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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

5:00 PM

That's for you, @JasperLoy

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@MrShinyandNew安宇 Thank you. At first I thought it was your kid. Anyway it was encouraging!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy That kid always makes me smile. Such exuberance! Always a good reminder for us old(er) people that there are lots of things to get excited about.

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Interestingly the message I heard tonight was about pressing on and not aborting one's plans. About how many people give up before they could succeed. About hanging in there in tough times.

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Debian is cool. At least the wallpaper is nicer than Ubuntu.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy You do know that you can change the wallpaper without reinstalling the whole OS, right? :)

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5:08 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yes, but I like things which default to nice things. :)

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I will stick to Debian. I could not find any information though on why Debra and Ian broke up. I hope it was not over Debian.

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Perhaps Ian spent too much time working on his software and forgot about Debra?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy wouldn't be the first time a couple broke up because someone worked too hard on something.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Or had a software issue.

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@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sad, they need a course in time management. Anyway, I wouldn't know since I never had a gf.

5:14 PM

@KitΘδς it's why so many android marriages fail

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς It's all software issues. Either the software don't work, or the wares are soft, if you know what I mean.

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@MrShinyandNew安宇 I have no idea what you are talking about!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Having a girlfriend is maybe the worst thing you can do to your time management. Cuz, like, you'll want to spend time with her, and EVERYTHING ELSE will suffer.

@JasperLoy nm. It was a bad joke.

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@MrShinyandNew安宇 You must love her a lot then. I am happy you have found your happiness!

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@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ya, only my jokes are comprehensible here!

user19161

5:20 PM

Oh, another friend getting married.

5:42 PM

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Q: What is the meaning of this question: "When does the narwhal bacon?"

There's a meme on reddit where the users tend to ask, When does the narwhal bacon? The only correct answer to that question is At midnight. I was wondering about the etymology and the meaning of this question.

etymology phrases

Of all the frivolous bounties...

I don't get it. It's not like there's really going to be a better answer than "this is exactly when it first occurred." That's like, the holy grail o' etymology.

Bogdan Lataianu

but note it has 4K

viewers

Rebecca Chernoff

folks!

what's up with the blog?

Is it not happenin?

Bogdan Lataianu

@aediaλ for whatever reasons, let the bounty be, nobody forces somebody to click on "featured";

@RebeccaChernoff Shit—I completely forgot. Um, people are researching and writing, and I started on something as well. I can probably get a first post up early next week, and we can follow weekly from there.

5:57 PM

@BogdanLataianu Oh, I know. I like bounties in general; I think they're a good way to encourage more answers. I just can't imagine what more that user is hoping to get in this case.

It struck me as funny because usually there's some doubt, even about the etymology of well-known phrases, but because this is recent there's an exact origin to pinpoint.

@aediaλ Well, then you can write a nice like summary and get the bounty, an accept, and a bunch of upvotes.

@RebeccaChernoff I'm trying to write something. Creativity isn't flowing as well as I expected!

Rebecca Chernoff

just want to see it get going...an empty blog is no fun (;

Also, dead puppies are no fun.

Bogdan Lataianu

@KitΘδς good idea

6:13 PM

if it wasn't for that little arrow on the left, @BogdanLataianu, I'd bit a little worried

@KitΘδς ‽

6:29 PM

My larder is empty :( thank goodness for shops!

@KitΘδς I've never heard of these guys, but they're hilarious!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yay, one bug down, one to go, with reduced scope!

Yay!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:48 PM

♫♪ Dead Code ♫ is not much fun ♫ It doesn't even know ♪ The square root of 1 ♫♪
♫♪ I wrote a program ♫ when I was a boy ♫ It couldn't do much ♪ It was really a toy ♫♪
♫♪ But now I'm older ♫ And I've come to see ♫ so many dead branches ♪ In its source hierarchy ♫♪
♫♪ I'm pruning the dead code ♫ Refactoring stuff ♫ Or maybe I should sent it ♪ to the daily WTF ♫♪

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claps hands BRAVO!

I'll give you one bravo too,

so now you have two bravi, happy?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Yes, I love bravi.

good

I'm closer to my quest of polluting^Wenriching the English language with foreign plurals

7:03 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I sang that in my head with a "ba-da-da-da-dun" like Bad to the Bone where all the little notes appeared. Very bluesy. I approve.

May 31 at 19:08, by F'x

“I bargained this nice shirt in Jerusalem, though I had to visit several bazarlar to get such a good price”

May 31 at 19:08, by F'x

bazar (pl. bazarlar)

think about it, it makes sense :)

but bravi is a little too quotidian. i'd like it better if we went with bad fake latin and said bravibus as the plural

Bravissimi!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ Your unauthorized derived work skirts dangerously close to "awesome" territory.

bows

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:06 PM

@KitΘδς bravora

bravopodes

Now your plurals are just bizzarelar.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ bizzarilarius

high fives to everyone for really hitting the incomprehensibility in this last conversation

All dun codez.

i can haz cheez burger pls?

@KitΘδς then two high-fives and a beer to you

or cheezburger. your pick

7:16 PM

beer pls

codez alreddy brokn.

stoopid codez

y u no mak me cheez burger?

poke

Helloes? Cheez burger pls.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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There you go

Oh, forgot, you'll need this

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cheeseburger and beer, as requested

@MrShinyandNew mine is much more appetizing

@JSBᾶngs dat no cheez burger u sneekee pursen!

@KitΘδς it's not?

i eet it tho kthx

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:30 PM

@JSBᾶngs yours is open-faced... or something. hows you s'posed ta eat dat?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 there is bun on top. look closely.

Looks like fish or snake or something.

Breaded and fried.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs oh, it's hiding.

@KitΘδς You can tell breaded fish from breaded snake?

mmm I think I'm going to have cheeseburger for dinner. maybe.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 No, otherwise I would have stated it definitively. Could be breaded, fried hamburger.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς why would anyone do that to a perfectly good hamburger?!?!

7:33 PM

They're Southern? Dunno.

Looks southwestern from the cacti.

Maybe it's a cactus burger.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς ewww vegetarian food masquerading as food.... NO THANKS.

cactus isn't meat?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

we likes it raw, and wriggling. Master can keep nasty chips.

now you tell me

i'm not sure what you people are complaining about. that's a perfectly licit cheeseburger. there's nothing wrong with the meat

looks freaking amazing, to be honest

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:37 PM

@JSBᾶngs It's ok. It has a bun, and melted cheez, we'll let your carnal transgressions slide for now. The beer helps.

what carnal transgressions? looks like grilled beef to me

@kit, is this you?

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@JSBᾶngs Man, you crazy!

;)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs it doesn't look like it to me. I'm with @Kit, it looks like chicken.

7:39 PM

It looks delicious though.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς yeah

@MattEllenД o noes!!1!1 u finded my sokpuupy1!!11! :PP

@KitΘδς you crazy! embiggen the picture. that's ground beef, charred

@KitΘδς you couldn't hide forever. :D

@JSBᾶngs It doesn't look it, but I suppose the person taking the picture would know, and he says "cheeseburger and beer."

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:43 PM

@MattEllenД Know who else can't hide? my daughter. we play "hide and seek" and she tells me where she's going to go hide.

My son does that too.

When it's my turn, he tells me where to hide.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 lol! classic :D

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς yup. I always say "no, I'm going to hide where you CAN'T find me."

I think I need to show her the classic instructional video "how not to be seen".

@MrShinyandNew安宇 You can follow it up with how to identify different sorts of trees from a long way away.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς I am actually trying to teach her to identify Deadly Nightshade, which grows all over the city, because it's deadly and I want her to not eat it.

7:50 PM

I have shown my son Bittersweet Nightshade, but we don't have much of the deadly kind here. Pretty much, he's understood "Don't put anything in your mouth unless Mommy or Daddy says it's OK."

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitΘδς Yeah. always a good plan.

@aediaλ Redistribution of wealth is trickier than it looks.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, dum dum dum, da night...

Well, boys, girls, and others, it's been fun. But it's now 4 PM ish, and it's time for me to go. May you all have a good weekend, may your crumpets be creamy and may your rooms be incomprehensible.

8:12 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Enjoy your weekend!

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Bai!

Stay dry!

cheerio @MrShinyandNew

@MattEllenД Woody words!

I love that one! One of my favorites!

Second only to Confuse-a-Cat.

It's the first time I've seen it. :D

Well, I'll probably contradict myself in the future about that statement.

So don't hold me to it.

8:19 PM

indeed. Confuse a cat is queued up to go!

notes no holding Kit without permission.

The one with the wainscoting is probably one of my favorites.

This one:

Did you see that I finished my first round of testing?

@aediaλ Ah yes, the little hamlet of Wains Cotting.

@KitΘδς I must've missed that! Congratulations!

And only 11 days until launch.

HA HA Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ahhh....

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

..What are we talking about?

8:24 PM

waits for Chaos to catch up

ChaosGamer ΕΛ-Υ ēel-ū

I have no time. Just tell me.

distract-a-bee

@KitΘδς Puedes hacerlo!

@aediaλ Gracias!

@MattEllenД You mean Eric the half a bee?

8:27 PM

I just realized that I don't actually need to log all these changes. Ha HA!

Is that his name?

@KitΘδς good?

or have you done it?

Nobody else to read the changelog anyway?

@aediaλ it's one of the subsidiaries of confuse-a-cat, but I bet they could distract Eric!

@MattEllenД I started to, then realize that I don't need to, because of my awesome table design.

8:28 PM

Woohoo!

@MattEllenД Oh, right. I haven't seen confuse-a-cat in a while

Sharky the Friendly Shark (but not too friendly)

@aedia: how do you pronounce your name?

@drɱ65δ I don't usually have to.

user19161

@drɱ65δ I did it as ah-ay-dia.

user19161

8:33 PM

I asked her this question before too.

@aediaλ Ok, how do I pronounce your name?

@JasperLoy Where's the emphasis?

@JasperLoy Did she answer?

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@drɱ65δ ay

user19161

@drɱ65δ She gave me a similar reply.

Something like /'ædiə/, I think, is how I say it if I need to.

@aediaλ My butterfly chica.

8:39 PM

@aediaλ Addia? Short A?

user19161

@aediaλ Mine sounds more exotic!

user19161

@drɱ65δ Please learn IPA. :)

user19161

@drɱ65δ Yours cannot be pronounced. :)

@drɱ65δ I'm not sure if I say /æ/ or /ɛ/, really. The former is more like the first vowel sound in "rather", "cat" and the latter like "feather", "bet"

I'd say it closer to /ɛ/ personally.

8:43 PM

@JasperLoy æ=trap, pad, shall, ban

@aediaλ Just curious; thanks!

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@drɱ65δ Anyway I did not mean she did it the same way as I do.

@KitΘδς Now that I'm thinking about it, that sounds better in my head. (I always have trouble testing out pronunciations when I'm somewhere I can't start saying them aloud, like in my cube. I talk to myself enough as is...)

This is every news report I've seen in the last 10 years

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@Jez I thought it was another Victoria Coren.

@aediaλ Don't want all the cube neighbors to start thinking you're crazy muttering vowels over here, do you?

8:47 PM

@Jez Charlie Brooker is excellent

@Jez Thumbs up!

@aediaλ I've always mispronounced your name "ai! da"

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@MattEllenД But that would not do justice to the second syllable.

@MattEllenД That's Chinese for "I love you, Daddy."

@Jez Brilliant.

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8:50 PM

@KitΘδς Is Daddy called da?

@JasperLoy Right. A little dyslexia there.

@KitΘδς yessss. I am satisfied with that result

@MattEllenД That's Chinese for "Love big."

also satisfying

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@KitΘδς I wonder what is big.

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8:52 PM

I conclude that Kit's Chinese is at grade 0 level.

大 is big.

@JasperLoy there is no justice, just us.

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@KitΘδς I know, sorry you did not get my joke again.

@KitΘδς looks about the same size to me!

@MattEllenД Nah. Much huger than 小 .

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8:53 PM

@MattEllenД You are drunk!

@KitΘδς awww, it looks so sad!

@JasperLoy I am not!

OH! It's—I'm late! Gotta run! Later!

@KitΘδς l8r @Kit

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@MattEllenД You are Matt.

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@MattEllenД Now we are typing like this?

8:55 PM

@JasperLoy I ~~think~~ drink therefore I am

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@MattEllenД So you drink but you are not drunk.

@JasperLoy right now? maybe. later on, who knows!

@JasperLoy I'm having a small drink

@KitΘδς Bai! Have a safe weekend and don't get caught in any hurricaneing!

user19161

@aediaλ A new verb!

I verbulate things all the time.

user19161

8:57 PM

Verbify sounds better.

verbnosticate

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