« first day (983 days earlier)      last day (4235 days later) » 

00:00
Meanwhile, I have updated the privacy application on my phone.
And you?
You updated something? Congratulations!
I've just come back from dinner with my brother's girlfriend's family.
Sure, I update when needed.
Ooh, how lovely for you.
The dinner, I mean, not the update.
Updating everything immediately makes your system crash once in a while.
Yeah, it was nice.
What have you been up to?
Olympian communications, presumably?
Since we last exchanged words? Sleeping mostly.
00:01
Haha.
That, too, of course.
Oh, umm, I'm a bit lost for words on that front.
On the Olympian front, or the Plutonic front?
I can understand the latter.
Am I still making sense?
Artemxisheeftgroxtetroxostgevoxndeninalxcohxolentaxbak. Ikbenbanxgdatalsikzexgwatxikdexnk, zalxikklinkexnalshaxarvaxder.
I see.
However, that is my problem to solve.
00:05
Don't you think those are are less harmful than the other things in question?
And poor companions are better than no companions at all.
!!/jinx
Haha.
I will be patient.
I had to think to understand why those were the same thing.
00:06
Oh, I am being metaphorical.
Let me reread that one...
@DavidWallace No, I got it. Just had to think.
Kuntuxzixendatzenixetbuitexnjeraxam?
The subordinate clause is lacking a verb.
I mean to say that if Artemis were in Amsterdam, the chosen companions might be different ones.
Oh, haha.
Yes, possibly.
I'm not sure which is more or less harmful.
00:10
Zezeidatzealdronkenvoordrieheledagenenhetwaseengeweldiggevoel.
(Two or three should be good (I like your technique): just not too many.)
No, it's fine.
Or when is "then"? The last one is good.
That is indeed excessive. Let's hope it will not be a recurring pattern?
Let's talk in gmail. All of this obfuscation is getting frustrating.
Heh.
I kind of like it.
But OK.
 
1 hour later…
01:41
Hi @DavidWallace
01:52
Pie Jesu, Domine.
Dona nobis requiem.
Remove ebrietatem.
02:14
To make us inebriated?
@Sudhir how can I be of assistance?
Do you want to see the most bizarre advertisement ever?
And hello again.
@DavidWallace "Remove my inebriation".
No, it's "remove my ebriation", which presumably is the opposite.
This advertisement is meant for speakers of English, and it is apparently serious.
=/ Japanese kids hacked my gmail account
Don't look at the title, and guess what product it advertises. It's 1 minute:
@DavidWallace Not quite: in- has different meanings.
02:19
Yeah, I saw the title first. But I wouldn't have guessed.
It's so bad.
and pointless.
It thinks people are so stupid they buy things not because they might actually use them, but because of some amorphous emotion or something, and that an advertisement can actually create significant emotions in people.
It's interesting how everything associated with Windows, however good their ideas are, always have something just a little off about them.
@DavidWallace Quite.
02:21
@Cerberus But people are!
@Mitch What else?
@Cerberus that's al advertising is.
@DavidWallace Usually not. Only sometimes.
@Mitch It most of it sucks.
Which is why most people would prefer never to see it.
Enough people ARE that stupid. It's like Nigerian scam mail, only on a much larger scale.
Sure MS is evil, but really, everybody is just trying to be better than them. the sincerest form of flattery.
02:22
@DavidWallace Haha, I like that.
@DavidWallace it just take one or two out of many to make it worthwhile for them.
Perhaps you're right...but companies spend so much money on it? But I suppose companies waste tons of money on many different things, so why not.
@Mitch I didn't say they were bad...
Google lives on advertising
Not on spending money on advertising.
to totally turn things around...isn't living in Amsterdam expensive?
I gues that is a trivial statement to make, in comparison to ..well, do you know how bad it is in other towns in the Netherlands?
02:27
@Mitch Umm expensive compared to other Dutch cities, sure. Well, rents are steep. Things like beers in a pub are more expensive. Food is the same price as everywhere, as are most other things. So...how do you mean?
What do you need to "live"?
The air is only € 10 a bottle for several hours. With free carcinogens included. And pot smoke.
I dont know how I mean. I went on a ski trip to Switzerland once and just going to a convenience store or getting cheap food was exorbitant, and I just couldn't imagine how locals get by (and yet they obviously did very well). And Amsterdam being somewhat of a tourist center, I'd expect the same kind of thing.
@Cerberus I know. Adds flavor...spice to the breathing.
But a ski resort is different!
They have to haul all that stuff up the mountain.
The locals probably buy their stuff elsewhere.
Well, not a resort but a ski 'town' (a regular town but with ski slopes, but also regular people living there (who probably pay or the rest of the year from the winter months))
@O0oO0oOO0ooO Thinking of going there?
02:31
I suppose "convenience stores" are more expensive here than elsewhere; but they aim at tourists, probably 90 % in my neighbourhood; normal people would rarely buy stuff there. We have OK supermarkets everywhere, at most 5 minutes by bike.
@DavidWallace hell yeah
Hey, some of my best friends are Russian women!
@Cerberus Even in such an over developed area like inner city Amsterdam? What with all the prostitutes taking up the lines to the cashier?
@Mitch From what I hear, Switzerland is expensive in general, and skiing areas are even more expensive. So I would think those people buy their stuff elsewhere, not where you bought it.
@Mitch Hmm what do you mean?
Yes, I'd figure too but it just seemed like it would be anoying for locals to have to go somewhere further away.
02:34
And the prostitutes probably don't live here; if they do, they probably shop by day, when the shops are open, so not in their work outfits.
@Cerberus the second question was goading for O0o.
@Mitch I really have no idea how it works, but their paying typical ski-resort prices on a regular basis seems less probably than their getting their groceries elsewhere, somehow.
@Mitch Oh haha.
But, really, I think most of Europe is expensive for Americans, just as America is cheap for most Europeans.
I'm tinking of an American style grocery store which probably doesn't work at all in Amsterdam. A huge warehouse like store with multiple aisles, one for chips one for soft drinks, one for canned goods etc, etc.
What the... fuk!!... I was entering "do a rever....." into Google search and whole screen rotated once
We don't have those in the city, no; people shop for groceries at smaller supermarkets.
02:36
@Cerberus not hotels. the cheapest ones here (in the US) are expensive.
That is, depending on what you call "huge".
@Mitch Is that so? How much is an hotel in a city near you?
In European terms, Casino or LeClerc (you might have them in Amsterdam)
Actually, I've never stayed in hotels here.
@Mitch Right, those are huge.
I only know those from in France.
We have huge stores in suburbs, but you need to have a member card. You have to be registered as a company in some register to get it.
Noöne goes there for normal grocery shopping.
@Cerberus the cheapest, on discount worst hotels, oh rather motels, on discount are $60 a night, no breakfast, if a restaurant you wouldn't want kids near it.
Wow.
02:38
guys
That is expensive.
Wait, a two-bed room?
@Cerberus we have those now (I'm only becoming aware of them,actual warehouses, with membership fees and everything in bulk. kind of the next stage of consumerism.
you guys, I found something funny, enter "do a rev" into Google search and whole screen will rotate once
@Cerberus sure, two beds. could sleep four uncomfortably.
Okay, then it's not expensive.
That's € 20 pppn.
02:40
@O0oO0oOO0ooO so does that mean you haven't been hacked you just found an easter egg?
I was hacked by Japanese kids but I am fine now
@Cerberus but like American cars, nobody actually does that, usually one or two people at a time.
The cheapest hotel I have ever stayed in was in Paris, € 30 pppn, two beds in a room, very crappy, but we had our own little bathroom.
@O0oO0oOO0ooO what did they do?
@Mitch Huh?
Does what?
02:41
@Cerberus that sounds pretty good. You can't get small and cheap.
@Mitch It was a good deal, in a good neighbourhood in Paris, and we had to search long.
@Cerberus few people actually fill a room to capacity. You're thinking of optimizing people per room but that just doesn't happen.
Sure, but the same applies here.
I'm comparing ehh Androids with Androids.
ha ha...you're an Android lover.
I...yes.
02:43
hehe "do a"
what does that do?
I think you could find an hotel for € 40 / 2 beds here, but it will be crappy and not in a good neighbourhood.
So I don't think your prices are that high?
hehe just enter it into Google search and see what happens
@Cerberus but you just can't do anything else in the US. That's the smallest (only?) room at those 'cheap' places.
and I found one more thing, enter "Zerg Rush"
02:45
what made you type 'zerg rush'? did you look for a ist somewhere?
@Mitch Sure, but what does that entail?
I don't get it.
You have cheap hotels, we have cheap hotels.
At a slightly nicer place, the price for a single room will be $80-$100.
Oh, and I presume you're talking about where you have your own bathroom, right?
@Cerberus whatever the beds per room, if you as a single person want to get a place to stay, in the US same price as Europe the quality will be much less in the US.
@Cerberus good point.
in the US, you can't not have your own bathroom.
@Mitch Okay, I'll take your word for that, impossible for me to compare...
@Mitch Surely you have youth hostels?
Because that's what "budget hotels" are.
Shared bathroom and/or shared bedroom.
02:48
I think so, but travel in the US is difficult, getting to those kinds of places are not so easy.
Actually, I just don't know. I don't know the youth hostel situation in the US, or Europe for that matter) except that I hear more about it being an easy thing to do in Europe.
It's certainly possible.
I've never stayed in a real youth hostel.
"Many Japanese r koreanophiles. So don't cry. My dream is breaking brainwashing Koreanophiles dreams. I wanna tell them the real Korean world. They eat millions of kimchi for breakfast.They eat millions of kimchi for lunch. They eat millions of kimchi for dinner. They eat millions of kimchi for midnight snacks. They eat millions of kimchi for suppuer. Sorry, too long... In short, Korean is kimchi. Anyway, Korean is kimchi. Absolutely, possibly Korean is kimchi. " _ By random Japanese kid.

Kawaii
Absolutely possibly?
03:04
Supposedly.
The next three days are going to be horrible: 30 degrees and sunny all day.
And nowhere to hide.
What I wouldn't give for A/C!
Man, if you had real weather, you might die.
2
@tchrist And that's the end of THAT.
Now hush.
Unless you want the French version.
There. You read French.
Nothing to complain about.
"Unless you want the French version." Are you kidding? I want the French version.
Vide supra.
03:11
Oh, I thought it was -in- France, not readable by the French.
In any event, 86 can be 86ed right now.
Japanglish is 10 times more hilarious than Konglish
It’s a non-event.
@Cerberus I know! It's 30 C -now- and it's night.
86es your 30.
03:13
I'm lying about now. But that was the case 24 hours ago. It's cooled down considerably this afternoon end evening.
It»s been dreadfully humid here lately.
@Mitch Aww poor you. But you have A/C, right?
Why, we almost had dew one night last month.
And the women... hoowee...let me tell you.
Almost, but not quite.
03:14
@Cerberus Yes, I wouldn't be patriotic if we didn't.
@Mitch Well, I wish we had more of that.
Also, even if we had no AC, we have -screens- that keep out the bugs, even if you leave the windows open.
@O0oO0oOO0ooO !!/ I'll remember that now. "Drinks won;t kill me there"
03:15
@Mitch What are bugs?
And opening windows helps a great when the sun is burning your roof off all day?
I can't stop laughing
@O0oO0oOO0ooO what's #3? No touching fat people?
Short people.
Not supposed to use their heads for coasters.
@Mitch It's what you normally do with smorked people.
03:16
@Cerberus Of course...allows a draft of air from one side of the building to the other.
What if you only have windows on one side?
@Cerberus I can't stand smorking people. They're so... yechhh.
And what if it's still 38 inside even with windows open?
@Cerberus Well, it's better than keeping them closed right?
@Mitch Then stop doing it. Can't you read? No!! smorking
03:17
Your house should still be blown out of its bad air if you have a window open.
44 years ago this very hour, Armstrong and Aldrin were taking the first moonwalk.
@Cerberus It could be worse? You could have other people there comlaining about the weather?
@Mitch Possibly, but still hell.
@Cerberus but... but... sooooo tempting. Smorking is such a bad habit when others do it.
03:18
@Mitch I have a feeling we're straying from the subject.
See, as soon as it starts warming up. a pleasant 30 mph breeze blows through. No problem.
@Mitch Oh, I understand.
You've been clean for how many badges?
@MετάEd They were wimps. They should have been doing gymnastics.
@Cerberus um... there's a subject?
Maybe?
@Mitch You are not supposed to complain about the weather. It’s just wrong. Ask a Minnesotan if you don’t believe me.
03:20
@tchrist Oh. Wow. What do they talk about them? Sex? Politics? Both?
Everyone experiences the weather together.
You don’t get to bitch.
It is unbecoming.
well, maybe one person's bestest weather is the other person's not so favorite weather?
@tchrist Suffer in silence. Put on a happy face. Stare into the abyss and it stares back at you with the stern look of your older sisters and aunts.
I grew up among Bible-believing people in Minnesota, a cold weather state
when the jet stream slips and the wind blows steadily from Manitoba; it gets so cold your skin hurts, your innards clench up, and a man’s testes shrink to the size of garden peas, but — Everyone else
is just as cold as you are so don’t complain about it, this is not a personal experience,
that’s what we say, and you comfort yourself with fried eggs and bacon and you bulk up a good deal by spring, but then everyone else is fat too, so it’s not a problem.
Everyone else is just as hot as you are so don’t complain about it, this is not a personal experience.
You're not allowed to bitch about people bitching about the weather. It's meta-unbecoming.
@Cerberus You’re bitching about people bitching about people bitching about the weather.
Good thing you’re not a people.
03:26
I said you, not I,
Complaining about the weather is wrong.
You have no idea what a namby-pamby world you live in, and still you bitch about it.
Will you ever stop talking?
There’ll be time enough for that when I’ve been dead for a few years.
But not before.
You mean the talking keeps going for a little while after you're dead, like fingernails?
I bit on a piece of walnut husk and it was almost your fault.
03:30
!!
@Mitch That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.
See?
I can depend on you, @Caprica. My only regret is that you can't love me back.
You really should read that clip — it will build moral fiber.
Can't she?
!!/love
03:30
@Cerberus That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: live
I guess she can't.
I -eat- moral fiber for breakfast. It gives my moral GI tract regular.
The poor walnut hunk!
Walnuts are so hunky. All those bulges.
They're hunky dorey.
03:32
Oreo Dorey...the dinner fish that tastes like a cookie.
Did you have to bite him? Could you just nibble a kibble?
Cerb, is it almost light out there?
macbook# date -u
Sun Jul 21 03:33:58 UTC 2013
Kibble sounds like it might actually be appetizing.
Yeah but he's so far north.
like Labrador
And still he complains about the heat.
Come down here to 40 degrees North latitude, child.
03:35
@Mitch It has been light for an hour.
It’s sure to get your knickers in a snit, and vice versa.
The darkness only lasts a couple of hours, like 5.
Untrue.
@tchrist We'll talk when you live in an apartment without A/C that's receiving direct sun most of the day.
Look at those times.
I refuse to translate them into French for you, but look at them anyway.
Note the sunrise and sunset for your city.
03:37
Why?
The reason it is light there is the moon, not the sun.
Silly!
I didn't know I needed to note sunrises.
No, it is the sun.
You said that it has been light for an hour.
Your sunrise is at 5:45am localtime.
What time is it there?
Fess!
And civil twilight is at 5am.
Sunrise ≠ light.
So you won’t even weasel out of that one.
Civil twilight == light
Which isn’t till 5am.
What time is it now?
Come on, you know I know.
03:39
I saw light before that.
That was the moon, dear.
It’s 96% full.
No, it was the sun.
It is very bright.
What, are you a boat?
At sea?
I've seen sunlight before, you know. And moonlight too. I'm am expert at looking at light.
The numbers do not lie.
They say you know you’re still tripping when it gets brighter with your eyes closed.
Perhaps this is what is happening.
03:41
They say nothing about what the sky looks like.
Perhaps you are still tripping.
That might be the light.
It is coming from behind you? Is it brighter with your eyes closed?
I hear they have streetlights where you live. Perhaps this is it.
Perhaps you forget that dawn and dusk take longer when you're closer to the north pole.
That is the civil twilight period.
It has been accounted for.
You are still seeing brightness no one else sees.
It isn’t nice not to pass around the LSD.
Civil twilight does not tell me what the luminosity of the sky was supposed to be.
Mother said never bring something to the party unless you bring enough to share.
Are you a boat?
Nautical twilight is different.
Your elevation is 7 feet.
03:44
More.
It takes the sun more time to get there.
Only because you are in a 17th story apartment.
1 min ago, by Cerberus
Civil twilight does not tell me what the luminosity of the sky was supposed to be.
Civil.
Yes, it does.
Civil twilight by definition is when the sun is six degrees below the horizon.
By definition.
It will always have the same brightness then.
By definition, the light in Cerb's eyes is making him lie to you.
> Civil twilight is defined when the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon. In the morning this is known as dawn, in the evening it is called dusk. This is the limit at which twilight illumination is sufficient, under good weather conditions, for terrestrial objects to be clearly distinguished;
> at the beginning of morning civil twilight, or end of evening civil twilight, the horizon is clearly defined and the brightest stars are visible under good atmospheric conditions in the absence of moonlight or other illumination. In the morning before the beginning of civil twilight and in the evening after the end of civil twilight, artificial illumination is normally required to carry on ordinary outdoor activities.
03:48
It only does now.
Cerb, you are obviously hallucinating in two separate ways. One you're hallucinating so bad, that everything you say is the opposite of what you believe, and you believe the opposite of what your eyes register. So it is light outside in reality, but you believe that means it is dark, but then you tell us that it is light.
There is a lot of light before civil twilight, then.
LSD is like that.
@Mitch Ehh...
There is already light in the sky from nautical twilight onwards.
So there was light at 4:30, and I saw it.
The moon is very bright right now.
03:49
I don't see the problem, or why it would be interesting.
Thnk thorugh it...wait don't do that, you'll get a third hallucination which is that your tongue will say things the pposite of what you're trying to say.
No, it was not moonlight. How many times do I have to repeat myself?
Also, you can tll f yo're having prblmes if you notice letters missnig or out of order.
There is always light in the sky.
1 min ago, by Cerberus
No, it was not moonlight. How many times do I have to repeat myself?
03:51
Was the Milky Way up? It can be quite bright.
No, it was not star light sigh. Daylight.
Or don’t you have the Via Galactica in your country?
If you cannot see the Milky Way at night, you have too much surface light pollution to judge when it is dark or not.
Are you rambling?
Whom are you talking to?
No, I have a point, and I have made it.
Can you see the Milky Way?
Do you need a private room?
03:53
I asked you: can you see the Milky Way?
If you cannot, it never gets dark where you live.
And so you cannot judge when it is getting light either.
@Cerberus Actually, I don't think he does. Hes getting by just fine.
Q.E.D.
Apparently.
I see the Milky Way at night. It is quite spectacularly bright.
But I bet you are blind to it.
I'm letting in hooker air through the kitchen window, just go get as much night cold in as possible.
03:55
We’re talking light, not air.
Hooker Air, the new airline thats just so ... easy.
It smells like...a barber's shop.
Heh.
Ya know, that's plain weird.
Very easy. Although I heard her fighting with a customer yesterday.
John.
03:56
He claimed she had stolen € 50 from his wallet.
She told him to get out in a very loud voice.
She sounded...exotic, he American, so also exotic.
> Nautical twilight is defined when the sun is 12 degrees below the horizon. At the beginning or end of nautical twilight, under good atmospheric conditions and in the absence of other illumination, general outlines of ground objects may be distinguishable, but detailed outdoor operations are not possible, and the horizon is indistinct.
So eventually she kicked him out.
> Astronomical twilight is defined when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. Before the beginning of astronomical twilight in the morning and after the end of astronomical twilight in the evening the sun does not contribute to sky illumination; for a considerable interval after the beginning of morning twilight and before the end of evening twilight, sky illumination is so faint that it is practically imperceptible.
Lots of shouting, but no sounds of violence.
6/12/18
I don’t know what that is in French, but check your clock.
03:57
@Cerberus ahh the big city.
Fun, huh?
Bright lights.
What are your neighbours like?
The sky is never dark.
always something interesting.
03:58
He has no Via Galactica.
What do they do, like funny things?
He is deprived of its glory and splendor, and thinks the sun is in the sky when it is not.
Any neighbourhood scandals?
Yes, they tear down my birdfeeders.
@Cerberus In the suburbs, but houses fairly close together.
03:59
I see. That is a...circumspect way of describing what people look like.
Circumlocutory, one might say.

« first day (983 days earlier)      last day (4235 days later) »