You Are Here - 2016-09-24

12:00 AM

i'll see if there's an SE meta on per site competitions

@Pops do you know if SE would do anything like this? support a comp with some swag?

one comp after six years doesn't seem too demanding

5 years ;)

Q: Does Stack Exchange have a policy about supporting sites' occasional competitions by providing swag for prizes or otherwise?

Over on the Travel site I just came up with what I think is a great little idea for a site competition. But before I announce it on meta over there I wondered if Stack Exchange already has some policy or whatever of supporting contests on sites. It surely must have come up before but I haven't ...

it got my vote

12:09 AM

@MarkMayo: if you can find any better tags to add or think of points i didn't include feel free to edit

sorry, distracted, there's a flame war that suddenly generated mod flags over in one of the other chats

mods have descended on it (opens popcorn)

that's a new york metro map. so not fitting for me but it worked pretty good.

ooh, I wonder how the London Tube Map would go

if I still lived there

the Sydney one's not so cool

street map of some complicated bit of sydney should work

map on a dark background worked nice enough

scan of a Sydways map of Bondi area

12:55 AM

shower time then off for an ice coffee 我要一大杯冰咖啡拿铁!

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2:22 AM

@MarkMayo: comp question got downvoted! WTF

Zach Lipton

someone seems to have radically misunderstood your question there

Q: How can I "reset" or 'restart" the Windows 10 Simplified Chinese IME when the 英/中 stops responding?

2:40 AM

@ZachLipton: Indeed!

just reading about this cool new Great Footpath of China

looks practical and modern

i see lots of great potential for advertising space

In Windows 10's Chinese IMEs there is a clickable icon in the lower right of the screen between the touch keyboard icon and the keyboard layout icon that displays 英 when you're in English input mode and 中 when you're in Chinese input mode. To switch between modes you either click this icon or ...

windows-10 notification-area chinese ime

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Johan Gronberg

6:30 AM

Thanks for the edits @Relaxed :)

@hippietrail I thought someone had posted that question to TSE. I was like "Man, these off topic questions are getting out of line." Also, nice convertible :)

6:50 AM

@Fiksdal: Hehe thanks but not my convertible. I had one in the US in 1990/91 don't think any digitized photos

i'll try to stop now

7:09 AM

@hippietrail I realize that, but you can always pretend, right?

my convertible was much cooler d-;

not my car but same make model year and colour scheme:

7:38 AM

@hippietrail Yes, that's cool!

So I saw a close vote on How to safely use password-protected websites on internet cafe computers. I was curious to see what the proposed dupe was. Turns out it's How can you protect a fragile object like bottle of champagne in your baggage against breaking?. LOL :) Keep in mind that this is not just a flag. It's an actual close-vote by a >3k user :)

Relaxed

7:57 AM

@JohanGronberg No problem, thanks for your answers!

Got me thinking about Northern Lights again...

8:19 AM

@Fiksdal: goodness me. maybe they were drunk and clicked on the wrong thing

We've all been there ;)

Willeke

@MarkMayo, speak for yourself, I never have been drunk. (I never had that excuse when I hit the wrong button.)

Q: Flying on the 2nd floor of the airplane

8:36 AM

@hippietrail Drunk off Champagne maybe?

@ZachLipton The Blitz issue is thoroughly dealt with now: travel.stackexchange.com/users/51603/blitzavi

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Andrew Grimm

1:55 PM

What is the gold screen in front of the woman's face (probably not a batula) called, and in which countries (especially ones that allow tourists) can I see it? (Image screenshotted from twitter.com/IHWCo/status/777668280660000768 )

Seriously, that bling is worthy of Chamillionaire.

@hippietrail probably wheelchair and stroller accessible too.

Willeke

2:41 PM

@AndrewGrimm, I would say one of those ridicously restricting things that make women a thing rather than a person when on the streets. Kudos for her to skateboard but I doubt she can do that in normal life in an area where such restrictive clothing is the rule.

In short 'movable prison screen'.

Berwyn

Nice

"headcuffs"

or "facecuffs"

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Zach Lipton

8:17 PM

gsamaras has asked some unusual questions, but this has to be one of the more "why would you need to ask this" ones

So I will go to the check-in in an hour. My seat is on the 2nd floor of a 380 of Air France, is there I need to know? Or is just the same damn thing as flying on the 1st floor? PS - For some reason, I am exited, since this will be my 1st time! :D

air-travel airlines paris seating san-francisco

9:04 PM

@MarkMayo It looks like you have started a lot of bounties on this question! All without even getting a single answer! Am I reading this right? How much have you spent in total?

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11:40 PM

@Fiksdal I'm just hoping to attract attention to older questions :)

Yeah, it's pretty cool

I was unsure how to read it, though. Did you post like three bounties in a row on that one?

yeah, just kept upping them