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6:08 PM
Uff.
Back.
 
Bark.
Bask.
Bank.
Balk.
 
Had to iron a skirt my wife just — well, what tense to use? sewed, had sewn, finished sewing, had finished sewing?
 
Why aren't all books published in recent times now eBooks? What is taking publisher so long?
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 sued
 
Thank you for your help!
Also had to do stuff I couldn't quite explain in any language.
 
any time!
 
6:11 PM
Mayb thy don't hav th lttr in thir font.
 
Sweden.
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I flagged that.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Well, so long as it got done. that's the important thing.
 
@Gigili And you've been with us for a whole of three seconds! That's a new record!
 
I want CGEL on my eReader. I don't want no DT format. Textbooks should all be in eBook format now.
(DT = Dead Tree)
 
Wow, someone's crotchety today. I could hear the quaver in your voice when you said that.
 
6:13 PM
@MattЭллен I had to turn, um, a hose she had sued right side out?
 
Yes! I'm impatient
 
Well, what have you done to hasten the migration to ebooks?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 you're right. not in any language.
 
You jest but I really want to know.
Don't make me post an SWR.
 
ugh ebooks
peeves about ebooks
 
6:15 PM
@Robusto I've bought a reader. I've invested. That's how capitalism works, right? I give some money to some corporation and they're indentured to me?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 These revelations about your personal life are embarrassing the people who don't speak any language. Please consider them before sharing.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 oh! sorry - then it's sewn
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Hose? Like pants?
 
@MattЭллен Pfft. You bought the cheapest Kindle you could find and you think there's an end on't?
I think he means like pantyhose.
Or socks.
Or stockings.
 
@KitFox she took a lengthy piece of cloth, then folded it in half, um, lengthwise, then sewed it together so it became a tube of sorts. Now, the seam was on the outside, so I had to turn it outside in. Which was impossible, I might add.
 
6:16 PM
@Robusto None of those make sense.
 
It was like an inch across. When flat.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Oh, yes. You turned it.
 
@KitFox And yet you only flagged "stockings" ... hmm.
 
your wife sounds very small.
 
And like 1.5 feet long.
 
6:17 PM
Reg's wife is 1.5 feet long?
 
Not hose though, probably.
 
oh, you're not describing the skirt.
 
Sounds like a drawstring or something.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 there is a question (on Mathematics) that proves that it is mathematically possible
 
It's a lot easier if you use a safety pin.
 
6:18 PM
@Robusto I must say you people in this chat are really helpful. Except Kit, of course.
 
Also, why would a card-carrying metricist describe something in feet rather than centimeters? We have to wonder.
 
Also, trim the seam down first.
 
@KitFox Yes! That's what she said when I was stuck halfway in, and couldn't go back nor forth.
At which point the seam started to, um, unseam itself.
 
Did you try a knitting needle or crochet hook?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 We're not here not to help.
 
6:18 PM
how unseemly
 
Really, I have to look every second word of this shit up.
 
169
Q: Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?

ChrisMy nephew was folding laundry, and turning the occasional shirt right-side-out. I showed him a "trick" where I turned it right-side-out by pulling the whole thing through a sleeve instead of the bottom or collar of the shirt. He thought it was really cool (kids are easily amused, and so am I). ...

 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Oh, you poor thing. I've had that happen before. It's very frustrating.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 The second word of "this shit" is shit. QED.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 unravel.
 
6:20 PM
Makes sense now that you say it.
@Robusto Doesn't make sense now that you say it.
 
@KitFox But unravel means the same thing as ravel. You're just going to confuse him.
 
@KitFox so can we sum it up in a nice short sentence, the thing I did?
 
Um. No.
 
"I just [X]ed a [Y]."
Something like that?
No?
Oh.
 
Did you let out a hem?
 
6:21 PM
You were turning a drawstring and it got stuck and started to unravel.
 
@KitFox thank you.
 
I think it must be a drawstring. What was it for?
 
She says it was for her head.
 
A drawstring is what you have in sweatpants, not hats.
 
a snood?
 
6:22 PM
Hahahaha.
Hairnet?
 
no, I guess not a snood
 
I don't think snoods have been worn since the Titanic went down.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 To close a hood? Or to wear like a hairband?
 
nay! snoods are back in fashion
 
@Robusto They were fashionable when I was in middle school!
 
6:23 PM
@KitFox Ah, you're right. The Titanic hadn't even been built at that point, right?
 
no bad voice, don't make me say it!
phew, Robusto did it
 
Now she asks why the hell I have to ask. So I said, I'm trying to express myself in English. So she said, "ha, I can tell you all the English words you need". Then she pointed at the skirt and said, "pettycoat". Then she decided that that was it.
 
But seriously, where the eff did you go to Middle School?
 
Now let's not forget who is older than whom in this room.
 
@KitFox she says it's a ribbon to be worn around a babette.
 
6:24 PM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Oh! Damn. pictures Reg's wife in just a petticoat
 
@KitFox Outside of this room I am younger than everyone. I only make up stories about being old so I will seem less intimidating.
 
Sorry I'm not making this shit up.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Oh, OK.
 
I don't even know who that Babette is.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I sew. I get it. It's OK.
 
6:25 PM
She must be really skinny.
 
She might mean a slip then.
Or if it's the top it would be a camisole.
 
No. She meant petticoat.
A slip is completely different.
 
Well yeah I don't have spellings left.
 
That's the least of my troubles right now.
 
6:25 PM
But doesn't a petticoat hang from the shoulders, not the waist?
 
In fact I am so confused right now I had to look up "seam" and the past participle of "sew", just to be sure.
 
@Robusto No.
 
^That is a petticoat.
 
That's what my wife said as well.
 
6:27 PM
Well. Petticoats.
 
Except that this one is to be worn under a ball dress.
 
I think this was @RegDwightB8's secret plan to emasculate The Incomprehensible Room. Look, we're posting pictures of chiffon and tulle.
 
Hers is to be worn all by itself.
 
Next it will be crinoline.
 
In fact it has an, um underskirt? of sorts itself.
 
6:27 PM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 That'd be the crinoline probably.
 
I know, why don't you put the garment on the bed, take a picture, and upload it.
 
@Robusto hey we already covered the distance between Mianus and Uranus earlier today. Do not complain.
 
And yes, underskirt.
 
Look, you've got Matt jumping through hoops to answer this question.
 
6:28 PM
@KitFox no. not a crinoline. We've been there last Halloween if you remember.
This one is just a simple underskirt.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I was on hiatus.
 
@Robusto I did ping you.
2 hours ago, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8
@Robusto it's a long way from Mianus to Uranus. 1.86 billion miles, to be precise.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Is it made of tulle?
 
Who reads your ... etc.
 
@KitFox she says the Russian word is fatin. Or kiseya.
She also says I can refer to it as a net.
 
6:30 PM
So probably tulle then.
That's a stiffish netting.
 
you can call this whole thing a net.
 
@KitFox no, expressly not tulle.
 
Frequently used for underskirts to make them poofy.
 
Тюль ( от  — город Тюль, департамент Коррез, Франция) — лёгкая прозрачная сетчатая гладкая или узорчатая ткань (хлопчатобумажная, полушёлковая и др.). Гладкий тюль вырабатывается из двух систем нитей на тюлевых машинах; он используется для изготовления и отделки женского платья и белья, а также штучных изделий (сеток, вышивок и т. д.). Тюль узорчатый, или гардинный, вырабатывается на гардинных или кружевных машинах (см. Кружево) и применяется для занавесей, покрывал, накидок и др. Тюль в литературе и искусстве * Повесть М. А. Вилинской-Маркович (Марко Вовчок) 1861 года на русском яз...
 
Wiki sez kiseya is the same as muslin.
 
6:30 PM
Lace?
 
Wife says, she's not entirely sure if muslin is the same thing because she's not quite sure what muslin is.
 
It's a rough cotton.
 
can't believe we've spent half an hour talking about Reg's wife's underwear
 
I can. I think it is great.
 
I need to go do something manly now. Thanks a lot.
 
6:32 PM
She says tulle would work as well, or organza, whatever that is.
 
organza
Also netting.
 
Hey you're in stereo with my wife.
 
@KitFox Otherwise known as tat-for-tit.
 
I can't fathom what it is, if not one of those. Muslin could be, but it's not net.
 
@KitFox well netting is probably the word, then. Because it really is a fine nylon net of sorts.
 
6:33 PM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 But that sounds like tulle, and you said it is not that.
 
@KitFox I didn't say that. I said she said.
Basically right now I'm a human interface between your computer and my wife.
 
ok, I know this is a technology solution to a language problem, but what if you put the Russian spelling into wiki, then pick the English version?
 
Oh. Google Translate says kiseya is "gauze."
 
@KitFox that reminds me of the German "Gaze"
Which, in Russian, would be "marlya".
 
Here's another technology solution to a language problem: reboot the whole conversation where it started to unravel.
 
6:35 PM
Which is not the same thing.
 
You mean ravel?
 
Gaze you put on your wounds, for example.
 
I mean recursion.
 
bolero?
 
@KitFox Actually, no, I was thinking of Debussy.
Meta-jinx.
 
6:36 PM
o.O
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Yeah, it is the same word in English, but can also describe a certain kind of fabric.
I will think of the name...
 
@KitFox well it sure as hell is very similar. But nylon.
 
superman will save us!
like construction netting?
 
"Mull" maybe? Damn.
 
6:37 PM
@Matt: Getting back to the eBook thing ... I'm already on my 5th Kindle, and I've bought a few as presents, too. Get in the war, man!
 
@KitFox Mull in German is the same as Gaze.
Again, I don't think it's intended for sewing.
 
user19161
@cornbreadninja Nah, my vocab is less than 18k words as seen from testyourvocab.com, so I can't save you.
 
5th kindle!
 
Now let me look up fatin.
 
Yep.
Latest is Kindle Fire.
 
6:38 PM
@Robusto I'm avoiding Kindle due to the ability of Amazon to delete books at will. But I've purchased a Sony PRS-T1, which seems nice
 
@Kit here's a picture. Approved by wife.
 
@MattЭллен A rookie move. Sony will just put a root kit on your machine.
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Chiffon!
 
@Robusto, have any failed?
 
@Robusto wife sez, you're a chiffon.
 
@Robusto perhaps. They are a calamity of marketing mistakes
 
6:39 PM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 That's funny, coming from her.
 
@Robusto That's got to be it.
Still. Looks like tulle to me.
 
chiffon is like taffeta
 
@cornbreadninja Are you asking me if any chiffons have failed? Probably.
 
IIRC
@Robusto, kindles
 
Шифон?
 
6:40 PM
specifically your kindles
 
@KitFox we have the word chiffon in Russian, and there it does not mean the same thing.
Here's a picture of what chiffon is to Russians:
 
@cornbreadninja No, but I accidentally threw one into the trash. True story.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Yeah, that looks more chiffon-y.
Crêpe?
 
@Robusto, yikes.
crepe is wrinkly
 
Chiffon. You tell me how those things are different. And even if they are, I don't care.
 
6:42 PM
Hers is thicker and stiffer.
 
lol
But I agree
 
@cornbreadninja I had the Kindle 1.0, the 2.0, the 3.0 (twice) and the Kindle Fire.
@KitFox Wait, her what is thicker and stiffer?
 
Her gauze.
 
her yardage
wait.
 
@KitFox crepe is closer to chiffon, she says.
 
6:43 PM
does one buy fabric by the yard in the UK?
 
By which yard? Scotland Yard?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 That's true. Crinklier than chiffon though.
 
@Robusto well yeah, You tell me. I only have one jeans and one pair of shoes and the rest is girly stuff.
 
Hawt.
 
I no rite
 
6:45 PM
@cornbreadninja probably
although we might have to sell it in metres
 
EU regulations and such
 
@MattЭллен wow you measure in yards but sell in metres? What a ripoff!
 
I think in some parts of Texas, notably Houston, they have to sell fabric in acres.
 
it's what causes the financial burden we are all under
 
6:46 PM
I wouldn't buy any fabric by scotland yard. 's probably a setup.
 
Well, I guess we have soemthing called fatin, but I don't think I've ever heard of it before.
 
In Houston, if a dress doesn't come with a rain fly it's labeled "petite."
 
u funneh man!
 
This will crepe you out. Chiffon-crepe combo.
 
Just the thought of that feels ugly on my skin.
 
6:49 PM
@KitFox i no rite
 
@KitFox actually I find it quite amazing right now how many different names for clothes there are in English that they also have in German and Russian. I do wonder where this uniformity comes from. Were we talking about mushrooms or fish, or really even maths, it wouldn't work like that at all.
 
I bet that's a bitch to work with
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 You mean clothes or fabrics?
 
Fabrics, yes.
 
6:50 PM
It is rather interesting.
 
I no rite. And it's not like they are all from the same source.
 
Maybe because fashion has always been so multicultural?
 
hey @Kit - is this of interest to you?
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Q: What is the standard way to analyze EEG data in an MMN paradigm?

BeckyI'm running an EEG experiment using a modified auditory MMN design, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me the best method for data analysis (and recommend any stats programs/packages for this purpose as well). The experiment will only have a few (6-8) subjects with a high number of trials pe...

 
Speaking of fabric, the fabric of time is telling me that it is beginning to ravel/unravel and that I must now go do something to convince my employer I am employable. Ta!
 
Oh!
@Robusto Bai!
 
6:51 PM
C ya Robusto
 
Shit. I might've been able to answer that ten years ago.
 
heh. I know the feeling. I have forgotten so much
 
Of course, the technology is all different now anyway.
 
6:52 PM
true
 
I'll have you know that today marks the first day I have ever taken Midol.
 
is that like paracetamol?
 
And I took it because it had tylenol in it.
Not because I'm PMSy.
 
@KitFox, did you ever try women's tylenol?
 
@MattЭллен Yes, plus some other stuff.
 
6:53 PM
I see
 
@cornbreadninja I think that's the same thing.
 
@KitFox, I never liked midol. WT was great, but short-lived, which then made it scary.
 
It's got tylenol, caffeine, and something that i would guess makes women chill the f-ck out.
 
panabrom
IIRC
 
@cornbreadninja wikipedia says that's in the "Teen" formulation
 
6:55 PM
tylenol, caffeine, antihistamine, accordring to wikipedia
 
what I'd like to see is women's valium.
 
Pyrilamine maleate.
@cornbreadninja Valium is for everyone.
 
@Matt, interesting.
@KitFox, not OTC it isn't :D
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh, that's funny. Makes you drowsy so you don't bite.
 
a little smattering of it with some acetaminophen would be nice
 
6:57 PM
Although it's got anticholinergic properties too.
 
@KitFox yeah but oddly the caffeine is there to counteract that
 
So essentially, smoking a cigarette.
 
caffeine worsens things, though
 
And I've done "caffeine" + "drowsy" before and that means "cranky" for me, because I can't sleep but want to.
caffeine can help tylenol absorption and also acts as a diuretic
it's a pretty useful drug
 
Yeah, I wasn't excited about 60mg of caffeine.
But I was soooo achy.
And I am pretty sure I had a fever.
 
6:59 PM
:\
far be it from me to knock caffeine
shows you demitasse tattoo
@KitFox, do you feel better or is it too soon to tell?
 
I do feel a little better.
Less achy for sure.
 
ttyl
 
@Matt, I like your new gravatar btw
 
7:09 PM
@Reg So is she going to a party in her pretty skirt?
And what is the overskirt made of?
 
@KitFox she's out of the door this very moment.
 
I miss having the time to sew.
 
@KitFox some flowery stuff. They are having a 50s-themed party. The pattern is not really 50s, but it's the best we could find.
 
@KitFox, I wish I could
I bought a 60s laundry bag a few days ago and will attempt to turn it into a skirt
 
Skirts are easy.
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 And how come you don't go?
Are you a pariah?
 
7:14 PM
Nah. It's a, um, society? association? club? of sorts. I'm not really part of that crowd. Though I do know many of them.
 
So...not much fun for you?
 
I don't really like parties to begin with. And certainly not when most if the people there I just don't know.
 
You could pretend you don't speak English.
Oh wait. That probably wouldn't help.
You could pretend you only speak English.
 
I do that often enough in this chat.
If anything, I spend too much time pretending that.
 
I am surprised you are not much of a party-goer.
 
7:17 PM
I used to be when I was young. But now I don't see a point.
 
how young?
 
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Writers?
@cornbreadninja late teens?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Well, I don't suppose there is a point if you are not drinking, honing your wit, or getting laid.
 
Here's that video of a robot expressing emotion through its buttocks that you wanted.
 
That's why I stopped going to parties anyway.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 WTF?
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 We should probably ask @Neil. I'll post it over in the Writers chat?
 
7:25 PM
someone needs to combine that robot with the japanese videogame where the object is to stick a robot finger into a prosthetic ass.
 
@KitFox if he's there, be his guest.
 
what the hell, people
 
Hi @JSB! waves cheerily
 
emoting robot butts?
hi @Kit. i think you are relatively sane
 
@JSBᾶngs it's Mr's shiny and new ass.
 
7:27 PM
@JSBᾶngs me? what gave you that idea?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I got it from Ben Goldacre
 
@KitFox you're not posting robot butts
 
the Bad Science guy
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 With that name he probably had other shit to sell, too.
 
uhoh I just felt the caffeine catch up with me
 
7:28 PM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 He wrote a book called "Bad Science", it's really good. I recommend it.
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 why didn't he call it Good Science, then?
Or Recommended Science, at the very least.
He's risking poor reviews.
yesterday, by RegDwight ΒВBẞ8
> I'm afraid I can't give you much of a review, as this book is a gift for my brother, who requested it. Although, from just glancing at it, I was not impressed.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 because he's reporting on examples of bad science and explaining why the "science" used was "bad'
 
Then he should call it Good Examples of Bad Science.
Or Good Book about Bad Science.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 He could call it that. But also his newspaper column, which is the basis of the book's content, was also called "bad science"
 
7:32 PM
so, branding trumps satisfying Reg
 
It's not about satisfying me. It's about satisfying Amazon reviewers.
I'm just helping. I can stop anytime.
 
It has pretty good reviews on Amazon
so there.
 
I could satisfy you all at once.
Oh.
Was that too much?
 
17 one-star reviews.
> How arrogant a book. The title itself has a condesending tone with goldacre implying that he only practises science that is good.
So there.
I mean, QED.
 
"17 one-star reviews" doesn't mean anything other than 17 people in the whole world bothered to write a bad review.
 
7:40 PM
chops acres of codez
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 yeah, as in there are millions others who didn't bother to write a bad review.
(Someone help me and explain to Mr Shiny what a joke is. I'm suffering.)
 
You're suffering? I'm the one listening to someone make really poor jokes!
 
If only we had some boobs to lighten the mood.
Or lightning the mood?
 
robotic boobs?
 
I don't like my boobs talking.
 
7:46 PM
does that ever happen?
 
Well, mine don't.
 
my kids would sometimes try and talk while breastfeeding. that's almost the same thing.
 
This is all... very confusing.
 
What are the chances that I coded this correctly the first time?
 
7:52 PM
Wow. That actually worked.
 
See. Lucky number slevin.
 
sieben
 
Auch gut.
 
I think I will update the styles on my entry page and call it a day.
 
That's an odd thing to call a page.
 
7:55 PM
...actually, this looks much too complicated to frig with on a Friday afternoon.
considers
F-ck it. I'm leaving. See you all next week or later or something!
 
Oh noes! Next week? That's a long time.
Have fun.
 

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