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jlliagre

22:08

@Mitch It sounds fine to my ears. Most if not all Québec swear words are just unexceptional French vocabulary, not at all rude.

Mitch

22:19

@jlliagre very churchy I suspect? like overhearing a priest.

Supposedly in Québec that would all be unutterable excpet in maybe gangsta rap (if that is indeed a thing in Montréal)

@Robusto nice

tchrist

@Robusto heolster

Mitch

@GratefulDisciple I don't think that that reminding is special to the word 'vagina'.

wait...I'm not 17 where all words remind me of 'vagina'

what I'm saying is...

dang

jlliagre

@Mitch Yes, church vocabulary.

Mitch

what I'm saying is that all words remind you of that word.

it makes sense in math.

for all x such that x is a word, it is the case that x reminds you of x

in other words, the 'remind' relation is reflexive.

tchrist

@Mitch Or 7 of Butt.

Mitch

22:25

There, I've squeezed out all the fun out of vaginas..

Xanne

We had four earthquakes here,

Mitch

clears throat

I mean the word.

tchrist

Which always beats 4 of Poop.

Mitch

cripes

Xanne

I felt the last one, half an hour ago

Mitch

22:26

@Robusto As queens go, she seemed all right.

tchrist

@Xanne Temblor?

Mitch

@MetaEd I remember when I was 6 years old and my older brother must have been mean to me and I went out to woods out back and started listing off all the swear words I could about him (Mom had said swearing was bad so I had to hide my temper) and the list went 'stupid,...

and that was it.

Xanne

Si, temblor

Mitch

That's what maturity really is, being able to express ones emotions with a larger vocabulary.

2

Xanne

just one back and forth, not sustained; a mere 3.0

Mitch

22:30

@tchrist exactly

@Xanne You can feel a 3.0? do the dishes rattle? or is like a truck going by but takes forever to do it? or is it like a funny queasy feeling?

MetaEd

@Robusto Right you are. Calling Regina, Saskatchewan "Vagina" on the grounds that Regina is the stinky armpit of Canada would be a slur though.

Robusto

@MetaEd Ya know, it was just me being silly. Sorry if I offended you.

MetaEd

We could call it Tabarnak.

Mitch

Calling someone a 'slur' though would just be weird.

Xanne

Southern California is in mudslide season (earthquake, fire, mudslide riot = four seasons)

Mitch

22:33

@MetaEd That has a very reverent ring to it.

Robusto

What about construction? In Chicago, there are two seasons: winter and road construction.

Mitch

@Xanne do you count yourself there? or just adjacent?

MetaEd

Musical Symbols (Unicode block)

Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing modern musical notation. Fonts that support it include Bravura, Euterpe, FreeSerif, Musica and Symbola. The Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL), which is supported by the MusicXML format, expands on the Musical Symbols Unicode Block's 220 glyphs by using the Private Use Area in the Basic Multilingual Plane, permitting close to 2600 glyphs. == Block == == History == The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Musical Symbols block: == See also == An...

@Mitch inorite?

Xanne

@Mitch I’m in Northern California.

MetaEd

time to get on the freeway

Xanne

22:36

The mudslides are on the news.

Mitch

@MetaEd please educate me... for a given font, like say Arial, do they have to design an Arial character for -every- unicode code point? how does that work?

Also @tchrist

@Xanne At least you don't have hurricanes or tornadoes?

Robusto

@Mitch There is only one basic set of musical symbols. I mean, you can't do Copperplate or Bodoni Bold or whatever. If you start getting hinky with the standard notation, suddenly sight-reading is just that much harder.

Mitch

@Robusto It would seem like an inordinate amount of work to create a new font and then have the font police tell you you're not finished you also have to make your font work with Thai and Cherokee.

Xanne

@Mitch No hutticanes or tornadoes here.

Mitch

In music's defense, there is only one 'font' for music anyway, right?

Xanne

22:41

hurricanes that is. But my cell’s bars are very poor.

Mitch

@Xanne Also it hardly ever rains? which I suppose is sort of a problem with respect to the fire thing.

Robusto

@Mitch They have different styles of Japanese text, but many fewer than exist in English or other Western languages.

Mitch

@Robusto That's what I was wondering. Like I've heard that there are fonts for Hebrew, but they are entirely orthogonal to the Latin alphabet ones.

and having to do a new one for kanji would be daunting.

again hard enough for ~26 characters.

Xanne

@Mitch We are having rain now; so is SoCal, thus mudslides. We have also had frost alerts here, near San Francisco. And “atmospheric rivers”, I think they call them.

Actually our reservoirs are all okay now. No drought.

Robusto

@Mitch There are variations, but I don't remember the names. There's a basic one that looks like standard printing, then a sans-serif, then a sharpish-looking serif, then one that's rounded and tubular-looking, kinda "Comic Sans" for Japanese, but that's about it.

I always use the basic meat-and-potatoes one, because for me that's the easiest to read.

Mitch

22:50

@Xanne oh...yeah... atmospheric rivers coming to California was in the national news last weekend that it was coming.

national as in the undifferentiated commercial weather news supplied by the Weather Channel

Robusto

Plus you can't go wrong with meat and potatoes. Unless everyone's a vegan who's going to read your work, maybe then you use Kale or what were you doing trying to write Japanese to a bunch of vegans anyway?

Mitch

@Robusto from a cursory google search, a font -can- design for any subset of the full unicode code points, but they don't have to. I found a lot of free fonts that have Hebrew and Cyrillic and Greek in addition to Latin.

but no confirmation that something like Arial or Helvetica do that. Google doesn't tell you the immediate obvious thing I want to know.

@Robusto do it in soy?

jlliagre

#WhenTaken #352 (13.02.2025)

I scored 688/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍493 km - 🗓️13 yrs - 🥈161/200
2️⃣📍1.5K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈159/200
3️⃣📍193 km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥇182/200
4️⃣📍6.6K km - 🗓️26 yrs - 🥉44/200
5️⃣📍2.4K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥈142/200

https://whentaken.com

Robusto

@Mitch What about wagyu [和牛]?

Xanne

@Mitch A small quake just feels like the building goes back and forth once. Not enough to rattle dishes. Usually there’s no damage.

Robusto

23:00

@jlliagre This one was terrible for me.

jlliagre

@Robusto And has a date mismatch. Spoiler

Robusto

@jlliagre That's what I thought! Glad I'm not alone.

jlliagre

We guessed the same year.

Robusto

Ha.

Cerberus

@jlliagre OK playing now.

I'm surprised you got the first one wrong.

I have picked a place yet.

So that must mean...

I am playing yesterday's, like you, the 13th.

jlliagre

23:06

@Cerberus Make sure your clock is set to Thursday.

Cerberus

No, I just used the archive function.

jlliagre

Ah, okay.

Cerberus

OK I knew it had to be wrong based on your numbers, but I tried it anyway.

@jlliagre By the way, do you use the hints system?

jlliagre

I don't.

Cerberus

OK.

jlliagre

23:17

> The “cost” of the hint is twofold: 1. with the exception of the first hint, you must watch a rewarded ad 2. in your share text, we will show a light bulb💡 for each hint you use. This lets other know you had help and allows purists to delight in their light-bulb free score sharing.

I'm a purist :-)

Cerberus

Ahh OK.

@jlliagre How did you get this one?

Robusto

@jlliagre What kind of hints? I don't think I've seen that in WhenTaken. I know there are hints in the Strands that do the lightbulb thing, but not in WT.

Cerberus

~~SPOILER~~

jlliagre

@Cerberus I didn't get it. I was actually 1500 km from it but I hesitated between the right place and the one I wrongly picked.

Cerberus

Ohh those stupid Ks mislead me, sorry.

jlliagre

23:27

I could have been right though.

Cerberus

Why on Earth would he use "K km" there.

Anyway.

How could you possibly have picked the right place?

Or do you mean, the right country?

jlliagre

@Cerberus Spoiler

Cerberus

@jlliagre ~~SPOILER~~

jlliagre

I did.

Cerberus

Cool.

Meanwhile, I think I have found number 3 exactly.

Well, the city.

Not yet the church.

jlliagre

23:40

@Cerberus Spoiler

Cerberus

@jlliagre The exact right spot or the right country?

I think the latter.

jlliagre

Yes.

Cerberus

Right.

I still can't find the church.

Even though I have the tram line.

But tram lines are poorly indicated in Apple's maps.

Found it!

Hmm I could have been more praecise.

jlliagre

Ha ha

Mitch

@Robusto Isn't that beef?

jlliagre

23:49

@Cerberus How did you get the city?

Cerberus

@jlliagre How I normally get them?

jlliagre

#3 one.

Cerberus

I consider what cities are likely candidates, and try to find e.g. tram line destinations, specific churches, streets and such.

In this case, I first looked in two other cities, but it didn't look as though those could be it.

In the third city, I found the destination of the tram line.

Then it took quite some time to find the right church.

I knew I had the church when I saw the name of the restaurant, because the shape of the church is indistinctive on the map.

The fourth one is pretty.

But where is it?

jlliagre

Good question.

Cerberus

Was that the one with the wrong date?

I must admit I might have picked somewhere else if I hadn't seen how far off you were...

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