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12:01 AM
@MετάEd @MattЭллен @tchrist ^ especially starting @ 4:25 or so.
Who else was in on the pronunciation conversation? @KitFox
 
12:21 AM
@MετάEd Heard this one with Chayanne.
 
1:10 AM
@tchrist Greazy or greasy?
 
1:23 AM
@SpareOom Greasy.
 
How's the fire?
And hi.
 
Hello.
 
1:43 AM
Stoopid Willard.
He just said "Neither the president nor I are proposing. . . ."!
I are proposing nada.
 
Oh, is the debate on?
 
Aye.
 
It's a shame, I'm studying and can't watch.
Big test tomorrow.
 
Oh, I never watch. Have no TV. Just NPR radio.
 
Hi.
What subject?
 
1:44 AM
What test?
 
Biology 30IB, Nervous System & Endocrine System.
 
Ah.
I'm sure you will pass!
OMG I'm inverted Gandalf.
You shall pass!
 
¿Cómo?
 
stamps foot
 
Ah.
 
1:45 AM
bridge breaks Oh shi...
Balrog Mahnax approaches...
falls...
 
SOV?
 
Sorry, phone.
@Cerberus I'm shooting for 90 % or higher.
 
Ah, I see.
 
This is an important class, since it counts for university entrance.
 
Oh...
We don't have that system.
 
1:48 AM
Some programs are competitive, I think.
But I need to study, like I said. Bye!
 
Run, Balrog, run!
 
See, I am not mean to all kids.
The moderator on the debates is quite good.
 
2:11 AM
Hurray! I now own the front page! :)
pants
 
2:40 AM
skirts
 
trousers
 
random object
 
In other news, I think I'll do well tomorrow, if I do say so myself.
 
@Mahnax Great! At what?
 
59 mins ago, by Mahnax
Biology 30IB, Nervous System & Endocrine System.
A unit test.
 
2:44 AM
Does that include proximal convoluted tubes?
:P
 
No, haha.
 
Great.
 
That's the excretory system.
 
And hello invisible food.
 
2:45 AM
I didn't see you there.
Hello antipode.
 
I Jaspered you!
 
Whom?
 
I Jaspered Cerberus.
 
How?
 
I inserted a remark twixt your soliloquy to unseen food.
 
2:50 AM
Hmmaahh.
I didn't know Jasper typically did that.
 
I'm sure if you talk about invisible food in his presence, he will.
 
I will try.
 
But you can't expect him to do it if you make only one remark.
(There was a stupid TV ad here many years ago where someone made fun of someone else by handing him one box and saying "here, stack this").
 
I will try to double up on everything I say.
Haha.
 
Good, good.
A lot of our TV ads are stupid. Why do I remember them?
 
3:08 AM
@DavidWallace Thankfully, all our TV ads are extremely sophisticated and interesting.
Everybody rushed back from the bathroom lest they miss the next commercial break.
 
I never imagined otherwise.
I thought you didn't own a TV?
 
Eh I don't.
 
So what do you rush back from the bathroom lest you miss?
 
But this is what I hear.
I don't rush.
 
What, never?
 
3:12 AM
Well, actually, I'm always late and always in a hurry when I have to go places.
 
What sort of three-headed dog are you?
 
That sort.
Are you punctual?
 
Very Winnie the Pooh of you.
 
Is it?
I do adore him.
 
I'm sure he adores you too.
Punctual in what sense?
 
3:13 AM
I don't think he has the time to adore me.
So much honey to eat...
Punctual as in you find it easy to be on time when you have an appointment.
 
I've always wondered where he gets his honey from. There doesn't seem to be a supermarket in the Hundred Acre Wood.
 
He Finds it.
It fell off a bee.
winks
 
@Cerberus I live and work in two different cities. When I work at all, that is. If my appointment is in the same city as wherever I happened to be, then punctuality is not an issue for me. If it's in the other city, and I choose to rely on the train service that connects my two fine cities, it can be, as the trains have punctuality issues.
So how does the honey get into those big pots. Does Pooh leave empty pots lying around underneath places where a bee might be?
 
From your answer I gather that you don't even understand the problem, let alone suffer from it. Good for you!
Some people are just always late.
And it's always their own fault.
 
@Cerberus I used to be a little like that. But I have grown up since then.
 
3:18 AM
For most people, it is not a matter of growing up.
 
I get annoyed when people are late to meet ME.
 
Oh, dear.
Remind me to set my alarm clock two days in advance if ever I am to meet you.
 
How will that help?
 
I don't know!!
desperate
 
Are you a non-punctual person?
 
3:19 AM
Yes.
 
I suppose there are worse flaws.
 
I have missed my bed time by several hours. Again.
 
If I come to Amsterdam, will you be on time meeting me at the airport?
 
@DavidWallace But not many, haha.
@DavidWallace Wait, let me buy more alarm clocks first...
 
@Cerberus But if there were somebody in your bed waiting for you to arrive at a specified time, you wouldn't miss it by several hours.
 
3:22 AM
Oh, I might.
By the way, guess how many HD surveillance cameras of 29 Mpx the British government will have installed by the end of this year?
 
About 180, I'd guess.
 
Sorry, I had to correct my question.
Do you still think it's 180?
 
Sorry, I'll have to click the pencil to see what you changed.
 
Hint: it's more than 180.
 
Do you mean in total, for all time? Or just this year's worth?
Your edits made the question ambiguous.
 
3:25 AM
Yeah...the problem is that the article is ambiguous.
Let's say in total.
 
About 25000.
 
And the answer is...130,000!
 
Oh, hang on, no.
You specified 29MPx didn't you.
As opposed to all surveillance cameras.
 
Actually, the article says "up to 29 Mpx".
 
I'll go 3500.
 
3:26 AM
Too late to correct my question.
 
OH, "up to". In that case ... oh, wait, you've already posted the answer.
 
Heh.
They plan to have installed 3,700,000 by 2016.
Our British Brothers are going paranoid.
 
Who has time to watch all the feeds?
 
Nowadays, software can recognise most faces.
It also has all sorts of motion algorithms to look for.
It's scary.
 
So you tell the system to look out for Cerberus, and it finds him as soon as he goes outside, right?
 
3:28 AM
Yes.
I think even posture and gait can be big hints, in case I decide to dress up.
 
Just like that programme with those two guys.
 
Oh, that programme.
I thought you meant the other one with two guys.
 
Actually, since you don't have a TV, there's little point in telling you which programme I speak of.
And since I can't remember what it was called, I'm not even going to try.
But it was on in NZ on Monday nights at 9:30 for a while. So I'd say to my wife "did you remember to tape the programme with the two guys" and she'd know which one I meant.
 
Ohhh that programme. Now it all makes sense, 9:30, of coure.
 
Person of Interest!
(which I got by googling Taraji P Henson, who was the only actor in it whose name I could remember)
 
3:32 AM
None of that rings any bells.
 
They analyse surveillance data and save lives, often the wrong ones.
 
Ah, now I see the connection.
Saving lives is nice.
But hey, it's bed time...
See how impunctual I am?
 
It premiered in The Netherlands on 26 August 2012 and plays on Sunday nights at 9:25.
 
Tell that to television-watchers.
 
On a network called Veronica.
You have a TV network called Veronica?
 
3:36 AM
Right.
 
Well, umm, yes, I guess you do.
 
Yes, we have.
 
I expected you to have a NEIGHBOUR called Veronica.
 
Is that...a reference to some other television programme?
Who knows what my neighbours are called?
They're whores anyway.
 
No, I don't know of any TV programmes about Neighbours. I'm not that sort of Antipodean!
 
3:37 AM
Hmm...
 
I'm sure if you wanted one of your neighbours to be called Veronica, she would be.
 
What sort is that?
 
Oh dear!
 
I will call out Veronica! through the kitchen window next time.
 
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems together. Seven decided to commission the show following the success of Watson's Sons and Daughters, which aired on the network. Although successful in Melbourne, Neighbours underperformed in the Sydney market and struggled for months before Seven cancelled it. The show was immediately b...
 
3:38 AM
An Australian soap opera, I see.
 
Kylie Minogue? Jason Donovan?
 
By the way, do you also call them simply soaps? Or always soap operas?
I do know Minogue!
 
Umm, both I guess. With roughly equal frequency.
 
The singer.
Oh, OK.
Because in Dutch we always say soaps.
 
So you don't have a longer way of saying it?
You don't acknowledge it as an abbreviation?
 
3:42 AM
@DavidWallace We don't.
 
We have this programme that is called De Wereld Draait Door, which is literally translated as The World Turns Through.
I used to think it was the Dutch version of As the World Turns.
Which I was forced to watch by a friend.
Several times.
So, anyway, I really have to go to bed.
 
OK, good night. Nice yacking, as always.
 
Have fun with your antipodean things!
 
4:40 AM
yo
 
Hiya.
 
How are you?
 
Tired, you?
 
I am good. Well, not TIRED :)
Did you go to school?
 
Of course.
 
4:43 AM
What subjects are you taking?
 
But I've been studying and working on homework for most of this evening.
I am taking Mathematics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and English, all IB, at the moment.
But English and Chemistry are on alternating days.
 
Cool.
 
I have lots of homework these days.
 
What are you guys studying in physics?
omm, I see
 
Um, we just had our 2D vectors test, and now we're doing uniformly accelerated motion.
 
4:46 AM
Cool, do you like it?
 
Yeah, it's decent enough.
Oops, I lied.
We finished uniformly accelerated motion. Now we're doing 2D uniformly accelerated motion.
 
It's okay.
So is this your final year?
 
Do you know how to convert a vector from polar form to Cartesian form?
@Noah Nope, this is year 11 stuff.
 
@Mahnax Are you doing derivatives of acceleration?
 
@MετάEd Maybe. What is the derivative of acceleration?
 
4:49 AM
a.k.a., snap, crackle, and pop.
It's jounce.
It is sometimes called snap.
Hence the next two are called crackle and pop.
 
Wot?
 
Jounce is very important in mechanical systems.
 
 
In physics, jounce is the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time, with the first, second, and third derivatives being velocity, acceleration, and jerk, respectively; in other words, the jounce is the rate of change of the jerk with respect to time. Jounce is defined by any of the following equivalent expressions: :\vec s =\frac {d \vec j} {dt}=\frac {d^2 \vec a} {dt^2}=\frac {d^3 \vec v} {dt^3}=\frac {d^4 \vec r} {dt^4} the following equation is used for constant jounce. * j = j. + st * a = a. + j.t + \frac{1}{2}st^2 * v = u + a.t + \frac{1}{2}j.t^2 + \frac{1}{6}s...
See, I've screwed it up already.
 
Oh, interesting.
 
4:52 AM
position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce
 
I haven't heard of jerk or jounce, but we're doing things with the others.
 
jounce = snap
so position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce = snap, crackle, pop
Now for extra credit can you identify any of them in the real world?
 
Um, I'm going to assume that jerk is the rate of change of the acceleration?
 
A sudden acceleration is a greater jerk.
Correct
 
And it says right up there that jounce is the rate of change of jerk.
 
4:54 AM
I dont think it's that complicated. If you want to convert from Polar to Cartesian, use: Ax= A cos(theta), Ay= A sin(theta). But this is off the top of my head and I might be wrong.
 
Right. But now can you find that in the real world?
 
Basically, if you have a vehicle that is constantly increasing in speed at an increasing rate, then you've got a jerk?
 
@Mahnax x = r cos theta, y = r sin theta
But I see Noah beat me to it.
 
Yeah, you're correct, both of you.
 
@Mahnax Do you drive?
 
4:55 AM
Gee, am I?
 
@MετάEd Yes.
 
In your mind, then, imagine your foot on the accelerator pedal.
If you hold it still, that's acceleration.
 
Right-O.
 
If you move it at a constant rate, that's jerk.
 
Yes. If I'm pressing down on it at a constant rate, then it's jerk.
 
4:56 AM
If you move it at an accelerating rate, that's jounce.
 
Jinx.
 
a.k.a. snap.
The faster you move your foot at a constant rate, the greater the jerk.
 
I understand.
 
The more you accelerate your foot, the greater the jounce. Then you just have to imagine what the car does.
 
This is very interesting, I had never heard of jerk, but I knew that it had to exist.
 
4:58 AM
The Jounce article above links to the Jerk article, which is well worth reading because it gets into practical issues of mechanical systems in industry.
 
@MετάEd If I press and release, press and release, what is that? I think that's also a jerk
 
Then there's Yank and Tug, which are derivatives of Force.
If you press and release, press and release, you are varying the speed of motion of your foot, which is Jounce so it's not just Jerk but a change in Jerk.
Yanking, Tugging, and Jerking are all physics terms, so you can now rest easy. What you have been doing is Physics.
 
Cool, Thanks @MετάEd
 
My work here is done.
 
Good job.
 
5:06 AM
Hey, guys gotta go
@Mahnax good luck.
Thanks @DavidWallace
and @MετάEd
Good night
 
@Noah G'nite.
 
@Noah Bonne nuit.
 
@Mahnax It's in this chat room quite often.
 
@DavidWallace Oh, you.
Heh.
 
What means to be booted for someone?
 
5:17 AM
@Mitja Do you have an example in mind?
 
It's from a youtube video, I'm not even sure I heard it right:
... where on a podcast together I was promptly booted for you ...
 
I have no idea what that's supposed to mean; I've never heard booted used like that before.
 
I'm hearing it wrong then, it's here: youtu.be/0he24TXFSeo?t=1m21s
 
Hm, he definitely said booted.
Perhaps he was booted from the podcast?
Meaning he was kicked off.
At any rate, it's bed time for me. Good night.
 
bye
 
5:47 AM
 
 
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8:50 AM
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9:18 AM
So I hear Obama borked it.
Interesting.
 
9:32 AM
Did he sound like more of an uncaring cretin than romney?
 
The way I read it, he didn't sound at all and preferred to look at his shoes.
 
oh dear
 

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