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chatkillah
chatkillah
12:02 AM
@MετάEd each of the brass balls at Royals stadium is six feet across.
Brass-colored, that is.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@simchona Have you read Prudie yet? I love what she says about a letter-writer's girlfriend:
> I’ve only known your girlfriend for one paragraph, but I’m already exhausted by her.
And she is right.
 
user19161
I have a question regarding edits. If a low rep user submits one for approval and we click improve, will the edit history show both him and us?
 
user19161
Hey @chatkillah ping ping!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I have no idea!
 
user19161
@Cerberus Thanks, I know he will still get +2 from it though.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
12:10 AM
Oh OK.
If I were SE, I would make it show two separate edits, one by the user, and the next one by your, the improver.
 
user19161
Yeah I think that seems to be the case already, but never mind.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Fools. There are no antelope in Montana outside of exotic wild-animal parks.
 
user19161
-1
Q: One word to sum up or describe "a bad boy"

user38041I'm looking for a word that sums up or describes "a bad boy". A young guy who is confident, aggressive in personality, punky, rebellious, a bit rough around the edges, a bit badass. Preferably a word that is not commonly used or includes profanity.

single-word-requests slang
 
user19161
This is pretty weird.
 
user19161
What's wrong with being confident? Is that bad?
 
user19161
12:13 AM
Someone who is punky is a punk, someone who is rebellious is a rebel, QED.
 
MετάEd
MετάEd
@JacobBlack I looked at one I edited and approved. The suggested edit shows up as an edit; my edit of the edit shows up as a separate edit.
@Cerberus That seems to be exactly what they do.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Great minds things alike?
 
user19161
@MετάEd Ah but did you do the edit after you approved, or did you click "improve"?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Then again, SE are not exactly great.
 
MετάEd
MετάEd
@JacobBlack I clicked "improve". It's listed in my "review edit" history.
 
user19161
12:15 AM
@MετάEd Aha, thanks. I am just doing some detective work on the other site...
 
MετάEd
MετάEd
I could check a few more.
 
user19161
@MετάEd Nah, don't waste your time.
 
MετάEd
MετάEd
If you have the XP to look at the edit review queue, you should just check a few that are marked "Edit" rather than "Approve".
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
> As a result of an ongoing dispute between Google (YouTube's parent company) and GEMA, the primary German performance rights organization, a number of Russian YouTube videos have been blocked from within Germany. The reason? These videos contain background music playing from a Russian car radio.
> This is just the latest example of a ridiculous situation that has developed in Germany. According to a recent study by OpenDataCity, more than 60 percent of the top 1,000 YouTube videos are unavailable in Germany because Google assumes the music rights might be owned by GEMA.
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
@JacobBlack hello!
I wonder how many babies will be born in this town roughly nine months from today.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
12:28 AM
Haha lots!
 
user19161
@chatkillah Why?
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
4 hours ago, by chatkillah
user image
 
user19161
@chatkillah So people make babies when it snows? lol
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
@JacobBlack you bet they do. I think August and September have the highest birth rate.
 
user19161
After doing some detective work on another site, I conclude that someone just told me a lie.
 
user19161
12:32 AM
@chatkillah Yeah, that's when we were born. =)
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
@JacobBlack :D
 
user19161
@chatkillah So did you celebrate V day with Tim?
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
@JacobBlack yes. He had school that night, though
BBL. Grocery store. Maybe.
 
simchona
simchona
@Cerberus Yup! I had a similar convo with friends yesterday
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Oh haha.
 
tchrist
tchrist
12:42 AM
-1
A: Are there differences in the accent of NY and California English?

aminyeah i think there is difference between various accents in the US. specially from east to west. but there is something that should be said, we mostly watch movies that have been made in cities that are located in west of THE US and it makes us so familiar with this accent. thank you

 
MετάEd
MετάEd
@JacobBlack ISTR this is traditionally true ... even more so in the past when the nights were long and dark and you didn't need to sleep all that time ...
 
tchrist
tchrist
@MετάEd No flirting in this chat.
 
user19161
@tchrist Both of us are straight dude.
 
simchona
simchona
@JacobBlack You need either a comma or an s
 
tchrist
tchrist
@JacobBlack Non setiqueer
 
MετάEd
MετάEd
12:44 AM
@JacobBlack As a matter of fact, yes ... but how would you know?
 
tchrist
tchrist
@MετάEd Salty ducks.
 
user19161
@MετάEd I have ESP.
 
tchrist
tchrist
longjmp( jmpbufs[ int( rand() * sizeof(jmpbufs) ) ], int( rand() * getpid() ) );
 
aedia λ
aedia λ
1:05 AM
Amazing fast Beethoven.
Now back to our regularly scheduled laundry.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@aediaλ "Laundry", I see.
45 mins ago, by chatkillah
I wonder how many babies will be born in this town roughly nine months from today.
 
tchrist
tchrist
@aediaλ Get “Beethoven or Bust”.
Beethoven or Bust
Beethoven or Bust, Music of Beethoven as realized by Don Dorsey on digital and other authentic period synthesizers. Track listing # "Rondo a Capriccio in G major Op. 129 'Rage Over a Lost Penny'" #; Mixed Bagatelles # "No. 6, in G major; Andante-Allegretto" #* from Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119 # "No. 2, in G minor; Allegro" #* from Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 # "No. 7, in A-Flat major; Presto" #* from Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 #; Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" # "I. Adagio sostenuto" # "II. Allegretto" # "III. Presto agitato" # Various Variations (from 15 "Eroica" ...
The 3rd movement of the Moonlight is wacked, too. Molto agitato in its prestissimo.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
pops head in Hello, all. :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
 
simchona
simchona
@WendiKidd Hi!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
1:20 AM
@simchona Hi! waves I'm listening to the linked beethoven song; it's pretty :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
That’s the Don Dorsey version.
A bit spazzy.
If that’s too modern for you, try this instead:
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@tchrist Haha I love the electronic sound of that first one!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
OMG look who it is!
hides
If I was secretly being naughty in this room, please don't spank me.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@Cerberus LOL! simchona said I might find you here ;)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
hides in sack
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
1:29 AM
Haha. Why hide from me? What did I do? ;)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I don't know.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
:)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I mean, I didn't do it!!
Please!
I won't do it again, I promise.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Methinks the Cerberus doth protest too much.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Noooo...
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:30 AM
sacks Cerb
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Haha. See, your punishment has arrived!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
But I needed the job!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
You crack me up : D
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
peeks out of sack
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Hahaha
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
1:31 AM
slides back into sack
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
pokes sack with stick You all right in there?
 
tchrist
tchrist
sends him back into the sachsenherbe
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
By the way, I am not a city, and I am poor, so stop trying to sack me already!
 
tchrist
tchrist
Mood music:
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Those fleas don't technically count as a population.
Nor do their burrows count as hice.
What kind of a weird instrument is that!?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
1:34 AM
I was thinking more of a football sack, you see.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It sounds... shudders electronic.
A football sack? But I don't know anything about football!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Oh, don't say that! Electronic music can be good. Click the third song up that tchrist posted, I liked it
 
tchrist
tchrist
No, but their boroughs count as hamlets.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
That's foul play.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
A step up from fowl play, though.
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:36 AM
pops popcorn for the chickflick
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah, chicks deserve respect and dignity.
Not grabbing and poking their you-know-whats.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@tchrist Was that Fugue song you posted in Fantasia, do you know? It sounds familiar and that's where I think I might have heard it?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Um. Yeah.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Haha. I know little of classical music, sorry, but watched Fantasia a lot as a kid
 
tchrist
tchrist
BWV 565.
That isn’t Classical music.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
1:38 AM
No?
 
tchrist
tchrist
It’s Baroque.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Ah, so I know less than I thought then ;)
Still pretty though!
 
tchrist
tchrist
Medieval. Renaissance. Baroque. Classical. Romantic. Impressionist.
In that order.
Then you get into random oscillations of neo-this and neo-that.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Funny that people who don't know about music just lump it all in the "Classical" category. Wonder why that is? At any rate, it's all very pretty. I should click the 'related' links on Youtube and listen to it more often :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
The Classical period was a reaction against the excesses of the Baroque, just as the Romantic period was a reaction against the excessive straitlacèdness of the Classical.
It’s all form the common practice era. That’s what non-musicians are calling “classical”. You might call it “serious” music, I suppose.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
1:42 AM
This is a bit misleading.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
It's all very pretty, though!
@Cerberus How so?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It is rather that classical has two different meanings.
 
tchrist
tchrist
An author I esteem has a world in which the two different types of music are “compositional” vs “social”.
Serious vs popular, if you would.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@tchrist That's actually a really interesting way of looking at it. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It can mean either all "sophisticated", cultured music in the great European tradition, or the sub-period within the former between ca. 1700 and 1800.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
1:43 AM
@Cerberus Yes, which is what I think we non-music people tend to consider it as.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Yeah.
But that definition is widely used by musicians too—just not when contrasting periods within the aforementioned larger tradition.
When you say "classical music" in no particular context, you mean the larger tradition.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Makes sense to me! Learn new stuff every day :)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
When you contrast it with Baroque, you use its narrower meaning.
Yay!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Yupyup. I think I've listened to that song about five times now on a loop, LOL
I also think @simchona deserted us!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Oh, dear.
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:46 AM
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@tchrist What book is that from?? I kind of want to read it now.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Have you read Dumas?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I haven't, no.
I started the Count of Monte Cristo once when I was younger but never got very far, I forget why
 
tchrist
tchrist
Ah. It is from a retelling of the Musketeers tale, complete with a trilogy of three tales the third of which is published in three volumes, in a fantasy (well, scifi of the might-as-well-be-magic) world. Each book is represented, and the language is exquisite and witty to the point of falling on the floor laughing your ass off.
It’s Steven Brust’s Khaavren Romances.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
That sounds like a great read! I'll have to check it out, thanks :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:50 AM
Although the citation above is actually from Tiassa.
The Dumas stuff starts with Phoenix Guards.
There are two story lines that converge in Tiassa. The other line is the Taltos line, which begins in Jhereg.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I'll find a copy of the first book and let you know once I've read it :)
Oh, it's two series together then?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Read either Jhereg or Phoenix Guards and see if you like them.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
All right, will do :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
Yes, each is a separate series. There are a few overlapping characters. In Tiassa, it all converges.
But you should never read it first.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Oh, I wouldn't! That's like reading the last page before the book ;)
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:52 AM
All the Vlad Taltos books have exactly 17 chapters.
All the Khaavren books are two "books", each of 17 chapters, so 34 each.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Which do you like better?
 
tchrist
tchrist
The Vlad books are shorter. They are available in omnibus versions, so 2 or 3 books under one cover.
Hm.
At first I liked the Vlad books better. I might still. The Khaavren stuff grows on you. It is set at an early time full of cavaliers and courtiers.
Swashbuckling.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Nice! : D
 
tchrist
tchrist
Whereas Vlad is part of a crime syndicate, where he meets his wife, and they eventually get out of it. But it is funny as hell.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I could use some funny right now, so I suppose I'll start with that :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:55 AM
Yes, start with Jhereg. Highly recommended.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
All right, will do! :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
Also very clever.
A fun, easy, and engaging read.
And short: only 17 chapters in each book.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Amazon amuses me very much. These are the prices it lists for the first version of Jhereg that shows up on search:
$99.93 new (8 offers) $0.01 used (70 offers) $5.66 collectible (1 offer)
.....right, because that makes perfect sense.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Well....
It was originally published in the late 80s, so that first printing is hard to come by.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
In which case the $99 price makes sense, but the $0.01 certainly doesn't ;)
 
tchrist
tchrist
1:58 AM
You might look at the omnibus version, published as The Book of Jhereg, which is Jhereg, Yendi, and one other; Teckla, perhaps.
The omnibus edition is still in print.
They got tired of publishing such “short” books.
It’s nice to see you looking for something in print.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
$12 for 3 books? Sold ;)
 
tchrist
tchrist
I have a pair of friends whom I gave the entire collection to, in the original printings, as a wedding present.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Oh, that's a great gift!
 
tchrist
tchrist
Three are like 19 Vlad books, and 5*2 + 1 Khaavren books.
But the 19th Vlad book and the 11th Khaavren book are the same book, Tiassa.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I like to stop by half priced books every once in a while and check for the earlier printings of Isaac Asmiov's books. For some reason it's more fun for me to read them that way than to buy the newer printings. I haven't read all his works yet because I figure I have time to spread them out, and finding them like that is an adventure :)
Well I'll definitely start with the first 3 Vlad ones and go from there :)
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:01 AM
Yes, one of the two married people said how much more convenient the little individual books were from the original printing.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Yes, definitely!
Where are you hiding, @Cerberus? ;P
 
tchrist
tchrist
Steven Brust
Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. He is best known for his novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos. His novels have been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Czech, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Bulgarian. Most of his short stories are set in shared universes. These include Emma Bull's and ...
He actually writes very nice novels with his friends sometimes, too, which almost nobody manages.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Oh, the series isn't complete yet? That's even more to look forward to in that case!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
in sack
 
tchrist
tchrist
He’s in the middle of Hawk, which is um, the 14th Vlad book. There shall be 17.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
2:05 AM
@Cerberus Oh, come on now. You can't hide in there forever! Come out and talk to us, silly.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Oh, 19 maybe.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@tchrist 19 says wikipedia, at any rate!!
 
tchrist
tchrist
Cerb stays up later than I do, and I’m 8 timezones west of him.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Haha, that's a feat!
Dost thou ever sleep, Cerberus?
 
tchrist
tchrist
There are 17 Great Houses. Plus one book for Vlad himself (Taltos) and one for the Final Contract.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:06 AM
pretends to be sleeping inside sack
 
tchrist
tchrist
Brust is something of a stylist. He tries very different things. And pretty much succeeds.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@Cerberus pokes sack with pointy stick Come out come out wherever you are.....
 
tchrist
tchrist
He wrote an epistolary novel with Emma Bull called Freedom and Necessity.
Stuff like that.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@tchrist I'm envious of that. I've always wanted to be a writer but never managed to finish a novel.
 
tchrist
tchrist
And his books are full of Easter Eggs.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
2:07 AM
Ha, nice!
 
tchrist
tchrist
He used to be a programmer, and was part of the Dave Arneson-derived D&D crowd from the Twin Cities.
Roger Zelazny is one of his heroes. But then, isn’t he everyone’s?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Hey! That hurts,
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@Cerberus Well if you'd just wake up I wouldn't have to poke you with a stick now would I? ;)
@tchrist A writer and a programmer! A man after my own heart ;)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Aaaagh!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
See, awake now. Much better. Speak, mortal!
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:12 AM
Uh oh.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Hm?
 
tchrist
tchrist
I fear you have just made a Titanic error.
2
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
How so?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Wraaaahhh!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@.@
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:13 AM
How dare you accuse me of mortality!?
2
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Ummmmm
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
stamps paw
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Sorry?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Okay.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Haha. Glad that's all settled then ;)
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:13 AM
He’s really Typhoid Larry, you know.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
grumbles for a few more minutes, then forgets
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Haha, of course he is.
 
tchrist
tchrist
I wouldn’t chidya..
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@Cerberus I humbly beg your forgiveness, I had no idea you were immortal. I apologize for implying otherwise (but retain the right to poke you with sticks whenever I so choose)
 
tchrist
tchrist
I still think he goes boozing with Orcus, though.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
2:15 AM
Haha
 
tchrist
tchrist
If you really want to rile him, all you have to do is post Herc pr0n.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
LOL.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
It's OK. I have already forgotten the whole incident.
I mean, what incident?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Not part elephant, then?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:22 AM
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Support PPP, the organisation that is fighting for Americans to protect themselves against bully lawsuits.
The video explains it. It's quite important.
The appearance of the guy presenting it doesn't hurt either!
 
tchrist
tchrist
I love looking through Cerb’s family albums.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Is that mommy?
 
tchrist
tchrist
Aye.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
LOL!!!!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:27 AM
Or at least someone named after mommy.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Good thing it’s mommy; if she had been your daddy, he’d’ve had a four-pronged penis.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Uhh.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
throws sack back on Cerberus
 
tchrist
tchrist
> Male echidnas have a four-headed penis. During mating, the heads on one side "shut down" and do not grow in size; the other two are used to release semen into the female's two-branched reproductive tract. The heads used are swapped each time the mammal copulates.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
eats sack
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:28 AM
@Cerberus ICK!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
That's.....really odd and kind of gross
Yeah LOL
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Prudes.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
No, that just does not sound like fun at all
 
tchrist
tchrist
But Cerb, as we all know, is shy one head.
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
@Cerberus watches
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
2:30 AM
gives Cerberus new sack since he ate the old one
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
eats cordial blueberries
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Yumm
All I've got is M&Ms ;)
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
Those are tasty!
I sort of miss light brown.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@tchrist Now who's icky.
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
it looked so nice with dark brown and orange, the way that reese's pieces do.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:32 AM
fills new sack with M&Ms
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Reese's pieces are DELICIOUS.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
What do you think this is, and why is it funny?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
M&Ms and a plane?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Totally unrelated.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Erebor?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:33 AM
I just stumbled upon it.
There are enough clues in the image to figure out what it is about.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Is it one of those new drone thingies everyone's arguing about?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Close...
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
But what is remarkable about the plane? And what is the significance of the top picture?
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
@Cerberus Plane missing.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:35 AM
Yes...
And what does that tell you?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I dunno much about the plane. All I can figure out about the top picture is that it's darker and has less snow
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
Peak.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
OH!
I just saw it!
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
Aw, you flew that thing over Kansas City today, didn't you?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
@.@
zomg
It craaaashed
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:35 AM
You don't need to know anything about the plane except that it is a plane, and who its supposed creators are.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Oh, then maybe I'm wrong
It looks like there's a plane-crash-shaped void in the top picture's snow
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
What's going on in the cockpit?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Nope.
 
tchrist
tchrist
An <ISLAMOCENSORED> supersonic jet armed with nuclear warheads.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I dunno who created it. And yeah I can't tell what's in the cockpit either
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:36 AM
No crash, and the details of the plane itself are not important.
@WendiKidd There is a clue about the country. I meant the country. Tchrist got that part.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Umm
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@tchrist It is indeed a (supposed) Iranian jet.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Then is it that the F-313 is not iranian letters, so someone faked it?
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
What is the relation between the two images, you think?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Gah I don't know. You've got me
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:38 AM
@WendiKidd No, no, the details of the plane itself are not important.
 
tchrist
tchrist
Oh.
Actually, the lower one is exactly the upper one.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
One was released in x media, and one in another.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@tchrist Ding!
And what does that tell you?
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
Oh the plane was photoshopped in?
 
tchrist
tchrist
2:39 AM
Fancy camera. :)
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
You can see the cloud formations and the viewing angle are 100 % the same.
@WendiKidd Ding!!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I knew they were the same mountain, I was playing spot-the-difference lol
 
tchrist
tchrist
Also the snow and mist and ice-fog patches in the crevices on the mountain are identical.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
So how credible does that make the existence of the purported Iranian home-built jet?
 
tchrist
tchrist
You never get identical fog.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:40 AM
Not very!!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I'm going to go with "not very credible".
Also like the monkey-into-space thing
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
So you figured it out together.
Congratulations!
@WendiKidd Like that!
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
I think the space monkey thing is just stupid. You couldn't pick two monkeys that looked similar if you were going to lie?
It's just ridiculous. No brainpower whatsoever went into that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
nods
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
2:57 AM
also this mudcu.be/piano
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:15 AM
I feel like ELU has sapped my ability to generate answers longer than a quip.
I used to write quality answers of serious length.
Now I don’t any more. Much.
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A: Multilingual text sorting in Perl, on Windows, using locale

tchristAssuming that your starting point is Unicode, because you have been very careful to decode all incoming data no matter what its native encoding might be, then it is easy to use to the Unicode::Encode module as a starting point. If you want locale tailoring, then you probably want to start with...

So I decided to take out my frustrations on SO instead. :)
I just got the spelling badge. I feel like a gradeschooler again.
Except we’re grownups now so we spell spelling in Latin: orthography.
Huh, it’s not very common, either:
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:30 AM
Wow, the bat signal is on fire on SO:
Hm, not as bad as I feared, just people who can’t do normal closes, mostly:
What they want us to do with “too many comments”, I have no idea.
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:51 AM
> "Star Trek" star William Shatner and tens of thousands of the show's fans are leading a charge to name one of Pluto's newly discovered moons after the character Spock's home planet. Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on the Starship Enterprise on the program launched in 1966, proposed the name earlier this month in response to an appeal from scientists for help in choosing the names of two newly discovered Pluto moons.
> As of Wednesday, Vulcan was the clear front runner, receiving more than 100,000 out of more than 330,000 votes cast. ... Shatner: "We are approaching 120K votes for Vulcan on PlutoRocks.com! Have you voted today?" reference
How come it gets to have moons if it isn’t even a planet? :)
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
I was just typing something to that effect.
Also this.
 
tchrist
tchrist
A foot?
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
At least.
 
tchrist
tchrist
We have this dense ice-fog right now.
Notice how the sun doesn’t have any moons, either.
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
4:06 AM
@tchrist yag.
 
WendiKidd
WendiKidd
4:26 AM
Pretty snow!
 
aedia λ
aedia λ
4:36 AM
Oh man. My MIL sent me a Tom Baker scarf. And I've been watching Star Wars + documentaries (another early present) til my eyes bleed. I feel like this might be a good year.
Also, my snow has mostly melted. Sorry @chatkillah; I suppose you've got it now.
 
chatkillah
chatkillah
4:49 AM
@aediaλ ._.
@WendiKidd there are stairs under there somewhere.
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
7:35 AM
Wow, I step away for a spell and it fills up with junk.
Ever wonder why we can’t take out a bounty on NS, complete with pin-up posters for the post office? :)
 
Sudhir
Sudhir
7:57 AM
Hi @tchrist
 
 
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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
9:14 AM
Do "obviously apparent" and "deceptively apparent" have opposite meanings?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
@skullpatrol yes, the first is a tautology, the second is an oxymoron
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
@MattЭллен I don't understand this opposition: «it is apparent that…» and «it is only apparent that….»
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
one says X is apparent, the other says that only X is apparent
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Doesn't the word "apparent" mean "appears"?
 
Matt Эллен
Matt Эллен
e.g. "it is apparent that monkeys have tails" — you can tell that monkeys have tails.
"it is only apparent that monkeys have tails" — the only thing you can tell is that monkeys have tails.
@skullpatrol sometimes
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
9:34 AM
1. Clearly visible or understood; obvious. <---- must be true, nothing to prove

2. Seeming real or true, but not necessarily so.<---- maybe true
@MattЭллен
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
9:53 AM
@tchrist So "obviously apparent" and "seemingly apparent" would be better?
 
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