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00:07
I can't even remember when I was 101k.
Ach, your name is slanty now.
The price of power.
This is a test. @Robusto
Sweet.
Tsk you arrogant Robusto!
Hey, italicise when you say that!
00:15
Yes, it looks slanty even to me.
Oops I forgot the honorifics of arrogance!
I was not.
Were you?
I meant was Robusto pung.
00:16
I know.
So did I.
So were you?
mean cackling sound
I was pung.
Good.
00:44
@Cerberus Ich bin gepungen. Und du?
@Robusto Ich bing jetzt auch pungiert.
Immerhin weiß ich nicht, welches Verb das richtige sei.
@Cerberus I think the correct form is gepűngt, nicht wahr?
Das wäre ganz möglich!
@Cerberus Vielleicht unvermeidlich.
Wann Sie es sagen...
01:07
We have a robin's nest on our deck!
There are three small eggshell-blue eggs.
Yeah!
Cool!
Can you get a picture?
I have to write up my résumé tonight. Bleh.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No, not really. I could snap a shot of the nest, but the eggs are only visible through the slats of the upper part of the deck.
A good photo would be almost impossible through slats.
Very narrow.
01:10
Okay. I'll google some pictures, then.
That reminds me. I really dug your magpies, @tchrist.
We have no magpies or any other birds with such a long tail. My first thought was Kingfisher.
Wait, what? I thought Kingfishers had long tails.
Go ahead. Name some more birds.
pouts
01:14
We have those. Out at work. Love 'em. There a type of Wilson's plover.
My favorite bird is the western meadowlark. I love its song in the evening.
I can actually whistle that song.
Kind of rusty. Just tried it now.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No bird porn in chat.
I used to freak the meadowlarks along the bluffs of the Missouri up in South Dakota by whistling their tunes back at them.
Haha, nice.
KC has 120 clear days a year. That's three more weeks than Boston.
Keerist, already with the fireworks? I guess I'll have to make a run to New Hampshire one of these days.
Ha, we have to go to Missouri.
I fell down the bird rabbit hole.
There's no recovering from that.
Remind me to stay out of Boston.
if i don't do it somebody else will
Mac Rebennack rag.
I'm feeling tab-lazy.
!!youtube boston rag
This is what I was listening to just now.
Do you think Fagen or Becker got more action?
01:28
I don't know.
user116848
Hi guys
user116848
So I just watched the movie 'The Raven' :)
user116848
Its pretty awesome
user116848
A man mourning for his lost lover is visited by a raven that tells him he will see her "nevermore." The poem begins with these famous lines:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
02:21
!!wiki shakespeare
William Shakespeare (; 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years late...
That is unlocking many childhood memories.
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A: Where should drop cap be suitable?

tchristFifteen Centuries of Versals There are many ways to indicate the beginning (or resumption) of a section of text, including paragraph indents, blank lines, changing the weight or style of the opening part of the text, ornamentation like fleurons, and versals, a category that includes drop caps. ...

@Cerb Even you might enjoy reading that one.
02:46
@JohanLarsson v
I laughed, I cried, I wet my pants.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oh, you should definitely read my drop-cap answer above. You will like it.
wets pants differently
I can see that you got to the dirty bit: Osculetur me osculo oris sui quia meliora sunt ubera tua vino.
fragrantia unguentis optimis?
No perfume better than that. :)
02:53
Is this Portuguese?
Google translated yours equally poorly from Portuguese and Latin.
No, Latin. What you just quoted means “smelling fragrantly of the best unguents”.
user116848
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Whats the name of the video? I can't seem to open the link
@Arrowfar ROGAN AND GOLDBERG COMMENTATE EA UFC GLITCHES!!!
Unfortunately.
@Cerb Isn’t that an infinitely better example than the damned lorem ipsum abomination?
02:57
Poor lorem ipsum.
@Arrowfar Hah! I read the all-caps COMMENTATE as 2nd-person plural! Because it was the first word that I noticed looking up, and I was still in the wrong mode.
user116848
haha
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Q: Help with this dispute

SteveOn a medicine label it states, For the first dose you may take 2 tablets within the first hour. The dispute is between myself and my boyfriend as to the meaning of the sentence so please help

Oh boy, medical advice and boyfriend advice all wrapped up in one crazy non-question!
Neither of which would I want to step into even if it were a real question.
On drop caps, I find that the web example looks really trashy compared to Bringhurst’s typeset work.
And people wonder why I won’t read books on little toys that mangle the text.
I’d go mad.
03:10
@tchrist Great!
Much better indeed.
> Jewish tradition reads it as an allegory of the relationship between God and Israel.[5] Christian tradition, in addition to appreciating the literal meaning of a romantic song between husband and wife, has also largely adopted an allegorical reading of the piece, taking it as relating Christ (the bridegroom) and his Church (the bride).
@Cerb And yes, that’s deus not dive in the vocative, there in the blackletter: Exaudi deus orationem meam
Right!
They really printed like scribes in those first books.
All the little doohickeys.
Nice, huh?
Yes, I think so, although blackletter can drive me mad. I find the insular more legible.
03:11
Yeah.
> ‘a [conception of] national unity that places equal value on all principles in fact denies our Christian principles; we do not desire such a national unity.’
Does this make sense to you?
I just received a motivational comment :D
@Cerberus At what level?
@skullpatrol Congrats!
wanna see?
@tchrist I'm correcting/editing someone's paper. This is a quotation from a Christian politician from the 19th century.
03:13
Ah.
Well, if it is a quotation, so be it.
It is a translation of a quotation, that's the problem.
I cannot find the original.
Her translation was:
> ‘a [conception of] national unity that equates all principles in fact denies our Christian principles; we do not desire such a national unity.’
I think equates is not what she means.
Agreed.
OK cool.
Then I'll change it into my version.
"places equal value on" is much better
imo
Thanks!
Where's your motivational comment?
03:17
Dude, you inspire me, you help people for fun. I will use this website more now and help people.
Yay! That is pretty good.
:D
all I did was show him the distributive property
I always used to think that it could be derived, but it deserves a lot more respect than that
nods
03:42
I miss quarter vent windows on cars.
Well, the ones that open.
a) they are awesome
b) one of the three cars I had with them, a Jeep Grand Wagoneer, lost power to all the other windows, but I still had the quarter vents for smoking and ventilation.
c) they are awesome
I don't even smoke anymore and I want them back.
all very good reasons imo :D
Oh, I guess only two cars had them.
Of course, there are downsides to the quarter vent.
They made it easier to break in to the car and were very expensive to replace.
 
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06:10
@meer2kat is less than three.
 
1 hour later…
07:22
morning
08:14
morning
user61230
morning
Still no response on the pull request
maybe they were so blown away they quit their programming jobs?
lol
probably that, yeah
08:41
Morning.
@tchrist Nice. +1.
09:20
Apparently Josh isn’t a sockpuppet after all—his reverse-upvoting has been reversed. His rep score is all over the place these days!
10:09
I might be able to convince the company I work for to pay for me to learn Japanese :D
10:28
arrowI
Just like king Harold
In the Battle of Hastings
"I used to be a king, like you, but then I took an arrow to the eye"
His lasts words to William the Conqueror
ok
@Cerb would probably call it iArrow
10:52
I'm only the third person in the history of the internet to make that joke
sry, it was very lame
I'm just surprised it's only happened three times
I assume I will be the last person to make that joke
I'm always going to be a couple of years behnid you
due to relativity
are you going to be bored this weekend?
11:02
I don't know yet. I might have a meetup with other writers on Saturday and I'm looking after the hackspace on Sunday
@JohanLarsson What about you?
ok, ping me if you get really bored, should write tests and /// for the pull request
the code could use some flaming
oh, interesting
as you wish :D
such a pleasant place
we've only got one page worth of "you suck"
It is actually a really nice room
they are a bit vain about being grumpy
11:06
ah
we're a bit vain about not making sense
@MattЭллен could be fun
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<Path Data="M1.6040104,61.82325 L21.557625,61.838875 M42.07304,100.15137 L63.333767,0 M6.963875,30.901375 L28.057318,30.901491 34.463875,0.167 M72.5,0 L51.651231,100.15137 M44.07325,0.182625 L37.651134,30.80774 M26.312833,38.958667 L5.3545,38.9795 M19.88575,69.901375 L0.1045,69.88575" Height="100.151" Canvas.Left="6.438" Stretch="Fill" Canvas.Top="-0.167" Width="72.395" Stroke="#FF35813F" StrokeThickness="3"/>
what does that draw?
pretty happy with it
liked the retro feel
the only F# I have written this year
11:11
pretty nice
there are nicer fonts but wanted Segoe
why's there a hidden ellipse?
liked it better without, just tried it
@JohanLarsson I'll do a question later. Multiple choice or True/False?
11:18
four
I will not be in chat later, party with work, feel more like working
the party will be that bad?
The party is work.
The saying is not "Party Easy!"
That's not much of a party
It's an awesome party.
@Mitch It should be!
11:21
Office supplies? Come on.
@MattЭллен it's just me :)
ah! not a party animal. got it
Man, work parties are no fun.
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Q: Expression/word combination for "object of application"

Gytis ŠkI'm looking a word/expression to describe a variable(object) in my program. The variable will be refferring to an abstract object in real life which has/needs some kind of object applied to it. A couple of examples: one liter of paint is needed to paint an area of 10m2. 6 birthday candles are ...

Naming variables is off-topic last time I looked.
So this question could use either an edit or a closure.
11:37
"An abstract object in real life"?
how do you do that?
I think they mean a conceptual object, not a physical one.
yeah. weird way of phrasing it.
So just because you have a liter of paint that will cover 10 square meters doesn't mean you are going to paint 10 square meters or something.
I agree the phrasing is weird.
I think what they mean by "real life" is really "not in the programme"
Yes.
Someone who writes code would think they needed to make that distinction.
11:41
yeah
I am getting a virtual foot massage right now.
How is it virtual?
It's a youtube video.
oh! :D putting ASMR in your feet
I could really go for a real foot massage.
11:44
I hear that. I could go for an all over massage
@KitFox I know that question shouldn't have been answered. It's explicitly about variable naming. But there is a linguistic aspect.
I agree. It should just be edited then.
To take out or tone down the "name my variable" part.
Otherwise, the next person who has their question closed for variable-naming will point and say well, why is that one open?
11:48
"Because EL&U is here to torment you."
Whose face is that in the animated gif?
Also, now I want to watch Jaws again.
Oh the biting guy
Mike Tyson.
Except he did it just the one time.
11:53
that's him. Same person, but changed his name to change sports
I wonder if Luis knows that it's a pretty good marker for someone who is hepped up on roids.
There are sports psychologists that are saying it's some sort of reaction to being in a stressful situation. practically normal
Jammie Dodgers.
but then I wonder about all the other footballers
@KitFox mmmm. yes please!
It's true, it's not unexpected for someone who is highly aggressive and completely out-of-control of their behavior.
I found a new British ASMRtist. She's eating Jammie Dodgers.
11:56
nice.
a delicious choice
She's also apologized "to Queen and country" for being a poor British citizen because she was told and had no idea it was even possible that her flag was upside-down.
:D
union flags are trixy
I haven't decided if I like her vid yet, but she seems like a pleasant person.
She's a fan of sequins as is Violet. Sequins do make a rather nice sound.
tongue lolls
12:02
@MattЭллен Ah, but can a biter change his sports?
She's drinking from the Queen's china? What's that mean?
@terdon If puns were weapons, we'd be in trouble :D
Couldn't resist that one.
@KitFox not entriely sure. I mean, china is just what people call plates and tea sets
PG Tips?
12:04
I guess "The Queen's china" is her best
@KitFox tea bags
Is it a brand?
well, a brand of tea bag
yeah
They're the triangular ones right?
they do make the pyrmidal bags!
So must be like if I said Lipton's or Red Rose then.
12:05
probably
@MattЭллен Those are the best kind, for bagged tea.
I See
PG Tips is just a common brand.
Gold biscuits and jammie dodgers for biscuits.
not sure if there is a "best" for bags
My mum loves Tea Pigs teas
Pyramid makes sense though. It should increase the surface area in contact with the water.
12:06
so that's a high recomendation
@KitFox old skool
She says "Zhammie dodgahs" then says "for anyone who wonders why I say it like that, it's because I'm an idiot."
She's very funny. I wonder if she lives in Oxford.
Probably London.
Reads like a Cartman impression.
Where do you live Matt? Actually near the lake district or is that just your troll persona?
I live down south
Ah, yes, just checked your webpage. I was wondering more about your dialect. Are you from the North or the South?
Near The Thames.
I'm from the south
from around the cotswolds
which might be called the southwest midlands
I don't exactly know
12:12
OK, I've got a vague idea what that would sound like.
He's done some recordings before.
yes. I doubt the drop box links still work
Guess you'll have to record something new.
:D
Oct 26 '12 at 14:19, by Matt Эллен
Here's my Mary Merry marry https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bay1mfsmlk334d/MaryMerryMarry.mp3
I hadn't heard that one.
12:15
right. time for me to go!
But it's just noon.
Wait. Time change always messes me up.
Ah yes, that's a nice, clear southern accent.
What does yours sound like?
@KitFox Weird. And I have no mike unfortunately. Mine is a strange mix of US/UK and plain old mid-Atlantic.
My Dad's accent is what he calls "educated west coast", I grew up in Greece and went to university in the north of England.
Probably pretty interesting then.
12:22
I've also spent the last 10 years speaking English with non-natives.
That would corrupt you, I'd think.
In general, Brits think I'm American and Americans think I'm British.
@KitFox Oh man! I make mistakes! I also say things like "That's true, no?"
Hahaha
Damn pineapples...
Pretty tasty.
12:25
It's really annoying. I've lived in Greece, England, Spain and France. The good side is that is that I now speak 4 languages fluently and one more at a basic level. The down side is that I now speak no languages like a native. Including the ones I'm actually a native speaker of.
It's so hard being so talented.
;-)
brb
Singapur has some crazy architecture.
@RegDwigнt What is the place called?
12:42
Wow, so chlorinated looking.
Ah, it seems it hasn't been built yet.
@KitFox Just blue tiles lining the pools.
I hope.
(or wait, has it?)
Engineering nightmare. All those cantilevers.
It's called The Interlace.
12:44
It looks uncomfortable to me.
I don't like looking at it.
@KitFox 'chlorinated looking'?
The water is extremely fake blue.

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