I now have a new candidate for the worst job in the world: shark dentist

I wouldn't have believed that it's a thing, but now I read that: skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/22927/1694

It takes all types!:)

@rumtscho Ha! I need to get into the habit of posting comments before flagging! You're quick! :)

@Jolenealaska hehe, thanks. But there was a flag on that one. I even think it was yours.

But now I'm leaving for work, see you later

That's what I'm saying. I flagged, then started writing the comment. I'm just a very slow typist!

Hallo alle zusammen

Before I put my parker bread batch in the oven, just to make sure, no brushing is needed?

Buenos Dias

I'd have to look at the recipe again, but if I remember right it just calls for brushing with butter after.

Yes

That's what the recipe calls for

But I want extra fluffy breads

I even sprinkled flour on them as @ElendilTheTall suggested

If they're nicely proofed, they should be ready.

No need to put a bowl of water in the oven?

Since you don't want a crispy crust, my instinct says no, but I'm not sure.

O...K

There we go

It's in the oven now

Hooray!

And thanks

Did you the ingredients for your sandwich ideas?

Not yet, I unfortunately had other boring, PIA crap I had to get done today. Tomorrow is a friend's birthday so it may be Friday before I can focus on the sandwich contest.

[Did you buy...]

Ah OK, you still have 10 days left, IIRC

Yes, but I have to have solid well written recipes and good pictures, so it's going to take some time do do right!

morning all

buenos dias

guten tag

bonjour

konnichi wa

buon giorno

howdy

g'day

maharba

jonapot

Hi hon

hey

how goes it

Not too bad, I didn't get a chance to shop for my sandwich recipes today, probably the day after tomorrow.

it sounds like a weekend project to me in any case

though I'm aware life is one big weekend for you :P

I'm going to have to sit and plan for a while too...I don't want to spend a fortune....

I was about to say, What is a week end?

Tell me again what kind of lightbulbs I should buy for my $25,000 sandwich photos?

daylight

that is, daylight bulbs

incandescent?

as long as it's daylight

Have you seen what's happening with the avocado Q&A?

nope

36 upvotes for the question, 66 for the answer.

I look at the front page only to see if there is a question that needs answering that is within my compass

37/67 now! :)

hehehee :)

Unreal. I'm looking forward to trying it with the ascorbic acid and sodium bisulfite.

The question of emulsion of no-carb (#1 on front page, I think) chocolate has led to me wanting to dust off my gram scale for that one too. Especially after Rummi's answer.

ah, I remember what free time was like

just when this shark thought his day couldn't get any worse...

It's weird. It's definitely a grass is greener kind of thing.

Hmm, and sometimes it's the shark that gets eaten.

well, time for Spanish practice

After the avocado question goes "stale" I think I can get a gold badge for accepting the other answer, which would actually be valid, because it answers the question.

you mercenary you

I think the proper term is "rep whore" :)

that too

:P

But I won't actually do it, cause that would put the other answer at the top, right? Can't be having that.

what a dilemma

yay, basic household items learned

I'll be up all night.

YAY!

bano!

First one to know in any language!

...

the bathroom?

Si! Donde esta el bano?

Rapido!

por favor!

Duolingo is very traditional: 'Translate this phrase: Mi mama cocina para mi papa'

evidently hasn't been to the Elendil residence lately

i had no idea Spanish b is more of a v

how have I lived this long without knowing that?

I don't know b & v?

Oh, never mind

I know what you mean now.

yeah, kind of a V-eey b

Rrrrs are funny too.

yeah, roll roll

one of many reasons Sofia Vergara is a fox

My accent is pretty good because my mother majored in Spanish, and she spoke to me in Spanish a lot when I was a small child.

cool

my mother always wished she did the same with German

Have I mentioned that to you before?

nope

I speak/understand a whole lot more Spanish than I think I do. I took a year in High School and didn't do particulary well. Conjugating verbs by textbook just ruined me. When I communicate with someone who speaks Spanish more fluently than English, I find myself knowing, saying and understanding a lot more than I realized. I'm told I was a talkative nino.

Your mother was German?

no, she is Austrian

Is Austrian German pretty much the same as German German?

more or less

pronunciation differences mainly

softer Js

All of my grandparents on my mother's side (I had a lot) were 1st generation German immigrants.

I had 2 full sets of great-grand parents and a great-great grandmother until my late teens.

wow

i never met my biological grandparents on my mother's side

they all spoke German and made Pfefferneusse. Holy crap,I spelled that right the first time. I just lost my very last grandparent.

sorry to drastically change the subject, but holy crap

???

this is from a Reddit thread where people confess their biggest secrets

reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/…

this one's a doozy

> I once helped out my a female friend's family by taking care of their cat for a week. Every day for a week, I would go over there and snoop around their house. I found my friend's diary, and proceeded to read the entire thing. I used this information to get her to like me, and she is currently my wife.

The cake one made me laugh...I amost recommended a mix to this OP:

She's up to a bottle and a half of red #40.

she needs gel food colouring

liquid stuff is crap

Yes. I suspect she's using Dutch processed cocoa too, but that isn't confirmed.

hmmm

her spelling of colour suggests a Brit

and we don't get Dutch Process cocoa here

What's your top brand?

That reminds me...

I don't think we have one

actually now that I think about it, Cadbury's cocoa is dutched, I found out recently

My understanding is in Europe, Dutched is the norm.

perhaps I have been lucky

i've always found my cocoa to be light in colour

but then mine is hand-milled by buxom wenches in the Andean foothills

Yep, Dutched is darker. Extreme is Oreo cookies.

:)

(i insist all my food passes through the hands of at least one buxom wench before I eat it)

good plan

never failed me yet

I have a very buxom friend who dressed for Halloween one year as the St Pauli Girl...She looked awesome!! :)

The costume was perfect...

to the T.

I have no idea who the St Pauli Girl is

Really? Hold on...

ah

Derndls rock

yeah, we don't have that beer here

I don't know that I've ever seen anyone drink it, but the mascot is iconic.

i wonder why

If you've got the body for it, it makes for a great Halloween costume! :)

I've got the body, just not the hair

hheehehe :)

also, we don't do hallowe'en to nearly the same extent as you lot

My Halloween tradition is fish-net stockings

i have never gone trick or treating or dressed up for hallowe'en

@Jolenealaska and nothing else?

maybe after midnight....no :0

trick or treating is not like it was when I was a kid. The Tylenol poisonings ruined the tradition.

it is almost universally disliked here

it's only in the last, what, 20 years it's even been done

it's mostly seen as a nuisance at best

teenagers use hallowe'en as an excuse to cause trouble

egging houses etc

America is widely blamed ;)

'it's legalised begging!'

Even the most curmudgeonly SOB happily gives out candy on Halloween here.

I don't know anyone who dislikes it except for a few religious nuts that think it's a devil worship ritual.

The Harry Potter will send our kids to hell crowd.

indeed

@ElendilTheTall That's spelled "marhaba"

ah

i was scraping my hello barrel, I apologise

No worries

You're forgiven! ;)

I can sleep soundly at last

That makes one of us! I need to try though...So...Goodnight (at least for now)

good night

When I see you tomorrow, I should have at least 1 sandwich recipe and picture for your critique...Till then!

good show

sleep tight

Morning kids!

hello @Cerberus, how are you?

@rumtscho Hiya!

I'm good, and you?

@Cerberus also good. A bit tired, but still bravely nibbling at my workload.

I met a French girl in a bar last night who had Gnothi seauton tattooed on her arm, in Greek.

What have you been up to lately, I haven't seen you in a while?

Oh, dear. I hate nibbling at workloads!

@Cerberus I admit I had to look that up. How was she aside from that?

I don't know, I have been here, but I never saw you when I was here!

Haha.

Oh, she was funny. Very enthusiastic about meeting a fellow classicist, as drunk people are.

@Cerberus mine is too large to take full sized bites of :( But hey, someday I'll reduce it. Determination is the key.

I'll add her on Facebook.

@rumtscho I often lose courage when I realise I can only do a very small part of the work today...

Which is irrational.

Because many small items are just as much work as one big item.

@Cerberus I'm the same way. When I start doing something and it drags on and on, I get demotivated. Even though it frequently happens that the amount of work was there all the time, I just failed to judge it properly. It just feels as if it's growing and will never end.

@rumtscho I completely understand.

They say the trick is to divide the work into bits.

Ah, sometimes work can have unexpected good surprises too

Right now, I'm going through what should be the full amount of papers ever published in this world which explain what determines user satsifaction with a software

and now I just opened a new one which has something new

basically, it looks at how much a person's satisfaction is determined by how much other decision makers are satisfied with a product

this is the first time I see this factor, and I've been through over 500 of these papers

@Cerberus Yes, I know. The problem comes when you start the first bit and it turns out that this bit alone will take longer than what you expected the whole work to take.

Hmm.

Other decision makers, as in other people? How does this person know what other people did?

@rumtscho Wahhh then something needs to be changed!

@Cerberus It is for software which is used in a team. The people know what their teammates said about the software.

Ah OK.

So it is a bit like feedback in online shops.

Ebay, Amazon.

And Google's attempt to put up reviews from people you know when you search for some product.

They probably also tried to do that in the Play Store?

No, it is different

It is really about giving satisfaction ratings after you have talked about the software with people you know

one of the variables is "group cohesiveness"

Or maybe you could say what Google was trying to do was an extremely superficial variant of the same idea.

on Amazon, you only form your satisfaction judgment after you've bought the product, and you see the others' judgments before you buy. And you don't know the people who left the other judgments.

OK so the talking is key?

@Cerberus yes, it seems this way. There is the whole social desirability bias involved.

@rumtscho As in, if you friend likes x, you will be influenced to like it too?

@Cerberus Yes, a bit like that. But more complicated. The whole paper tries to prove that it is the difference between your own (formed) opinion and what you expect your mates' opinion to be (before you hear it) that has an effect on satisfaction. Beside the actual influence of hearing their real opinion.

But the coefficient is very weak. Significant, but the effect size is 0.081.

"Besides", how can you separate those things?

Right, that's weak.

@Cerberus You measure them separately. The first is measured before they hear the mates' opinion.

Hmm.

Complicated.

I mean, not that, but the various factors together.

oh yes, it's a huge mess.

So your workload increased by double digits when you found that article?

@Cerberus no, no. I meant that the field of satisfaction measurement is a huge mess. The leading theories all use different definitions of satisfaction.

The article is just one of many, it didn't increase my workload.

Oh!

So it's good?

yes, and it was refreshingly different from the rest.

Aarggghhh...where's a cook when I need one??

Hmm.

What do you need cooked?

Umm...I dunno. I was just bored.

Oooh though...

Did you see about my sandwich contest? I let it go too long, now I only have just over a week to work on entries.

Grand Prize is $25,000, so I've entered the last two years too. I figure I'm due.

makethatsandwich.com

It just so happens that I have aged, smoked and young Gouda right now.

Yay! Do it!

Got any great Dutch ideas? (to qualify, the sandwich has to have at least 2 Mezzetta products)

Umm...

Cheese goes well well with bacon, tomato, egg...

Lettuce.

Aged cheese goes well with mustard and cress.

what'sa signature Dutch bread??

I don't know!

We don't have much of a cuisine.

ooh cress...you're on to something.

Melted cheese is good too.

yet we name our special pots after you??

Haha you're the only ones who do that.

Aged cheese also goes fairly well with salami.

Good Italian or Spanish salami.

Or even French.

but the fact remains..

But the cheese will be overwhelming.

Dried tomato in oil is also good with aged cheese.

Mezzetta makes that.

Very old cheese also goes well with sweet things, like figs.

I've got Beemster 18 mo.

And maybe...a port sauce. If it's firm enough, you could put it on the cheese in a sandwich.

Sounds good!

bread??

You mean, what kind of bread?

With aged cheese, whole-wheat.

yes, preferably something vaguely Dutch

Or...rye bread!

That is very Dutch, with aged cheese.

now you're talkin!

brb

It needs to be thinly sliced. It's very compact, heavy bread. It has mostly whole grains.

But...it is a bit of an acquired taste.

There's always bacon, too...

acquired is OK. Can I get it in the US?

I'd ask if I can make it, but that's outside what could win the contest.

Consider too..I'd use garlic and olive oil from Mezzetta, but the contest winner will probably have 2 more (at least) Mezzetta ingredients. One thing they have that might be good is Sun dried tomato pesto. They also have anchovies ( I think) and capers.

@Jolenealaska No idea!

@Jolenealaska You could also make dried tomatoes in oil with oil, tomatoes, garlic, basil, etc. from Mezzetta, if they have it.

It's really easy.

Put the tomatoes in the oven at 100C for a few hours, let's say two.

Since they have the dried tomatoes, I'd use theirs.

It's their contest, so they want to see their product.

Right.

But it's a good thing, 'cause they rock. They do really good stuff.

Good.

On that note I'm going to take a nap, but you've given me some great ideas!

cya soon

Nap well.