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12:32 PM

Q: Should I use ellipses or em dashes to denote pauses in speech?

I flipped open its latch and peered inside. A—gold tooth? I flipped open its latch and peered inside. A ... gold tooth? Was it an elephant? No, elephants didn't frequent beaches. It was—a whale! Was it an elephant? No, elephants didn't frequent beaches. It was ... a whale!...

5 hours later…

Matt Эллен

5:09 PM

@KitFox How are the words coming?

KitFox

5:30 PM

Slowly. I'm visiting with family right now.

Matt Эллен

ah. yeah, that'll slow things down :D

1 hour later…

KitFox

7:01 PM

@MattЭллен Woo! 60 words!

Matt Эллен

@KitFox woo!

KitFox

Did you read yesterday's?

I stayed up late to write it.

Matt Эллен

oh, not yet!

sorry, looking for things in the hack space

Matt Эллен

7:24 PM

@KitFox It's good. I want more

KitFox

@MattЭллен Did you find her?

Matt Эллен

@KitFox no. not found what we needed

KitFox

bummer

I got the pizza in the oven and I'm trying to decide whether to invite the friends I kind of invited last week.

Matt Эллен

sounds like it would be fun

KitFox

Maybe, but I need to get writing done.

Also, I'm really fat.

And I'm upset by this.

Matt Эллен

7:29 PM

nah. you're not really fat.

KitFox

Not really fat, but fat all the same.

I should stop drinking so much. I've been slack.

Matt Эллен

it's only, what, a ten hour cycle to where you work? ;)

KitFox

Something like that.

50-odd miles.

I have no idea what my cycling speed is.

Matt Эллен

oh, eight hours then!

KitFox

Also, these past two days I have felt unbelievably old. My joints are aching like nobody's business.

I think the entire lower right side of my spine is in spasm.

Matt Эллен

7:31 PM

probably just a cold.

KitFox

Well, the muscles there. Not the actual spine.

Matt Эллен

KitFox

And I'm very, very grumpy.

Matt Эллен

understandable

KitFox

I should go take more ibuprofen right now, actually, and make a cup of tea.

Oh. Maybe I should take acetaminophen too.

Maybe it is a cold.

Matt Эллен

7:32 PM

should you mix two pain relievers?

KitFox

They have different actions.

iirc, ibuprofen is a cox-2 inhibitor, and acetaminophen is a cox-1 inhibitor? Or doesn't affect cox-2 pathways anyway.

Matt Эллен

ok then.

KitFox

cyclooxygenase.

It breaks down arachadonic acid.

Which is released from damaged tissues.

Don't they teach you anything in the UK?

;-)

Matt Эллен

I see.

KitFox

I might be making all that up.

Matt Эллен

7:36 PM

@KitFox probably :D

KitFox

Pizza's ready. Want some?

Matt Эллен

yes please :D

KitFox

It's plain cheese on a whole wheat crust.

Matt Эллен

fiberous.

KitFox

When you put it that way, it sounds icky.

The crust has garlic, basil, and paprika baked in.

Matt Эллен

7:40 PM

oh, sorry. I thought it would sound healthy

mmmmmmm paprika

KitFox

I have no signal. This is weird.

Matt Эллен

on your phone?

KitFox

I'll have to email my husband.

@MattЭллен Yeah.

Matt Эллен

KitFox

Weird.

So very weird.

Matt Эллен

7:43 PM

it'll be martian moon rays

KitFox

I wonder if a tower got knocked out in the storm yesterday.

Matt Эллен

speaking of which, I restarted my universe and now my APS is at 246%

KitFox

omg! I forgot about my universe!

Matt Эллен

omg!

I restarted it yesterday and it's already at the milkyway

KitFox

Wow!

I'm pretty bothered by not having signal. I have no other means of communicating, except via email.

Matt Эллен

7:47 PM

@KitFox are you covered in snow?

KitFox

See my face? Bovvered.

Matt Эллен

you have a bovvered face

KitFox

We got about a foot, maybe a little more, so like 25 cm?

Matt Эллен

35cm

30cm is a foot

KitFox

Oh.

Right.

There are 12 inches in a foot.

Oh. I guess my phone just needed to reboot.

Matt Эллен

7:50 PM

ah, that old chestnut

KitFox

My SMS is still acting all weird.

I should probably be writing.

Matt Эллен

yeah. write some words then your phone will start working

KitFox

OK. brb

It's amazing how that works.

Matt Эллен

yay!

KitFox

8:07 PM

161 words, though,

I forgot to put the teakettle on.

I guess it's time for Minecraft then.

Which kind of tea though?

Matt Эллен

redstone tea

or can you make tea from creepers?

KitFox

Interesting idea.

Can we play Minecraft together?

Matt Эллен

I don't have minecraft

so in theory yes

looks like it will work on linux. I'm not sure if I have java installed

apparently I do

KitFox

8:25 PM

I'm going to go play with my boys, but maybe we could play sometime.

That would be fun.

CU!

Matt Эллен

CU!

Stack Exchange

9:12 PM

Q: Less expensive way to find pictures for a visual dictionary

I want to make a picture dictionary, and as it is known, pictures are expensive to buy on the internet. So, if anybody knows a less expensive way to buy pictures for a project, like mine, demanding a large number of pictures. Some people may suggest working with an illustrator, but I think this w...

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BESW

10:50 PM

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