I have a memory of writing a question on Shmini Atzeret and there were some good answers and discussion about a gemara

and it has gone.

I think it was deleted.. because it discussed the one day two day sfak thing.

And I see other similar questions.

Is it still available anywhere?

@barlop the only deleted question I see attached to your account is about portraits of the Ramban. I also don't see any favorites on your account (questions you would have bookmarked). How sure are you that you asked it? Have you ever used any other accounts?

ah that was it

I had an old account, it must be on that one

Thanks for checking though

you jogged my memory

@barlop ah, ok. If you want to have the accounts merged so all your posts will be in one place, you can use the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page to request that. (That goes to SE employees, not mods; mods can't merge accounts.)

ok, thanks

@barlop You should try to avoid writing questions (or anything else) on Sh'mini Atzeres. :-)

@barlop I don't see it at all -- not even from another account -- among deleted questions with the shmini-atzeres tag or the chutz-laaretz tag or the safek tag or the simchat-torah tag.

^^^ Close as seeking personal advice? :)

@Daniel I Googled the quoted passage.

@IsaacMoses Was that comment serious or not? (Or perhaps jocoserious?)

@Scimonster O-cmon. I smilied.

@Scimonster I learned a new word today. And it's useful, and not even a neologism. Thank you!

@msh210 Anytime! Or maybe not, as it's pretty rare that i use a word you don't know. :P

@msh210 Wait; really? Wow!

books.google.com/…

Ah. It was James Joyce's coinage. Get @TRiG in here.

@IsaacMoses tora.ws is a plural, then?

@IsaacMoses Was it a fad of some sort in the early 1800s? Or just a fluke of the data?

@IsaacMoses Joyce coined many words that aren't in use. But I guess this one is.

@msh210 Hold on. That attribution is false. Ulysses was 1918, and here it is in an 1869 dictionary, quoting "Green," whoever that is

@IsaacMoses Ah, okay.

OED cites back to 1661!? findwords.info/term/jocoserious

Some of Joyce's words not actually in use are on this page.

@Scimonster Nice job!

@Scimonster Good question.

@msh210 tweens is, like, totally in use.

@DoubleAA You may wish to post an answer to yodeya.com/q/66726

@IsaacMoses Not with that meaning afaik.

@IsaacMoses The only Joyce I've yet read is Portrait of the Artist.

@msh210 Unless he/she isn't Jewish :)

@IsaacMoses They also cite that mysterious Green character

@TRiG Same, here, thanks to my high school English Literature teacher.

@Daniel oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acref/…

@TRiG Please excuse my cultural stereotyping.

@Daniel True.

@msh210 He seems to be in the category of "never even heard of Meshartim/Melachim"

@DoubleAA True. I guess your answer there should not be the same as your answer here. :-)

Would any non-moderator be willing to assist me in some hat-related science? :-)

> Stack Exchange just trolled me into doing actual science.

:-)

@IsaacMoses so I can't tell; are you science-minded today, or just sharing an interesting link?

@IsaacMoses webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.bauser.com/…

(cached because the actual page is giving me a 5xx status)

@IsaacMoses comments can be flagged as obsolete if they are.

Why how nice -- a flag! If something happens I will report back. If something doesn't happen I have a second-round request.

@msh210 web.archive.org/web/20050926120706/http://www.mit.edu/~imoses

@IsaacMoses :-) I like your choice of 'muse' link. And I don't know what the 'page' link target is (I'm unfamiliar with that form of log, if that's what it is), but I do see a multiplication in there that looks familiar: is that its original source?

@msh210 :) Excellent deduction of meaning from the URL of a broken link.

@msh210 Did you use Zephyr at CMU? I think that's something MIT and CMU had in common, back in the day. This is a log of Zephyr messages. Oh wait. You're not Monica.

@IsaacMoses :-)

More science: this comment of mine is obsolete

@IsaacMoses yeah, that would be my school. :-) I had slight overlap with the use of zephyr; I hadn't realized MIT used it too.

I have just been told that this particular science is in vain. Also, that there is a chat room where the people who are really serious about hat-hunting go. (I had a theory I wanted to test, but I'm not exactly hard-core.)

@msh210 It's a log of plain-text instant messages received by the organizer of an annual (for a few years) event called a "login race." Contestants had to visit a collection of designated computer clusters (parts of a system called "Athena"), log in, and send a numbered Zephyr message to the organizer.

@IsaacMoses To answer the correct question that you didn't ask: I didn't use Zephyr at NYU. (I don't know that it existed there.)

@IsaacMoses I see. "Visit" in person or via e.g. telnet?

@msh210 Probably not. I think it was probably only MIT and CMU (and probably some private networks run by obsessive alumni thereof)

@msh210 The messages are stamped with the name of the machine they came from, and the machines in the clusters could (presumably) only be logged into in person (by regular users). This didn't stop at least one contestant the following year from doing the whole contest from one room.

@IsaacMoses :-)

@msh210 The origin of the multiplication is probably somewhere in ancient Babylon. The present author's preference for it started a few years before the cited work.

@IsaacMoses Er, um, yes, I meant the latter.

@MonicaCellio What science did you use to find that?

@msh210 @MonicaCellio Oh, never mind. I misunderstood.

@msh210 well, I thought the hat had to do with obsolete comments, so I wrote this SEDE query to find comments of mine where the post was subsequently edited. And included dates in the results so I could experiment with ranges there.

@MonicaCellio Dunno if these help, but: data.stackexchange.com/judaism/query/122164 and data.stackexchange.com/judaism/query/122256

@msh210 thanks! Those look like good search criteria year-round, not just for hats.

@MonicaCellio Yeah, I didn't compose them with hats in mind.

@msh210 I figured not, from the dates.

@MonicaCellio / anyone: Can a non-mod answer author convert the answer to a comment on the question? I haven't heard of such, but now have reason to think it may be true.

@IsaacMoses Whaddaya see at judaism.stackexchange.com/a/4386 about the disposition of that post, please? (E.g. "deleted by [user] at [datetime]".)

@msh210 It gets automatically converted if it's basically a one-sentence answer + link.

@msh210 Got no button for it, and AFAIK, I've reached the highest rep level WRT privleges

@Scimonster Right, I know, but that's not what I meant.

@IsaacMoses Oh, okay, thanks.

@msh210 AFAIK, only by posting the comment and deleting the answer as separate steps.

Oh, unless it's a new, short answer, in which case what @Scimonster said. That's happened to me a couple times on metas.

@msh210 I see "converted to a comment by owner". What does an ordinary answer->comment look like?

@Scimonster Thanks. Normally it says "converted to a comment by [user name]". E.g.

@Scimonster That wording "by owner" made me wonder whether a non-mod can also convert his answer. But I guess not.

@msh210 Maybe moonspeak or something else automagically replaces it.

@msh210 wow, weird. Maybe they could in 2012? If it's relevant, that happened in the window between graduation and elections.

@Scimonster Moonspeak?

@msh210 MoonSpeak, but it must be a different part of the system.