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8:47 AM
mmmh
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Oooooh
 
@kalina hello :)
 
@fredley everybody will be dancing if you're doing it right
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz everybody will be dancing if you're doing it right
 
hi/morning
mmmh
 
8:53 AM
@kalina morgen
 
I wouldn't be dancing right now tbh
regardless of how right you do it
 
Why then mmmhs?
 
MMMMH
as in
my alarm went off
I rolled over and slept through it
humping my pillow or something
4
I duno
I did not want to get out of bed this morning
 
@fredley Everybody will be moving we'll be feeling all right.
 
@kalina You know what happens when you talk to me about sleep
 
8:55 AM
yeah you ruin my existence with some bullshit about sleep patterns
 
@kalina Sleep patterns? Wat are those.
(Says the guy that slept from ~6 to ~midnight, and is now wide awake at 4 AM)
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Turns out going to bed and getting up at the same times every day, even at weekends, makes you superhuman
 
and drinking coffee after I was very very stupid and picked up the coffee pot the way one might try to pick up a glass of water because I had not yet had any of the coffee to drink yet.
Kind of amazed I did not break the coffee pot.
 
Any sleep pattern which doesn't boil down to "whenever the hell I feel like it, position of the Sun on the firmament be damned" is a bad sleep pattern.
 
I thought the maximum number of flags per day you could get was 50
but now I have 51
@LessPop_MoreFizz @fredley stated that having a proper sleep pattern would make me feel better
and while I physically feel better, mentally I feel broken
so now I've gone from "sleeping when I want to sleep" to "sleeping between 10-12pm and waking up at 8am"
even at the weekends
bank holidays
booked holidays
days off
 
9:02 AM
@MartinSojka Good sleep patterns aren't about where the sun is, they are about regularity.
 
waking up at 8am on a saturday and sunday actually makes me cry
DID YOU HEAR THAT @FREDLEY
YOU ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING ME CRY
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Not for me. I tried. I ended up either skipping sleep phases or adding additional naps whenever I felt like it and going "screw it" every single time.
 
the good news is
my pink usb cables turn up tomorrow
 
@kalina Photos, plz.
 
when it comes to sleeping, it doesn't matter how long I sleep, I don't want to wake up at 8am
 
9:07 AM
@kalina Aw yeah. I hope you have white hardware to go along with that.
 
@kalina I can wake up at 6 AM or I can wake up at like... 11 AM or noon.
Nothing in between.
 
I don't :(
black phone
I am getting a pink case for it though
@LessPop_MoreFizz I only have two awaken options
early afternoon (2-4pm) or brute force by chorus of alarms
although I do now seem to effortlessly wake up without an alarm at ~8 on the weekends
which I hate
 
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Q: Windows compatible games on ubuntu 13.04

user124456Chess Planet (ru) installed through wine on ubuntu 13.04. The desktop shortcut says invalid encoding.Double click does not open the game.

 
I trained myself to wake up whenever I decide the previous day to wake up. Alarm clocks are just a means to remind me of the time; if I don't want to wake up when one goes off, I'll ignore them the same way my grandfather ignored the symphony of Soviet Katyushas.
 
hiya
 
9:14 AM
<-- always wakes up roughly one hour after the alarm rang.
 
I'm always just getting to the best part of my dream when my alarm goes off
which makes me angry because I can never get it back
well, time to watch continuum
well, once it finishes transferring to work
 
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A: What are unusual items?

neidmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedic\ medic medic meic

 
9:29 AM
@kalina Just pretend you are in Italy
and waking up at 11am
 
I'm not in italy
I've asked my employer if I can work a shift starting in the afternoon
they said no
I even offered to do limited first line support for America as part of me working a shift starting in the afternoon
they said no
I even offered to do limited on call as part of me working a shift starting in the afternoon
they said no
I asked if I could work from home, they said "hmmmm, maybe"
that would get me another hour of sleep
 
I need an application that mutes my phone based on wifi networks
so when I arrive at work, it mutes
I am using llama at the moment but that uses cell towers
and since I live across the road...
 
@kalina Write it down. Continue from there.
 
that doesn't answer my phone volume problem
 
9:35 AM
No, but I didn't reference that. ;)
 
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Q: Should this answer stay?

JoetjahIs there any difference between Cleanse and a Mecurial Scimitar? There are two answers here. They are both correct and should be joined, but what are the official rules to this? Can the two answers stay there, or should the second one be a comment?

 
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Q: Multi Farm and Peat Bog setup

nevets1219I'm using a 3x3 MultiFarm and it works for the most part I think. But I left it idle and it seems to have glitched or my understanding is not correct. When it initially placed the bog earth, it left blocks of water which confused me until I read that a block of water needs to be touching (diagona...

 
@kalina Tasker
You can set triggers like connection to a certain wifi network
 
I looked at tasker and it looks like I will spend the rest of the day setting it up
 
I use Tasker to silence my phone at night/when Pebble is connected
@kalina And?
 
9:40 AM
and I DON'T WANNA
I like how you can buy stuff on the store on PC and it will auto download to your phone
 
@kalina Yes, I still can't get over this wizardry. See also: creating playlists on Google Music and having them automagically download to your phone
 
I'm not using google music
 
@fredley They are doin' it right.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz DANCING
@kalina I would recommend it
 
@fredley google music doesn't cater for my 750gb of music
 
9:51 AM
@kalina Only put the 1GB you listen to on there then :-P
 
I have 30gb of music already on my phone
why would I limit myself to 1gb
well ok, it's more like 20
but you get the point
 
@kalina Convenience?
 
how is it convenient
I think you weren't present last night
I get terrible signal around here
why would I want to stream music
I live in a field, remember?
the only strong signal I get around here is GPS
 
Look
 
LOOK
 
9:56 AM
@kalina Oh yeah
 
You live in a field but if you are in a field then that's where you live so you don't need a mobile to listen to your music there because you have your computer there :P
 
@badp I really want to pull up google maps and draw you a line from my mouse to my work, but doing so will reveal my location
 
@kalina You forgot Stop, but it's okay, I will jump straight to LISTEN.
 
@kalina Get The Fuck Out Of Here Street, Kalina State, Pixel County. Population: 1
 
@kalina Why is your mouse important enough to be placed on a map?
 
10:00 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz Maybe it doubles as her music collection storage solution
 
@badp I was thinking maybe that Kalina was the keeper of FatMouse
> AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE, THE SCALES ARE TIPPED IN FAVOUR OF FATMOUSE. YOU ARE BUT ANOTHER CONSUMABLE IN A LONG LINE OF CONSUMABLES.
 
If you're taking a class that requires you to, at the beck and call of a child audience, wrestle with a rhinoceros beetle themed luchador, that class isn't worth it. That kind of stunt hurts. A lot.
It still isn't quite worth it even if the stag beetle follow up is what can be best described as "The virtual segment of Nick Arcade meets Legend of the Hidden Temple to bring you Physical Castlevania Speedrunning".
 
@GraceNote Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
 
cc @badp @fredley
@LessPop_MoreFizz I obviously meant house
 
10:07 AM
That doesn't look like Middle of Nowhere, Kalina City, Pixel County
 
leave me alone, i didn't sleep well
 
:P
 
I would zoom out further, but it involves too much blanking out of names
and I cba
 
all in all it seems like your carrier is more to blame than anything else
 
@CruelCow An opinion forged in deep flames of the last two hours of the last two days I went through last night.
 
10:08 AM
@kalina I'm disappointed. I had hoped to meet someone who knows fatmouse in person.
 
@kalina Your redaction was imperfect and you might want to ask a mod to nuke that image if you are as paranoid as you insist you are.
 
This is my train commute; what happens east of Treviglio is more like my idea of Middle of Nowhere
 
@badp please to kill second image
 
(switch to satellite view)
 
10:11 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz mmmh thanks for pointing out me being bad at everything
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@badp you have an epic journey
mine is measured in meters, not kilometers
ok so I think I've managed to set up tasker to set vibrate mode when I arrive at work
think
will have to test it tonight
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz and you had to drive there at a speed limit that we use for inner city driving too
 
@kalina Not bad
However this is lies because that is not a field
 
yes it is
 
@kalina Is not
 
10:19 AM
the second image detailed the extent of the lack of civilisation but I was silly and didn't blank it all out
 
@kalina If you still have the image and want to fix it, the mistake was bottom left.
 
yeah I know but that involves more screenshotting and I am currently eating bacon
I can't believe that googling that returns the village I live in as the first result, I would have expected the Americans to have stolen the name like they did with every other name
 
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Q: Is it possible to download and install Chess Titans, as it is in Windows 7, in a version consistent with Windows 8?

Brenton HorneI saw this forum entry and seeing how the link it gave is no longer available I thought I would ask this question here. I adored Chess Titans so it would be just great if you could tell me how I could download and install Chess Titans on 64 bit Windows 8.

 
@kalina tailored search results?
 
hmm
perhaps
 
10:28 AM
I also get Milan Italy instead of Milan Texas I mean :-P
 
I get Milan Italy instead of Milan Texas as well
 
@less you do that every day? Wouldn't moving be cheaper :-P
 
no he lives in hotels remember
 
@kalina I suppose only people in Texas care about Milan Texas to be fair
 
I did expect to get the American Winchester when I googled Winchester though
but that wasn't the case
 
10:31 AM
Google maps heavily weighs on what you're currently looking at when searching.
 
I'm currently looking at a bacon and cheese sandwich
it doesn't seem to be returning results based on what I'm looking at
 
Well I entered the part you didn't censor and it found nothing. Zoomed out until I saw all of europe and it immediately found it.
 
OMG STALKER
 
Consolations
 
@kalina 1. Make a big deal about privacy/stalking 2. Post exact location on the internet
 
10:39 AM
Account deleted in 5, 4, 3...
 
:(
 
@fredley yeah, that was stupid
there is a reason I normally flat out refuse to do such things
 
@kalina Well I didn't see it, so you're safe from me at least
I was looking forward to being able to say Attend London meetup or I'll come to your house and get you
Oh well
 
heh
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz WTH, how often per day do you drive that?
 
10:46 AM
"Per day?"
Less goes to uni?
 
I am going back to sleep
cya later
sleep, fml
 
@badp Yes. For comparison, that's the drive to work and back for me; done twice daily, 90km each way:
... well, just five days of the week, really.
 
interesting
really, brain... wake up
so I googled milan earlier
now my phone is showing me football scores on google now
 
@kalina Google Now knows you better than you know yourself. Time to start supporting Milan
 
There's also a (slower) 83km route which avoids the Autobahn and uses a ferry over the Rhine - I like to take that in the summer. :)
 
10:55 AM
I don't even like football
 
@kalina Google can't be wrong!
 
I don't really like any sports
 
What, not even EA Sports?
 
no, especially not EA sports
 
eSports?
 
10:57 AM
they just re-release the same game every year with an incremented number at the end
well, eSports isn't really sports
it's just a way to make gaming sound less nerdy
 
@kalina Sounds like real sport leagues to me. :D
(... and in the end, Bayern München wins)
 
@kalina QWOP?
WiiSports?
 
lol QWOP
WiiSports is closer to actually being a physical activity
 
@kalina Not once you realise you can achieve the same effect lying on the sofa flicking your wrist
 
yeah but balance board ftw
 
11:02 AM
@kalina That is pretty fun
 
that was really fun for like... a day
 
@kalina I went to someone's house once and they had it. It was fun. No real desire to do again but hey.
 
It was novel for sure
I actually own a wii + balance board
 
@kalina The hula hoop game is good when everyone is drunk
@kalina Wow, you must be like, super fit
 
although it hasn't been used in such a long time that the batteries have leaked and killed it
I am not "super fit"
 
11:04 AM
@kalina Hence the sarcasm
 
That reminds me of the "Sonic Athletics" arcade they opened recently in Tokyo Joypolis, where you have to run on a treadmill to play.
File this one under "LOL, Japan" I guess.
 
YAY WINDOWS EXPLORER CRASHED
3
 
@MartinSojka That file is way too big already
 
@fredley Then stop putting every single hentai into it.
 
PaperStare @MartinSojka
God dammit
 
11:10 AM
@martin that is a rather awful looking commute
I much prefer mine tyvm :-P
 
I prefer mine
 
That is a stroll not a commute
 
maybe so, but I still prefer it
 
@badp I found my previous one (15-20 minutes walk, with a McDonalds in the middle) worse, at least for my health.
 
Hm.
 
11:13 AM
McDonalds is bad for your health
 
I like driving cars. And I have a nice small Peugeot 207 CC now, so any sunny and warm day is a good day to drive. ;)
 
By bike, endpoints not exact
3.03 miles, 12 minutes dependent on traffic
 
so many houses
 
@kalina It's a city
 
@Martin I don't mind it but I prefer plopping down on a train and sleeping/playing/starting blankly in low power mode
 
11:15 AM
meh cities
 
@kalina Also, mostly in that screenshot is not houses
 
@fredley so many buildings
 
Anything west of Parker's Piece is almost all college
 
Houses are awesome. They keep nature out
 
OMG GOOGLE NOW I AM NOT INTERESTED IN MILAN
 
11:16 AM
:D
 
Dear Google, stop being fucking retarded or I will have to start using Microsoft Bing
 
@CruelCow This is one of the best things about them. They also keep heat in
 
Don't you want to know just how sunny it is in there?
 
@kalina You think that will make things better
 
@badp Oh, I like trains too. Plan for next year's vacation is a nice train drive from St. Petersburg via Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, to Vladivostok. about 12000km, give or take a few 100.
 
11:17 AM
@fredley at least it will stop filling my phone with shite every time I google something
 
@kalina ORLY?
 
@kalina you should google for other things, like soccer and football to confuse it
 
@Martin that looks... radical
 
Next thing you know you'll have Windows Update on your phone
 
@CruelCow I don't wanna
@fredley I nearly bought a windows phone instead of this one
 
11:18 AM
@kalina You know you can turn off Google Now right?
 
no, I have just about worked out how to turn the phone on at this point
and even then it's a bit hit and miss, depending on how charged the battery is
 
sarcasm detector off the chart
 
@badp your sarcasm detector isn't calibrated correctly to handle my sarcasm
 
I have to detect everybody else's too
 
11:20 AM
something hilarious, I have a noise detecter on my phone
in a completely silent room, it reads >20db
go figure
 
@kalina Otherwise known as a microphone
 
no, I mean an actual noise detector app
 
@kalina Riiiiight....
 
you wish you were funny
 
Voice in -> FFT -> display the minimum value in some pre-defined range.
 
11:21 AM
@kalina It's funny because it's true.
 
as part of getting this phone, I got a free 25gb of space on dropbox
I find it especially awesome, because I can take a screenshot on my phone, and a few seconds later it's sync'd to my home pc ready to show you
 
And yeah, 20-30dB sounds like a rather quiet room.
 
@kalina DETECTING LOCATION FROM NOISE PROFILE
@kalina Yeah, DB photo upload is cool
 
@MartinSojka maybe, but if you look at the screenshot, I've already adjusted it by -10
so that's actually reading 30db
 
11:26 AM
Level at which sustained exposure may result in hearing loss 90 - 95dB
HELLO WEEKENDS
 
@fredley My acoustic signature software says "Songyo-guyok, Pyongyang, North Korea". Interesting.
 
@MartinSojka Sounds like a North Korean football match to me
Maybe they're playing Milan
 
@kalina Also about the sound level where I might consider closing the window to keep sleeping. If I'm not too lazy, that is; else I just turn around and sleep regardless.
(And yes, I can sleep rather soundly at 90dB ambient "noise")
 
I sleep like a dead person once I get to sleep
it's the "getting to sleep" part
 
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Q: What do I need to know about dungeons in World of Warcraft?

Marty WallaceI have always played World of Warcraft on my own; mainly because I don't play enough to build relationships with other players, and because I don't feel committed enough to having other start relying on me to log in every day / week. Lately I am getting a little bored and feel like involving mys...

 
11:30 AM
I often end up in a state of pseudo sleep, where I basically blinked and didn't open my eyes again afterwards, but if somebody makes a noise I wake up instantly
 
@kalina I have this, so I wear earplugs
 
OMFG
SOMEONE'S CAR HORN HAS BEEN BLOWING SINCE 5AM
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON
 
This sounds like a job for...
 
I slept with earmuffs on.
 
@ori somebody is clearly testing the horning system
with their forehead, possibly
 
11:43 AM
It's still going.
 
Maybe the car has a very good sound isolation too.
 
Not a car alarm.
Just the horn.
 
That is compatible with the grimmest of hypotheses
 
12:15 PM
wargarbl
” please pay €1.79 to win immediately"
 
@badp Why are you even playing this shit?
 
Can a mod destroy this user, please? It's a spambot.
 
@fbueckert Surely it can't be many more flags before it spontaneously combusts?
 
Flags don't destroy users
 
@fredley It would kill his posts, but the user would remain.
 
12:26 PM
@fredley flags don't delete users
 
@MadScientist Even when the user is a day old, has three posts, all of which are closed as spam?
 
@Fred because bejeweled blitz is even worse
At least there's some element of challenge in this game
and the special gems are more interesting by swapping the effects of corner pieces and four in a rows
 
@badp I wonder how many people would bite for a game that's rather blatantly "pay to get on this leaderboard" at this point
Mobile users are...special
 
I'm not on the leaderboards
 
PAY MORE MONEY
 
12:30 PM
I'm mostly playing it the hard way, no Facebook connect no purchases only free items very sparingly
 
@BenBrocka Mobile chat should have pay to win
I would gladly pay
@LessPop_MoreFizz ^^
PS Your American postal service is adorable
 
@Ben you are describing bejeweled blitz and its rare gems for 50k coins
One game earns ~500 coins
Sure you start with 100k but of course that can evaporate fast
 
@badp Huh. I haven't played bejeweled since whatever version was bundled with Insaniquarium and Peggle from back when Popcap didn't suck
 
@fredley The user would still be alive if all posts were spam-flagged to death. I have a feature request somewhere on MSO to change that, but that isn't implemented
 
There's a slot machine system to get more coins daily but it recharges once a day, pay per spin after that
 
12:33 PM
@badp Any game with this mechanism is a virus: do not play it
 
@Fred that's why I've said that candy crush saga is somehow better
Like by half a Hitler
 
@badp Hitlers as the SI unit of badness?
 
Still well above five Hitlers both
 
@BenBrocka casual gamers* (mobile + the majority of console users)
 
Of course no challenge is too big for dumb luck to eventually overcome
 
12:37 PM
Guess I'm gonna kick around Toronto a bit longer by myself, buy some chocolate hedgehogs
What is a chocolate hedgehog and where have you canadians been hiding them?
 
this phone has made a right mess of my contacts lists
 
@BenBrocka Sounds prickly
@kalina protip: Don't edit your contacts list on the phone, do it at contacts.google.com
It has a very good merge tool
 
it doesn't show the contacts on my phone
 
@kalina It should do. On the left hand side there should be Android Contacts or something
 
Dear Perfect World. Of all the reasons I could have to play a game, its being localized in Italian ranks around the bottom of the list, below "pay to remove the lingerie"
 
12:46 PM
@kalina Actually for me 'My Contacts' is my phone contacts
 
And that's so far below my list of reasons to play a game it fell down into the list of reasons not to play a game
 
I didn't really want all 7000 people I have details for on google to be on my phone
that breaks my boundaries a little
 
@badp There are a number of levels where that's really the only way to win, heh.
Well, that or you buy items I suppose, which I guess is the point.
 
@kalina No, you can only sync contacts with phone numbers
Your gmail recipients still autocorrect from all contacts, same as desktop version
 
oh god, do you mean I've just told google about all of these facebook and twitter profiles + everybody's mobile number?
Google just became more powerful and it was all my fault
 
12:53 PM
@kalina Google knows already. Google knows all.
 
THIS IS DIABOLICAL
 
Google is just trying very hard to be able to calculate everyone's Erdős–Bacon number exactly.
 
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Q: windows 8 - getting Cobra 11 Syndicate game to run

alananybody know how to get the game (Cobra 11 Syndicate) to run on Windows 8? After clicking on game icon a small white window opens in centre of screen that says: Starting Application ...please wait and then the window disappears and nothing else happens. Game is a Windows 7 (and OS below) game ...

 
@MartinSojka LinkedIn is more preoccupied with this
 
Also, Natalie Portman has as low the number as Carl Sagan (6). Strange.
 
12:57 PM
@kalina There's a setting to not show facebook/etc contacts I think
 
there is in people
when I send a text though it pulls through every person I've ever said hi to
and their dogs
 
@kalina I don't have this...
 
I wonder if you can set up Google to automatically invite everyone in your contacts to your 100th birthday even if you are dead by then ... and send the invitation like a week or two before.
 

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