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6:00 PM
But it isn't this bright new thing you wanted to try out any more, it is another thing on your todo list
 
@rumtscho yup
 
And so you decide that somebody else should write the next posts.
 
Well, unless you find you enjoy it. Which hopefully at least a few of us will
 
It is 19 UTC now, right?
 
anthony@Zia:~$ date -u
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@rumtscho so, another hour
 
6:03 PM
@derobert I enjoy my cooking answers. Some of which have a length sufficient for a blog post
@derobert Oh, forgot that it is summer time
 
the nerdiness of SE never ceases to surprise me
 
@rfusca they give it in US estern time and UTC
 
@rumtscho Yes, some of them do. But then you won't get teh reps!
 
@derobert No, but I said I enjoyed the writing process.
Getting the reps doesn't correlate perfectly with the enjoyment I get from writing
Or even with my expectation for rep
I never thought that I will get so many votes for my bacon answer
But then, the question was very popular afterwards.
 
@rumtscho you've apparently lived in Germany for too long. I should add, "THAT WAS A JOKE!"
@rumtscho bacon is all-powerful
 
6:06 PM
@derobert This doesn't invalidate my observations
In case you haven't noticed, I think of every joke as a funny thing and as a serious "what if" situation. And sometimes the second leads to insights.
And sometimes to other jokes.
Well, I mean I think this way about every joke I get. To be fair, I don't get all of them.
But I really feel like going home now
I had promised myself to do it early tonight
And it is 20:09 again
 
@rumtscho Oooh, that is a perfect excuse to failing to get any joke.
I must compliment you on that. That's brilliant.
 
So I think I won't try to corner Rebecca tonight. She would be busy with chat stuff anyway. I would rather write to her in the blog chat room or per email.
 
@rumtscho Yeah, just send them an email.
the blog chat room has been frozen, unfortunately
 
@derobert As for the mod chat, it is voluntary.
 
actually, I guess I could just go and post it on meta.SO.
 
6:11 PM
@derobert I thought mods can unfreeze. We have all other powers across the chat network.
 
or any of us could
 
Yup, I see a menu option for unfreezing the room.
 
@rumtscho Then I guess you could go ahead and un-freeze it
 
I'm gonna have a big cooking weekend: 3 'cakes' and 1 starter
 
I wasn't going to write there tonight, I wanted to spend some time at home
Doing thigns different than SE
I know it is shocking, but I feel I should :P
 
6:13 PM
@rumtscho <SLAP>
 
@rumtscho well, if you un-freeze it, @rfusca or I could ask there
 
listen to yourself!
 
Or should I unfreeze it for you to writeß
@derobert done
@rfusca what is your photo blog frequency in recent times?
 
just post it on meta that way whoever needs to can respond...in case she's on vacation or such
@rumt better since its a requirement of the lending program, but without, dismal
 
@rfusca she is not on vacation, she is hosting a mod chat in the lounge tonight
At least the invitations went out from her mail account
 
6:16 PM
'or such' :)
 
@rfusca Laura is running the lens rental thingamajig every month
 
@ElendilTheTall yup, thats what it looks like
 
so I will hopefully be able to rent a lens or two for holiday
the question being - which?
 
@rfusca Well, I just pinged her in that chat room, guess I can try meta.SO too
 
lol...you guys are gonna bug the shit outta her
 
6:17 PM
@ElendilTheTall do you expect to have the time to dedicate to some special pics?
 
@rumtscho yes
 
If not, get the generic one
 
I hope to get some long exposure shots of the sea, and there's an ornithological reserve just down the coast so I'm considering a fast telephoto
 
In "time", I mean time when you are not busy with wife+baby, not work-free time
 
@rfusca If we can't manage to make a single SE employee take out a restraining order, how could we possibly have enough dedication to write a blog? :-D
 
6:18 PM
Plenty of time, and plenty of relations to hold the baby :)
 
lol
@rum see, you're confused, @elendil doesn't work ;)
 
@ElendilTheTall make the types of pics you want to with your current lens
Then look at which type comes out worst
And take this lens.
 
@rumtscho Well, I can easily rent two lenses for the time for well under the $400 limit
so I might as well rent both kinds
 
you realize you pay first and then get reimbursed, right
 
@ElendilTheTall but then you have to write more
 
6:20 PM
ya, seriously, renting two lenses you'll have to write a bit
 
@rfusca yeah - I assume you get reimbursed relatively quickly though?
as for writing, I don't mind that
 
@ElendilTheTall they're usually quick, I've still got to fulfill my requirements for my rental
 
@rfusca then read "work" as "whatever his full-time occupation might be", even if it is "couch potatoeing"
@rfusca what were the requirements for your rental?
 
@rumtscho cheeky, I work
 
Write one blog post on Photography Blog Overflow AND ask three questions
OR ask a total of 8 questions on Photography Stack Exchange
OR write two blog posts on Photography Blog Overflow
that was was for under 100
 
6:22 PM
@ElendilTheTall Then read "work" as "work".
@rfusca do the questions have to be related to the rented lens?
 
@rumtscho yes
all of that must related to what you rented
 
I think I might even try it myself sometime later
In case it stays and I can think of a good use for the lens
I am afraid I am not good enough for writing sensible photo blog posts though
I would have to research and exercise a bit before I can make a plan
 
@rumtscho weren't you going home?
 
@derobert aargh I was
 
@rumtscho we could all try flagging you, then maybe you'd get banned from chat for 30 minutes. That might be enough time to get home.
 
6:26 PM
I could just kick her out repeatedly
 
@rfusca Oooh! Mod-on-mod violence! We could sell tickets.
 
snap, won't let me kick another mod
 
She hasn't responded. Either her robotic brain has bluescreened, or she left.
 
I haven't left yet
Was trying to close the other windows without paying attention to chat
 
hmmmm, you only get reimbursed after you've written the blog
perhaps I'll just stick to one
 
6:29 PM
Hailstones from the storms in Dallas yesterday:
 
@Sobachatina damn, that's big
 
youch
 
That would hurt if it hit you.
 
6:30 PM
@Sobachatina hmm were are those pictures from
 
I hope that's not your car?
 
@ElendilTheTall good idea
 
@Mien Nope- they thought we would get some hail but it didn't make it down this far.
 
:)
 
@rfusca thinking perhaps the Nikkor 18-200mm and framing a post around 'Replacing separate lenses with a superzoom for travel photography'
 
6:31 PM
@tastefive Are you ok?
 
totally fine. Just some rain. It was really the southern most part of the county
 
@ElendilTheTall Hmm, this is the lens I have. For me, it is a bit of "Jack of all trades, master of none". But yes, it is great to not change when on the road. Maybe you can write something interesting about it if it is an unusual experience for others.
 
it did go into arlington
 
@rumtscho it's unusual for me, I use 3 lenses, 4 if you count the one i usually reverse
 
Actually, it isn't that bad outside, but gets worse in low light.
And now I shut down. Later.
 
6:33 PM
there's also the 28-300mm which is a better lens
 
I think lancaster was the worst hit
 
ooooo, a Sigma 50-500mm
that's a superzoom
 
@ElendilTheTall isn't that the one I posted a picture of the other day
@ElendilTheTall that weighs something like 800lbs?
 
@tastefive Good.
 
1.84kg
that's what, 4lbs?
 
6:36 PM
@ElendilTheTall interesting...i just can't bring myself to bring a superzoom. Might as well just bring along the P&S then
 
yeah
 
@rfusca well, if SE are picking up the bill, I'll give it a try
 
We're trying to figure out the most humane way to dispatch the chicks that hatched with deformities.
 
it is a good lens apparently
 
6:37 PM
@ElendilTheTall i guess
 
that one weighs 15.7kg
 
Last night my wife walked up and said "I'm toying with the idea of just giving them to the cat so we don't have to deal with it"
I suggested we might be able to find a quicker and less horrific method.
 
Lol
 
@rfusca what would you get?
 
@ElendilTheTall for vacation? probably a 28-75mm'ish 2.8
 
6:40 PM
these are all shots taken with the 50-500
look better than a P&S to me
 
they're fine, but none of them really require much detail
not to mention isn't it wicked slow?
 
not that slow
but you would need a tripod at the top end
though it would be nice to use a 2.8 constant aperture 24-70
 
are you planning to run hummingbirds on your vacation?
 
lol, no
seabirds perhaps
 
then don't get a 500mm ;)
 
6:47 PM
Perhaps I'll apply for that another month
there's a bird reserve nearby I could try it out at
 
@ElendilTheTall cool
 
@Cerberus you also have hoeveboter!
Is this new? :o
 
7:08 PM
"Factually incorrect" is not a selectable reason for rejecting an edit.
Is it a valid reason to reject an edit?
Actually- the instructions at the top say " reject those you know are wrong."
Reject it is then.
 
@mien it translates as farm butter - why wouldn't it be made of cream?
(I assume here that roomboter means cream butter)
 
@rumtscho Why would you have the distinction if they're the same?
 
@Sobachatina You can reject an edit for changing the original meaning
If the original post was correct, and the edit is incorrect, this is changing the meaning
@Mien who said it is a distinction?
 
@rumtscho My edits to the tag wiki have to be peer reviewed?
@rumtscho The user was trying to add a new tag wiki description for butter but they were wrong.
 
You can have williams pears and farm pears. And these two can overlap.
 
7:16 PM
I approved the addition but then made the minor edit to fix it.
 
@Sobachatina Actually yes, all tag wiki edits seem to need a peer review
 
@rumtscho Hrm. I was just starting to feel powerful as a 10k user.
 
@Sobachatina sounds like an acceptable solution
I am sure my own tag wiki edits need peer review too, even after becoming a mod
 
Looks like it might be a bug.
The description says they are to be reviewed because the user doesn't have full edit privileges yet.
 
@Sobachatina I would reject the whole tag wiki
It doesn't even touch on the tag
It just explains how butter is made
 
7:18 PM
Go ahead. I didn't even pay attention to that.
I was too hung up on the fact that it was wrong. :)
 
Nobody needs this information when deciding whether they should tag a question with "butter" or not
Hmm, i can't delete
I edited it into a single-sentence usage direction.
 
Sounds good.
 
Now I want to make the Kenji chilli
But I am hungry
 
My but butter has gotten a lot of attention all of a sudden.
 
I wonder if I should eat first.
 
7:22 PM
@rumtscho It was much much better the second day.
So much so that I don't think I will bother to serve it the first day at all.
 
@Sobachatina thank you for giving me such a good excuse
Although my good bread won't be good tomorrow any more
 
That is quite the dilemma.
 
Paid for a 6 Eur/kg bread
Whole grain walnut bread.
 
I would go with the fresh bread and young chili.
 
I think I will eat bread with cheese now
And see about the chilli tomorrow.
 
7:23 PM
Wait! It's not corn bread? Eat it with something else then and eat the chili properly tomorrow.
 
The bread isn't fresh, I bought it two days ago
 
Eating chili with normal bread seems awkward somehow.
 
Really? I have never eaten it with other bread.
 
:) I'm sure it will be delicious however you serve it.
It is just traditional to serve with corn bread- so much so that I've not had it any other way.
 
@Mien Huh wha?
 
7:26 PM
@Sobachatina either corn bread or fritos :)
 
I didn't see any hoeveboter, and I've never heard of it.
 
@Cerberus You don't know that term?
 
Sounds like marketese shudders.
 
Perhaps it's called borstplaat ;)
 
Hah.
 
7:27 PM
@tastefive I use rice.
 
Anything with "hoeve" in it is sure to be some kind of stupid advertising lingo.
I hope I haven't offended anyone.
So where did you find this?
It wasn't in your linked page.
 
@Mien I am sure it would be good but it wouldn't be the norm to see it that way around here.
 
@rumtscho Tag wikis have very high rep requirements before skipping the edit queue... 20k, I think
 
@derobert but I am a mod! sulks
 
@rumtscho that's probably a bug that the rep limit applies to mods
Unless even 20k uses go through the edit queue
 
7:32 PM
So, this is some seriously good food
 
@rumtscho pats you on the head Now, it's all right, dear. There's a good mod.
 
a Tauernberger cheese
A wild flower cheese
A Pecorino so ripened that it is easier to break than to cut
A wild boar salami
A red pepper which smells like real pepper
A tomato from the Turkish shop
 
Hmm you are not afraid of strong food.
 
Elderberry juice
Walnut bread
And I am trying to decide between dark beer and red wine
But I have an open wine, so probably should skip the beer
 
That is seriously heavy stuff.
 
7:34 PM
@rumtscho Simple solution! Drink both, then go on a drunken mod'ing rampage
 
Oh, and creme fraiche. But it is regular creme fraiche.
@derobert You underestimate me
 
@rumtscho Right! You've been living with Germans. Drink both, and open two more bottles.
 
I might get a tendency to tell bad jokes after half a bottle of wine and a bottle of beer
But it isn't nearly enough for going on rampage.
 
Then what is enough?
 
Probably nothing
 
7:35 PM
Right.
 
I suspect that the amount needed for me to pass out is lower than the amount needed to go on rampage
 
I don't get it either, when people do really crazy things when they're drunk.
 
@cerberus it is an attitude thing
 
Same here, or even sooner, vomit.
 
@Cerberus well, possibly, because being drunk is an excuse
 
7:36 PM
Yeah I think it is a combination of an excuse and a placebo.
 
@Cerberus Yes, I will vomit before passing out too. Everybody does.
The article is long, but really worth the read.
 
People think that's the normal way to act when you're drunk, so that's what they think they are doing involuntarily.
What is it about? I can't really use my mouse.
 
Oh, it has some cognitive effects
But they are mostly on concentration.
 
Ah OK.
 
@Cerberus it is about drinking alcohol in different societies.
 
7:38 PM
@rumtscho yes, but those probably don't apply to robots. Just don't tell the SE team that after the rampage.
 
@derobert the SE team doesn't know that I am a robot, only you inner circle people do
I hope you won't blow my cover
 
On a graduation party, when we were 18, everybody was all drunk and doing odd things (nothing really excessive, but kissing and jumping and whatnot). Then it turned out the beer had (most probably) been alcohol free.
 
I have done odd things at parties without being drunk, so...
 
Luckily I had only drunk wine.
 
I was completely sober at my own graduation parties
 
7:40 PM
People kept yelling how drunk they were and blah.
 
@rumtscho Poidh!
 
I got a bad cold and was on antibiotics.
Sounded like the most terrible and unjust fate at the time
 
Antibiotics for a cold?
Very unjust.
 
Probably more like a bronchitis
 
Ah.
 
7:41 PM
My mother doesn't distinguish between cold, flu, angina and bronchitis, so I tend not to either, although I know there is a difference.
 
Haha.
 
@rumtscho Wait, angina?!
 
But it must have been serious for the doctor to prescribe antibiotics.
 
I mean, thats not even close to the others
 
Not heart angina
 
7:42 PM
Or it was a bad doctor ;)
 
I think you Americans call it strep throat
 
Well, these things should be recognizable enough for any doctor....
 
No, not strep throat. Tonsilitis.
 
We call it throat ache or throat inflammation (the latter is probably the serious version).
 
Or maybe people use the name for both, and Wikipedia only links to one of them.
 
7:44 PM
Streptococcus?
 
Tonsillitis? I think that is something else.
 
Tonsillitis and strep are definitely different
 
@derobert Both cause pain in the throat
 
Jinx.
 
So I can see how people use the same name for both.
 
7:45 PM
I am surprised.
 
Why are you surprised?
 
but different parts of the throat...
 
Doesn't tonsillitis happen only to young kids?
 
I mean, both 'stubbed toe' and 'severed limb' cause pain in the leg
 
Hehe.
 
7:45 PM
Never seen anyone confuse those, thankfully.
 
People (not medical specialists) tend to lump together medical problems by symptoms.
 
Yes, I can understand flu/cold/throat ache. But not bronchitis or tonsillitis.
 
@derobert I thought severed limb cured a pain due to stubbed toe.
 
Ah, well, then they'd call it "sore throat" not one of the specific ones
@Sobachatina It can! But it causes pain elsewhere in the leg.
 
@derobert I am not sure that "angina" is more specific
 
7:47 PM
@Sob: Phantom pains can be nasty.
 
@rumtscho I've never heard of it as anything but the mostly-blocked artery condition
 
"The term derives from the Latin angina ("infection of the throat") from the Greek ἀγχόνη ankhonē ("strangling")"
@derobert yes, this is the American meaning of the Latin loanword
It is normal for two languages to adopt the same loanword with different meanings
 
I know there ae two kinds of angina: angina pectoris and the other one.
 
Yes, Bulgarian also has Angina pectoris. But it has to be specified, and even then, it isn't mentioned often by laypeople. They probably call it something else.
 
I never use either term because I'm never sure what they are exactly.
 
8:44 PM
why is it so hard to live in a society where everyone thinks the same as me?
clearly we need mind control
 
@hobodave I think it should be easy if everyone thinks like you.
 
so you agree with me in all things @Mien?
 
Yes.
 
awesome! :)
One down, a few billion to go
 
:D Best of luck!
 
8:58 PM
@hobodave Wait, quick question, what are your thoughts on eating mushrooms?
 
@derobert delicious
 
@hobodave Ah, well, then I'm going to have to disagree with you. Sorry.
 
@derobert you're talking crazy
 
@derobert Then you must be killed and eaten. Sorry.
 
@hobodave yeah, good luck on that. Even @Mien hasn't pulled that off yet.
 
9:02 PM
@derobert I ate mushrooms today, again :p
It's more fun to see you suffer than to kill you.
2
 
As the actress said to the bishop...
Mushroom soup is a beautiful thing
A little truffle oil, some porcini powder on top
Crusty bread for dippin'
Or a whole field mushroom slathered in garlic butter, roasted, then stuck in a crusty roll with a schmear of Dijon mustard
 
@Elendil- I told a funny joke today that you might appreciate.
 
Fantastic.
 
A coworker said "Our meeting is in conference room 4E21"
 
@sobachatina ok....
 
9:06 PM
and I replied "4E Why there's ony 8 floors in this building!"
 
@ElendilTheTall Yes, but then the archduke got shot, and millions of people died.
 
In a terrible rendition of a cockney accent.
I've been practicing after watching that show- which is hilarious.
Why do you call me Dayeeeuv?
 
@Mien Don't worry. I'm not suffering much. Mainly planning my revenge.
 
Me name inn't Dayeeeuv. It's Rahdnayee.
 
Only Fools is a British institution :)
 
9:08 PM
Good luck with that.
 
I need to find you some clips of del speaking french
'bonnet de douche, Rodney, bonnet de douche!'
@sobachatina the guy who plays Rodney actually has quite a posh accent IRL
 
Interesting.
 
Cockney is one of the easiest accents for a non-cockney Brit to do I think
 
It's remarkably distinctive. And there is enough variation in common vowels from what I speak naturally that I think it will take quite a bit more listening before I can get it right.
 
Geordie, now that's a tricky one.
 
9:11 PM
I was surprised how far down the throat their vowels had moved.
 
@sobachatina and then you've got the rhyming slang to deal with
 
And the diphthongs were astounding. Easily 4-6 vowel sounds per written vowel.
@ElendilTheTall The slang was sometimes hopeless. I had to ask you about chippy after all. 'Row' I knew of course but it is so infrequently used that I didn't understand it until you told me.
Also- it seemed like their accent is to "posh" English as New Jersey or New York accents are to typical American.
 
Chippy is a term used all over britain
 
They even lifted their top lips on one side Sylvester-Stallone-style.
 
But cockney has its own set of rhyming slang too
Some of which has spread out of london
If I told you to get on the dog and bone, what would you think I was referring to?
 
9:16 PM
@hobodave What is thy wish, Master?
 
Not a clue. Start feeding the dog? Maybe a motorcycle??
 
Hey anyone interested in a little puzzle?
 
Lol
It's rhyming slang - dog and bone = phone
Apples and pears = stairs
 
grabs bone
 
9:17 PM
Wow. Some people do similar things here but it seems to be exclusively old and/or annoying people.
 
China plate = mate
So you might say ' how you doing me old china?'
 
"You're an idiot"
 
is idiot
 
@hobodave: You're an idiot
that's what you wanted, right?
 
haha :D
 
9:26 PM
No, I think my interpretation is correct.
 
@Sobachatina Nice, an actual video of it
 
I've heard the audio but never seen him perform it.
 

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