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6:42 AM
@ElendilTheTall I need to rest for a bit, but I'll be back probably just as you are having your second cup of coffee.
 
7:07 AM
@jolenealaska I'll be tapping my foot and checking my watch.
 
7:59 AM
@ElendilTheTall When are you usually having your second cup?
(And good morning!)
 
8:34 AM
@Stephie it varies. I don't know what information jojo is going on. I suspect hidden cameras.
And good morning
 
@Cerberus Who or what is Erdogan?
 
@FaheemMitha Turkish president. @Cerberus made a Turkey / turkey joke.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkish pronunciation: [ɾeˈd͡ʒep tajˈjip ˈæɾdo.an]; born 26 February 1954) is the 12th and current President of Turkey, in office since 2014. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as the Mayor of İstanbul from 1994 to 1998. Originating from an Islamist political background and as a self-described conservative democrat, his administration has overseen social conservative and liberal economic policies. He founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001 and led it to three general election victories in 2002, 2007 and 2011 before standing...
 
@Stephie How very erudite of him.
 
8:51 AM
Mhm. Erdogan is discussed quite a bit as his politics are, well, questionable from an Western / Central European view.
 
9:06 AM
translation: he's an epic dickhole
 
Yup. Didn't want to step on anyone's toes, but yes.
 
pfff, fuck that
sticks and stones etc
besides, I think we are entirely Turkless in these parts
 
@Stephie I see. Any highlights? I don't know anything about it.
Is this about the immigration stuff?
 
"Lowlights" would be the better term.
 
Ok...
 
you don't want to be a journalist in Turkey, for example
 
Or a woman...
 
or a woman journalist
 
> 1998 - Welfare Party banned, Erdogan jailed for four months for inciting religious hatred
Oh dear.
 
oh yes, you don't want to be non-Muslim either
basically he is not very nice
 
9:20 AM
Keywords for example: Kurds, trying to abolish saecularism, possibly bribery and the usual dealings to surpress political opponents.
 
He doesn't sound very nice.
 
So to close the loop: That's why @Cerberus called him "bitter".
And with the current refugee situation, he is a bitter pill to swallow atm.
 
@Stephie Well, it sounds to me like everyone else should be bitter.
He sounds worryingly like a Hitler-type person. Authoritarian. Pro-corporate. Economy doing well. Religious values. Is he building up the military, by any chance?
If you recall, they said Mussolini made the trains run on time.
I know Turkey is very conservative by European standards. It's more like a outpost of the Middle East. But I've never met anyone from there, afaik.
My distant memories of "My Family and Other Animals" tell me that Greeks don't particularly like Turks. But that's about the extent of my information on the subject.
I could ask terdon. He's Greek.
 
the Greeks and Turks fought over Cyprus in the '70s
but it goes back to the Ottomans
 
Well, MFAOA is pre-WW2.
My knowledge of European politics is basically zero. Apart from the really obvious, spectacular, world-going-up-in-flames stuff.
 
9:33 AM
we'll forgive you
 
Hi guys
 
hi woman
 
Pardon me as I wake up a bit slowly. Not only am I still groggy, and with double vision, but I just had a really bad dream.
 
oh, that sucks
horrible when you can't shake the anxious feeling even when you wake up
it must have been all that talk about cheese :)
 
Actually don't mind bad dreams (usually), I kind of relish waking up for them and realizing that I don't have to go back.
Damn, I have to be careful how I pronounce the words go back. Dragon takes that is a very annoying command.
Suddenly I was out of chat and into a question that was closed a while ago. Mid-message. Dragon being rude when I have double vision is particularly annoying.
I have good coffee concentrate but I'm out of milk. I do have powdered buttermilk and powdered goats milk. Hmmm
 
9:47 AM
I still fail to see how one can become out of milk
Five Ps!
 
It's easy when one just used her last handful of change to put gas in her car to get back from the charitable Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. I should have money on Thursday, but none until then. And I do mean none.
that reminds me guys, perhaps later today or maybe tomorrow, I want to write a really scathing review of a convenience store in the area. Maybe you guys could help me me find the words to be really, really nasty. I want to post it everywhere online (yelp and such) i can.
I'm going to try a powdered goats milk iced coffee. This could be really disastrous, but I really need some coffee. It's 1 AM now, I've had some sleep, I have phone calls I need to make starting at 6 AM.
Did I interrupt you from Turkey talk to mention turkey?
 
not at all
boring conversation anyway, as Han Solo once said
@Jolenealaska ooo, you've come to the right place
 
10:04 AM
@ElendilTheTall I figured!
I'm getting some kind of weird keyboard/Dragon delay, plus I think it makes sense to uninstall all of my Bluetooth stuff and reinstall it (if it doesn't make complete sense, it will when I tell you all the things going on). It might even solve my current problem with my headset. So I'll be back in a moment. With goats milk iced coffee (This should be interesting)
 
10:19 AM
ok
 
10:56 AM
@Jolenealaska what's happening?
 
user116848
Sup!
 
user116848
@Stephie Wow! You made 40k points in only 1 year 3 months. Nice :) I have been here for 1 year 7 months and have only made 5.5k.
 
user116848
Everyone left it seems.
 
no, I am here
sniggering behind my hand at your avatar, but here ;)
 
user116848
hehe.
 
user116848
11:03 AM
Well you can laugh all you want ;)
 
user116848
@Jolenealaska I have watched it. Very good film.
 
user116848
@ElendilTheTall Where I live most of higher ups are corrupt. It is a sad thing.
 
user116848
I don't even vote for anyone in elections.
 
Don't vote, it just encourages them
that is true anywhere in the world
 
user116848
Yeah.
 
11:08 AM
The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one
 
user116848
Billy Connolly.
 
Yes indeed
Also: never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, does not put it on his head.
(this is a tea cosy)
 
user116848
lol
 
@Arrowfar Thanks. It's an unhealthy combination of tenaciousness and a know-it-all attitude.
 
user116848
Hi @Stephie.
 
11:21 AM
Hi!
Besides, if you've been around the block a few times, you tend to pick up a few things.
See exhibit A.
 
wo ist exhibit a?
 
I was speaking of myself, but you may have the position.
 
Du bist exhibit A?
 
Sorry, have to run - busy day ahead. Talk to you later.
 
user116848
See ya!
 
user116848
11:29 AM
So my conversations lack flow sometimes because sometimes I don't know what to say next.
 
well, that's always a problem
just fall back on the classics - family, job, weather, sports
 
user116848
Btw I like the fact that almost everyone here is a level headed person. I used to blab a lot in English rooms but learned my lesson the hard way. If you know what I mean ;-)
 
can't say i do
 
user116848
11:46 AM
Yeah it's nothing.
 
user116848
Hey Elendil if you find some cool reddit post share it with me here (if you want).
 
user116848
Neat.
 
12:02 PM
ain't it just
 
12:30 PM
well
the room died a death
 
1:12 PM
Gee, where's the party??
@ElendilTheTall That's neat. Do you know what book it is?
@ElendilTheTall long stories, only a few are computer related.
Somethings are improved (the weird delay is gone and most of the blood is gone from my carpet, but the bluetooth thing is bugging the hell out of me)
 
1:28 PM
@Jolenealaska sounds like a fun morning
 
Not as bad as it sounds actually. This time yesterday I had no food in my kitchen but some rice and canned beans (and various condiments and such). When I came home from the turkey giveaway, I came across groceries that somebody moving out left in the lobby (people moving in and out do that here, there's always stuff in the lobby for people to rummage, this time apparently they emptied out their freezer). I scored a few items including a frozen Cornish hen. I love Cornish hen!
so while I was cleaning blood out of my carpet I was also cooking dinner in an episode of Chopped manner. It was both fun and successful. :)
And iced coffee with powdered goat's milk is not as foul as it sounds.
so life is OK right now
I uninstalled everything Bluetooth on my computer. Then I plugged in the dongle and I'm getting a 'driver not installed correctly' error message.
I have two identical headsets. That confuses the hell out of everything because apparently they don't have a separate identity. They both have the same name and I can't find any way to name one or the other something different. Okay fine, so I'll mark one of the headsets with tape and that will be the computer headset, the other will be for the phone.
 
why was blood in your carpet?
 
from yesterday's dog bite
 
another thing left in the lobby to be rummaged was carpet cleaning spray, just in time.
It's not the Texas chainsaw massacre or anything, just some drops.
 
1:43 PM
when you say you 'uninstalled everything bluetooth' what do you mean exactly?
 
the driver for the dongle mostly and the other program ( some kind of problem report thing) that came with it.
Everything went south when I installed the video card, but I also upgraded to Windows 10 and then reverted to 7 right at that time.
I think it was with the video card that it stopped working, but I can't swear to it.
 
I don't think so. The two are completely separate systems
 
I'm pretty sure that I used the headset moments before installing the card.
and then after installing the card it wasn't working. That's not to say that installing the card caused the problem, but the timing makes it seem that way.
 
¯\ _(ツ)_/¯
so
the problem now is that it's saying 'driver not installed properly'?
 
That's where it stands now. Before uninstalling the driver (just now) I would get to the point of pairing the headset and the screen with the connect button would only flash and then disappear. I could never hit the connect button.
 
1:54 PM
ok
 
and the headset itself just kept flashing the"find me" signal
 
well, first thing is to get the dongle driver working again I guess
 
It would appear
I'm hopeful that we get it installed and then everything will be normal again, but I'm a Pollyanna that way.
Since I've only tried it once, I thought I'd go ahead and unplug the dongle and plug it back in and see if the driver will go. Also I'll Google the name of it and see if there's a recent driver online.
 
that's what I was going to suggest
what is the name of it?
 
WIDCOMM
 
1:58 PM
that's the software. what's the name of the device itself?
 
Gee, I don't know. It only has a serial number on the dongle itself and it didn't come with any documentation. Just the package which I've thrown away.
As far as I know it's only purpose in life is to communicate with Bluetooth devices.
 
did it come with the headset?
 
No, the headset is a Taotronics model TT-BH02
 
hmmm
well that's a bitch
can you check your amazon order history and see if it has any info?
 
I've got documentation on the headset, I bought the dongle from the bargain bin at Best Buy.
 
2:03 PM
ah
 
can you tell I just like saying "dongle"?
 
I can imagine it in your weird Scandimerican accent
:P
døngle
 
that reminds me of a conversation I had today at the turkey giveaway, a very chatty guy sitting next to me. He isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier. We chatted about accents and regions in America, which led to a discussion about "south" vs "deep south".
Even though you don't live here, I bet you will get it when I make this comment about Florida: The further north you go, the further south you get.
 
Yes, I get that
 
I spent the next 20 minutes trying to get him to understand that line.
I don't think I ever managed.
 
2:14 PM
the south of Florida is full of emigrés, the north is full of Southerners
 
exactly
and this guy grew up in Texas
he should be familiar with the phenomena. But like I said, not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Okay, I'm going to try again with the dongle...brb
 
bon chance
 
Hmmm, I looked for the driver on the uninstall list in control panel and it wasn't there. Yet I looked to install a Bluetooth device and it sees my headset, which it didn't before.
 
drivers don't appear in Add/Remove Programs, because they're not programs
Drivers link to devices, which you can see in the Device Manager
 
Yeah... I know. It was kind of a misspeak.
the dongle flashes blue....WHOA! weird
okay, I think I'm on to something
 
2:29 PM
<crosses fingers>
 
Maybe it's signalling the mother ship.
 
@FaheemMitha Close (maybe). It's trying to communicate with my phone, even though I haven't used it with my phone for ages.
Ok Bluetooth is disabled on my phone, and now the computer "sees" the headset but will not pair... so I'll try rebooting one more time BRB
 
Jay
2:59 PM
The Frying Pan: Sometimes hot, always troubleshooting. Should be our new room name :P
 
@jay always hot, sometimes troubleshooting more like
 
Jay
So i went to a boardgame social meetup last night
it was interesting... the host didnt show up so a group of about 12 people spent the first 10 minutes trying to figure out whats going on
But I decided to take ahold of the situation
and decided to introduce myself and started a introduction loop
 
You could have played tic-tac-toe. Or noughts and crosses, maybe.
 
Jay
We ended up playing Cards against Humanity
it was a nice ice breaker
It was a bit tough at one point because one of the girls there was a chinese exchange student
and her accent was quite thick. So understanding her when it was her turn to read the black card was tough
There was a really cute southern girl(or at least she had a southern sounding accent; alabama maybe) who was super nice
I couldnt tell if she got the vibe that i was gay and instantly cozied up to me, or she was into me lol
 
3:18 PM
Well shit. I've got $80 wrapped up in these damn headsets and I can't get either one of them to work. Windows says the driver for the dongle is up to date, no problems detected. The dongle flashes and it makes the connection sound, but it won't pair with either headset. Dragon is not very accurate with my other mic. I am so damn frustrated. I've wasted a shitload of time on this.
And now I've got to dictate something that needs to be done in an hour and forty minutes, and I don't have good tools for the task. I'd better go and get 'er done. Shit.
waste of fucking time
 
3:49 PM
@Jolenealaska well, we have yet to exhaust all avenues of enquiry!
 
Jay
@Jolenealaska when you foster a child in the future, try and find a tech savvy youth :D
Ohhhhh yea, so we played Cards Against Humanity and one of my black cards was "______ was why my last relationship ended"
And someone's white card was "Being fat and ugly"
I was so sad :'(
But only for a few moments. Its part of the game and I laughed really hard afterward
So a great way to break ice is for someone to call you fat and ugly apparently
 
skinny and hot also works to be fair
 
Jay
4:04 PM
but it wouldnt have worked in that black card context lol
 
i have no idea of the rules of Cards Against Humanity
 
Jay
its simple, someone reads a black card, which usually is a question or a sentence with balnks
and you answer the question or fill in the blank with the white cards
The game is hilarious but can get really dark. lol
One of the dark/hilarious ones that i did last night was:
Black Card: "Vladimir Putin's favorite secret delicacy is _______ stuffed with _______.
my answer was "alter boys" stuffed with "Michael Jackson"
Basically you go around and one person reads the black card. The reader of the blackcard then also chooses which white card "answer" is the best. And the person who gave that answer gets the black card as a trophey
 
how ironic that it was (allegedly) the other way around
 
Jay
at the end, the one with the most black cards win
@ElendilTheTall no, i think you are confused
alter boys stuffed with michael jackson implies michael jackson is inside the alter boys
 
that's true
I am confused
it comes from near-lethal levels of boredom
(work related, not jay related, I hasten to add)
 
Jay
4:10 PM
haha phew, I was this close to having a melt down
 
@Jolenealaska seeing as your headsets connect to your phone just fine, the problem must lie with either the dongle or the computer. So the next logical steps are A) try a new dongle in your computer B) try the same dongle in another computer and see what happens. Dongles should be pretty cheap, $10 or so? Does your Alpine Meadows buddy have a computer?
@jay jay-related boredom is usually kept at manageable levels
if they start to rise I can just poke you with a cheeky comment and let the good times roll
 
Jay
:'( re-initiate melt down
 
like that!
<gets popcorn>
 
Jay
lol unfortunately i need to leave soon. gotta prep for the conference call I have to lead
And then lovely lovely indian buffet for lunch
 
Jay
4:14 PM
Hmmm the weight-loss plan can restart after thanksgiving haha
 
have a naan or four for me
I have, however, heard reports that Indian food in America tastes like it's come out of a can
I hope that is not the case for your sake
 
Jay
@ElendilTheTall OH yea! I will. I also love their cheese cubes in the curries. not sure what they are called
 
paneer
 
Jay
oh yea that
@ElendilTheTall maybe if you go to some cheap dump? I never heard that before lol
But really the UK has no room to judge any place in regards to food in general :P
 
@Jay says someone who has never eaten food in the UK...
 
Jay
4:16 PM
@ElendilTheTall It's pretty much a common consensus
 
@Jay no, it's a stereotype
like we all have bad teeth, when we actually have the best dental health in the world
 
Jay
hehe
Well when i visit London in the next few years, I'll re-evaluate
 
Jay
The plan after I pay off my student loans and mortgage a house is to visit a different foreign country each year
@ElendilTheTall dude i can only visit so many places. I might as well visit London which i will probably have the most concentrated UK experience? Or something
 
> In Hollywood, any characters visiting Britain will stop in one place: Central London. They'll catch a ride on those cool red buses, try to make the Guards at the palace laugh, get into a debate about whether it's fries or chips, and at some point meet the Royal Family. The Establishing Shot will show Westminster Palace, Tower Bridge, The London Eye, or all of the above to a brief Standard Snippet of "Rule Britannia"* , just in case you weren't clear on the location.
@Jay nope
would visiting New York give the most concentrated American experience?
 
Jay
4:19 PM
@ElendilTheTall ok fine ill consult you when i do make a trip to the UK and you can help me set up an itinerary
lol
is that to your satisfaction g'sir
 
London is chock full of foreigners for starters.
@Jay that is acceptable
 
Jay
Oi, sometimes making you happy is like rubbing my belly in circles and patting my head and wiggling my ears and wobbling my eyebrows and reciting shakespeare all at once
No wonder you and @Jolenealaska get along so well
 
yes, we are two peas in a grumpy pod
 
Jay
that saying was always strange to me because most pods have more than 2 peas
 
well, just because we are 2 peas in a pod doesn't mean there aren't other peas
Faheem can be pretty grouchy as well
though he's not snuggling up to me and jojo. he can bugger off to the end of the pod
 
Jay
4:26 PM
@ElendilTheTall ohhh damn! shots fired
shit, i was suppose to prepare for the call
damn you!
ok 4 minutes to prep, ttyl
 
teehee
cya
 
@Jay You tell him.
@Jay Darn tooting. Speaking as someone who has eaten food in the UK. Unfortunately.
 
@FaheemMitha and I'm sure the food in India is universally wonderful :/
 
@ElendilTheTall It isn't.
 
well then
 
4:39 PM
They should do an alien invasion set in Jersey, sometime.
I thought Dr. Who was doing Cardiff these days, though. Also, possibly, Torchwood.
 
They are based there, IIRC
The BBC has been very keen to stop being London-centric
 
@ElendilTheTall Who?
 
Dr Who and Torchwood
 
@ElendilTheTall You mean the TV shows? Presumably you don't mean Dr. Who himself.
 
@FaheemMitha yes, the TV shows Faheem
 
4:46 PM
@ElendilTheTall Ah.
Yes, I remember Dr. Who is quite fond of London for some reason.
 
5:00 PM
I've never really watched it
It always seemed desperately low budget
which, as a license payer, is fine, but it still sucks
 
Well, it's changed a bit over the years.
Like Red Dwarf. Which had comically bad special effects at the beginning. But things did improve a bit later.
 
yes, it is better these days, but that's still not saying much
perhaps it's the fact that it's filmed in video
it looks like a film student's final project
they need to add some film grain
 
5:31 PM
Well I got my documents sent off, by the skin of my teeth.
@ElendilTheTall good Indian food can be found here, but we don't have a lot of it. We have a Mexican restaurant on every block though, some of them quite good.
 
user116848
Phew. I could finally enter the chat room. My internet was super slow just now.
 
user116848
Hello @Cerberus @Jolenealaska.
 
Hib @Arrowfar
 
user116848
@ElendilTheTall I heard you guys were doing a podcast.
 
@Arrowfar Just for giggles, and just for the room.
 
user116848
5:41 PM
Nice.
 
user116848
Is Arrowfar going to be in the podcast? You can tell me to bugger off if you want ;-)
 
@ElendilTheTall I'm getting the headsets to connect to the phone correctly, at least not the second headset. I realized that the first headset was going to the phone when I tried to pair to the computer and I heard through the headset "your call cannot be connected". I tried earlier to pair the second headset to the phone and couldn't get it to work. What's weird is that the first headset had been working just fine (with the computer) prior to installing the video card.
@Arrowfar Well, Jay is going to be a call in guest so I suppose you can be too.
(that is I have not been successful using the first headset with the phone, although the "your call cannot be connected" line suggests that it would probably work)
@ElendilTheTall I have one more thing to try right now, but I am not overly optimistic. No, my friend in the building does not have a computer except for a small tablet.
 
5:56 PM
Wait a minute... I have another idea what the problem might be. Now I have 2 things to try.
I'm going to log off and try a couple of things. I'll be back in a bit.
 
Jay
6:18 PM
Holy exploding stomach
sooo much indian food
so fat
the naan was awesome. freshly made in a basket at your table that they refreshed every so often
lightly drizzled with garlicy butter
and it was reasonably priced. only 10.99/person
the decor was very nice.
although i was a bit apprehensive because the outside of the restaurant looked very tacky
but the inside was on-point
the goat curry was delicious. But i think they should have a warning about the goat meat having bones still in
its hard to tell since its covered in curry
and i think i ate a full plate of just paneer
nom nom nom
i also tried this creamy spinach curry. never had it before but it was nice
it has chunks of mushrooms in it
this was a buffet style restaurant
 
6:35 PM
Wow, sounds good.
I like cheap Indian food.
Somehow.
 
Jay
Phew that all worked out
So remember that conference call earlier
Someone didnt show up so i had to reschedule
 
6:51 PM
Hmm.
I suppose 5 minutes late is manageable?
Oh, that is extra annoying.
 
Jay
I'm going to probably delete the last couple sentences
 
Hehe.
Yeah, good idea.
Unless this person happens to be a mod on SE...
 
Jay
haha i doubt it
but just in case
 
Or this room's owner.
Then he can read the deletion history.
 
Jay
lots of engineers frequent SE. whos to say they wont happen about the transcript in SA
 
6:53 PM
Exactly.
 
Jay
7:09 PM
Oi! so in my todo list I wrote "retrieval request"... but I have NO idea what i mean by that
i wrote that yesterday so its not like it was from forever ago
I feel like im losing my mind haha
 
Hehe I know the feeling.
Luckily, I have two back-ups myself.
 
Jay
yes i can see how 3 heads will come in handy in this situation
and if its blurry, you can always take a vote.
 
7:27 PM
Or fight.
 
user116848
It is 12:28 AM here.
 
user116848
I'm still hanging around in chat today.
 
Jay
There is an adorable little indian boy at the office today
He's like 3 or so years old
He's been giggling about something for the past hour
 
user116848
Wow, heh.
 
Jay
i dont even mind since he has such a cute giggle
he has really chubby cheeks that i wanna squeeze haha
 
user116848
7:35 PM
@Cerberus Which are? I don't follow.
 
Jay
@Arrowfar hes referring to his profile picture/name of being cerberus with 3 heads
 
user116848
Ah
 
user116848
7:55 PM
Good night.
 
Adieu.
 
user116848
Cerbs you are not mad at me right? Just asking.
 
user116848
Yeah why would you be? Nothing. I was just reading the ELU chat.
 
user116848
That's my drunk talk lol.
 
user116848
Bye!
 
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