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14:00
Then how come we don't hit the ball with our foot? I mean we do but not that often as they do in soccer.
Is the question silly or is the comment from @MattЭллен silly?
American football is a cross between soccer and rugby.
The question was silly.
Technically Rugby is just short for "Rugby rules football"
Do we use it right? Yes. Same way Brits use "lorry" correctly.
Okay, I take full responsibility for that. But I had to write something about it.
Why?
14:02
What do you mean by Why?
Why did you have to write something about it?
Because it's an assignment about soccer and I wanted to see if the two could be used interchangeably.
@KitFox Such obviously imperialist American language cannot go unchallenged
Oh, well, soccer is the same as football, but football is not the same as soccer.
If you'll pardon me a moment, I have zombies to kill.
And I have discovered something amazingly strange. Why do brits pronounce Reading REding?
Isn't it Reeding.
14:07
Oh, you mean the town. Well, because that's how it's pronounced. Like lead weights.
@Noah Reading's what you do. Reading's where you are.
So you mean the word reading is pronounced differently from the place Reading?
You might as well ask why American's can't spell aluminium.
@Noah yes
Sweet. Tall-nut is mine.
It's Aluminum, right?
Only in America
14:09
rolls eyes
It's total anarchy in the UK.
I mean, where else does anyone pronounce "chester" as "stir"?
Or wick as rick
or wark as urk
Of course, I'm one to talk. In my home state, we have the town of Calais, which is pronounced "callous" and then there's St. Agatha, pronounced "santagat."
At least we're not remotely consistent.
@MattЭллен Or orcest as ust.
@KitFox Well, Des Plaines, IL is pronounced dess plainz
Or oucest as ost
14:19
Dec 31 '12 at 21:07, by Robusto
Supposedly Twain tweaked one of his British friends by feigning no knowledge of the place known as Niagara Falls. After several attempts by the Brit to explain to him what location he meant, Twain exclaimed, "Oh, you mean Niffles!"
or teignmouth as tinmuth
Hi
what's the meaning of "transfer out" in the financial context?
@Robusto Deez nuts!
@Meysam remove money from
@MattЭллен Synonym to withdraw?
14:21
Google "wire transfer" ...
@Meysam almost. transfer out implies to me that there is another account the money is going into. so it is transfered out of savings and transfered into the mortgage
It means to take from one account and put into another.
Could it mean removing all the money to close the account?
Yes. So long as that money was going to another account.
Thanks
14:26
Hi, is it correct to say: "per period" or "per a period"?
An example sentence: "He can instruct at most one class per (a) period."
Per period.
The per implies the a.
thanks!
I just hate the articles. :)
@KitFox That the Americans play it with their hands is perhaps one thing.
> French president demands any US spying cease, now.
Yeah right. That will never ever ever happen.
They'll just lie.
What a stupid thing.
opportunist thing
14:49
@tchrist The NSA should respond, "We knew you were going to demand that."
> Together with Zeit Online, the online edition of the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit, I published an infographic of six months of my life for all to see. With these 35,830 pieces of data, you can follow my travels across Germany, you can see when I went to sleep and woke up, a trail further enriched with public information from my social networking sites: six months of my life viewable for everybody to see what exactly is possible with “just metadata.”
> My records revealed the movements of a single individual; now imagine if you had access to millions of similar data sets. You could easily draw maps, tracing communication and movement. You could see which individuals, families or groups were communicating with one another. You could identify any social group and determine its major actors.
> All of this is possible without knowing the specific content of a conversation, just technical information — the sender and recipient, the time and duration of the call and the geolocation data.
@MattЭллен Rugby -totally- rules over football. Football players are wimps with all their pads and rules and stuff. Wimps.
@Mitch true. wait... Football players don't wear pads
@RegDwighт I just looked up where I'm going to be later today. Still at work. How did they know?
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If they tell you often enough that you're a terrist, you believe it.
14:59
@MattЭллен that's soccer rules fotball
@Mitch s/fotball/futbal/
-1
A: What is the the origin of the expression "chop chop"?

dvhkThe norwegian phrase "...kjapt kjapt!" makes much more sense to me: it is pronounced similarly, and the meaning is approx. "...hurry, hurry!".

Why doesn't this stuff show up in the "Late Answers" queue right away?
Why do I have to leave it up to get my review point?
@RegDwighт no I couldn't believe that. Unless you said I'm going to terrorize the shit out of this burrrito. I'm -so- hungry.
@MattЭллен fotball-rules fotbal. duh.
futbal fotbal fotball futbal
15:18
@MattЭллен They do for heavy-flow days.
@RegDwighт Duh.
@Robusto it's like you're performing a midsummer's night's dream
15:38
@MattЭллен I am literally performing a midsummer night's dream today. No sleep last night, so I am a walking zombie right now.
no sleep till Brooklyn
No sleep Till Eulenspiegel.
> He made his main entrance in English-speaking culture late in the nineteenth century as "Owlglass", but was first mentioned in English literature by Ben Jonson in his comedic play The Alchemist or even earlier – Owleglasse – by Henry Porter in The Two Angry Women of Abington (1599).
they don't understand either what earlier means or first
What source is that?
15:43
Pfft.
16:12
Hahaha. That flag was funny.
@RegDwighт If you had access to millions of similar data sets, how would you mine it all?
what was the flag? I can't see them
Let me see if I can find it. brb
in The Bridge, 9 mins ago, by fredley
@kalina unzip; strip; find; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; fsck; umount; sleep
Oh and Happy Canada Day @Mr.Shiny!
people flag in strange ways
@KitFox kalina left out wait; spawn
or fork if you like, depending on the OS variant
or batch
Threads.
I want to make a joke about threads, but I can't remember.
Jan 10 at 3:24, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
> A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, "I know, I'll solve it with threads!". has Now problems. two he
16:30
That one is all over the place, did Shiny invent it here?
@KitFox It's usually better to COFFEE BREAK just use the interrupt context.
I wrote some really nice code in|on the weekend. (in or on)
Hello
in C# on Stack Overflow Chat, 6 mins ago, by Kendall Frey
I actually wrote some really nice code on the weekend.
You mean computer code or real code?
Does anyone know how to cook Apple Pie?
I am not talking about iApple.
16:34
@JohanLarsson I would use over in that context, but on not in.
@Noah Yes.
gf makes sick apple sponge cakes, one of the reasons I'm getting fat
@KitFox Can you help me how?
@Noah Maybe. What do you need help with?
Everything.
Then no. Find a recipe first.
16:36
Okay.
Let me search online and then I will get back to you.
Apple pie is extremely simple, especially if you use a frozen crust.
Peel, core and slice about four medium apples.
And is Apple Pie a mass noun or both?
Toss them in a mixture of 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon of cardamom until they are well coated.
1) Get nice apples, I prefer small Swedish, the apples makes a difference
2) Make a standard sponge cake custard?
3) Pour the custard in the thing
4) Push down the apples
5) 175°C 50 minutes
6) Serve with icecream flakes and cream
Profit!
Put them in the crust. Bake for about 30 min at 425.
16:39
Is the crust made of flour?
I mean how do you make the crust part of it?
Usually flour, butter or shortening, and ice water.
It's hard to make good pie crust without a lot of practice and someone to demonstrate it.
I don't know what a sponge cake custard is.
And I think "icecream flakes" must be sprinkles.
What if you don't sprinkle cinnamon on top of it?
What? The pie?
Yeah, on the apples.
a small touch of chili can work in apple pie, not too much though
But chili works better in rhubarb pie
16:48
One guide says, mix sugar with cinnamon, cornstarch and a little bit of nutmeg and then sprinkle it over the apples.
Well, I guess you don't need cinnamon.
Nutmeg would work. I'd leave out the cornstarch.
Or use just a teaspoon or so of regular all-purpose flour.
And salt
Salt is certainly optional.
Okay. What if the apples are not very fresh?
Like sometimes I get not very good apples.
Not sure if that will make any difference
That shouldn't really matter, since they get cooked until they are soft anyway.
16:55
But some apples don't really taste at all. They are kind of off and stale. I mean they don't taste like real apples but more like squeezed out ones.
Well, yeah. Old ones will be pretty tasteless, but with sugar and spices, it won't matter much.
why not just get good apples if you are going to make the effort to make a pie?
17:23
Don't look at me. He's the one asking.
I was only suggesting
17:37
Oh, I think that comment was unrealted. @Kit is just really shy
Hiya @Matty.
Matt-matt. Matts.
Matchew!
hello friends
bless you
17:38
Hello
I can't find a satisfying nick for Matt.
Maybe Grumbum.
Matt is a nickname
I just made myself laugh.
My full name is Matthew Edward Ellen.
Grumbum :D
Easy to remember who you are then. You're Mee.
Smee!
Or MEdEl.
Merlin.
Sir Matty Micklesworth.
17:43
Smattering Natterer.
Smifflebaum.
Right. I was doing something just now.
you were smiffle bauming?
Goodness, no. What would my husband think?
my grandmother's name was Ellen, her first name.
I can't figure out if I wrote this correctly:
Select schoolPK, S.schoolName, personFK
		From ref_Roles As R
		Inner Join ref_Schools As S On R.schoolFK = 0
		Where permissionsFK = 11
@JohanLarsson nice. It's a good name.
@KitFox maybe he'd join in?
17:46
yes indeed
My uncle thinks our surname might be related to the unit of length, rather than being of Greek origin
How many Matts were hewn? An Ellsworth and then some.
:D
hewn of the finest cloth
I grew up outside of Ellsworth. It hurt my brain when it clicked in what it meant.
Hewn from the finest timbers.
I'm writing ugly code
17:52
be glad you're not my manager, who is reading my ugly code
bbl - eating
i'm too writing ugly code....
I don't think mine is too ugly.
I mean, I wouldn't call it elegant.
But I've written nastier stuff.
18:14
Hello.
Hi @Mahnax.
How is your summer?
It's looking relatively Finnish thus far.
I've just been hanging about in a small town on the coast. How are you liking July?
@Mahnax are you in Finland now?
@JohanLarsson Yep yep.
nice man!
18:17
@Mahnax Well, Happy Canada Day, all the same.
July generally sucks. My birthday is tomorrow though.
@KitFox Oh, happy birthday! Turning 22, I believe?
Haha. You're funny. My boys are too old for me to claim that age.
@KitFox Hehe.
Nice little museum here.
Oh, it looks lovely.
How long will you be in Finland?
One month, minus the three days in Estonia.
18:19
Oh, Estonia! I've always wanted to visit the Baltic States.
There is also this. That is all I will post for pictures for now.
You are so lucky.
@KitFox Me too! We'll be staying right in Tallinn's Old Town.
Eep!
envy
@KitFox Yes, I am very glad that we are going on this trip.
@KitFox I can show you some pictures when I go, if you want?
Or will that only make it worse?
18:20
Yes, I would love it.
Haha, OK.
I will link to an album so as to avoid spamming the chat, when the time comes.
Please tell me how great it is and not at all disappointing.
Worth the wait to see, etc, etc.
I am absolutely certain that it is worth the wait.
Even this little Finnish town is an incredible place.
Ah, a story:
There was a rich Finnish man who lived in the oldest house in this town, and across the way lived a woman who was his cousin.
@MattЭллен Wot? Ye ain't 'Ellenic arfter all?
They were deeply in love, but alas, could not marry.
He asked the King of Sweden for permission to marry her twice, and was rejected both times.
When Finland switched over to Russian rule, and the Czar came to visit, he asked the Czar, and was refused permission once more.
18:23
@Mahnax nice pic!
@JohanLarsson Tack!
Yep.
waits patiently
So the man devised a little two-candle stand, and he would burn two candles in his window whilst his love would burn hers, to show that they missed each other.
When she died, seventeen years after his third and final rejection, he continued to burn the candles, together.
And it is said that when he died, he was found upstairs in his house, having quietly passed away next to the two candles, which had just gone out.
18:26
Awww.
wipes tear
Hehe.
Although wanting to marry his cousin is kind of skeezy.
But they did stuff like that back then.
Yeah.
So the museum was built in 1848, and has been kept pretty much in its original state since then.
(It's been a museum since 1852).
It reminds me of our ancestral home downeast.
But yeah, this is a neat lil' town.
18:33
In contrast to my ancestral home? furrows brow
What do you mean by your ancestral home?
I mean where my family is from originally.
This town was founded in 1649, and was a major shipbuilding site for a very long time.
And where is that, if I may ask?
In the neighborhood of Addison, Maine, after they came over from Europe.
what country in Europe did they come from?
18:35
Ah, OK.
good evening guys..
@JohanLarsson Norway, by way of England.
@Robusto criminal, aintit?
Except Norway by way of France on my mother's side.
I have a quick questions... I heard the term "cohesive solution".. what does that mean.. a sticking solution ????
or more like a strong solution?
18:36
Cohesive like coherent. Sticks together.
Makes sense from all angles.
can u give me an example of a solution that is cohesive?
Not really.
is it used to describe "a good solution"?
Yes.
One that addresses the problem from multiple angles.
I thought cohesive meant that things are grouped together, 'high cohesion low coupling'
18:38
It means all the pieces work together to make the solution.
oook...
got it..
In this context.
now it makes sense.. the guy who said it was describing a solution that involved the joint effort of many departments in my company... now I get it..
So if my data was crappy, a cohesive solution would involve training the users better, finding alternative sources for some information, and creating algorithms to smooth stuff, maybe.
For instance.
A coordinated effort.
So I can say "The concerned departments came up with cohesive solution to this problem"?
i can write in my report.. let me get some people go to google and look for the word.. let them have the same headache i had in getting the meaning of it :D
18:40
Sure.
Although I'd be inclined to write "The departments concerned coordinated a joint effort to solve this problem."
I'm not sure why I want to invert the adjective there though. Otherwise it seems like the wrong kind of concerned.
i know joint effort.. i guess my colleague do also.. i wanna use cohesive just to be evil..
"invert the adjective", no different that cohesive to me few minutes ago..
The departments concerned implemented a cohesive plan to solve this problem.
@HaLaBi Put the adjective on the other side of the noun.
The concerned departments ==> The concerned departments... is that what you mean?
The concerned departments --> The departments concerned. Yes.
i guess because i am an arab..
you say big boy, we say boy big...
the adjective is after the noun
18:50
I am impressed with a great impression.
I am impressed by impression great ===> Arabic version :D
@KitFox thanks man for the help
Well, I was close. It's been twenty years since I studied Arabic.
where did u study Arabic?
college?
Yeah.
Same place you studied English. College courses are no guarantee of success.
19:04
Hey, I watched The Avengers last night.
That gives you a pass on English?
Um, no.
Well then.
I was just making conversation.
All conversations are vetted by the NSA.
19:05
And?
And what?
I feel like we're talking past each other here.
Maybe, but it felt past perfect to me.
Also like I need to put in a check for whether a user is active.
No code hints in chat.
19:07
phbblt
I'm making a note to think about it tomorrow.
My contacts are in and my boys are going to be at the pool tonight, so I think I should leave early.
you're dropping the kids off at the pool?
It's enough to say "<FIRST CLAUSE>, so I think I should leave early."
Where <FIRST CLAUSE> is any utterance at all, including silence.
@MattЭллен No, no, picking up. Oh, gross.
The good news is, I think I am done with the permissions redesign.
Bad news is, I forgot to run the year end process. I guess I can do that tomorrow.
19:19
yeah. luckily you also forgot to run the world end process. Safe for another day!
Also, I've managed to completely foul up my effort to deploy this in an organized way to a new dev site.
So that I can figure out how I'm gong to migrate the existing data.
Well, my lovelies. I'm off. See you later.
@KitFox I do not understand the question. Are you trying to make the point it can't be mined? Then what's the point of collecting the data in the first place?
19:39
@Mahnax Why the hell is he asking permission? Get it over with then ask for forgiveness, if they even care.
19:56
Hey guys
Anyone there?
I have a question
Guys I need native english speaker to help me
I am here
@MattЭллен you have any IM to connect with you?
nope. we can chat here
20:19
yeah, what's the difference between IM and chat?
I'd say with IM you choose who you chat with and chat is a catchall. Guess that makes IM a subset of chat.
so IMing is like texting but on your computer.
and chat is like a conference call.
Oh, seems, I created new topic for talk here :)
> Egypt's powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn't "meet the people's demands," giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what it called a last chance.
Uh-oh.
48 bottles of beer on the wall, 48 bottles of beer. . . .
@Mitch I'd say IM is one type of chat, what we do here another. I would not call what we do here IM though
20:27
No, what we do here is less like chat than it is like chitty chitty bang bang.
IM - instant message, direct message from person to another
Chat - have larger meaning than IM
i think
Apr 21 at 19:27, by tchrist
Chat is a French cat.
Apr 21 at 19:29, by tchrist
This is why there are so many cat pix in chat.
pretty solid analysis imo
@JohanLarsson Don't keep egging him on. Because one egg is un oeuf.
2
never heard the expression egging before, translated liberally to Swedish slang it would be farting with disgusting smell
20:46
3
Q: Etymology on "egging on"

UrbycozWhat is the etymology on "egging on"? e.g. It was Jack who did it. But Jane was really egging him on. Does it actually relate to eggs, or is it simply derived from "urging on"?

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A: Etymology on "egging on"

Barrie EnglandThe etymology of the verb egg (on) is the same as that of edge. It is of Old Norse origin, and once described in particular the sharp edge of a sword. Perhaps those who were egged on were once so encouraged by the threat of laceration.

he does not write what it means today?
Urh. Merh. Gerrrrdh
That's so cool :DDD
20:50
I will get a more solid one and post it.
Like, without those missing ink parts.
21:14
@JohanLarsson The OP wanted to know the etymology. It means to encourage someone on.
@JohanLarsson So we got the term from the Swedes.
is Old Norse Swedish? Never heard about that either until now.
And I suppose anybody being edged on at swordpoint might lose bowel control, so the terms are really very closely related.
I'm having one of these nights when I suck at everything I do btw (writing ugly code)
21:17
Red: Old West Norse. Orange: Old East Norse.
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 code > cry > code > puke...
still gonna grind through it until them dots are green
21:38
hello
@Cerberus are you online_
@JohanLarsson I hate when that happens.
in C# on Stack Overflow Chat, 17 mins ago, by Johan Larsson
fuck I just pasted row numbers with my sample json, not easy to get that test to pass Unable to cast object of type 'System.Int64' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary2[System.String,System.Object]'`
that type of night^ (one in a long series of dumbs)
When crappy coding strikes, go to bed. Morning brain will solve everything.
And so to dinner.
solid advice
@Robusto Bon voyage.

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