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00:00
I see.
Hah.
00:15
probably not easy to talk oneself out of a mess without a head
Sometimes silence says it best.
maybe chat?
If you have a mantis-compatible keyboard.
And if the mantis can blind type.
00:35
@tchrist Hah.
@Robusto You were saying about copying?
Thief!
I'm going to sure you at the TAFTA tribunal!
@JohanLarsson Further proof that brains aren't necessary for procreation. In fact, they sometimes get in the way.
@Cerberus I have several patents on Hah as used in chat forums. You should have looked them up before pilfering my intellectual property.
I claim precedence based on eh...Homer.
> ἃ ἃ or ἇ ἇ, to express laughter, ha ha, E.Cyc.157, Pl.Com.16 (prob. l.), etc.; ἃ ἃ δασυνθὲν γέλωτα δηλοῖ Hsch., Phot., Eust.855.19.
I'm not making this up, although they cite only later sources such as Euripides.
Notice the spiritus asper above the alphas denoting /h/.
@Cerberus Whew, and here I thought you were going to sue me. (And yes, I waited till the statute of limitations ran out before pointing this out.)
You Devil.
Why didn't I run for moderator?
Oh, I remember.
00:43
@Cerberus Perhaps you would care for a pronoun? We have several choice ones on sale today.
I guess I ate myself this time.
Because you can.
a pronoun of ones own!
I have snake hair, yes.
@MattЭллен Owned by one's pronoun.
By the way, we have this television station called Pownet.
never! I shall die a free man
what is it about?
00:46
But everyone seems to pronounce it /'paʊ.net/.
@MattЭллен It's basically annoying populist television.
But it is public television.
Like pow-net.
But shouldn't it be like own-t?
@Cerberus yeah that's how I would pronounce it
00:47
Yeah.
@Cerberus I dunno
So I don't know how it was intended. The funniest explanation would be that the people who came up with the name didn't know that powned is pronounced as owned in English. (It is, right??)
I think so, or maybe sometime the p is pronounced
The founder is also a presenter on his own channel, and he gets paid € 230,000 a year by the state, because it's public television.
@MattЭллен Resulting in poe-nd?
As in Edgar Allan Poe?
@Cerberus yeah
00:50
@Cerberus That's not snake hair. That's the Worm of Ouroboros.
@Cerberus nice gig if you can get it!
@Robusto It's also my hair.
@MattЭллен Quite.
It's also ridiculous.
Pfft, I've seen your hair. You're @Cerberus, not @Medusa.
Which reminds me: What kind of cheese did Medusa prefer? Why, gorgonzola, of course!
00:52
Snake-haired, cheesey, athelte: gorgonzola budd
@Robusto I looked up the family tree, she's my aunt.
Now that you mention it, I do see a resemblance.
Thanks.
Now pretend to turn to stone, please.
01:09
@Robusto I have a question.
Shoot.
This bit from Glass's Akhnaten reminds me of Wagner's Valkyries.
Perhaps I am casting my nets too wide.
Or might he has been inspired by Wagner?
There is the very tense instrumental part, the repetition, the almost-shouting, the ending tone...
Inspired by? Not sure. Informed by? Certainly.
Right.
@Cerberus That is opera.
01:14
Do you think there are 100 similar arias (if that's what they are) that could have inspired Glass? Or is the similarity somewhat more pointed?
@Robusto Yes...but the way it is done...I don't know.
Could be I am biased.
Well, certainly.
Tsk.
What? This is clearly a by-the-numbers remake of Grease 2
Or that.
01:18
My friend in the choir said it was extremely hard on one's voice.
Because of the repetition.
I'm sure.
There was also a harp.
So gibt es immer.
Immer gibt's eine Harfe.
Also:
01:37
Was ist mit der Oper?
@Robusto It wasn't written to include a harp.
01:54
> € 608
posted on November 22, 2013 by sgdi

There once was a man with a stash He grew it with quite some panache He twiddled it gaily And washed it twice daily Its presence made one feel abashed

02:14
bitcoin?
02:30
Yes.
If I had more money to risk, I'd have put more into bitcoins.
02:50
What's your profit so far?
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Hi @Cerberus
Seen you after a long time. Hope you would be doing fine.
@Cerberus: How's cold there?
Here the temperature is too low.
@Robusto It's good.
@Sudhir Hi! It is 5 °C now.
You?
Its hovering around 15 C
Poor you!
Where in India are you again?
@Cerberus: Jaipur.
03:00
We will have 0 degrees tomorrow...
Ah OK.
Jaipur?
Right.
Yes
Looks like your temperatures will remain the same.
Let'see
Wow, it's still 25° in Bombay, at this hour?
We're accustomed to this type of weather.
03:03
Right.
Bombay is situated at the coastal region so the temp is up!
That website says it is about 1.5 degrees colder now in Jaipur than average.
Yes.
You speak Hindi, right?
Yes.
03:07
What do you think of the accent of these singers? How natural does it sound to you?
It is a cover, as you no doubt know.
Not sure.
But I guess its not natural.
Are their accents at least easy for you to understand?
Do their accents sound different from each other?
Yes, they do differ.
Can you guess what their native languages are?
A R Rehman is a great composer.
03:12
Yeah I like the song.
So how is your work life balanced?
We just got a new project, translating some Latin and some Italian. How are you doing?
Good here.
You're a SE?
Software Engineer?
Nope.
You?
I was. But not now.
Netherlands is a nice place.
03:22
It would be too cold for you!
Yeah.
But from development's perspective, quality of life it is too good.
The Hague is nice I guess.
If you had enough money, you could go everywhere by taxi.
The Hague is nice, but a little bit boring. Why, do you want to move to The Hague?
No, I don't want to move.
Its my feeling.
03:25
The buildings of parliament in The hague.
Wow! Amazing.
It also have ICJ.
How is inflation there?
Around 2%.
What yours?
Its around 7%-8%
Its best place to live.
I'm sure.
 
12 hours later…
15:18
Hi guys!
(Sorry, yesterday my laptop stopped working so I didn’t get to say Bye!)
Ok, a simple question:
“lives bestowed to a lighthouse” or “bestowed for a lighthouse”?
Context: *I shall never forget the sheer hard work of all the lives bestowed to the lighthouse*
Thanks!
15:37
@TimTimmy It seems to me that the work was bestowed, not the lives, unless you mean to say that people died in the act of building (or maintaining, etc.) said lighthouse. In any case, bestowed doesn't feel like the right word here.
@Robusto people died in the act of building
What about bestowed upon?
@TimTimmy In that case you might do better with bequeathed. In which case it was the lighthouse that was bequeathed to whoever got use of it—bequeathed by the people who gave their lives.
Bestowed feels too trivial for the emotion you are trying to convey.
@Robusto Thanks a lot! :)
15:56
@tchrist, @RegDw: I've been listening to a lot of Aaron Copland lately, and renewing my appreciation for his gifts (simple and otherwise). I've always admired his use of counterpoint. Examples here and here and the beginning of this.
But really, all the way through his works you find gems like those. Two (or more) lines, each of which can stand on its own and is of different character, merge to form something greater than either.
Ah, better get my ass in gear. Too much to do.
16:33
Hello.
16:53
@Cerberus Hi Cerberus! Sorry, I have to go! :)
Uhh you don't have to say hi when you're leaving.
Maintenant j'ai revenu!
Je suis entrain de faire du francais!
Is is "entrain" or "en train"?
en train
Or at least, it used to be.
Danke tchrist!
17:08
Glad I'm not going crazy.
Someone must take care of French speling.
@Cerberus Entrain – beacoup d’enthousiasme
In this case, en train means I am currently doing something.
@tchrist Sorry I can no longer correct my comment! :)
I knew that.
It was a euphemism for "you mistyped en train".
Thanks :P
How many languages do you know?
Depends on your definition of "know"?
How many do you know?
17:26
> With the new Maps, Apple executives were apparently under the illusion that they had a great product—which went over like a lead balloon with customers. Tim Cook subsequently apologized, but nothing much happened to improve the situation. (The main train stations in Amsterdam and The Hague are still missing from Apple Maps to this day.)
Is this actually true??
@Mahnax You have a Iphone, could you verify this for me? If you search for "amsterdam centraal" and "den haag centraal", do you get the train stations?
I actually find this hard to believe, because half the people here have Iphones, and I have never heard about this.
17:42
@Cerberus Yes, but those people know where the train station is.
@tchrist But they may want to look up when the trains depart. Or what the fastest route is to get there by car from somewhere.
Them eh? Yes, they may.
Whenever I look up a location, it is 99 % of the time in preparation of planning a journey.
Because the travel distance is usually the only relevant fact about an address.
I don't really use a map just for looking up a place any more.
 
4 hours later…
21:25
@Cerberus I always look up when a train (or especially an airplane) is departing. I want to make sure it doesn't land on me.
@Mitch You always look up when a train is departing? How many times per second is that, on average? Did you have a robotic neck installed?
@Cerberus I get it. But I'm using an older iphone. Maybe all the locals have old iphones and that's how they know how to show up at the trainstation. Old people in wheel chairs pointing down the street directly at the station and their teenage kids texting in one hand pushing in the other wondering where everything is and accidentally pushing Dad into the canal.
The important thing I get is Restaurant Smits Koffiehuis. That sounds really good right now.
And do you also count trains in other galaxies? Trains that are a cluster of organisms? And how about in parallel universes?
@Cerberus Don't be silly. I don't count trains. I have no opinion whatsoever of trains.
@Mitch Hmm that is possible...but...don't many people have the latest version of IOS already on their phones, even on Iphones 4(S)? Or was the old Google Maps kept intact if it was already installed?
@Mitch Then how do you determine when to look up? A train could be departing from any planet in the universe right now!
...and another one!
woosh
21:33
@Cerberus -Always- But I'm not near trains enough to have it adversely affect my neck to the point where I need artificial support. I asked my doctor and that's what he said verbatim.
Wait, you have to be near them?
That's cheating.
@Cerberus Exactly. I hear it. Then look up. If it's going over my head I usually scream. Unless I was drinking coffee. I've learned my lesson.
Too easy.
By the way, Smits Koffiehuis? What is that about?
A koffiehuis is hardly a restaurant, and, what is more, I have never heard of it, so it can't be good.
@Cerberus Look man, we're talking reality here. There are more faraway trains than nearaway ones. I have limits. I am finite. I contain a very small number of multitudes.
@Cerberus non sequitur. There are so many things in this world not in your 'heard-of-it'ness, that are not just passable, but maybe even slightly above mediocre.
Well as to a restaurant/koffiehuis, all I can say is that it is in a train station after all. I needn't say more.
@Mitch Since when is reality fun? This is a chat room, not a reality church.
21:39
Extreme dilemma at hand.. dinner or snack? I had a snack (tea and cake) after lunch. And I have some left over. It's not exactly dinner time yet, but if I have leftover tea and cake snack now then that might mess upthe dinner thing. Are you ready? Analysis - go!
@Mitch but do you contain all the trains?
Ah, that building. I know the building, but not Smits Koffiehuis.
@Mitch Are you on a diet? If not, snack!
@Cerberus Ha ha. your first (and possibly last) error, my foe! You've have made the mistake of assuming a church is not about reality. It has reality all in it and around it. A lot of um ideas about it too. But those ideas are real too. What those ideas are about...totally different story.
Oh, you meant that metaphorically. Like reality police?
@MattЭллен No.
@Mitch I said "church of reality". How does that imples that a church is not about reality?
There's a psychological disease where people eat particular objects, like forks or coins. I'm sure there are people who ingest little toy trains.
I am not one of them.
In case you were wondering.
@Cerberus What the train station? I know, you can find it on google maps, but only with iOS4 or before.
@Cerberus We're all on a diet. Unless you're constantly chewing and swallowing. Hmm, I guess that could be considered a diet, the Guinness-World-Book-of-Records diet.
@Cerberus You're twisting my words around ... arrghhhh! tries to chew off own tongue
21:45
@Mitch Are you just saying that, or are you serious and have you actually tested it?
Ow, that hurts, biting your tongue.
@Cerberus I was screwing around a little, but yes, I tested -only- on my phone which has iOS 4. I don't know about anything else.
OK so you don't know whether phones with higher versions actually lack those train stations?
OK...do you recommend the 'Blues Brothers' Coffee shop? right across from the Flying Pig Downtown hostel.
on Hasselaerssteeg (or whatever street that turns in to).
22:19
posted on November 23, 2013 by sgdi

A man was alone in the dark Waiting for a short bright spark To give him some hope That he wasn’t a dope For believing an off hand remark

@Mitch Umm I wouldn't know, I don't visit tourist places. Do you, in your own city?
@Cerberus Good point. I never went to Battle Green in Lexington until some out-of-town visitors wanted to see it.
I used to go to Walden Pond a lot when the kids were little, though.
Exactemundo.
Would I like Battle Green? What is it, a green?
A golf course where a battle took place?
The Lexington Battle Green, properly known as Lexington Common, is the site of the opening shots of the American Revolution in 1775 during the Battle of Lexington. The Common had been purchased by subscription of some of the town's leading citizens in 1711. In 1775 local militiamen emerged from Buckman Tavern adjacent to the common and formed two rows on the common to face arriving British troops. The militiamen suffered the first casualties of the American Revolution when the two sides exchanged fire. The Battle Green is located at the center of Lexington, Massachusetts, and serves as ...
@Cerberus I know what you're saying, but in this very particular circumstance...yeah I often go through the train station because that's where the commuter train goes.
22:31
When I was doing research for my 11th century historical novel I visited the site of the Battle of Stamford Bridge (East Yorkshire), only to find it was currently in use as a cricket pitch. A small sign on one end was all the evidence that a great battle had been fought there. There's scant evidence of a lot of the historical events that have taken place in England. Try to find the location of the Battle of Bosworth Field, for example. Commemoration seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon.
Also, one often has relatives staying at local hotels...but yeah I guess you wouldn't put up Mum and Dad in a hostel. Unless they're into that sort of thing.
@Robusto It's not at Bosworth Field?
That's like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?"
> Officially the site of the battle is deemed by Leicestershire County Council to be in the vicinity of the town of Market Bosworth. The council engaged historian Daniel Williams to research the battle, and in 1974 his findings were used to build the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and the presentation it houses. Williams's interpretation, however, has since been questioned ... [and] ... a dispute among historians has led many to suspect the accuracy of Williams's theory.[
Oh...yeah, I don't know where Grant's Tomb is either.
The Bronx?
I thought it was in Galena, Illinois, but I could be wrong.
Close!
22:34
No, you were closer. It's actually in Morningside Heights, in NYC.
Upper Manhattan is close enough to the Bronx.
General Grant National Memorial (as designated by the United States Congress), better known as Grant's Tomb, is a granite and marble mausoleum containing the remains of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), American Civil War General and 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902). The tomb complex in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City is a presidential memorial managed by the National Park Service. The structure is situated in a prominent location near the intersection of Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street, ...
You can see the Bronx from there.
Maybe.
If there aren't buildings in the way.
> Comedian Groucho Marx often asked contestants on his radio and television show You Bet Your Life who was buried in Grant's Tomb. The riddle is based on the use of the word "buried." The correct answer is "no one," since Grant and his wife are entombed in sarcophagi above ground in an atrium rather than being buried in the ground.
You'd probably want to quickly turn away though.
@Robusto I hear he took candy from kids too.
Could be.
Forgive this non-native speaker's ignorance, but are there cases where "addressed at" is preferred over "addressed to"?
Is the former even proper English to begin with?
22:58
@Robusto Or it is rather that the density of battle sites in England is too high.
@Lord_Farin Hi!
Welcome.
Adressed at is not an idiomatic expression like addressed to.
It does occur when you want to indicate the location where the process of addressing took place.
> She addressed the council at the palace.
But the destination is expressed by to.
@Mitch I wouldn't designate the train station as a tourist place.
@Cerberus Many thanks. I was in doubt, but after a while I realised it was probably as you said. Again, thanks for clearing my doubts.
23:14
@Lord_Farin 'Twas a pleasure, do visit us again!
Awwwww.
Very.
I love the one where Randy bites Loren's ear.
I'm assuming Lauren to be the golden one and Randir the grey one.
Yes.
23:15
By the way, is Lauren also an Anglification?
Or is it actually morphologically correct in ehh its native language?
Lorin and Randy. Olorin and Mithrandir. Lauren would be golden.
Well, and is.
They roughhouse ferociously.
@Cerberus I will. It's nice to be among fellow language enthusiasts.
On my bed when I want to go to sleep.
So the Lorin is an Anglified version of Olorin?
23:17
Yes.
@Lord_Farin Yay!
OK.
Can't you say their official names are Olórin and Mithrandir, abbreviated as you see fit?
They’re growing.
@Cerberus In the (perhaps unlikely) event that you need help with something mathematical, please reciprocate the visit :).
I can say that, yes.
We named our parents' cats Victoria and Isabella (after the queens), but it's usually Vicky and Isa.
23:19
Ah yes.
@Lord_Farin I will!
Comme ça.
But we would introduce them as Victoria and Isabella!
Some people would address me by an abbreviation of my name, but I would never ever introduce myself as such.
They’re watching the snow fall in those pictures of them gazing outside.
Cute.
Why do their have collars btw?
23:21
Lorin’s eyes are golden; Randy’s are grey-green.
@Cerberus In any case, time to go to bed. Have a pleasant day, people!
They have collars so that I can find them.
They have little bells on them.
macbook# colorgrep grey green
glaucous: Of a dull or pale green color passing into greyish blue

hazel: The reddish brown color of a ripe hazel-nut. Of this color;
used esp. of eyes.  Cit: 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist.  (1776) II. 82 "The
different colors of the eye are the dark hazle, the light hazle, the
green, the blue, the grey, the whitish grey."

mignonette: A color resembling that of the flowers of mignonette;
greyish green or greenish white.

tea: a shade of greyish green resembling the color of tea
The bells are the key.
Without the bells, I’d never find them.
@Lord_Farin Night!
@tchrist Ah OK, I see.
23:25
I never introduce myself by my full name. It is too long. A double-dactyl, in fact.
Please don’t be poetic.
@Cerberus I’d’ve used Bella.
MïnBy best typo today!
@tchrist What does that matter?
You only do it once with people.
I guess etiquette varies.
@tchrist It might have been Bella. But somehow it became Isa.
My friend's dog became Bella.
”Call me Tom” is normal.
Why "call me"?
We just say "Joe Average", and nothing else, as an introduction.
@JohanLarsson Uhh...
why so uhh? I just thought i looked nice
23:34
"Uhhh" as in "weird!".
Who accidentally types a trema?
And what is it supposed to be?
Jez
Jez
weird
@Cerberus first time it happened to me, that I can remember. Supposed to be MinBy.
Fukken commas. I think I just get them wrong in different ways every time.
@JohanLarsson Ah...and what is MinBy?
@JohanLarsson Funny that you should say fukken.
public static T MïnBy<T>(this IEnumerable<T> list, Func<T, IComparable> test)
{
    var array = list as T[] ?? list.ToArray();
    var min = test(array.First());
    T minItem = array.First();
    foreach (var item in array)
    {
        if (test(item).CompareTo(min) < 0)
            minItem = item;
    }
    return minItem;
}
23:45
In Dutch we say fucking, sometimes fokking.
@JohanLarsson Funny. So how did that happen? How do you type a trema by accident?
var youngest = persons.MinBy(x=>x.Age);
@Cerberus Can't reproduce, woman was feeding me wine to stop my coding
She knows that nagging about me to stop is pointless. Getting me a lil drunk usually leads to me giving up.
Haha.
Smart.
Damn, fond errors in the code, too late to delete it now
More tremata?
Cedilles, perhaps?
Cuneiform?
@JohanLarsson that's a dreadful implementation. What's with the array?

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