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14:03
@XanderHenderson , congratulations. May I know the area in which u work?
@ArjunRana Thank you. The work that I do is at the intersection of fractal geometry and spectral theory.
@quid Let me know if or when you're around today, okay? :-)
@XanderHenderson , I feel an ounce smarter now😅!
I pity on the situation of public colleges in India
My father happens to be a lecturer at one
14:46
Ugh... my daughter just made me feel really old. Tupac is "boring".
She wants to listen to something called "Nicky Manage" or something... :(
15:06
@XanderHenderson She's growing up! :-)
I think you mean, @Xander, Nicki Minaj? First I really heard of her, too. WE must be getting old!
@amWhy Maybe? Who knows.
@XanderHenderson (I'm embarrassed but I actually searched for Nicky Manage... And Nicki Minaj flooded the search list.)
Heh.
That must be it, then.
Do you listen to "Black-eyed peas" at all? I've come to like some of their songs. You and your daughter might too?
@amWhy I remember the Black-Eyed Peas. They were never a goto for me, but I have some recollection. I'll have to see what the kiddo thinks.
15:18
@XanderHenderson No, their not a fave of mine, but I do like some of their songs. These days, I hardly every buy music. I can usually find what I want on You Tube, and supplement with the music I loved from the past! But I do keep up a bit, with radio and such, and my two twenty-five-year-old-nieces, too.
@amWhy I don't really try to keep up, but I typically let the kiddo pick the first song on Pandora, then see where it goes.
There are some things that she has found which are not terrible.
Like, she made me listen to Adele last year. She turns out to be pretty good.
I don't try to keep up either, just sort of exposed via, e.g., my nieces: "Oh, Amy, you gotta hear this (link to "this")!" And tuned into local radio when commuting (what is commuting? Haven't done that for awhile!)
@XanderHenderson Yes, she is pretty good.
Fortunately, my nieces aren't big on "top forty", but the occasional breakthroughs. They never fell for the Justin Biebers of the world, either! In fact, as millennials, they were extremely open to some classic (rock) oldies. So they aren't stuck in any one genre.
Okay, Nicki Minaj is not bad. Not quite to my taste, but man... she's got game.
15:29
@XanderHenderson Yeah, that's my take-away, too!
15:39
Okay... I'm sold... youtube.com/watch?v=eMymSXUN9nQ (particularly, starting around the 2:50 mark).
16:10
@quid I guess I can never really know when you might be around these parts. I'm resigned to no action on two flags of mine.
16:58
@quid My flag on a meta comment, I handled myself, thank you.
Hello, @Knight! How are you?
17:14
@amWhy I'm fine
How are you?
@amWhy Have you ever made a cake all by yourself?
(veg cake)
@Knight I'm fine too.
@Knight Yes, from scratch, and I won a "blue ribbon" in 4-H for it at a fair (4-H is for youth; I was 10 years old!). Now, if I bake a cake, I use a "boxed cake mix" with instructions! ;-)
@amWhy What is 4-H ?
Wow! You were gifted !
@Knight It's an organization for youth. I only spent parts of two years in it. Kind of like scouting.
@amWhy Did they teach "how to tie a knot and types of knots" even at that time on Scout classes?
I barely know square knot, loop knot and what not...
@Knight I was a girl scout for 9 years: that's where I learned knot tying! ;-)
17:22
AHHAHAHAHA
@amWhy hello!
Do you ever made that mountain? I mean some girls at bottom, then few above them and so on and at last a single scout
@quid Hello there! Did you sleep in today? ;D
@amWhy I wish. I already worked 10 hours.
17:24
@Knight I became, in girl scouting, the equivalent of what an Eagle Scout is in Boy Scouting. And had lots of great experiences along the way, camping, and a trip to Mexico, and trips across the US.
So much so that I was hardly around.
@quid Just teasing you. :)
@XanderHenderson, show your daughter any album of AC DC and tell her you were fortunate to grow up in the golden age of rock!
@amWhy Good life you had!
@Knight Yes, I loved all those opportunities.
17:26
@amWhy I took it that way. But what you said it'd been also possible.
@ArjunRana Maybe not! (AC DC was never a favorite of mine!)
@amWhy , all i did was to climb some stacks of bricks near construction areas, doesn that count?
@quid You're getting good at spotting typos quickly! :-)
@amWhy , opinion varies. what did u enjoy then?
@ArjunRana Indeed.
17:27
beatles?
@ArjunRana Yes, among much others, but I wasn't contemporary to them.
after the pandemic i might be paying a visit to US, can u tell me which places to wander(non populars)
some places to rest after crazy parties
@ArjunRana Vist Princeton University
@amWhy , what were others
@Knight , that's polular man!
@ArjunRana Not a tourist place
17:31
i will go there only for my post doc
lol
if god willing
You can come to my home :-) I’m not popular
@Knight , now that's something interesting
where do u live, state?
Chicago
You seem to be an Indian
17:34
that's already on the list along with NYC, LA,Califoria etc
@Knight , yep
@Knight , what made u think?
@Knight I'm only about a 90 minute (to two hour) drive from you in WI.
wisconsin?
@ArjunRana Yes indeed! It's a beautiful state (though you might want to avoid it in winter, lol).
@amWhy , i can easily live in florida tho, used to heat(never used AC's for enviromental concerns)
@amWhy Oh! Wow! So, when is your birthday ?
17:46
@Knight May.
@amWhy Oh! You never told me :(
@Knight Remember for next year ;D
Hahahahaha
@amWhy , a late birthday, hope u r old enough not to play with toy gifts😂
@ArjunRana Once I was warned on a site “it is impolite to ask someone’s age”
17:48
@Knight, what made u think i am indian?
@ArjunRana Everyone needs a toy once in a while. Of course, what we consider "toys" varies as we grow up!
@ArjunRana Hmm... actaully I have few Indian friends here and I’m quite acquainted with the style of name they have
@amWhy Did you like Remote Control car in your childhood or did you prefer house-set toys :-) ?
@Knight , what are their names, i can tell some things about them throuhh them
@Knight , my prediction, none
@Knight Hmm, I asked for a chemistry set one year, and a microscope another year, and a lot of books. I liked to pretend to teach, too. I was never big on dolls though!
@amWhy , i was right👏
17:52
@Knight I don't think they had remote control cars when I was real young.
@ArjunRana Abhas Kumar Sinha, Yuvraj Singh, Shyam Tripathy
@amWhy ,😮😥😥😥😥😥
@Knight , last one could be the smartest
@amWhy You were studious. I think your parents must have been proud of you for asking study related items not toys
@ArjunRana But first one is really my friend. He has a bad habit of writing Hindi in between conversations :-)
@Knight , he's either from Bihar or UP
@Knight I just loved learning. My parents made sure me and my siblings always had encyclopedias available, and a dictionary (the internet did not yet exist!), an atlas, a globe of the world, etc.
17:55
@amWhy Yesterday I accidentally saw WWE/WWF. Old matches were coming, did you ever see WWF ?
@ArjunRana I don’t know what Bihar or UP is?
@Knight Unfortunately, yes! (If you mean World Wrestling Federation?)
@Knight learn the basics of hindi and talk to him in it, he's gonna be very nostalgic
@amWhy , that's boring man, i have people in my village that can beat the hell out of every single one of them ,
never got any formal traning, gym etc
@amWhy Hahahhhaha who was your favourite wrestler? Undertaker, Rock ?
@ArjunRana The World Wresting Federation is mostly all performance and acting.
chalo, so jao, tadki uthna bhi h
18:00
@ArjunRana He is annoying and very very funny. AmWhy almost every time scold him for talking in Hindi
@ArjunRana LOL :-) Oh My God
@Knight , he uses mse?
@Knight I said "unfortunately" because I never chose to watch it, only when in the company of someone who was, or when switching channels. I don't know any current wrestler on the circuit.
@amWhy He has written something which no one can understand :-)
@ArjunRana Yep, invite him. He is @abhas_RewCie
i ment to say go to sleep,
Okay Good Knight
:-)
@amWhy Thanks for having such a lovely talk with me. Meet you later :)
18:05
@Knight Indeed! Until later! ;)
hope to see every one of you in near future
@ArjunRana Sleep well! :-)
 
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19:22
@amWhy ,same to u^_^^_^
 
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