The Upper Room

2:44 AM

@JonEricson I am open to an edit....

3:00 AM

anyone in/from Chicago?

@ThomasShields I'm in the south suburbs about a week/year...don't think that counts

@waxeagle ah, cool. That's roughly where I am for the summer.

@ThomasShields south suburbs

@DanO'Day cool. anything fun I should do?

@ThomasShields spiffy. My wife grew up in Thornton and her brother lives in Highland IN...

3:03 AM

@waxeagle I went to high school near Thornton and live near Highland

@ThomasShields are you in the city? If so, downtown, north side? Or if in suburbs, north, west, south?

@DanO'Day Hyde Park

but I work East Side

@DanO'Day awesome. We'll be up that way again around Christmas time

@ThomasShields been to the Oriental Institute at U of C yet?

@DanO'Day no -what's that?

@ThomasShields oi.uchicago.edu

you can walk there from anywhere in Hyde Park

3:07 AM

@DanO'Day ooh, cool

@ThomasShields I took a biblical archaeology class and we were required to go there and do some research, glad I did

@DanO'Day nice!

@ThomasShields you can check out the POTUS' home

@DanO'Day i'm super close to it. It's pretty locked down right now.

well, you can get close at least

yeah secret service has it locked down

3:11 AM

yeah they've blocked out several blocks. Walked by after a wrong bus stop.

ever been to Museum of Science & Industry?

@ThomasShields go see a ball game at Wrigley! tickets should be cheap this year

and you'll get to see it before they do the big remodel this off season

@waxeagle yeah, I need to check when my hometown Braves are in to play

@DanO'Day planning on it - coworker said it's amazing

@waxeagle @Thomas or US Cellular / Sox :P

@DanO'Day it seems like no one cares about the Sox here

3:13 AM

on U of C campus in addition to Oriental Institute check out rockefeller chapel

@ThomasShields no not in hyde park

@DanO'Day okay cool

@DanO'Day elsewhere though?

@DanO'Day ick socks :P. Though that is @ThomasShields's best chance to see the Bravos. They won't be in town to play the cubbies til mid september

@ThomasShields Jimmy woodlawns bar

@waxeagle wait really. dangit

@DanO'Day you mean, i should go there, or that's where people like the Sox?

@ThomasShields walk thru quads, look up. might see some parrots (no joke)

3:15 AM

@ThomasShields yep :(. But the Braves and the socks play at the cell July 19-21.....

@ThomasShields no, go there

@DanO'Day lol

@waxeagle okay cool calendar

@DanO'Day underaged. Do they have good root beer?

@ThomasShields haha dunno

:D

@ThomasShields that said, you should make time to see a day game at wrigley, regardless of the opponent :)

3:16 AM

@ThomasShields if u like to read theology, check out 57th st bookstore

@waxeagle plan on it, yeah

@DanO'Day sweet

@ThomasShields semcoop.com

the seminary co-op has lots of good books, so does 57th st books, close by

awesome

@ThomasShields kinda like treasure hunting, lots of liberal political books, every now and then u hit theological jackpot haha

@DanO'Day sounds like fun! :D

5:56 AM

man it's so weird/cool to go back and read all my old answers

Q: Can something be done to these illegible info in the graduated version of the site?

9:09 AM

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I notices that on the first page of the main site, the time and the reputation scores against the user name are displayed in grey color making them a bit illegible. Would it not be better if they were in some other color making them more prominent?

feature-request

12:17 PM

@ThomasShields The idea of a college student not being allowed to drink is really weird to me.

12:36 PM

@davidstratton Any chance I could talk you into using this?

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@TRiG eh. don't really mind.

You leave great comments with links to relevant questions and meta stuff all the time, but I've clicked edit->save on them literally hundreds of times to automatically pretty format the URL's with titles.

12:55 PM

@TRiG lol, be glad you didn't go to my Uni...

@Caleb awesome, just installed that myself

Tim Stone has cooked up some truly awesome stuff

@waxeagle Meh, I barely drink anyway. Could happily go several months without touching a drop of alcohol: and that's not intentional; I just wouldn't be bothered. It's just weird to think of being in college and underage.

@TRiG true, the drinking age here is...oddly placed. I really don't quite understand why 21 and not 18

The idea that you become age of majority for almost everything else and still can't buy a beer is kind of odd

1:10 PM

@waxeagle Makes quite a bit of sense to me, esp after being an EMT for a few years. 18 is usually the age people get unrestricted access to driving. Giving people a couple years after that to learn the ups and downs of that responsibility before also giving them free reign to alcohol keeps the streets safer for the rest of us.

@Caleb fair enough

and I'm gonna guess we have one of the more driving oriented cultures out there right now

@waxeagle Ya and the statistics on how many people have at least one laps of judgement in their first couple years is huge. Keeping the consequences of those low by limiting exacerbating factors is a significant issue. That's also why many states have implemented multiple stages of restrictions: from permits that require an adult driver to driving curfews or restrictions on # of peers in the car.

@Caleb interesting. Glad to hear they are relying (at least to some degree) on stats when making these decisions.

@waxeagle Over here there are a bunch of different drinking ages: the age at which you can buy alcohol; the age at which you can drink on a licensed premises (which in the UK differs between with food and without food); the age at which you can drink at home (I believe this is 4).

@waxeagle It's definitely a culture specific thing though. The same logic wouldn't make a bean of sense in Turkey. I would have loved to see the drinking age raised to 25 while I was in the states, but I'm perfectly ok with it being 18 in Turkey. The protection here is not in driving restrictions but in the simple fact that having a car is a huge responsibility that a limited number of people even consider taking on until 25-30, even the rich spoiled kids.

1:24 PM

@Caleb interesting. Whereas here the car is seemingly considered a birthright at 16

@TRiG interesting. That makes some sense

@waxeagle Take your pick. Car first or alcohol first, but please don't pass them out together!

@Caleb too true :)

2:12 PM

@waxeagle Partly because of the infrastructure: if society is so constructed that it's impossible to participate without a car, then of course a car is seen as a necessity.

Better urban planning and better public transport infrastructure could help.

@TRiG yep. But we have so many places that are just exceedingly rural. I live not 15 minutes outside of a urban population center and I'm completely in the sticks.

4:18 PM

woah, comments from Richard!

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4:36 PM

Weird. The downvote arrow is darker grey than the upvote arrow. I was just browsing the site and thought to myself, "Huh? I don't recall downvoting that answer." Then I remembered that the actual downvoted colour is a dark blue.

Jon Ericson

@TRiG Wow. That's subtle.

@JonEricson Yeah. I don't think it's a real bug: just a momentary confusion.

Jon Ericson

@TRiG If I were to write the meta post, I'd tag it bug. Same with the lopsided cross issue @msh210 noticed yesterday. (Hint, hint. ;-)

@JonEricson Okay. Okay. Writing meta post now.

Q: Up and down arrows are different hues

5:15 PM

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The downvote arrow is darker grey than the upvote arrow. I was just browsing the site and thought to myself, “Huh? I don't recall downvoting that answer.” Then I remembered that the actual downvoted colour is a dark blue. Up: #B4B4B4. Down: #9F9F9F. I’m not at all sure how serious this is.

bug design

@JonEricson Hint was for TRiG I assume? :-)

Incidentally,

See the faq for... what?

@msh210 woot, fix one problem cause another :)

@waxeagle Hm?

Q: New chat theme usability issue

yesterday, by Stack Exchange

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Perhaps I'm the only one seeing this: I think the word help is the leftmost option, but I copied a bit more just in case. My eyesight is pretty good, but I can't really read anything other than policy | mobile without straining.

bug status-completed design chat

@waxeagle Ah.

@waxeagle Okay, I've commented there.

5:21 PM

@msh210 thanks

5:40 PM

@msh210 I suspect you don't care enough about the lopsided cross to write a meta post on the issue.

@TRiG Indeed I don't.

(Nor do I, to be honest.)

5:52 PM

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Q: Lopsided cross?

The cross that forms the t in Christianity seems a little lopsided. msh210 posted an image on chat that shows the blue on the right is much lighter than the blue on the left: I suspect it's intended to give the cross a slightly 3D effect, but it looks more like something is not quite right.

bug design logo

Q: Automatically delete downvoted annotated posts after a period of time

6:31 PM

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The moderators here make frequent use of the post annotations. We add things like "citation needed" "insufficient explanation" or other post notices to suggest to both the community and to the author of the post that we'd like to see them add something to the post. Typically these are accompanie...

feature-request roomba

7:00 PM

I usually inline an image from Church Signs Epic Fails. This time around I decided against inlining the second-last.

(This took quite a lot of restraint on my part. And, speaking of restraint .... oh dear)

El'endia Starman

. . .

Wow.

Q: Difference between the two?

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So what's the difference between christianity.stackexchange.com and meta.christianity.stackexchange.com ? There was a reference on another question that got me to wondering.

discussion site-definition moderation answers stackexchange