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Parth Kohli

2:19 AM

Hmm.

Parth Kohli

3:26 AM

A disease like this can make a person go crazy.

I've been thinking very morbidly about this.

Parth Kohli

3:44 AM

I just want someone to talk to me. :(

Jarrall Barnett

4:08 AM

Hello?

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Anonymous

5:55 AM

@ParthKohli I know it's unpleasant right now, but you'll be okay in a few days! :-) It'll be okay. Please get lots of rest and fluids!

Parth Kohli

@snailboat Days?! I can't stand an hour with this.

I woke up virtually shouting this morning.

Anonymous

Do you have anything fun to take your mind off it? Books? Games?

Anonymous

Aww

Anonymous

I hope you feel better soon!

Parth Kohli

I have lots of things.

But...

...each passing second is way more torturous than the preceding one.

Anonymous

6:02 AM

@JarrallBarnett ¡Bienvenido!

Anonymous

When I'm in a lot of pain, I just focus on breathing, if I can. Make it through one moment, make it through the next. Breathe in. I don't think about time, I just live in the present. Breathe out. I don't think about anything. Breathe in. Everything passes eventually. Breathe out.

Parth Kohli

I've had a tonsillectomy this year.

And I'd choose the tonsillectomy over this any day.

Jim Reynolds

6:33 AM

Itching must be the very worst form of torture!

Parth Kohli

Not being able to scratch it?

Jim Reynolds

Did you search online for ideas about how other people might have found some relief?

Parth Kohli

shudders

Sodium bicarbonate, calamine lotion, oatmeal baths, yada yada.

I've tried all.

Worked no more than for two seconds.

Jim Reynolds

Yes. And if you do, it only makes it worse!

Shudders, too.

Parth Kohli

Why can I not sign a mutual agreement with a virus?

Something that works for both of us.

"Eat my belly fat away and I'll give you a home."

Jim Reynolds

6:39 AM

Lol

What if it asked for 1/5th of your brain instead?

Parth Kohli

Noooo.

Jim Reynolds

Well, you need to show some flexibility.

Remember, it's very happy where it is right now.

It already has a home. Why should it leave?

Parth Kohli

Yeah, but in turn, it is killing its home.

So that does not make sense. :(

If you look at the picture in the smallpox Wiki article, you can only imagine how much it hurt.

Jim Reynolds

You mean it's killing you now, or it would if it ate part of your brain?

Parth Kohli

Yes, and yes.

Jim Reynolds

6:48 AM

I saw that yesterday when you mentioned it.

I think it's more cruel right now than killing you.

Parth Kohli

@JimReynolds Oh, that makes sense... very dark...

Jim Reynolds

It's making me itch just hearing about it.

I can't stand it!!!!!!!!

(Runs out into traffic with his two dogs.)

Parth Kohli

Alrighty.

Anonymous

In the U.S. we vaccinate children against chickenpox now, so it's now an uncommon experience rather than a nearly universal one like it was when I was younger.

Parth Kohli

I have been vaccinated though.

Jim Reynolds

6:53 AM

No, I didn't mean to discourage you from talking about it.

Anonymous

Do they do one dose or two there?

Parth Kohli

I got two of them.

The second one was called a booster.

Anonymous

Wow! Unlucky.

Parth Kohli

I've consistently caught the flu every month ever since... ever.

Jim Reynolds

Is there his shoulder or his butt?

Parth Kohli

6:55 AM

So I'm not surprised to be the unlucky 2%.

Jim Reynolds

You got super-chickenpox!

Anonymous

I used to get bronchitis yearly like clockwork.

Anonymous

I don't anymore, though.

Jim Reynolds

Why? Do you know?

I used to, also. But I smoked. Yuck.

Damkerng T.

@Nihilist_Frost I guess it could as well be /ɑnɑ/

Anonymous

6:58 AM

Well, I'm older now. Being around children means you're exposed to a lot more pathogens, even if you have obsessively good hygiene.

Anonymous

When I was a child, I was around children all the time.

Parth Kohli

It makes sense for old people to talk about their maladies. I don't know why young people scrutinise them for it.

Anonymous

I've never smoked.

Parth Kohli

Maybe not scrutiny, but more of mocking.

Jim Reynolds

Good question.

I think of myself as relatively compassionate and sensitive. But I often catch myself feeling uncomfortable hearing others talk about their suffering or problems.

Parth Kohli

7:04 AM

Exactly.

I tried to talk to a bunch of my friends about this, and I'm now being subjected to the same treatment.

Jim Reynolds

But I am the first to complain.

Parth Kohli

And now I feel bad about myself for not listening to people's problems.

Jim Reynolds

Well, I think it's reasonable to aim for listening well sometimes.

Parth Kohli

I'll try to be a little more empathetic after I get through this.

If I get through this, that is. :\

Jim Reynolds

There's too much pain and suffering in the world for us to take it on constantly.

Anonymous

7:07 AM

Well, the prefrontal cortex – one part of your brain which is likely to be relevant here – won't finish developing until your mid-twenties.

Damkerng T.

@ParthKohli You sure will. Don't worry.

Seems like it brings you some good things. :-)

(We're talking about the pox, right?)

Hi, everyone!

Jim Reynolds

I think most people want to help but don't know how.

Hi Dam!

Anonymous

Hello!

Jim Reynolds

Robots don't get chickenpox.

Damkerng T.

Well, this one had. :-)

Anonymous

7:09 AM

They get robotpox.

Damkerng T.

LOL

Parth Kohli

Well, I just had an idea.

Jim Reynolds

Wow! Advanced programming!

Anonymous

Varicella robotica.

3

Jim Reynolds

Lol

Anonymous

7:10 AM

@ParthKohli It doesn't seem like it now, but you'll make it. It'll be okay!

Jim Reynolds

Carbonfibrosis is terrible.

Parth Kohli

I could use one of those little garden sprays and spray water on my back every now and then.

Because I finished a bottle of calamine lotion in just a day.

And it was very expensive.

Water sounds cheaper.

Anonymous

Do you have oral diphenhydramine?

Parth Kohli

Yes.

Wait.

Jim Reynolds

We have to wait while he sprinkles his pox with the garden hose.

I can't help but laugh!

Parth Kohli

7:14 AM

Hahahaha.

Jim Reynolds

Haha. I think laughing should help a little.

Parth Kohli

But I think it'd work.

Can't wait to check.

Jim Reynolds

Yeah. Good idea. And trying it will help time pass, anywsy.

Anonymous

Are you able to get enough fluids?

Jim Reynolds

I'm on a hummus-making binge lately.

Parth Kohli

7:17 AM

I think.

Jim Reynolds

Farts.

Pardon me!

Parth Kohli

Hahahahaha HE FARTED

Jim Reynolds

Pardon me!

Anonymous

When people are ill, I do feel empathy but I tend to detach myself a bit and focus on the practical side – is there anything I can do to help? Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn't. But that's where my mind tends to go.

Parth Kohli

I plan on whining through this disease.

And I just need an ear, that's all.

Jim Reynolds

7:19 AM

Yes. Especially since I think you are a good problem-solver, snail.

Damkerng T.

Prolly helps.

Anonymous

Well, I'm just chatting right now :-)

Parth Kohli

Does anyone here want to talk about mathematics for a change?

Jim Reynolds

So you probably succeed a fair amount that way. And it also shows you are listening. So I guess it's "emotionally" supportive, too.

Anonymous

What sort of mathematics?

Jim Reynolds

7:20 AM

Sure. Good distraction.

i + t (ch)

Parth Kohli

This is hard to explain -- the sort of mathematics you guys probably know may be way beyond the one I'm into, but you may never have covered it.

So it's unfair to call it high-school mathematics.

I'm gonna teach y'all something fairly interesting to start.

Damkerng T.

Well, I think high-school math is sufficient, most of the time.

Parth Kohli

Here's a plain ol' question.

Find the number of triplets (a, b, c) of nonnegative integers a, b, c such that a + b + c = 30.

Jim Reynolds

Y'all. He's from Alabama province, India.

Damkerng T.

Can they be duplicated?

Parth Kohli

7:24 AM

I'm not sure about what quite happened but I had this weird numbness on my back and the whole itch disappeared for ten seconds. Felt so blissful.

Yes.

10, 10, 10 is a valid answer.

And reordering counts as a different triplet. 10, 20, 0 and 0, 10, 20 are two different triplets.

Damkerng T.

It's 30+29+28+...+1, I think.

May be off a little at the edge.

Parth Kohli

Wow, surprisingly close!

Damkerng T.

Yes, I think I missed another 31.

Parth Kohli

That's right. ;)

CopperKettle

Is it a combinatorics problem?

Damkerng T.

7:26 AM

Yes.

Parth Kohli

Exactly.

I thought nobody knew about stars-and-bars here. Alright, I'm gonna follow-up with some hard stuff where you can't be using stars-and-bars.

CopperKettle

I found them the hardest to unravel. The formulas are simple, but it's hard to choose which to use. (0:

Anonymous

Is it 75?

Anonymous

Oh, I got rid of duplicates in different orders.

Anonymous

406, then?

Parth Kohli

7:29 AM

The answer is 32 choose 2 = 496 = 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 31.

Anonymous

Oh, nonnegative, not positive.

Anonymous

Boy, I didn't read this problem specification very carefully :-)

Parth Kohli

Amazing.

You guys know your combinatorics.

Anonymous

Then 496, or 91 if I remove duplicates in different orders.

Parth Kohli

What trick did you apply to find the latter?

skill patrol

7:32 AM

snail voodoo :P

Damkerng T.

Hi, @skillpatrol!

Parth Kohli

I used to know a guy on math chat with a very similar name.

Just replace the "i" with a "u"

skill patrol

Hi pal @DamkerngT.

Parth Kohli

Oh lol you're definitely him.

The "pal" is very characteristic.

Damkerng T.

:-)

skill patrol

7:34 AM

:D

Long time no see @ParthKohli

Parth Kohli

@skillpatrol Yeah - are you in college yet?

skill patrol

Perhaps

:P

Parth Kohli

Ah, what are you studying?

skill patrol

Who wants to know?

and why?

Parth Kohli

Oh well... never mind then.

skill patrol

7:40 AM

np pal

;-)

Damkerng T.

Oh, no! I must've lost lots of water since last night!

skill patrol

Why?

Parth Kohli

Taking these oral horse-pills. Do they really work or are they mostly brute-force?

Damkerng T.

I think one of the flush valves was out of its position.

Parth Kohli

That's bad.

Damkerng T.

7:43 AM

I just readjusted it. Let's see if it holds.

Yes, it's definitely bad for the bill. :/

:D

Parth Kohli

What did it leak on?

skill patrol

Watering the garden?

Damkerng T.

A toilet.

Not sure if I'll need a replacement.

skill patrol

You should be able to hear the water leaking, right?

Damkerng T.

But it looks fine for five minutes so far.

I can't, but I heard the pump.

Jim Reynolds

7:49 AM

You water your garden with your toilet?

Makes sense, though.

skill patrol

He's a robot Jim not a gardener :P

Parth Kohli

I have no idea why my mother refuses to use a spray.

Jim Reynolds

I was just on an escalator with a plate identifying the manufacturer: Schindler.

Parth Kohli

She says that she'll instead wet leaves and then brush the water off of them.

That's weird.

"They have medicinal value."

Damkerng T.

@JimReynolds Hah! How could that make sense!

Jim Reynolds

7:52 AM

Now, we'd expect an escalator-maker to perhaps also make what?

Parth Kohli

They do but they're not medicines.

skill patrol

A list?

Jim Reynolds

Fertilize and water together.

Damkerng T.

@skillpatrol Ding-dong!

Jim Reynolds

Elevators.

Or, in UK English?

skill patrol

7:53 AM

Lift?

Jim Reynolds

Giving us Schindler's Lifts!

Ba dum tss

I swear!

No swearing in chat

I just rode one up from the supermarket to the street.

Parth Kohli

7:56 AM

@skillpatrol How long have you waited to use that?

skill patrol

Not that long.

Jim Reynolds

Is there a name for the drum sound after a joke?

Parth Kohli

4 mins ago, by skill patrol

Ba dum tss

skill patrol

good question

Jim Reynolds

Ha! Yes. The "tss" caught my attention.

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