@JosephWright looks like someone needs to chill :)

@DavidCarlisle twitter.com/shouldhaveaduck/status/1539850216496517121

@UlrikeFischer @MarcelKrüger I am in the chat. :) Apparently there's a lot of people speaking German. :)

ooh I see Marcel and Ulrike

Marcel is probably helping Bär

@UlrikeFischer, @DavidCarlisle I nearly have \stock... working :)

@daleif Expect a mail soon re. memoir

@JosephWright ooh

@PauloCereda the Bär did send a greeting, did you see it?

@UlrikeFischer ooh I missed it

Gonna pay attention now

I SAW IT

TEH BÄR

@UlrikeFischer I like the title "Patchen ist easy" :)

@UlrikeFischer OMG GERT IS THERE

@PauloCereda ;-)

metropolis looks better when compiled with LuaTeX

@PauloCereda but the default is better at hiding beamer bugs than fira light :)

@DavidCarlisle, @UlrikeFischer Turns out only memoir needs first aid

@JosephWright we could ask @daleif ;-)

@samcarter ooh :)

@UlrikeFischer TEH POCKET BÄR

@PauloCereda -- I keep telling you, bread isn't good for ducks.

@DavidCarlisle,@UlrikeFischer I think I have the PRs sorted

@barbarabeeton oh

@PauloCereda The dodos probably died out because of eating too much bread. :(

@mickep Maybe people ate too many dodos with bread :(

@PauloCereda Oh no

@mickep oh no

ooh @MarcelKrüger befriended Bär

I rarely post on this site, but I'll take the palindrome. :)

@AlanMunn -- Even if you don't post, it's a pleasure to have you in the chat.

@barbarabeeton Thanks. I'm still posting here though. We've managed to keep the site its almost drama free for quite a long time now, which is why most of us are still here I suspect.

@AlanMunn As Jeff Atwood said a long time ago, no one comes here by accident

@AlanMunn Some music site?

@JosephWright True. But that by itself doesn't prevent drama, as we've seen from time to time.

@JosephWright Yes, it's the music practice and theory site.

@AlanMunn I think it helps that a core group actually know each other 'in real life'

@JosephWright True, and also the fact that many of us post using our real names.

@AlanMunn That too

@AlanMunn I admit that I don't use my real name, but don't let Stefan know.

I do not use my real name, but even my students often call me mickep.

@StefanKottwitz lol Lurking in the chat I see!

Well, my real name is all over the place ;-)

@AlanMunn Sure, I don't want to miss a joke!

But I am really used to my dragonrider's contraption ;-)

Well the real names is more "real people" IMHO

@JosephWright quack

@PauloCereda A DUCK

@AlanMunn I bet we have the highest ratio of humans : beings : ducks of any site on the network

:)

@JosephWright ooh

@JosephWright THIS

@StefanKottwitz @TeXnician hi. :) We have a new TO for TL2022. <3

@PauloCereda ooh checking islandoftex.org (I'm old I need short URLs)

@PauloCereda have to install, I'm just toooo busy - I write one book chapter in a day.

But every 3 weeks.

@StefanKottwitz Lucky you

@StefanKottwitz I had a friend who had to do his thesis that way ... it was mental

@JosephWright thankfully the publisher is always pushing in a friendly way, and it's chapter by chapter, a thesis is harder

@StefanKottwitz Oh, yes, defo

@StefanKottwitz He was doing it as a badge-of-honour - he had think 90 minutes remaining before his deadline when he submitted (as in the very last day of his 4-year registration period)

\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\usepackage{tikzpeople}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (student) [graduate, monitor, minimum size=2cm] {};
\node at (student.45) [starburst, draw=red, fill=yellow,
  starburst point height=0.4cm, line width=1pt,
  font=\ttfamily\scriptsize, inner sep=1.5pt] {error};
\node at (student.130) [cloud callout, cloud puffs=13, aspect=3,
  anchor=pointer, shading=ball, ball color=darkgray,
  text=white, font=\bfseries] {My thesis...!};

(beings and ducks will enter the stage later)

@StefanKottwitz Standard grad student attire, for sure.

@JosephWright I'm sure you can use such starburst shapes and cloud callout shapes in a good chemistry document.

@AlanMunn In their dreams. Or movies.

@JosephWright shouldn't the warning of the key handler use only LaTeX and not LaTeX3? LaTeX3 Warning: Package "testclasskey" has already been loaded:

@UlrikeFischer That will come when we change the general message text

@JosephWright ok, so it is in the pipeline.