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12:01 PM
One of those three establishments houses the SE data center in Denver. Guess which. :)
 
Denver, le dérnier dinosaure?
I don't know any other places in Denver.
 
I know one that misspells its name.
 
I'm not even sure Denver has more than one place.
 
Google seems to have misspelled discreet.
 
Denver shows us a world we've never seen before
 
12:04 PM
What is Fort Rust, and why did they let it rust?
 
but I would guess the haunted house
 
Rust bucket wins.
 
What do they need a data center for? Who would save all this crap?
 
With daily excursions over to the pot shop followed by a spectral scare job.
 
Well, I'm going to put my data centre in a haunted house. no one would break into it, then.
 
12:07 PM
> 3D Cannabis Center is a pioneer in the fully legalized, recreational cannabis industry. Our flagship store in Denver was the site of the world’s first legal recreational cannabis sale and serves as the model for regulators worldwide.
The benefits of collocation.
I think I forgot to label that NSFW.
 
@tchrist Why do they have a store named Salida? Aren't they going to confuse Latino stoners who think they're going for the exit?
 
It’s the Way Out Shop.
 
crl
@Robusto it does at mid and high speeds (src: cars.com/articles/2011/07/…)
 
Salida is town in Colorado whose stressed vowel in English (but not Spanish) is the first diphthong in Lida Rose.
 
12:13 PM
It’s at the mouth of the cañon, of course.
 
> Haze variety, super head high and crazy dense nugs with plenty of trichomes
A lot has changed over the decades, and yet a lot stays the same.
 
crl
Reminds me that once I spoke with a guy using a 'lay down bike', he was so convinced they were more efficient than normal bikes that he said they would probably beat pro-cyclists
they are certainly more aerodynamic but not to the point to beat road bikes (whose posture is better)
that's a question for Bicycles
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You are not alone.
 
yeah, that doesn't make sense. on a regular bike, you're leaning forward, with the driving wheel behind you, so momentum is easier to keep going. if you're in a bike where your mass is being pulled by the driving wheel, momentum is more difficult to keep going.
this looks nice, though:
 
crl
@MattE.Эллен yes makes sense
 
12:23 PM
@crl Are you talking about recumbent bikes? My problem with them is visibility. both you being seen by the cars and you seeing the dangers.
 
crl
his had only 2 wheels
 
@Robusto yes, this is what I worry about, too
 
crl
@Robusto yes, thanks for the term
 
Even in spite of the wind resistance, I bet regular bikes are faster.
And you can corner better, etc.
 
@Robusto Who wants to ride around in some gynecologist’s examination chair?
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12:25 PM
Exactly. To put it another way, "balls first" is no way to charge through life.
 
or balls to the wall. it's hard to maneuver
 
crl
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Q: Is a recumbent trike faster than a non-recumbent bicycle?

tehnyitI am seriously considering getting a recumbent trike, probably one in a tadpole configuration, and was weighting up how much time I would save during my commute when compared to my normal bike. Currently, I ride Giant Cypress and my speed averages about 22kmh on my commute. My commute is about 1...

damn trikes are the tricycles..
> World human powered bike speed records are indeed on recumbent bicycles
but in the traffic it's different..
 
@Robusto when you exit a door you enter another place.
which reminds me... snack time!
 
@RegDwigнt A native speaker from Portugal has confirmed that this Brazilian "what the difference" thing without a verb is weird.
 
@MattE.Эллен get one of those flags
 
12:40 PM
1 hour ago, by Matt E. Эллен
If the flags keep coming, then I will kick who is raising them. Yes, the flag names the raiser.
 
@tchrist yeah. I'm Jack's roughly 51% lack of surprise.
 
oh, you meant something else :D
 
Did you sack the sackers? :)
 
Does it name the raiser Hellraiser, Susan, or something else?
 
@MattE.Эллен I mean this:
 
12:42 PM
Brazilians also sometimes dispense with number and gender concordance in ways that make the rest of the Romance world cringe.
 
wait, that's not a bicycle, recumbent or otherwise
 
@Mitch Target practice?
 
racist, bicycle; eh, they're basically the same thing
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haha. close. no one I know
 
@Mitch He's not just telling people to get off his lawn, he's actually doing something about it.
 
12:43 PM
Honk if you're a honk.
 
Horn if. . . .
 
The Chinese are the honkiest, IIRC.
 
@Robusto the strength of his argument is inverse proportion to the size of his lawn.
@Robusto It's a polite honking.
honk = "Hi!"
 
Jan 10 '13 at 16:10, by Robusto
@tchrist Isn't that supposed to be "On Wisconsin"?
 
cues Queen song
 
12:46 PM
"We Are The Champions" or "Another One Bites The Dust"?
 
@crl: Another record for me yesterday. I did my route in 56:49, almost 15 seconds faster than the fastest before.
 
crl
@Robusto congrats
 
ty
 
crl
I couldn't measure my times, I keep changing paths
 
12:48 PM
I used to do that before I got my GPS watch. ^_^
Now I'm competing with myself every day.
 
iWatch?
 
crl
Queens songs are also ones of the most used to torture prisonners :D
 
@skillpatrol Garmin fenix2
 
You say black, I say white. I want to ride my racist, I want to ride it like I like.
 
I thought it was the scherzo from the Ninth.
 
12:49 PM
cool
 
@crl Seriously? I would give up far more information if someone forced me to listen to polka music or Britney Spears or some shit like that.
Guy walks in with an accordion and I'm like, "Stop! I'll talk!"
 
cool
 
@Robusto you do realize that a vital part of the job description for "alien" is actually liking the shit that you don't like in your country?
 
Taylor Swift with an accordion. Yeah, deadly.
 
People are Poles not because they do not like polka. That'd make them Americans, you know.
 
@RegDwigнt I don't care if you are an alien, I will not let you probe my anus.
 
That decision is not up to you.
Not that I'm saying it's up to me.
 
@crl Barney Theme. That's a bingo.
 
I'm really saying no decision on such matters should ever be considered, much less carried out.
@Mitch yeah if he's trying to get people off his lawn he's totally failing. Right now a good 78% of his lawn is populated by people.
 
Hey, we have accordion music in our country. If you consider Wisconsin part of the US.
 
12:54 PM
That seventies show?
 
Never saw it. Not one minute of it.
 
the 70's are over people, get over it
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 From @tchrist's link, it seems that is a very deliberate lack of conviction.
 
I only know they shout "Hello Wisconsin" right after the title music. And display a license plate that says "Wisconsin".
 
"It was on the best-selling lists for ages. Unfortunately, it’s also the only Gaiman novel I read and actively disliked. I’m not saying it’s bad, mind you, I’m saying I couldn’t care for it."
 
12:56 PM
"I give a shit on it" is what you said, I believe.
 
@Robusto it is about as entertaining as Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis combined.
 
@RegDwigнt I think you're mistaken. All he'd have to do to keep people off his lawn is to lie down. Completely covered. They'd need a bulldozer to pry his cold dead hands off the sod.
@RegDwigнt Ewww.. transporter malfunction
@RegDwigнt either way it's up Robusto
 
Something to cleanse your ears with.
Feb 16 '14 at 23:55, by Robusto
I don't begrudge the Slavs their polkas and what have you. I just wish they wouldn't try to clap to the downbeats in jazz and rock.
 
Heard that playing at a kids’ Halloween party once as scary music.
 
@tchrist What, the G minor BWV 542/2?
 
1:07 PM
Indeed.
 
I guess they don't distinguish between organ sonatas.
 
538 works, too.
 
And toccatas and fugues and what have you.
 
Totally not scary organ piece:
And this one either. Loud, but not scary.
 
1:13 PM
Oh, you can find scary Saint-Saëns.
 
@Robusto I'm not endorsing this in any way but...
 
@Mitch Stop. I'll tell you what you want to know.
 
What do you know about what I want?
 
I know you want the Raiders to win the Super Bowl.
 
28 mins ago, by skill patrol
the 70's are over people, get over it
 
@Robusto and early 80's
and I'm over it
;-)
 
Now you just want Brady's suspension to stand.
 
@Robusto I didn't want to know that.
 
They thought his cellphone records would be the smoking gun, but apparently there's nothing in there about deflating footballs. Tough luck, yeah?
 
He is one of the greats of the modern era, no doubt.
I just don't like Beli-cheater, I think he was behind the whole scam...
 
1:29 PM
@Robusto the cynic in me would say that this is all entertainment.
 
Duh. It's football.
 
Mostly because I don't care.
 
@skillpatrol You don't like the best NFL coach ever? Well, he doesn't like you either.
 
He doesn't wear the pants in that family
But she obviously can't afford the material to extend them to her shoes
 
@Mitch I'd probably be OK with that. It would take me a while to find out she wasn't an interesting raconteur.
 
1:33 PM
@skillpatrol Beliczech doesn't have the intellect to know what a scam is. But he has the guts to eat one. literally. he's gonna pop a belt one day.
 
Admitting to the Jets Spy gate put the last nail in his coffin for me pal; just like those refs who admitting to shaving points in the NBA ended my viewing of the entire "Association" except, of course, when the warriors won the championship ;-)
 
@Robusto raconteur? ooh.. like War and Peace? around the campfire? not a thousand and one nights but a 1001 to the googolplex nights
 
Actually, she's prolly a bit thin for my taste.
But their kids will be tall, no doubt.
 
leggy
 
@Robusto all white meat. a little cilantro will bring out the more gamey aroma.
Jul 22 at 13:22, by Mitch
Cannibalism jokes are funny because eating people is wrong.
Dec 22 '11 at 23:45, by Cerberus
I have no problems with cannibalism.
 
1:37 PM
Depends on your definition of "eating" . . .
 
or how hungry you are
 
For nutritional sake. there's difficulties with that. Prions, other infectious diseases.
But if you want to capture their soul or heroic attributes, it's the quickest and most reliable way.
@skillpatrol the calories you'd get is well under those you'd waste with all the chewing. People are kinda tough and stringy.
I've heard
Aug 7 '13 at 13:57, by Mitch
That's not cannibalism, it's love through food.
 
reminds me of that plane crash in the Peruvian mountains
 
I thought it was Peru.
 
If you want to use a human thigh bone as a hammer-like tool to repair your plane, there's a lot of flesh to get through first. If you want to be practical about it you don't want to let that go to waste.
 
1:46 PM
I think the days of repairing things with bones are long gone. Jets are notoriously resistant to such ministrations, I am told.
 
@Robusto Remote mountainous Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina, near to the border with Chile (1200 mts)
 
OK, you win the "Where's The Cannibal?" contest.
 
I changed it anyway, nbd
 
OK back to business...Piazzola is pretty famous for making 'good' music out of the accordion. but yes he stand a lone.
 
I care not.
 
1:50 PM
Wait, they have love through food now? I was only aware of drive through food.
What will they invent next?
 
food for thought
 
snack time again?
 
back to math
later
 
Google is not a dictionary.
Google is not a dictionary.
Google is not a dictionary.
Damn their eyes.
 
But is dictionary a Google?
 
1:52 PM
how about that e to the i pi
 
-1
Q: Using a comma after "but" as done on W4 form

Lucidity of Powerhttp://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf The sentence is found on line C, where it says... But, you may choose to enter “-0-” if you are married and have either a working spouse or more than one job. Is that correct? And why? Seems rather odd that the government would make such a mistake, no...

 
dictionary a gogo
 
Google is not the Way, the Truth, and the Light. Nor does no man come to Knowledge save through Google alone.
 
What the hell dude, way to rain on my parade, Google Maps told me I had come within a mile to Knowledge.
 
close(qh, C_RTFD|C_STFU|C_UNLINK);
 
1:55 PM
What do you suggest I use? Yahoo? They offer no Answers.
 
> I'm saying this because it's the government that wrote it, and the government, I'd think, would be right in doing so.
Ipse dixit.
 
Well. It is a government's constitutional right to write things.
 
I still keep a Yahoo email address, which I give to marketers and the like so that they have a place to put their spam.
 
@RegDwigнt And to write wrong things.
But in this case, that does not apply.
 
I am registered with Xbox Live using a Hotmail address, because MShit wouldn't let you use any other address back when I was registering, and because you can't change it now that they do.
 
1:59 PM
Nota bene: dixit is L337 for dicks it.
 
@tchrist And ipse is an anagram of pies.
 
spies
Government spies.
Are there any other kind?
 
The problem is, every now and then I have to log in to some third-party site, like World of Tanks say, using my Xbox credentials. And since nobody can possibly remember their Hotmail password, or their Hotmail email address for that matter, I fail at it every single time.
Then what happens is that I have to go to Hotmail and change my password (after spending some time on guessing my email address).
 
@RegDwigнt Yeah, I have the same issue with Apple iTunes. Back in the early Devonian I gave them my Comcast email address, thinking it was a good thing to do. Then they said, "Hey, why don't you link your account to your email?" Now I don't have Comcast anymore, but I can't change my account email, so all their messages to me go to a dead address. Fuck Apple and the whores they rode in on.
 
And then what happens is that I can no longer log in to all the other sites that I have previously registered with, or play Xbox which still has my old password saved.
 
2:02 PM
I have no idea what my XBox password would be. Haven't played XBox since I got the PS4.
 
Send them a text.
 
Always the clever ones, those Picosofters.
 
@Robusto I have a theory there's a secret garden in which Employees for Big Companies are exclusively grown. They seem to share 100% of their DNA. Also, they all have to share the same 1/2 brain.
 
Adamsian drinkers of kool-aide, one and all.
 
They got the brain up to 1/2 now? Good job.
 
2:04 PM
@Robusto yeah wait till you get the NEW Microsoft Xbox 3DS XL 3D (actual product name). Then they'll ask you for your Xbox password.
 
That's progress, government-style.
@RegDwigнt I will never need that. Ever.
Just say lawn. It covers everything that's not house. — Robusto 11 secs ago
Meanwhile, get offa mine.
 
@Robusto you will have to. It'll be the only console around. With Nintendo hardware, Sony EyeToy, SEGA games and Microsoft DRM. Owned by ActivisionUbisoft.
Owned as in, there will be only just one copy of it produced, put in a vault at ActivisionUbisoft, and you'd have to lend it. Virtually. By playing a game called Virtual Lending Manager and Bowling Tycoon 2039.
Sorry, Madden™ Virtual Lending Manager and Bowling Tycoon 2039™.
 
2:23 PM
@JohnLawler "Less than three syllables"? Fewer, perhaps (syllables is countable, after all). — Joost Kiefte yesterday
Someone's taking Prof. Lawler to task. Tsk-tsk. The absolute balls on that dude.
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it involves such a tiny distinction, one that should not be a concern to anyone. Come on, shrug it off and move on. — Robusto 11 secs ago
 
2:36 PM
I mowed my lawns.
I also owed my lawyers.
 
I loaned my maws.
 
Did you loan any awnings?
 
I can't. I need them all.
 
So you won't be throwing any shade is what you're saying.
 
Nor any Slim Shady.
I cast a shadow, but it doesn't go very far.
Except when I'm riding my bike. Which I should go do right now.
The rest of the company is at a Fun Force Outing. Me, I can't be arsed to contribute to Group Fun. If they can't have fun without me, that's their problem.
And what is this "Fun Force" bullshit? Sounds dangerously close to Enforced Merriment.
Which it is.
So I am working from home today. Which means riding my bike when I feel like it. Which is now.
 
2:43 PM
A forced fun outing, you say?
Yeah.
Ride on.
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone.
 
@Robusto he's after me now.
@RegDwigнt What on earth are you going on about? 'A personal preference BY one particular person'? What's that supposed to mean? 'The language's grammar'??? Dear, dear...... — Joost Kiefte 2 mins ago
Serves me right for helping a professor. Stupid me.
 
3:16 PM
And now off to muting commies. En masse.
 
hi
hi@RegDwigнt:)
how are you?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you home?
anyone
I'm asked to write my resume in template format provided to by the employer?
Funny thing in background section. The template goes something like this...
"<First Name> is an Information Security professional with experience in a variety of security disciplines. Building on an early career in IT Infrastructure, he now specialises in security risk assessment, audit and governance activities, and has strong analytical and report writing skills to effectively identify, communicate and manage security risks in large, complex or sensitive systems and services.
"
the speech is different? how I can write myself as third person?
 
crl
3:37 PM
@Mitch -1
@Saladin "myself is a pronoun" < 3rd person
 
3:49 PM
@crl how about that tau manifesto?
 
@RegDwigнt Is that one of @Cerb's Dutch friends?
@crl: New personal best today: 16.31 miles (26.24 km) in 55:50—average time of 17.5 mph (28.16 kph).
Too bad I'm on vacation next week and won't be riding. I'll prolly lose some conditioning.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 i'm goin' to the crossroads / take my rider by my side
Shit, that's almost a minute faster than yesterday. Where did that come from?
Hey, where'd the party go?
 
crl
@Robusto approaching the 30kph
 
Yes.
I think it must have something to do with the weather. It is absolutely gorgeous out right now.
 
4:05 PM
no tornadoes?
 
Not today. That was Tuesday.
 
crl
lower atmospheric pressure? jk but that helps
 
They had golf ball-sized hail in some parts.
@crl Actually, a high pressure is what comes in after a storm (low pressure) front. So no.
 
crl
A weather front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena. In surface weather analyses, fronts are depicted using various colored triangles and half-circles, depending on the type of front. The air masses separated by a front usually differ in temperature and humidity. Cold fronts may feature narrow bands of thunderstorms and severe weather, and may on occasion be preceded by squall lines or dry lines. Warm fronts are usually preceded by stratiform precipitation and fog. The weather usually clears quickly after a front...
 
Stop trying to confuse me with "facts."
 
4:09 PM
why the quotes?
 
4:31 PM
@Robusto that's funny, because Seldom Scene makes fun of Clapton in Rider.
Maybe just in one of the live versions.
 
@JohanLarsson the question is, if I showed that to David Cameron, would he say "that is a problem" or "and that's what everyone wants"?
 
wat do you think?
I only recognize his name
 
Liberte should wear more sensible shoes.
 
@JohanLarsson (Prime minister of the UK)
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 She's free to do as she pleases ;)
 
@MattE.Эллен :D
 
4:38 PM
interesting to name a t-rex securite
with so short arms
 
and such a big mouth
I wouldn't trust it with any of my secrets
 
hmm, i think he is reliable
not a mingler
 
It just ate liberté
that's not too reliable, if you ask me
 
true but her secrets are safe
 
4:43 PM
@JohanLarsson Very nice!
 
party here tonite. måste ställa in skorna
 
4:56 PM
yes... can't have upset shoes at a party
 
Yay!
 
Yay2
@RegDwigнt Watch your tongue!
 
Yay!
 
5:22 PM
@skillpatrol I know! @crl, does -1 count as a different fundamental constant? tau is starting to look good
@Gigili YAY!!
Wait, what are we yaying about?
@MattE.Эллен and égalité is looking pretty tasty
@Gigili oh good because if you had said "bite your tongue" that would have hurt.
 
6:14 PM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 We all make fun of Clapton sooner or later.
 
6:25 PM
not me
 
7:12 PM
I do not pass judgement on imaginary concepts like "correctness". It's either clear or not, and this is not clear. The fact that you asked about it is evidence that it's not as clear as it would be with the that. But both are grammatical. Grammaticality has nothing to do with clarity. And "correctness" is a matter of opinion, not fact. — John Lawler Feb 2 '13 at 21:25
goes off to close all correctness posts as POBs
 
:D
Prof. Lawler must have got up on the wrong side of bed that day.
:-o
scandalous
 
Thank you.
 
any time. what did I do?
 
How are your limbs?
 
all in their correct places, thanks
 
7:14 PM
You conferred the blessing of scandal upon me.
OK, good.
 
@Cerberus ah :D
 
Your arm has healed completely?
 
as far as I can tell :)
 
Good, good.
 
user116848
Hi guys. How are we all today? :)
 
7:15 PM
how are you?
 
And you are allowed to do anything with it?
I'm good.
Hi!
 
within the bounds of law and physical reality
 
Hmm.
Are you allowed to harm it, by law and physical reality?
 
I suppose I could use it to break the law, but I don't really want to
 
Good.
 
7:16 PM
@Cerberus yes
 
Well, I rather meant allowed by your doctor, so...
 
I've never broken anything.
So I don't know how that works.
Whether you have to use it more carefully.
 
@MattE.Эллен In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
 
@Cerberus ah. well nor did I. In my case I was told to use it as I woud normally
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 awwww. stupid thermodynamics
 
7:17 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Except you, who thought that we couldn't contain heat on the earth's surface.
 
@Cerberus Erm, that IS exactly due to thermodynamics.
 
Hehehehe.
Are you scared of all the magma beneath you?
 
as long as it stays contained in its earthen container, no.
 
@MattE.Эллен Ah, good. From how long after the fracture were you told to do that?
 
@Cerberus immediately
 
7:18 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Good.
 
I couldn't actually, because of the pain, but the doctor told me to use it as much as possible
 
Huh.
Weird!
I didn't know that.
Perhaps it depends on the kind of fracture.
 
It probably depends on the type of break. big breaks need to be held still, so they can heal properly. I think mine was so small, losing mobility was more of a worry
 
8:10 PM
Prfrding bad Engrinch:
-2
Q: which one is grammatically correct? the below or below?

shiva prasathWhich one is correct? Pls find the docs for the below employees or Pls find the docs for below employees?

 
8:29 PM
@MattE.Эллен law shouldn't be a hindrance to what's possible
 
user116848
I was browsing Economics SE:
 
user116848
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Q: Is there a solution to the Joker's game in The Dark Knight?

BatmanIn the final battle in the movie, the Dark Knight (2008), the Joker has rigged two ferries carrying people out of Manhattan Gotham to explode. One ferry carries mostly civilians with a substantial National Guard presence. The other ferry contains large numbers of prison inmates and some guards. T...

 
You have a very dangerous gravatar.
 
user116848
heh!
 
user116848
@tchrist By 'dangerous' you mean dangerously handsome?
 
user116848
8:32 PM
;-)
 
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
You wanna get kicked out your country for being too fetching?
 
user116848
Yeah I read his story.
 
Even the camels will want to kiss you.
 
user116848
Hello camels :-)
 
9:05 PM
Jul 31 at 16:25, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
user image
See, I knew that'd come in handy
 
user116848
Nice!
 
Not quite so fetching there.
Why is the sword straight?
 
9:21 PM
Why is that not your icon?
 
9:42 PM
Because a white square with a violet fringe suits my nature.
 
10:01 PM
but the square is not aligned
 
@JohanLarsson the square is square. the pattern makes it seem otherwise
 
10:33 PM
@tchrist I know you're pretty square.
 
@Cerberus You forget the vocative comma.
 
Hah.
Never!
 
If it's missing, does it become a vacative comma?
 
No, that makes it a vacationing comma :-)
Or a vacuous comma.
Ok, ok you win with your vacative comma @Robusto
:-/
 
10:54 PM
Winning is good.
 
Spoken like a true fan of a dynasty team.
I said team NOT coach.
:D
 
That's loser talk.
 
Ok, ok you can call him the new Lombardi
 

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