The Frying Pan

12:08 AM

I just rescheduled. Not a problem.

@Jolenealaska Hi Jolene! — I know what that's like. Now, you must feel better not having to rush!

Yes, rushing puts me in a non-helpful frame of mind.

Haha.

I hate being in a rush. Also because I always am, whenever I have an appointment.

@Cerberus Adorable!

This is dimetrodon. Do you think it is more closely related to you, or to dinosaurs-reptiles?

@ElmerCat Thank you.

12:18 AM

It's hard to know, but would say it most resembles my Aunt Helen.

Jefromi

Looks like a person to me, about the same height.

1:08 AM

I just heard a food-related question being asked on the radio:

"How do you change soup into gold?"

Package it and sell it at Safeway?

They want $7 for a pint of tomato bisque.

No... it was NPR, so the answer was very corny.

Corn Bisque, even better!

" Add 24 carrots "

I enjoy NPR too. I generally keep my car radio set to the local oldies station, but they change into "all Christmas all the time" after Thanksgiving. So NPR is my back-up choice.

I want to contact them.

This answer was based a lot upon what they said:

1:22 AM

@Jolenealaska I've been listening to NPR since Susan Stamberg was a little girl.

A: Coca Cola's Secret Recipe

It's no secret, here it is! Complete with the cocaine that was removed from Coke's production in 1903: Picture and text from This American Life The radio broadcast recording on the above link makes a very compelling case that the picture at the top of the page is really the original formula...

But now the link is dead.

I'd like to see if we can work around it.

Jefromi

@Jolenealaska Which link?

Oh, up at the top.

No, that was just a typo, the second version of the link he posted works.

got to run

@Jefromi It does work! Huh, it was dead last time I checked.

4 hours later…

5:11 AM

@Jefromi Exactly.

The answer is: dimetrodon is more closely related to you than to dinosaurs.

5:24 AM

@Cerberus 'Twould seem that would depend a lot upon who was drawing the tree.

5:47 AM

@Jolenealaska How do you mean?

I mean phylogenetically.

To what extent our genes are the same, and how distant we are from each other in the big genealogy of species.

If a phylogeneticist weighs in, ok, I wouldn't argue with his points.

But...

Dimetrodon is a reptile.

Actually... he resembled reptiles.

You got me :)

I had other things to do tonight! You have sent me on a wikipedia excursion that may take weeks.

Send chocolate.

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user116848

10:17 AM

user116848

10:56 AM

So quiet

3:43 PM

@Jolenealaska He did, indeed, resemble reptiles. But so did our ancestors at some point. So that's why I found it so remarkable that he is closer to us phylogenetically!

And the Wikipaedia excursion you mentioned? That's what I had been doing for 12 hours straight yesterday and what triggered all those animals I posted here...

Stephie is to blame, with her cat picture or something. I don't remember what she posted, but it sent me on the Wiki spree.

ElendilTheTall

3:54 PM

Salmon are more closely related to us than they are sharks. (all the teleost fish are).

Ah, I hadn't started with the fish tree yet!

I stopped at "flesh-lobed fish".

But I plan to continue!

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user116848

6:39 PM

Hello @Arrowfar ! — Why mournful?

user116848

Hi Elmer!

user116848

Hah no reason. Well it was very quiet here so I thought I'd say something :-)

Just an icebreaker then. — Are you indeed a pianist?

user116848

Yep an icebreaker, sorta heh.

user116848

6:43 PM

No I'm not a pianist. I played some in school though (in music class)

user116848

And was kinda bad at it, of course :-)

Still, I bet you benefited from just having an interest in music.

user116848

Yep.

user116848

You? Do you play anything?

ElendilTheTall

evening gents

user116848

6:49 PM

Evening Dilly!

user116848

How goes it?

@Arrowfar In school, I played trumpet and bass clarinet. I liked music theory, but lacked very much talent.

Hello @ElendilTheTall !

user116848

Cool!

7:05 PM

'"Teleost". Noted.... Thanks, @ElendilTheTall!

Hello @Stephie

Hi everyone, hi, @ElmerCat!

user116848

Hello @Stephie.

Man Cuddles With a Cute Wombat

To all those who are not big into Valentine Day but still feel kinda cuddly:

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@Stephie Adorable!

7:13 PM

@ElmerCat watched already?

user116848

Nice Wombat.

@Stephie I'm certain it will be Adorable in one way or another.

@ElmerCat ^_^

user116848

Found mostly in Australia I read.

A story in today's paper made me think of you, @Stephie. It's about a man from Germany who bakes sourdough bread for everyone in the audience of his traveling theatre. To bake his bread, he assembles a brick oven outside the venue.

bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-dance/2016/02/13/…

breadandpuppet.org

7:19 PM

Wow! How cool is that?

Apparently it's a sprouted rye sourdough bread.

On the Baking of Bread

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After decades, he still has a German accent. But he seems kind of cute.

@ElmerCat I really need to take pictures in the bake house next time...

7:35 PM

@Stephie I would love to see them!

I have some, but nothing suitable for the Internet...

user116848

Good night guys!

Good night, @Arrowfar

Niggt, @Arrowfar!

8:03 PM

@ElmerCat good find of the dupe!

@Stephie It wasn't hard to search "substitute shortening". If the questioner did that, they would have found their answer immediately.