The Frying Pan

That latitude comparison taught me something. I would never have known that the entirety of the UK is north of Vancouver. For some reason I always thought you were somewhat in the latitude area of the American lower 48.

ElendilTheTall

lol

thanks Jet Stream!

Jolenealaska

I would have guessed London was about equivalent to Boston in latitude.

ElendilTheTall

trans-Atlantic flights normally fly over towards the pole somewhat

Jolenealaska

11:28 AM

Okay, exalted one who always knows the answers to this type of question:

What do you call a map of the world centered on the poles?

ElendilTheTall

what do you mean?

a top down view?

or bottom up

as it were

Jolenealaska

Top-down is the one I want

But, I figured the word would include both

ElendilTheTall

not sure there's a specific term

north pole centric?

Jolenealaska

That makes me smile so much

I can't help it

ElendilTheTall

makes you realise how big the Pacific is

Jolenealaska

11:31 AM

Santa! You xenophobe you!

ElendilTheTall

there's not much round that side at all

Jolenealaska

I was imagining a polar projection map (there's the term!) that ended at the equator.

Look how weird Australia looks!

ElendilTheTall

IKR

Jolenealaska

I can imagine that as a trivia question, basically "on a north pole projection map, what is this country?"

ElendilTheTall

have you seen a Peterson projection map that shows the landmasses in the correct proportions?

sorry

Peters projection

Mercator always makes Africa look tiny

it's fkn huge in actuality

Jolenealaska

11:37 AM

Alaska gets squashed :(

And stretched

What a crick in my neck!

I have very fond memories of a giant globe (8 feet in diameter?) that stood in the doorway of the Des Moines Register.

My dad's law firm used to be in the same building, above the paper.

ElendilTheTall

cool

Jolenealaska

It was not unusual for me to need to wait for my dad.

ElendilTheTall

I think Bill Bryson mentions that in his childhood memoirs

his parents both worked for the Register

Jolenealaska

And he went to my high school!

If I had to wait for my dad, I would wait for him by the globe. I would almost always be somewhat reluctant to leave.

It also used to have a plaque that said, "One newspaper has won more Pulitzer Prizes in international journalism than The Des Moines Register. Our congratulations to the New York Times"

Our political cartoonist also won a record number of Pulitzers.

Although he was number one I think, not two.

And here it is! Not quite as big as I remember it. (imagine that)

ElendilTheTall

I'm sure that drew visitors all the way from Fudd County

:D

Jolenealaska

11:52 AM

I feel oddly moved by that photo.

@ElendilTheTall yes :)

That and the life-sized cow always carved in butter at the Iowa State Fair

That little girl leaning against the glass could be me except for that dress.

ElendilTheTall

yes, if it was your dress the plaid would be orange even through the black and white film

xD

Jolenealaska

Yes :)

ElendilTheTall

12:10 PM

America in video form:

streamable.com/szlfc

WOOOOO FUCK YEAH! GET THAT BALL DOWN!

:D

it's why we love you and roll our eyes at you at the same time :D

Jolenealaska

Yes, I can so see that. I would be cheering too :)

ElendilTheTall

:D

Jolenealaska

Now my cat has been fed, so she is begging for love and attention. It's funny, she isn't nearly as loud (usually) begging for affection as opposed to begging for food.

ElendilTheTall

I need a word.... now

Jolenealaska

12:30 PM

Ha!

That looks says, "I will kill you in your sleep for this"

ElendilTheTall

enjoy this while you can hooman

it will be the last thing you ever do

Jolenealaska

:)

Jolenealaska

12:57 PM

Moley unveils World’s First Robotic Kitchen which can cook by mimicking Chef

►

ElendilTheTall

1:16 PM

last night I noticed the temperature control on my fridge is marked 'colder <------> coldest'

what. the actual. fuck.

Stephie

@Jolenealaska a true nightmare.

Journeyman Geek

1:57 PM

lol

my mom tried to use the noodle maker on her own...

she first added too much water, then tried to fix it and....

yeah, the noodles ended up... unusual.

Stephie

2:26 PM

As in...?

Catija

8:37 PM

To 10 K!!!! And now I'm there... provided no one downvotes me. :P

Catija, Austin, TX

10k 4 25 44

rumtscho

Congratulations!

Catija

Thanks! :D I can now see dead posts... or, deleted ones, anyway :D

rumtscho

"I see dead posts" - when you put it that way, one wonders why it is something people want to achieve

Stephie

@Catija congrats!

Evening, girls!

Catija

@rumtscho Because it's fun... for some reason I really like being able to see what got deleted. A lot of these posts are amusing.

@Stephie Thanks :D

Stephie

8:51 PM

Aaaand good night - I just fell asleep for a moment on my computer. Possibly a sign to quit for today. Sorry!

Catija

Awww, sleep well! Seems like you're mostly there already!

Catija

10:58 PM

... and then I idiotically downvoted two bad answers and was down to 9998 rep... But then someone upvoted me so I'm all good. :P

Journeyman Geek

11:19 PM

lol

I was on 99 9989 reputation. I was hoping for one upvote so I'd get 99 9999 reputation...

got an accepted answer...

Catija

I can't even imagine getting a six figure rep count on the entire network, let alone on one site alone.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Its one, large active site, over an extended period of time.

Catija

It still requires a ton of subject knowledge which I don't have. :P

Journeyman Geek

eh. A lot of it is googling and getting sucked down interesting topics

oh and HNQs

On active sites, its pretty darned easy to find one question per day to answer, and that was a pretty important part of my stratergy to hit 10K

also helps being an early user superuser.com/users/1931/john-t this guy us 2 places ahead of me and his most recent answer was in 2011

Catija

11:39 PM

@JourneymanGeek Wow... I bet they get a lot of residual rep.

Journeyman Geek

yup

hence the one question a day thing I talked about. If I get 10-20 reputation from old posts a day - that's 3500k rep in a year ;p

Catija

I think M&TV is the site I get closest to that on... and ELL... but there's not a ton of residual rep on ELL... I don't think that most questions are generic enough to solve many peoples' issues.

Journeyman Geek

yup

lol

quite a few of my recent questions are basically consolidating knowledge from elsewhere

and/or closing the loop on a problem I talked about on chat.

(and they're rediculously niche, and somehow help others)

superuser.com/questions/1039396/… for example is a piece of software that hasn't been supported in years

Catija

That's nice that you're able to help people like that. :)

Journeyman Geek

lol. More like, Its the one thing that worked for what I wanted to do, imperfectly, and someone else was like "Oh, that looks like fun"

Catija

11:49 PM

Superuser has a really broad collection of subjects, right? It can be for any sort of software/hardware?

Journeyman Geek

pretty much

though phones are out

tablets are a grey area verging on white ;p

Catija

Are phones out because they have their own sites to some degree? iPhone questions can go to Ask Different.

Journeyman Geek

our initial scope was home PCs

but scopes change over time

Catija

Ah, it's nice of you all to change with the times :P

Journeyman Geek

Tablets are allowed cause of windows RT not having a site

course windows RT died ;p

yup, and android has its own site.

Catija

11:56 PM

Interesting... so I could ask questions about my iPad but not my iPhone? That's amusing.

I have one question on Ask Different... I don't find that it was suitably answered but that's because I think Apple's treatment of the issue sucks... so it's not really AD's fault for that.

Journeyman Geek

In theory ;p

I don't recall any ipad questions on SU

Catija

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Q: Is there a way to turn off iOS 9 update reminders?

The answers to this question imply that the reminders do not recur... but that's for versions prior to iOS 9. Much like with newer versions of OSX, iOS 9 will remind you every other day or so to update giving only the options to "update now", "remind me later", "view details". The third option ...

software-update ios-9

But, hey... it's a pretty popular question, considering it's my only one.

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