supply rails are regulated (which they should be for low current circuits) I do not see that there will be any performance improvement over a simple 2-transistor ccs. An alternative, if the supply rail voltage does fluctuate, is a jfet (with gate and source connected to from a ccs) in place of collector resistor on the control transistor. The 4-transistor circuit only comes into its own if a two-terminal ccs is required to say replace a resistor in an existing circuit where it is difficult to provide the earth connection required by the simple 2-transistor circuit. Don't take my reference to the BC550/BC560 as a recommendation (though I have no complaints with these transistors). I simply use the models for these devices when I want a small-signal transistor model since I have tested the models and have found that the results have good correspondence with the datasheet information. Geoff |
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- For the post-scratch version of this character, see Poppop.
John Egbert is one of the main characters in Homestuck. He is a boy who, according to this page, has not been given a name until his thirteenth birthday; however, this is just a framing mechanism. In the past, he has ended letters with -ghostyTrickster (john). While originally given the name "Zoosmell Pooplord", the game rejected it and settled for John.
John uses an online application known as Pesterchum to communicate with his other tech-savvy friends. His chumhandle is ectoBiologist. It used to be ghostyTrickster, but he changed it to avoid the trolls. Oddly, he chose the name ectoBiologist based on a comment by one of the trolls.
His title may be a pun on his associated classical element, because interchanging the first and last words produces "breath of air".
His web browser of choice is Typheus, who coincidentally is the mate of Echidna, the namesake of Jade's web browser.
John's associated Classical element is air, and his Associated Item is oil.
Biography Edit
Childhood Edit
John, travelling by meteor, arrived on Earth as an infant, which resulted in the death of the woman who he believed to be his grandmother, who was in actuality his mother, due to ectobiology. He was adopted and raised by his half-brother who took the role of his Dad. At some point during his childhood, Gamzee Makara used his chucklevoodoos on John, causing a doll resembling 3 x prototyped Jack Noir to appear in his dream room on Prospit. This caused John to write self-depreciating remarks and draw pictures of harlequins on his walls while sleeping, however he was not cognizant of these while awake. His dad, who was generally supportive of his interests, began showing an interest in harlequins too, in an attempt to bond with John, but failed to realize John's distaste for them.
At some point John became friends with kids his age over the internet; Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider and Jade Harley. Little is known about this other than Jade first contacted John on one of his birthdays. All four would go on to play Sburb together. On Jade's birthday, after being harassed by trolls, John changed his Pesterchum handle from ghostyTrickster to ectoBiologist.
Sburb Edit
The story begins on his birthday, when his copy of Sburb arrived. He also got an awesome Bunny from his friend Dave. He set up the first connection with Rose as his server.
Despite his penchant for video games, he initially did not have a firm grasp on the concepts of Sburb and rarely understood what was going on with some of the more technical commands, he lacked any sense of understanding game play rules, nor could he fathom the abstract nature of Captchaloguing. Despite that, his level of understanding the cipher-based technology behind Punched cards is remarkable. As he is one of the players in Sburb, John's peril quickly escalated as the game progressed, and he had limited understanding of what was going on or what he needed to do.
However, he later showed some more proficiency at playing by the game's rules, and he has even come up with some ingenious ideas, such as combining two punched cards to create a new weapon with the Alchemiter. He later made a whole bunch of possibly useful stuff based on the same principle.
After John initiated the countdown on the Cruxtruder and prototyped his kernelsprite with the harlequin doll his father got him for his birthday, the area around his house was hit by a Meteor and engulfed in flames. However, he took a bite of the Cruxite Apple and entered The Medium, sparing his house from absolute destruction by suspending it on a pillar of rock in the Land of Wind and Shade, the setting that Sburb had prepared for his personal quest.
His Dad was kidnapped, and initially his only guide in the Medium was Nannasprite. Wayward Vagabond began communicating with John from the future, giving him rude commands in ALL CAPS (that is, until he found the caps lock key and learned how to be polite) that manifested as a voice in his head. John often felt compelled to do what the Wayward Vagabond asked of him but refused if the request was too ridiculous. His house became overrun by Shale Imps, which left black trails of sludge and first appeared as ominous pairs of eyes.
Ever since the game started, Rose had seen John's posters as being defaced. John had thought that Imps had created the graffiti, but it turned out that John did it himself long ago. It's also the reason Dad thought John had a love of clowns harlequins. John used Alchemization to remove the graffiti from his Ghost Dad poster and create the Clean Cosby Poster. He later combined that with his computer to create the Cosbytop Computer.
After messing around in his house fighting imps and ogres for a while, he managed to reach the first Gate. This sent him to the surface of LOWAS. He explored his land and began talking to two trolls, carcinoGeneticist and gallowsCalibrator.
GC was able to trick John into attempting to fight his denizen, Typheus, long before he was ready. This created an alternate timeline where John was killed by the Denizen of his land. Since John died, he was unable to get Jade into the Medium, so her fate was unknown. Dave eventually travelled back, stopped John, and prototyped himself, becoming Davesprite, and gave John the code for Fear No Anvil. The John who died in this timeline later met the recently deceased Vriska in a dream bubble, of whom he had no memory other than one conversation which she had out of order on his timeline. They were in relationship for a time, then broke up, and John was eventually obliterated by Lrd English.
Despite GC deceiving him, he decided to trust her again, and used his rocket to go straight to his second Gate, which led to Rose's house. Rose was asleep at the time, and so he was able to take her birthday gift to him, a bunny similar to the one he got from Dave. During the time of waiting for Rose to awaken he was trolled by Kanaya Maryam and left her thinking Rose was not very smart. Tired of waiting for her to awaken, he left to explore the Land of Light and Rain. He found a small island with a transportalizer, which led to The Veil. Here he did some ectobiology, creating Grandpa, Nanna, Dave's Bro, Rose's Mom, Rose, Dave, Jade, and himself as paradox clones. He also had a number of conversations with CG, who explained to him what ectobiology was.
Like Jade, John had a dream self on Prospit's moon. Initially, Dream John had mostly been asleep, with only brief glimpses of waking up and sleepwalking. This changed when Jack Noir began The Reckoning and attacked Prospit, causing the moon to come crashing out of orbit. Dream Jade attempted to wake John before sacrificing herself to save him from certain death. Dream John woke after the celestial collision and soon found his fallen friend face down on The Battlefield of Skaia. He recovered the ring of the White Queen from Jade and foresaw his destination in the clouds.
Meanwhile, his other self, sleeping in the Veil, was saved by an Authority Regulator of Derse. On the Battlefield, he received his birthday present from Jade from a Parcel Mistress, which was the same bunny as his other presents, but this time enhanced with cybernetic upgrades (he later named the bunny Liv Tyler). According to recent updates; it is possible that these upgrades were applied by Jake English, as Jane states that it was a family heirloom that used to belong to his grandma, here. He was confronted by Jack Noir, who assumed the bunny would continue to help him, but this was a mistake. Jack fled, leaving John to wander the Battlefield. Soon, he encountered his Dad and Rose's Mom. Before he was able to reunite with them, he was awakened by Vriska's psychic powers, thus losing the Queen's ring.
He then became friends with Vriska, who gave him advice so that he would do what he was going to do anyway; all part of her paradoxical efforts to be the guiding hand behind Jack Noir's ascension and eventual (at least in her mind) defeat. He retrieved his server copy of Sburb and returned to his house. Here he connected to Jade. However, before he was able to prototype her kernel, he was put back to sleep by Vriska.
While asleep, he saw the Battlefield undergoing its fourth prototyping, and saw that a Wizardly Vassal had recovered the Queen's ring. He soon woke again, and got up to date by talking to Rose, Karkat, and Vriska. However, he was in mortal danger, as Jack Noir was using his new first guardian powers from Becquerel's prototyping to destroy LOWAS with green fire.
With WV's help, he managed to use his wind powers to summon The Windy Thing. This simultaneously put out the fire on LOWAS and skyrocketed John to the top of his echeladder. After that, he went to a Salamander Village. On advice of Vriska, he went to sleep on his Quest Bed and was killed by Jack Noir. However, he was resurrected shortly afterwards as his dream self, ascended to god tier, and gained the Heir of Breath outfit as a result of dying on his quest bed.
Ascension Edit
After dying on his quest bed, he gained immense control over air and wind. Vriska claimed that he would surpass her, implying John will become the most powerful of the 16 players. Vriska, however, did not know that the other kids and Aradia would eventually ascend to the god tiers.
John traveled through Skaia in his new form with the Wizardly Vassal, and drilled into the planet to retrieve The Tumor, which he stored in Dad's wallet. He came across the Courtyard Droll, who had been carrying Liv Tyler with him. Liv handed him a note left by Jade's penpal, and John immediately guessed correctly that his grandmother was Jade. After being bonked on the head by a tiny Warhammer of Zillyhoo, John had Liv hugify the weapon. He decided to be the leader and sent Liv Tyler, CD? and WV? to Derse to drop off the Tumor at the moon. John gave his wallet to WV?, forgetting that it carried his Crosbytop. Jade happened to message him about his dad's fate with Jack Noir as the group departed.
John took notice of grimdarkness occurring nearby, which was Rose descending to the castle where her mother and John's father were slain. They reunited and Rose tried to explain the situation but could not as being grimdark made her speak in eldritch tongues. Rose led John to the top of the castle where their slain parents laid. They encountered Jack Noir, but as their strife began, Jack immediately stabbed John. John died in what is clearly the most cowardly death ever. Due to the fact that his death was neither just nor heroic, he came back to life after Jack left, only to discover a dead Rose. Following Vriska's advice, he kissed Rose, allowing her dream self to survive. Then, following Karkat's orders, John went to the Land of Heat and Clockwork. It is here that Karkat first trolled John from his perspective
Meanwhile, future Karkat explained how to initiate the scratch, which John successfully did. He remained atop the Beat Mesa in order to prevent any interference from minions. After easily dispatching them with his Heir of Breath powers and a Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo hammer, he was transported to Jade, who had just acquired god tier. From here on, he observed as Jade fulfilled Echidna's request and prepared the journey to a new session via the Fourth wall.
Crossing the Yellow Yard Edit
As they begin to cross the Yellow Yard on a Prospitian battleship, Jade reveals that the journey to the post-scratch session will take three years. She gives John the option of letting her send him to the trolls' meteor, so he can spend the next three years with Dave, Rose, and the trolls, but he declines, since Jade can't accompany him and he doesn't want to abandon her. Instead, he uses her powers to send a letter to the meteor crew. Unfortunately, the letter is put in a bucket and ends up smacking Karkat in the face.
Throughout the first year of the voyage, the inhabitants of the battleship - John, Jade, the three remaining B1 sprites, and several consorts, carapacians, and underlings - pass the time by playing some of John's video games, but by the end of Year 1 they have exhausted his library and are forced to play his Ghostbusters II MMORPG. While John and Jade play, Jaspersprite arrives with a birthday cake for John, causing Jade's dog instincts to kick in. She chases the sprite across the ship, and John's attempt to stop her results in his being knocked unconscious. In the dream bubbles, he encounters Roxy's sleepwalking dream self and the ghost of Meenah. Meenah throws her trident at Roxy with the intent of killing her, but John saves Roxy by jumping into the trident's path and getting stabbed in her place, which forces him to wake up.
One year later, on his fifteenth birthday, John celebrates by watching Con Air at his house with Jade, Jaspersprite, and some salamanders and imps, only to discover that he no longer likes the movie. His frustration is further increased when he learns that Davesprite has broken up with Jade, and he explains that being trapped on the battleship for so long with few people to talk to is beginning to take its toll on him. When he finds a prank note from Davesprite parodying Dad's encouraging notes, John's irritation turns into anger, and he runs outside and screams at a not-present Davesprite before abruptly falling asleep in the middle of the driveway.
In the dream bubbles, he encounters Bec Noir and initiates a duel with him. After a brief fight - during which John demonstrates a new ability to turn into wind and scores a hit on Jack when the latter is distracted by Rose briefly entering and exiting the bubble - Noir flees when PM catches up to him, leaving John to explore the bubble by himself. Wandering through a desert, he eventually comes across a sleeping Tavros and a gold ring in the sand, which he picks up. Tavros awakens and claims that the ring is his, but their ownership dispute is broken up by Vriska's arrival.
Vriska informs John that she died two years earlier and reveals the existence of Lrd English to him, along with the various plans being proposed to try and stop English from destroying reality. She explains her own plan (embark on a treasure hunt to locate a legendary weapon rumored to be English's one weakness) and John expresses interest in it, but he is forced awake when Meenah arrives and, remembering her previous encounter with John, throws her trident at him again. Upon awakening, he realizes that the ring somehow left the dream bubbles with him and is still in his hand.
In the New SessionEdit
One year later John's ship makes it to the new session, with the ship emerging on LOMAX. However, John was asleep, causing him to appear floating above the cracks of Lrd English's rage in the Furthest Ring. There he encounters Vriska and Tavros again, along with several other dead trolls (and the living Aradia and Sollux), sailing in a naval fleet on the cracks. Vriska reveals to John that the legendary weapon had been located where they started searching the entire time. After they enter a skull cave (which looks surprisingly similar in appearance to a cherub skull) and finding the treasure, John sticks his arm in it. Throughout past panels of Homestuck, John's arm appears many times. Eventually his dream projection disappears, and his waking self begins teleporting wildly throughout many other panels. Eventually he ends up back on LOMAX and wanders around, but finds no one. After a long series of events, WV, Kanaya, Dave, Karkat, Rose and Terezi teleport in front of him.
Jade then appeared, brainwashed by the Condesce, and began to beat him up, at which point he once again disappeared. He then realized that he'd become unstuck in existence from sticking his hand in the treasure. Using a combination of his wind powers and his new random teleportations, he begins to elude Jade. He appears later by Dave while running from Jade, catching him laughing. When asked by Dave, he reveals that he knows what's been going on, despite everyone else suffering from short-term memory loss. Before he can say anything though, Jade appears and he has to move again to prevent capture.
He also appears in front of Kanaya, Karkat, Jade, and Jane on LOFAF, where he witnesses Jane kill Karkat. John begins screaming and Jade tackles John. However, John is relieved when he witnesses Jane bring Karkat back to life, at which point John disappears again.
He finally appears in front of Rose and Terezi on LOLAR. He manages to clear away much of the stardust around the planet, and has a conversation with the two. After calling Terezi a nutjob and telling them what happened before they were separated, he explains his belief that he is 'unstuck in existence' as well as the implications of this; he believes he may now be able to change established events on the alpha timeline. Just after this, Jade turns up again and John is forced to flee, but not before promising Rose that he would find Roxy.
He eventually disappears backwards through time, ending up in the middle of one of Dave and Jade's conversations. Dave tells John that he can feel he's changing the alpha timeline, due to his instincts as a Hero of Time. They then talk about John's new abilities and how they relate to time travel. However, this conversation is averted when John's future self appears and takes John away before Dave notices him. John's future self seems annoyed with him, and sends him away to find Roxy.
John appears in Jake's jail cell, where he turns into breath and blows away all the glitches before finding Roxy and telling her about his adventure thus far, at her request. While talking to her, he wonders if he's boring her, while unbeknownst to him she wonders if he'd be a good boyfriend. After Roxy mentions Calliope and the fact that she's a ghost in danger of being destroyed by Lrd English, John suggests using the Ring of Life to bring her back, saying he'll get it to her eventually. John then leaves. Upon returning to the Prospitian ship, John finds that the ring is missing. He once again zaps away, and finds himself in Caliborn's drawing of Homosuck Act 2, which he is disturbed by. He goes through a series of misadventures in the story's Sburb land, LOSHIT, including riding horses through the sky. He fights the story the whole time and kills a few of Caliborn's versions of the characters. Eventually, he ends up buried under a pile of bogus Daves Alpha Males.
Eventually, John is zapped out of Homosuck and into Caliborn's room, where he quickly pieces together that he is behind the horrific comic. The two have a long staredown before they fight each other, John promptly giving Caliborn a thorough beating before he is zapped away once more, leaving a horrified, bloodied Caliborn behind. All of this occurs during the flash Game Over.
After GAME OVER Edit
He zaps back to the B2 session, where he finds himself in the aftermath of a catastrophic massacre. While searching for answers as to what exactly happened he stumbles across a distraught Dirk Strider, who simply says that he failed, before being consumed by increasingly disordered glitches caused by Caliborn. Disturbed, John floats away, only to find a still-alive Roxy cradling the body of Rose. He catches up with them as they land on LOPAN, and stands by as Rose speaks her final words to Roxy before dying. John and Roxy mourn together, with John declaring that it wasn't Dirk who had failed, but himself, and the two discuss how terrible their current circumstances are. Roxy gives up, believing they have been set on a doomed timeline, and refuses John's offer to fix it. They are interrupted when a wounded Terezi crash lands her rocket wings into the planet, walks over to John, and headbutts him, demanding that he F1X TH1S. As Terezi brings him up to speed on what has happened, including that everyone died and that she stole Jade's shoes essentially because they are shiny and red, they are interrupted by Roxy, who asks John if he has ever seen his denizen.
The three decide that the best chance they have at fixing the current situation is for John to get a handle on his canon-altering powers, and that seeking the aid of his denizen might help. John encourages Roxy to also go see her denizen and she ultimately agrees. Terezi, after an apparently failed attempt to use Seer of Mind powers, elects to stay and bleed to death.
John returns to LOWAS and enters Typheus's palace and begins to proceed to the core of the planet. Upon reaching the core and finding Typheus, John is given the Choice and accepts the terms given to him. As a result of this, Typheus opens the pipes leading to the core causing the oil to flow in and start flooding the chamber, submerging John and thus preventing him from turning into the breeze to escape. As zapping away would result in no progress, John instead comes up with a third option: remove the oil. With the realization he gains enough control over his powers so that he can remove all the oil from LOWAS and instead spread it throughout reality.
After that, John plays the pipe organ in Typheus's palace, thereby completing his quest to free the fireflies and subsequently knocking the A6A6 cartridge out. While he was playing the song, LOWAS was teleported somewhere, which appears to be outside of the story. After exploring his land he comes across Roxy, and they discuss the similar Choices they were given.
John then proceeds to use his now-controllable powers and decides to go to Terezi for help. He remembers his phrase there's no place like home, and uses it to go back to the time when he, Terezi, and Roxy were talking on LOPAN.
John tells his past alternative self to go see Typheus while he and Terezi work out a plan. Terezi writes instructions on her scarf in her own blood, giving John key terms from her memory to zap to those points in her timeline and make subtle changes that would ultimately result in a better outcome. After Terezi tells John to unquestioningly follow the instructions, she draws an outline of her body with chalk (in John's supposedly favorite color), and then falls over dead from her injuries, perfectly fitting the outline, in a recall of her past obsession with crime scene dramas.
John's first instruction is to go back to moment when Grimbark Jade teleports the characters on the meteor to LOMAX, for a R3UN1ON. He greets and embraces his friends and alternate self, and proceeds to follow Terezi's instructions, flying to the Prospitian battleship to retrieve the ring of life before Gamzee, controlled by Aranea, could find it. The next instruction takes him to Terezi's hive, at a moment during her introduction where she is staging a mock trial. Per the instructions, John takes the trial's witness scalemate without getting caught, and zaps away. The next was when Terezi and Karkat had a "moment" and asked him to write on the wall; " you don't need him" in which John thought it was just fixing her boyfriend problems. John then went to the murder scene where Terezi found Tavros' dead body. He placed the witness that he snatched earlier before Terezi has kissed Tavros. After that, he zapped himself when Terezi and Dave were having a conversation confronting Vriska. John wrote a note beside Nepeta's body that it was Gamzee who killed her. He also wrote on the back about the "moment" and asked if it was Karkat or Dave who she wanted to clear it up with. John zapped himself during the time Terezi was stuck in a room, trapped by Gamzee. He was told to "honk" the horn to catch her attention and find Gamzee. John left the room but gets squished by the door when Terezi came out with Gamzee tied up, one of his bicycle horns stuck in his mouth in place of a gag. Lastly, he teleported to the location in which Terezi and Vriska were dueling. He knocked out Vriska before Terezi could stab her and Terezi asked for an explanation. The last item on the scarf was to get his father's wallet. Karkat and the rest of the trolls showed up before John could zap away, which made them confused. After a short conversation with the other trolls John decided he has "messed enough of this timeline" and zapped away.
He zapped to his own timeline in which Roxy had recently finished burying Rose's dead body. He used his powers to zap Roxy and his planet into the new timeline, and he and Roxy arrive on the victory platform where everyone else stands. John catches up with everyone, talks to Dave and Karkat and then has a conversation with Jake. When Vriska lets everyone decide who will take on which villain, he decides to go with Rose and Roxy to fight the Condesce.
During the battle, John and his team used several fraymotifs and physical attacks in an attempt to whittle down the Condesce. Despite the best efforts of John, Kanaya, Rose, Roxy, and Jane, along with interferance from several others, the Condesce eventually overpowered the kids, leaving John battered. However, Roxy was able to impale the Condesce with Bro's Sword, ending the fight.
Alternate TimelinesEdit
According to post-retcon Jade, the John native to the post-retcon timeline was on their version of LOWAS when it exploded early in the three-year trip due to pre-retcon John's Choice, and presumably died a heroic death.
Personality and TraitsEdit
John's physical appearance could be described as a kid with black messy hair, though it has been revealed that he gels it to look that way. He has an obvious nerdy look about him, a trait he may have inherited from his bucktoothed grandmother (Who actually turns out to be genetically his mother, while his adoptive father is actually his half-brother). His outfit usually consists of a white shirt with a picture of what appears to be Slimer from Ghostbusters but is in fact a Japanese knock-off, shorts and a belt, and black sneakers.
He wears a pair of rectangular glasses. He has briefly worn other items, such as an attempted disguise, and for some time he wore a teal suit with the green slime ghost on it, a tie, and long pants. This was a combination of the suit (a birthday present from his Dad), his normal shirt, and the "Wise Guy" book created during John's last alchemization session. He then began wearing the Junior Ectobiologist's Lab Suit, a light green lab coat over dark green shirt and pants, with yellow shoes and a green slime ghost belt. Vriska later outfitted him in an ensemble reminiscent of her own. After achieving the level of god tier, he wears an all blue ensemble featuring a hoodie with an abnormally long hood.
John's interests are movies (especially Con Air), web comics, and video games. He enjoys paranormal lore and magic tricks, the latter of which he also performs. He owns a computer and likes to make programs, no matter how bad they may be. He is right handed (when not spriteflipped), allergic to peanuts, and has a long-standing hatred of the brand Betty Crocker. He can also play the piano quite well.
His room has various items to support his hobbies, such as a Magic Chest filled with trick objects. His walls are littered with posters of movies, web comics, and video games. Notably, his collection of items when colored are typically green, but John associates himself with the color blue.
John initially starts with the Stack Fetch Modus for his Sylladex and has little knowledge of other Modi available. After retrieving a free Queue Modus from his Data Structures textbook, he found he was unable to switch back to the Stack Modus until he found the physical modus card underneath his magic chest. Later, he found an Array modus card in a present from Dad, and then combined all three and made an Array of Queuestacks with the Modus Control Deck. You might call them John's Queuestacks.
His first Strife Specibus was fitted with the Hammerkind Abstratus, meaning he was able to wield only hammers during Strife for the rest of the game. After breaking his sledgehammer during a fight with a Shale Imp, John grabbed the handle and used it during his attack.
This caused the Abstratus to temporarily reset to handlekind, which had the side-effect of removing the head of his claw hammer and leaving the handle. Repairing the sledgehammer caused the Abstratus to return to hammerkind, at which point the claw hammer handle was ejected from the Specibus. John also gained a second Strife Specibus of bunnykind, used by the Shale Imp and dropped after its defeat, which he placed along with his hammerkind Specibus into his Strife Portfolio.
John tends to be a bit of a goofball, making bad jokes and using off-beat humour and subtle irony. John has a typical nerd nature in that he is very passive, and he follows commands more easily than the others, complying with commands not because of their logical sense but because he was told to. Nonetheless, his "optimism through stalwart skepticism," as Rose puts it, causes his friends think of him as the leader, while he prefers just being their friend.
He is more prone to bad ideas than his friends and is made out to be the butt of a lot of jokes when he chats with them through Pesterchum. He even celebrates the birthdays of his friends, Rose, Dave, and Jade. (Naturally, he sent them gifts: some knitting needles, Ben Stiller's sunglasses, and pumpkin seeds, respectively.) John has a tendency to be given commands about making noises and shitting on things. Fortunately, he hasn't complied with any of these, though he often seems to consider them against his better judgement.
John is by far one of the most inventive of the main characters; from the beginning, he shows more innovative prowess in combining items than any of the others, even before the introduction of the alchemiter; he demonstrates this with his poster-nailing and harlequin-funniness-amplifying abilities.
John is also the most grounded of the main characters, contrasting Rose's bookish, logical demeanor, Dave's unceasing pursuit of transcendent irony, and Jade's air-headed, scatterbrained antics. He is also the kindest - Rose is generally very cold emotionally, Dave is quite willing to put the pursuit of irony before consideration for others, and Jade's ideas of kindness tend to be a bit odd, although not out of actual malice.
John, on the other hand, proves to be quite generous and spends more time than the others helping his Consorts. This is in special contrast to Rose, who actively antagonizes them and intentionally sets about destroying her own planet once she learns their session is null, and Dave, who appears to have disregarded them entirely when he wasn't stealing all of their money through the LOHAC Stock Exchange. His post-scratch self is described by Dirk as being "a real kindly old cornball," and that "a nicer guy you couldn't hope to meet."
He also has a strong propensity for self-described 'HILARIOUS ANTICS,' and has all of the points on his Prankster's Gambit. All of them. Although Rose and Dave both frequently take potshots at the quality of his jokes and pranks, he appears to have a genuine talent for comedy, as his post-scratch self became a world-famous comedian.
Relationships Edit
Beta KidsEdit
Dave, Rose and Jade are his best friends, and have been for quite some time. None of their feelings for each other has changed since the session has started, although he does think Rose has gotten "crazier," and has half-jokingly sworn to rescue her from the clutches of evil caused by her commune with the deep ones. John is seen to have a close sibling relationship with Jade, as he had refused to leave her alone and stayed back with her for 3 years straight. John does think that Dave is cool, but only says this between him and Dave as seen in the birthday note he sent him. On multiple occasions, Dave has described them as "best bros."
He appears to be nervous about Karkat's idea of him marrying Rose; although John has brought up the shipping grid and marrying Rose on quite a few occasions, despite his supposed hesitance. Additionally, around the time of the Seer: Descend Flash, John began to show multiple signs of having a romantic crush on Rose; he became nervous when they met, but very quickly warmed up to her, and even brought up the subject of marrying her, which he quickly became embarrassed about. His reactions to Jade asking him if he is "in love with Rose" on this page also suggest this. However, after meeting her again three years later John no longer behaves this way around her.
Roxy Lalonde Edit
Mirroring the aforementioned romantic crush John may have had on Rose, as well as the relationship between Rose's Mom and Dad Egbert, Roxy's crush on Jake, and even Roxy's crush on Jane's Dad, John and Roxy hit it off upon meeting - John attempts to keep her entertained, and Roxy makes a mental note to mack on John, considering him "possible boyfriend material." When they met again on Roxy's planet after the events of [S] GAME OVER, he attempted to comfort her. Terezi insisted that their awkward goodbyes displayed P41NFULLY 3V1D3NT ROM4NT1C T3NS1ON. They meet again after John finishes his quest and discuss what to do next in terms of the main plot. After several timeline related shenanigans, Roxy is visibly happy to see John return to LOWAS. John hands the ring of life over to an especially happy Roxy, and she in turn grabs John's hand as they venture onward into what can only be assumed to be even more timeline related shenanigans. He describes Roxy to Dave as really nice and fun and easy to talk to. He also stated that he felt worse for her after the catastrophic events that they witnessed than he felt for himself. After John tells Dave about his experiences with Roxy, Dave notes these highly probable romantic feelings, telling John that it sounds like you like her, to which he responds "maybe".
In the [S] ACT 7 flash, he is seen walking together with Roxy and Calliope.
Jake English Edit
John quickly develops a friendly relationship with Jake when they meet - they have, among other similarites, a common fondness for movies and similar personalities. John invites Jake to join him, Rose, and Roxy in making plans for dealing with the villains, likely so that he can spend more time with him. He stated that Jake strikes him as a nice regular dude who likes movies and stuff.
Karkat VantasEdit
His relationship with Karkat has sort of become a duo of hate and friendship. John now enjoys all of Karkat's hate filled rants because of the sheer 'insane trolling' Karkat is capable of. While not his patron troll, Karkat has trolled him backwards through almost every step of his journey. After he finished his backwards trolling, Karkat's feelings toward John became far less antagonistic, and he has even apologized for all his bad behavior to him and his friends. John considers him as his favorite troll.
Terezi PyropeEdit
His talks with Terezi have been strained at best. The first time they talked, Terezi threatened to kill him as a prank, which caused him to change his Pesterchum handle. Later on, he gets involved in Terezi's plot to mess up the timeline, although they constantly antagonized each other. Since Dave has started working together with Terezi, she has stopped talking to John for the most part, as Vriska became his new patron troll.
Having met up after the bloodbath on LOFAF, the two of them began scheming to use John's powers to F1X TH1S. Although their plot was successful, Terezi and John still appear to be on bad terms, with Terezi calling him a N3RD and belittling him, and John thinking that she's been pranking him, also frequently calling her either weird or insane. After John explains to Dave his interactions with Terezi here, Karkat insists that John has a caliginous crush on Terezi, although John argues that humans cannot have those kinds of relations. Dave, however, supports Karkat's claim, saying that karkat knows his shit when it comes to quadrants. John later has mixed feelings about the idea, denying that he is black for her but heavily implying otherwise. It is possible that Terezi returns John's black feelings (or has some sort of other feelings for him), supported when she says to Vriska, N3V3R N3V3R N3V3R T3LL H1M 1 S41D TH1S BUT FOR 4 DORK, H3'S..., and does not finish her sentence. Later, he and Terezi have a conversation which, although we don't get to see what they say, seems to be filled with black flirting and trading insults. When Terezi leaves, John says BYE, IDIOT!!!!!!! and then blushes as Roxy looks at him.
Kanaya MaryamEdit
John has talked to Kanaya twice: first (from his perspective) months in the past, and second during Sburb through Rose's account. John said she was kinda cool after their first conversation.
Aradia MegidoEdit
John has twice talked to Aradia since joining Vriska's pirate crew. The first time he was introduced to her he questioned her ghostliness to which she responded with her claim to being alive, and the second time he had asked her about her opinions on Vriska's crew's adventure. However, her response, to which he replied "you are all so insane!", seemed to have creeped him out.
Vriska SerketEdit
John's relationship with Vriska is a very complex one. It seems to fluctuate between admiring and disliking her. At first, Vriska decided to help John on his quest as a means of competing with Terezi, who was helping Dave. Vriska was very bossy and a control freak towards John at first, which he found kind of annoying, but he still enjoyed talking with her. Vriska and John's feelings developed deeper: John used more of her typing quirk to please her, Vriska made an outfit for John that she said makes him totally hot, and John showed her Nicolas Cage, who became her fangirl crush. However, after Vriska killed Tavros, Vriska opened up more of her feelings than she had with anybody else. She held John's opinion of her in highest respect, fearing that he would be angry with her. She has told him about not only her remorse for killing, but how her views of killing compared to those of troll society, how much she admired humans for being weaker but nicer, and her entire background. Though he was a bit freaked out after hearing that Vriska had murdered twice and killed thousands to feed her Lusus, he didn't seem to think less of her after receiving the shock.
John was shown to still care about Vriska's wellbeing afterwards, and Vriska reciprocated these feelings, hoping that John would get strong enough to stop Jack and protect their friends in case she died trying to fight him. Before her death, Vriska asked John out on a date, confirming that Vriska's feelings for John were red after all. John accepted, but Vriska was killed by Terezi, leaving a visibly shaken Karkat to look through their last pesterlog and respond through her account. After switching to his own account, he asked John if he genuinely liked Vriska, upon which John confirmed he did—prompting Karkat to withhold the information of Vriska's death and the specifics of Gamzee's rampage for now to avoid distracting John from the important tasks at hand.
During the ride to the new session, John claimed to no longer care much about romance. When Jade asked what this meant about Vriska, he said he barely remembered what he and Vriska talked about, and that is was a bit silly to base a romance on just a day's worth of conversations. He referred to her as that troll girl who was sort of into me, suggesting that he forgot about Vriska somewhat, but when he talks to Meenah a little later, he asks her if she has seen Karkat or Vriska (the only two trolls he really got to know well) around, showing that he does remember her more than his conversations with Jade suggested.
He later met Vriska's ghost in dream bubbles twice, and after seeing she was using the other dead trolls' ghosts as bait to defeat Lrd English, he began to be somewhat disturbed by her, considering her to be dangerous. He confessed to Roxy that he was beginning to think he might actually kind of hate her, and went so far as to call her diabolical. However during John's retcon shenanigans, he interferes during Terezi and Vriska's standoff, and per future Terezi's directions: prevents the cerulean blooded troll's death by punching her in the face, showing no hesitation in punching her nor in preventing her death. Soon afterwards, he does apologize to the unconscious troll girl for punching her, and admits that it will be neat to meet her alive self, showing that his former hatred for her either diminished over time or was vented out in that punch. After arriving in the new timeline with Roxy, he is happy to see Vriska, saying that [her], um, *ways* probably are more valuable to have here, in the land of the living, and compliments her thought-out plan for taking on all the threats in the session.
Trivia Edit
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- John is the only human kid whose death before ascending to god tier was not by an explosion.
- John's title "Heir of Breath" may be a play on "Inherit the Wind"
- John's god tier hood heavily resembles a wind sock.
- Breath may be used interchangeably with air, a homophone of Heir.
- It may also be a play on words of his favorite movie, Con Air (Con Heir).
- John may be named for James Dallas Egbert III, a student at Michigan State University who was incorrectly alleged to have disappeared into the school's steam tunnels for reasons related to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). John's last name may also be a reference to Ebert, the movie critic, which would be connected to his love of movies. You would have to ask Cuttlefish, the user who originally named him on the MSPA forum here to see which or if something completely different.
- John's eyes are blue, matching his Pesterchum text. He was the third kid to have his eye colour shown.
- Birthday-wise, his astrological sign is Aries. All of the other Kids other than Jane are Sagittarius.
- John has a severe allergy to peanuts, shown here. Jake shares this allergy.
- John's current screen name, ectoBiologist, has the initials EB which refers to EarthBound, one of the video games that inspired Andrew Hussie to do Homestuck as stated in Book 1 of Homestuck.
- John's address (21605 Fir Dr, Maple Valley, Washington) is a real place.
- In one of his pesterlogs with Dave, the word "white" was changed to "Íæûë€Å" (part of it was removed; it tripped the spam filter with a particular character), until being changed back.
- This page confirms that John has a cowlick.
- John's hair was different from the first page until ==>, when he is next seen with his current hair from John: Resist great urge to take the wedged shale onwards.
- This page and this page are reference to Ghostbusters, where a cart chases a slimer down a hall when provoked by Stantz, where in the panel shows John (Cart) crashing into the wall when holding onto Jade (Stantz), who was following Jaspers (Slimer). When the slimer hit the wall, it revealed a green slime covering it, similar to the pink slime left by Jaspers.
- John's ghost slime shirt is a reference to a fictional Asian knock-off of the ghost slime from Ghostbusters. More info on that here
- The name "Zoosmell" may be a reference to one of Andrew Hussie's older blurbs, also named, Zoo Smell.
- Along with Karkat's Sicklekind specibus, John's Hammerkind specibus is symbolic of communism.
- This was later directly referenced by Dave.
- They were both the leaders of their respective sessions.
- On the first page of Homestuck Beta, it says John was born on April 10th and was 10 years old. In the final version of Homestuck, he was born on April 13th, and was 13 years old.
- John is depicted on the "XII: the Hanged Man" card, the "XVII:The Star" card with Rose, the "XIX: The Sun" card with WV, and on the "XXI: The World" card with all four B1 kids in the Homestuck Tarot card deck. He can also be seen on the "Five of Wands" card with most of the pre-act 6 cast.
- John is the only character whose screen name has changed at some point.
- John is currently the only Beta kid to not have had an alternate self prototyped into a sprite at some point.
- As seen in this flash, John seemingly wears black boxers with ghost slimes on.
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Enough rambling. The equation to find arc length is Sab sqrt(1 + (dy/dx)^2)dx. If you find it difficult or impossible to find the integral in this manner, try Scd sqrt(1 + (dx/dy)^2)dy. Both of these equations assume that their functions are differentiable on the intervals [a,b] and [c,d], respectively.
Literally, the length of an arc. Mathematically, the length of the curve produced by some function f(x) between two points. Let's say f(x) looks something like this:
_ | / \ | / \ / | / \ / | / \ / | \_/ _|_____________________ | a b |
Now, you need to find the length of the arc between x=a and x=b. (Don't ask why you need to find it. Math doesn't care about why. You just do.) Well, you could produce a pretty good guess by breaking up the arc into line segments and measuring each of them separately:
_ | / \ | / |\ / | /| | \ /| | / | | \ / | | | | | |\_/ | _|__|__|__|__|__|__|___ | a b |
This, of course, is only an approximation. But you can make the approximation better and better by making your line segments shorter and shorter. The easy way to measure the line segments would be with a flexible tape measure, but that's not very mathematical, is it? So let's use right triangles and pull the Pythagorean Theorem out of our dusty old geometry textbooks.
_ | /|\ | /_| \ / | /| | \ / | / | | \ / | | | \_/ _|_____|_|_____________ | a a a b | i i+1
We'll call the horizontal distance between those two vertical lines Δx (delta-x), because d stands for "distance" and we like using Greek to make our proofs sound more mathematical. The vertical line at x=ai strikes the curve at f(x)=f(ai), so the vertical distance (Δyi) between the two points is f(ai+1)-f(ai). So far so good?
Now Pythagoras comes in, and we have the length of the line segment equal to the square root of Δx2+Δyi2. Ugly, but useful. We'll clean it up later.
If you break up the curve using, oh, about n vertical lines of equal Δ (er, distance apart), you can now write the length of the entire curve as the sum of all the line segments. Each line segment's length equals the square root of Δx2+Δyi2, where i is between 1 and n, so we can add up all the segments and write it out using even more Greek, in the form of sigma notation:
_n_ _________ \ / 2 2 /__ \/ Δx +Δy i=1 i
But that's ugly. Too many letters, for one thing. So let's work on getting rid of those "y"s, because they have funny tails and we don't like things like that sticking out of our mathematical formulas.
We said already that
Δyi = f(ai+1)-f(ai)
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f'(xi)(ai+1-ai) = f(ai+1)-f(ai) = f'(xi) Δx
Well, there you go. We now have
Δyi = f'(xi) Δx
And substituting that into our messy y-infested formula for the arc length, we have
_n_ ________________ \ / 2 2 /__ \/ Δx +(f'(x )Δx) i=1 i
or, after cleaning up under the square root:
_n_ ___________ \ / 2 /__ \/ 1 +f'(x ) Δx i=1 i
But that's still not precise enough for your math professor, because he wants Δx to be infinitely small. So you let n increase to infinity using something he showed you months ago called a limit. Pretending for a moment that % means infinity, we have
_n_ ____________ lim \ / 2 n->% /__ \/ 1 + f'(x ) Δx i=1 i
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__________ |\b / 2 | / 1 + f'(x) dx \| a \/
This tidy formula you can now plug into your advanced calculator or Mathematica program or (if you're really geeky) do it in your own head to find the exact length of the arc, down to the last micrometer. Or whatever. It may take ten times as long as the tape measure, but at least you can go to bed knowing with confidence that your answer was precise.
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http://dreesthings.blogspot.com/2012/02/linky-follower-party-hop.html - February 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM


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Flying home to Portland Troutdale (KTTD) from Medford, Ore. (KMFR) Friday night, I heard the following:
Portland Approach: November One Two Charlie, traffic ten o�clock, southbound at 9,000, a Navajo.
12C: We�re looking.
Approach: Correction, it�s a Malibu.
12C: Still looking.
Approach: Sorry, it�s really a Navajo. Oh well, what the heck, it�s dark.
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