« first day (1049 days earlier)      last day (3859 days later) » 

12:03 AM
So Atsuto Nagatomo has been suspended. Was Reg right?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 About what?
Rather, right about what?
 
that AN was Evan Carroll returned. Or however you spell that.
 
Aw.
Certainly was odd. Couldn’t make any sense of it.
 
hello guys...
is the there a verb form of "subjective"?
or I just have to say "make this subjective"...?
subjectivise??? spell check gives me error.. so I guess it is wrong..
 
Just use the adjective with some appropriate verb.
 
12:15 AM
What do you mean by "make this subjective"?
 
This is too objective; it needs to be more subjective?
 
no
i am trying to say "some people have that negative power, they can subjectivise any objective issue"
 
No.
 
so?
 
They can make any clear objective issue into a fuzzy subjective one.
Why do you need a verb? We have nice verbs already in English.
 
12:17 AM
I am translating something from Arabic..
 
Subjectivationalizing them is just going to get you talked about.
And hardly in a good way, either.
@HaLaBi So what? Don’t use it.
 
Just translating a line.. and it is a difficult one to translate..
 
It shows poor judgement to IM!HO.
 
yes i won't use it.. i will use the line you posted..
 
People always seem to difficultize translations. I don’t know why.
 
12:19 AM
it is a part of other thing.. so do not poor judge without reading the whole thing :D
translation is indeed hard.. and it is not my thing..
 
On verra.
 
i was trying to help...
 
k
 
and, i thought it is easy..
 
I didn’t mean to difficilitate you.
 
12:21 AM
i would prefer translating from Indonesian.. you can't translate a literal translation from Indonesian to Arabic.. unlike Arabic to english :/
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 no.
It's worse!
 
difficilitate... lol
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 worse how?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 it was CR.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 lol srsly?
 
12:22 AM
@tchrist thanks a lot mate
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yessah
 
diffiˈcilitate, v. rare or Obs.

Etymology: f. L. difficil-is difficult: cf. difficultate.

trans. To render difficult: the opposite of facilitate.
 
Oh aye, ’tis a word indeed.
 
12:23 AM
I hate it when you make kissy-face.
Oh wait, that’s osculates.
1611 Cotgr., - Difficulter, to difficultate, or difficilitate; to make difficult.
1640 Quarles Enchirid. i. lxxviii, - The boldnesse of their resolution will disadvantage the assaylants, and difficilitate their design.
1648 W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xv. §4 (R.) - The inordinateness of our love difficilitateth this duty.
 
hardinate
 
Keep it clean, there are children present.
 
unrelated but that video is cool
 
good night everyone..
 
12:29 AM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I'd like to watch that again from Colorado.
 
> In an effort to further Ayn Rand’s message critiquing altruism and promoting the virtue of selfishness, rejecting all moochers who would dare claim your money by tears, the producers of the third Atlas Shrugged movie have launched a Kickstarter campaign asking for donations
 
@RegDwighт Yeah, wasn't Forster great? He has this straight-up no-bullshit delivery that's like, well, bumping up against a granite rock face. You gotta figure Gilligan had him in mind for the role when it was being written. "The Granite State." The state of being turned to stone.
And how pathetic was Walt? Offering $10k for two hours of companionship, and Forster negotiating him down to an hour. "Would you believe me if I said yes?" Damn.
 
12:46 AM
So the youthful activists were agitating again this weekend in downtown Boulder.
They were protesting a tax vote that’s coming up for the people to vote a big huge sin-tax on pot.
So they set up a booth in front of the courthouse and gave away joints, one per customer, must be 21 or older.
I’ve seen worse ways of buying votes.
They gave away about 1,000 of them.
 
-_-
@tchrist what a world.
 
1:01 AM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 We have to do that in a room she is already in.
 
@tchrist Mono vs non made no difference. I do not have the Symbola font, as far as I know, just built-in Mac emoji.
 
@KitFox we could summon her to the hangman room from the sandbox.
 
Can't. The Sandbox is over in the SO chat.
Sorry, sweetie.
 
But they're all rooms off of chat.stackexchange.com
 
Nope.
 
1:03 AM
The command is just !!summon 8795
stamps foot
 
chat.SO and chat.SE are different.
 
I have no privs in chat.SO.
I'm not blue or KitFox there.
Just Kit.
 
Break me off a piece.
 
Took me minute, but I got there.
 
K, now I haz to finish my resume cuz i got a place to sendz it.
eeeee!
 
Woo!
 
jumps up and down
I had a really, really good talk with the HR guy. He went from "Hey, I'm glad you called because there's actually this other job I thought you should apply for" to "Here are the things you should put in your cover letter" to "Why don't you just send me your resume, and I'll talk to the hiring person for you"
 
Wow, that's awesome!
 
1:09 AM
And I mean that it was unsolicited, not like "Oh shit you need remedial help."
 
I NO RITE!!???
 
Haha!
You no write?
 
But I'm trying not to get too excited, because. You know. Stuff.
@BraddSzonye That's what the kids say instead of "I know, right?"
 
Oh I know, I'm just teasing.
 
1:11 AM
Oh phew.
 
I say it myself, inorite!
 
I am guilty of the worst lolspeak and teenspeak
 
I don't know what teamwork skills I have. What kinds of things make a good team member?
 
Hm. Arguing? Pedantry?
 
1:12 AM
I can't really write "I don't hate my colleagues and throw them under the bus at every opportunity."
 
Er, I mean, communication and attention to detail.
 
I mean, it's true, but it sounds weird when I say that.
"Unlike the crappy people I work with, I do not backstab co-workers whenever I get the chance."
 
@KitFox helping other team members with their projects/issues/concerns/workload/hair when time allows
I was gonna say something snarky, but then a useful bit appeared in my head.
 
I establish reasonable expectations of co-workers and value diverse work styles.
 
What if someone's work style demands all-day techno?
 
1:18 AM
grits teeth I value it.
 
oots oots oots oots
 
There are many ways of resolving workplace conflict.
 
My favorite is working from home.
 
That's what I am angling for.
 
@KitFox “Rite”, like in the seasonally appropriate Le Sacre de L’Automne by Victor Stravinsky?
 
1:27 AM
No. Not like that.
 
Oh rahteo then.
@KitFox I’m not sure that don’t is distributing there the way you wish it were. :)
 
looks evasive
 
Trying to get away, I see.
Try looking elusive instead: it’s more alluring.
 
sha la, la la la la / live for today
0
A: A single word that means "to push yourself"

Mantra*LIVE*************************************************************************************************************

 
hears Styx playing in the background
 
1:31 AM
sweet madame blue / gaze in your looking glass / you're not a child anymore
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Please don’t look at that in the mirror.
Hear the Stephen King interview on NPR this morning?
redrum
 
Live from New York, it's Saturday night.
@tchrist no, just news.
 
He talked about The Shining.
And its new sequel, of course.
 
And they couldn’t help but talk about the Stanley Hotel up in Estes Park, where the externals for the Kubrick film were shot.
And how Winter Is Coming, and the road will not be fixed in time.
 
1:35 AM
pulls collar away from throat
 
Kubrick has the hotel freeze at the end, and King had it go in flames.
 
How is your homestead?
I can't wait to protect a question. rubs hands together
 
Oo, did you recently cross a privilege threshold?
 
1:53 AM
@BraddSzonye not quite. I'm at 14,552 and I need 15k.
I can't remember what this data structure called: protected Class methodName(String... params)
 
Is that a particular Java idiom or something?
 
Not sure if it is exclusive to Java or not.
It's a squadron of arrays.
 
2:08 AM
pokes chat
buries chat
 
I figured out US didn't want to do all-out war in Vietnam due to high opposition to the involvement and they didn't want young Americans to die in the war.
The movement against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the U.S. with demonstrations in 1964 and grew in strength in later years. The U.S. became polarized between those who advocated continued involvement in Vietnam, and those who wanted peace. Many in the peace movement were students, mothers, or anti-establishment hippies, but there was also involvement from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, physicians (such as Benjamin Spock), military veterans, and ordinary Americans. Expressions of opposition events range...
Doesn't it sound like what's currently happening to Syria war?
"The concept of limited war was also used in the Vietnam War by the United States under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as part of a strategy to contain the spread of Communism without provoking a wider confrontation with the Soviet Union."
 
2:25 AM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Where do you get all these '60s references?
 
@Robusto my brain.
 
Just because.
But I make fun of myself too:
 
@Robusto true, I was watching Mr. Shiny's TED talk.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 BTW, you are aware that Creed Bratton of the Grass Roots played a character on The Office, I'm sure.
 
2:31 AM
OK, I think I've posted this one before, but I think it qualifies for some kind of Obscure Sixties Relic prize:
 
Speaking of the Kinks:
 
And where is @Cerb?
 
Tweened me. Damn.
 
2:32 AM
It happens.
 
@Robusto nice!
BRB
 
I was amused by this link to lolcat grammar I ran across in a question: dashes.com/anil/2007/04/cats-can-has-gr.html
 
One good turn on the dance floor deserves another.
And so to bed . . .
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hmm hmm what?
 
2:47 AM
16 mins ago, by cornbread ninja 麵包忍者
'Cause you're a dedicated follower of fashion (sort of).
 
Since when?
 
@BraddSzonye olde!
@Cerberus enough that you argue with tchrist about fashion.
 
Heh.
I need but one eye.
 
3:03 AM
4
A: A correct English expression for heavy and aching head

Mari-Lou AThrobbing head Throbbing: Feel pain in a series of regular beats: "her foot throbbed with pain"; "a throbbing headache"

Heehee: “Her head throbbed like something that throbs.”
 
A lovely simile.
 
I misquoted slightly, “something that throbs” was in parentheses, but I like my simile better.
“shaped like itself”
 
3:56 AM
@Cerberus, You stopped dropping by in ELL.
:-)
 
brother what a night it really was
brother what a fight it really was
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Brother how tight this rhyme really is!! :D
 
4:31 AM
HI
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者
HOw is everyone doing
 
5:15 AM
@Noah Everyone is sleeping perhaps.
 
 
2 hours later…
7:43 AM
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 That sounds kinda Scottish :D
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 it's called a variadic method
 
YAY
South Park Season 17 is on tonight
right?
Mrs Garrison: "Token will be singing for Mrs Colorado pageant in Denvour. And for doing it he's going to get paid 200 dollars!!"

Class: "Wow!!!"
 
8:22 AM
lol innit
1. (British slang, esp. Asian, i.e. Indian, Pakistani, etc.)

Contraction of "isn't it", "isn't he/she", "aren't they", "isn't there" and many other end-of-sentence questions. For greatest effect use in places where it would make no sense whatsoever if expanded.

2. General positive exclamation meaning "yes, I agree!"
1. "Hey dere's some pigs in dat cop car over there innit?"
"Yo look at my new car innit!"

2. Raj: "Da Matrix is to'ally cool!"
Nisha: "Innit!"
 
 
2 hours later…
9:55 AM
Is it?
 
 
1 hour later…
Jez
11:00 AM
Isit?
 
On command?
 
awe
@MattЭллен Yeah?
 
Jez
interesting: "hippocampus" means "sea monster". It's only used to refer to part of the brain because it looks like a sea monster in cross section, not some fancy medical term
 
> A sea-horse, having two fore-feet, and the body ending in a dolphin's or fish's tail, represented as drawing the car of Neptune and other sea-deities
interesting
 
Jez
11:11 AM
scan the sea monster
 
Vitaly, is that you?
What you doed to Matt?
 
I fed him to the hippocampi
they have voracious appetites
 
Ah yes.
 
11:21 AM
Not bad.
 
@RegDwighт: I was thinking about when you said "noun is the term for ducks" yesterday. Having reconsidered, it does actually make sense, but only in the right context. (I think one would need less context if the phrase was "waterfowl is the term for ducks") I think the problem we were having with "мат is the term for Eb" is that our brains were caught up in what Eb could possibly mean, well, for me at least. So when you introduced *мат* it added to the cognitive load, because it is as opaque as Eb to me. So I didn't have enough context to see what you meant, the same as with "noun is the te
 
Now I wonder what you were musing about.
 
Yeah well, no harm done. I knew I was right all along. Peace.
 
When you're using stuff in direct speech (things that could be "quoted" or italicised), all bets are off.
 
11:27 AM
I ommited the italics just now because I'm lazy
 
With respect to internal structure v. outward behaviour.
Oh, I know.
 
I mean, you know what I mean.
 
my reputation precedes me
 
Nooo, not that. Quotation marks aren't absolutely necessary there. It's just a convention anyway. But it's still direct speech either way.
 
11:28 AM
;)
 
@MattЭллен it also supercedes you.
 
Rain.
Why?
 
Because too much water in air plus gravity.
 
11:43 AM
That blows.
Actually, it's dry now.
 
12:04 PM
we've no rain yet, just mist and fog.
 
No shit, spake a Brit.
 
Hiya.
 
Hayabooza.
 
12:08 PM
I don't know what to do first! I think make moar coffeeee!
bounces off walls toward coffee room
 
yes. more coffee will surely calm you down
 
and a smoke. calms your nerves.
 
I think you mean "clams your nerves"
although I'm not sure how
 
Clams. Alms, calm, cams, clam, lacs, lams, macs, mals, scam, slam, als, cam, lac, lam, las, mac, mal, mas, sac, sal, sam, sma, al, am, as, la, ma. Clams.
Clams. Alms, calm, cams, clam, lams, scam, slam, Cal, cam, lam, Mac, mas, sac, Sal, Sam, Ac, Al, am, as, Ca, Cl, Cm, cs, la, ls, ma, ms, Sc, Sm. Clams.
Wow. There's a lot of stuff in clams.
 
that must be why people eat them
 
12:14 PM
Right!
 
What's the difference between a "clam" and an "oyster"?
 
all the letters ;)
 
A clam is a clam and an oyster is not a clam, but an oyster.
Clams are small and white and the big ones are about the width of your palm.
 
@KitFox Ha! See?
Clams are symmetrical or at least smooth looking. Oysters are kinda random in that limited shell way.
 
12:20 PM
Clams have smooth shells and live in the mud.
 
clams do not produce any pearls
 
Clams can produce pearls...maybe I am thinking of mussels.
 
mussels
 
I think all the bivalves produce pearls.
@Mitch Thank you. I couldn't figure out why my brain was telling me I had done something wrong.
 
The capital of Belgium?
Bruscle Sprouts
 
12:22 PM
Also, oysters grow in clusters on rocks, I think, where clams burrow into the mud.
 
oops misspelled
 
Oyster. Estro, eyots, oyers, resty, roset, rotes, royst, ryots, store, story, stroy, styre, tores, torse, toyer, treys, troys, tyers, tyres, tyros, yores, eros, erst, eyot, ores, orts, oyer, oyes, rest, rets, roes, rose, rost, rosy, rote, rots, ryes, ryot, sore, sort, stey, stye, toes, toey, tore, tors, tory, tose, toys, tres, trey, troy, trye, tyer,
tyes, tyre, tyro, yest, yore, ers, est, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, oye, oys, res, ret, roe, rot, rye, ser, set, sey, sot, soy, sty, sye, tes, toe, tor, toy, try, tye, yer, yes, yet, yos, er, es, et, oe, or, os, oy, re, so, st, te, to, ye, yo. Oyster.
Oyster. Rotes, store, story, troys, tyros, Eros, ores, rest, roes, rose, rosy, rote, rots, sore, sort, stye, toes, tore, tors, Tory, toys, Trey, troy, Tyre, tyro, yest, yore, ore, roe, rot, Roy, Rte, rye, set, sot, soy, sty, toe, tor, toy, try, yes, yet, Er, es, or, Os, re, rs, Se, so, Sr, St, to, ts, Ty, ye, yo. Oyster.
 
The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified. Some kinds of oysters are commonly consumed, cooked or raw, by humans as a delicacy. Other kinds, such as pearl oysters, generally not eaten by humans, are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle. Etymology First attested in English during the 14th century,[http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/forme-cury-5.php Oysters in Cynee], Recipe for Oysters in Bread Sauce (Oysters in Cynee) from the 1390 English text, ...
A clam is a generic term for many kinds of bivalve molluscs, some of which are edible. Clams, like most molluscs, also have open circulatory systems, which means that their organs are surrounded by watery blood that contains nutrients and oxygen. They feed on plankton by filter feeding. Clams filter feed by drawing in water containing food using an incurrent siphon. The food is then filtered out of the water by the gills and swept toward the mouth on a layer of mucus. The water is then expelled from the animal by an ex-current siphon. Terminology In the United States, the word "clam...
 
So there ya go. There's a rose in yer oyster.
 
@KitFox really? but rocks just under the water level not out in the air, right?
 
12:24 PM
> A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusc.
 
@MετάEd And Eros, which accounts for their aphrodisiacal tendencies
 
@MattЭллен Not to mention toes.
 
@Mitch I guess. But they attach to something, they don't burrow.
 
Rosy Eros toes.
 
12:25 PM
@cyberskull Well, apparently they haven't eaten enough clams.
 
Estro toys.
 
> Clams are usually found in freshwaters while oysters thrive in brackish or marine habitats.
I don't believe that.
But maybe it's true. Not true around here.
 
nacreous
margaritacean
 
This coffee is really calming me down.
 
Magrathean?
 
12:31 PM
margaritaville
@KitFox ADHD much?
 
... oh! a squirrel
 
@tchrist It's actually anxiety/depression neurosis, but not often. Only when I'm particularly stressed.
 
The skwerls do be eatin my tomatoes.
Tomatoes are not nuts.
What’s that about?
Maybe my skwerls are nuts.
 
they must be confused by the colour. Some sort of supernormal effect.
 
@KitFox That is just human nature.
 
12:33 PM
or maybe tomatoes taste better than nuts
 
And familiar.
 
giggles
 
Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto
 
OK, I'm freaking out about writing this résumé.
 
12:33 PM
Or however it goes.
 
No human is my whorish bowel?
 
Some homo! No humans for me, just alien whores.
 
@KitFox it must be quite daunting.
 
so. much. pressure.
breathes
 
What's worrying you most about it?
 
12:35 PM
Oh I forgot the homo sum part.
 
goes to writing spot
 
goes to walking spot
 
walks to running spot
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Probably.
 
(removed)
 
12:38 PM
(left in place)
 
one word please
 
(moved to another place)
 
(looms)
 
weaves
 
No more booze for you then.
 
12:41 PM
or oysters
 
booze and oysters, food for the eternally nauseous
 
booze + oysters = boisterous?
 
bleurgh
 
@MattЭллен boys + oysters = boisterous?
lol I was just reminded of that word from the 2012 Big Fat Quiz
Lobstrominous
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 hmmm. could be. Girls + oysters = goitreous?
 
12:59 PM
Wow, talk about completely misunderstanding the purpose of code review. Mozilla started to review code published in computational biology journals, using the same kind of code review process you'd use for software.
> “One worry I have is that, with reviews like this, scientists will be even more discouraged from publishing their code,” says biostatistician Roger Peng at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. “We need to get more code out there, not improve how it looks.”
 

« first day (1049 days earlier)      last day (3859 days later) »