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Pulpo a la gallega exprés (muy fácil y en su punto)

1:45 AM

Cómo hacer pulpo a la gallega paso a paso

@Robusto Try them!

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crl

3:07 AM

she's putting 2 full hand of salt!

me gustaria mas una ensalada de medusas

heh

EnglishMaster

3:50 AM

guys

what is the most easiest way to differentiate when to use present perfect or past simple?

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11:33 AM

@tchrist I need the subtitles.

waves tentacles

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12:58 PM

Pfft, poor octopus. Waste of a perfectly good meal. Best thing you can do with octopus is marinate it in vinegar. Grilled is a distant second and a la gallega a very distant third.

Yeah, not a big fan of Tako Bell.

Get it? Tako is Japanese for octopus.

tako - たこ - 蛸

Wow, tough room, @terdon.

It's not often makes a deft, bilingual pun between English and Japanese (and, presumably, Mexican Spanish as well).

It has everything.

@Robusto I made that joke already, although not here.

Shoulda copyrighted it.

1:08 PM

@terdon Wait, what’s wrong with a la gallega?

I was first to publish.

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 12 hours ago, by tchrist

tako = pulpo a la gallega

Well, that's hardly the joke.

Besides, nobody who's anybody can be expected to follow Tavern on the Meta.

Just a bunch of unschooled weenies doing javascripturbation in public.

@tchrist Boring. I just like the Greek style so much that anything else seems like a wasted octopus.

1:12 PM

Gawd, my company wants everyone to vote for our product in the Webby Awards. Who gives a flying fuck about the fucking Webby awards?

What are the fucking webby awards?

And what does that award measure? Quality, or number of people who can be dragooned into voting?

@terdon Damned if I know.

@terdon Oh that. Well ok, it does seem a little bland, although you can improve that a little by using better paprika. More intense olive oil. Maybe some ajillo treatment.

Oh, "excellence" apparently.

I thought advertising awards were a sham back when I was winning them in the '80s, and my opinion hasn't changed.

1:14 PM

@tchrist I also don't like the texture much. De gustibus...

I threw all of mine out because . . . they were taking up space in the attic.

@terdon It can be done terribly.

But correct texture requires pretreatment.

If you ceviche it the proteins cut free.

ponders tako tacos

I dunno. Bocatas de calamares are bad enough.

I'm not a fan of things that chew like a wad of rubber bands.

@Robusto You mean not very well? Rubber bands don't even have teeth.

And you were asking for that one.

No, I wasn't.

1:17 PM

Don't be coy.

The steaks they make of the giant flying Humboldt squid (diablo rojo) from the Sea of Cortez down towards Baja can be nice — but again, you have to mercilessly beat the damn things first.

It's accepted to let the agency shift from the actor to the acted upon.

Otherwise they’ll eat you first.

"Campbell's, the soup that eats like a meal."

@Robusto Using addspeak to justify grammatical choice? Tsk. I expected better of you.

1:18 PM

I am happy to disappoint you.

Heh, you're almost as easy to string along as @Cerberus.

We miss @RegDwigнt. He could really get Rob going.

@terdon Let's not say things we can't take back.

Let's see. @Cerberus did you know iphones have better support for Latin than android does?

Feb 23 '11 at 18:39, by Robusto

Plus let's not say things we can't take back.

1:20 PM

That should do it.

I must have said this before since I say it now.

All this has happened before and all of this will happen again.

Hmmph, my company doesn't use Agile but we still have standups . . . sometimes.

I think if people tried really hard they could invent a process more complicated than what we have, but it would not be a sure thing.

Mar 22 '13 at 22:15, by Matt Эллен

I recall you said that before

@Robusto The path of least resistance leads to somethety something least something profound something standing on the toes of giants

R.E.M. - King of Birds (with lyrics)

1:33 PM

@Robusto OK one more... standups are fine except when half the team is remote, sitting down, and management so everyone hass to stand while they even more unwittingly than usual run an impromptu management meeting/gab session for an hour.

Also, when half the people have standing desks, they're all used to standing for long periods of time so the incentive to sit down isn't there. Damn you, fitness craze!

Sigh.

I try to duck out after 20m.

@Mitch Standups are bullshit. They are project managers' way of mistaking activity for progress.

@Robusto johndcook.com/blog/2009/05/26/variations-on-a-theme-of-newton

@tchrist I pig out while everybody is away from the kitchen

Every day I wonder, "Will this be the day I just pack it all in?"

@Robusto Standups do that.

1:41 PM

@tchrist THey take a lot of ... discipline not to yell out expletives

depends on how many people.

3 people max

The truth is, nobody practices Agile the way it was meant to be done.

in the kitchen

with coffee

with a knife

No coffee, no cigarettes.

@Robusto The way it is practiced or the way meant to be both sound really hard.

1:43 PM

It's a discipline, like any other.

@tchrist Gin!

@Robusto like taking naps. you have to get everything just right.

But that was how Agile scrums should go.

First we have to hear about everyone's new baby, or car, or disease, or what have you. Then we talk about the weather. Then John remembers he has something to tell Sally, out of turn. Etc.

@Robusto and if it scares people into not saying anything, then so much the better.

We need some good old "Shut the fuck up" therapy.

@Robusto Wait! I have one! (baby, disease, weather)

Cake-"Nugget" from Fashion Nugget

1:45 PM

NSFW

@Robusto oh. well. make rules about that, no baby stuff.

I just read a LinkedIn article on 10 bad things to do in the workplace (things that will get you fired). and all of them were things like don't blow up at people, don't lie, don't backstab, pretty much common sense but useful to say because sometimes you don't realize them of yourself, all like that... except...

don't eat smelly food.

Not that it's totally OK because it can be annoying (actually I don't really think that, I think it's totally OK to have smelly food), but it was in a list of reasons to get fired. WTF! Maybe you should get fired because your face looks like a dump truck. (wait, I bet that happens)

@Mitch Nobody ever got fired for eating smelly food. Not if you work with Chinese or Indian people.

@Robusto "Crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels"? You nasty

@Robusto exactly. The guy who wrote the article must be a dick.

2:13 PM

Simple solution: Turn off your grammar and spell checkers. Don't give in to the tyranny of the squiggly line. — Robusto 13 mins ago

RegDwigнt

Quoting from the very question you linked to: "This is a good example of why you should turn off the so-called 'grammar checker' on MSWord". There is absolutely no reason or excuse for anyone to use it. It does not know the first thing about English grammar. Conversely, you had a firm grasp of English grammar long before you even knew the words "grammar" or "Microsoft" existed. This tool should be your slave, not the other way round. Why use it against your own best judgment? It just wasted a considerable chunk of your precious lifetime with this question alone. It eats your life away. — RegDwigнt ♦ Jan 9 at 14:55

@tchrist when the going gets robbed, then Rob gets going.

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