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10:00 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Hasta pronto!

@Kitḫ Never! I am now in Bio 20 IB, and I learned how photosynthesis actually works (the really complicated, intricate details) and it is so cool!

Kitḫ

@RegDwightѬſ道 blows kisses

@Mahnax Excellent!

Mahnax

"Chemiosmotic phosphorylation".

@Kitḫ I agree!

Cerberus

Hint: the first Lesbians in history featured here.

Mahnax

@Cerberus Ooh, could it be Sodom?

Joking, of course.

Cerberus

10:02 PM

Heh.

Notice the capital.

aedia λ

@Cerberus Isn't that more of an answer than a hint?

Matt Эллен

amazon?

Lesbos

Cerberus

@aediaλ scratches floor with toe while looking down, hands on back

aedia λ

Hehe.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ding!

Kitḫ

10:03 PM

Wonder Woman's birthplace would've been a better hint.

Cerberus

But Aedia got it first.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus yeah :D

Cerberus

@Kitḫ Who's that again?

aedia λ

My answer before the "hint" would have been "a blue T surrounded by some green stuff" though.

Kitḫ

@Cerberus You can't "get" Lesbian, OK?

3

aedia λ

10:04 PM

giggles

Kitḫ

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986. Wonder Woman is a warrior Princess of the Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) and was created by Marston, an American, as a "distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men." Known in her homeland as Diana of Themyscira, her powers...

Cerberus

@Kitḫ HAHAHA

Jasper might disagree.

@Kitḫ Oh yes, looks familiar!

Mahnax

@Cerberus Might?

Kitḫ

...And she certainly didn't get it from me.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Well, you know.

Kitḫ

10:05 PM

OK, must feed family. Bye!

cya @Kit :)

@Kitḫ Bye!

@Kitḫ Bye!

@Kitḫ See ya!

@Cerberus is it in North America?

aedia λ

10:07 PM

Hmm. A very lumpy snake?

Mahnax

Haha.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Nope.

@aediaλ I guess.

Matt Эллен

hmmm

Cerberus

It ate a few humans and a unicorn.

Matt Эллен

Greece?

Cerberus

10:10 PM

@MattЭллен Close!

Mahnax

Luckily, I'm a dinosaur.

Cerberus

@Mahnax OMG you are the Python!!

Matt Эллен

oh, so it is the top of Italy?

Mahnax

@Cerberus True!

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Colder.

Matt Эллен

10:10 PM

the south of Turkey?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ding!!

Mahnax

Wait, if it's by Greece...

Matt Эллен

yay!

Mahnax

@MattЭллен I was gonna say that!

May I pick a map?

Matt Эллен

:D

Cerberus

10:11 PM

@Mahnax You were too busy gorging.

@Mahnax Yes!

Mahnax

@Cerberus :(

@Cerberus Yay!

aedia λ

@Cerberus I had no idea it even looked like that until now

Cerberus

@Mahnax Hey what's with the face? Tell me you don't like eating all those people!

@aediaλ We all learn new things here!

Or it wouldn't be what it is.

@Mahnax P.S. Use Zizorz!

Mahnax

@Cerberus Meh.

Cerberus

It's really great. Small, fast, and effective.

Mahnax

10:13 PM

Cerberus

Oh, but I think it's Win only.

Matt Эллен

channel islands?

nah, too much shelf

Cerberus

@Mahnax Hmm...somewhere in the south-west Pacific?

Mahnax

Anyhow, all I have to do is press CMD + Shift + 4, select an area, then upload the file.

Cerberus

@Mahnax Zizorz uploads it for you and puts the address on your clipboard.

Mahnax

10:15 PM

@Cerberus Nice.

@Cerberus Nein.

aedia λ

A sideways overplucked eyebrow about to fall off the brow?

Mahnax

I have dishes to do soon.

Matt Эллен

is it in the Atlantic?

Mahnax

Yep.

aedia λ

I don't recognize these islands right away. Should I?

Mahnax

10:16 PM

Well, near it at any rate.

@aediaλ Meh.

Cerberus

@aediaλ Neither do I...

Mahnax

Need a hint?

Matt Эллен

yeah

Cerberus

Bahamas?

Florida Keys?

Mahnax

@Cerberus Nope.

Matt Эллен

10:18 PM

Is it off Scandinavia?

Cerberus

Caribbean?

aedia λ

Something at the end of South America? I don't think there's that many there...

Mahnax

@MattЭллен Nah.

@Cerberus Yes.

Matt Эллен

ah well

Cerberus

@Mahnax Hmm then it must be some of the Antilles.

Are some of the islands Dutch?

Mahnax

10:19 PM

@Cerberus True.

aedia λ

@Cerberus I'm sure I ought to know their names then, but I don't, at least not from what they look like

Cerberus

@aediaλ Neither do I.

Mahnax

@Cerberus Hmmm. I don't know.

Shall I tell you all?

Matt Эллен

yes

Cerberus

I know where all the islands are, approximately, but I wouldn't recognize their shapes.

Yes.

aedia λ

10:20 PM

Yes tell us!

Mahnax

Okay. That big island is Puerto Rico.

Cerberus

Huh!

I rejected that because it was supposed to be more horizontal!

aedia λ

Huh really? I didn't recognize it when it was the biggest

Cerberus

Aaaah!

Mahnax

The others include Antigua and Barbuda, etc.

aedia λ

10:22 PM

Cerberus

Ohhh you rotated the image!

Foul play!

aedia λ

Now that I know where they are, I looked 'em up

Mahnax

I did?

Cerberus

I would have immediately recognized this!

Mahnax

I did, too! I'm sorry. I seriously hadn't realized....

Bleh.

Cerberus

10:23 PM

Was it the spirit of Steve Jobs?

Mahnax

@Cerberus ..?

Matt Эллен

OK! I have one

Mahnax

Anyways, dishes. I am sorry.

Matt Эллен

Cerberus

@Mahnax He never liked me, as a Windows user.

@MattЭллен Rhodes!

Matt Эллен

10:24 PM

dang it

yes :D

Cerberus

Hehe.

Sorry.

For some reason I've always liked its shape.

Matt Эллен

don't be sorry. It's satisfying when you get them quickly

aedia λ

I didn't know it :)

Cerberus

To whom?

@aediaλ But I'm a G(r)eek.

aedia λ

Hehe. I suppose that makes a big difference.

Cerberus

10:26 PM

Matt Эллен

lots of rivers

is it a famous river?

Cerberus

We've already covered this one, sort of.

@MattЭллен Not really.

Hint: Aedia would know!

In fact, if you look really closely, you can spot her.

Matt Эллен

the rivers of the Unicorn Territories

Cerberus

And where are those?

Matt Эллен

buffalo?

new england?

aedia λ

10:30 PM

zips mouth

Matt Эллен

should pay attention more

Cerberus

Nope...do you know where she lives?

Matt Эллен

in theory

Cerberus

Hint: it's not a state.

Matt Эллен

but not in practice

aedia λ

10:30 PM

Mmmf Feffaffeek

Cerberus

(I think.)

Matt Эллен

I know it's near Kit who lives near Canada...

Cerberus

@aediaλ Haha poor creature with your muffled sounds.

@MattЭллен Not quite.

1 min ago, by Cerberus

Hint: it's not a state.

Matt Эллен

so it's a city?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Sort of, yes.

I mean, it's not in a state.

Matt Эллен

10:32 PM

Washington?

DC

Cerberus

Ding!

Matt Эллен

wow! I remember something

Cerberus

See?

Matt Эллен

Yes :D

Cerberus

You're not as bad as I am.

aedia λ

10:34 PM

unzips mouth Everywhere I go in a normal workweek is within a little area you can see at the top middle where the river ends

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus well, we could have a"who remembers least" competition, but I think it would be embarrassing for both of us

aedia λ

Well, not ends, I guess, but what looks like a sort of little rivery delta thing. I hardly ever have to cross to the west side of the Potomac. Who knows what's over there.

Matt Эллен

@aediaλ goblins and orcs most likely

best stay away

Cerberus

@MattЭллен But pain forgotten is pain no more!

aedia λ

@MattЭллен Eeek!

Matt Эллен

10:37 PM

@Cerberus true :D

right. I must sleep or I will be even less productive at work.

good night

aedia λ

@MattЭллен Night night!

Cerberus

Good night!

Jez

hey y'all

aedia λ

@Jez Hey! Haven't seen you in a while. How goes it?

Jez

not bad thanks. just trying to respond to some OKCupid profiles as usual

what do you think of this one? okcupid.com/profile/RedWineDrinker

user19161

10:50 PM

@Jez It's what you think that matters!

Jez

yeah

i think no. she likes literature, and it bores the pants off me

aedia λ

@Jez How does she actually match up with any of your answers - or hasn't she answered enough questions for you to tell?

Cerberus

@Jez I was just going to say that that made her seem interesting!

She looks really nice.

user19161

@Jez The very fact that you mentioned her shows that there is some nontrivial interest, don't reject it too quickly.

Jez

and it makes me (seem) boring

Cerberus

10:51 PM

Down to earth, intelligent.

Jez

because i dont know any frigging literature :-)

Cerberus

She may have ehm quite a figure.

user19161

@Jez Sometimes, opposites complement each other you know.

Cerberus

@Jez Good reason to read up!

Jez

oh yeah right

read half a library before first date

"Captain Corelli "

user19161

10:52 PM

@Jez You already have your software libraries!

Jez

"anything by Harlan Coben " - by whom?!

Cerberus

Her pictures seem cut off at the point where you can see more of her body, like her waist.

user19161

@Cerberus This has multiple meanings.

Jez

@WillHunting really? i only see one

user19161

@Jez I see more meanings than others usually see, so I often misunderstand others and others often misunderstand me.

Cerberus

10:54 PM

Hmm I take that back: she actually looks normal in the second picture.

I say, go for it!

She looks nice.

Jez

and if she asks me what literature i like?

aedia λ

People put that they've read things because the site asks them about it, not because it's the only thing they actually care about

user19161

@Cerberus Sounds like she is for you then!

Jez

there are no geeks in this area. sux.

but there do seem to be more locals coming onto OKCupid.

a year or two ago, there were like 5 in my area

Cerberus

@Jez Then you try to think of something, bluff a bit, and read a book in advance. If she asks you directly whether you are into reading, you say, "I like to read, but I can never find the time, so you've probably read tons more!".

@aediaλ Oh, good point.

user19161

10:56 PM

@Cerberus I think we should not try to bluff.

Jez

now there are maybe 10 online in the last week. i'd like to see an OKC ad campaign :-)

@Cerberus i suppose that might work temporarily... though she does say she's good at picking out bullshitters

aedia λ

Also, you could just be blatantly honest and say you don't really read fiction. It's not like you're illiterate. I'm sure you keep up with plenty of stuff on the interwebz. Better to find out soon if someone is so entirely different from you that not having literature as a common interest would be a dealbreaker.

Jez

yeah @aedia

user19161

@Jez You can say you participate on ELU!

Jez

i dont get it. some people say that when they read a book, it "turns into a movie in their head without the ads". if it did that for me, im sure i'd read lots of fiction... but it doesn't. it's just words on a page, rather disconnected from reality.

Cerberus

10:58 PM

@Jez If she asks you directly, "are you into literature?", you say, "hmm not nearly as much as you".

Jez

my brain just isn't wired to mentally turn it into a film

therefore i find most finction dull as ditchwater

Cerberus

Then how about chatting?

user19161

@Jez They just mean that they see the story visually unfold in their minds.

Jez

hmm?