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01:04

Howdy.

tchrist

01:34

@Robusto "I have a signed a contract with Ace for the e-pub of the early Vlad books. Presumably, they’re in production, but I don’t know how long the process takes."

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Evening.

Robusto

@tchrist i thought you didn't like e-readers.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 How d'ye do?

tchrist

Don’t. Plus I own the real version, and in several editions. But I know you like them.

And had been having trouble (with good reason) locating copies.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 You been hot and smokey today?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist I thank the lord for the nighttime. To forget the day.

Robusto

Another comment only I understand.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I do. Writing an article about robots w/r/t them taking all of our jobs.

@Robusto oh, come now. People know that song.

@tchrist I would say neither.

Robusto

01:38

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Who in here knows neil diamond?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Smokey?

tchrist

Smoky.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I've never met the man personally.

Robusto

Hmm, maybe him.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist but why? Are the Flint Hills on fire?

tchrist

01:39

Was very very hazy yesterday, and it reached down to Los Alamos.

HAH!

This is from the fires from distant Cascadia.

From the Pacific Northwet.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Lord, I was stoned, shoulda seen it come a long time ago.

Midnight Special-Sanford Townsend Band "Smoke From A Distant Fire"

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tchrist

Health warnings out.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist oh dear.

Robusto

Seems like just one time i'm feeling good

The Vogues Five O'Clock World Stereo Remastered HQ Version (use 480p)

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto hey!

Hey!

Robusto

01:44

Yodel-a-i-i ooh-eedle-e-ay.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I bought an amp today.

Robusto

What kind?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I had a 10W Crate that I'd had forever and the cat had shredded. I bought a Fender Champion 20.

Robusto

New or used?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

New.

Was only $99.

Robusto

01:46

Champ was a good amp in the day. Don't know how they are now.

Coulda looked for one of these:

amazon.com/Pignose-7-100-Legendary-portable-amplifier/dp/…

But you probably want more power than that.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

You know, I've wanted a Pignose for 20 years.

But I didn't get one.

Robusto

They're great for going places.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I'm not going places.

:)

Robusto

Now now, let's not be a downer. You could go places.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I'm at a coffeehouse right now.

So ronery.

I just don't know what to do with myself

Robusto

01:50

Coffee? On Friday night? Get out and party harder than that, woman!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself

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@tchrist lay some cat pictures on us, will ya?

tchrist

Hah.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I haven't heard this particular version.

tchrist

An EF1 touched down in Lake Geneva on Tuesday night. jsonline.com/weather/…

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Early Vlad books?

tchrist

01:52

Old paste. Jhereg et alios by Steve(n) Brust.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@tchrist are yours okay?

@tchrist ah.

tchrist

Yes, it was a few blocks NNW of home.

No sirens sounded. The folks went outside when they heard sounds like a train hitting and dragging a dump truck along the tracks.

One loaded with scrap metal and timber.

Robusto

I heard a tornado and it sounded a lot like a train

I had an image of a flatbed train carrying empty dumpsters

tchrist

Yeah.

Funny thing is that the winds were "only" 100 or 110 mph. We get those here and they aren’t tornadoes. But somehow it does more damage there with +25% our air pressure.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Rob

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - on the tour bus 1978

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Robusto

02:00

nice

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Early Geraldo.

Robusto

haha yeah. back when he had some pretensions to cool.

tchrist

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Select the "Fire" checkbox here and zoom out. You can see that the smoke plume is about to get you.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Wait, that's actually Geraldo?

Well, that was a load of bus footage.

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oh, I thought you were saying that it was. I don't think he ever tried to be that cool.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

02:06

@Robusto I think it might be!

They go to Venture/A&P in the next one.

Robusto

haha

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe - Radio Interview WBCN-FM Boston 1978

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Dude has a whole playlist of it.

@tchrist that's pretty damn frightening.

tchrist

Hard to breath in the thick of it.

Robusto

Nick Lowe - What's So Funny About Peace, Love And Understanding

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If you've never heard him play this.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

02:21

I already put my earbuds away. :(

Robusto

It's very different from EC's cover.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I'll watch it later.

> In 2014, "Love Come Down" has been placed on Bruce Pollock's list of The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000.[

What a strange set of numbers.

Why 7500 songs? Why 1944?

Robusto

Sounds like the list was created to squeeze in that song.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Time to go back home.

Ha.

Robusto

Hell, I think I've written one of the 7,500 most important songs of that period, and I don't even write songs.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

02:25

I wonder how many Weird Al songs made the list.

Robusto

Full disclosure: I have actually written songs. It put me strongly in touch with how not a songwriter I am.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

03:13

@Robusto oh, come on.

Robusto

10:08

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oh come on what? It's true.

Robusto

10:18

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Q: badonkadonk - botox or natural ass

This is not existentially important for me now but I'd like to figure it out. Does a badonkadonk have to be filled with botox to be considered such? Or it just doesn't matter as long as they have an enormous ass? Any badonkadonk experts here?

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This is just trolling. It should be obliterated.

Saladin

10:30

hi

a girl should answer this?

or a lady.

I think calling someone troll is being naive. If troll was something which wasn't welcomed then these cults underground movements like "4chan" never had existed

Robusto

We ain't 4chan.

We go to great lengths to keep it from that.

Saladin

I know @Robusto :)

I like you guys.

How are you? @Robusto

anyone got tickets to "bilderberg 2015" event in Swiss alps?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

12:45

@Robusto did you not resolve to the tonic or something?

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Nah. The songs just sound labored and pedestrian. There's a difference between my gifts and those given to Elvis Costello or Paul Simon. It's just not fair!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

My cat is on the floor, belly up, whimpering, waiting for a belly rub. She is a dogcat.

Were the subjects grand?

Robusto

Norma Tanega "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"

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I've linked that before.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Not particularly.

YouTube is the first thing to come along that matches my memory for songs.

And just now I tried to think of a song so obscure that YouTube wouldn't have it, and I failed:

TRAVIS WAMMACK - SCRATCHY ( ATLANTIC AT.4017 ) www.raresoulman.co.uk John Manship

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cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

They Might Be Giants - Walking My Cat Named Dog (Dial-A-Song Week 30)

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@Robusto that's nice.

tchrist

@CandiedOrange A word for somehow who wants bad things to happen to other people is surely close enough to a duplicate for a word for someone who doesn’t want good things to happen to others. In any event, is a terrible question: it is too broad, primarily opinion-based, and shows no research effort. It is nothing but another open-ended fishing expedition for awful things to use about people whose behavior we disapprove of. If left open, it would draw dozens of answers and surely earn the guessers gold badges for their non-efforts. — tchrist 2 mins ago

Robusto

12:59

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Cool.

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Q: badonkadonk - botox or natural ass

This is not existentially important for me now but I'd like to figure it out. Does a badonkadonk have to be filled with botox to be considered such? Or it just doesn't matter as long as they have an enormous ass? Any badonkadonk experts here?

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One more delete vote.

How do these commenters take that question seriously?

tchrist

I was the first deleter.

Although it’s a shame for him to get back the rep.

Robusto

I flagged for mod attention but mod attention seems to be the absent factor here.

tchrist

Please approve this. english.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/136534

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto I much prefer that to the Onion AV cover of Chumbawumba.

tchrist

Rather, don't reopen it.

@Robusto They’ve taken the weekend off.

Robusto

13:05

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Well, I've always known TMBG were more evolved beings, and this is one more piece of evidence supporting that.

tchrist

They haven’t even deleted the post libelling Edwin.

Robusto

I know.

Flagged that one too.

tchrist

Please run the reopen queue and Just Say No. :)

As have I.

Robusto

Same.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Yes.

Robusto

13:09

amazon.com/Samsung-WQHD-LED-Monitor-S32D850T/dp/B00L3KNOF4/…

My next monitor? Thoughts?

tchrist

Thanks.

Nice for having a big screen and sitting back a good ways from it.

Hm. I have two monitors that are both like 25". I still might want two.

Or maybe these are 27".

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

We did this a couple weeks ago. I suggested you use a TV.

Robusto

That's not really what it means. "To think that . . ." really means "It is strange/bizarre/astounding to think that . . ." — Robusto 15 secs ago

tchrist

I actually have them slightly bent so that they bit better.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

And wondered if the question marks are standing in for the stars.

Robusto

13:12

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Sorry for the repeat. I'm still on the fence.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto No way.

32" LED TVs cost half as much.

Robusto

On the one hand we have the fact that I don't really need it. On the other, I really do want it. Guess which one will win.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 But no DVI dual-link ports, etc.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

amazon.com/Samsung-UN32J5003-32-Inch-1080p-Model/dp/B00V0923TG

@Robusto that's about how I ended up with a new amp.

Robusto

Yes. I am more than familiar with the dynamic.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Why DVI?

BRB

Robusto

13:16

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 DVI-dual link. Because I can link both DVI channels of my graphics card to the single monitor for superior performance.

> The moment when you discover that something awful makes for good television is always the beginning of the end. Remember how many of us watched the Trump debate?

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto this is better than HDMI?

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

13:33

@Rob have you used Synesthia?

Pixies - Where Is My Mind [Piano] (Maxence Cyrin Cover)

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Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No. I wrote an app similar to that about 15 years ago. Shareware.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

@Robusto That's an interesting thing to name it.

Robusto

Main page shows this is a dupe, but question itself is not closed as such.

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Q: Word for someone who acts like an expert but has very little knowledge?

What is a word to describe an individual who acts like an expert in a subject area, constantly stating facts and correcting people, but actually has very little knowledge on the subject?

single-word-requests pejorative-language

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Mine was not named so interestingly.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

13:58

Well sure, since you called Shareware.

tchrist

@Robusto I misfired. I keep reading titles that match instead of bodies.

Yesterday all it did was blow hot wind here. About 30 small fires were started around the state, although nothing big that I can see (there's one existing larger one on the Western Slope). The thickest smoke for the WA/OR fires is just missing me for now.

Go to any map on wunderground.com and select Fire, then zoom out. The West is ablaze, and it’s dumping all its smoke across the top of the country in the middle. Very nasty.

> So for example /t/ may also be voiced when it occurs after /r, l, m, n, ŋ/ and before a weak vowel. So we will probably hear a tap in the following words: [...] sphincter

Rhymes with pinked her.

Robusto

15:06

@tchrist Fumble went ahead with it.

tchrist

16:26

@Robusto So I saw.

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A: Word for someone who acts like an expert but has very little knowledge?

Cryptonescient Morosophs and Ultracrepidarians The cryptonescient are best described as morosophs and ultacrepidarians, as any philodox or sumpsimus drawn into this epeolatrous logomachy like a santurnid to a pharol will deliciate in apprising you with all due impigrity. Those epithets you may ...

Reads like Jabberwocky, I know. :)

Robusto

@tchrist Haha, I had to upvote that one. I am a bad person.

tchrist

:)

It at least shows more deviousness than yet offered in this fishing expedition. 😈

Mathematics

I am in a big trueBLE

tchrist

Those are of course all real words used correctly. It will take most folks some time to find all of them, though.

Ceci n’est pas un dictionnaire.

Mathematics

16:41

am I being ignored ? :|

Last place I was going to expect you @rlemon is this chat room, wasn't JS room enough for you ? :P

Gigili

19:02

here are some things that make us think we would be a good tour guide:

• It's been a long time we live in Tehran and we know it pretty well (we know its secret places, its traffic peak hours, its crowded/isolated places, …? Is there an idiom for this?)
• It doesn't matter if you've made a list of different places you'd like to visit, the fact that what time is appropriate for visiting which place, considering different factors, is what matters most
• Other than Tehran, we've visited many cities and we'd like to accompany you through your trip to these cities, such as Isfahan, Tabriz, Kerma…

Short...

SmokeDetector

19:23

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HELP TITLE MUST BE AT LEAST 15 CHARACTERS by brandon on english.stackexchange.com

tchrist

20:09

@Mitch Then I have won.

Cerberus

Shoreham Air Show, Sussex - Plane Crash

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Can you imagine the pilot survived this?

tchrist

21:33

Obnubilation

L'obnubilation est un obscurcissement de l'état de conscience, une baisse de la vigilance, liée à une atteinte du système nerveux central. == Définition et sémiologie == L'obnubilation est un état de conscience altéré, susceptible d'évoluer vers un coma. C'est la vigilance du patient (c'est-à-dire sa capacité de fixer son attention sur son environnement, de le surveiller activement) qui est touchée. Cliniquement, la personne semble s'endormir, ne réagit pas aux stimuli (bruits, appels, lumière soudaine) ou alors seulement lorsque ceux-ci sont importants. Il se montre apathique, répondant ...

Robusto

@SmokeDetector Just tried to watch the last hobbit film. Made it half an hour in before bailing. What a piece of garbage.

@tchrist ^^

tchrist

Smokey is read-only everywhere cept the Tavern.

Such a shame.

Robusto

Stupid tablet got the wrong reference in chat.

Then wouldn't let me edit.

tchrist

The first half-hour was Smaug, right?

I’ve tried to put most of it from my mind.

Robusto

No. The first 15 minutes was.

Then it went completely off book.

tchrist

21:37

What was the other 15? No idea.

Robusto

It was a desperate attempt at foreshadowing of LotR.

tchrist

Elves?

Sauron?

Rigor

@Robusto what kind of tablet?

Robusto

Galleries, Elrond, Legolas

Galadriel, not galleries.

tchrist

Recusing Goodwife.

Robusto

21:40

Stupid tablet.

tchrist

(That's my imitation of spelling correction for Rescuing Gandalf.)

Robusto

We hates it.

tchrist

Turn if off?

Robusto

Meh.

tchrist

Menhir are stones.

Man her is something else.

I realized Mitch was taking my hair when he protested his ignorance of obnubilation.

Pues quedan unas nubes en medio de ella.

I finally watched a Tom Scott rant I disapproved of. He was cursing gender marking. I find it rather convenient that I can use a feminine pronoun for de ella so you knew I wasn’t talking about Mitch.

Robusto

21:58

Heh.

@tchrist Oh, and Sauron and the Nazgul too.

Like Old Home Week.

Faheem Mitha

@Robusto Old Home Week?

Robusto

22:25

google.com/…

Faheem Mitha

I don't get it. But never mind.

Cerberus

22:51

@tchrist Who is that?

Robusto

@FaheemMitha A reunion.

Faheem Mitha

23:30

@Robusto A reunion of Sauron and the Nazgul?

They should sing their college drinking song.

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