English Language & Usage

Cerberus

12:30 AM

@RegDwighт Okay, this is now my favourite food.

From now on. Going forward. Etc.

It's so crispy! And creamy! At the same time!

I grated 4 small potatoes and 1 medium-small onion, mixed with 1 egg, salt, black pepper.

Served with crème fraîche.

@RegDwighт So I highly recommend the onion, it's a great combo. Fried onion!

WendiKidd

Ooooh, Cerb made latkes? /hungry now

Cerberus

Okay, they look batter in real.

@WendiKidd Hi!

WendiKidd

Hi! :D

Cerberus

I forgot, are latkes the same thing?

WendiKidd

Potato pancakes?

Cerberus

12:33 AM

These are officially draniki...

Well, not exactly pancakes.

WendiKidd

Potatoes in the shape of a pancake ;)

Cerberus

Grated potato, onion, egg, fried on high fire in lots of oil.

Hehe.

WendiKidd

Potato pancake

Potato pancakes are shallow-fried pancakes of grated or ground potato, flour and egg, often flavored with grated onion or garlic and seasoning. Potato pancakes may be topped with a variety of condiments, ranging from the savory (such as sour cream or cottage cheese) to the sweet (such as apple sauce or sugar), or they may be served ungarnished. Potato pancakes are sometimes made from mashed potatoes to produce pancake-shaped croquettes. Background and history Potato pancakes are commonly associated with traditional cuisines of Luxembourg (Gromperekichelcher), Latvia (as kartupeļu pankū...

The same, says wikipedia!

Cerberus

58 mins ago, by RegDwighт

That makes them crispy. Otherwise you'd basically really make a pancake, or an omelette.

I used to flour btw.

WendiKidd

@Cerberus Haha. Just a figure of speech I suppose. They're flat and circle shaped and cook in a pan. = pancake xD

Cerberus

12:35 AM

Yeah, I would have said pancake too, but, according to Reg, pancakes are verrrrrry very different, so...

WendiKidd

Wait. You've never had a pancake??

Cerberus

Haha, no, silly.

But I had never made (proper) draniki.

WendiKidd

ok good. xD

Cerberus

So Reg felt it necessary to warn me not to use technique x, lest they be common pancakes! Or something.

WendiKidd

They look delicious, you did a good job!

Cerberus

12:37 AM

Either way, they turned out great.

WendiKidd

@Cerberus Ohh! I see

Cerberus

Yeah, well, it's easy.

Grate, mix, press, fry on high fire, flip.

WendiKidd

I fail at almost all cooking.

Baking isn't too hard though.

Cerberus

Aww I don't believe it. And baking isn't easy at all.

WendiKidd

It so is! It's the same ingredients in different proportions. I have no trouble with baking. Cooking, though..... You have to do things exactly right and the flavor never comes out right.... Baking is so much less nerve-wracking.

Cerberus

12:41 AM

Tarts can be undercooked, or burned, or the crust breaks, or it becomes soggy, or...

WendiKidd

Wow. Okay, simple baking. When you get into fancy stuff I'm sure I'd fail at that too (have never tried). Cookies, brownies, cakes. That kind of thing. :)

Course I suppose if I had more practice I could be better at all of it.

Cerberus

Absolutely.

I've never made brownies.

Making my second batch of draniki now...

Cerberus

1:20 AM

The true definition of maturity is the ability to do something even though your parents want you to.

Robusto

@Cerberus Haha, good one. According to that, I never grew up.

Cerberus

@Robusto No comment!

I'm getting there.

Doing my best...

I'm sorry, that's just too long to read.

Robusto

+1, but did you really mean to use "gourmand" here, especially considering that litotes tends not to red-line the gusto meter. — Robusto 1 min ago

Fuck. I edited it to put a question mark at the end, but it still shows a period in chat.

@Cerberus School me, school U!

Cerberus

What?

I'm schooling you?

puzzled look

Robusto

Not what I'm saying.

Cerberus

1:35 AM

Then me no comprendo.

Robusto

Comprendere.

Cerberus

Io non posso comprendere qualcosa che dicei.

Or whatever.

Robusto

Oh, you're able enough. You just don't want to.

Cerberus

I'm not!

I had no idea what you meant.

But no matter.

Robusto

Why do I have to mean something? You're an intelligibility nazi.

Cerberus

1:40 AM

frowns

attaches skull insignia to hat

Robusto

Wow, my internet is now faster than the CD-ROM drive on my computer.

It's always possible the speaker is referring to baseball player Mike Trout, who at least has recognisable shoulders (though as the text points out, he seems to have more bulk in his belly and butt than his shoulders). — FumbleFingers 2 hours ago

Ah, what would we do without Fumblefingers? Always thinking up the most complicated wrong interpretation possible.

Cerberus

@Robusto Faster than 4x?

I think my drive was 4x.

Whatever that meant.

Robusto

@Cerberus Faster than 16x or whatever I have now. Latest BD/DVD/CD player/burner.

Cerberus

I don't know/care whether DVD drives are still measures in x.

Oh.

It's funny how soon things can become "staple" goods.

Robusto

I just got a new AV receiver, and the manual comes on a CD-ROM. It was slow to load, so I googled the manual on the web and it came up like lightning.

Cerberus

1:48 AM

I remember when a cd-rom drive was still cutting edge.

Heh. Yes, CDs are a bit old-fashioned.

Robusto

Yeah, well I remember when there warn't no such animal.

Cerberus

But at least they work.

I wonder whether my mobo will boot from USB without extra drivers.

Robusto

I dunno.

This is The Day of Not Being Able To Type.

I've made so many tuypos today it is'nt even funy.

Gone to watch Bill Maher. Robusto out.

Cerberus

2:35 AM

Bai.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:40 AM

@Mahnax maybe what if you checked out the site again? I've made some improvements.

hurries to upload improvements

okay, they're live.

Mahnax

5:44 AM

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Looks nice! The form needs little work though. The boxes are too small IMO.

goes to sleep

TemporaryNickName

8:35 AM

is 51 pages of RFC shorter than most of other RFCs?

RegDwighт

9:44 AM

@Cerberus excellent. I am happy to hear that.

Will try the onion thing next time. If my wife lets me. When she has appointments, she doesn't want onions in her food.

@Robusto you've mistyped "funny". (This message has been brought to you by Jasper.)

TemporaryNickName

google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=c%23&cmpt=q

google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=programming&cmpt=q

These results show what is happening in current world

RegDwighт

They don't show how to interpret it, though.

TemporaryNickName

Topic programming is becoming unpopular XD

RegDwighт

Or it's become so popular many more people are educated on it and don't have to google for basic shit.

My not googling "piano" only means that I already have one and play every day.

:9490493 but you have to notice the number of people in India is the highest.

TemporaryNickName

google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=piano&cmpt=q

search trend of piano is quite static

RegDwighт

9:52 AM

(I am not taking China into account because China doesn't take the Internet into account.)

@TemporaryNickName that doesn't prove or disprove my point. It's completely orthogonal.

Anyway, just playing devil's advocate in case you can't tell. I wouldn't mind C# disappearing overnight.

Because frankly, C# is the Antichrist.

TemporaryNickName

@RegDwighт google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=ccna&cmpt=q

I think the whole IT is becoming unpopular, but why?

RegDwighт

Because sorry to break the news to you, but IT never was popular in the first place. The bubble is bursting.

Who cares about IT if they could care about BBQ instead?

TemporaryNickName

@RegDwighт O no, dot-com bubble again?!

FML =(

Do you reckon when I show off my Websocket protocol, more strictly server implementation to students and teachers, their mind will blown up by it?

chacha.com/gallery/5344/…

that's BS

$ 99,000 ??!

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