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RegDwighт

21:00

The Pantheon or what it's called.

Though actually you're right in that I've never been to the Louvre, either.

tchrist

I’ve been only once, and so long ago I forget everything.

Been to the Prado more than a dozen times, and barely remember more of it. That was 30 years ago.

Mitch

@Cerberus Yeah...I don't understand how that happened.

tchrist

Had free entrance, and it was on the walk home from school.

RegDwighт

@tchrist now now, if anyone, then the Spanish did keep their dynasties as straight as possible.

> Charles descended from his great-great-great grandmother, Joanna the Mad, a total of 14 times — twice as a great-great-great grandson, and 12 times further. In the fifth generation, Charles had only 10 ancestors, where 32 would be normal.

KitFox

21:21

The good news is my husband is in Boston now.

tchrist

Having 14 crazy great-great-great-grandmothers is pretty bad. Having them be the same person is even worse.

KitFox

The bad news is, they landed the same time his connecting flight took off.

So he's not going to be back until late tonight.

sad panda

tchrist

But at least he will make it home.

KitFox

Yeah. And before tomorrow afternoon.

RegDwighт

puts sad panda on MOC list

KitFox

21:23

Maybe even before I go to bed.

@RegDwighт Yes! Great idea!

does math

Actually, probably before I go to bed.

And I don't have to drive an hour to pick him up at a different airport.

At exactly the right time for the kids to be going to bed.

So, it works out pretty well.

Johan Larsson

not very interesting but somewhat cool for some reason

KitFox

Neat.

I can't figure out how my eldest has had about four hours of sleep and yet he's playing so nicely with his little brother.

RegDwighт

I am tempted to verify where the division actually was, then call BS.

I am even more tempted to be lazy, though.

KitFox

Do it.

RegDwighт

is lazy

KitFox

21:29

Do it.

RegDwighт

continues

KitFox

DO it.

Johan Larsson

RegDwighт

You give very easy-to-follow orders.

KitFox

Huh. So it does.

@RegDwighт Thank you.

Johan Larsson

21:31

looks accurate at a glance

RegDwighт

@KitFox No, thank you.

KitFox

@RegDwighт You are most welcome.

RegDwighт

I often am.

KitFox

ponders this

@JohanLarsson I agree.

The boys are trying to play frisbee.

It's one of the funnier moments in my life.

RegDwighт

What, in-house?

KitFox

21:33

They are sort of chasing each other with it. The rules seem really complicated.

@RegDwighт No, outside.

RegDwighт

In house would be funnier still. Tell them.

KitFox

Now one of them is trying to throw it to the other, who is in turn trying to hit it with a light saber.

RegDwighт

OOOOOHHH

SPACE FRISBEE

KitFox

I have the best children ever.

RegDwighт

Lucky they found you.

KitFox

21:34

Yep.

It's getting chilly. We may have to go in and fight some zombies before bed.

We even went out to dinner at a restaurant tonight, just the three of us.

They've been really good.

If they were older, I would be very suspicious.

So now it seems my husband will be on a different flight to a different airport.

But one that happens to be along his mother's return route from Boston.

I had no idea we had so many airports in this state.

RegDwighт

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode I watched just the other day.

Johan Larsson

21:59

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 4 mins ago, by sbi

"...like a boy in orthopedic shoes I stand corrected." :)

RegDwighт

Haha. Behindertenwitze.

Johan Larsson

nite

RegDwighт

Night!

tchrist

Nighty.

KitFox

Night.

RegDwighт

22:05

Everyone says night, noöne leaves.

KitFox

Well, I was trying to fit in.

RegDwighт

How non-non-comformist of you.

KitFox

Indeed.

RegDwighт

The first m should be an n but it makes sense either way.

KitFox

im bierhaus

RegDwighт

22:06

In Deutschland, ja in Deutschland, wo die Berge hoch sind?

You watching Monty Python?

KitFox

No.

RegDwighт

Well you should be.

KitFox

Haha. The boys are watching Phineas and Ferb and they just made a Dutch joke.

RegDwighт

Sure it wasn't Cerb and not Ferb with the Dutch joke?

KitFox

The robot manual was in Dutch, but they had a Dutch to French dictionary and a French to English dictionary.

@Cerb

RegDwighт

22:08

Story of my life.

Cerberus

Hi!

KitFox

Hi.

He also made a balloon windmill.

Cerberus

Glad to see you are educating your boys properly.

They will need Dutch in the big, big world.

KitFox

Well, except now Doofenschmirtz has a scheme to cover the entire tri-state area with carbon footprints.

So now they will misunderstand what that means.

Cerberus

Not carbon footprints!!

Oh, dear.

KitFox

22:18

He thinks they sound evil.

Cerberus

Heh.

You could ask them after the show "do you know what carbon footprints really are?".

KitFox

I could but I won't.

Cerberus

As long as their Dutch is in order, they can do without carbon footprints.

Dikes > floods.

KitFox

23:18

meep

RegDwighт

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 here's another one.

tchrist

What are you doing still awake? I’m falling asleep already.

RegDwighт

I am experimenting with social engineering.

Hacking people.

tchrist

There isn’t really a triple-decker bus, is there? Wouldn’t it fall over?

RegDwighт

There is in Harry Potter.

That's the point, that it even already exists as a LEGO set.

That guy basically plagiarizes LEGO on their own site. And they let him be.

tchrist

23:30

►

RegDwighт

Photoshop.

tchrist

Yeah, I know.

Looks like a lot of work.

RegDwighт

But the HP one is real.

►

tchrist

Well, that settles it then.

KitFox

23:46

You're hacking me?

RegDwighт

I'm hacking people. Are you people?

It looks like the ratio of views to supports on CUUSOO is typically around 30.

50 for less successful projects, 20 is pretty much the best.

But it's pretty constant across the board.

So basically I need 500,000 views, and the 10,000 supports will come with the territory.

So not being on Twitter or Flickr or anywhere really, I am trying to devise ways to get me 500,000 views.

Preferrably ASAP.

tchrist

Seems unlikely, but I don’t want to discourage you.

Did I say that out loud?

KitFox

@RegDwighт You have the link handy? I'll post it on my FB.

RegDwighт

@tchrist You misunderestimate my determination in such things.

Hopefully I do not misoverestimate it.

But constant dripping wears away the stone.

tchrist

Nothing great was achieved by aiming low, but the moon is very high.

KitFox

23:53

It's not as close as it looks.

RegDwighт

And unlike on Reddit or ELU or elsewhere, the votes are not retractable. So every vote I get is locked in.

@KitFox lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/39075

tchrist

Ok, I give up. I don’t understand anything. What is this support thing all about? Crowd-sourced funding or something?

RegDwighт

@tchrist nah. That's what it'd be if they did it properly.

It's a broken version of something like that.

tchrist

@RegDwighт No, it just makes stalsomethingmites.

RegDwighт

@tchrist youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZaFbGIV5s7k

Only 1:22.

tchrist

23:56

I see they managed to shoot the 19yo terrorkid through the throat and tongue. Good luck with getting testimony out of him now.

KitFox

@RegDwighт Shared with 185 more people.

RegDwighт

Whoa.

You sure know much people.

KitFox

I'd think throat and tongue would be self-inflicted.

RegDwighт

Thank you.

KitFox

Sure.

It's not that many. It's FB average friend list.

I wanted to praise you for the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of your proposal too.

It was very well written for any kind of proposal, and especially in contrast with the other examples you posted.

And also well-presented and convincing.

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