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1:02 AM

Yooo.

2 hours later…

Committing to a challenge

2:44 AM

I was writing a facebook message, and I couldn't work out how to phrase part of my message:

"Not trying to be rude, an honest question: Do you post here more than on your actual page? I am not sure to what extent that I can see your page's content."

Should it be "...I am not sure to what extent of which I can see your page's content." Or what is above, or neither?

Neither.

Just remove that from your first sentence.

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"Not trying to be rude, an honest question: Do you post here more than on your actual page? I am not sure to what extent I can see your page's content."?

Thanks Cerberus

Is that Colon good?

It looks fine to me.

You normally wouldn't use a capital after a colon, though.

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Really? I thought that was only the case for semicolons?

Oh it is true, thank you!

Only a full stop, a question mark, and an exclamation mark end a sentence.

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2:57 AM

Weirdly enough, for some reason, I though that the bottom of the colon/semicolon worked exactly as they would without it being a [type]colon. E.g. I would continue on from a semicolon, as if it was a comma.

Haha I see.

But there is a dot in a comma: it just has a little tail...

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@Cerberus Maybe I should come by here more often, so I can study the language use of the members here :).

3:38 AM

@Cerberus Meeee.

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4:57 AM

I just know they are going to laugh at my analphabetics.

7 hours later…

11:29 AM

@Robusto not one but four.

And Cerb is Dutch so it does not apply to him.

No. As I stated, it applies to meeee.

11:58 AM

Yes, that is at least two Es too few for Dutch.

12:44 PM

Actually, I believe @Cerb is Hollandaise, not Dutch. He's a saucy doggy.

I mean, who ever heard of a Dutch sauce?

1:44 PM

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Q: Translate this Old English sentence

I read the following sentence over here, but fail to understand what it means: "Foam Irwin walk etc. Flaked jamming arm shin but. Quakerish aves Fibel wobei checks sudden Bush genau." "Fibel", "wobei" and "genau" apparently mean "primer", "whereby" and "exactly" in Contemporary English, but I'...

sentence old-english

You might be interested to know that "Fibel, wobei and genau apparently mean primer."

Also that they are Old English.

I'm just happy we are speaking New English now.

1:59 PM

In New Englandish, no one sounds happy.

Not today. Shitty weather.

4 hours later…

6:24 PM

This chat is dead.

Jasper, come on back. I know you're reading this.

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C'mon, man, it just ain't the same without you.

6:44 PM

Jasper, you will be well someday. Do not lose heart. Rob is right, it isn't the same without you. Keep trying.

I expect you will be back someday, hopefully when you're well. I'll keep an eye on this chat until that happens.

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7:45 PM

Limerick Machine: Potatoes are filled up with starch The energy helps you to march So eat them up good Then fill up…

posted on December 09, 2014 by sgdi

Potatoes are filled up with starch The energy helps you to march So eat them up good Then fill up on pud Drink water to or you’ll parch

Pud = pudenda? I'm confused by that limerick, @MattЭллен.

Matt Эллен

pud is short for pudding

Oh.

That makes more sense.

Matt Эллен

:D

My universe is growing so slowly these days.

Matt Эллен

7:56 PM

I've reset it again

onto my third universe

I was thinking I might do the same.

I've got a half hour before my next meeting. I could probably make Planetary by then.

Matt Эллен

probably

How far did you get on the entire universe this time?

Matt Эллен

I think all the things up to massive up to 1000

what is your meeting about?

It's the dev launch for the big project.

Matt Эллен

7:59 PM

!!

exciting

Sort of.

It will likely be similar to the crazy meeting I had this morning.

Where we started off agreeing to the solution and then when I re-iterated it at the end, one person suddenly started talking all crazy.

"Let;s do this really simple thing, and that will solve all of our stuff."

"Yes!"

"So in sum, this really simple thing will solve all of our stuff."

"No!"

"What?"

Matt Эллен

gah! people shouldn't be allowed to talk

"Hyperlinks to everything!"

"BUT WHY?"

"Because that's how we do it now! Otherwise how will people find things?"

"Didn't we just finish saying how directing them to the search application is how we want them to find things?"

Sometimes I wonder if I'm on drugs without realizing it.

Matt Эллен

:D

so they're not letting the devs release the product yet?

That's a whole nother can of worms.

This is for the uberproject.

Matt Эллен

8:03 PM

ah

We have 1000 or so lists of things.

literally

Matt Эллен

that's a lot

So I'm trying to push them toward directing all of that stuff to the search application, which provides 1) a list in 2) a standard format that can be 3) refined as desired according to robust functionality.

And 4) doesn't require customizing every list with search filters, etc.

Because why do we need 1000 lists anyway?

Matt Эллен

because lists are sexy

And at the beginning, everyone saw the remarkable simplicity and beauty of this solution.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:05 PM

It wouldn't be so bad if the lists were automatically generated, and in a standard format, with a single underlying code base, etc.

And then at the end, the one person couldn't figure out how we'd have the vastly long hyperlinked list of research hierarchies on a single page. How was that going to work?

...and then made a list of lists to combine all the lists in a single data structure...

And the suggestion that we neither needed nor wanted nor found useful such a thing was met with bafflement.

Matt Эллен

lol

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

anyone know if someone just got banned from the math room for mentioning a word?

8:07 PM

And we'll call it 'Hypercard'

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I could look if you were more specific.

I just mentioned a word. Is that a bad thing?

looking

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

in Mathematics, 2 mins ago, by Alizter

At the end of the day, people who interpreted PE as "Physical Education" and "Pus Eaters" are merely observers of @Huy's comment. The real meaning is with the observer.

That message was flagged

Matt Эллен

I saw a flag, but it was a mention, not a use

yeah, that

Physical Education...if it has to have 'education' added to it, its not education.

8:08 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Nope.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

yeah it still appears in the room

I think "The real meaning is with the observer" was meant to hurt.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

frickin' flags

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

8:19 PM

It's too bad Jasper's not here to see that I have a new avatar.

Matt Эллен

doughnut and coffee(?)

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Looks just like you.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@MattЭллен yeah specifically I updated the coffee cup

@KitFox That's what I'm going for

Matt Эллен

nice

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I figured only Jasper would notice

8:21 PM

I'm trying to decide if I should get a hotel tonight or brave the roads. Stupid late meeting.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox bad weather?

Ice and sleet.

Over about 25 miles of my 50-odd mile commute.

The meeting hasn't started yet either.

I should probably get myself some coffee though.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

50 miles, that's not a short commute

Nope.

I got my snows on, but that's not going to help on an ice bridge 70-feet over a river.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

If it's a dangerous commute, you should consider staying where you are.

Matt Эллен

8:33 PM

yeah

And even if you're under control, it's other people to worry about too.

9:21 PM

Yeah, I'm staying.

bbl

9:36 PM

Yo.

Is Jasper on another hiatus?

@Mr_Green Sounds like an excellent name!

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