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Luis Alvarado

22:00

aa okkk

btw

found a bug in ~askubuntu

this one launchpad.net/~fejp-eichinger

bug

Seth

so, one of you G+ experts.

FEichinger

Yep, I'm a big mean bug.

jrg

if someone finds me a certificate/award/etc form, i will fill it out and sign it, i can't find a existing one.

Seth

got a question

jrg

@Seth ask away

Luis Alvarado

22:00

hehe

Seth

If I +1 a post, say this one, it doesn't appear in my +1s on my profile

Luis Alvarado

google.com/…

look there @jrg

Seth

Google says this:

> Your +1's appear here. +1 the things around the web you like, agree with, or want to recommend to others.

does that not include posts by others?

FEichinger

Privacy settings?

Luis Alvarado

hey guys gotta go, girlfriend taking me to dinner (First time EVER).

@jrg thanks buddy

@FEichinger - Am wathing you, you mean big bug!

Seth

22:04

@FEichinger I don't remember turning anything on or off

jrg

@Seth uh, i don't know.

@LuisAlvarado that certification is canonical-run

Seth

Can't find any levers to flip.

jrg

i'm more like "community established member to another established community member"

FEichinger

@Seth Well, I have no idea, I don't really use G+ all that much ...

jrg

i'll just code one in like, html or something

Luis Alvarado

22:05

yeah no biggy, that also works

jrg

that will be my night project

Luis Alvarado

something to show for in my country since well

Seth

@FEichinger OK

Luis Alvarado

they trust more a paper than a person

jrg

right, you've explained that.

the same could be said here, but i compensate by being cheap.

Seth

22:10

Paper tells no lies.

or does it?

jrg

oh man, how badly i want to prove you wrong...

Seth

Well, paper itself doesn't lie, but people can make paper lie.

jrg

paper can't tell the truth either

paper simply is

Seth

sigh

This is getting scary, every other notification I'm getting is from MSO O_O

jrg

if you want to get philosophical, i will let you have it.

Seth

22:14

shrug

gertvdijk

@Seth let me know when you need me to back you :)

Seth

if you want to be real, I'll let you have it. The real world is sometimes too serious.

jrg

oh, i'm burning over here.

you wound me sir.

Seth

@gertvdijk Okay I will :) That goes both ways though ;)

@jrg sorry :(

jrg

@Seth i'm messing with you.

there are very few times in here that i am dead serious

and even then, i'm deadpanning a lot.

Seth

22:17

I'll try to remember that :P

jrg

someone give me a blog post topic they'd like to see, please.

Oli

@jrg AU-related, Ubuntu-related, tech related or anything else?

jrg

@Oli uh, tech related - and community/society is fair game too.

i'm out of ideas for blog posts, but i'd like to start writing more often.

Oli

I have the opposite problem - I keep starting blog posts, starting with a really good inflammatory hook, working through the post until it's ~2000 words and then arguing so well against myself I either don't care or completely reverse my own stance and lose the momentum.

jrg

oh man.

that's rough.

Seth

22:26

@jrg write a blog post about not being allowed to dupe questions to an unanswered master. That would be interesting :P

jrg

@Seth dude, that's been written many, many times on MSO.

i'd be repeating everything.

and i'd sound like i'm whining. which i always do, but anywho.

Seth

lol

Oli

@jrg I don't mind too much, I claim I blog because I like writing and while I do like the Adsense payments, I do genuinely enjoy the writing. Even if I don't get to publish a post, I've still had a fun time punishing the keyboard (and the thesaurus) for a few hours.

jrg

@Oli yeah, that paper thesaurus is a good friend of mine.

Seth

Funny, I hate writing, but I wouldn't mind writing a blog.

something to do with what I'm writing about I guess.

jrg

22:29

last release candidate for ruby 2.0 is out. oh man, the next two weeks will be fun.

Seth

funnest comment ever:

first of all who told you if some one typed his question in uppercase it means he is SHOUTING on you.but i excuse if you have your own imaginary :) and thanks about your answer — nova Feb 4 at 20:42

Oh man. How did we just go from 26 to 36 close votes?

gertvdijk

@Seth did we?

Seth

@gertvdijk Well, on my end.

gertvdijk

@Seth I didn't get 10 more if that's what you mean on the number of votes.

Seth

oh, oops. Wasn't paying enough attention. I meant from 26 to 36 questions in the queue.

gertvdijk

22:47

@Seth ah okay.

jrg

23:20

well, i could almost see myself living on a tablet now.

yay bluetooth keyboards.

Seth

running Windows 8 right?

jrg

no, android.

Seth

/me being a troll fails miserably

Luis Alvarado

Reading the last comments here I found this

http://www.networketiquette.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_(technology)

For those that still think UPPERCASE EVERYTHING IS NOT YELLING!!!! <-- See amount of exclamation points for proper yelling volume

Seth

lol

Y U NO CAPITALIZE YOUR 'i' PEOPLE !!!

Luis Alvarado

23:25

(crying in the corner for getting yelled at)

Seth

lol, I wasn't yelling at you

@LuisAlvarado askubuntu.com/posts/252420/revisions

Luis Alvarado

sinlee.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/capitalize.jpg (This is how I felt Seth)

Seth

lol ★

George Edison

Oy.

Seth

that's epic

Luis Alvarado

23:27

I know you know you English but, boy, have I learned a lot using askubuntu

i learn englizh pritti uell

Seth

LOL

@LuisAlvarado that's not english.

►

@LuisAlvarado --^

that's what I feel like when people write in text talk.

Luis Alvarado

@Seth nice one hehe

Seth

;)

Luis Alvarado

To tell you the truth I had to learn english in the street when I was living in the US

Same thing here for spanish

Never did actually learn all the adjective, nouns, verbs and the likes

Seth

Yeah, English is so different in depending on where you are.

Luis Alvarado

23:33

Had to learn that by self study

When I type, normally I go with whatever sounds better when spoken. If I "feel" something is odd, then I immediately check for errors. Don't know how to explain that but many times I know when something is wrong or right.

Instead of the correct way of actually knowing when it is right or wrong by rules of grammar and such

Seth

Same here, I make all sorts of mistakes because I go by how I think it should be heard or how I hear it.

Luis Alvarado

Yes, we do a lot hehe

but hey, is better to get it wrong a lot and learn, than to think is right and not fix it

Seth

I agree.

I learn a lot more getting it wrong the first time than by getting it right.