The Frying Pan

Pureferret

12:10 AM

@FaheemMitha MY SCI-FI SENSE IS TINGLING

Faheem Mitha

@Pureferret sci-fi? nobody says sci-fi.

Pureferret

@FaheemMitha I say it, and I'm a mod

therefore it's LAW

Faheem Mitha

@Pureferret You're a mod? Congratulations.

Pureferret

This is all just me being flippant/sarrcastic etc

Faheem Mitha

I'm guessing that is Judge Dredd. Or Sylvester Stallone. Whatever.

Pureferret

12:17 AM

@FaheemMitha It's a drawing

Of judge dredd

Faheem Mitha

@Pureferret Yes, I can see that. Still looks like Dredd/Stallone.

@Pureferret Ok

Jolenealaska

1:42 AM

ANNE WON!!!! ANNE WON!!!! ANNE WON!!!!

About bloody time

Jolenealaska

5:32 AM

imdb.com/title/tt1353281/board/nest/244340195

Crazy Ninja

8:42 AM

Hi @Jolenealaska

Can i talk to you for a while?

Jolenealaska

Of course.

Crazy Ninja

I have a question to be asked in Workplace forum.. can you just have review on it?

"I have noticed that many of our BAs and Tech leads disturb while talking someone. When someone talking, Suddenly another person is interrupts to that person, talking loud in between. Even though they are talking about a good opinion to the subject, I feel it's not polite. I'm junior in my workplace. But I never had a such a disturbance yet. Sooner I might have to face such a situation. How should I let them to know that is a low quality act? "

my subject heading is > "How to tell not to disturb when someone talking"

Jolenealaska

Do you mind if I edit (proofreading)?

Crazy Ninja

yes!

I mean, you do correction of my english grammar

Jolenealaska

I'm going to take that to mean, yes, you don't mind :)

brb

Crazy Ninja

8:53 AM

BA = Business Analyst

Jolenealaska

"I have noticed that many of our analysts and techs can be disruptive. When someone is talking, the tech may interrupt that person, speaking loudly. Even though they are speaking about the topic at hand, I feel that it's not polite. I'm junior in my workplace, but I am bothered by this. I might feel the need to deal with it soon. How should I let them know my feelings? "
My subject heading is > "How can I ask someone senior to me to “keep it down”?

Crazy Ninja

wow! Thanks a lot

Jolenealaska

You're welcome.

Crazy Ninja

rich english ! (which is what i deserve to have)

Jolenealaska

Well, I have been speaking it for 46 years :)

Crazy Ninja

8:58 AM

hmm.. so, then there is no surprise

Jolenealaska

My Sinhala sucks, though.

Crazy Ninja

hahaah... that is totally natural

Jolenealaska

Yes :)

Crazy Ninja

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Q: How can I ask someone senior to me to “keep it down”?

I have noticed that many of our analysts and techs can be disruptive. When someone is talking, the tech may interrupt that person, speaking loudly. Even though they are speaking about the topic at hand, I feel that it's not polite. I'm junior in my workplace, but I am bothered by this. I might ...

company-culture

thanks for the vote :D

Jolenealaska

Who...me?

:)

Crazy Ninja

9:17 AM

My question was actually, that happens in our meetings

Jolenealaska

You can add that with two words.

I have noticed that many of our analysts and techs can be disruptive in meetings.

Crazy Ninja

i'll modify it

Jolenealaska

Note that "in" and "to" would both be correct (just an oddity of English that I noticed).

Hi Tall!

Crazy Ninja

hmm...

Jolenealaska

You're late!

ElendilTheTall

9:26 AM

Ms. Brown

Mr Ninja

<nods>

Jolenealaska

I've had a banner day with my book.

Crazy Ninja

@ElendilTheTall Hello Sir!

Jolenealaska

I really like Dragon!

It has a much better spell-check than Firefox.

ElendilTheTall

Cool

Jolenealaska

And it has already learned some of my "go to" phrases.

And Amazon tells me that my new printer will arrive on Friday.

Now if I could just get off my butt and get ready for my walk-through tomorrow, I would feel golden.

Instead, I am making bread (the last thing I need in this kitchen right now). A question on main piqued my curiosity.

1

Q: where can I buy a larger than usual 13X4x4 pull man pan?

I want to make Italian style pain de mie bread for sandwich which is much larger size than the usual 13X4X4 pull man pan available on the market.... if you know where I can find a larger size baking pan for pain de mie , or other alternative to achieve this goal, plse adv.

baking pan

Crazy Ninja

9:44 AM

@Jolenealaska

Jolenealaska

Yes?

Crazy Ninja

i got a comment :

flag

I think the question probably is not titled correctly for this. When you say "keep it down" I would get the impression that some colleagues are near your workstation talking loudly and that it is distracting to you. However, for the situation you describe, the interrupting part or "analysts talking over my colleagues" during a meeting is the problem you're trying address. – Brandin 1 min ago

Jolenealaska

He has a point, considering your correction of my interpretation.

Maybe, "How can I ask a senior to not interrupt?

Crazy Ninja

that will raise this question 'When are you getting interrupt?'

Jolenealaska

I don't think so, that's covered in the text of the question.

The title doesn't need to completely cover it.

Crazy Ninja

9:49 AM

"How can I ask a senior not to interrupt when someone is talking?"

Jolenealaska

That works.

Mention to the commenter that you appreciate his input and have edited accordingly.

Crazy Ninja

always !

Jolenealaska

:)

ElendilTheTall

rum tee tum

coffeeeeee

Jolenealaska

I'm drinking coffee too. Probably not the best move at 2am.

ElendilTheTall

9:56 AM

probably not

decaff is the key

Jolenealaska

WooHoo! King Arthur flour has added grams to their recipes!

ElendilTheTall

Enlightenment finally reaches the New World

Jolenealaska

Wonders never cease.

Ounces are a royal PItA.

ElendilTheTall

yes indeed

don't even start on fucking cups

Jolenealaska

Once I was pontificating to my nephews about calibrating scales.

"What do I have access to in this house that I know exactly what it weighs?"

Dad (the science minded guy) interjected, "A pint is a pound the world around".

Oh you're a big help.

ElendilTheTall

10:08 AM

ooo

he's wrong again

British pints are bigger

1 Imperial pint = 1.2 US pints

Jolenealaska

Yep! Not to mention it's just a stupid system!

ElendilTheTall

i learned, the other day, that the Egyptians used a base-12 number system

why, do you think?

Jolenealaska

Lunar cycles?

ElendilTheTall

that's one thought, but I prefer the alternative - they counted the finger joints with their thumb

Jolenealaska

:)

ElendilTheTall

10:14 AM

one native american tribe had a base 8 system because they counted the gaps between fingers rather than the fingers themselves

Jolenealaska

Do you know how Chicken, Alaska got its name?

ElendilTheTall

I think you've told me before...

Jolenealaska

They couldn't spell ptarmigan.

ElendilTheTall

lol

Jolenealaska

I love that bit of trivia.

ElendilTheTall

10:24 AM

the Babylonians had a base 60 system, which is where 60 minutes/seconds comes from

it sounds crazy but it actually makes a lot of sense - 60 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20 and 30

Jolenealaska

That makes my brain hurt.

ElendilTheTall

lol, how?

Jolenealaska

Bread is rising! (way to be productive, Jolene)

That's more fingers and toes than I have.

ElendilTheTall

60/1 = 60, 60/2 = 30, 60/3 = 20, 60/4 = 15, 60/5 = 12, 60/6 = 10, 6/10 = 6, 60/12 = 5, 60/15 = 4, 60/20 = 3, 60/30 = 2

Jolenealaska

I get that. It still makes my brain hurt.

10:28 AM

Awesome recipe:

kingarthurflour.com/recipes/honey-oat-pain-de-mie-recipe

:)

Careful with those hands!

ElendilTheTall

@Jolenealaska oops, I slipped

Jolenealaska

You're forgiven...this once!

ElendilTheTall

10:31 AM

damn! slipped again!

woah, slipping all over the place

Jolenealaska

I find another way to prove that I don't have smoke damage from the fire.

ElendilTheTall

you, or the apartment? :D

Jolenealaska

The sheet I put over my oven hood (to diffuse light) is clean.

That was just above the pan that burned.

I've never taken it down, and she probably remembers it from that night.

It's not so clean that it looks laundered, but the stains are food, not smoke.

More and more I'm feeling like I dodged a bullet.

ElendilTheTall

yes, you loon, be more careful

what would I do at work all day if you burn half of Anchorage down?

Jolenealaska

Yes. USAA has given me a good quote on renter's insurance, too.

That would suck.

I hope the landlord is satisfied with 100K liability coverage.

(for $8/month if bundled with auto insurance)

That includes the future dog.

dammit....*found*

ElendilTheTall

10:49 AM

?

Jolenealaska

That's it, I'm plugging in my mic.

17 mins ago, by Jolenealaska

I find another way to prove that I don't have smoke damage from the fire.

ElendilTheTall

ah

I thought you were just trying to sound exotic

Jolenealaska

That must be it.

ElendilTheTall

it worked - I am now imagining you as a dusky Spanish señorita

Jolenealaska

:)

Well, this is unedited by hand. By golly, it works.

Remember that freebie?

This is bunches better.

It gets confused when I laugh at myself.

ElendilTheTall

10:57 AM

how does it handle punctuation?

do you have to say 'period' 'comma' etc?

Jolenealaska

Maybe someday it will learn that that's normal for me.

I have to say it as in"period"

But it's very intuitive, or at least it is to me, because I grew up listening to my father dictate.

Still no editing.

Except the "period".

If I'm on a roll I can just speak and then edit it by hand.

ElendilTheTall

it strikes me that there must be a way to differentiate between the word period and it adding a .

Jolenealaska

I will install it on my phone too, then I can just pace with the headset.

There is I'm sure but I just don't know it yet.

I'm just happy to be functionally literate.

It took me longer to learn how to answer my phone.

Slide to the right, not left.

ElendilTheTall

yes. I would assume as a member of the right handed fascist world order that would have come naturally to you

Jolenealaska

Are you left-handed?

ElendilTheTall

11:06 AM

I thought we'd established that long ago

Jolenealaska

Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

Still no hand editing.

I am so impressed.

This is so it's better than typing!

ElendilTheTall

ha

how ironic

Jolenealaska

There is an error!!

First one!

ElendilTheTall

does it recognise antidisestablishmentarianism?

Jolenealaska

Antidisestablishmentarianism

yep!

But it sucks at middle English and Shakespeare.

One that Opera the shoulder salt of the box of matzos pets to the rope done by the baby genius each quarter

Please say that again!

Nor I, I would not there reside to put my father in inpatient thoughts by being in his eye.

Holy shit!

It has learned iambic pentameter!

It couldn't do that earlier today.

ElendilTheTall

11:13 AM

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on rhythm

Jolenealaska

But how is it (nearly) correctly understanding the line now, but not before??

Weird!

ElendilTheTall

how many whiskeys had you had before?

Jolenealaska

Snort

Do you recognize the fourth line?

After antidisestablishmentarianism?

That's its attempt at the Canterbury Tales in middle English.

ElendilTheTall

I'm fairly sure there were no matzos in Chaucer

Jolenealaska

I was just thinking that.

ElendilTheTall

11:17 AM

“No empty handed man can lure a bird. Oy vey!”

Jolenealaska

Oy vey!

It understood that!

Model talk that was supposed to be Moslem toff model top...

LOL

CC señorita

it can do the swirly mark! That's more than I can say!

CC needs some work.

Verboten

WOW!

This thing might be able to play Scrabble.

It even capitalized Scrabble.

ElendilTheTall

verboten is widely used in english, as is señorita

si si, less so

:)

Jolenealaska

But even so, I have never spoken Spanish to it before.

Or German for that matter.

I can't believe how fast I'm able to type

This is just unreal

Just to think of all the time I have wasted trying to learn to type

I have a review to write on Amazon.

Or speak, actually.

ElendilTheTall

i may have asked this before, but is your slow typing down to your MS, or have you never been able to do it?

Jolenealaska

It's too bad I'm coming off my manic high. I could have this book done by the end of the month!

Both

I took two years of typing in high school. I was pathetic.

But now it comes and goes as an MS symptom as well.

When I'm really on a roll I can probably type about 30 words a minute.

I can talk a lot faster that.

That's one of the reasons I was so hot to trot to automate everything when I was company Clerk.

ElendilTheTall

11:29 AM

how odd

I wonder why that is

Jolenealaska

You have see me though when I can barely type a word.

ElendilTheTall

yes

Jolenealaska

MS is so bizarre

There is more we don't know than that we do.

While researching books that have already been written by MS patients, I came across a very highly reviewed book about diet.

It sucks because it makes everything like off-limits including gluten, but I'm going to try it for three months.

Just to see if I want to mention it in my book.

ElendilTheTall

am I correct in thinking that MS is virtually unheard of in warm climates?

Jolenealaska

It is more common in temperate climates. Extremely hot or cold climates seem to have less MS.

Except Alaska, because people with MS have a way of moving here.

Heat exacerbates everything

It didn't even choke on exacerbates.

ElendilTheTall

11:35 AM

jeez jojo, get over it. yes, voice recognition is very clever. you sound like an Amish. "Look father, a horseless carriage!"

Jolenealaska

The new feed item is funny.

ElendilTheTall

:P

Jolenealaska

It's choking again on my laughing

ElendilTheTall

this is one smooooooth motherfucker

Jolenealaska

Aww!

That reminds me of the funny story about the Korean couple in an Anchorage bar.

Whilst... Must be a Brit!

ElendilTheTall

11:48 AM

whilst?

Jolenealaska

In the new question.

Americans never say whilst.

We think it's quaint.

ElendilTheTall

another note for the big meeting

we also say 'learnt'

and 'shan't'

and 'fortnight'

Jolenealaska

I can't even remember what Fortnight means.

ElendilTheTall

2 weeks

fourteen nights

i'll see you in a fortnight

Jolenealaska

We say learnt, but we spell it learned.

Shan't is rare, but not unheard of. It makes me think of Harry Potter.

ElendilTheTall

11:56 AM

Harry Potter being written by a Brit...

Jolenealaska

If forced to guess I think I would've come up with two weeks, but I'm not sure.

I vaguely remember learning as a kid that it was more than a day.

ElendilTheTall

there's also sennight, meaning a week, but that's archaic

Jolenealaska

That one I have never heard.

ElendilTheTall

you have now

Jolenealaska

A fun little bit of trivia about Harry Potter is that Rowling insisted that all of the actors be from the UK.

Which really pissed off Rosie O'Donnell who wanted to play Mrs. Weasley.

ElendilTheTall

12:00 PM

pfff

Jolenealaska

I think it was Rosie O'Donnell...

ElendilTheTall

Julie Walters is always a good choice

Jolenealaska

She looks like she would be great in the role.

I'm not sure I have seen her.

ElendilTheTall

who?

Jolenealaska

Julie Waters Walters

ElendilTheTall

12:01 PM

Julie Walters = mrs weasley

Jolenealaska

No red hair?

Wow!

There is that CBE again

ElendilTheTall

yeah, she's been going for a while has Julie

Jolenealaska

She actually looks better with her natural hair IMO

But I adored Mrs. Weasley

Both in the books and in the movies

Classic mom

ElendilTheTall

she certainly did for Helena Bonham-Carter

Jolenealaska

I hated her in Les Miserables.

Totally wrong for the character.

Mme. Thenardier should not be sexy.

One of the great lines in the book is Valjean seeing her bridal veil. He shutters at the thought that she was once a virgin.

They also ruined my favorite song' but that's not the actors fault, I blame the director.

Weird that a comma became an apostrophe.

I'm sure I said comma

I think I would remember saying apostrophe accidentally.

Here we go, food pictures. It's been a while.

I'm not to try to make this pretty, though.

ElendilTheTall

12:18 PM

it also heard 'shudders' as 'shutters'

that's very American

Jolenealaska

Yes!

The hardest thing about this program is going to be able to see the errors.

Like the way I skip words...I just won't see it.

Especially homophones.

I'm chatting in ELL too. And writing an answer on main. And baking bread. Everything but cleaning.

I give this brand a way to that guy! I told him I would! The one who helped me with groceries a few weeks back.

Bread brand

I can also tell it to correct. But I'm not good at it yet.

It tends to just type correct.

But I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, it just doesn't get it yet.

It must be that Iowan accent.

ElendilTheTall

must be

Jolenealaska

One of the first things that you do with this program is tell it where you're from.

What a loaded fucking question

Big sigh, do you have a pencil?

Well, my bread is going in the oven. When it's done, I'm turning off my computer. I've got to get some work done.

Tomorrow's my inspection then my big date is this weekend. Then I get to move. Jesus.

ElendilTheTall

12:35 PM

stand by your beds!

Jolenealaska

???

I was just asked in ELL what Iowa means!

:-)

ElendilTheTall

evidently they don't say 'stand by your beds' in the US Army

Jolenealaska

Holy shit I said :-)

ElendilTheTall

it's the stereotypical Sergeant Major's yell when he bursts into barracks for a surprise inspection

Jolenealaska

No I thought it maybe "stand by your man"!

ElendilTheTall

12:38 PM

that's the Navy ;)

Jolenealaska

:-) Laugh

CN does not like that joke.

ElendilTheTall

haha

if you join the navy, that's what you have to be prepared for

you're fair game even to civilians

reddit.com/r/photocritique/comments/37l4dq/…

I've noticed a growing trend in people using 'I've' incorrectly

I don't have the technical knowledge to describe why this is wrong, but it obviously is

Jolenealaska

Well, substitute I have. If it works, it's correct.

ElendilTheTall

No, it's not

Jolenealaska

Okay explain.

ElendilTheTall

12:49 PM

3 mins ago, by ElendilTheTall

I don't have the technical knowledge to describe why this is wrong, but it obviously is

You just don't use 'I've' in that context

Jolenealaska

I've is a contraction of I have.

ElendilTheTall

I know that

i'm not a fucking moron

when have you ever heard I've used in a similar context?

it just doesn't scan

Jolenealaska

I don't get it.

ElendilTheTall

again, when have you have ever seen 'I've' used in that context before?

when have you ever seen "What could I've done?"

Jolenealaska

The growing trend I've noticed lately, is using a possessive instead of a plural.

ElendilTheTall

12:51 PM

as opposed to 'What could I have done?'

@Jolenealaska oh christ, that's as old as the hills

people can't use apostrophes, that's old news

Jolenealaska

I've noticed that more lately, but that doesn't mean much.

that it

ElendilTheTall

amazon.co.uk/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Lynne-Truss/dp/0007329067/…

Jolenealaska

Nice!

And look at that, available for the Kindle.

ElendilTheTall

yes indeedy

Jolenealaska

And I have just enough left on my dad's gift card.

:-)

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