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9:00 PM
Hah, then it would be about 130 meters.
 
1524 volumes.
 
I am so terribly good at estimating this kind of stuff.
 
1524 according to further down the page.
@Cerberus Then just don't ask, estimate!
But yeah, if you leave out Pokémon...
 
Jinx!
Well, in mind.
 
A reply is not a jinx.
 
9:01 PM
Has anyone else here played the get-to-philosophy game?
 
Says who?
What, no?
 
The object of this game is to click on the first link in an article and repeat the process. About 93% of all articles seem to lead eventually to the article Philosophy. The rest get stuck in two-article loops. Now, isn't that fascinating? If you want to add some more chains, feel free. The current ones will also need updating as people change the links. The question of why everything goes to philosophy is probably very deep. Below are some selected chains for your perusal. Rules * Chains are defined as ending either when Philosophy is reached or you get stuck in a loop. * Red links and...
 
@Cerberus Sentences can. Have more. Than two. Words.
 
Haha, funny.
 
(How did I confuse "Der Commissarien" with "Aus der Reihe Derrick"?)
 
9:02 PM
@Reg: No.
 
@Vitaly I liked the other one, where you have to get from a given article to another one as soon as possible by following links.
 
May I scratch my armpit, now?
 
I remember my friends used to do a game when studying together in the library, where they would set an article as a goal, and begin at a random article, where whoever reached the goal first by clicking in-article links won.
@Reg: ...
 
I'm looking for that web implementation...
 
Oh, that.
Yeha, cool.
 
9:05 PM
It was on Reddit about three years ago.
God I remember all kinds of useless crap.
 
This reminds me, one of my favourite ways to learn something new and random is to find a source I have access to and do a "source" site:http://en.wikipedia.org search, e.g. "Journal of Organic Chemistry" site:http://en.wikipedia.org
 
Hey it ended my game before I was finished!
I started at Intelligent Designer, had to get to Coffee, and I was already at Digestion.
 
Cool start, bro.
 
I would have to get from Lacrosse to the Moon. Meh.
 
9:10 PM
sad
@Reg: That is far.
 
Eben.
 
Increase the size of the Lacrosse bat and let inertia do the rest?
That is the kind of joke Robusto might make sigh.
 
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Q: Is it possible to get to the power needed to thrust a rocket so that it can escape from earth?

TomWijAccording to this book page: For an object going in a circular orbit around a planet the gravitational force must provide the acceleration for circular motion. If we solve this to get the orbital velocity, we get 28,000 km/h. This means that we need that velocity to escape from the earth if...

 
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@Cerberus If you at-mention him, he will tell you that he would never make that kind of joke.
@Otsubor: Ogacihc.
 
9:13 PM
@Reg: That's why I didn't!
 
Oh. Sorry.
 
Oh, well.
I shall have to go into hiding.
Haha!
I actually chuckled out loud, a rare feat.
I assume the old line will still reach him?
 
I don't think so. Then again, what do I know.
 
I thought the balloon popped up immediately?
Can it be removed?
 
Where would it point to?
 
9:16 PM
Into nothingness.
 
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Q: What is the exact quote

SundeepThere was a quote I have heard long time ago. I remember the meaning, but need the exact quote. Does any one have it?? It goes like.. Words are just sounds that enter your ears, it is all about how you animate them in your minds I tried googling and visited a bunch of sites and couldn'...

Topic on, topic off?
 
I have seen headers pointing me to old comments that had been edited to display a text different from what my messagebox said.
@RegDwight I don't know; it sucks anyway.
 
@Cerberus In the Multicollider? So have I. But none of them pointed to chat.
 
Could be... but he is in this very room now. shudders
 
Besides, they have fixed that problem. Many times, in fact!
 
9:18 PM
Many times, even! How... thorough!
 
They might even fix it again!
 
They are too good.
 
Yes. That's their motto.
 
Fixing the unbroken... a commendable attitude.
 
Two times bad, four times good.
 
9:19 PM
Oh, prime numbers are good?
 
Ask Orwell.
 
Orwell? Why?
 
Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD, and what he saw of the results of the influence of Communist policy ("ceaseless arrests, censored newspapers, prowling hordes of armed police" - "Communism is now a counter-revolutionary force"), during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne D...
 
Eh...
 
Also, this
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. The smallest twenty-five prime numbers (all the prime numbers under 100) are: : 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97 . An infinitude of prime numbers exists, as demonstrated by Euclid around 300 BC, although the density of prime numbers within natural numbers is 0. The number 1 is by definition not prime. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic establishes the central role of primes in number theory: any positive intege...
Four is not a prime number.
 
9:20 PM
Oh, I meant prime numbers bad, then. My bad.
 
Feb 23 at 14:03, by RegDwight
A common typo.
 
Heh. Alas it is.
 
Anyhow, the sheep in Animal Farm like to sing, "Four legs good, two legs bad!"
 
Oh! I seem to remember that, vaguely. Such is life.
I think I should be on my way, to my parents' to feed the cat.
 
And now of course I've got it the other way round. <shakes fist at Cerberus>
 
9:24 PM
Heavenly justice is inexorable!
 
Confusion is the Dutch equivalent of WMDs.
 
Oh? We fail to find any? Hardly...
 
Hahahaha.
 
And again!
Well I must go.
 
Get out of my head.
 
9:25 PM
Thwack him for me if he should wake up.
Your wish is my command!
 
I'll be thwacking some Legos instead.
 
Bye!
Good idea.
 
Seeya!
 
Glue them together.
 
Later.
 
9:26 PM
Ciao!
poof
Bye Vit!
 
Buh bye!
Am I late?
My foot is still hitching.
 
9:49 PM
Oh, I see how it works, @RegDwight:
You close
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Q: Better use of "that that" - or not.

KennyPeanuts Possible Duplicate: How do you handle “that that”? The double “that” problem I sometimes seem to write myself into using 2 thats in succession, as in: "Now that that issue has been resolved, we can move forward." I am pretty sure that this is correct but is ...

but you leave open the RAS Syndrome question
 
Haha. Yes. That's how it works.
 
Which you yourself proved to have at least 3 dupes.
Why am I not surprised that that is how you work?
 
You never are.
Hm. Can I close your chat message as a dupe?
 
I'm gonna freakin' run for mod next time and close all your shit, dude.
Then I'm gonna disappear like the other mods.
 
Anyhow. Read my comment on the RAS question. Also, I have edited the RAID question because it actually ain't a dupe of anything.
 
9:52 PM
Well, it ain't closed and it ain't wiki-ed, so WTF.
"Someone who cares a lot about what Colour the bits are, and spends a lot of resources on trying to answer that question, is a dangerous idiot if not a Commie Mutant Traitor."
 
Well, now that even the OP says "feel free", I will do just that.
I kept waiting for Kosmonaut, or really for anyone to at least upvote my comment, to no avail.
Well then, respect my authority, what should I say?
 
Wait, you have authority? [Pause for laughs] [Pause and wait for more laughs.] [Keep pausing and waiting, rinse and repeat.]
 
Well, I imagine I do!
Actually, I now totally expect @Kosmonaut to just nuke that question, CW or not.
 
@RegDwight — @Kosmonaut is kind of an unguided missile in that respect.
 
@Robusto Why do you rinse your pauses? <*Blättert im Wörterbuch.*>
 
9:57 PM
Hey, if we @-mention @kibo, think he'll show up in our chat?
 
Who is kibo?
 
@RegDwight — NNS ALERT!
[Klaxon horn]
 
Joke alert.
 
OK, who is Kibo?
I'll wait while you google.
 
Meh.
Das kann dauern.
 
9:58 PM
Ich bin schon bereit. Setzt du fort.
 
Dein Deutsch ist schon ganz lustig.
 
Am I too late? May I scratch my armpit?
 
Oh god, not that again.)))
 
Robusto und seine lustige Streiche!
Meh, I'll take my answer offline. Gotta go pick up the takeout.
Laterz.
 
See, @Vitaly, I can't even be bothered to capitalize god.
@Robusto lustigen.
CU.
 
10:01 PM
From "Criminal minds" to "Law and Order."
 
Robusto might be criminal, but him's no mind.
 
@RegDwight Ahah. :-)
Between law and order, who is he?
 
And.
2
 
:-)
I am almost convinced I could pin it.
 
That's a reference only @Vitaly will fully appreciate. There's a Russian children's verse that goes, "A and B sat on the chimney top. A fell down, B disappeared, who's left?"
 
10:11 PM
And.
 
Feb 15 at 14:58, by Kosmonaut
mind := blown
 
I think I have already heard a similar joke in Italian.
 
Can't be. It's Highly Original Russian Heritage.
 
"TellMe and GiveMe go to war; GiveMe dies. Who is left?"
 
That one is much trickier.
A man after midnight?
 
10:15 PM
I had to translate it in English.
 
Oh. I thought that was Italian. I can never tell them apart.
 
That is my problem too.
I never know when I am speaking Italian, and when I am speaking English.
 
As long as you can tell them from Greek...
But you have someone to help you with that.
 
Yep. She can help me with her Greek profile.
The problem is that she is in USA. :-)
The joke ends with you saying TellMe, and the other person telling you "idiot!" :-)
The other variant ends with you saying GiveMe, and the other person giving you a slap.
 
How very Italian.
Now if that ain't @Martha right there.
 
10:22 PM
That is what we call "Greek trick," in the case you are wondering about the connection between the joke, and my Greek-Italian-American girlfriend.
 
Oh. I thought the connection was that I mentioned Greek out of thin air.
 
Now there is Wallander.
 
Kurt Wallander () is a fictional character created by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. The protagonist of several mystery novels, he lives and works in the town of Ystad, 60 km south-east of the city of Malmö, in the southern province of Skåne. Biography As a young police officer, he was nearly killed when a drunk whom he was questioning stabbed him with a butcher's knife (this is retconned in the account of his first case). Wallander was once married, but his wife Mona left him and he has since had a difficult relationship with his rebellious only child, Linda, who just bare...
 
I thought it was a German telefilm.
 
10:27 PM
This episode is titled "La dose." I don't find the English translation.
 
Dose, quantity, amount, measure, deal?
 
In English it's titled "The darkness."
 
A most accurate translation.
 
Usually la dose and una dose refer to the quantity of drug a person takes in once.
The episode just started; I don't know what is the topic, so far.
Yes, it is very accurate.
In Italy, they use rather phantasy titles.
It's famous "The spy who shagged me," which was translated with "The spy who talked to me."
It's an old habit to say "they talk together" to mean "they have sex together."
 
Divine Comedy is another phantasy title.
 
10:33 PM
Well, at least is not the translation of an English title. :-)
The films of the trilogy "Die hard" have three different titles; only the last one contains "die hard" in the Italian title.
 
Pssst. It's no longer a trilogy.
 
Quadrilogy?
Pentalogy?
 
Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America), is a 2007 American action film, and the fourth installment in the Die Hard series. The film was directed by Len Wiseman and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The main plot finds McClane fighting a gang of cyber terrorists who plan to hack FBI computers. The film was based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for Wired magazine by John Carlin. The film's North American release date was June 27, 2007. After the project was stalled due to the September 11, 2001 attacks, production eventually began, and the ...
 
I stopped to watch "Die hard" when I stopped to be teenager.
 
In German, it's "Die slowly". In Russian, it's "Tough nut".
 
10:37 PM
I like better the Russian title.
 
In Czech, it's a "Deadly Trap".
 
"Die Hard - Vivere o morire."
That reminds me of "Trappola mortale."
I guess it's a different film.
 
In Hungarian, it's a collection of letters. "Drágán add az életed!"
 
Well, the translation would be "deathly trap."
 
In Japanese, it's ダイ・ハード, unsurprisingly.
Arabic I can't read. جان سخت ۱
@Kosmonaut would have to help me out.
 
10:43 PM
I guess that the Italian "trappola mortale" is referring to this movie.
Deathtrap is a 1982 thriller film based on Ira Levin's play of the same name. The cast includes Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth and Henry Jones. Real-life movie and theatre critics Stewart Klein, Jeffrey Lyons and Joel Siegel have cameo appearances as themselves. Plot Famed playwright Sidney Bruhl debuts the latest in a series of Broadway flops and returns to his opulent Long Island home and his sympathetic but sick wife, Myra. Although their financial situation is not dire, Sidney is hungry for a hit. They are starting to feel the limit of his wife's fortune, ...
 
I'm sure there are like fifteen hundred movies with that title.
 
I remember there was Christopher Reeve, in the cast.
 
Also, Michael Caine.
 
I don't know why, but I didn't remember him.
I don't remember well, that movie.
In someway, I remember better a movie with Cat woman, or Poison ivy.
 
I like how Google Translate tells me that the Russian translation of "Drágán add az életed" is "Die hard". I mean, them aren't even Russian letters!
 
10:51 PM
They read your mind!
The Big Brother is here!
 
That's the problem. They read too much into my mind.
Russians don't think in English letters.
 
Well, that is why they have nice things, on Google; if they would read in my mind, they would not have good stuff.
 
How so? They would have tons of drupals!
Or are you implying that...
 
No. :-)
 
Phew. That was close!
 
10:54 PM
I am not the author or Drupal. :-)
 
It has an author?
 
Well, I can say that I own the copyright on Drupal too.
Dries is the original author.
 
I can say that I own the copyright, too.
 
If you contributed code that is in Drupal, you can.
 
They don't have freedom of speech in Drupal country?
 
10:56 PM
The first site he created with his CMS was www.drop.org.
 
Yeah, I vaguely remember us discussing the etymology and the logo, but not the author.
 
You will notice that some users have usernames containing @drop.org.
Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978 in Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium) is an open-source software programmer and the founder and lead of the Drupal CMS. Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on January 27, 2008 at Ghent University in Belgium. From 1999-2000 he was the maintainer of the Linux-WLAN FAQ. On December 1, 2007, Dries announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia. Acquia is a commercial open-source software company providing products, services, and technical support for Drupal. Acquia wants to be to Drupal what Red Ha...
 
So far I've only noticed users whose names end in luno.
 
killes@drop.org.
 

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