@user21820 Given you're the first customer ever, you get free drinks, forever, any beverage of your choice. (But for rare requests, like "mango juice", or "cactus juice", please notify the CTM 24 hours in advance!) ;D
@Safdar Well, I'll need to recruit baristas and bartenders, (else this cafe and tavern will become a BYOB!!) and if you want food, I'll recruit you as the chef!!
@SimplyBeautifulArt It's pretty simple. Steep coffee grounds in vodka (or similar relatively neutral liquor) for a couple of days, then strain out the grounds and add simple syrup at a 1:1 ratio (where the simple syrup itself is a 1:1 mix of sugar and water, which you heat to dissolve).
@XanderHenderson Wow! That's one I haven't heard ;D. My sister, before she died far too young last year, created it. I'll have to cojole my neices' memories (both at age 25 mind you), because they would have Kahlua making get togethers!
How shall we contact you when you are not present? Would you like half a dozen jello shots so you not longer care about whether or not you're pinged, SBA?? ;D
@SimplyBeautifulArt That's great! I think sometimes young folks do everything they can to disguise the taste of alcohol (punches, jello shots, etc.) (Just for the high). The placebo effect of serving "spiked" punch, made strictly of fruit juice makes them just as "high" as a punch that's literally spiked.!!
@Safdar Indeed it is a real phenomenon. Hence most studies on any treatment require a double blind studies, using at a minimum, have test subjects given treatment, half given placebo (with no subject knowing whether they were given the treatment or a placebo treatment) and examiners unaware of who is who among the test subjects, to be valid.
@SimplyBeautifulArt Indeed, today. I'm hoping to have a weekly event, or two (due to different timezones) for Happy hour events. I'll probably pose puzzles and word games, apart from that. It serves coffee, soft beverages, and for those of legal age, (?), you can BYOB!. @Safdar is trying to talk me into offering edibles as well ;D. Primarily a site for unwinding, mingling, having fun, and such!
I love baking cookies, but I've learned how to mix batter, freeze it in "meatball scoops", and pull only three frozen "balls" of dough at a time, to thaw, and bake on demand, for that very same reason, @XanderHenderson @
@XanderHenderson I was feeling ill a few days ago, which was perfect timing, because it was easy to nap as needed, and lay low. But I'm getting cabin fever by now!!!!!
@SimplyBeautifulArt Indeed! You weren't on in the chat where I mentioned to others that my brother, his girlfriend, his daughter, and her boyfriend all tested positive for Covid over the course of four days. I'm wondering, given all the reports from my bro (who is 250 miles away, and I haven't visited since Christmas, nor he visiting me, if I suffered a "placebo effect" of sorts, paying extra attention to everything that felt "off". Fortunately, none of them felt anything more severe than a cold. I
Sorry, SBA... Yeah, they're all post STRICT quarantine.
@Safdar "A place to socialize, have fun, share humor and war stories, ... drink coffee or whatever..., share puzzles, word games, RELAX... There are many many chats on math.se that deal strictly with math, or specific topics in math.
If anyone here, or soon to come, in the near future, appears to be around a lot, I'd like to recruit other room owners, (barista or bartending or good social skills, OR a great sense of humor, or incredibly inspiring, or dedicated, is a must ;D). Note that the list of requirements is a
Let's toast, @quid! But if I guessed your beverage of preference wrongly, just say the word!
I found a word, not too intractable, but still, with a surprising number of words one can create from the letters in it. So I am going to forbid any/all words of length less than or equal to three letters: PRIMATE (Obviously, e.g., PRIME)
@XanderHenderson It was indeed. And it had a pretty successful off-spin, in Frasier! (in terms of tv shows, but I never cared much for the theme song to Frasier!)
@XanderHenderson Re: cheese: Only if those caverns are located in Wisconsin!! :P Taffy can be high quality if cultivate in any cavern, even those cavers that might exist in Arizona!
@XanderHenderson Indeed! Though it varies, as to which is best, according to location. But I completely agree. We were just having some geographic bantering among those uncouth Americans! ;D By the way, cheeseheads unite the packers are playing their first game (without fans) in minnesota, against the Vikings, tomorrow. I'm really not entirely sure why the NFL disn't just nix the season. :(
I've already heard folks predicting the historical references to 2010: The Lost Year. I hope that applies also to one DT!!
@XanderHenderson Am I remembering correctly, @XanderHenderson, that you fenced in your earlier years?
I am going to force myself to reserve downvotes and close votes for the last couple hours of the MSE day, which seems to chronically be deluged with very low quality questions and a good share of PSQ's!
@XanderHenderson Wow! I started in highschool, where the highschool athltetic association in wisconsin didn't sponsor a pentathelon, (or decathalon) for girls or guys, but I trained and performed in all the events. In summers, due to my awesome highschool coach, willing to traverse the US to enable two of us to compete in the Junior Olympics, that was my start.
I was never a "natural" athlete. I was very successful in my youth, but primarily out of sheer determination. My biggest asset was my strength. I still, after decades, hold the female record in the bench press, ever achieved at my highschool.
@XanderHenderson thanks for the fifth close vote in CURED, on my request!!
@XanderHenderson Nice... sounds a lot like me. For a couple years, I invested more in other endeavors than I did in pursuing math... I did quite well in school, but I very much wanted to not just be "the smart frosh/soph" or the "whiz girl"... I didn't mind that, and was proud of academic accomplishments, but I didn't want to be known as only that.
sorry, @XanderHenderson, I can't handle the inequity in which overwhelmingly helpful users are treated, compared to the kid gloves applied to the overwhelmingly destructive users. Day after day, posts like Tim's on meta are a slap in the face to those who invest more time and energy into this site than to self-serving users with a chip on their shoulders.
@amWhy I understand your frustration with a certain user on meta. I, too, am very frustrated with that user.
However, I do not think that being confrontational is helping. I am not deleting your comments because I think that you are saying anything which is incorrect. However, I do not think that the back-and-forth is serving a productive purpose.
It is not personal---mostly, I just don't want that other user to have an excuse to keep responding with escalating comments.
@XanderHenderson Why aren't mods deleting this meta user's confrontational post and comments, then?? If something is confrontational, I'm fine with you all deleting it. BUT PLEASE BE CONSISTENT across the board. I do get your point, but every comment deleted by any/all challengers also serves to bolster on unbalanced and agitated user's delusion that they must be right. I don't get how in some cases, peer pressure is seen as a good thing, and in other cases, we're all supposed to pretend ...
@amWhy I have deleted a number of their comments. I have left the ones which attack me, personally, as I don't want to be accused of censoring a user to preserve my own status. I have asked other moderators to have a look.
... a destructive user didn't say anything, just ignore it, yet it lives on, and it keeps their deulusions alive. As I said I DO NOT LIKE INCONSISTENCY in how users are treated. If you fear that such users (the delusionary, destructive ones) are seen as unstable, and need to be protected from themselves and what other users might trigger, due to their instability, then they should have their accounts suspended until they indicate/document they've received help.
@XanderHenderson I understand that, but mods seem to have no problem censoring not irate, dilusional, unbalance users. And there are plenty of other unstable users that take cues from what remains is such posts, and even support them.
But I do appreciate your comments, @Xander. I just think that there is a need to work on a "How to ask a good question on meta.math.se" meta question. I think doing so would help rein in provoacative/agitated posts. I know you all do the best you can at any given time. I'm just observing from a stance where I've seen this time and again from a dozen users... over time.
One thing that bother's me, though, @Xander, is that mods seem to be more concerned, sometimes, about not wanting to appear "censoring" when there is deviant support for destructive user, but are very willing to "censor" anything flagged by a destructive user, or their deviant supporters. I'm not too fond of actions taken (or more relevant, not taken), when mods fear pushback from vocal deviant/destructive users). This is not me blaming mods, because the phenomenon happens amidst police ....
...forces in communities where, when trying to intervene, dozens of cell-phones start recording, and statistically, this has proven intimidating to police foreces acting above board in ways they were trained to. I would simply ask the mods to consider if their fear of escalating volatile users, and shutting down valid feedback from other users, particularly on meta, doesn't in fact enable them to continue their delusions, and believes they are being persecuted???
I can't know the answer to that, But longstanding practices in handling (or not) problematic meta users really haven't worked. So I though it is worth asking.
Cafe and Tavern on the math.se
Cafe and Tavern on the math.se