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Mahnax

21:00

puts on parka

MετάEd

@Mahnax drapes Mahnax in black plastic garbage bags

aedia λ

Careful! Leave him some airholes!

Mahnax

gnaws airholes

We're good. Luckily I can type without seeing the ceenr.

scneer*

sreenc**

RegDwighт

@KitFox contiguous is boring. The geographic center of the US as a whole — now that is a 64k question.

KitFox

It's in North Dakota I think.

RegDwighт

21:04

North Dakota? Aren't you forgetting Hawaii?

I'd guess it would be off the coast of Washington.

Or even California.

Or perhaps Washington proper.

I really need to look up where Hawaii really is.

KitFox

Geographic center of the United States

[[Image:USCenterPop_Geographic2010.png|thumb|400px|Map showing the locations of the U.S. geographic center of area, mean center of population, and median center of population, 2010 (U.S. Census Bureau)]] While the exact centre of a landmass like the United States will be imprecise for a number or reasons, including such factors as the exact placement of thousands of miles of changing shoreline, the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has produced designated measurements for the center of the United States. From the time of the 1912 additions of New Mexico and Arizona, until the 1959 addi...

RegDwighт

@KitFox that's cheating.

KitFox

I told you it was in North Dakota.

We went to the Kansas one instead.

RegDwighт

@KitFox Wiki sez South Dakota, though.

KitFox

Oops. We were just south of it.

So I was remembering it as north of me.

We were in the Badlands and decided to visit Carhenge, so that one was in the wrong direction.

RegDwighт

21:09

KitFox

Yeah?

RegDwighт

Looking at the Hawaii article, I have a hard time believing it would be anywhere to the East of Nevada.

KitFox

A few very small islands.

Look more carefully at the parallels.

RegDwighт

Of course.

Mahnax

Bye for real, now.

KitFox

21:10

And then the longitude markers.

RegDwighт

That's what I'm saying, it all depends on what projection you have in your head.

It totally looks like you could stick in another US between Hawaii and Texas.

KitFox

Meh. Anyway, I've not been to that one.

I have to commute. Laters!~

RegDwighт

aedia λ

Bai!

Mechanical snail

@aediaλ Probably referring to gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/09/01/…

Mitch

21:23

@cornbreadninja Have you ever lost a starting matching with a cat? It's very humiliating. And winning...it's not like they feel bad, when they turn their eyes away it's like they're bored.

Mechanical snail

@Mitch Try with this one:

Mitch

When I see cats like that, at first it is shocking, then I think, man, that's way overreacting, really, you should keep it cool.

user19161

Is that a real cat?

Mechanical snail

@JasonBourne It's from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/…;.

MετάEd

I think it was some Grinnell College students who one time calculated the geographical center of Iowa, near the town of State Center, and went out in some farmer's field to plant a sign reading "Dead Center, Iowa".

But I can't find it on the Internet, so it didn't happen.

user19161

21:33

I am thinking, perhaps a square with a few colours would be more interesting.

user19161

However, my gimp skills are almost zero to even create that!

Mechanical snail

@JasonBourne Somebody should get a light tan square. Nobody will know you're in this room.

user19161

@Mechanicalsnail Is yours done with gimp?

Mechanical snail

@JasonBourne Yes.

I just fetched the 480x480 original from Gravatar and filled the colors, so you could do it with anything.

user19161

@Mechanicalsnail I find gimp and inkscape too unintuitive. There are 9000 buttons to choose from!

Mechanical snail

21:36

@JasonBourne Try Paint.

user19161

@Mechanicalsnail Not on Windows!

Mechanical snail

@JasonBourne Or any of its clones.

Matt Эллен

@JasonBourne inkscape is confusing, but persistence is key

aedia λ

@Mechanicalsnail Sadly, I'm not clever enough today to make a reference like that; I was just teasing Jasper about not recognizing me.

Mechanical snail

@JasonBourne apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/kolourpaint4

user19161

21:38

@aediaλ Well, if you had let your hair down, that would have been easier.

Mechanical snail

@aediaλ Interesting coincidence then.

aedia λ

@JasonBourne I've cut it! You'll be waiting a long time.

user19161

@aediaλ Is it as short as Ellen de Generes's now?

aedia λ

Uhh probably? I don't know how long her hair is exactly.

It's shorter than Kes in Voyager and maybe a little longer than Ianto in Torchwood, if that helps? I've only been watching sci-fi tv on Netflix lately.

user19161

Ah, no wonder I got confused!

user19161

21:42

It looked a little like Harry Potter there!

Mechanical snail

@RegDwighт You descend from a monkey. I descend from a dam.