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RegDwighт

12:00 AM

Well. I had to live up to

Apr 10 at 11:15, by RegDwighт

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tchrist

@RegDwighт Your accent is undetectable.

RegDwighт

Thank you! So much praise! Thanks all around!

tchrist

How come the grey critter with the beige background has a green tail?

KitFox

Makes me feel like posting that picture of you with balloons.

tchrist

The one the guy on the mail who twists balloons for kids made?

RegDwighт

12:04 AM

Anyway. Right now my ratio is 24.8, which is surprisingly solid. Especially given how I mostly promote on Reddit which is all lookylooky and never any clickyclicky.

KitFox

@tchrist You mean the burro? That's a cactus.

tchrist

@KitFox Ah.

RegDwighт

Cactus not included.

I will submit it separately.

KitFox

Feb 16 '11 at 10:56, by RegDwight

RegDwighт

Oh yeah.

KitFox

12:05 AM

That's not it.

But close.

tchrist

I notice it’s high in megafauna.

RegDwighт

Right. That's where I posted the link, too.

On my Wiki page.

Basically I posted it all over the internet last night.

tchrist

A turtle would be cute.

Well, could.

RegDwighт

I am working on one as we speak.

tchrist

Or a tortoise.

Terrapins are of more limited appeal.

What color?

RegDwighт

12:07 AM

In fact I saw one on LEGO's official site earlier today, and that threw me back quite a bit because it was in my scale and now I must make sure not to make a too similar one.

KitFox

@RegDwighт Which? I got confused there while I was looking through expired images.

tchrist

A painted tortoise has great colors.

RegDwighт

@KitFox I posted the CUUSOO link on my wiki page. The wiki page is where the photo is from.

KitFox

The balloon photo?

tchrist

But a Galápagos tortoise or a leatherback turtle is more megafaunally charismatic.

RegDwighт

12:09 AM

@tchrist I was flirting with the idea of using the new masonry-profile bricks for the shell, which would leave me with exactly four color choices. But I think it's not feasible after all.

KitFox

The real one, or the Rasputin one?

RegDwighт

The real one of course.

The Rasputin one was tailored to the local requirements of this room.

KitFox

Not of course. There's no "of course" there.

tchrist

Not enough color choices you mean?

RegDwighт

@KitFox Little do you know. My Wiki page is all of courses and nothing else.

tchrist

12:10 AM

RegDwighт

It literally goes "Of course of course of course" for five screens.

KitFox

squints

RegDwighт

@tchrist rebrickable.com/parts/98283

KitFox

You post some weird pics. Some of them even made me laugh out loud at the memories.

tchrist

Kinda drab.

KitFox

12:11 AM

@RegDwighт There are some dome pieces that might be appropriate.

Why am I saying that? You know that. You know more than me.

tchrist

Oooh ask me ask me ask me I know what you’re missing.

A kraken!

KitFox

Weren't you looking for this?

RegDwighт

@KitFox Not only do I know them, I also own all of them, in all colors imaginable, several times over.

But I hate huge-ass parts.

KitFox

RegDwighт

I'm not making a turtle out of three parts.

KitFox

12:14 AM

Jesus gods.

RegDwighт

@KitFox now that is mine. Quit touching my stuff.

tchrist

KitFox

@RegDwighт Well, you're going to make the limbs retractable, right?

@RegDwighт No. I'm nosing through your imgurs until I find the one I want.

RegDwighт

@KitFox aedia brought up the idea of a retractable head earlier this week.

Retractable limbs would be infeasible.

At this scale.

Apr 12 at 20:46, by RegDwighт

The actual problem would be, where to press or what to do to make the head appear again. You don't want to be breaking your fingernails trying to get it out.

tchrist

Hm, ostrich?

This was interesting:

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A: What is “long” doing in “all (time-period) long”?

The Old English word lang has suffix forms -ling and -long, (“with the direction, duration, or length”), similar to -lic (“with the body or form”) that survives as the very common -ly adverbial suffix form. The -ling form, once used in words like hinderling (“in the backward direction”) has been...

RegDwighт

12:17 AM

Ostrich is on my list, just like three dozen others who are pretty much impossible at this scale.

KitFox

Meerkat?

tchrist

Skwurl?

RegDwighт

@KitFox come on, too tiny.

tchrist

Moby Dick?

RegDwighт

@tchrist come on, you're using the Dvorak layout by mistake.

KitFox

12:18 AM

Are they? I've no idea.

RegDwighт

You do know how they compare to a hippo.

KitFox

Mar 24 '12 at 11:20, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

I forgot this one.

RegDwighт

Which in my case is 9 times 4 studs.

So a meerkat would be like one stud.

Tops.

@KitFox yes and everybody kept calling him a turd, the poor thing.

KitFox

@RegDwighт No.

@RegDwighт But now I do.

Hey, your typing tests.

RegDwighт

Two pictures, over two thousand words.

KitFox

12:23 AM

Wow, they really are little tiny critters, aren't they?

RegDwighт

Those are the adults.

Now that is tiny.

KitFox

I thought they were closer to fox size.

They look more like little cat size.

RegDwighт

@KitFox well what do you think "meerkat" means?

Sea cat.

KitFox

Yeah?

RegDwighт

Dutch.

KitFox

12:28 AM

Right.

RegDwighт

> "Meerkat" is a loanword from Afrikaans. The name has a Dutch origin, but by misidentification. Dutch meerkat refers to the "guenon", a monkey of the Cercopithecus genus. The word "meerkat" is Dutch for "lake cat", but the suricata is not in the cat family, and neither suricatas nor guenons are attracted to lakes; the word possibly started as a Dutch adaptation of a derivative of Sanskrit markaţa मर्कट = "monkey", perhaps in Africa via an Indian sailor on board a Dutch East India Company ship.

KitFox

Should I infer size from that somehow?

RegDwighт

German has Meerkatze, referring to said monkey.

@KitFox no, you already inferred size. Now you should infer the name from the size. Or something.

I'm just making ~~conversation~~ copypasta.

KitFox

Oh. Oh. I understand now.

Should I have beer or rum or scotch tonight?

RegDwighт

So anyway, to finish the sentence.

Meerkatzen are, according to my geography teacher in school, where humans got HIV from.

So not the suricates, but those monkeys.

KitFox

12:31 AM

Your geography teacher.

I see.

Are meerkatzen green monkeys?

RegDwighт

@KitFox that word you are using, "or". I don't think it means what you think it means.

@KitFox more like the complementary color.

KitFox

Then no.

HIV came from green monkeys.

RegDwighт

Oh look you're a fox again.

tchrist

@KitFox SIV

RegDwighт

SUV.

tchrist

12:33 AM

@RegDwighт That is very appealing.

KitFox

@tchrist That's what it is in monkeys, yes.

RegDwighт

Apr 17 at 12:16, by RegDwighт

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KitFox

@RegDwighт Yes. I was reminded of the fennec you gave me for my birthday, and I thought it would be nice to wear it again.

Hmm. Seems I have gotten the species wrong. Chimps and the sooty mangabey.

Funny that. Memory ain't what it used to be.

tchrist

I find Seinfield to be the boringest stupidestest show ever.

RegDwighт

Well you don't watch TV.

You have never seen the actual boringest stupidestest shows.

In fact now that I think about it there are embarrassingly few sitcoms that are ever once funny at all.

And the ones that are are no longer sitcoms, actually.

tchrist

12:42 AM

Your last sentence lost me. And vice versa.

RegDwighт

Doesn't matter.

tchrist

I Love Lucy had some funny moments.

RegDwighт

That is one I never saw.

tchrist

Are you saying the dumbest shows today aren’t the ones that try and fail to be funny?

KitFox

I had just enough time to crack a beer and think that the codeine was working when the eldest started coughing again.

tchrist

12:43 AM

Perhaps you should take more codeine.

KitFox

I find reality TV and people wanting their 15 minutes of fame type shows to be stupider.

tchrist

Oh.

RegDwighт

@tchrist I am saying that we have TV drama all figured out by now, but comedy is still embarrassingly lacking.

KitFox

> Muttersprache

giggles, drinks more beer

RegDwighт

Or perhaps not still, but rather forever. All funny stuff's long been taken, everyone keeps cracking the same jokes over and over again.

tchrist

12:46 AM

This isn’t the best, but it is surprising how it makes you burst out with chuckles:

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RegDwighт

@KitFox you reading my wiki page or what?

KitFox

Yep.

Well, nope.

I wish I could read Russian.

My German was never very good either.

RegDwighт

Uh. There's still Russian there? Which version are you reading?

KitFox

The Russian version featuring you as Link.

RegDwighт

The German one is in German. The English one in English. I don't even know I still have a Russian one somewhere.

KitFox

12:47 AM

Which is very charming.

RegDwighт

Oh that. Wiktionary.

I thought you were on Wikipedia.

KitFox

Oh is it? I didn't even look, just clicked links.

RegDwighт

Does the Link link still work? It was an ugly hack at the time.

The wiki engine wouldn't normally allow to link from images to external sites like that.

KitFox

Yes, it does.

stops stalking Reg, jumps down other rabbit holes

tchrist

Here, this looks like Russian to me:

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Or at least kermit writing.

RegDwighт

12:51 AM

15 minutes!

tchrist

I Love Lucy's sight-gags are the best.

Doesn’t even need Russian subtitles.

RegDwighт

1:07 AM

Well that was quite entertaining. Though the humor is dated in places.

But now I must be off. Got no sleep last night, better get some tonight.

Arrivederci.

KitFox

Later.

tchrist

@RegDwighт See, I told you Lucy has funny bits. Good night.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:26 AM

Hello.

KitFox

Hiya.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yay; you're no longer transparent.

KitFox

strips off shirt

puts on jammies

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

sits back

KitFox

Want a beer?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:28 AM

Blech.

I mean no, thanks.

KitFox

I decided I felt like a beer tonight.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You don't look like a beer.

KitFox

And the summer ale is from last season, so it really needed drinking.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 har har har

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

So, in between sitting with my mother at the hospital and my gramma going to the hospital, I went to Free College Day.

KitFox

Goodness.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:30 AM

Both are fine, and back home.

KitFox

How are you feeling?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Tired. Um . . . like I'm not ready to take care of my mother.

KitFox

What happened?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Her house is scary and crumbling.

She had discs removed and vertebrae fused.

KitFox

Yowser.

Are you close with her?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:31 AM

That was Friday.

I guess, yeah.

KitFox

Maybe you need to have a talk with her about stuff.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I mean, we have lunch once a week and email every work day, and once a month we spend saturday together.

I asked when she might retire. She doesn't know.

She was really wobbly and her hands are numb all the time.

Anyway.

KitFox

Was the fusion unexpected? Those things are planned usually, I thought.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

No, she finally saw her back surgeon about the numbness and such.

It was planned.

KitFox

And your gramma?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:33 AM

Gramma had tummy issues this morning, both ends.

at 4PM, she decided she needed to see a doctor.

KitFox

Oh, that bug that's been going around?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

All tests were clear.

No idear.

Probably just worry and being 65 + 17 years old.

KitFox

I went to the ER once in the middle of the night because I couldn't stop...you know. Those things.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Eating Pringles?

KitFox

Sickest I've ever been. Much more dangerous when you're old.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:35 AM

:S

Gramma is in much better shape than mom.

KitFox

I thought I was going to pass out. My husband carried me to the car.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Greatest Generation and all that.

What did they do for you?

KitFox

I thought they were the Silent Generation.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

That sounds about right.

KitFox

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Gave me an IV so they could keep an antiemetic in me, and pushed two liters of fluids.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:36 AM

e_e

KitFox

Apparently going to the ER was the right thing to do.

I was a lot sicker than I thought.

The feeling like I was going to pass out was because I was severely dehydrated.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Your body!

Did you have childrens at the time?

KitFox

No.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Phew.

KitFox

We'd moved into the house, but I can't remember if we were married yet or not.

Probably we were. I think it was winter.

So anyway, that's just to say your gramma was being smart.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:40 AM

I'm tired of hospitals.

I'm ready for the DMV, which I need to do.

s/frying pan/fire

ouch ouch ouch

That's funnier?

It will be ok. I just need to take MO license, passport, and utility bill.

Have to get a KS plate, too.

KitFox

I've been there.

KS/MO.

Oh! My husband is home!!!

Bye!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

1:44 AM

Bye!

KS/MO welcomes you.

Robusto

Well, boys and girls, did everyone celebrate 4/20 peacefully? gives Colorado a look

@KitFox Beer? On today of all days?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 KS/MO ... ?

I'm looking at you, Colorado. You legalize pot and then have to involve firearms in the whole thing.

Cerberus

2:41 AM

@Robusto What the...

tchrist

@Robusto Burgablaghh bloopoop.

I wasn’t there. Thank God.

I’d had no idea this had happened. I was doing other things.

So, what — nobody knows who did what?

> In the minutes after the shooting, three individuals were shot by an unknown assailant.

That doesn’t even scan.

It was warm today. The snow was mostly gone.

Cerberus

Weird.

Why shoot a few people, then nothing?

tchrist

Insane.

More details here.

Real ones, unlike the national press.

I honestly can’t believe how fucked up that is.

Cerberus

2:58 AM

Much better than the other article, yes.

Two people randomly shooting three other people, then stopping?

tchrist

This has never happened before, and we’ve had these for a long time here.

Cerberus

Looks like a random, improvised action.

tchrist

I think the third person was an accident.

Yes.

I really hate it when your own neighborhood makes national news. Yeah, this was a ways away from me, but still.

Cerberus

An accident?

So why were those other two people targeted?

tchrist

Good question.

I hate that the two suspects are black. I imagine the victims are all white.

Cerberus

3:03 AM

Since the past 9000 random shootings have been by white people, I think black people can cope with this one.

tchrist

But can white people?

It’s really hard to trace things in a crowd this size. And there are no surveillance videos.

That’s from here.

Cerberus

Why no video recordings?

tchrist

What do you mean?

Of the shootings?

Cerberus

Yes.

Perhaps some will turn up.

tchrist

Doesn’t there have to be a video camera shooting when the guns are shooting?

Cerberus

3:16 AM

Exactly. There will always be someone recording.

tchrist

Really?

Cerberus

At mass gatherings?

tchrist

But that doesn’t mean they were anywhere close to it, which means it won’t do any good.

Cerberus

You can still see a lot from 100 m.

tchrist

They’d have to be on stage pointing that way.

Cerberus

3:17 AM

Unless the shooting happened away from the crowds?

tchrist

Otherwise they’d be lost in the crowd.

I don’t know where it happened.

Cerberus

People often hold their phones up high, exactly for that reason.

tchrist

Haven’t seen a map.

Cerberus

The back of the person in front of you is less interesting.

tchrist

I have never in my life taken a video with my phone.

The thought would never occur to me.

Nor pictures.

Cerberus

3:19 AM

Uhh...

tchrist

Supposedly it does those things.

Cerberus

People record videos during mass events all the time.

tchrist

But I have a real camera for when I want to take pictures.

Actually, I have many cameras

And the phone does not count.

You’ve seen my pictures. I couldn’t’ve taken those with a phone.

But that’s ok.

My camera can’t make phone calls, either.

Cerberus

This is relevant because...

tchrist

I would never have thought of pointing a phone at things to take videos.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

3:21 AM

@Robusto yes

@Robusto I wish.

howdy @Wendi

tchrist

So I would not imagine there would have to be people doing that.

Cerberus

Where did you think all those Youtube videos came from?

Look, now they hold up tablets too.

Of course it will have been less extreme during the pot thing.

So perhaps, if it wasn't near the centre, nobody was filming in that direction.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh, hello! Stupid browser.

Let's just stop congregating altogether.

Cerberus

3:40 AM

Hello, browser user.

Cerberus

5:37 AM

in The Frying Pan, 24 mins ago, by Jay

Johan Larsson

up early!

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 7 hours ago, by Borgleader

Cerberus

Haha.

Animals sure like scratching!

Now it's bed time.

G'bye!

Johan Larsson

oh up late, bye

Matt Эллен

9:53 AM

Fun standards fact of the day: IEEE 754 has over 9 quadrillion distinct values for "not a number" values.

Javascript compresses them all into NaN

Em1

10:36 AM

Someone here, who has access to the Oxford English Dictionary?

Matt Эллен

11:03 AM

Yes, @Em1, what's up?

Em1

Hey. I am looking for the oldest entry on "to count on so/sth". But I don't have access to that dictionary. @MattЭллен

Matt Эллен

I'll take a look

Em1

Respectively its origin.

Matt Эллен

The earliest thing they cite is:

> 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiii. 218 There is lesse honesty, wisdome, and money in men then is counted on.

it comes from the verb count

count on or count upon means "To make the basis of one's calculations or plans; to look for or expect with assurance; to depend or rely on (in reference to a possible contingency)."

Em1

Thanks. @MattЭллен

Matt Эллен

11:09 AM

no probs :)

TemporaryNickName

12:46 PM

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I am watching this. If you look at the current situation in countries like Australia, do you think they should continue the free trade or go against and do the protectionism? I think free trade is going to lead them to sell less natural resources to countries like China or India, on the other hand, protectionism is going to keep many jobs going outsourced =D

Am I right?

So I think Aussies must go for the protectionism!

RegDwighт

2:30 PM

Huzzah.

Cerberus

Yes?

Robusto

3:05 PM

Incorrect. The correct answer to "Huzzah" is not "Yes?"

tchrist

Well, they haven’t found the shooter(s?) from yesterday’s pot rally here. I guess there’s video now, but I haven’t watched it. They’ve cancelled the remainder of the event that was scheduled for today. Meanwhile, 5 snowboarders perished yesterday in an avalanche here.

That’s the most to die all at once in more than 50 years.

Next of kin have not been notified, so there is no info released yet about names, ages, sexes. My guess is that it will be 5 boys in their teens or twenties.

Robusto

@tchrist Yeah, I heard about that.

Cerberus

Skiing...

Robusto

Snowboarding.

Cerberus

Pretty dangerous for a sport.

Robusto

3:17 PM

How else you gonna get that adrenaline rush?

Cerberus