1. Will you be attending?
Of course I will! This is my hometown con after all, I always go. ^.^

2. Staying at:
The main hotel, the Hilton on the fursuit floor!

3. Arrival and Departure:
I'm taking a half day of work on Thursday and showing up at the con that afternoon. I'll be leaving the con on Sunday afternoon after everything's wrapped up, so I can get a UHaul and start getting ready to move into my new apartment!

4. Mode of transportation:
I'm a localfur here in Seattle, so I'll be driving down to the con. :)

5. Rooming with:
With my bunny  cth of course! Like you're surprised.

6. Con Plans:
Fursuit, attend panels, get art, hang out with friends and just maybe worship their paws a bit. ^.^

7. How can I find you?
I tend to stand out. Ironically, I am one of the tallest people in the fandom, and at a con I always have my Blotch "Dog's Days" shirt on as an overshirt. When I am in suit I stand out even more because I am bright white and yellow and smell like vanilla! You might be able to contact me via Twitter as well, username Fuzzypaw!

8. Do you do free art?
I won't be drawing a whole lot, but I'm sure I'll do some. I guess it depends on who you are, and when and where you catch me! I'm not a big name artist though and am still learning, so, you'll get what you get. :3

9. Do you have prints/CDs?
Nope! I'm not that far along in my arting, haha.

10. Will you be fursuiting? If so, what suit(s)?
Shiro, my white and yellow vanilla-scented coonferret! Trust me, it's rather hard to miss me when I'm out and about in that thing. ^.^

11. Will you be going to parties?
I'm going to try to make it to one or two! It really depends on the nature of the parties I guess. I lean more toward room parties than to the constant debauchery of the party floor, though I'm sure I'll sneak up there once or twice for short stretches.

12. Will you be performing?
Define performing! When I am out in suit it is always kind of a performance, "me but more so," but if you mean performing on stage at the events then likely not.

13. Smoke?
Nope! I don't have a problem with those who do though.

14. Drink?
Surely! I love delicious and creative mixed drinks. I totally go for the fruity girly drinks and for the cream based or blended drinks... I'm not so much for the "macho" liquors. :3

15. Gender?
Male! I thought that was obvious by now.

16. Can I hug you?
Only if you're not wearing a diaper! If you crinkle I don't want you in my personal space, especially if I'm in suit; I have a pretty good sense of smell. :( Otherwise sure, go ahead! I want to see you though, no ambushes from behind...

17. Can I talk to you?
Yes you can! I am very friendly and try to be an approachable omega rather than a shy one. ^.^

18. Will you be at any panels?
Probably a few! I'm going to try to hit some of the writing and drawing panels. Ultimately though hanging out will take priority over that since that's what I go to a con for, to meet and make friends. :)

19. Can I touch you?
Define touch. :, Hugs sure, pets and scritching sure, friendly tickles sure, putting your feet on me sure... ;3 But no bad touch! And I'd really like to emphasize I don't want to be surprised from behind.

20. Can I buy you drinks?
Yes, yes you can! You can buy me food too! I greatly enjoy both, not only as someone who likes to cook bake and bartend but as someone with more tastebuds than normal too. ^.^

21. How old are you?
Old enough to know better and by all accounts older than I look! But okay, 31.

22. Can I snuggle with you?
We need to be on speaking terms first! If we're already acquaintances online the answer is yes. If we are meeting at the con for the first time then I am going to need to know more about you!

23. If you're pissed off, should I approach you?
I am basically never pissed off when at a con! I'm running on a constant high except when I am alone for too long and even then I just try to seek people out, or go fursuiting. In the unlikely event you do see me upset, go ahead and approach, I could use a hug and a friendly ear to get me recharged again!

24. Are you nice?
Isn't this a rephrase of the "can I talk to you" question? Anyway yeah, I consider myself to be very friendly and I have never heard differently from anyone else. Whether it's because I am submissive by nature or for any other reason, I don't really believe in being a jerk without provocation or prior experience. ^.^

25. Cliquey?
Not really! I am going to prioritize the people I already know and am already friends with, that's fair right? But I am open to meeting new people and making new friends, especially if my time isn't already currently being occupied by someone else. :)

26. How tall?
2 meters tall, almost 6'6". And that is out of suit! Oh, the irony...

27. Can I take pictures of you?
Sure! Especially if I am in suit doing something cute. If you do take pics of me in suit I WANT THEM! SEND THEM TO ME! <3

28. Will you get anything commissioned?
Yes I will! Not nearly as much as usual, it's kind of a rough year financially and I am moving again this week but hey, special circumstances. :D

29. How can I get your attention?
Just come up to me and say hi! Giving me money and presents works too. ;3

30. Can I ask you to dance at the raves?
Well, okay, but you do realize there's really no such thing as dancing with someone at a rave, right? As most it's dancing next to something. ^.^

Saw this on a few people's FA's, notably  amtrack88. Was pretty interesting and didn't take very long! Did it as a G+ post and linked to the test itself in the comments.

https://plus.google.com/11063430784.....ts/JpcW2xPsS2X

As previously noted, you can find me on Google Plus now! I am sure that tinycoon adventures that are too long for my Twitter may show up there.

https://plus.google.com/110634307843548056661/

But now, the reason for this journal! August 1st marks exactly one year since I started my weight loss project. In that time I've lost 88 pounds (40 kilograms) 89 pounds, almost 30% of my starting mass. That's definitely a milestone worth celebrating, and something to cheer me up from everything going on! And you know what that means - it's time for another installment of TINYCOON MATH! Two installments, actually, since I skipped the 80 pound milestone due to circumstances going on. So get ready for lots of size physics! The actual math is going to be underplayed this time so hopefully it will be easier to understand. I’ll start with the bad news, then pretend like it didn’t count. :3

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Why Giant Macros Don't Work

First up today, we will be talking about macros and their salient properties, chief among them being the inability of the "standard macro" of phenomenal size to exist according to the laws of physics as we know them. :3 The cause of this wretched condition is a miserable scientific principle called the Square Cube Law, which I have discussed here before. To wit:

The strength of bone and muscle is dependent on cross-sectional area, which increases with the square of your height; meanwhile, your bodyweight increases with the cube of your height.

There's a reason all the world's-record largest humans have had cardiac and respiratory problems (heart and lung muscles not strong enough to support the extra burden), not to mention various issues with their bones and joints. Our systems just don't scale up that well. Sure, you're getting stronger as you get bigger from that growth ray, but that extra strength and then some gets diverted off to support the weight of your own body, your own vital organs. Fall over, and not only will that nasty gravitic acceleration of 9.8 meters per second per second have more time to speed up your poor fragile head and spine on their way to the ground, but they will hit that much harder to begin with just because you're heavier!

Suppose you grow to just twice your normal height. That's all, just twice. You could potentially have carried four times more weight than before... if not for the inconvenient fact that your body weighs eight time as much as it used to. You aren't going to be doing much heavy lifting at all! You're probably pretty slow too, despite the doubled stride, because you are essentially encumbered; it is like staggering around with a backpack weighing just as much as you do, or carrying someone of equal size in your arms (with them clutching close to you to keep the center of mass inside you). Now let's say you slip and fall over, maybe stumbling over an inconvenient midget or something. You are falling twice as far, and with proportionally twice the weight compared to what your bones and muscles are accustomed to bearing. As a result you hit with 4 times the force you would normally. I hope you studied how to fall properly in parkour or martial arts or something, because if not, you are likely to injure a lot more than your pride. Some tissue damage is a certainty and you might break or crack some bones too.

At the point where you are growing to three times your usual height, you might as well give up, lay down and wait for death. It will probably come pretty quickly! You’re 8 times stronger than at normal size, but your body and its organs now weigh 27 times more than when they started. Your heart is struggling to pump your blood, and it’s unlikely you can really move other than by crawling. That is really the safest option, lest you try to stand up, fall over, and bash your brains open. You are also being tortured by the double whammy of fever and slow suffocation – these may or may not kill you, depending on how strong you are and where you are, but at the very least they are going to make you miserable! You have 27 times the high-temperature biomass, and only 8 times as much surface area on your body to radiate it to the environment, as well as only 8 times the surface area in your lungs to take up oxygen / expel carbon dioxide to support this giant body of yours… lungs which, remember, are 27 times heavier while your diaphragm is only 8 times stronger, meaning each breath is becoming a struggle. Shortly after growing to this height you are going to get one hell of a fever going on if you’re in a pleasant environment, absorbing heat from your surroundings, your own internal body heat mitigated only by the reduced oxygen flow to your tissues. The temperature problem can be dealt with by such circumstances as being in the arctic or having a giant walk in freezer, but, that doesn’t really sound fun to me. Your mucus membranes and eyeballs and such might also still be subject to frostbite; I’m not sure on this. I do know though that it sucks to be you, big guy.

Growing to four times taller, or even more? You’re pretty much going to die immediately, likely in a painful fashion unless you grow large enough to suffer an immediate heart attack and stroke. Of course, you could go out in style if suicide is your aim… just get big enough to the point where you implode and your skeleton collapses under the weight. Squishy!

"But what about elephants and dinosaurs," you cry! Well, that's the thing. You're not an elephant or a dinosaur. (Probably... hard to tell with some of you folk here.) Those creatures actually evolved to be that big, and so have a physical structure commensurate with their size. They aren't just a small creature scaled up - they actually have a different layout to their body. Their bones are far thicker than they would be if they were simply a human or wolf magnified up to size, and they tend to have more muscle too. This is necessary just to support their own immense bulk. It is also questionable whether the very largest dinosaurs would still be able to exist today on dry land; there was more oxygen in the atmosphere back in the days of yore, and that helped support ramped up metabolisms and bigger creatures across the board. The Navi in James Cameron’s “Avatar” got that handwave carbon fiber skeleton for a reason, precisely because it was one of the few ways to deal with the problems of being a giant biped with human-normative proportions.

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Well, What If They Did?

So let’s say we’ve rewritten the laws of physics to address the square cube law. Suppose that 3.5 D&D physics are in effect, and each time you double in height your net carrying strength also doubles. I don’t want to call this a “fourth power cube” law because it’s not, more like a “cube+1 cube” law, but it’s certainly useful nonetheless. There are other implications to this, like monumental architecture being much easier in this world, and there being some really wildly improbable natural rock formations and caverns you wouldn’t think would be able to remain standing under their own weight, but I’ll just focus on the critters because that’s what you’re here for right? The idea of an actual Yggdrassil-type world tree is really cool though and that is something that could happen with these physics… Ahem! Moving on…

So, let’s say you’re six times taller now, just enough to fit a standard person, lying down, under the length of your foot. You weigh 216 times more than you used to but you are 221 times stronger. This is enough to carry your ridiculous bulk, move with your usual momentum proportionate to your new height and perhaps even faster, and still appear 6 times stronger than before. Your stride length is going to be 6 times longer because of your new height, and possibly longer because the extra leg strength will give you extra spring in your step. If you could long jump 20 feet (6 meters) before, count on being to jump quite a bit further than 120 feet (36 meters) now, clearing over 30 feet (9 meters) vertically in the process. Also, have you ever looked out from the fourth floor of a building, or any equivalent height? That is how much farther you can see now – the horizon is farther away and more of the world falls under the scope of your gaze. Your buoyancy isn’t going to change one bit either, since your density will be the same, meaning that if you like to swim you can still do so. In fact, you can kick up some pretty righteous waves even at this size, and it only gets more gnarly the bigger you go!

What does this mean to your interactions with others? Since you could undoubtedly injure someone by punching them at your normal height, and your punches and kicks will now cover hugely more of their body (36 times more, in fact) with effectively 6 times more force, you can count on winning basically every fight in a single attack and casually swatting them quite a distance away from you in the process. Between your strength and your hugely increased mass, you can now make anyone pretty literally explode by stomping them underfoot. You can also pick up a 180 pound person as if they were only a 30 pound handweight, making them easy to disable, stuff in a container, throw somewhere, or just exercise with.

Can you be hurt? Sure, but it’s harder. Your muscles and bones are made of sterner stuff, and a normal person’s unarmed attacks are mostly going to bounce off you just like a declawed cat’s paw swat affects you now. A fully clawed cat can injure or kill you at your normal size though, and by the same token a normal size person with a knife can injure or kill you even when you’re a giant – but just like the cat, they’re mostly going to be a painful inconvenience and infection risk at worst. A little .22 snub revolver that a lady might carry in her purse barely has any stopping power against a determined regular-size mugger as it is and will likewise be like a BB shot to you… but don’t get too cocky. A rifle round or elephant gun shot, as well as a lucky hit from a .45 or similar heavy handgun, could still put you out of commission just like they might an elephant. You’re taller than the elephant, sure, but the elephant is built a lot thicker than you, and so anything that could take one down is something for you to be concerned about! With these physics in play you also don’t have to worry about injuring yourself in a fall even as much as you do at regular height, let alone more – your body is just completely stronger and will absorb more punishment.

You’re just healthier now, too. Viruses and bacteria might not even be able to penetrate your system; this depends a lot on whether your existing cells have been enlarged, or whether your whole body has been reconstructed with more cells of the same size. If the former the infectious agents won’t make it past your cellular membranes, and if the latter they will need to be present in far, far greater quantities to have any impact on you. This goes for poisons, radiation, and anything else like that as well. You can safely eat almost anything, though you probably still want to stick to things that have at least some nutritional value and won’t hurt going down or coming out. This does mean also that you could consume other living creatures raw and alive without getting sick, but you wouldn’t do that because you’re a gentle giant, right…?

Sure, there are some drawbacks. One is particularly notable - you have to eat a lot more! Not as much as you might think though. For as much more as a human eats than a mouse, consider that it could be a lot worse – the mouse eats quite a bit more as a percentage of body weight each day than you do. So yeah, you’re not going to have to eat 216 times more food than at normal size… but you should probably count on at least 36 times more, which is going to get expensive fast unless you have some adoring worshippers supplying it for you. At least you’ll eat it faster, what with your bigger hands and bigger mouth! It’s also going to be harder to interact with regular size people on a normal basis, find clothing and shelter, and so forth, but you already knew that going in, didn’t you?

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It is bedtime for me now so I’m going to stop, but, hopefully that gives you all some fun stuff to think about. :) And since it is tradition at this point:

If I were shrunk to 10 inches tall, I would weigh 212 grams – at 7,4 ounces this is less than half a pound! I’d weigh about as much as a Nintendo DS.

If I were shrunk to 3 inches tall, I would weigh 5,7 grams - one fifth of an ounce! I’d weigh about as much as a US quarter dollar coin, or about a third of oreo cookie. :3

Who knows, maybe I’ll get lucky and get that shrink potion now… ^.^

I have a bunch more watchers than him, so maybe this will help him with his networking.  kaedwuff is about to be without a roof over his head, and could use a couch to surf. He's willing to do housework and stuff to help out while he continues to look for a job.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2503865/

I've gotten several requests recently as to whether I'd be willing to chip in to join in a commission, etc. While I appreciate the desire to have me in a pic I can't say yes to that after taking donations to help with Rikku's vet bill, it wouldn't be responsible. In a couple months after I'm back on my feet after moving and everything, I'll consider that kind of thing, but in the meantime the only art I will be posting / that other artists will be posting with me in it is either: A, something I've had kicking around my hard drive for a while and haven't gotten around to; B, something I already paid for before this stuff happened; or C, something that is gifted to me.

So, long story short, the answer is "No, but thanks anyway." :)

Everyone has been really supportive of me and my feisty little ferret, and I really appreciate it! Various furs have donated over $330 so far toward the $750 I have left of her $1078 vet bill, which is really and truly amazing. ^.^ I'm sure if Rikku could read the words on my screen she would be thankful to all of you too!

This ferret is a little trooper, and wants to get better and be back up to full mischief causing capacity again. She is getting a little stronger and a little more mobile everyday. She's regained the use of her front legs and is trying to regain the use of her back legs so she can walk again. Right now she can only manage about 2 seconds at a time before she falls over, but she keeps trying, and hopefully she'll recover her mobility completely. :D

http://twitvid.com/6FMVD

Now, the question! If you have ferrets or have had them before and can give advice, it'd be helpful. Rikku hates her medicine - the antibiotic, the calcium syrup, all of it. She really hates it and tries to claw it out of her mouth, so I've been giving her Ferretone afterwards to make the bad flavor go away. But I am wondering if there is a good way to disguise the medicine or mix it with something else so it will be more palatable for her? What I'm specifically concerned about is that if I were to mix it with something she likes, such as Ferretone or Ferretvite or her kibble, I don't want her to decide she now hates that stuff and stop eating. Advice please?

And not just #footpawfriday though that is always important too. It's  herro's annual Paw Day! Put on your best Pawvatar (like my walk cycle by the awesome  voondahbayosh) and go check in!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2360302/

Because I am compelled to sign up for these things to protect myself. It is frustrating though especially in that it results in an ever proliferating number of passwords to keep track of, because I'm sure as hell not going to use the same password at some random furry social networking site as at a site like this that I actually care about what happens...

Would you like to join this fluffy pile of masked and ringtailed awesome? Are you a raccoon, red panda, coati, ringtail, lemur, tanuki, dip-tailed ferret, or anything similar? Then go here and comment with a link or two to pics of your character! Only $15 to join in.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2309580/

Anyway! For reference, here is the list thus far of paid-and-confirmed coonalikes to be drawn by  aggrobadger in this awesome picture:

Fuzzypaws
Aquacoon
Neonslushie
Ante
Darkmask
Accipitrina
Sirkain
Panderbear
Ridiraccoon
Honorablethief
Kitcoon
TheGreenCoon
ShiroSirius
Traxer
Johabi
Dreamous (Gomi)
Rhemora
Rick2Tails
Sunshyne
Graedius
Tobor
Keiran928
TahoeTaxidinae
Quinn
Catspajamas
Taakuin
Kairyu-shin
akelavincent
RickGriffin
Shugo-Wolf
LadySin
Raccoonwithapen


(List current as of May 22. Will update as aggro updates me on people buying in.)

Yes, that's right! I am recruiting mischievous ring-tailed bandits for a giant picture to be drawn by  aggrobadger. The scene is to be a cuddlepile, with paws, flooftails, and mask-faces galore! Raccoons, red pandas, tanukis, ring-tailed lemurs, ferrets, and other similar creatures will be accepted at our discretion - as many as we can get!

If you participate, your character will be drawn in a style similar to this:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5328167/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5397357/

The scene will be G-rated. Clothing is optional but genitals will not be drawn regardless.

So let's go over the rules.

* Comment below to be considered for the project! You must have a picture of your character already, and must link to it in your comment. We are not accepting text-only references for this project! You do not, however, need a full-on character sheet. A drawing that shows your markings (and ideally your colors) is a-ok!

* Remember, this is clean G-rated fun, and no one has cooties! If it is going to break your world if you end up adjacent to the same or opposite gender, then you probably shouldn't participate.

* The price to participate is $15. After you are are confirmed, I or aggro will PM you with aggro's paypal information. Even if you have it already, don't send money before you are confirmed!

* Aggro does have other commissions in the queue, so drawing this ginormous pile of fluffy squee is something that is going to take a little while. Probably in the vicinity of a month once we stop accepting applicants. Patience is a virtue!

Let's get this party started! Again, comment below with your reference to be considered.


Closed!

Hey there and welcome again to Fuzzy's school of sizeology! After having my schedule knocked off kilter for a few weeks by going on vacation I'm back on track with my weight loss and have reached a new personal milestone, 70 pounds shed as of this morning. That means it is time for another round of tinycoon mathematics - explaining how things are different for a micro like me vs you normal size folks!

If you wanted to check them out, here are the prior discussions on this topic....

Round 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2099999/
Round 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2171285/

Without further ado, here we go!

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Jump Distance revisited

Due to a couple factors I didn't consider, the jump distance does not actually stay constant as you shrink, and does decrease. However, it does not decrease linearly with height. The closest approximation is that jumping power decreases with the square root of height, provided that you otherwise retain your relative muscle mass; so if you were to shrink to 16 times shorter than normal, your jumping power would only be reduced by a factor of 4.

This is part of why it is not as easily noticed in day to day life. A 5 foot tall person only loses 9% in jumping distance compared with a 6 foot tall person of identical proportions and comparatively equal muscle, fat, etc composition and distributions for their respective heights. And I wish you luck finding two people who actually are proportionately identical in that way, because you're going to need it!

This unfortunately means that some climbing ability is going to be necessary... but still not as much as movies and books would have you believe. Especially the movies, since they're just using normal size human actors with props. But anyway, moving on...

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Movement Speed

This one is short and sweet. It changes directly proportionate to jumping distance, because it is ruled by exactly the same factors - the interplay between leg length (i.e., stride length), bone and muscle cross-sectional area, the mass being borne, maximum force output of an individual muscle fiber, and so forth. Thus, provided you do not accumulate other physical mutations as you shrink such as being transfigured into a quadrupedal form, your movement speed will decrease roughly with the square root of your height. Drop to 1/9 your former height? Expect to move 3 times slower than you previously did.

Sure, this is a blistering pace relative to your new height, since from your perspective you are now covering ground at 3 times the rate you used to. Objectively, however, it's still slower. And that means if you're not careful, once you're noticed you will be easily outrun (and overrun, trampled underfoot, caught for dinner, etc) by people and predators you used to be able to keep pace with. So be careful out there!

Hey, is anyone paying attention? Get the 60,000th pageview on my FA page and post the screenshot here in this journal and if you're the first one, you can get some free art of you with one of my characters. Just like a kiriban except I'll commission someone else to do it! Don't expect porn or diaper stuff though.

Anyway, let's continue the show...

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Terminal Velocity

Ah, now we get to something complex!

The maximum speed at which you can fall in an atmosphere is determined to a lesser degree by mass, and to a greater degree by the drag produced by the amount of surface area you present to the air. This is why a human without a parachute can fall as much as three to four times faster in a perfect diving posture than one who is spread eagle to the wind, and why a heavy fat person will fall faster than a light fit person of the same size. Newton's equations apply directly only in a perfect vacuum, which the Earth is not.

Get small enough, however, and a parachute won't be necessary to save your life. Drop a cat far enough and he'll be killed, but won't splatter like a human would. Drop a large sewer rat far enough and he'll be injured, but probably won't die unless he lands in an unfortunate posture. Drop a mouse and at worst he'll be stunned even if he fell thousands of feet; drop an ant and it will be completely unfazed by the experience even if it fell from orbit. (Provided it doesn't have to deal with re-entry, anyway!) All of this assumes random flailing; a micro, with the intelligence to adopt better posture and roll with an impact, could survive a lot worse.

There are way more calculations involved for surface area and terminal velocity than with the other stuff I've been covering, so I'm not going to dump them all here. Instead I'm going to link you to a couple sites that not only list the calculations but have calculators. Don't worry, I'll tell you how to use them!

http://www.medcalc.com/body.html

This first site will calculate your total surface area. But what we actually want for terminal velocity is cross-sectional area. That's more complicated to determinate, but you can use a rough estimate of 35% of your total surface area. Also, we are going to want that in square feet for the next step, not square meters. So go ahead and work that out:

Cross-sectional area = (value determined by calculator) * 0,35 * 10,764 square feet per square meter

Alright! Now that we have that, let's move on to the next calculator. There are a few fiddly bits here you need to worry about besides your cross-section, so don't jump the gun just yet.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/ai.....ane/termv.html

The drag coefficient for a person is less than that of a flat metal plate because we have curvy pits and at least mild streamlining, but certainly far worse than a sphere and almost infinitely worse than a bullet. Assume a drag coefficient of 1 for a person (because I don't want to deal with tails right now).

Use your cross-sectional area from above in the calculator. That is not the way you want to land - belly flopping on land is worse than belly flopping on water! Ideally you would get into a better position to roll with the impact right before you hit. But a belly flop is still better than landing on your feet, and having your leg bones driven up through your chest to impale your lungs.

Oh, go ahead and set the height to 1000 feet, too. That is roughly the distance it would take for you to achieve terminal velocity in normal circumstances.

Now you should have a terminal velocity in feet per second. Let's make that miles per hour to help you wrap your mind around it better:

Calculated terminal velocity * 3600 seconds per hour / 5280 feet per mile = Terminal velocity in MPH ( * 1,6 = Kilometers per hour)

For me at my "real" size, height, and weight, with a total surface area of 25,4 square feet (8,9 in cross-section), that is about 102 MPH (150 feet per second) in the bellyflop position, certainly lower than the "average" human terminal velocity of 120 mph because as a tall person I have more body area to present to the wind. This velocity would be higher if I used a more normal position (and thus lower cross-sectional area and smaller drag coefficient). But we're here to talk about micros, aren't we! Let's move on, then.

At 10 inches tall with my new milestone, my weight is 230 grams (8,1 ounces or roughly 0,5 pounds). My surface area would be 0,040 square meters which works out to 0,151 square feet for a cross-section. This results in a terminal velocity after 1000 feet of 53,585 feet per second, or 36,535 miles per hour.

This is roughly 1/4 the accepted average for a normal human, and is not only entirely surviveable but is even readily possible to get out of without injury. That, however, is dependent on proper technique and being in command of your faculties at the moment of truth. If you do not have these things, and don't have luck to make up for it, it's still entirely possible for a fall of this velocity to break quite a few bones, possibly driving bone fragments into vital organs to kill you. So be careful! If you live in a place with carpet instead of hardwood, though, you are in luck: your chances of horrible injuries are going to be much reduced. That inch of padding may not mean much to a full size person, but to you, it's as deep as the entire length of your hand, and it's going to be your best friend!

At 3 inches tall, this gets even better. My weight is only 6,18 grams (0,22 ounces or 0,0136 pounds). My surface area is only 0,0036 square meters which yields a cross section of only 0,0136 square feet... hey that is the same as my weight in pounds, neat! Anyway. My terminal velocity after 1000 feet is now only 29,492 feet per second, or 20,1 miles per hour.

Now we're talking. At this point, to even be injured from a fall I essentially have to be trying. Even if I stumble and fall and don't have time or presence of mind to control my fall, I will get stunned a bit when I land and that's it. Getting more resilient the tinier you are? You'd better believe it! On a relative scale, anyway....

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There you go! Any suggestions for other topics to address the next time I reach a milestone?

RPM, of course, being Raccoons Per Minute.

So far I've been keeping up the rate of losing 2 pounds (~1 kilogram) a week, and as of today I have lost 60 pounds so far. :) Let's do some more microphile math to celebrate!

As we discussed last time, the two sizes I'm going to use for this are 10 inches (25,4 centimeters) and 3 inches (7,6 centimeters), but now my weights at those sizes would be 240 grams (8,45 ounces) and 6,45 grams (0,23 ounces) respectively.

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Strength

A creature's mass and weight increases or decreases directly with its volume, which in turn changes with the cube of that creatures change in height or length. However, its strength is largely based on the cross-section of its bones and muscles, which as an area function will change only with the square of height or length. This is the square cube law, and it is why macros don't actually work in real life, with limited exceptions such as provided by water bouyancy (for whales) or epochs of increased atmospheric oxygenation (the time of the dinosaurs). It is also why creatures like ants (which are actually fairly inefficient) are so seemingly mighty - with even less weight to carry around compared to their diminished strength, they can lift and move things out of proportion to their size. Naturally, I have to wonder how strong I would be as a tinycoon!

I haven't done any bench presses in years, so I have no idea what I would be able to power lift in that way. However, I can do pushups without instantly collapsing, so let's use that as a stand-in benchmark. When I do a pushup I am lifting about 140 pounds (63,6 kilos) off the ground with my arms, or a little over 58% of my body weight; you never lift full weight with a pushup because of how you're balanced on your toes and so distributing your mass. That's not the maximum amount I can lift, or I wouldn't be able to do more than one of them, but it's the best value I have at the moment for these purposes. So, proceeding!

At 10 inches tall, my strength would decrease as such:
140 pounds * (10 in / 77 in)^2 = 2,36 pounds * 454,5 grams/pound = 1073 grams

In other words, I could lift about 4,5 times my full bodyweight at that height for as long / as many times as I could do pushups at my real height! Between the metal and the liquid contents a standard soda can is about 370 grams, and the average shoe is a pound or less, so I could heft such things all day long if sent to fetch them or put them away for my master. Awkwardness aside I could carry both my master's shoes at once! I could also heft a female ferret, or a smaller male ferret. :3

At 3 inches tall, the same strength measure would change as follows:
140 pounds * (3 in / 77 in)^2 * 454,5 grams/pound = 96,6 grams (about 3,4 ounces)

That's even more of a disparity. Now I am repeatedly lifting 15 times my bodyweight! I wouldn't be able to easily lift or carry a can of soda, but I could drag it around on a sledge. More in my range would be small phones, switchblades, quarter pound hamburgers (the loss in weight while cooking being made up for by the bun and condiments), and so on. Again, my actual lifting strength would be greater than this, because this is based off of the amount of weight I am effectively "hefting" in a pushup at my real height, but I don't have any way right now of measuring what my actual limits are; it's safe to say, though, that this is probably the comfortable limit of what I could do for a short span of time at most without immediately straining myself too badly. I could definitely still press hard enough to give a meaningful foot massage, but it's a plain fact that I'd be a more "useful" slave at the 10 inch size most artists tend to draw me at.

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Jumping

Jumping is a direct function of strength. You are exerting muscle power against the force of gravity to lift your body weight off the ground into the air. Because your mass (and thus weight) decreases with the cube of height but strength decreases only with the square of height, it is reasonably close to accurate to say that jumping distance should increase linearly proportionate to your new height as you shrink. Shrinking to 10 times smaller than usual while keeping the same proportionate strength and build will make you 100 times weaker but also 1000 times lighter, so you should be able to jump 10 times farther relative to your new size than you could at your original height. This is why things like fleas can jump so high - and they're actually pretty inefficient at it!

So. I'm not really anything to write home about in the athletic department. I can consistently clear about 3 feet (36 inches) off the ground at my true height, which distance is under a meter and less than half my height. But this is going to look a lot more impressive once I turn into a tinycoon! Let's see how much better.

At 10 inches, this is going to end up with a pretty cool result:
36 inches / 77 inches tall = 0,4675 factor of my height
0,4675 * 10 inches = 4,675 inches * (77/10) = 36 inches!

So not only is 10 inches the height at which my weight in pounds translates directly into the same number in grams, but it is also a height at which my jumping capability is exactly the same as my full size human incarnation! This isn't necessarily a surprise, either. After all, cats are on a similar scale, and can jump the same amount or even farther with their four legs. That's how they get up on your kitchen counters!

At 3 inches, though, I have to accept that my jumping distance is curtailed... or do I?
0,4675 * 3 inches = 1.4 inches * (77/3) = still 36 inches!

Eat it, fleas. I'm just a pitiful humanoid and I'm managing better than them! Of course, they have armored exoskeletons and really not the best kind of body for this sort of thing, but they can still manage a couple feet up onto your couch. Also, I am not accounting for air pressure and air density, which might start to actually be a factor at this height, but barring that, I can jump the same distance as at full size due to my massive increase in relative strength. At least until I start trying to carry heavy objects with me!

The conclusion, of course, is that your jumping distance is pretty much a constant! It doesn't matter how much you shrink, you're going to go just as far. If you want to jump farther, you need to get objectively stronger. By the same token, the standard trope of the hapless micro faced with the daunting obstacle of human-scale stairs is not actually much of an issue as people would have you believe – physics is your friend as a micro, and you can clear stairs just by jumping!

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More thought experiments in this vein will come once I reach another milestone. :)

The easiest way to get in contact with me is via Twitter. I just renamed my account today to hopefully make it more intuitive who I am, so now you can find me Fuzzypaw like so:

http://www.twitter.com/Fuzzypaw

Unfortunately some idiots have Fuzzypaws and Fuzzypawz and even Tinycoon, and are not even using them! They shall suffer my undying wrath in the day of days >:[

Well I meant to do this a week ago today when I had just lost my 50th pound (22,7 kilos) after 27 weeks, but it works just as well today having lost my 52nd pound (23,6 kilos) after 28 weeks. I figured to math it all out - what would that mean to a tinycoon!

I'm portrayed at different sizes, so we'll treat those separately. My real height is 6 ft 5 in (~2 meters) barefoot, and my current weight as of today is 248 pounds (112,7 kilos), so we'll treat those as baselines for the math to come. Also worth noting are my primary goal and secondary goal - to continue losing 2 pounds a week as I have been for a while (primary) or at least 1 pound a week (secondary), in which case I'll have lost exactly 100 pounds (primary) or about 75-76 pounds (secondary) by the one-year mark on Monday, August 1. I'll just use the primary goal in the math as a best case scenario.

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The size artists seem to like to draw me most at if I don't make a special point of emphasizing a few inches tall, is about 10 inches (~25,4 centimeters). That is a size that maps well to being a living insole for most folk, it is a size that allows for a rather broad range of servitude including fetching and carrying cans of soda and other labors... and conveniently, it is also the size for me at which my weight in pounds at full size would map directly to the same number in grams while shrunk.

There are 2,2 pounds per kilogram. There are 1000 grams per kilo. That means there are 454,5 grams per pound. When you change height or length, you also change volume and thus mass with the third power of your linear change. The cube root of 454,5 is 7,69. 6 ft 5 in tall is 77 inches, which divided by 7,69 is roughly 10 inches. At 10 inches, my weight in grams should be 248, the same as my current weight in pounds at full size. Checking my math:

248 grams * 7.69^3 = 112779,6 grams / 454,5 grams per pound = 248,1 pounds. Close enough.

Incidentally, there are 28,4 grams per ounce, so at 10 inches tall I'd weigh 8,7 ounces, or just over half a pound. That is one cup of water in a plastic solo cup, less than the weight of a single can of soda. That should help my fellow non-metric people put it in perspective.

If I meet my continuing weight loss goals, that would work out to losing another 48 grams at this height. 200 grams is only 7 ounces! That is generally the default weight of a steak at most restaurants unless you are ordering a rib-eye or a filet mignon. It is also just slightly under the weight of a Nintendo DSi, or about equal to one and a half iPhone 3GS's.

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The size I usually specify is 3 inches tall. At that size, I fit comfortably and conveniently underneath the arch of your toes! Or at least under your arch, if you're a kid. Around that size is the realistic limit of interaction with the godlike big folk, when they can still hear you most of the time and you can still do things for them that will be meaningful, like providing footrubs and other services that will still be felt and enjoyed.

77 inches / 3 inches = 25,67 ;
112779,6 grams at full height / 25,67^3 = 6,7 grams.

Math check: 6,7 grams * (10 in/3 in)^3 = 248,1 grams. Close enough.

This is much, much lighter! It is just under a quarter of an ounce and is almost exactly the weight of one regular tootsie roll, or one and a half Hershey's kisses.

If I meet my goals, that works out to losing another 1,3 grams at this height. Doesn't sound like much but it's still about a fifth of my weight! The result, 5,4 grams, is just under the weight of a US quarter dollar coin, or about one and a half sheets of notebook paper!

(Diversion and example: You didn't think paper was that heavy, did you? Notebook paper is a low quality paper, 16 lb bond weight. That means that 500 sheets of 17 in * 22 in notebook paper stock is 16 lbs. That works out to 4 reams, 500 sheets each, of familiar 8.5 in * 11 in paper, weighing 4 pounds per ream. Each sheet, then, is 0,008 pounds * 454,5 grams per pound = 3,6 grams per sheet of notebook paper, or 5,4 grams for one and a half sheets. :D)

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I realize this is all crazy nerdy but it is fun to me, and I do feel good about losing so much weight so far. ^.^

Further Confusion was great! But I can go on about that later. Getting directly to the point: I know quite a few people got pictures of me in my new fursuit at the con. I want those pictures! If you can link me to them I would be very happy. Thank you :)

As I start drawing more (e.g., http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5042325/ and similar), I am beginning to wonder! Here is the question:

Should I keep uploading the stuff I draw here, or should I put it on an alternate account to keep it separate from my commissions and gift art?

FA doesn't have a folders / groups / pools feature, it was supposed to be implemented 6 months ago but will realistically probably never happen. Consequently, anything I upload here is going to be mixed in with everything else, though at the moment I am uploading my own work to Scraps to keep it separate and because it's not as good as the art I obtain from others. On the other hand, this is the handle people know me by. So, thoughts?

The always great  aggrobadger is offering colored sketches in livestream for a few days! If you want some art to give to someone for giftmas then this is a great opportunity, which you should jump on while it's still available. Check the details here!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1954162/

If you are more in the market for watercolors and chibi tendencies, then  astolpho is doing painterly commissions today! His stuff is cute and you should check it out.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1950255/

If you're not trying to get something done by Christmas, then  donryu still has a few slots open for full color commissions as well!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1942259/

Go check those fine fellows out, you wonderful fuzzies!

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As for the drama, to those of you deleting notes and hyperventilating about it, shut up. You are a nobody. No one cares about you. They only went after admins, ex-admins, and general drama magnets. There are over 100 thousand users on this site, way too many to target individually. Moreover, the hack already happened, the hole was already closed, you're reacting after the fact like an apatosaurus realizing a mosquito bit its tail half an hour ago.

Re the rape claim, she presented no proof and it was months after the fact. Dragoneer's response was... unfortunate, but at the same time it's not like he could do anything on hearsay. What he really should have said was, "You should be talking to a lawyer or police officer rather than me. This is beyond my expertise and authority."

Re the bestiality, it happened in another country where it is not illegal. Doesn't stop it being disgusting, but that is why the admins told the person to get rid of that stuff - it wasn't wanted on FA. I don't see what the problem is in that. They made him get rid of it so it wasn't polluting our site, why is that bad? It's not "protecting" him because there was nothing to protect him from. Hell even in the US it is still legal in many states.

Re that the site got hacked in general, yes, the site should not still be running on the ancient amateur codebase that was hacked together by the people who owned the site before Dragoneer. Hopefully this incident will be the wake up call to finally bust ass and get the new codebase finished. But Visa and Mastercard were hacked within the last couple weeks. If they can't keep the hackers away then Dragoneer and Yak certainly can't.

Hotel:
Tinycoon will be scurrying about the floors of the Fairmont!

Arrival/Departure:
I will arrive early Thursday afternoon and depart in the evening on Monday. Lots of hang-time. :)

Staying in the main hotel:
Isn't this redundant? And yes! I'll be sleeping in a suitpaw on the fursuit floor! :D

Means of transportation:
I'll be flying down as the insole in  darkshift's shoe. ^.^

Sharing a room with:
 cth, my wonderful rabbit! And in the next room over will be  tyco and  shiuk =)

Who do you hang out with:
At cons in general and FC in particular I try to hang out with lots of people! And I've promised some time and paw worship to a number of furs already. *giggles* I'm sure I'll end up spending more time with CTH than anyone else though. <3

Gender:
Fe... nah, not going to be able to pull that off with the pictures in my scraps. I'm a guy. ^.^

Preference:
Guys, especially cute guys with glasses! I'm not sure why this question is here though, it's like something from a relationship meme. I hang out with girls too. *giggles*

Relationship Status:
I am the personal property of an orange lop hare with big paws and a mischievous streak a mile wide. :3

Open:
Again, why is this in a convention meme? o.O;

How old are you:
My age as of the weekend after the con will be a prime number!

Are you an Artist:
Hm. I could be if I ever applied myself since I have the talent, but as of yet I have not spent enough time practicingto call myself that. :3

Are you a Fursuiter:
I will be as of this con! *bounces all over the place*

How many Fursuits are you going to bring/wear:
One! It's all I have the money for right now and it is going to be quite enough for a while I think!

Which Characters:
A nilla-flavored coon-ferret you might have heard of... Shiro!!!!!! (^).(^)

Any new suits or characters Debuting:
Shiro! Shiro Shiro Shiro! Eeeee!

Attending parties:
Probably a few, and me and CTH will most likely host one ourselves! I'm certainly going to swing by the Klingon party at some point. O:)

Do you drink:
Yes I do! But I don't like the taste of whiskey, most beers, or the like. I tend to go for dairy and fruity drinks, and other interesting concoctions where alcohol is only a secondary flavor. Stuff like white russians, strawberry batidas, and the like. :D

Can I buy you a drink:
As long as you don't expect to get into my pants that way, you are certainly welcome to! Especially if you are  khaiel because you have good taste!

Are you attending any panels:
Not many I think. Maybe some of the art ones but otherwise I'll probably be in the dealer's den, or fursuiting, or hanging out and/or providing furs I know with paw worship. ^.^

Stage or public performance:
Nope. This con doesn't have a pet auction :<

How do I identify my self to you:
Wearing a badge with your fursona and name on it is a good start!

Rules of engagement (physical Contact out of Suit):
Basically anything that's not sexual and doesn't include groping is fine! Especially if paws are involved. I am quite partial to hugs, and heck, if we're friends then you know my boundaries and that you can get away with quite a lot.

Personality Type:
I'm pretty much exactly how I play my character online! I am friendly, submissive, and generally pretty happy to be around others, especially if they exert any kind of dominating influence on me and/or treat me well. Everyone seems to think I'm cute and I'm happy with that since I view it as an ideal outcome to acting like myself. ^.^

How do I know if you're not looking to socialize (angry, busy or upset):
If I'm so upset that I wouldn't want to hang out, it's usually pretty obvious unless you're some kind of social reject that can't read facial expressions. If I'm busy it's usually going to be because I'm already hanging out with other people or am in suit with things to do, in which case it should be obvious as well! If I'm on my way from point A to point B I am probably going to have time to talk especially if you are willing to walk with me. :3

Anything to add:
I'm, ironically, quite tall, so usually stand out that way. At cons I always wear my Dog's Days of Summer hawaiian shirt as an overshirt, and some badges and stuff. Just be nice to me please. :)

Saw someone else ask this, and I thought, why the heck not?

At issue is whether you'd become your character in real life. In this world, permanently. You wouldn't be able to change back at will, and it wouldn't be in some magical setting where everyone else was also a furry, scaley, or whatever. It'd be right here on Earth, everyone else would still be human, the governments and laws and culture would still be the same, and your decision would be irrevocable. You would however keep any of the traits of your character, including size, senses, and other characteristics and abilities. Would you go for it or not, and why?

 donryu is open for awesome color beanie commissions, and they're only $15 each. :)

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1848756/

Very cute stuff, just check out his examples. ^.^

There's a new Gulliver's Travels movie! And it seems to focus on the giant-tiny sizeplay with Lilliput! And it features Jack Black! :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320261/

And it's out in 2 months!!!!

They're on the ball this year, the 2010 convention was only 3 weeks ago! Anyway, if you want to attend - and especially if you have key needs like being on the fursuit floor - you might want to get your room reservation in early.

https://www.rainfurrest.org/2011/travel.php

The guest of honor in 2011 is going to be  tanidareal, and RF was the 5th largest furry con in the world in 2010 and getting bigger and better every year, and of course I'll be floating around, so you'd better attend in 2011! :D

This shouldn't even need saying, but:

Mature ads should only appear on pages with mature art!

Whoever the hell sets this up, get it through your heads.

1. If I'm looking at a General-rated submission, there should not be adult ads. 

Reason: I don't care if I can see adult art, I should be able to show a cute picture to a friend or coworker without worrying about some kind of hideous NSFW juxtaposition. I don't care if the artist is a porn god like Zaush, if he puts up a picture of fluffy bunnies and raccoons frolicking in a meadow with no hidden dicks anywhere, then no adult ads should appear on that piece.

2. If I'm looking at a journal, there should not be adult ads. You can change this if at some future point you allow rated journals. 

Reason: 99% of the journals on this site have nothing to do with sexual content. Also, a user who does not want that kind of association with their name or image should not have adult ads appearing on their journals.

3. If I'm looking at the page or gallery of an artist who doesn't have any adult-rated submissions, there should not be adult ads. I would strongly argue against putting adult ads on the page of someone who has the occasional Mature submission but no Adult submissions, because sometimes people tag Mature for something as basic as clean nudity, minor drug use, or blood.

Reason: Same as the two above. An artist who prefers to maintain a clean image and do only clean art should not have to worry about their cute chibis being juxtaposed with ads for feral erotica.

X. This one's targeted at the people who buy the ads, not the people who approve them. Have some self respect. Don't make a crappy ad. You're trying to get people to click through, right? You don't want them to shun your ad while shaking their heads in shame at being associated with you, right? The feral erotica ad, the yellow boob dragon ad, and hey, many of the clean ads too - they're goddamn embarassing. 

Reason: This should go without saying. I, and most people on this site, are not going to intentionally click on a pathetic ad unless it's such a frakking train wreck that we are drawn irresistibly about of morbid curiosity. If you make a worthless wretched ad, not only have you assaulted the eyes of everyone on the site but you have wasted your $20 as well. I realize that most of you can't match the gold standard of the rar-suits ad  helvetica created for  artslave, but at a bare minimum make sure that your ad doesn't reflect negatively on you.

All of this leads into the next point:

Mobile phone browsers don't have AdBlock.

So you can stuff it if you're about to say we should block the bad ads, as if that's an infallible solution. 

And even with respect to desktop and laptop users, look. Many if not most of us would be happy to support this site by giving it an exemption in our AdBlock. I know I do. But every time there is an ad that inspires me to reach for the eyebleach, my trigger finger gets a little itchy. And that's unfortunate. I'd hope a member of the community making an ad targeted at the community could manage not to completely cock it up so badly that it puts off everyone.

Winding down with something related:

Make the site banner a weekly rotation, please! 

(Hey, it's a banner, and it's advertising the site or at least the front page, right?)

Any number of good reasons for this. 

1. First, if the banner is weird and gross or drama-tainted to a large part of the site's users, as happens on a regular basis, they don't have to look at it longer than a week. And thus, ideally there will be less drama about it. 

2. There are a bajillion worthy artists on this site who deserve the exposure of being the banner artist. Only something like... 35-40 (because of repeat artists) have gotten that chance with the mostly monthly current rotation.

3. It makes things less stale and boring to have something new up there every week. Less of an issue if the art is spectacular, more if the art is pedestrian. 

4. It might give a chance to have fun with some less prominent holidays and themes. For example: yes, November has Thanksgiving, and I'm sure that once again  dragoneer is going to force us to look at another round of butterballs with rolls of blubbery lard instead of having the grace to use cuter WB/Disney inflato-fat. But it also has Veteran's Day, and the Mexican Day of the Dead. 

This isn't so hard, right? Again, it's something that reduces the impetus of people to click that AdBlock button on their computer or gouge their eyes out on their phone. 

*flumps*

If you're messaging me out of the blue on a screen name I don't know, or are trying to add me to your contact list, it would help to say who you are. Otherwise I'm just going to ignore you / deny the add.