Hippos

.....find a troll to gnaw it off..........

Once upon a time a boy loved hippos... He loved their shape, their ears, their mouths, even their large butts. He loved the way they roared and the way they played in the water.

Oh wait thats me.....

ummm yeah so hippos rock, cows suck and all other animals just bow down the hippo kings.

Lets analyze the word hippo. 5 letters in Hippo, 5 letters in Great. Hippo starts with H, Heaven starts with H. Hippos are big, and we all know size matters.

Anyone who dissents againts the majority opinion that hippos are the greatest animals to walk the face of the earth should be shot in my opinion.

Darwin, Dio, its been a while, nice to see you boys kept this going

Signing back on (at least to the forums)

the ever famous

Jonathan VonLenard

I went to the Hippo Trivial Game this week it was Fun and Exciting.

and I won some Money

Hippos = Money... makes sense to me

Hippo Trivia!?!?! Can't have been better than my Hippo Trivia event, which was the first in SL (with my man Darwin by my side of course).

JV

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN JON? NICE TO SEE YA

welcome back Jv ......we have been waiting for you ....we all miss your witty answers to everything

The Surf-Hippo Neuron Simulation System

The Surf-Hippo neuron simulator is used to investigate morphologically and biophysically detailed compartmental models of single neurons and networks of neurons. Surf-Hippo allows ready construction of cells and networks using built-in functions and various anatomical file formats (Neurolucida, NTS and others). Surf-Hippo is a public domain package, written in Lisp, and runs under Unix and Linux.

Cell models may have complicated 3-dimensional dendritic trees with distributed non-linearities and synaptic inputs driven by arbitrary inputs or other cells. The number of circuit nodes (cell compartments) is in practice limited by the memory in the machine; simulations with thousands of nodes are routine. The retention of XYZ coordinates for each circuit node may be exploited, for example, by simulations which use spatially-coded input, or with network simulations where synaptic connectivity is defined by spatial proximity. Channels (Hodgkin-Huxley, an extended Hodgkin-Huxley model (Borg-Graham, 1991, 1999, Markovian (Borg-Graham, 1999), and others), synapses (autonomous, voltage-dependent, light-dependent, and others), current and voltage sources may be added at arbitrary locations within a neuron. Stationary or moving two dimensional input (e.g. light, for retinal (Borg-Graham and Grzywacz, 1992; Borg-Graham, 2001) or visual cortex (Gazeres etal, 199 simulations) is also provided. Multi-compartment concentration systems are provided for modelling mechanisms such as calcium-dependent processes.

Surf-Hippo has an extensive graphical user interface, including menus, 3D graphics of dendritic trees (with point-and-click measurement, examination and modification of circuit elements), and data plotting (reformatable, with mouse-oriented measurement). Publication quality postscript files of all graphical output are easily generated. Data files may also be saved for analysis with external tools. Surf-Hippo allows automatic saving of edited model parameters into files which are both loadable and human readable, a feature which helps to avoid errors in saving results during a simulation session.

For integrating the circuit equations, Surf-Hippo uses a variant of the Crank-Nicholson method described by Hines (1984; Borg-Graham, 1999). A major difference in the method used by Surf-Hippo is a variable time step option, where step size is adjusted according to an estimate of the linear truncation error for all state variables (e.g. node voltages, channel particles). The adaptive time step can give much faster run times for typical simulations, with the option of verifying selected results using the more conservative fixed time step integration. Another difference is that Surf-Hippo allows for either ideal or non-ideal voltage clamp at arbitrary nodes in the circuit. ...

Hippos hippos hippos hippos la la laaaa

That's my new hit song

umm guys this thread dropped way too low, i'm disappointed in you all, you have each been given one hippo demerit.

JV

doooooooooooooo

AHHH!!! Pulse fading!!! CLEAR! *bu-shump*

dooooo beep beep beep

Whew, we dodged a bullet!

Oh by the way, does anyone know what the world's longest thread is? Most I found had 2,000 some replies.

hippo hippo hippo

The worlds longest thread is probably in the worlds largest spool of yarn.

P.S. Woo!!! I just noticed that this is my 400th post!

Watched the coolest hippo show ever last night.

Did you know that hippo dung is a huge part of the ecosystem. All the animals eat it. Some fish don't wait for it to drop out though, they go straight to the source... They attack the hippo's bum for a meal! The poor hippos get hundreds of these sharp pointed fish attacking their bums!

The hippo also has a spa, there are these bottom feeder kinda fish sharks that suck parasites, dirt, dung, and stuff off of the hippos all over, and then once he gets clean he opens his mouth for their payment, they get to eat crap off of his tongue and mouth. Yet he makes sure never to eat a fish, and when he's done he opens his mouth above water wide to show the gods that he didn't eat one of their precious fish

JV

*climbing from the bottom of th forum...*

"Climb little hippo, climb!"

I had a close encounter yesterday. I was cornered by agressive bunnies who wanted to kill me. I was hoping a hippo would save me, but eventually I realized that the only hippos in Illinois are in the zoos so I decided to throw some vegetables at them and they ran away.

Bunnies are afraid of carrots. Ohhh yes, it's true (7 posts to go)

Hmmm... Should I just let the hippo thread die, this close to 400 posts? :^( It makes me sad (Just 6 posts to go)

No! Let this thread live! Hippos shal rise again!!!!!

soon, all my hippo weapons will be complete for our hippo war!

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I find so many cool translators!!!

Good News: I've harnessed the power of the aggressive bunnies and are using them to plot a SL takeover! MUWHAHAHAHA! Also, gimme some links to translators Dio

Well... the one I used for binary was Binary Code Translator

Um... the other one was the 12-year-old AOLer Translator that you all know about...

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It's almost there... Hippos and alligators are the last to leave the watering hole. Long after the drought has driven away all the other animals, they will stubbornly and desperately absorb the very last bits of moisture from the muddy pits.