@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?
@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.)
@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.
I've always thought that our true essence, who we actually are, our personalities are our souls. To me, bodies are just temporary "homes" for the soul. My body can perish, but my soul will continue with its path. And I've always thought this is what Judaism teaches us. But I recently noted that i...
@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 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.
@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.
@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.
@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 / 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]".)